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| America's Historical Newspapers | Early American Newspapers (a subset of Readex's America's Historical Newspapers) allows users to search more than 2,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and more than 90 other institutions. Content is partially based on titles listed in Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers,1690-1820. The University of Maine / Fogler Library subscribes to Early American Newspapers, Series 1-11. |
| Coverage: 1690-1922 |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| America: History and Life | Index to research on the history of the United States and Canada, from prehistoric times to the present. Includes references to journal articles, books and book reviews, dissertations, and collective works.
Licensed Number of Users: Orono: 6. |
| Coverage: From 1964 |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| American Ancestors | American Ancestors is a resource from the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) that provides cross-database searching for hundreds of digitized sources, such as vital records; passenger lists; maps; court, census, and military records; and more. The geographical focus is the New England states, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, with some New York content. Also includes access to many serials, including NEHGS titles American Ancestors magazine and The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
Note: Access is provided from all computers within the Fogler Library building and Bangor Public Library, but there is no remote access. |
| Alt Title: New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) |
| Locations: UM, BPL |
| Remote Access: Not Available |
| American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections | The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections include digitized images of the pages of more than 6,500 American magazines and journals never before available outside the walls of the American Antiquarian Society, the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. There are five series: - American Historical Periodicals Series 1: 1691-1820
- American Historical Periodicals Series 2: 1821-1837
- American Historical Periodicals Series 3: 1838-1852
- American Historical Periodicals Series 4: 1853-1865
- American Historical Periodicals Series 5: 1866-1877
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| Coverage: From 1691 |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| American Civil War Research Database | The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. This database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with over 17,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded semiannually. |
| Locations: MSL |
| Remote Access: Available |
| American Civil War: Letters and Diaries | Contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. This database includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. |
| Locations: MSL |
| Remote Access: Available |
| American Periodical Series Online | American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. |
| Alt Title: APS Online |
| Coverage: 1741-1940 |
| Locations: UM, USM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| American Presidency Project | Site contains documents related to the study of the American Presidency, including public papers, annual messages to Congress, inaugural addresses, radio addresses, acceptance speeches, presidential candidates debates, party platforms, elections data, and an audio/video archive.--Desc.from Library of Congress Catalog. Includes Search engine for Document Archives and Public Papers |
| Locations: LAW |
| Remote Access: Available |
| American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography | Between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers' Project hired field workers to collect the life histories of former slaves.
Transcripts for 2,000 interviews, from seventeen states, were then compiled by the Library of Congress. The collection and the index are now searchable online. |
| Coverage: 1936-1938 |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| American State Papers, 1789-1838 | The American State Papers constitute rich primary source material on many aspects of early American history from 1789 to 1838. A retrospective republication of approximately 6280 numbered publications, largely Congressional but also containing Executive Department materials, the American State Paper volumes, issued from 1832-1861, were published in ten classes in a total of 38 folio volumes. The classes into which the publications were assembled and printed and the number of volumes they occupy are: I: Foreign Relations in six volumes; II: Indian Affairs in two volumes; III: Finance in five volumes; IV: Commerce and Navigation in two volumes; V: Military Affairs in seven volumes; VI: Naval Affairs in four volumes; VII: Post-office Department in one volume; VIII: Public Lands in eight volumes; IX: Claims in one volume; and X: Miscellaneous in two volumes. Unlike the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, the publications in the American State Papers are not divided into reports and documents and do not include House and Senate journals. Approximately two-thirds of the publications cover the first 14 Congresses (1789-1817), whereas the remaining third chronologically overlap with the Serial Set from 1817-1838. |
| Coverage: 1789-1838 |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| ArchiveGrid | ArchiveGrid is a search engine for descriptions of archival collections held by numerous respositories around the world. |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| ArchivesSpace: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections | ArchivesSpace provides search and browse functions for descriptions of many of the manuscript collections held by Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections Department. The collections cover a wide range of subjects reflecting historical events, business, education, arts, and sciences, in Maine and beyond. These original sources include corporate records, personal and family papers, university records, and oral history interviews. Collection finding aids may be downloaded. Most materials described in ArchivesSpace have not been digitized. For more information about access options, or to arrange an appointment to view materials, contact Special Collections. |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Avalon Project at Yale Law School | Contains digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government |
| Alt Title: Documents in law, history and diplomacy |
| Coverage: Pre 18th Century to current |
| Locations: UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Black Freedom Struggle in the United States | The Black Freedom Struggle in the United States is an open access database that features approximately 1,600 selected primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Content focuses on six different phases of Black Freedom: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932); The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975); and The Contemporary Era (1976-2000). Sources are drawn from several ProQuest databases, including American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture. Appropriate for middle school to college education.
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| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Census 2000 Gateway | Access to population, housing, social and economic statistics from the 2000 Census. |
| Alt Title: United States Census 2000 |
| Locations: UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation | Published congressional records of the United States of America through the 43rd Congress,1774-1875 |
| Alt Title: U.S. Congressional documents and debates, 1774-1875 |
| Coverage: 1774-1875 |
| Locations: LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Chronicling America: historic American newspapers | This site allows you to search and read digitized newspaper pages from 1900-1910 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). Currently, content is available from the following geographic areas: California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia, District of Columbia |
| Locations: USM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Civil Rights Digital Library | 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. |
| Locations: USM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| CQ Press Library | CQ Press Library provides selected titles purchased individually by the library on topics such as American government, current affairs, politics, and public policy. Titles within the database may be searched together or separately. |
| Locations: UM, UMA |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| DigitalCommons@UMaine | Digital Commons at UMaine provides access to the scholarly, educational, and creative works of the University of Maine community. It contains over 12,000 full-text works from over 700 academic disciplines, including theses and dissertations, and provides links to other Maine Digital Commons as well as the global Digital Commons Network. |
| Locations: UM, UMA |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789 | The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (256 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence -- From Overview viewed April 25, 2012 |
| Locations: UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| DTIC Online | DTIC Online, from the Defense Technical Information Center, is available to the general public, free of charge. The database provides access to citations and abstracts of unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents. |
| Alt Title: DTIC Online: Information for the Defense Community |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Early American Imprints, Series I and II | Early American Imprints provides searchable full-text access to more than 75,000 books, pamphlets, government documents, and broadsides published from 1639 to 1819. Content included is based on American Bibliography by Charles Evans, Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography by Roger Bristol; and American Bibliography, 1801-1819, by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. The database covers topics from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and much more. Fogler Library subscribes to Series I: Evans (1639-1800) and Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819), as well as Supplements to both series from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the American Antiquarian Society. Most titles in the Supplements are newly discovered and were not listed in the original print bibliographies. |
| Alt Title: Evans |
| Coverage: 1639-1819 |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Early English Books Online | Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Includes titles listed in editions of Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640); Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700); the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661); and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. |
| Alt Title: EEBO |
| Coverage: 1473-1700 |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Gale Primary Sources | Gale Primary Sources is a platform that allows cross-searching of various digital archives the University of Maine has purchased from Gale. Archives searched include the news media collections 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, British Library Newspapers, and
The Times Digital Archive; and two large collections of books, pamphlets, visual media, and more - Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Nineteenth Century Collections Online. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, LAW |
| Remote Access: Available |
| HeinOnline.U. S. congressional documents library | Searchable database of Annals of the Congress of the United States (1789-1824) -- Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837) -- Congressional Globe (1833-1873) -- Congressional Record (1873-1880, 1996-2003),U.S. Statutes at Large (1789-2004),American State Papers (1789-1838), Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-1789)and other important congressional material.
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| Alt Title: U. S. congressional documents library |
| Locations: USM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| HeritageQuest Online | HeritageQuest Online is a database of family and local history documents and U.S. Census data. |
| Locations: BPL, MSL |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | Historical Statistics of the United States is a 2006 Cambridge University Press publication and database that updates and expands the Census Bureau's 1975 work of the same name. It contains quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Also covers topics that received little or no coverage in the 1975 edition: American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. Allows one to graph and combine data from different tables into custom tables, and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications. Also available as a five-volume print set in many URSUS libraries. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| House and Senate Bills and Resolutions | As part of the Library of Congress American Memory Project, The Bills and Resolutions are available for selected sessions of Congress, beginning with the 6th Congress (1799)in the House of Representatives, the 16th Congress (1819) in the Senate, and the 18th Congress (1823) for Senate Joint Resolutions. This resource is unique, the first and only comprehensive collection of 19th century Congressional bills and Resolutions. Each document appears as a low-resolution .gif image within an explantory web page. Option for higher resolution .tif image is offered. Coverage for all three subcollections ends with the 42nd Congress (1817-1873). |
| Alt Title: Selected 19th Century Congressional Bills & Resolutions Online |
| Coverage: 1799-1873 |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Images of the American Civil War | Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera presents 50,000 contemporaneous photographs at completion, including nearly 30,000 wartime recruiting posters, envelopes, and ephemera. These dramatic images present a historical account of the war—and a view of nineteenth-century America more broadly—from social, military, and political perspectives. This database’s extensive organization and indexing let you go directly to images covering casualties, home life, prisons, hospitals, posters, weaponry, transportation, political and military leaders, and other broad topics; easily move from one image to others associated with the same battle or campaign; find images by place, photographer, or publisher; or even locate pictures by setting (interior, exterior, or studio photographs). |
| Locations: MSL |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America | Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America includes full text of selected works relating to American Indian history in the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as visual material such as art work, photographs, and maps. Content is digitized from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world. |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine Bicentennial Collection | The Maine Bicentennial collection on DigitalCommons@UMaine comprises documents from Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections that the library has selected as relevant to the 1820-2020 statehood celebration. The full-text documents and images provide a variety of perspectives on political, economic, social, business, and ethical issues that remain of contemporary interest in discussions on Maine today. |
| Coverage: 1786-1840 |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Making of America (Cornell) | Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. At the Cornell University MoA site, 109 monographs (267 volumes) and 22 journals (955 volumes) with imprints primarily between 1840 - 1900 have been selected, scanned, and made available. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Making of America (Michigan) | Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. At the Michigan MoA site, collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 13 journals (50,000 journal articles) with 19th century imprints. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| National Security Archive | An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States... The Archive obtains its materials through a variety of methods, including the Freedom of Information act, Mandatory Declassification Review, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony. Archive staff members systematically track U.S. government agencies and federal records repositories for documents that either have never been released before, or that help to shed light on the decision-making process of the U.S. government and provide the historical context underlying those decisions -- From About the National Security Archive viewed September 22, 2010 |
| Locations: LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Newspapers.com | The Newspapers.com World Collection provides online access to more than 10,000 U.S. and worldwide historical newspapers in full or partial runs from the 1600s to the 2010s. It is very useful for genealogy and historical content. For e-learning modules and helpful information about navigating the database, see ProQuest's Newspapers.com LibGuide. This subscription is supported by The Hazel P. and Louis J. Ibbotson Library Fund.
(Note: Personal subscriptions to Newspapers.com provide slightly different title coverage and search results than the University of Maine institutional subscription, due to licensing agreements with each news content provider.) |
| Locations: UM, UMM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Not Available |
| Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers | 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects. |
| Alt Title: 19th Century U.S. Newspapers |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, LAW |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History | The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History provides peer-reviewed long-form articles, as well as shorter summaries. The encyclopedia is updated monthly with new or edited articles. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History is funded through the generous gift of the Paul R. and Polly N. Camp Quasi-Endowment Fund for the Fogler Library. |
| Alt Title: Oxford Encyclopedia of American history |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Prints and Photographs Online Catalog | The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people. From About PPOC viewed September 12, 2012
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| Alt Title: Library of Congress prints and photographs online catalog |
| Locations: UM, UMFK, UMPI, USM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Slavery & Abolition in the US: publications of the 1800s | digital collection of books and pamphlets that demonstrate the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery in the United States as expressed by Americans throughout the nineteenth century. Home page viewed Nov. 24, 2008 |
| Locations: USM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law | Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law is a HeinOnline collection that brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, LAW |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Social Explorer | Social Explorer is an online research tool for demographic data visualization and research. Features include dynamic maps and customizable reports. It includes U.S. data on population (Decennial Census, American Community Survey, estimates), business, religion, crime, and health, as well as selected international data. For links to education and training modules for Social Explorer, arranged by topic, please see the research guide.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited. |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| U.S. Congressional Serial Set | The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994, aids research on U.S. political, social, cultural, military and ethnic history, as well as international relations, explorations, genealogy, commerce, industrial development and much more. Contents also include key Executive Department publications. Beginning with Volume 1 in the first session of the 15th Congress (1817), the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from Readex contains all publications from the 15th through the 103rd Congresses. The American State Papers, 1789-1838, which contains every legislative and executive document of the 1st through 14th Congresses, complements the U.S. Congressional Serial Set and is cross-searchable with it. The database contains more than 12 million pages, including thousands of maps, illustrations, and statistical tables. |
| Coverage: 1817-1994 |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| U.S. Congressional Serial Set Maps | The U.S. Congressional Serial Set Maps collection of approximately 1,500 maps has been selected based on topics in the material antebellum, civil war and reconstruction related topics covered in the material published by Congress between 1843 and 1935. These maps were published in the documents and reports of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Readex has created this maps search module (in addition to that for the Serial Set) to focus searches on maps themselves - the geographic areas they depict, the subjects they represent, their titles, and the names associated with the maps either as cartographers, explorers, or in some other capacity. |
| Coverage: 1843-1935 (when complete) |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
You may also wish to consult these more general indexes:
| Academic Search Complete | Academic Search Complete is a large scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database, with more than
7,400 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text,
this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,500 scholarly, popular, trade, and special
interest serials, and a total of more than 12,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference
proceedings, and more. Updated daily.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited
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| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, LAW |
| Remote Access: Available |
| ADAMS (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System) | The Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) is an information system that provides access to all image and text documents that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made public since November 1, 1999, as well as bibliographic records (some with abstracts and full text) that the NRC made public before November 1999. Fogler Library at the University of Maine is the repository for an NRC technical report collection on microfiche, numbering nearly one hundred thousand documents. The fiche are housed in the Library Annex, with 24-hour advance notice required for staff retrieval. Fogler Library's collection dates only through October, 1999. However, the NRC continues to add several hundred new documents to ADAMS daily. |
| Alt Title: ADAMS |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Anthropological Index Online - Royal Anthropological Institute | Index to the more than 600 periodical included in the Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library. Topics covered include archaeology, ethnomusicology, physical and cultural anthropology and human biology. Search by author, title, keyword, or journal title (or combine terms). (If search form is incomplete, click Reload button.) International in scope. |
| Coverage: From the 1970*/39/*s to the present |
| Locations: UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts | Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, monographs, theses, technical reports, and non-conventional literature covering all aspects of marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. International in scope. Updated quarterly.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited |
| Coverage: From 1971. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| ArchiveGrid | ArchiveGrid is a search engine for descriptions of archival collections held by numerous respositories around the world. |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| ArchivesSpace: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections | ArchivesSpace provides search and browse functions for descriptions of many of the manuscript collections held by Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections Department. The collections cover a wide range of subjects reflecting historical events, business, education, arts, and sciences, in Maine and beyond. These original sources include corporate records, personal and family papers, university records, and oral history interviews. Collection finding aids may be downloaded. Most materials described in ArchivesSpace have not been digitized. For more information about access options, or to arrange an appointment to view materials, contact Special Collections. |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| arXiv e-Print Archive | Started in August 1991, arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) is an archive and distribution server for research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics. arXiv is maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library with guidance from the arXiv Scientific Advisory Board and the arXiv Sustainability Advisory Group, and with the help of numerous subject moderators.
Users can retrieve papers from arXiv via the web interface. Registered authors may use our web interface to submit their articles to arXiv. Authors can also update their submissions if they choose, though previous versions remain available.
Listings of newly submitted articles in areas of interest are available via the web interface, via RSS feeds, and by subscription to automatic email alerts. |
| Alt Title: arXiv.org |
| Locations: UM, UMFK |
| Format: Website |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Avalon Project at Yale Law School | Contains digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government |
| Alt Title: Documents in law, history and diplomacy |
| Coverage: Pre 18th Century to current |
| Locations: UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| bioRxive | bioRxiv is a free online archive for unpublished preprints in all aspects of the the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. Articles are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset, however all submissions have been screened for non-scientific content and are checked for plagiarism. If a preprint found in bioRxiv has been published in a journal, it will include a link to the published version. Authors are welcome to post preprints in order to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community, as well as receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to a journal. |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Black Freedom Struggle in the United States | The Black Freedom Struggle in the United States is an open access database that features approximately 1,600 selected primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Content focuses on six different phases of Black Freedom: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932); The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975); and The Contemporary Era (1976-2000). Sources are drawn from several ProQuest databases, including American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture. Appropriate for middle school to college education.
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| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Canadiana Online | Canadiana Online is a digitized full-text collection of books about Canada, and magazines and government publications published in Canada, from the time of the first European settlers through the first four decades of the 20th century. The database incorporates all monograph content from the CIHM microfiche series Early Canadiana owned by the University of Maine; newspapers and annuals from CIHM fiche are in the process of being added. Canadiana Online includes periodicals, early official publications, and monographs never published in the original CIHM fiche. |
| Coverage: 1600s-1940s |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| CogPrints Electronic Archive | Searchable electronic archive of full-text papers in all areas of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, as well as computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology, and any other areas of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. Includes pre-prints and reprints from published journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and personal collections. |
| Alt Title: Cognitive sciences eprint archive |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Congressional Bills | All published versions of bills from the 103rd (1993-1994) Congress forward |
| Coverage: 103rd (1993-94)- |
| Locations: |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| CRIS - Current Research Information System | A searchable database of U.S. Department of Agriculture funded research. Covers on-going and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. Search by keyword, investigator, agency, institution, state, and project status and type as well as by classification codes. Database records include listings of publications resulting from the funded research. |
| Alt Title: Current research information system |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| DigitalCommons@UMaine | Digital Commons at UMaine provides access to the scholarly, educational, and creative works of the University of Maine community. It contains over 12,000 full-text works from over 700 academic disciplines, including theses and dissertations, and provides links to other Maine Digital Commons as well as the global Digital Commons Network. |
| Locations: UM, UMA |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Provides full-text articles from over 1145 free peer-reviewed journals covering all scholarly and scientific subjects. Over 310 journals can be searched by article title. Most articles are in English. Records for articles in foreign languages have English abstracts. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| DOE Data Explorer (DDE) | Use the DOE Data Explorer (DDE) to find scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines. The DOE Data Explorer provides access both to collections and to individual datasets that have been submitted to OSTI by their creator, by a DOE National Laboratory, or by a DOE Data Center |
| Alt Title: Department of Energy Data Explorer |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| DTIC Online | DTIC Online, from the Defense Technical Information Center, is available to the general public, free of charge. The database provides access to citations and abstracts of unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents. |
| Alt Title: DTIC Online: Information for the Defense Community |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| EBSCO Ebook Collection | The EBSCO Ebook Collection includes 7,885 e-books (4,480 titles purchased from Netlibrary and 3,405 Project Gutenberg titles). The collection is accessible to all Maine citizens.
Click the links below to browse lists of e-book titles available through the license for the State of Maine.
4,480 Netlibrary titles
3,405 Project Gutenberg public domain titles
Some URSUS libraries have also purchased additional titles that may be available within the EBSCO Ebook Collection. Records for these titles have been added to URSUS. Also, University of Maine patrons may see the option to Download this ebook
(offline) for some titles, using Adobe Digital Editions. Help pages for this option are here |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| EconLit | Contains citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. Provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited
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| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Environment Complete | Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. The database contains full text for more than 400 journals, including many of the most-used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. It also has full text for more than 100 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, and more. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| ERIC - Education (open access site) | The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides a database of journal and non-journal education literature for K-12 teachers, school administrators, education faculty, school psychologists and education students. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. This database contains more than 1.2 million citations going back to 1966. Many full-text journal articles and non-journal documents are linked from citations in the database. The open access version of ERIC at https://eric.ed.gov/ includes links to some full text content, but users will need to take the step of consulting URSUS or their own library's list of electronic and print journals to gain access to content for many ERIC citations. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| European Patent Office | This patent database provided by the European Patent Office covers patents from over 20 countries and the World Patent Organization. Links to the full text of the patents and applications are provided. |
| Coverage: From 1920 |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Exploring Race in Society | |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Foreign Law Translations | This site is a resource for French, German, Italian, Austrian and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law. |
| Locations: LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Gale Literary Sources | Includes: Twayne's Authors Series - Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Scribner's Writers Series.
Twayne's Authors Series:
Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.
Contemporary Authors:
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select:
Contains critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after 1959. Initial release features 50 authors derived from CLC print volumes 95-99 and 50 retrospective entries. Updates of 10-12 new authors will be added about 6 times a year as print volumes are published and 10-20 retrospective entries will be added each time. CLC Select may be searched separately or simultaneously with Contemporary Authors and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Dictionary of Literary Biography:
Essays outlining the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres, and summarizes the critical response to their work. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| GeoRef | Produced by the American Geological Institute, GeoRef covers a number of areas of geology and related disciplines including geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, mineralogy, and paleontology. It indexes over 3,500 journals as well as books, reports, theses and dissertations, maps, and conference proceedings. GeoRef in Process records are also indexed. GeoRef includes the content of the print indexes Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Bibliography of Theses in Geology, Geophysical Abstracts, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Updated biweekly. |
| Coverage: 1785+ for North America and 1933+ for the rest of the world. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| GeoRef Preview Database | This database contains new, unedited references that are being prepared for addition to the GeoRef database, one of the premier geological literature databases. A keyword search can be performed on all fields at once, or you may choose to search
directly on titles, authors, dates, or source information. There are no abstracts. Once a record has been added to GeoRef, the record is purged from this database. Updated weekly. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Global Legal Monitor | A public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. |
| Alt Title: GLIN |
| Locations: LAW |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar provides a way to search for full-text, scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources including articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, websites, and online repositories. To access library-licensed resources: log in to your Google Scholar account; click on Settings; under Settings click on Library links. In the search box type University of Maine and select your campus from the pop-up menu (i.e. University of Maine - Full-Text@Your Library; click save. Clearing browser cookies will require users to repeat these steps. |
| Locations: UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| GreenFILE | GreenFILE provides information on all aspects of human impact to the environment, including such subjects as global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full
text for more than 4,700 records. GreenFILE coverage is 74% unique when compared to Environment Complete, which is a more scholarly database. GreenFILE is for the concerned person looking for information on individual response to environmental issues, such as solar or wind power options; on corporate response such as alternative energies used in the business sector; or on local or government impact such as environmental laws and studies. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center | Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides full-text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full text for more than 960 magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 videos and more
than 140 hobby profiles, this database offers detailed how-to instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors & nature; and scrapbooking & papercraft. |
| Coverage: http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/cfh-coverage.pdf |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| IngentaConnect | Index to the tables of contents of 17,000 English language periodicals. Covers all disciplines. Updated daily. NOTE: Full text access available ONLY with subscriptions to individual titles. Check your library for holdings. |
| Coverage: Coverage from 1988. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Justia Regulation Tracker | Provides free access to Federal rules, proposed rules, notices, administrative orders, executive orders, and proclamations. |
| Locations: LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) | Covers subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings, with coverage dating back to the mid-1960s.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited |
| Coverage: Varies by title |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine Bicentennial Collection | The Maine Bicentennial collection on DigitalCommons@UMaine comprises documents from Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections that the library has selected as relevant to the 1820-2020 statehood celebration. The full-text documents and images provide a variety of perspectives on political, economic, social, business, and ethical issues that remain of contemporary interest in discussions on Maine today. |
| Coverage: 1786-1840 |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine Dataverse Network | The Maine Dataverse Network is a cloud-based data repository intended to facilitate data sharing among the research community in accordance with NSF and other granting authority data management plan requirements. It offers researchers in Maine a convenient and secure method of sharing and archiving data. Some content is designated open access. It is hosted and maintained by the Advanced Computing Group at the University of Maine, which was created in 2013 via funding and a formal agreement between the University of Maine, the University of Maine System, and Maine EPSCoR. |
| Alt Title: Maine Dataverse |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine Memory Network | The Maine Memory Network, a project of the Maine Historical Society, provides access to thousands of historical items belonging to over 200 organizations from across Maine. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine Music Box | The University of Maine's Fogler Library in partnership with the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and the Bangor Public Library has launched the Maine Music Box. The Maine Music Box contains digitized images of five collections of manuscript scores and sheet music. Most of the collections are from the Bagaduce Music Lending Library in Blue Hill, Maine. A total of 22,641 titles will be accessible when the digitization and cataloging of the pilot project is complete. Selected scores will have an associated computer generated sound file. Other scores, based on faculty request, may have associated “Scorch” files. Scorch software creates a file that allows one to listen while following a cursor through the score; the viewer may also manipulate key and instrumentation. The database currently has 22,641 titles with 600 MIDI files and 100 Scorch files. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine News Index Online | Created by the Portland Public Library, the Maine News Index Online is a database of Maine newspaper and magazine citations and abstracts. The library's Portland Room, which houses special collections, maintains a web page listing titles indexed at http://www.portlandlibrary.com/locations/portlandroom.htm#newsindex |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine Newsstand | Index to and full text coverage of five Maine newspapers: Bangor Daily News, 7/1/1993-present; Kennebec Journal (Augusta), 8/21/2005-present); Portland Press Herald, 9/30/1995-present; Sun Journal (Lewiston), 1/26/2006-present; Morning Sentinel (Waterville), 8/21/2005-present. Selected business coverage of the Maine Times (2/4/94-4/25/02) is also included. There is selective coverage of some earlier years, and some gaps in the coverage listed above, for these titles; consult the ProQuest title list for more information. Updated daily.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited |
| Alt Title: Maine State Newspaper Package |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine Revised Statutes | Maine Revised Statutes current to the [Session Number] Legislature |
| Alt Title: Maine Statutes |
| Coverage: Current to the [Session Number] Legislature |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine Superior Court Decisions | Full text PDF documents received by the University of
Maine School of Law Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library from
the clerks of various courts dating from January 2000
through present. Decisions cross referenced by Plaintiff,
Defendant, Judge and County. Includes citations and
references. |
| Coverage: January 2000 through present |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Maine Town and City Ordinances | This is a collection of links to Maine town and city ordinances, organized by county. |
| Locations: LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| MEDLINE | MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database that indexes medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,600 biomedical journals. Many MEDLINE citations link to full text that is available in other EBSCO databases or library journal subscriptions.
Coverage: 1946 + |
| Coverage: Coverage from 1966. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| MEMAP (Maine Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Index) | This index lists long-term projects and programs that are systematically monitoring or assessing environmental factors in Maine, from breeding amphibians to ozone, weather and water quality. It includes information about each project such as the resource being monitored, the watershed in which monitoring occurs, the geographic scope of the project, the year it was started, monitoring objectives, basic sampling plan, whether or not volunteers participate, and who to contact for data, findings, or more information. |
| Alt Title: MEMAP |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| MetaLib | GPO | MetaLib is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Municipal Code Corporation | A collection of municipal codes, organized by state. |
| Alt Title: Municode.com |
| Locations: LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| National Agricultural Library Digital Collections | The National Agricultural Library Digital Repository is a searchable database of primarily historical agricultural documents. Documents include Economic Research Service publications, bulletins, reports, books, handbooks, yearbooks, and leaflets. Searching is by keyword with full use of Boolean operators and, or, and not. Searches can be limited by year and by particular publication. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database | Contains summaries of more than 140,000 federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research on criminal justice. Topics covered include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. |
| Alt Title: NCJRS abstracts database |
| Coverage: 1970-present |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| National Technical Information Service Technical Reports | This is a subset of the NTIS database. This Technical Reports database indexes government reports from 1990 to present. Over 350,000 publications are included. Searching is by keyword, which includes authors' names. No abstracts are presented. Bibliographic information provided includes title, author, author affiliation, total pages, date, and document type |
| Alt Title: NTIS |
| Coverage: 1990 + |
| Locations: UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| National Transportation Library | Subject concentrations include general transportation, surface, and water transportation. Special topics include: bridge construction and maintenance, driver studies, engineering, highways and highway safety, history of transportation, land utilization, marine engineering, mass transit, merchant marine, navigation, oceanography, pipelines, railroads, ships and shipbuilding, statistics, traffic engineering, traffic surveys and forecasts, urban transportation, and waterways One of the NTL’s fastest-growing collections is exclusively digital, serving as a permanent archive for statistical, technical, research and policy documents required by researchers and decision makers and provided to NTL by federal, state, local, tribal and other government agencies. The Library also maintains a sizable law collection. It includes general legal materials, with a specialty in government administration, as well as materials specifically related to transportation law. |
| Alt Title: RITA: National Transportation Library |
| Locations: UM, LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Nature | Nature is an international, interdisciplinary weekly journal of science. It publishes peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, and other factors. Nature also provides interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. Online sections include news & comment, research, careers & jobs, and audio & video. All URSUS libraries have access from January 1997 to present. University of Maine [Orono] subscription access is 1869 to present. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| NISEE Database of University Research Reports Series | Index to technical reports from seven earthquake engineering and structural mechanics laboratories. |
| Coverage: From 1971 |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| NoveList K-8 Plus | A Reader’s Advisory database that includes recommendation for more than 60,000 fiction and 17,000 nonfiction titles, Novelist Plus K-8 has curriculum-driven material designed to help integrate reading across subject areas in the classroom, as well as enhance children’s pleasure reading. Has Grab and Go Book Lists developed by school media specialists; Recommended Reads reading lists; over 700 BookTalks; 450 searchable Award Lists; feature articles and Curricular Connection articles by notable librarians and subject matter experts on a wide variety of topics, issues and reading levels. Covers over 9,000 fiction and nonfiction series. Titles can be sorted by popularity and/or Lexile scores. Includes all fiction content from the database Novelist K-8. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| NoveList Plus | Reader’s Advisory database that includes records and recommendations for quality fiction and non-fiction titles for high school students to adults. Includes special sections for Teens, Older Kids, and Younger Kids that are dedicated to integrating fiction and narrative nonfiction in the classroom and across the curriculum. Has Grab and Go Book Lists; over 300 hand-crafted Recommended Reads reading lists; Book Discussion Guides including questions and answers and suggestions for further reading; 450 searchable Award Lists; book cover images and first chapter excerpts; feature articles, BookTalks, and Curricular Connection articles on a wide variety of genres, topics and reading levels. Covers fiction and nonfiction series. Titles can be sorted by popularity and/or Lexile scores. Includes all fiction content from the database Novelist. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Nuremberg Trials Project | This database contains nearly one million pages of information and digital images relating to the 1945 trial of the Nazi leaders before the International Military Tribunal. |
| Locations: LAW |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Oceanic Abstracts | Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, and reports covering the marine and brackish-water environment. Topics covered include biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, ecology, geochemistry, geophysics, marine biology, and marine geology. Indexes over 500 journals. Updated monthly.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited |
| Coverage: From 1981. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| OECD iLibrary | The OECD iLibrary indexes books, papers, statistics, glossaries, and the OECD Factbook, published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Many OECD publications in the database are freely available to read online in PDF or other formats. Publications not available online may be requested via Interlibrary Loan or suggested for purchase. |
| Coverage: Varies by title. |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Scribner Writers Series | Scribner Writers Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | The U.S. Census Bureau terminated the collection of data for the Statistical Compendia program (including the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. and its supplemental products, the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book) effective October 1, 2011. This site provides Statistical Abstract publications for 1878 to 2012, with free access to thousands of statistical tables drawn from published and unpublished data from federal agencies, plus some state and private sources. |
| Locations: UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Teacher Reference Center | Teacher Reference Center is an index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books, offered free by EBSCO. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more, for K-12 Teachers & Librarians. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Thomas Register | Directory of over 170,000 manufacturing companies in the United States and Canada. Includes over 70,000 product listings. The directory may be searched by company name, product or brand name. Requires free registration for access |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, MSL, LEG |
| Remote Access: Available |
| TI Technical Articles | Here you can find links to technical articles written by TI engineering experts for engineering trade magazines. Topics include how to select or design with amplifiers, data converters, clocks, interface and power management. They also address applications, such as audio, industrial, medical, high reliability and many others. Several sorting options can help you with your search. |
| Alt Title: Texas Instruments Technical Articles |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| TRID: the TRIS & ITRD Database | TRID is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information. It is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board of the US National Academies with sponsorship by State Departments of Transportation, the various administrations at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other sponsors of TRB's core technical activities. ITRD is produced by ITRD member organizations under the sponsorship of Joint Transport Research Centre (collectively JTRC) of the International Transport Forum and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and ITRD. TRID covers all modes and disciplines of transportation and contains more than 900,000 records of published research. Over 64,000 records contain links to full-text documents. |
| Alt Title: Transportation Research Information Service |
| Coverage: 1960’s + |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Twayne's Authors Series | Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.
Licensed Number of Users: 3 |
| Coverage: 1999- |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| UNICEF: Innocenti Report Cards | In keeping with UNICEF's mandate to advocate for children in every country, the Centre's Report Card series focuses on the well-being of children in industrialized countries. Each Report Card includes a league table ranking the countries of the OECD according to their record on the subject under discussion. The Report Cards are designed to appeal to a wide audience while maintaining academic rigour. |
| Coverage: June 2000 - |
| Locations: UM, LAW |
| Format: PDF |
| Remote Access: Available |
| URSUS | URSUS is a shared library system that brings together the seven University of Maine System libraries and combines them with the collections of the Bangor Public Library, the Maine State Library and the Maine Law and Legislative Reference Library. Together the URSUS collection provides access to over three million unique titles. |
| Locations: UM |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| US Census Data | U.S. Census Bureau's gateway to statistics from popular data resources including the Decennial Census, the American Community Survey, the Economic Census, the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and others |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Online |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Value Line Research Center | The Value Line Research Center includes online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. Online titles include: The Value Line Investment Survey, The Value Line Small/Mid Cap Survey, The Value Line Mutual Fund Advisor, The Value Line Options Survey, The Value Line ETFs Service, and The Value Line Special Situation Service. The Value Line Research Center is available in Maine academic institutions. Updated daily. |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Wall Street Journal | Select Publication Search Tab and then type in or scroll through alphabetic list to link to the Wall Street Journal.
Index to and full text coverage of the nation's leading business daily from 1984.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited |
| Coverage: Coverage from 1984 |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| WorldCat.org | WorldCat.org is a free version of the OCLC online union catalog. It contains millions of bibliographic records cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide for materials including books, manuscripts, websites and internet resources, maps, computer
programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, and videos. WorldCat.org identifies the closest member libraries that own an item, based on one's zip code, province, state, or country
entry. Updated daily |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
| Wright American Fiction | A full-text collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently (August 2002) 2,341 texts included of the 2,923 in the original bibliography (2,027 unedited, 314 fully edited and encoded) by 1,150 authors.
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| Alt Title: Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 |
| Locations: UM, UMA, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG |
| Format: Internet |
| Remote Access: Available |
