Bibliographies
Books Online
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-2005 - Contains information like birth date and location, educational and professional endeavors, government services, and death dates.
World Factbook - CIA developed guide to the countries of the world includes analysis of politics, economy, and population.
Databases & Catalogs
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports - Open CRS - "A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain.." As of 7/14/2005, 8485 reports are available.
Department of Defense Directives - DOD issuances, directives, instructions, regulations and manuals.
Department of Energy Information Bridge - Offers the full-text of many DOE publications from 1995 to the present.
Department of Energy - Human Radiation Experiments - Collection of documents and multimedia concerning radiation experiments on human subjects.
Department of Transportation Documents - Offers the full-text of DOT dockets, and FAA Regulations, Advisory Circulars, and Airworthiness Directives.
Dialog - Offers more than 450 databases on ALL subjects. Covers magazines, newspapers, newsletters, Dun & Bradstreet reports, organization information, statistics, scientific journals, biographies, patents, directories, international publications, and market research. Registered library patrons can request a search. Limited to NASA HQ employees.
DoD Scientific and Technical Information Network - The public version of the Defense Technical Information Center's STINET database. NASA HQ employees may request searches in the limited database or request documents be purchased by contacting the Library.
EBSCOhost - A journal database indexing 1,400,000 articles. A few journals are available in full-text online. Articles from most other journals can be ordered through the database or requested from the Library. Limited to NASA HQ employees.
European Science Foundation (ESF) - Collection of full-text policy briefings, infrastructure studies, reports and position papers by the Foundation, 1998-present.
Executive Orders - Access executive orders (EO) from the Federal Register, or access NASA-related executive orders through the NODIS system.
FAA Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation - Collection of quarterly launch reports, forecasts, licensing, and COMSTAC reports.
FAA Documents - Office publications, reports, manuals, plans from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Factiva - Indexes full-text current newspapers, newswires, television transcripts, trade journals, and magazines. Also offers a variety of business reports. Registered library patrons can request a search. Limited to NASA HQ employees.
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) - Offers the FAR in a variety of formats, plus supporting documentation.
Federal Information Processing Standards - Lists full-text Department of Commerce FIPS by number.
Federal Workers Lookup - Database of all civil servants (no contractors) in federal agencies across the U.S. Gives location, occupation, agency, grade, and amount of cash bonuses. Offered by the Washington Post. Compiled from OPM 2002 Personnel Data File.
Federation of American Scientists Space Policy Project - Collection of full-text space policy documents, a World Space Guide, military space documents, and related resources.
FirstGov - Specialized search engine that searches only United States government sites. The official gateway to all U.S. government information.
FirstSearch - Encompasses 38 databases on a wide variety of topics from education and life sciences to public affairs and technology. Includes Wordcat, a combined book catalog of other 30,000 libraries. The article databases often have full-text. To see which database indexes a journal, look up the journal title. Limited to NASA HQ employees.
General Accounting Office - Full-text of GAO reports and testimony, listed by date, agency and topic.
Google Scholar - Specialized search engine that searches for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. An Advanced Search option is also available.
GPO Access - Includes the full-text of the Budget of the U.S. Government, Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, Code of Federal Regulations, bills, laws, hearings, reports, Congressional Record, Economic Indicators, Federal Register, GAO Comptroller General Decisions, US Code, Supreme Court Decisions, U.S. Government Manual, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and Public Papers of the Presidents.
Ingenta - Free searching of nearly 30,000 journals from 1988 to the present. Most articles are pay-per-view.
Law Library of Congress - indexes websites for state bills, legislation, and government.
Lexis-Nexis - A full-text database with articles from major newspapers, trade journals, and newswires. Also an excellent source for legal and legislative information. Registered library patrons can request a search. Limited to NASA HQ employees.
NASA GALAXIE - NASA GALAXIE is our library catalog. It includes the collections of most NASA Center libraries. The catalog indexes books, journals, atlases, conferences, books-on-tape, video recordings, software, images, and print and electronic documents. It can only be accessed from a NASA computer. Limited to NASA employees.
NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) - full-text reports, audits, memoranda, testimony, etc.
NASA Office of Legislative Affairs - congressional hearings and testimony relevant to NASA and NASA's mission.
NASA Procurement Reference Library - NASA FAR Supplement, Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook, and guidance for submitting unsolicited proposals.
NASA/DOD Interagency Agreements - full-text of NASA and Department of Defense agreements from 1959 to present. Arranged by DoD and NASA organization name. NASA access only.
National Academy Press - full-text books from the Academies and the National Research Council. For print copies of NASA-related texts, check the library catalog.
National Science Foundation - full-text documents from 1996 to present. Includes statistical reports on science and engineering research, funding, and education.
National Technical Information Service - searches NTIS reports from 1990 to present. Many documents available in full-text. For reports before 1964 to present, registered library patrons can request a search. in the Dialog NTIS database.
NewJour - List of new journals and newsletters available on the Internet. Maintained by Ann Shumelda Okerson (Yale University) and James J. O'Donnell (University of Pennsylvania).
Office of Science & Technology Policy - recent reports from the office. To see older reports, check the archive.
Office of Technology Assessment - All of the OTA's reports in full- text archived at Princeton. Print copies of many of the reports are available in the library catalog.
State of the Union Addresses of the American Presidents - Browse or search through the full-text of every State of the Union speech from 1790-2005 (2006 coming soon).
Thomas - bills, laws, committee reports, hearings
Virtual Technical Reports Center - lists institutions that offer full-text technical reports or searchable abstracts on the web (University of Maryland Libraries).
Journals
Bureaucrat, Print: v.19 n.1 (Spr 1990) - v.20 n.4 (Win 1991/1992)
Capital Source, Print: current edition
Commerce Business Daily, Print: (July 1997) - present, Online - full-text
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Online
Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor, Print: Mar 1999 - Jun 1999, Jan 24, 2000 - May 9, 2000
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, Print: v.24 n.22 (Jun 1966) - present, Online - requires a personal subscription
Explorations in Economic History, Online
Federal Employees News Digest, Print: v.46 n.8 (Sept 1996) - present, Online - subscription information
Federal Register, Print: , Online - full-text
Federal Times, Print: , Online - some full-text
Games and Economic Behavior, Online
GAO Journal, Print: (Winter 1990) - (Winter 1992)
Government Executive, Print: v.23 n.1 (Jan 1991) - present, Online - full-text (click on the magazine cover for current issue)
Government Information Quarterly, Online
Government Manager, Print: n.444 (Jan. 1990) - v.548 (Dec 1993)
Journal of Comparative Economics, Online
Journal of Development Economics, Online
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Online
Journal of Economic Theory, Online
Journal of Economics and Business, Online
Journal of Housing Economics, Online
Journal of International Economics, Online
Journal of Mathematical Economics, Online
Journal of Monetary Economics, Online
Journal of Public Economics, Online
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Online
Journal of Urban Economics, Online
National Journal, Print: v.20 n.1 (Jan 1988) - present, Online - table of contents
North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Online
Public Administration Review (PAR), Print: v.51 n.1 (Jan 1991) - present, Online - full-text
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Online
Reports and Testimony/GAO, Print: Jan 1992 - Feb 1998
Research in Economics, Online
Review of Economic Dynamics, Online
Review of Radical Political Economics, Online
Roll Call, Online
United States Code, Print: current year, Online - full-text
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Print: (Jan 1967) - Feb 2001, Online - full-text
Libraries
Air University Library
Department of Defense Libraries
Library of Congress
Los Alamos National Laboratory Library
Lunar & Planetary Institute Library
NASA Ames Research Center - NASA Ames Technical Library
NASA Center for Aerospace Information - NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center - NASA Dryden Research Library
NASA Glenn Research Center - Glenn Technical Library
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Homer E. Newell Memorial Library Library
NASA Headquarters Library
NASA Independent Verification & Validation Facility - WVU / NASA IV&V Technical Library
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Beacon: Library, Archives & Records Section
NASA Johnson Space Center - Alfred R. Neumann Library at UHCL
NASA Johnson Space Center - Scientific and Technical Information Center
NASA Kennedy Space Center - KSC Library, only accessible from KSC
NASA Langley Research Center - Floyd L. Thompson Technical Library - Public access version
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - Redstone Scientific Information Center
NASA Stennis Space Center - Maury Oceanographic Library
NASA Wallops Flight Facility - Wallops Flight Facility Library
NASA White Sands Test Facility - White Sands Test Facility Technical Library
National Institute of Standards and Technology Virtual Library
National Transportation Library
Space Telescope Science Institute Library
University System of Maryland Libraries
Washington Research Library Consortium
Websites
Census Bureau
Department of Commerce, Office of Space Commercialization
- Offers speeches, presentations, workshops, and reports on various space business and policy issues.
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration
Government Information Online - (a pilot project sponsored by the GPO). A virtual reference desk for government information; patrons ask questions via an online form and a librarian from one of 30 federal depository libraries will respond within 48 hours.
Government Printing Office
House of Representatives
International Trade Commission, Office of Aerospace -
Offers full-text of trade agreements and industry statistics.
NASA Freedom of Information Act Office - offers contact
information and procedures for submitting FOIA requests to NASA.
National Air and Space Museum
National Archives and Records Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Science Foundation
National Technology Transfer Center
North American Aerospace Defense Command
Office of Management and Budget - OMB circulars, memoranda
and reports.
Office of Science & Technology Policy
Patent & Trademark Office
Senate
US Air Force Space Command
USGS Maps & Photos - links to databases of maps
and aerial photos offered by businesses working in conjuction with the U.S. Geological Survey.
White House
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