Government Document Sites for Arts & Sciences

The subject-specialist librarians have identified some of the more important federal government web sites for the disciplines taught at CSUSM. There are of course other sites as well, and in many cases the resource you need depends on the focus of your research.

The names noted next to the discipline are the librarians who teach research fluency, provide specialized reference and/or collect materials for that discipline.
 

Anthropology -- Allison Carr

• US Small Business Administration: Office of Native American Affairs
• Anthropology and Archaeology Fact Sheets, Reading Lists and Links (Smithsonian)
• National Museum of Native Americans (currently online only, physical site opens 9/04)
• American Folklife Center (from the Library of Congress, note the links page to Ethnographic Resources)

Criminology -- Allison Carr

• Browse Topics: Criminal Justice (collection of federal web links)
• FBI Uniform Crime Reports
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice (Department of Justice)
• Office on Violence Against Women (Department of Justice)
• US Department of Justice
• United States Sentencing Commission (Federal standards and practices for punishment)

Dance -- Judith Downie

• Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance (Library of Congress assembled this list of non-government sites)
• National Endowment for the Arts: Dance Resources (funding, organizations and resources)
• Learning Page of the Library of Congress: Dance and Dancers

Ethnic Studies -- Melanie Chu

• Census 2000 Briefs & Special Reports (discussion of Census methodology and summaries broken down by a variety of categories)
• Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of US Diversity
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, especially the Occupation Employment Statistics page

Film Studies -- Judith Downie

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Department of Labor) offers information on the job markets for a variety of film and arts occupations through the Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports & Media category.
• Motion Picture and Television Reading Room from the Library of Congress, offers among other features, an extensive glossary of film genres.
• National Film Preservation Board oversees the National Film Registry, a work in progress to preserve American films and film history as well as many other resources.
• US Copyright Office provides information on copyright law and procedures.

Geography -- Melanie Chu

• USGS: GEODE (geo-spatial databases offering information from a variety of federal sources.)
• US Library of Congress: Map Collections 1500-2004
• Environmental Protection Agency
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency
• United Nations Environment Program: Global Environment Outlook
• National Atlas of the United States

Global Studies -- Melanie Chu

• Portals to the World
• Climate Change & International Studies
• US Library of Congress: Map Collections 1500-2004
• Center for International Studies (Library of Congress)
• Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
• Global Health
• Global Issues

Hispanic Literatures -- Gabriela Sonntag

• Handbook of Latin American Studies
• Spain, the United States and the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas

History -- Judith Downie

• Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites: History (from the Library of Congress)
• American Memory a collection of documents, images and audio files from the extensive collections at the Library of Congress.
• FirstGov: Citizen Gateway: History, Arts & Culture provides links to general, cultural, military history sites and more.
• History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution)
• National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)

Human Development -- Yvonne Meulemans

• Centers for Disease Control
• Department of Health and Human Services
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• National Institute on Aging
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Humanities -- Judith Downie

• Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites: Humanities (from the Library of Congress)
• Arts & Literature (description and links to digitized collections within the Library of Congress)
• Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities (most of publication is freely available online)

Kinesiology -- Yvonne Meulemans

• The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
  • PCPFS Research Digests and Reading Room (material for the general public)
• Physical Fitness provided by the FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) .
• Health & Medicine from www.science.gov (limited amount of material in the exercise and physical fitness link but a valuable site overall)
• National Technical Information Service studies and reports on physical fitness topics

Linguistics -- Judith Downie

• Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites: Languages and Linguistics(from the Library of Congress)
• Foreign Language Resource Centers (Department of Education)
• Learning Page: Language and Culture (list of non-government web sites)
• Online Materials on EFL and Related Topics (from the State Department) offers the full text of Essential Bibliography for English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics and related materials
• Online Resources for TEFL Professionals

Literature and Writing -- Judith Downie

• Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites: Literatures in English (from the Library of Congress)
• National Endowment for the Arts: Literature Resources (funding sources and other helps)
• Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress
• Writing and Literature from the Smithsonian provides information on authors and text from a wide variety of works.

Music -- Judith Downie

• Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance (Library of Congress experts have assembled a list of reliable non-government sites)
• Learning Page of the Library of Congress: Music and Musicians
• National Endowment for the Arts: Music Resources (funding sources and other helps)
• Other Library of Congress Resources on Music, Theater and Dance

Physical Education -- Yvonne Meulemans

• See also Kinesiology
• Department of Health and Human Services
• USA.gov (Search Engine)

Political Science -- Allison Carr

• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
• GPO Access Search engine for federal government information across all agencies
• Thomas (Congressional Legislation site)
• Treaties in Force (all treaties and agreements the U.S. is currently signatory to)
• US Department of State

Psychology -- Yvonne Meulemans

• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
• Mental Health and Behavior (under the Health& Medicine Section) from www.science.gov
• USA.gov (Search Engine)

Science and Technology (includes Astronomy, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Physics)-- Pearl Ly

General Sciences

• USA.gov (Science and Technology)

• Browse Topics (collection of federal web links)

Science Government Agency Websites

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Jet Propulsion Lab (Cal Tech)

• United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Social Sciences --> Allison Carr

• American Fact Finder from the Census Bureau (quick look-ups and summaries of the various US Censuses)
• Census information from the Census Bureau
• Statistical Abstracts of the United States
• Usa.gov (Search Engine)

Sociological Practice & Sociology -- Allison Carr

• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• FBI's Uniform Crime Reports
• Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement from the Department of Health and Human Services
• Sociology and Criminology Links from the Bureau of Prisons (Federal)
• The Sociology of the Internet (on the NOAA server)
• USA.gov (Search Engine)

Theatre Arts -- Judith Downie

• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Arts--Theater Arts page offers a small collection of resources, you may wish to review the entire Arts collection.
• Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance (Library of Congress experts have assembled a list of reliable non-government sites)
• National Endowment for the Arts: Theater Resources
• Other Library of Congress Resources on Music, Theater and Dance

Visual and Performing Arts -- Judith Downie

• Arts, Museums and Libraries (brief overview from the White House)
• Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance (Library of Congress experts have assembled a list of reliable non-government sites)
• National Endowment for the Arts (federal funding agency for arts of all types)

Visual Arts -- Judith Downie

• Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites: Visual Arts (non-government sites selected by the Library of Congress)
• Exhibitions from the Library of Congress (digital exhibitions covering fine art to comic art)
• National Gallery of Art
• Smithsonian's Archives to American Art (online collections addressing individuals, styles and cultural groups as well as oral histories)

Women's Studies -- Allison Carr

• Browse Topics: Women (collection of federal information sites on a variety of women's issues)
• Department of Labor: FindIt! By Audience--Women (women's labor statistics see also the Women's Bureau)
• National Womens' Health Information Center
• USAID's Office of Women in Development (collection of documents from a variety of agencies concerned with gender and development issues)
• Women's Health Initiatives

World Languages -- Gabriela Sonntag (Spanish) and Judith Downie (others)

• Browse Topics: Spanish Language (collection of federal government information in Spanish)
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Foreign Languages page offers a mixed collection of resources focused on teaching foreign languages.
• Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Libraries offers a page of links to a variety of teaching and learning tools from Amharic to Urdu.
• Foreign Language Dictionaries offers links to online dictionaries in French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.