Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

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FactivaON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Factiva is a vast full text archive of publications and up-to-the-minute reports and news focusing on global developments and business.


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Facts on International Relations and Security Trends
FIRST contains documented information from research institutes around the world, covering the fields of international relations and security.


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FAOSTAT
Provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture.


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Fast Facts for Congress
Provides highlights from Census Bureau sources of economic and demographic data for the United States, states, counties, and congressional districts.


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Fealth
A health search engine allowing users to browse and search health topics, limit to Government health sites, and browse daily health statistics.


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Fed in Print
Online index to Federal Reserve economic research publications.


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Federal Election System
Provides links to: Campaign Finance Reports and Elections and Voting data; including information about the electoral college, the administrative structure of US elections and voter registration and turnout statistics.


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Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC)
Provides a gateway to FLC laboratory profiles, publications, the Technology Locator service, and the Technology Transfer Training Resources Database.


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Federal News Radio
Federal News Radio is an up-to-the-minute source for information about the federal government. The site covers the latest in federal legislation, human resources, procurement, benefits, technology, security, management, and news.


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Federal R&D Project Summaries
Federal R&D Project Summaries provides a portal to information about Federal research projects, complete with full-text single-query searching across databases residing at different agencies.


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Federal Register LibraryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides search and browse options to PDF copies from volumes 1 of the Federal Register. Print options allow printing or downloading 30 pages at a time in either PDF or Hprint.


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Federal Register Online
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.


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Federal Register Public Inspection Documents Desk
Provides full text access to the recent rules, proposed rules, notices of Federal agencies and organizations, and other official documents of the United States government.


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Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
FRASER is a searchable electronic archive of economic statistical publications and data.


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FedStats
Gateway to statistics from over 100 United States Federal agencies.


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Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.


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Fiction Catalog & ArchiveON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Public Library Core Collection: Fiction delivers information on thousands of works of fiction for adults, either written in or translated into English.


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Fiction ConnectionON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A readers’ advisory tool to identify fiction and biography books published in the United States.


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Film & Television Literature IndexON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
FTLI with full text covers the entire spectrum of television and film, including film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.


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Film Literature Index (FLI)
Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.


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Find GAO Reports
Index to abstracts of Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports and testimony, with links to available electronic reports.


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FindArticles
LookSmart's FindArticles allows users to search and read over 2 million articles from over 500 publications.


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FIREDOC
An online bibliographic database for the Building and Fire Research Laboratory Research Information Services (BFRLRIS) collection.


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FirstSearch DatabasesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
FirstSearch is a collection of electronic databases and indexes from OCLC which can be used to locate books, periodical and newspaper articles, theses, films, computer software, recordings, and other types of material on a wide variety of topics.


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FishBase : A Global Information System on Fishes
Database containing information on thousands of species, over 70,000 synonyms, over 25,000 pictures, and over 20,000 references.


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Flickr
An online photo management and sharing application containing images crossing all subject areas.


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Flora of North America
FNA presents information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.


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FoodMaster
Database listing equipment, ingredients, supplies, and services for the food and beverage industry, along with detailed catalog product data.


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FootnoteON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains primary source documents from the holdings of the United States National Archives relating to all aspects of American history, from the Revolutionary War, to the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents.


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Foreign Law Guide (Available in the Law Reading Room Only)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World provides an overview to foreign legal systems.


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Foreign Relations of the United States
This series presents the official documentary historical record of major United States foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.


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FORMIS : A Master Bibliography Of Ant Literature
FORMIS contains all known ant taxonomic literature and is the only database which covers ant literature before the 1970s.


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Foundation DirectoryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Foundation Directory Professional provides program details for leading grantmaking organizations.


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Founding of the Historically Black College and University Digital Collection
A collection of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives containing photographs, university correspondence, manuscripts, images of campus buildings, alumni letters, memorabilia, and programs from campus events.


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FRANCISON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).


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Frasers Canadian Trade Directory
Directory for wholesale industrial electronics, wholesale industry suppliers, or any kind of industrial goods & services in Canada.


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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of over 13,000 definitions containing acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, and history related to computing.


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FreeBMD
FreeBMD aims to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales for the period 1837-1983.


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Freedom's Journal
Full text of the newspaper Freedom's Journal, which provided international, national, and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching, and other injustices.


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FreePatentsOnline.com
Search for US Patents, US Applications, and European patents, or browse by patent number, to access the full text of US patents from number 4,000,000 onwards.


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Freesearch
UK based web search destination which includes a separate Picture Search and an Online Dictionary.


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FreeTranslation
FreeTranslation provides free text and Web page translation from English to ten other languages including Russian and Chinese (and in reverse translation except for Chinese).


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Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information
GODORT is a directory of subject links to commonly requested websites such as census data, elections, science & technology, and terrorism issues.


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