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• (Formerly Footnote.com)
• ProQuest/UMI
• GaleNet

Details about Subscription Databases

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This database offers access to:

• Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
• 490,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954.
• Over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
• Produced by ABC-CLIO.
• Click on subscription access link to browse the database.
• America: History & Life is also available to staff and researchers on CD-ROM in the library at the 威尼斯人娱乐场 at Washington, DC.
   

Ancestry is a subscription service offering extensive resources for researching family history including databases containing billions of digitized historical documents, message boards, educational materials, and family trees contributed by individual researchers. Over 1.2 billion records in over 3,000 databases, including census images from 1790 onward, immigration and passenger lists, military draft cards, city directories, and much more.

You may want to start your Genealogy research here with searches of recent Census records:

CIA Records Search Tool (CREST)

CREST is the name of the CIA database of declassified intelligence documents. The database, searchable by title, data, and text content, includes Directorate of Operations reports on the role of intelligence in the post WW-II period; material on the creation, organization, and role of the CIA within the U.S. Government; a collection of foreign scientific articles, ground photographs and associated reference materials; and the CIA's first release of motion picture film. 

• An online to research availability of CIA documents declassified and loaded onto CREST through 2008 is now available through the (formerly at NARA).  Data for the remaining years up to the present (CREST deliveries have been ongoing) will be placed on the site at later dates.
   

• Contains comprehensive set of declassified government documents.
• Covers critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century.
• Includes glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs.
• Documents available in PDF format.
   

Fold3 (Formerly Footnote.com) presents millions of digitized historical documents that can be searched and browsed. The site covers a wide variety of topics, including Civil War records, Native American resources, newspapers, photographs and much more. They now specialize in military records.

You may want to start here if you are searching for Military and Military Pension records:

GaleNet

• • Comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes.
     
• • Provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond.
     

• Search databases and tables of contents.
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• Place orders directly by credit card.
• NARA staff can obtain articles by contacting the ALIC library at 301-837-3415 or by e-mail.
   

• Offers core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
• Includes 119 titles in twenty-one disciplines.
• Collection can be searched or browsed by discipline, title, or publisher.
   

ProQuest/UMI

• • Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States, with information on over 5,480 repositories and 132,300 collections of primary source material across the United States.
  • National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC): published since 1959, and contains over 93,100 records.
  • National Inventory of Documentary Sources - US (NIDS-US): complete indexing of over 58,600 records.
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  • Archives USA is also available to staff and researchers on CD-ROM in the library at both the 威尼斯人娱乐场 in Washington, DC and at College Park, MD.
     
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  ProQuest Direct includes:
  • Citations, abstracts, and/or full text of over 1000 newspapers and journals, including:
    • Newspaper abstracts and/or full text from 1985-
      (including the full text New York Times for the most recent 90 days).
    • Full text of the Washington Post from 1877-1989.
    • Full text of the New York Times from 1851-2002.
    • Abstracts for over 1000 journals from 1986-.
    • Full text for over 700 journals from 1992-.