Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

Databases added between 11/10/2009 and 02/10/2010


American Founding Era CollectionON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search for documents in the Adams Papers, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Dolley Madison Digital Edition, George Washington Papers, and the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution.

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Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North AmericaON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full text Guide presenting extensive data on the habitats and ecosystems of more than 1,200 species identified as endangered or threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife service.

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Blueprints Database
Contains more than 37,000 blueprints, templates, and drawings.

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Business Plans HandbookON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multi-volume collection of business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses in North America.

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CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool
Look up or confirm publication titles and abbreviations, as well as CODEN, ISBN, or ISSN codes in publications indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).

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ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a database of Chemical Structures and Property Predictions providing access to millions of chemical structures.

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China : Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains materials covering all aspects of Chinese history during the two centuries of monumental social and political upheaval that ultimately recreated China into a modern power.

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Cold War Reference LibraryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers the Cold War period between the Western powers and the Communist bloc from the end of World War II through 1989.

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Digging into Data Digital Repositories
Provides a list of digital libraries, data archives, and data repositories with links and descriptions to their collections.

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Endangered SpeciesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides detailed information on the many species threatened by extinction, including amphibians, birds, crustaceans, fish, insects, mammals, mollusks, reptiles, and more.

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Environmental Encyclopedia, 2003ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. This 3rd. edition (2003) contains articles to provide current status, analysis, and suggested solutions to environmental issues. 3rded. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

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EurActiv
A news portal dedicated to European affairs organized into broad public policy sections.

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Faculty Of 1000
F1000 is an online service in which over 4,500 leading researchers and clinicians share their expert opinions by highlighting and evaluating the most important articles in biology and medicine.

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Gale Encyclopedia of Science - 4th ed. (2008)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers all major areas of science, engineering, technology, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology.

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HathiTrust
A digital repository containing records for millions of books in all subject areas held in the nation’s research libraries.

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LexisNexis Guides to Microform Collections (Select Browse Collections)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index to microform guides covering a variety of subject areas and collections held in archives by research institutions.

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Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy, 2001ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Articles explore everything from Albert Einstein, seismic energy, and acid rain, to lasers and building design.

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National Technical Reports LibraryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
NTRL contains nearly 3 million scientific and technical reports (500,000 in full text) on US government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.

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NPM OnlineON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Art images from the National Palace Museum in Taiwan covering painting, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, bronze, Buddhist antiques, and rarities (stationery, tusks, woods, bones, lacquers, and silk tapestries, etc).

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Oral History of the U.S. House of Representatives
Contains interviews with a range of House Officers, Member aides, committee staff, support staff, family of Members, and select former Representatives.

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Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Index and some full text to the papers of Benjamin Franklin collected and edited by a team of scholars at Yale University.

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Papers of George Washington Digital EditionON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Encompasses all facet of research on life and enterprise in the late colonial and early national periods found in the papers and complete diaries of George Washington.

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Papers of John Adams Digital EditionON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Adams Papers Digital Edition comprises John Adams’s complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers.

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Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital EditionON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers the collected papers of the third president, author of the Declaration of Independence, and a chief figure of the Enlightenment.

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Pollution A to Z, 2004ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides information on a variety of pollution issues, including sources of pollution; disposal; remediation; and the ethical, social and legal environment, as well as topics such as acid rain, cancer, noise pollution and zero growth population.

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Science of Everyday ThingsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Illustrates the importance of scientific and mathematical principles through their use in everyday life.

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Springer LaTeX Search
Search within scientific publications to locate over 1 million LaTeX code snippets to find the equation you need.

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UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2003ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Features biographies of notable historic and current figures from American history, world history, literature, science and math, arts and entertainment, and the social sciences. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

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Weather Almanac, 2003ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The almanac presents hundreds of in-depth weather records for 108 major US cities and a climatic overview of the country, including 33 US weather atlas maps.

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