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Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide
http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/index.html
The Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide includes over 1,500 annotated links to admiralty law resources on the Internet and a growing database of admiralty case digests, opinions and international maritime conventions.
Agency-wide Documents Access and Management System
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS)
All image and text documents that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made public since November 1, 1999, as well as bibliographic records (some with abstracts and full text) that the NRC made public before November 1999.
Agricultural Statistics
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Ag_Statistics/index.asp
Statistical compendium issued yearly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, covering agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns.
Coverage: From 1994
Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aiosearch/
Index to the more than 600 periodical included in the Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library. Topics covered include archaeology, ethnomusicology, physical and cultural anthropology and human biology. Search by author, title, keyword, or journal title (or combine terms). (If search form is incomplete, click Reload button.) International in scope.
Coverage: From the 1970*/39/*s to the present.
Building Materials by McGraw Hill Sweets
http://products.construction.com/
The standard source for product and manufacturing information for those involved with construction. Searchable by company name, trade name, product, or by one or more of 16 subject divisions, access is provided to detailed information about the product or company with direct links to company websites and product descriptions on those websites.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. These publications make up the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications.
Coverage: More than 500,000 records generated since July 1976 are contained in the CGP and it is updated daily.
Census 2010 Gateway
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/
Access to population, housing, social and economic statistics from the 2010 Census.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
This site allows you to search and read digitized newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Currently, content is available from the following geographic areas: California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia, District of Columbia.
Civil RIghts Digital Library
The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.
CogPrints Electronic Archive
Searchable electronic archive of full-text papers in all areas of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, as well as computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology, and any other areas of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. Includes pre-prints and reprints from published journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and personal collections.
DOE Green Energy
http://www.osti.gov/greenenergy/index.jsp
DOE Green Energy is your gateway to green energy results from thousands of DOE-sponsored research and development projects. DOE Green Energy is a portal to information about various forms of green energy, including solar, wind, bioenergy, and others. This free search of green energy DOE technical report literature, green energy patent information, and much more is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Search DOE Green Energy to find available bibliographic citations, technical reports and patent information on different types of renewable energy resources and energy conservation, such as solar, wind, bioenergy, hydroelectric and geothermal… Subject areas include but are not limited to hydrogen, solar energy, tidal and wave power, energy storage, and direct energy conversion… These green energy results consist of over 30,000 technical reports and over 2,000 patents.
Eclas” European Commission Libraries Catalogue
European Commission union catalogue of holdings of network libraries. Includes internet resources with hyperlinks.
Encyclopedia of Life
A new project to create an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet.
EUR-Lex: the portal to European Union Law
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm
Document database on European Union Law. Includes Official Journal,Treaties,Legislation, Legislation in preparation, Case-law, Parliamentary questions, Documents of public interest, Enlargement.
Europa: gateway to the European Union
EUROPA is the portal site of the European Union. It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Users can also consult all legislation currently in force or under discussion, access the websites of each of the EU institutions and find out about the policies administered by the European Union under the powers devolved to it by the Treaties.
European Library
http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.html
The European library webservice is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals - both digital and non-digital) of the ... national libraries of Europe.
FDsys: America’s Authentic Government Information
FDsys provides free online access to official Federal Government publications. Through FDsys, you are able to
Fed In Print: An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research
http://www.fedinprint.org/index.asp
The FED IN PRINT is an on-line index to the publications of the Federal Reserve Research Departments. Publications include: periodical articles, working papers, annual reports, proceedings and monographs. Some of these resources are available in full text.
Coverage: 1965+.
Frontiers in Education Clearing House
Full-text proceedings of the annual Frontiers in Education conference, an important engineering education conference sponsored by IEEE and the American Society for Engineering Education. Indexed by conference session and author name. Requires Adobe Acrobat software.
Coverage: 1995-present.
Global Witness
Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses.
Highwire Press
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1212 journals and 5,311,870 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,828,930 articles free. With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals.
Coverage: Coverage varies, search engine begins 1844.
Historic USGS Maps of New England
http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/nhtopos.htm
This historical collection of USGS 15 minute topographic maps dates from the 1890s to the 1950s. Geographic coverage is complete for New Hampshire and nearly complete for the rest of New England.
Human Security Gateway
http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/
The Human Security Gateway is a rapidly expanding searchable online database of human security-related resources including reports, journal articles, news items and fact sheets. It is designed to make human security-related research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public.
Hurisearch
HuriSearch is a search engine developed by the HURIDOCS network. Its general objective is to facilitate access to human rights information on the web (3,000 sites in over 50 languages as of 1/29/07). Its specific objectives are as follows: To provide human rights professionals with a powerful web research tool; to increase the visibility of information published by human rights organisations, in particular small local organisations with first-hand information; to encourage webmasters to use metadata systematically, thus making human rights information searching much more reliable and efficient.
IBIDS Database
http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx
Produced and maintained by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this database indexes journal articles on dietary supplements. Vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, botanical, and herbal supplements are included. Information is presented on the use, function, growth, and production of these supplements, their metabolism and chemical composition, and surveys of use. Searches can be restricted to peer reviewed records. Searching is by author, title, and keyword. Abstracts are present for some entries. Records in IBIDS come from the following databases: AGRIS International, AGRICOLA, and MEDLINE. Keyword searches: food and food science, medical sciences, nutrition, nutrition-medical sciences, science. Coverage from 1986.
IDEAS (Economics)
This service uses the complete data from the RePEc database, which includes bibliographic data contributed by over 300 archives, including: EconWPA, Fed in Print, IMF, NBER, CEPR, the central banks of the US, England, Australia, Canada and other countries, and economics departments at MIT, Rochester, Northwestern, Berkeley, UCLA, Maryland, Brown, Iowa, Caltech, Boston College, Toronto, Western Ontario, LSE, Bonn, Pompeu Fabra, Tokyo, Seoul, and many others. It also covers over 200 journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies and Quarterly Journal of Economics among many others.
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Other Personal Narratives
http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.shtml
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Other Personal Narratives.
Index of more than 2500 collections of oral history from around the world.
Joint Committee on Taxation
http://www.jct.gov/publications.html
Official website of the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress. Provides access to Committee publications from 1920. It also provides access to the Committee's rules, history, and membership list. About Committee Documents (Viewed December 5, 2011: Please note that many older Committee documents on this site are scanned PDF images, and are therefore not currently full-text searchable. We are converting these documents to full-text PDF files over a period of time. Currently, only the titles of the unconverted documents are indexed for search.
Legislative Reports (Maine State Legislature)
http://www.state.me.us/legis/opla/reports2.htm
Legislative reports, study reports, executive summaries of reports of the Maine State Legislature
Coverage: 117th Legislature.
Maine Census Data Population Tools
http://www.library.umaine.edu/census/
Numeric data base of U.S. Census population totals for Maine minor civil Divisions (cities, towns) and counties, from each decennial census, 1790 to present. Special search keys provided include: county/year; town/year; population threshold (maximum or minimum); population trend (increasing or decreasing); and master list of towns. Some annotation is included for boundary changes of minor civil divisions.
Coverage: From 1790
Maine Music Box
http://mainemusicbox.library.umaine.edu/
The University of Maine's Fogler Library in partnership with the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and the Bangor Public Library has launched the Maine Music Box. The Maine Music Box contains digitized images of five collections of manuscript scores and sheet music. Most of the collections are from the Bagaduce Music Lending Library in Blue Hill, Maine. A total of 22,641 titles will be accessible when the digitization and cataloging of the pilot project is complete. Selected scores will have an associated computer generated sound file. Other scores, based on faculty request, may have associated ìScorchî files. Scorch software creates a file that allows one to listen while following a cursor through the score; the viewer may also manipulate key and instrumentation. The database currently has 22,641 titles with 600 MIDI files and 100 Scorch files.
Maine News Index Online
http://mni.portlandlibrary.com/ics-wpd/mniquery.htm
Created by the Portland Public Library, the Maine News Index Online is a database of Maine newspaper and magazine citations and abstracts. The library's Portland Room, which houses special collections, maintains a web page listing titles indexed at:
http://www.portlandlibrary.com/locations/portlandroom.htm#newsindex
Maine Revised Statutes
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/homepage.htm
Maine Revised Statutes current to the 123rd Legislature.
Coverage: Current to the 123rd Legislature.
Maine Superior Court Decisions
http://webapp.usm.maine.edu/SuperiorCourt/
Full text PDF documents received by the University of Maine School of Law Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library from the clerks of various courts dating from January 2000 through present. Decisions cross referenced by Plaintiff, Defendant, Judge and County. Includes citations and references.
Coverage: January 2000 through present.
MEMAP Directory
http://library.umaine.edu/memap/
The MEMAP Directory is a current listing of ongoing programs that systematically monitor or assess environmental and ecological factors in the state of Maine. MEMAP provides a description of programs and direct links to program websites and downloadable data (if available). It is updated seasonally.
Minority RIghts Group International
http://www.minorityrights.org/
Presents Minority Rights Group International (MRG), which promotes the rights of ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities and is based in London, England. Includes event details, program descriptions, workshop reports, and news items.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/search/AdvancedSearch.aspx
Contains summaries of more than 140,000 federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research on criminal justice. Topics covered include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime.
Coverage: 1970-present.
National Gallery of Art: the collection
http://www.nga.gov/search/index.shtm
Presents information about the collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Allows users to search the collection by artist, title, or a combination of criteria. Contains a list of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper that are grouped by school. Links to the National Gallery of Art.
National Sea Grant Library Database
http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu/searchguide.html
The National Sea Grant Library, NSGL, is the most comprehensive collection of Sea Grant funded documents in the world. The NSGL was established in 1970 as the official Sea Grant archive and the collection covers a wide variety of subjects, including oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, aquatic nuisance species, coastal hazards, seafood safety, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation and law.
Coverage: From 1965
NISEE: Earthquaker Engineering Online Archive
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/elibrary/
Index to technical reports from seven earthquke engineering and structural mechanics laboratories.
overage: From 1971.
ODS: Official documents of the United Nations (Multilingual)
http://documents.un.org/welcome.asp?language=E
Official Document System of the United Nations(ODS)covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993, and selected earlier coverage.
Coverage: 1993- and selected earlier coverage.
PEARL (Public Education Access to Environmental Information in Maine
http://pearl1.library.umaine.edu/
PEARL is designed to improve access to information on over 5700 Maine lakes. It is a cooperative effort initiated, coordinated, and maintained at the University of Maine by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research ( GMC ) and the UMaine Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Features historic maps as well as maps that are of current interest (for example, sites of natural disasters, political turmoil, etc.).
POPLINE
POPLINEÆ(POPulation information onLINE) covers reproductive health, population, family planning, and related health issues. Includes references on population law and policy, demography, maternal and child health, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, development programs, and environmental issues.
Coverage: From 1950.
Robert Venn Carr, Jr. Collection (University of Maine)
http://www.library.umaine.edu/Carr/
The Carr Collection is a subset of the Museum Collection held by the University of Maine Museum of Art. The Carr Online Gallery contains digital surrogates of the nearly 300 modern and contemporary prints that comprise the collection. The gift of Robert Venn Carr, Jr., Class of 1944, the collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Josef Albers, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Joan Miro and Robert Delaunay, as well as a ine collection of nearly 90 paintings and World War II political cartoons by William Gropper.
Slavery & Abolition in the US
http://deila.dickinson.edu/slaveryandabolition/
Slavery and Abolition in the US: Select Publications of the 1800s is a digital collection of books and pamphlets that demonstrate the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery in the United States as expressed by Americans throughout the nineteenth century. The works in this collection reflect arguments on both sides of the slavery debate and include first person narratives, legal proceedings and decisions, anti-slavery tracts, religious sermons, and early secondary works. The publications are all drawn from the holdings of the Millersville University Library and the Dickinson College Library, as well as each of their respective Special Collections Departments. The collection includes more than 15,000 individual pages of printed text and corresponding searchable transcriptions.
Spatial Odyssey
http://libraries.maine.edu/spatial/Gisweb/
Index to the full text of GIS conference proceeding articles contributed by leading professional organizations; developed by Fogler Library and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.
Coverage: Coverage: 1994-1995. Bibliography: coverage from 1991.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an open-access, ìscholarly dynamic reference workî that ìmaintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research. Its entries are written by scholars and refereed by an editorial board. Updated continuously.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Updated annually.
Techstreet: Technical Information Superstore
One-stop source for industry codes and standards from around the world; Techstreet is most valuable for its comprehensive coverage of technical and engineering standards published by ANSI and other organizations. Many standards can be purchased and downloaded online. Techstreet also indexes books, software products, physical property data, and free engineering trade magazine
Thomas Register
Directory of over 170,000 manufacturing companies in the United States and Canada. Includes over 70,000 product listings. The directory may be searched by company name, product or brand name. Requires free registration for access.
TOXNET
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases, 1965 to present.
Coverage: Varies.
UNBISNET: United Nations Bibliographic Information System
Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The coverage of UNBISnet is from 1979 onward, however, older documents are being added to the catalogue on a regular basis as a result of retrospective conversion. UNBISnet also provides instant access to a growing number of full text resources in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), including resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Security Council from 1946 onward. Voting records, and index to speeches.
Coverage: 1979-
UNdata
A data access system to UN databases ... pooling major UN databases and those of several international into one single internet environment. The innovative design allows a user to access a large number of UN databases either by browsing the data series or through a keyword search ... The numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
USA.gov
USA.gov is the official web portal of the U.S. government, but also provides organized access to state, local and tribal government sites. It gives answers to frequent questions from citizens, businesses and nonprofits, government employees, and visitors, including: government auctions, applying for government jobs or benefits; contacting elected officials; getting a passport; renewing oneís drivers license; access to vital records; getting a state business license; finding government benefits; and getting border wait times. Information is arranged by topic. Other search options include a keyword search engine, with results grouped by broad subject area; advanced search; and an A-Z agency listing.
William P. Palmer III Collection
http://library.umaine.edu/hudson/palmer/
The William P. Palmer III Collection of archaeological material from Mexico and Central America and ethnographic holdings from the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada is the Hudson Museum's pre-eminent collection. The Palmer Collection features an internationally significant assemblage of 2,828 Precolumbian ceramics, lithics and gold work dating from 2000 BC to the Spanish Conquest. In addition to its Precolumbian component, the collection includes over 200 objects from the Northwest Coast that date to the heyday of Northwest Coast collecting, 1875-1930.
More about the collection: http://library.umaine.edu/hudson/palmer/about.asp).
Windows on Maine
http://www.windowsonmaine.org/
Windows on Maine is a pilot project to develop an online service offering streaming video programs and clips, and other primary and secondary digital resources, via broadband and wireless connections. It features a searchable database of complete programs and video clips from Maine Public Broadcasting Network's award winning historical series, HOME, the Story of Maine and its signature science series, Quest, Investigating Our World. Rich multimedia that further documents Maine's history and the Gulf of Maine ecology has been selected from collections of the state's cultural institutions, and complements the video archive.