Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

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Database of American Libraries Before 1876
Contains information on 10,000 libraries in existence in the United States before 1876.


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Database of British Fiction 1800–1829
Contains bibliographical records for over 2,000 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors.


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Database on Developed Countries
Demographic indicators (in French) for developed countries (EU, Japan and North America) including tables for Natalité, Fécondité; Nuptialité, Divortialité; Mortalité; and Mouvement de la population.


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Databases of Russian / NIS PublicationsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Eastview databases containing the full text of current and older issues of Russian, Baltic and Ukrainian newspapers and journals.


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Databases on Medicine and Molecular Biology
Links to publicly available resources in: Chemistry; Ethics; Genomics; Health Care; Laboratory Medicine; Microbiology; Oncology; Patents; Pharmacology; Proteomics; Toxicology; and Veterinary Medicine.


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DBPiaON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Searchable database of full-text articles in about 700 scholarly journals published in Korea, covering all subject areas. Browse in Korean by subject, the table of contents, and journal issue.


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Death Penalty Information Center Database of Executions
Search executions in the United States since 1976 by Year, Age at Execution, Race of Person Executed, Race of Victim, Gender of Person Executed, State, Region, and Method of Execution.


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Declassified Documents Reference SystemON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides full-text access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents.


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Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Sets forth standard US military and associated terminology to encompass the joint activity of the Armed Forces of the United States in both US joint and allied joint operations, as well as to encompass the Department of Defense as a whole.


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Department of Transportation Digital Special Collections
The DOT library has digitized numerous collections relating to airlines, trains, and other modes of transportation.


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Design and Applied Arts IndexON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops and firms from more than 500 design and craft journals.


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Deutsche BibliothekON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains records of monographs, periodicals, microforms, dissertations, visual materials, maps, printed and recorded music, and electronic publications from the National Library of Germany.


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Deutsche LyrikON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Die Deutsche Lyrik ( German Lyric Poetry ) is a German language database of German poetry containing the complete works of one hundred poets, from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.


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Development Experience Clearinghouse Database
DEC contains records for over 124,000 USAID technical and program documents with over 30,000 available for electronic download.


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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
Dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypical problems, and related definitions.


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Dictionary of Australian Biography
Contains over 1,000 biographies of Australians, or people closely connected with Australia, who died before the end of 1942.


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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
A collection of authoritative biographies portraying noteworthy Canadians.


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Dictionary of Ecological Epidemiology
Compiled by the University of Cambridge (UK) and contains linked cross-references within each definition.


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Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs
John Montgomery’s Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs is a reference to the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Maya that presents over 1,200 hieroglyphs and glyph compounds.


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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Contains over 3,000 biographies of deceased New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on the country.


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Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
A concise guide to technical terms and personal names often encountered in the study of philosophy.


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Dictionary Today
The official dictionary for the People's Republic of China which allows users to utilize keyword searches for dictionary definitions, thesaurus options and other resources in Chinese and English.


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Dictionary.com
The dictionary provides entries from different, linked Web site sources, and includes syllable markings, function, pronunciation key, inflected forms, definitions, usage examples, and etymology.


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Dietary Supplements Labels Database
Contains information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements.


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Digital Clendening
Include hundreds of images taken from a collection of rare medical texts in the Clendening Library.


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Digital DissertationsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.


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Digital Library Federation Public Access Collections
A web-searchable database containing nearly 300 public domain online digital collections of the members of the Digital Library Federation (DLF), a consortium of libraries and related agencies.


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Digital Library North Rhine-Westphalia
Provides access to a number of library catalogues in Europe and the United States, along with subject databases as well as full-text documents.


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Digital Library of the Commons
DLC is a gateway to the international literature on the commons, which focuses on the relation between the physical resource and human institutions.


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Digital National Security ArchiveON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
DNSA contains primary documents central to United States foreign and military policy since 1945 obtained by the National Security Archive.


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Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher KlassikerON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text to works by more than thirty German authors, allowing users to cross-search an outstanding corpus of classic texts.


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Digitized Collections of the National Library of the Netherlands
Full-text selection of manuscripts and printed works.


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Directories in PrintON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Describes over 16,000 active rosters, guides, and other address lists published in the United States and worldwide.


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Directory of African NGOs
The directory of African NGO's (non-governmental organizations) gives general information, including the name of the organization, the year of creation, the type of organization, the contact person and address.


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Directory of Development Organizations
Provides descriptions and contact information for 43,500 development organizations, including NGOs, trade unions, faith-based organizations, indigenous peoples movements, foundations and research centres.


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Directory of Japanese Scientific Periodicals
The Directory of Japanese Scientific Periodicals Database covers serials on science and technology edited and published by organizations operating in Japan. Browse "Category List" by subject areas or search by titles.


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Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ covers more than 2,000 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.


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Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR provides descriptions and access to hundreds of institutional and subject-based repositories.


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Directory of Published Proceedings
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.


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Dirksen Center Projects
Contains a series of multi-media projects with resources on a variety of topics from civil rights to editorial cartoons.


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DIRSA Electronic JournalsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
DIRSA (Bivir) provides access to dozens of full-text Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese origin electronic journals available at the Library of Congress. Search for journals by title, country, publisher and subject.


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Dissertations of China (DOC)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
DOC contains over 800,000 full-text dissertations, and 1 million abstracts and other descriptive information of Masters and Doctoral dissertations from key Chinese universities and research institutions since 1986.


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Ditto
Ditto is a visual search engine allowing users to navigate the Web through pictures. Users are linked to the originating web site on which the pictures are located.


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DiVA Academic Archive
DiVA, the Digital Scientific Archive (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet in Swedish), contains over 6,600 documents, including full-text doctoral theses, dissertations, monographs, and undergraduate theses from a number of Nordic universities.


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DMOZ Open Directory Project
Comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. The goal of DMOZ is to become the definitive catalog of the Web.


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Doctor Finder
Provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including more than 690,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO).


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Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.


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DocumentArchiv.de
documentArchiv ist ein online-Archiv, in dem historische Dokumente und Quellen gesammelt werden.


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Documenting the American South
DocSouth is a collection of books, manuscripts, and other sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.


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Docuticker
DocuTicker provides links to full text reports and publications from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest organizations.


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DOE Data Explorer
The DDE finds scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines.


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Dogpile
Dogpile uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, About, FAST, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more.


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Dolley Madison Digital EditionON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains close to 2,500 letters to or from Dolley Madison from 1788 to June 1836.


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Dramatis Personae Archive
Covers European dance, theater, and visual arts from 1600 to 1850 and contains rare digitized books, maps, newspapers, and journals.


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Drinking Water Data & Databases
Searchable databases containing data collection by the Environmental Protection Agency on the safety and regulation of drinking water.


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DTIC's Technical Reports Collection
Contains nearly two million reports in print and nonprint (software, datafiles, databases and videorecordings) format conveying the results of Defense-sponsored research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) efforts.


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Dun and Bradstreet International Business LocatorON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Look-up over 28 million global companies by entering a company name, location, phone number or D&B D-U-N-S® Number.


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Dun and Bradstreet Million Dollar DatabaseON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Selectory global database provides directory and financial information for millions of the leading US and international public and private businesses.


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DuXiu (Access from Asian Reading Room Only)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides the full text to over 2 millions core Chinese monographs and journals, as well as over 500 yearbooks published in mainland China.


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