University of Connecticut | Federal Documents Databases
Networked
Federal Government Databases available to the University of Connecticut
Federal Government
Internet Search Engines and Finding Aids
Networked Federal Government Databases
For information on remote access, see
Remote Access to Library Research Databases and Electronic Journals
Environmental
Health Information Service
Provides access to Environmental Health Perspectives Monthly
and Supplement and National Toxicity Program Technical Reports
Login ID: 0077 Password: use276nvi
National
Climatic Data Center Online Document Library
Monthly Climatic Data of
the World (MCDW):monthly mean temperature, pressure,precipitation, vapor
pressure, and sunshine for approximately 2,000 surface data collection stations
worldwide and monthly mean upper air temperatures, dew point depressions,
and wind velocities for approximately 500 observing sites.
Storm Data (SD):Monthly issues contain a chronological listing, by
states, of occurrences of storms and unusual weather phenomena. Reports
contain
information on storm paths, deaths, injuries, and property damage, with
annual summaries
Local Climatological Data (LCD):Summarizes temperature, relative
humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, wind speed and direction observations
for several hundred cities in the U.S. and its territories. Most monthly
publications also contain the 3 hourly weather observations for that month
and an hourly summary of precipitation. Annual LCD publications contain
a summary of the past calendar year as well as historical averages and extremes.
Stat-USA
Homer Babbidge Library has a site licence to this database
providing access international economic, trade and market data in National
Trade Data Bank.
USA - Trade Online
Contact Federal Documents
librarian at e-mail address below for information on free access to this
database in the library
Federal Government Internet Search Engines and Finding Aids
CenStats
CenStats provides simplified web-based access to nine popular
U.S. Census Bureau databases and publications:
Annual Survey of Manufactures
Building Permits
Census Tract Street Locator
Consolidated Federal Funds Report
County Business Patterns
International Trade Data
Occupation by Race and Sex
USA Counties
Zip Business Patterns
Congressional
Research Service (CRS) Reports
Research reports prepared for the use of members of Congress
on a variety of social, political, and legislative topics.
Federal
Information on Yahoo
Federal and International government internet resources
arranged by this popular web search organization.
FedStats
The United States Government is the single largest publisher
of statistics in the world. FedStats brings together statistical publications
from over 100 federal agencies in one site, arranged by topic and searchable
by keyword.
FedWorld.Gov
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) site offering
access to 20 government research databases including Supreme Court Decisions
Issued between 1937 and 1975, NTIS Tecnical Reports database, and satellite
images.
Your First Click to the U.S. Government.
Google
Government Search
Search Google's database of U.S. Government-hosted pages.
GovSpot
Access to the best government-related sites for local,
state, federal, and international resources.
GPO
Access
Fulltext, searchable electronic access to Budget of the
United States Government, Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (MOCAT),Code
of
Federal Regulations, Commerce Business Daily, Federal Register,
U.S. Government Manual, and Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.
Federal Resources
Organized by Topic
Links to federal agency resources, government databases,
and other federal information resources online organized by subject.
A great starting point for research in government information sources on topics
as diverse as animal welfare, computer security, and nuclear power.
National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Justice Information Center
Statistics research and links to resources on all aspects
of criminology and law enforcement, including the
The
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database containing
"summaries of more than 140,000 publications on criminal justice, including
Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal
articles, and unpublished research."
National
Security Archive
Collection of declassified documents obtained through
the Freedom of Information Act, made available by George Washington University.
Publications
of the U.S. Geological Survey Database
Searchable database of all U.S. Geological Survey publications.
Thomas:
Legislative Information on the Internet
Provides searchable, full-text access to The Congressional
Record, public laws, committee information, bill status, and much more.
Uncle
Sam Migrating Government Publications
Lists of former print titles that have migrated to WWW
format, by title or Superintendant of Documents number, maintained by the
Regional Depository Library at the University of Memphis.
United States Patent and Trademark Office Web Patent Databases
U.S.
Federal Government Agencies Directory
Comprehensive
list of Executive, Judicial and Legislative agency sites on the internet.
FirstGov
Comprehensive collection of millions
of web pages from government and military sites for authoritative information
by and about the US government.
For assistance with research in Federal Documents or government information
sources in general please contact:
Steven Batt
Federal Documents Librarian/Journalism Liaison
Research and Information Services U-5RI
Homer Babbidge Library
(860) 486-6128
Steven.Batt@uconn.edu