Government Information: FDLP and More: Catalogs&Databases

It is a free, official online catalog of U.S. Federal government documents 1976-present. Search by keyword, subject, title, author, etc.

Paper Version, Government Publications Stacks, basement, Fondren Library. (Consult Fondren FDLP Representative) You may use this tool to search historical U.S. Federal government documents issued since 1700s.

Fondren Library catalog
Basic catalog search and resources available at Fondren.

Interlibrary Loan
Request books that you can't find at Fondren Library. Books are delivered to the first floor circulation desk at the library.

WorldCat Search
Worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. If you find a resource in WorldCat that is not available at Fondren Library, try requesting it through Interlibrary Loan.

OneSearch Advanced
Advanced catalog search tool for Fondren Library.

PubMed/NIH

MedLine Plus/NLM

U.S. Declassified Documents Online 

These U.S. government documents are from presidential libraries, CIA, FBI and other agencies spanning the 20th and 21st century (Gale). Fondren Library owns access to the 2017 through 2023 online annual supplements.

Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America  

Government documents and papers from activists tracing the history of conservation-related public policy in the United States.

PAIS Index (Public Affairs Information Service) 

This index "covers issues in public policy, combining both PAIS Archive and PAIS International, with coverage from 1915 to present. Sources include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material and more (ProQuest).

History Vault 

Alternate Name(s) ProQuest History Vault

This collection provides primary source materials for U.S. History. Rice University owns access to the following modules: Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggle (Federal Government Records - BF1 & BF4, Organizational Records and Personal Papers - Parts 1 & 2, BF 2 & 3), and Southern Life and Slavery (Plantation Records Parts 1 & 2, Slavery and the Law).

HeinOnline 

Alternate Name(s) Hein Online

HeinOnline is the world’s largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. Fondren Library has access to: 1) HeinOnline Academic; 2) U.S. State Full Package; and 3) Fastcase Premium.

Military Leaders of World War I: Official and Private Papers of Generaloberst Hans Von Seeckt 

Alternate Name(s) Archives Unbound

"The materials reproduced in this collection consist of letters and other papers of Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt, prominent German military strategist of World War I (Gale)."

Gun Regulation and Legislation in America 

"This new HeinOnline collection brings together more than 500 titles dealing with this difficult and important topic. Included are periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. Links to nearly 500 scholarly articles,* an extensive bibliography, and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject are also provided. Research the National Firearms Act, the Miller and Heller decisions, and other key aspects of this subject (HeinOnline)."

STAT-USA 

Access to economic, business and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government.

Social Explorer 

Provides access to current and historical census data and demographic information with the ability to create thematic and interactive maps and reports. Includes data on religious congregations.

Note: Users who want to bypass the option to create their own account can click on the Maps&Tables link to access the Social Explorer database.

Statistical Insight 

Alternate Name(s) LexisNexis Statistical ProQuest Statistical Insight

Indexing & abstracts for a range of sources from U.S. federal, U.S. state, and international organization publications.

Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (Current & Archive Editions) This link opens in a new window

"The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States." See the ProQuest Statistical Abstract LibGuide for tips on using the database.

SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window

Alternate Name(s) SimplyMap, Simply Analytics

SimplyAnalytics enables non-technical users to create thematic maps and reports using demographic, business and marketing data.

Congressional by ProQuest This link opens in a new window

Alternate Name(s) ProQuest Congressional

Formerly LexisNexis Congressional, this resource provides full-text access to historical (1789- ) and current U.S. Congressional publications, and information about members of Congress and Congressional committees. Track federal bills and laws.

LexisNexis Congressional Record This link opens in a new window

Record (1873+) and its predecessors: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837), and Congressional Globe (1833-1873). More recent info on LexisNexis Congressional. Daily record of proceedings & debates.

Nixon Administration and Foreign Affairs This link opens in a new window

Alternate Name(s) Archives Unbound

This collection includes "the White House Central Files consisting of the Foreign Affairs Subject Files and the Foreign Affairs Subject Series" as well as "the National Security Council Files (Gale)."

Papers of the Nixon Administration: The President’s Confidential and Subject Special Files, 1969-1974 This link opens in a new window

Alternate Name(s) Archives Unbound

This archive "consists of documents of an administratively-sensitive nature, arranged according to subject from President Nixon’s Special Files collection, comprising the Confidential and Subject Files (Gale)."

Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition This link opens in a new window

This online edition of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson includes all the illustrations and bibliographical content of the print edition, with the added convenience of linked cross-references and indexes.

CIA's World Factbook This link opens in a new window

From the Central Intelligence Agency, this site provides country information organized by country, region, or topic. Topics include communications, defense, economy, flag and map, geography, government, people and transportation.

Archive of Americana This link opens in a new window

Providing unprecedented online access to newspapers, books, broadsides, ephemera, government publications and more, the Archive of Americana puts tens of millions of pages of primary documents at researchers' fingertips

National Journal This link opens in a new window

A weekly (since 1969) publication discussing conventions and policy for the most recent election.

Criminal Justice (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window

Alternate Name(s) Criminal Justice Collection

Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice informs the research process for researchers who are studying law, law enforcement, or terrorism, training for paralegal service, preparing for a career in homeland security, delving into forensic science, investigating crime scenes, developing policy, going to court, writing sociological reports, and much more.

War on Poverty, Texas This link opens in a new window

Alternate Name(s) Archives Unbound

"The documents in this archive are from the Presidential Papers of Lyndon Baines Johnson, White House Office Files, Office Files of Fred Panzer: Office of Economic Opportunity Information Center, Community Profiles, in the custody of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas (Gale)."

Environmental Science Collection This link opens in a new window

This "collection combines specialist topic resources from disciplines such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology and biology and features a diverse range of full-text sources including scientific journals, trade journals, new sources, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications (ProQuest)."

Grants.gov This link opens in a new window

Contact and application information for over 900 grant programs from 26 different federal agencies. Most of the grants are targeted to government, education, public housing, and non-profit organizations, Only a few programs are available for individuals and none of the grants are for personal financial assistance like student loans, small business start-ups, etc.

U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009 This link opens in a new window

US Intelligence on the Middle East "sheds light on the United States intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran’s nuclear program (Brill)."