1. AGENCY, LIBRARY, COOPERATIVE, & PROPRIETARY SOURCES Digitized Historical Government Documents

2. Cooperatives Google Book Project: http://books.google.com/http://books.google.com/

3. Cooperatives, cont. Open Content Alliance / Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/USGovernmentDocuments http://www.archive.org/details/USGovernmentDocuments  Has separate section for digitized U.S. Government Documents  Librarians can submit materials for digital archive  Better understanding of copyright-free status

4. Federal Agencies

5. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Publications Warehouse: http://pubs.usgs.gov/http://pubs.usgs.gov/  Annual Reports  Bulletins  Circulars  Open-File Reports  Water Supply Papers  Water-Resources Investigations Reports

6. Census Bureau Digitized copies of historical statistical volumes: http://www.census.gov/history/ http://www.census.gov/history/  Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970  Historical Census Reports  Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: 1878-present (http://www.census.gov/compendia/ statab/past_years.html)http://www.census.gov/compendia/ statab/past_years.html

7. Forest Service Treesearch: http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/  Research station publications Forest Service publications are highly dispersed. It can be useful to visit individual forest or research station websites.

8. National Agricultural Library Digital Repository Many core USDA series: http://naldr.nal.usda.gov/http://naldr.nal.usda.gov/  Agriculture Handbooks  Yearbook of Agriculture  Reports of the Secretary Agriculture  Agricultural Economic Report  Miscellaneous Publications  Technical Bulletins

9. NASA NASA Technical Report Server: http://ntrs.nasa.govhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov  NASA technical reports, 1958-present  NACA collection, 1915-1958 NASA Images: http://www.nasaimages.org/http://www.nasaimages.org/  NASA's images, videos and audio collections  Cooperative project with the Internet Archive

10. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRASER: http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/  Banking & monetary statistics, 1896-1970  Economic Indicators, 1948-2008  Economic Report of the President, 1947-2008  Survey of Current Business, 1921-1999 ALFRED: http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/  Sets of current and “vintage” data

11. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Electronic Reading Room: http://www.foia.cia.gov/http://www.foia.cia.gov/  Family Jewels  UFOs  Psychological warfare  Space weapons  Memos about other countries

12. Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Digital Library: http://www.sil.si.edu/Galaxy.cfm?id=1.1 http://www.sil.si.edu/Galaxy.cfm?id=1.1  Contributions series  U.S. Exploring Expedition  Biodiversity Heritage Library Collection  Mosaic of Science

13. Department of Labor Wirtz Labor Digital Library: http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/digital/main.htm http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/digital/main.htm  Department of Labor publications  Trade union and labor history materials  Labor leaders’ biographies  Statistical abstracts

14. Bureau of Land Management General Land Office records: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/  Land Patent search for all available states  Plat maps for some states Montana plat maps: http://glo.mt.gov/http://glo.mt.gov/

15. Library of Congress American Memory collection: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

16. Universities & Academic Libraries

17. University of North Texas Government information digital collections: http://www.library.unt.edu/govinfo/digital-collections http://www.library.unt.edu/govinfo/digital-collections  CRS reports  Experiment Station Publications  Federal Newsmaps  FCC Record  USDA publications

18. University of Wisconsin Foreign Relations of the United States: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/ http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

19. University of California, Santa Barbara American Presidency Project: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu  Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington to Taft (1789-1913)  Public Papers of the Presidents: Hoover to Bush (1929-1993)  Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Clinton to G.W. Bush (1993-2008)

20. Oklahoma State University Digital Collections: http://digital.library.okstate.eduhttp://digital.library.okstate.edu  Kappler’s Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties  Indian Claims Commission Decisions

21. Cornell University Making of America: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ The Cornell site has the War of the Rebellion series for the Army and Navy.

22. University of Virginia Digital Collections: http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/ http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/  Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery Historical Census Browser: http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus  State and county data for common topics, 1790- 1960

23. George Washington University National Security Archive: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html  Declassified intelligence documents  Selected documents online for free, others accessible through Digital National Security Archive database

24. University of Maryland School of Law Special Collections and Digital Projects: http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections/ http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections/  Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights  Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports

25. Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Libraries Digital Collections: http://dig.library.vcu.edu/index.php http://dig.library.vcu.edu/index.php  PS Magazine, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly

26. Yale University Avalon Project: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm Text versions of important legal documents

27. Other favorites David Rumsey Map Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com/ http://www.davidrumsey.com/

28. Other Favorites, cont. Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports (French National Library): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date

29. Proprietary Digital Serial Set (Readex or Lexis) Hein Online ProQuest Monthly Catalog Lexis Congressional Hearing Collection Digital Congressional Record (LexisNexis; Hein)