Digital Collections & Government Documents
- HathiTrust Digital Library
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Our membership in HathiTrust provides UK affiliates the benefit of being able to download the full-text PDF of public domain titles. (Without a membership you are limited to a page.) To do so, users must log-in at the HathiTrust site with current linkblue credentials.
UK affiliates can also search copyrighted works, but the full-text of the work is not available for full-text viewing. However, the ability to search over 16.8 million volumes will allow you to identify useful titles.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaDiscover 46,629,516 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States
- American Memory
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Archival collections from Library of Congress. Browse and search. Topics: Advertising, African American History, Architecture/Landscape, Cities/Towns, Culture/Folklife, Environment/Conservation, Government/Law, Immigration/American Expansion, Literature, Maps, Native American History, Performing Arts/Music, Presidents, Religion, Sports/Recreation, Technology/Industry, War/Military, and Women's History.
- Umbra Search: African American History685,857 items from more than 1,000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums.
- CalisphereCalisphere is your gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 2,075,000 images, texts, and recordings. Watch an introductory video to learn more.
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsExplore 922,468 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
- Historical Statistics of the United States
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Compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources with over 37,000 data series. Online version of the revised 5 volume paper resource. Chapters are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, provide a guide to the sources, and offer advice on the reliability of the data and the limits that might be placed on their interpretation. - Compilation of Presidential Documents
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Composed of the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents and its predecessor, the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. The website will be updated frequently, as information is released by the White House press office to Federal Register editors. Documents appearing in the Compilation of Presidential Documents collection are edited for accuracy and annotated with additional information to provide an authoritative record of the Presidency.
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)Records of the U.S. federal courts held at the National Archives include records created by: district courts; circuit courts; courts of appeal; and Supreme Court. The types of records are primarily case files. Categories of case files include: civil; admiralty; equity; law; criminal; and bankruptcy cases. In addition to case files, other type of records are: dockets; transcripts; minutes; administrative files; execution books; order books; rule books; and final record books. The earliest court records in NARA holdings date to approximately 1790.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set (GPO)
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Contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports bound by session of Congress. It began publication with the 15th Congress, 1st Session (1817). Documents before 1817 may be found in the American State Papers. In general, it includes: committee reports related to bills and other matters, presidential communications to Congress, treaty materials, certain executive department publications, and certain non-governmental publications. - U.S. Congressional Serial Set (ProQuest Congressional Publications)
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The U.S. Serial Set, a full-text collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, includes Congressional reports and documents, executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress, the American State Papers, and all maps, illustrations, photos, and lithographs found within the U.S. Serial Set during the time period covered.
Kentucky-Specific Digital Collections
- ExploreUK
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A Historical Collection of Images and Text from the University Archives - SPOKEdb: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Collection Catalog
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The searchable catalog contains the records for over 14,000 interviews and nearly 600 oral history projects. Allows users to browse the collections and projects based on subjects or names or conduct a search of the collections, projects, and interviews. Users can follow links from the catalog record to interviews or projects that are available online or request to use interviews that are not yet online by using the online form. - Notable Kentucky African Americans
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Contains short biographies of notable African Americans with Kentucky roots or ties, organized by profession or subject. Also includes entries for events and locations. Includes links to related resources. - Kentucky Digital Library
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Online finding aids and digitized material from archival collections across the state of Kentucky, particularly small academic institutions and public libraries. Note that content from UK, UofL, and others is not available on the new KDL. Many previous partners now provide access via their own institutions digital libraries. See ExploreUK for access to UK content.