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"The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law. Our goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library."

"The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options."

"The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) is a multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to comparative, cross-national and cross-regional research on international migration and immigration policy. "

Almost 28,000 scholarly open access articles on various aspects of chemistry.

"ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution, and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas." Almost 11,000 content items available.

From the Royal Society of Chemistry, "ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources."

This site allows you to search and read digitized newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Recipes from the Culinary Institute of America organized thematically. "Explore our collection of informative videos featuring on-trend recipes, technique demonstrations, world cuisines, and more. These videos are hosted by CIA chef-instructors and other culinary experts."

The official site.

From the American Society of Civil Engineers. No full text, but thousands of journals, papers, and books are indexed.

"The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social movements in the nation's history, and it represents a crucial step in the evolution of American democracy. The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale. "

"Explore 397,676 research studies in all 50 states and in 220 countries. See listed clinical studies related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
ClinicalTrials.gov is a resource provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine."

"The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the official legal print publication containing the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR) is a continuously updated online version of the CFR. It is not an official legal edition of the CFR."

"Comparative research in archaeology must draw upon datasets from all parts of the world that are the basic products of fieldwork of a variety of kinds. These datasets document the material evidence of the human past and comprise the primary sources for archaeological research."

Provides full text of bills along with comprehensive information on the US Congress.

"CRS serves as nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress. It operates solely at the behest of and under the direction of Congress. Information in a CRS Report should not be relied upon for purposes other than public understanding of information that has been provided by CRS to Members of Congress in connection with CRS’s institutional role. CRS Reports, as a work of the United States Government, are not subject to copyright protection in the United States."

"Disclosing chemical ingredients in products provides essential information throughout the supply chain from raw material supplier to consumers. Infor­mation about the ingredients of products and their health effects allow con­sumers to make better informed choices.The development of this database was initiated in 1994 by DeLima Associates of McLean, Virginia, USA in response to a need for a database (identified by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention), that related household product types, brand names, chemical constituents, health-related information (acute and chronic effects and target organs), and exposure minimization techniques. "

"Conservation OnLine (CoOL) is a freely accessible platform to generate and disseminate vital resources for those working to preserve cultural heritage worldwide. Through the support of the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation, CoOL is committed to growing and sustaining these resources into the future. As an authoritative and trusted source of information, CoOL serves to foster, convene, and promote collaboration."

From Cornell University. "The Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field. These were monographs that were brittle and decaying and in need of rescue."

"Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic."

Open access to almost 25,000 scholarly articles on criminal law.

Almost 10,000 open access scholarly articles on criminal procedure.

"Open-access collection of crystal structures of organic, inorganic, metal-organics compounds and minerals, excluding biopolymers."

"Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities." Over 4 million articles available.

Large collection of open access books, made available by academic publishers such as Springer and Brill.

List of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly online journals. Covers journals for all subjects, in all languages. (Full text)

Discover research archived by institutions and by individuals. Use the search box at the top of the window to locate research on your subject.

Visit the Library of Congress website to view digital collections and exhibits and to access public domain resources. Use one of the largest online catalogs in the world. U.S. history, government, and law is a primary strength of the digital collections which include art, primary documents, newspapers, and resources too numerous to mention. Some collections are listed separately in this guide.

"MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community."

"The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonpartisan organization that facilitates cutting-edge investigation and analysis of major economic issues. It disseminates research findings to academics, public and private-sector decision-makers, and the public by posting more than 1,200 working papers and convening more than 120 scholarly conferences, each year."

"Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 57 different sources and contains 159,459 records."

A network for teaching and learning materials, complete with resources for curriculum alignment, quality evaluation, social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing.

"The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. The $1.9 billion investment by the US Department of Labor produced a comprehensive collection of workforce-related Open Educational Resources (OER) created by over 700 community colleges across the nation. The OER can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by an individual, institution, and industry for FREE with the proper attribution to the original author of the resources."