University of Rhode Island Libraries
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 American
State Papers 1789-1838
- Search or browse full text and images of U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session.
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Archive
of Americana
- Search the full text and images of both the
U.S. Congressional Serial Set and the
American State Papers.
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 CIAO (Columbia International Affairs
Online)
- Comprehensive
source for theory and research in international affairs. Publishes a wide range of
scholarship, including working papers from university research institutes, occasional
papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from
conferences, books, journals, and policy briefs. 1991-. Updated monthly.
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 DOE Information Bridge
- Indexes
Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored scientific and technical reports. Replaces the print
publication Energy Research Abstracts. 1995-. Updated weekly.
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GPO
Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch)
- Catalog of U.S.
government documents and resources. 1976-. Updated monthly. [user guide]
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 Homeland
Security Digital Library (HSDL)
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Collection of full text documents on terrorism, counterterrorism,
security and related issues. Sources include government policy
reports, think tank publications, Congressional legislation, and other
primary sources. Library use only and access is limited to members of
the University community.
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ICPSR
Direct
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The
Inter-university Consortium for Political and
Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides
access to a vast archive of social science data for research and
instruction. Data files for use with statistical
software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata, may be downloaded by URI users
after creating an account on the site.
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JSTOR
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JSTOR is an online archive of
back runs of core scholarly journals in many disciplines. Articles may be
searched by keyword or browsed by journal. JSTOR provides high-resolution,
scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally
designed, printed, and illustrated. Note that JSTOR is not a current
issues database. Because of JSTOR’s archival mission, there is a gap,
typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal
issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. [user guide]
- News, law, and
business information service. Includes articles from law reviews, news from national and
international newspapers and wire services; articles from hundreds of periodicals, and
more. All sources are full-text. Also includes federal statutory, regulatory, and case
law. At the state level, contains state statutory and case law, court rules, and state
constitutions. Updated daily. [user guide]
- Provides
indexing and abstracting of congressional publications and the full text of congressional
reports, documents, prints, bills, and the Congressional Record. Also includes
the text of United States laws and regulations, biographical and voting information of
members of congress, and more. Updated daily. [user guide]
- Allows users to search abstracts of
thousands of journal articles and conference papers and link to selected
full text through Environment Abstracts;
retrieve full-text news, journals, and reference materials; find federal
and state codes and federal agency regulations; access federal and state
case law and agency decisions; and locate federal and state waste site
data and hazardous materials information. Updated daily. [user guide]
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Military
& Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
- Cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and
periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles that offer news pertaining
to all branches of the military and government. [user guide]
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NACA Technical Report Service
- Index and
digitized database of reports produced by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
(NACA), NASA’s predecessor. 1917-1958.
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National Climatic Data Center (NCDS)
- Access to
monthly temperature, pressure, precipitation, and other measurements for approximately
2,000 surface data collection stations worldwide; storm data by state; and local climatic
data for several hundred U.S. cities. One simultaneous user only. Password
required — please ask at Reference
Desk for access.
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National Environmental
Publications Information System (NEPIS)
- Search, view, and print the full text of over 10,000 technical and popular publications
produced by the Environmental Protection Agency. 1990-. Updated monthly
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 National Technical Information Service
(NTIS)
- A title keyword
index to over 750,000 NTIS reports, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual materials. 1990-.
(For full text access, see NTIS/GPO Depository Access to Reports,
Technical & Scientific (DARTS), below.)
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 NTIS/GPO Depository Access to Reports, Technical & Scientific (DARTS)
- Full text access to
online NTIS reports. May be searched by
keyword, author or title. 1990-. One simultaneous user only. Password
required — please ask at Reference
Desk for access. (See also National Technical
Information Service (NTIS), above.)
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NTRS:
NASA Technical Reports Server
- Database of
NASA-produced literature. Also indexes selected aerospace-related reports from other
government agencies. Selected historical reports back to 1958 are included.
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PAIS
Archive (CSA)
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References to monographs, periodical articles, notes
and announcements, and analytics on early to mid-twentieth century public
and social policies and international relations. 1915-1976. [user guide]
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PAIS
International (CSA)
- Indexing of
journal articles, books, government publications, research & conference reports,
publications of international agencies, and other materials from over 120 countries.
Covers topics related to public affairs, public and
social policies, and international relations. 1972-. Updated monthly.
[user guide]
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Project MUSE
- Project MUSE offers the full text of over 220 journal titles
from 37 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the
visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender
studies, economics, and many others. Journals may be browsed or searched by keyword.
[user guide]
- Science Inventory (U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency)
- Searchable, EPA
agency-wide database of more than 4,000 scientific and technical work products such as
research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed
products. Database records provide such information as project descriptions (abstracts),
contacts for additional information, and electronic links to final reports and related
research. Users can conduct keyword searches of search within nine cross-cutting science
topics.
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Serial Set Maps
- Search or browse maps from the
United States Congressional Serial Set. 1872-1901.
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STAT-USA/Internet
- Access to over
50 Federal sources of economic, financial, and trade data. Two simultaneous
users only. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access.
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Statistical Warehouse (Regional OneSource)
- A database of statistical
information under 46 various subject headings grouped into ten categories including demographics,
economics, social indicators, health and health-related behavior, government enrollment, payroll
and finances, politics and political science, geographic and climatic data, intellectual property,
and social services. Updated continuously.
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Treaties &
International Agreements Online (Oceana)
- Contains the
current text of over 13,000 treaties and international agreements, including all treaties
and international agreements ratified by the U.S., major treaties in the process of
ratification, and all tax treaties, even those to which the U.S. is not a party.
Searchable by keyword, subject, title, parties, and date.
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TRIS Online (Transportation Research
Information Service)
- Offered by the
U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, this site indexes and abstracts transportation
research covered in books, journal articles, technical reports. Other media, federal,
state, local, and association publications and conference proceedings are also covered.
The database extends from the 1960s to the present, with some coverage before 1960.
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UNdata
- UNdata is the United Nations Data Access System, providing access to current, relevant and reliable statistics for free. Includes official statistics produced by countries, as well as estimates and projections. The domains covered are agriculture, education, energy, industry, labor, national accounts, population and tourism. Produced by United Nations Statistics and Population Divisions as well as other United Nations agencies.
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USA Trade Online
- Access to U.S.
export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities world wide. Two
simultaneous users only. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access. 1992-.
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U.S.
Congressional Serial Set 1817-1980
- Provides primary source material on all aspects of American history. Includes
the full text and images from the United States Congressional Serial Set. Search or browse the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes. Updated monthly.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Databases
Full text
database of all U.S. patents issued since 1790.
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Web of Science (ISI)
- Web access to
ISI citation databases (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation
Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index). Contains citations to
articles from nearly 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the
world. The ability to search by cited reference allows the user to uncover the research
that influenced an author’s work or to navigate forward in time to discover a
paper’s impact on current research. 1998-. Updated weekly. [user guide] [online tutorial]
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