Amazing (Free!) Online Resources

National Archives’ research tools and online database. If there is anything you need to know about America’s history or the current state of the nation, this is the place!

53,000 free e-books available online, also part of the Archive.org searchable database. 

A searchable database of more than 28,000 English books with the complete text available online. 

The Getty Research Institute library collections include over one million books, photographs, periodicals and auction catalogs. There’s also a collection of rare or unique materials that focus on architecture and art history. 

Digitized archives of everything in the Library of Congress. Over 200 years of historical information as well as up-to-date volumes. 

Cornell University repository. Access to 700,000+ technical papers on everything from quantitative biology to computer science to economics. Appears to offer full text in several formats. 

Packed with maps and images covering many different aspects of the the US geological topography. 

Up-to-date financial data covering 85 different resources, this database is provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. An excellent resource for anyone doing research in the fields of finance and economic theory. 

Database of media that has been entered into the public domain. Sound recordings, old videos, rare books, pretty much anything you might need to build your next great presentation! Partnered with the Wayback Machine, which has over 280 billion webpages that have been indexed since nearly the inception of the internet itself. 

Legislative information from the Library of Congress. All current and past bills that have ever been presented on the floor of the House of Representatives are archived here. 

A subsection of the Library of Congress, and "the world's largest collection of law books and other legal resources from all countries, now comprising more than 2.9 million items."

Federal publications database--including historic publications dating to the 1800s.