Databases and Full-Text Resources

• Arizona state agency databases - selected
• Federal databases - selected
• Premium databases - selected:
• Economic information
• Genealogy/family history databases
• Government information
• Legal databases
• Maps - Historical Sanborn Fire Insurance
• Newspapers and journals
• Reference and bibliographic databases

Premium databases - controlled access

Because of specific CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS, the following selected premium databases and electronic resources require passwords or are available on specific machines or through specific IP addresses and are listed as a convenience for researchers working in the Arizona House of Representatives, the Arizona State Senate, at Electronic Reference Service workstations and at the Law and Research Library's workstations on the 3rd floor of the 1938 Capitol addition.   Topical compilations of web resources which can be accessed from any machine with access to the World Wide Web can be found to the right.

Economic information

• ProQuest® - ABI/Inform
  This service may be used on any computer with access to the Web in the Arizona House of Representatives, the Arizona State Senate, in the Law and Research Library or at the Carnegie Center.   It includes:
• Journals and other business and economic publications
• provides access to over 3,500 publications, nearly 70% full text, going back to 1991
• provides access to abstracts of articles going back to 1971
• Wall Street Journal
• Provides full text from 1986 - today
  Note:  this does not include graphics or stock tables
• Stat-USA
  The main focus of this service is international trade data.   Some databases require a password and must be used at the reference desk on the third floor of the Law and Research Library.  Data includes:
  • International Trade Library
    This has data about international trade with the United States.
  • State of the Nation
    This has financial and economic data about the U.S. domestic economy.

• Ancestry® library edition
  ProQuest® distributes this library version of Ancestry.com®.   The service includes hundreds of U.S. and British databases which can be searched at one time by entering an individual's name or a specific database may be selected and searched.   The service must be accessed from the Law and Research Library's workstations or at the Carnegie Center.   Databases include:
• Biography and History
• Birth, Marriage and Death Records
• Census Records
• United States Census Records (1790 - 1930)
  By law, individual records cannot be released to the public until 72 years after the census in which they were collected (92 Stat. 915, Public Law 95-416; October 5, 1978), later U.S. Census records cannot be searched on this service.  For $65.00, The U.S. Census Bureau will perform a search of more recent records for certain reasons.   For more information and a form, see the U.S. Census Bureau Age Search Service Web Site: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/
• Immigration Records, U.S. and Canadian
• Military Records
• Newspapers and Periodicals
• HeritageQuest™ Online
  This in a genealogy service both for those just beginning their family research and for those who, after years of work, are still uncovering their past.   The service must be accessed from the Law and Research Library's workstations or at the Carnegie Center.   The service includes:
• ProQuest's® Genealogy & Local History Collection
  This includes 25,000+ family and local history books.   Every word is searchable and each page can be easily downloaded or copied.   Titles included are from libraries such as the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Widener Library (Harvard University), the New York Public Library and the Sutro Library (San Francisco).
• Complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930
  This database includes the census page images and HeritageQuest's™ indexes which may be searched by name, place of birth, age, ethnicity and other variables.
• PERSI™ - The PERiodical Source Index
  The PERiodical Source Index or PERSI™ is produced in cooperation with the Allen County Public Library Foundation (Fort Wayne, IN) and is the largest subject index to genealogical and historical periodical articles in the world.   The index covers more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800.   It may be searched by surnames and locations and there are more than 1.6 million article citations currently available, with updates occurring annually.
• Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files
  This database includes details of records containing genealogical and historical information about 80,000+ individuals who served in the Revolutionary War.   Information usually includes the veteran's former rank, unit, and period of service, age or date of birth, residence, and sometimes-genealogical information on other family members.
• Other resources
  CD-ROM's with additional indexes and other electronic resources are available for use on workstations in the Genealogy Collection reading room.

Government information
The Law and Research Library Division has contracted for three LexisNexis® databases which provide searchable access to government or legal resources.  The databases may be used on any computer with access to the Web in the Arizona House of Representatives, the Arizona State Senate, in the Law and Research Library or at the Carnegie Center.   The databases included are:

• Congressional information:
• LexisNexis® Congressional
• CIS indexing and abstracting of congressional publications and the CIS Legislative Histories (1970 - present).
• Full text of more recent congressional reports, documents, prints, bills and the Congressional Record.
• Testimony including prepared statements and selected question and answer transcripts (1988 - present).
• Bill tracking reports that follow bills through Congress and the text of bills (1989 - present).
• Public Laws (1988 - present) and the United States Code.
• The Federal Register (1980 - present) and the Code of Federal Regulations.
• Members biographical, financial information and voting records.
• Committees rosters, charters and schedules for committees and subcommittees.
• Inside Washington, which includes articles from The Hill, Roll Call and The Washington Post (Section A), gives an insider's perspective on recent legislative activities.
• State government information:
• LexisNexis® State Capital
• Check the status of a bill or search bill text.
• Search state statutes or find summaries of state laws.
• Find summaries or the full text of state regulations.
• Search publications for articles about issues affecting states.
• Locate information about state legislators, and elected officials.
• Other resources
  Additional resources are available in the Federal Publications Collection, Arizona's regional federal depository collection, and in the Arizona State Agency Publications Collection.

Legal databases

• Westlaw® Patron Access
  This service is limited to two simultaneous users and must be accessed from the Electronic Reference Service workstations in the Arizona House of Representatives and in the Arizona State Senate or on workstations in the Law and Research Library and at the Carnegie Center.   The service includes:
  • For Arizona and other states:
  • Annotated laws
  • Regulations
  • Cases
  • Attorney General's opinions
  • Legal periodicals and secondary sources
  • Federal primary and secondary sources
  • General and topical sources and forms
• Hein Online
  Hein Online is a comprehensive, image-based collection of hundreds of legal periodicals and other legal collections.   This service may be used on any computer with access to the Web in the Arizona House of Representatives, the Arizona State Senate, in the Law and Research Library or at the Carnegie Center.   The service includes:
• Federal Register
• Full-text issues dating back to the Register’s first issue in 1936
• Includes Presidential executive orders
• Law Journals
• Over 700 full-text U.S., international, foreign law and American Bar Association journals
• Legal Classics Library
• Includes full text of over 200 important legal texts from the 19th to mid-20th century
• Treaties and Agreements
• Includes treaties that are in-force, expired, or not yet published as well as unpublished treaties obtained via the Freedom of Information Act
• U.S. Supreme Court
• All official United States Reports, preliminary print and slip opinions and related U.S. Supreme Court publications
• U.S. Attorney General Opinions
• Official Opinions of the U.S. Attorneys General (1791-1982)
• U.S. Dept. of Justice Office of Legal Counsel Opinions (1977-1996)
• LegalTrac
  This service must be accessed from the Electronic Reference Service workstations in the Arizona House of Representatives and in the Arizona State Senate or on workstations in the Law and Research Library and at the Carnegie Center.   The service includes abstracts or references to articles appearing in over 800 legal periodicals and references to law-related articles from over 1,000 business and general interest periodicals.   A few articles are available in full text.   A collection of legal periodicals is available for use on the 3rd Floor - Mezzanine of the Law and Research Library.   Also, over 700 full-text U.S., international, foreign law and American Bar Association journals are available through Hein Online.
• Those with established accounts and passwords may also access:
LexisNexis®
Westlaw®

Maps

• Digital Sanborn Maps® for Arizona
  This ProQuest Information and Learning service provides access to digitized versions of the Sanborn fire insurance maps for Arizona.   These historical maps MAY include information such as the outline of a building and the function of a structure.   The maps also give street names and house and block numbers.  The database must be accessed from the Electronic Reference Service workstations in the Arizona House of Representatives and in the Arizona State Senate or at the Law and Research Library's workstations.

Newspapers and journals

• NewsBank™:   America's Newspapers
  This service may be used on any computer with access to the Web in the Arizona House of Representatives, the Arizona State Senate, in the Law and Research Library or at the Carnegie Center.   The database provides access to the electronic editions of local, regional and national U.S. newspapers of record including the following Arizona newspapers:
  • Arizona Republic:   The full-text of articles not graphics or photographs written by Arizona Republic reporters from 1999 to within a few days of the current date.
  • Arizona Daily Star:   The full-text of articles not graphics or photographs from the Arizona Daily Star from 1991 to within a few days of the current date.
  • Tucson Citizen:   The full-text of articles not graphics or photographs from the Tucson Citizen from 1999 to within a few days of the current date.
• Other Resources
  Arizona Republic articles from 1987-1999 are available on CD-ROM on the 3rd floor of the Law and Research Library.
• Economic news and periodicals:
  ProQuest® - ABI/Inform

• OCLC FirstSearch
  This Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) service provides access to 11 general reference databases.  These databases may be used on any computer with access to the Web in the Arizona House of Representatives, the Arizona State Senate, in the Law and Research Library or at the Carnegie Center.  Databases include:
• ArticleFirst:   Search tables of contents of journals
• ClasePeriodica:   Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities
• ECO:   Citations and abstracts from scholarly journals
• ERIC:   Citations and abstracts of education articles and reports
• GPO:   Monthly Catalog of U.S. government publications from 1976 - within a month of current date
• MEDLINE:   Citations and abstracts of articles from all areas of medicine
• PapersFirst:   Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
• Proceedings:   Index of worldwide conference proceedings
• WorldCat:   Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide