Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

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Gale Cengage DatabasesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search across General OneFile, CPIQ (Canadian Periodicals), and LegalTrac.


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Gale Directory LibraryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains directory listings for associations, businesses, consultants, research centers, publishers, publication and broadcast media, and government agencies.


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Gale Directory of DatabasesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Profiles thousands of databases available worldwide in a variety of formats. Entries include producer name and contact information, description, cost and more.


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GalleryWatchON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Tracks real-time legislative, regulatory, and governmental information and news.


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Gallica
The digitization project of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France focusing on the cultural history of France and French speaking areas throughout the world.


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Garden, Landscape & Horticulture IndexON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
GLHI contains articles about plants, horticulture, gardens and landscape design and history.


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Gatt Digital Library
Contains over 59,000 public documents and 300 publications of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).


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GBV OnlineON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
GBV includes the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature covering all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English.


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Gender Inn
A searchable database providing access to over 8,300 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature. Continually updated.


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Gender WatchON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, and gender and women's studies.


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General Education Online
Open resource database of links to higher education facilities worldwide. Links to these higher education institutions are arranged first alphabetically by country name, then by institution.


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General OneFileON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Infotrac provides access to articles and news information from more than 11,000 scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals, including 6,300 full-text titles.


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General Science Full TextON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Wilson General Science Abstracts indexes over 160 leading science journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain.


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Geniusfind
Directory of thousands of search engines, databases, and archives organized into categories and subcategories.


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GEOBASEON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers worldwide literature on cartography, climatology, demography, ecology, economic geography & geology, environment, geomorphology, geophysics, historical geography, hydrology, minerology, natural resources, palaeontology, planning, remote sensing, sedimentology, stratigraphy, tectonics, transportation, and rural, social, & urban geography.


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Geographic Names Information System
GNIS is the official repository of nearly two million physical and cultural geographic features and their names in the United States and its territories.


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Geography and Maps: An Illustrated Guide
Online guide to the Library of Congress Geography & Maps Division cartographic collections, which consist of over 4 million maps, 53,000 atlases, 300 globes, and other geographic materials.


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Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database
The catalog consists of references to geologic field trip guidebooks of North America.


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Geologic Names Lexicon
GEOLEX is a search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit names containing over 16,000 entries; 75% of which come from the USGS Geologic Names Committee (GNC) card catalog.


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GEOnet Names Server
An online database of nearly 4 million foreign geographic features with over 5 million feature names.


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GeoRefON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.


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German - English Dictionary
Contains translation from English to German, or from German to English. Along with definitions and synonyms, the dictionary also included English, or German proverbs, aphorisms, and quotations.


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German Biography
Elektronische Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (E-ADB and E-NDB) is a database for German biographies.


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German Exile Press 1933-1945
Contains journals from the holdings of the German Exile Archive in Frankfurt/Main and from the collection of the Exile Literature, Leipzig during the NAZI era.


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Gerritsen's Women's HistoryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers 4 centuries (1543-1945) of monographs and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights.


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getCITED
Contains citations from journal articles, individual chapters in edited volumes, papers from conferences and in proceedings, working papers and reports, and conference presentations.


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Getty Provenance Index® Databases
The databases contain indexed transcriptions of material from auction catalogs and archival inventories of western European works of art, and contain nearly 1,000,000 records that cover the period from the late 16th century to the early 20th century.


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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
A database of modern and historical names, coordinates, and descriptions of geographic places, arranged in hierarchical order. Provided and maintained by the J. Paul Getty Museum (browse many of the works of art on display at the Getty).


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Gigablast
Gigablast allows users to undertake sophisticated queries that are not supported in most other search engines.


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Global Books in PrintON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains over 5 million bibliographic records for in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audiobooks, and videos published in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and the US Global BIP includes more than 600,000 full-text reviews from material published since1985, as well as 7,000 author biographies, over 300 award listings, and title availability from over 20 major suppliers.


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Global Financial DataON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Comprehensive economic and financial time-series database covering 150 countries and 6,500 different data series.


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Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
A list of links, databases, and resources which provide an entry point to the scale and depth of the international collections held by the Library of Congress.


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Global Legal Information Network
GLIN is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources covering international law.


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Global Legal Monitor
Covers legal news and developments worldwide, drawing on information from the Global Legal Information Network, official national legal publications, and reliable press sources.


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Global Performing Arts Database
GloPAD records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.


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Global Terrorism Database
An open-source database containing information on terrorist events around the world since 1970.


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Global Trade AtlasON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full country import and export data for over 60 countries utilizing the Harmonized Schedule (HS).


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Globalization and Labor Standards Bibliographic Database
The GALS database contains abstracts of recent English language law journal articles exploring international labor standards and rights in the global economy.


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GlobalSpec
The Engineering Web limits searching to technical and engineering-related Web sites.


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Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Searchable, browseable online glossary containing about 3000 terms.


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Glossary of Business Terms
Search or browse a list of standard business terms and their definitions.


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Glossary of Comet and Astronomical Terms
Alphabetical list of terms with explanations for commonly encountered concepts in astronomy. Maintained by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics .


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Glossary of Economic Terms
Contains standard definitions for terms commonly used by the Federal Reserve Banks. For the history and examples of American currency, explore the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's American Currency Exhibit online.


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Glossary of Literary Terms
Alphabetical list of commonly found terms in literature.


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Glossary of Terms & Symbols Used in Pharmacology
Browsable list of terms with detailed definitions and crosslinked related terms.


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Glossary of Terms Used in Physical Organic Chemistry
IUPAC recommended definitions for common terms in physical and organic chemistry.


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Gnomon Online
Online index to journals and series in classics and archaeology.


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Google
Provides comprehensive coverage of the web.


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Google Book Search
View the entirety of public domain books or, for books under copyright, just a few pages or in some cases, only the title’s bibliographic data and brief snippets.


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Google Maps
Google Maps allows users in the United States to find location information, navigate through maps, and get directions.


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Google News
Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first.


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Google Scholar
Enables users to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.


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Google U.S. Government Search
Offers a single location for searching across government information, and for keeping up to date on government news.


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Government Auditing Standards
Government Auditing Standards - the GAO Yellow Book - contains standards for audits of government organizations, programs, activities, and functions, and of government assistance received by contractors, nonprofit organizations, and other nongovernment organizations.


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GPO Access
GPO Access provides access to Federal Government Information Databases in over 70 applications provided by the US Government Printing Office.


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GPO Monthly CatalogON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers all types of US government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.


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Gramene : A Comparative Mapping Resource for Grains
Gramene is a data resource for comparative genome analysis in the grasses.


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Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch
Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart, mit beständiger Vergleichung der übrigen Mundarten, besonders aber der Oberdeutschen, von Johann Christoph Adelung.


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Granger's World of PoetryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry is the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies.


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GrantSelectON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Offers more than 10,000 funding opportunities and an extensive list of sponsored research opportunities.


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Green Book
The Green book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation.


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GreenFILE
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles that draw on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.


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Grey Literature Archive for Development Researchers
Database of grey literature about how information and communication technologies are being used to solve social problems in developing countries.


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Grokker
Generates visual maps of search results with related topics and categories.


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GSA Publications Online
Search the following Geological Society of America publications: GSA Bulletin, 1972- ; Geology, 1973- ; GSA Today, 1991 -.


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Guide for Finding Citations To Periodical Articles
Guide to subject lists of print abstracts, indexes, and bibliographies available at the Library of Congress.


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Guide to History on the Web
Searchable and indexed database of more than 5,000 United States and world history sites. Maintained by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.


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Guide to Law Online
Prepared by the US Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, this site is an annotated guide to public sources of information on government and law available online.


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Guide to Library of Congress Microform Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division
Browsable guide to over 7 million pieces in the Library's vast and various microform collections, representing global information ranging from human prehistory to unidentified flying objects.


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Guide to U.S. House and Senate Members
Search for and retrieve current individual Members by name, district, hometown, or groups of Members by state, party affiliation, or number of terms.


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GuideStar : National Database of Nonprofit Organizations
GuideStar provides detailed financial and directory information on thousands of IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations.


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Gutenberg-e
Scholarly e-book collection containing revisions of prize-winning dissertations.


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