Databases and other Electronic Resources at Linda Hall Library: All Resources

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"The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City contains primary source materials for research and welcomes use by scholars, students, and the public. Our network allows for the holdings of all four centers in Columbia, Kansas City, Rolla, and St. Louis to be available to researchers throughout the state of Missouri."
[Formerly Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City]

Produced by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (US PTO).

Database of "more than 50 million patent documents from all over the world" provided by the European Patent Office.

Search for U.S. and international patents

Search US patents and applications.

Searches "works registered and documents recorded by the U.S. Copyright Office since January 1, 1978."

This site is the U.S. government's official web portal, USA.gov helps the public get U.S. government information and services on the web.

Science.gov searches over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.

Search for government sponsored technical reports issued primarily prior to 1975 and digitized by the TRAIL Working Groups.

NTIS maintains the world’s most comprehensive collection of U.S.-sponsored research, housing more than 3 million publications on topics that range from aerodynamics to urban development. The archive spans the Manhattan project to present.

Search an index of the world's books, with many of them previewed or provided in full for free.

Provides a simple way to search across many disciplines and sources for scholarly literature.

Search consumer electronics repair manuals.

"ASCE's free information retrieval service providing access to over 170,000 bibliographic records of all ASCE publications."

"Over 500,000 aerospace-related citations, over 200,000 full-text online documents, and over 500,000 images and videos are available."

Mining and Minerals Information

Energy and Petroleum Information

"Provides access to over 940,000 records of transportation research worldwide."

"The USDA National Agricultural Library collection of more than 3.5 million items covers all aspects of agriculture and related sciences."

Explores global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and other topics related to the environment. Available in the Library.

"Provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program."

Database of chemical molecules and their bioactivity across multiple assays.

"Searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 12 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results."

"An integrated spectral database system for organic compounds."

"Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases."

Standards Developer and Vendor

Standards Vendor

Standards Vendor

Access to Defense Standardization Program documents from the official Department of Defense repository, the ASSIST database

German and other European standards