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PAIS (Public Affairs) 1972 - present Public Affairs Information Service indexes more than 900 journals; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernment... View PAIS (Public Affairs) Online

Core Databases

19th Century Masterfile, Series I and V 1786 - 1907 Series I of 19th Century Masterfile provides access to the periodical literature of the nineteenth century. Included is an online version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906; the f... View 19th Century Masterfile, Series I and V Online
American FactFinder 2000 - present The U.S. Census Bureau developed American FactFinder as its primary vehicle for distributing census data. American FactFinder provides access to data from the Decennial Census, the American Communi... View American FactFinder Online
Congress.gov 1973 - present Congress.gov contains federal legislative information from the United States government. It is the new platform for legislation, the Congressional Record, committee reports, nominations, treaties, ... View Congress.gov Online
FDSys (US Government Printing Office) Varies by series; Most are from the second half of the 20th century. [NOTE: FDsys will be replaced by govinfo in December 2018. All FDsys content is available at govinfo now.] Full text of official publications from all three branches of the the U.S. Federal Governm... View FDSys (US Government Printing Office) Online
govinfo varies by series Free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. Includes the Federal Register, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, U.S. Statutes at Large, Code of Federa... View govinfo Online
HathiTrust Digital Library Dates Vary HathiTrust offers access to a collection of millions of titles digitized from academic and research library collections from around the world, including the UW-Madison Libraries. Full-text of works... View HathiTrust Digital Library Online
HeinOnline 1220 - present Full-text legal periodicals, historical texts, foreign & international materials, and primary legal materials in PDF, including the Federal Register, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Reports & attorney... View HeinOnline Online
LexisNexis Academic Dates Vary NOTE: This database will not be available after December 31, 2018; it was replaced with a new platform, renamed Nexis Uni. Access to both platforms will available until March 31, 2018. LexisNexis ... View LexisNexis Academic Online
Nexis Uni Dates vary NOTE: In early 2018, LexisNexis launched a new platform, Nexis Uni, to replace LexisNexis Academic. Access to both platforms will available until March 31, 2018. Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Aca... View Nexis Uni Online
NTRL National Technical Reports Library 1964 to present; brief records for pre-1964 period NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) offers a public interface for accessing authenticated government technical reports in the U.S. Department of Commerce NTIS (National Technical Information ... View NTRL National Technical Reports Library Online
PAIS (Public Affairs) 1972 - present Public Affairs Information Service indexes more than 900 journals; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernment... View PAIS (Public Affairs) Online
ProQuest Statistical Insight 1973 - present Statistical Insight contains abstracting and indexing data for more than 5,000 federal statistical publications per year from 1973 to the present contained in ASI (American Statistics Index). Stati... View ProQuest Statistical Insight Online
UNBISnet: United Nations Bibliographic Information System 1979 - present UNBISnet contains citations to United Nations publications and documents from 1979 forward, including UN sales publications, selected periodical articles, Official Records, and mimeographed documen... View UNBISnet: United Nations Bibliographic Information System Online
WorldCat via FirstSearch Before 1000 BC to the present WorldCat is a catalog of millions of books, serials, audiovisual media, maps, archives, manuscripts, scores, computer files, and web sites owned by OCLC member libraries around the world, including... View WorldCat via FirstSearch Online
WorldCat via WorldCat.org Before 1000 BC to the present WorldCat is a catalog of millions of books, serials, audiovisual media, maps, archives, manuscripts, scores, computer files, and web sites owned by OCLC member libraries around the world, including... View WorldCat via WorldCat.org Online
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 1975 - present Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is a combination and continuation of two older databases, Political Science Abstracts (1975-2000) and ABC POL SCI (1984-2000). The new resource provides citati... View Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Online

Foreign Databases

Border and Migration Studies Online 19th - 21st centuries This collection of primary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera relate to significant border areas and events from the 19th to 21st centuries. It offers researchers historical context an... View Border and Migration Studies Online Online
British History Online British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources on the history of Britain, from the Middle Ages to 1900. The library provides free access to over 1000 digitized volumes... View British History Online Online
Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) / 民国时期期刊全文数据库 1911-1949 The Journal Database for the Republican Period (1911-1949) covers over 20,000 journal titles. The journal database contains a mass of information on all aspects of life, including political, econom... View Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) / 民国时期期刊全文数据库 Online
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 1834-1966 The Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 is Official British government correspondence concerning Africa from the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office. It was issued by the British Government. I... View Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 Online
CountryWatch 1993 - present CountryWatch is a combination of textual and statistical sources on more than 190 countries. Lengthy Country Reviews give a complete historical, political, economic, investment, social, and environ... View CountryWatch Online
English Reports (HeinOnline) 1220-1867 Contains exact page-images of the original bound reprint edition of the English Reports (containing more than 100,000 cases), together with the Indexes and Book of Charts. View English Reports (HeinOnline) Online
European Union Documents and Publications Current European Union documents and other publications, including the Official Journal of the European Union, legal texts, treaties, statistics, historical records, and the latest EU-wide surveys and opin... View European Union Documents and Publications Online
Human Rights Studies Online 20th - 21st centuries This collection of primary and secondary source materials offers access to comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide, fr... View Human Rights Studies Online Online
National Peoples Congresses (NPC) 1955 - present Peoples Congress (database) - NPC Database is a collection of reports, primarily by People's Daily and People's Daily Online, on National People's Congress, from the 1st Session of 1st NPC to the 3... View National Peoples Congresses (NPC) Online
Official Publications of India Official Publications of India. Government documents related to pre- and post-Independence South Asia. The Official Publications were most often defined by enumeration of holdings at the British Li... View Official Publications of India Online
State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782) 1509 - 1782 State Papers Online, 1509-1714 is a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the King or Queen acted as Prime Minister as well as Mon... View State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782) Online
U.K. Parliamentary Papers 1688 - 2003/04 session Papers issued by the United Kingdom House of Commons including Bills and Acts, Command Papers, House of Commons Papers, Hansard (the official report of debates in Parliament) and supplementary mate... View U.K. Parliamentary Papers Online

Multinational Databases

American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam: Global Perspectives, 1946-1975 1946 - 1975 Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books covering the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts. This collection of primary so... View American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam: Global Perspectives, 1946-1975 Online
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) 1991 - present Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes work... View CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) Online
European Sources Online (ESO) 1990s - present European Sources Online (ESO) is an online database which provides access to information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions and other international org... View European Sources Online (ESO) Online
European Union Documents and Publications Current European Union documents and other publications, including the Official Journal of the European Union, legal texts, treaties, statistics, historical records, and the latest EU-wide surveys and opin... View European Union Documents and Publications Online
IMF Data including International Financial Statistics (IFS) 1948 - present The IMF eLibrary Data contains a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates, and other economic and financial indicators. The International Financial Statistcs (IFS) has been one of I... View IMF Data including International Financial Statistics (IFS) Online
INIS: International Nuclear Information System 1970 - present INIS is a leading open access reference database for scientific literature published worldwide on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. It contains over 3 million bibliographic citat... View INIS: International Nuclear Information System Online
International Newsstream 1980 - present International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-... View International Newsstream Online
OECD iLibrary 1998 - present OECD iLibrary is a platform containing over 17 ebook collections organized by theme from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. In addition to these ebooks, the platform also i... View OECD iLibrary Online
Summaries of EU Legislation Current This site provides fact sheets which summarise European Union legislation. The fact sheets are divided into 32 subject areas which are the Activities of the European Union. You will find not only s... View Summaries of EU Legislation Online
UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) 1962 - present Worldwide trade data by commodity, including country-to-country information. It contains well over 1.7 billion data records for the past 45 years. (Includes most recently completed year.) View UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) Online
United Nations Treaty Collection 1920 - current The UN Treaty Collection incorporates full text of several UN publications available in paper, among them Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General (updated almost daily), the Unit... View United Nations Treaty Collection Online
World Bank - IMF Network Libraries (International Monetary Fund) Welcome to The Library Network, serving the World Bank Group and IMF. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund libraries work together to provide information services and resources to World B... View World Bank - IMF Network Libraries (International Monetary Fund) Online
World Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnline) 1812 - present Current constitutions for every country in the original language along with at least one English translation. Includes expert commentary, the complete set of the British and Foreign State Papers, a... View World Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnline) Online
World Trials Library (HeinOnline) 1700s - 1900s Trial transcripts from some of history's most famous trials. Also includes texts that analyze and debate famous trials, as well as biographies of some of the greatest trial lawyers in history. View World Trials Library (HeinOnline) Online
Yearbook of International Organizations Online 1948 - present The Yearbook is a database of detailed profiles of more than 60,000 international organizations in all disciplines. Active, inactive, and dormant organizations are included, as well as both non-gov... View Yearbook of International Organizations Online Online

U.S. - Federal Government Databases

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals 1988 - present The Air University Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items and editorials appearing in 76 English language military and aeronautical periodicals. (Updat... View Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals Online
American Founding Era Collection The American Founding Era Collection contains the annotated, full-text searchable set of the personal papers and manuscripts of the founders of the American Republic. The collection includes the pa... View American Founding Era Collection Online
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922 1820 - 1922 This is a fully searchable resource of over 25,000 pamphlets and other short works from the collections of the New York Historical Society spanning the varied history of the United States from the ... View American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922 Online
ASSIST Quick Search (Military Standards) Dates vary The ASSIST database is the official source for specifications and standards used by the Department of Defense. Indexed documents include current and historical military and federal standards and sp... View ASSIST Quick Search (Military Standards) Online
Biographical directory of the United States Congress 1774 - present This Directory provides brief biographical information, including party affiliation, for all members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives from the Continental Congress to the pr... View Biographical directory of the United States Congress Online
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications 1976 - present 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. The CGP co... View Catalog of U.S. Government Publications Online
Congressional Record (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) 1789 - 2017 The official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress back to 1789. Includes both daily and bound editions of the Congressional Record, as well as its predecessor titles:... View Congressional Record (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) Online
CQ Almanac Online 1945 - present Coverage and analysis of U.S. congressional legislation from 1945 to today, including how bills are changed, derailed, or ultimately passed during an annual session of Congress. The CQ Almanac incl... View CQ Almanac Online Online
Criminal Justice in America: U.S. Attorney General Opinions, Reports, and Publications (HeinOnline) 1870 - present Official opinions of the U.S. Attorney General. Includes both the "Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States" as well as, the "Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the U... View Criminal Justice in America: U.S. Attorney General Opinions, Reports, and Publications (HeinOnline) Online
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets 1930s - present Provides simple and refined searching of the Data-Planet repository of standardized and structured statistical data, and others. Datasets include public-domain and licensed information. Users can s... View Data-Planet Statistical Datasets Online
Digest of Education Statistics 1990 - present The Digest of Education Statistics, compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), U.S. Dept. of Education, summarizes information about American education from prekindergarten th... View Digest of Education Statistics Online
Digital National Security Archive 1945 - present The DNSA includes over 100,000 declassified primary documents relating to US foreign policy. It is separated into 42 collections consisting of over compiled and organized by top scholars and expert... View Digital National Security Archive Online
Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1939 (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) 1789 - 1939 Collection of publications from the Executive Branch of the federal government listed in the 1909 Checklist created by the U.S. Superintendent of Documents as a summary of all publications issues b... View Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1939 (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) Online
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996 Electronic version of the FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Daily Reports. In February 1941, the Roosevelt administration authorized the creation of the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Serv... View Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports Online
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) (incomplete run, 1861-1960) Incomplete run, 1861-1960 The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official record of major US foreign policy decisions. This digital collection has incomplete coverage from 1861-1960. It can be searched by ... View Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) (incomplete run, 1861-1960) Online
Hearings (ProQuest Congressional) 1824 - 2018 Published and unpublished hearings from U.S. Congressional committee hearings proceedings. All hearings contain the full transcripts of the proceedings, including all oral statements, committee que... View Hearings (ProQuest Congressional) Online
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) Dates vary The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports fr... View Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) Online
Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS) 1957 - 1995 The Joint Publications Research Service was a U.S. government organization established in 1957 to supply government agencies with translations of unclassified foreign documents consisting of the fo... View Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS) Online
LLMC Digital (Law Library Microform Consortium) 1700s to date Full-text U.S. Federal and Canadian primary law from the Law Library Microform Consortium. Also contains historical legal treatises. Emphasis is on older materials. View LLMC Digital (Law Library Microform Consortium) Online
Military & Government Collection 1961 - present The Military & Government Collection provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military. The database contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and cover... View Military & Government Collection Online
NationalJournal Current Advertised as "the academic community's policy source", Policy Central offers several databases covering various aspects of U.S. government, public policy, and business. Among them are National Jou... View NationalJournal Online
ProQuest Congressional 1789 - present Comprehensive ongoing collection of U.S. federal government publications from the late 18th century to the present. Includes acts (laws), bills and resolutions, committee reports and documents, hea... View ProQuest Congressional Online
ProQuest Legislative Insight 1789 - 2018 Legislative Insight is comprised of fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. These include the full text of the Public Law itself, all ver... View ProQuest Legislative Insight Online
ProQuest Regulatory Insight 1935 - 2018 As a companion to ProQuest Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories organized by federal statute and executive order, as well as Federal Register and... View ProQuest Regulatory Insight Online
Serial Set (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) 1789 - 2018 Reports and documents either produced or ordered by Congress, as well as presidential communications and treaty materials. Contains comprehensive and often detailed information on an extremely wide... View Serial Set (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) Online
Statistical Abstract of the United States 1878-2012 (via Census Bureau) Dates vary The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statis... View Statistical Abstract of the United States 1878-2012 (via Census Bureau) Online
Statistical Abstract of the United States 2013- (via ProQuest) dates vary, to present This tool is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of... View Statistical Abstract of the United States 2013- (via ProQuest) Online
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U.S. Code (HeinOnline) 1925-present This collection includes complete coverage of the United States Code dating back to inception in 1925-1926. Also includes the Early Federal Laws Collection, which represents the most complete colle... View U.S. Code (HeinOnline) Online
U.S. Congressional Documents (HeinOnline) 1789 - Present This collection features the complete Congressional Record Bound version, as well as the daily version back to 1980. It also includes the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), R... View U.S. Congressional Documents (HeinOnline) Online
U.S. Declassified Documents Online 1945 - 1970s The US Declassified Documents includes documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act from the period immediately after World War II through the 1970's. Nearly every major foreign ... View U.S. Declassified Documents Online Online
U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) Current The U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System contains more than 3 million records for pending, registered, abandoned, cancelled and expired federal trademarks. When appropriate, trademark records wi... View U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) Online
US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database 1976 - present The database consists includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue w... View US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database Online
World Factbook Current The World Factbook contains overviews of each country in the world, including brief data on geography, people, government, economy, membership in international organizations, communications, and de... View World Factbook Online

U.S. - State Government Databases

National Survey of State Laws (HeinOnline) 1993 - 2015 This database version of Richard Leiter's National Survey of State Laws provides an overall view of some of the most sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States. Users are able... View National Survey of State Laws (HeinOnline) Online
Oxford US Constitutional Law 1776 - present Includes full text of current and historical United States state constitutions. Also includes the Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the US series, which offers article-by-article co... View Oxford US Constitutional Law Online
Session Laws Library (HeinOnline) 1754 - present This Library contains exact replications of the official bound session laws (acts) of all 50 states from inception, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. All states are available back to i... View Session Laws Library (HeinOnline) Online
State Attorney General Reports and Opinions (HeinOnline) 1791 - present State Attorney General Reports and Opinions for all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Also includes the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States and... View State Attorney General Reports and Opinions (HeinOnline) Online
State Statutes: A Historical Archive (HeinOnline) 1717 - The collection includes more than 1,600 volumes and nearly 2,000,000 pages of historical superseded state statutes (but not current state statutes) and offers a valuable source of information for l... View State Statutes: A Historical Archive (HeinOnline) Online
Subject Compilations of State Laws (HeinOnline) 1960 - present Index to articles, books, government documents, loose-leaf services, court opinions and Internet sites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects. (Updated quarterly) View Subject Compilations of State Laws (HeinOnline) Online
Wisconsin Acts 1969-present Acts passed by the Wisconsin Legislature since 1969. A table of statutes sections affected by Wisconsin acts since 1995 and Governor's Veto Messages are also available. View Wisconsin Acts Online
Wisconsin Administrative Code & Register Current The Wisconsin Administrative Code is the publication, in a continual revision system, of the rules of executive agencies of the State of Wisconsin having rule-making authority. The Wisconsin Admini... View Wisconsin Administrative Code & Register Online
Wisconsin Agricultural Statistics Service The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The agency's primary responsibility is to prepare official estimates of a... View Wisconsin Agricultural Statistics Service Online
Wisconsin Blue Book (Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau) 2005/06 - present The Wisconsin Blue Book is a comprehensive almanac of Wisconsin State Government. It includes biographies of people in state government, information on the various agencies of the state, and a grea... View Wisconsin Blue Book (Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau) Online
Wisconsin Digital Archives 2001 - present The Wisconsin Digital Archives is a growing collection of documents about the activities, functions, and policies of Wisconsin State Government. The collection contains documents from 2001 to curre... View Wisconsin Digital Archives Online
Wisconsin Eye May 2007 - present Wisconsin Eye is a statewide multimedia public affairs network with a mission to present an independent, statewide view of civic life and public policy discussion. The network covers floor sessions... View Wisconsin Eye Online
Wisconsin Historical Society Archive-It Collection 2010 - present The Wisconsin Historical Society Archive-It collection includes archived versions of Wisconsin state, county, and municipal government web sites, as well as archived versions of web sites from the ... View Wisconsin Historical Society Archive-It Collection Online
Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau Digital Collections 1950 - present The digital collections of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau contain documents published by the legislature and legislative agencies (including the Legislative Reference Bureau, Legislativ... View Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau Digital Collections Online
Wisconsin Statutes 1989 - present Wisconsin Statutes from the Legislative Reference Bureau. Statutes are updated with the integration of acts from the current legislative session. View Wisconsin Statutes Online
WisStat 1960 - present GetFacts, formerly WISSTAT, contains thousands of demographic and economic variables for the state of Wisconsin, its counties and smaller communitites. The sources of the data include the U.S. Cens... View WisStat Online

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