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CAMIO. Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (Coverage Varies) What Is It? Digital collection of about 90,000 works of art plus audio, video and mixed media. Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths. Scope ranges from 3000 BC to the present.
Why Use It? To search image of works of art from museums around the world. Includes
photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture.
Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths. Scope ranges from 3000 BC to the present.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance What Is It? CFDA is a database of all Federal programs available to state and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals. After you find the program you want, contact the office that administers the program and find out how to apply. User Guide
Why Use It? Use CFDA to find information on available assistance, including how to write and submit your grant proposal.
Catalog of Government Publications (1976-current) 
What Is It? The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications issued through the Government Printing Office (GPO); includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.
Why Use It? Access official government publications made available through the United States Government Printing Office.
Census of Population and Housing (1790-current) What Is It? United States Decennial Census of Population and Housing. Decennial Census reports; some years are incomplete. Data from 1790-1980 is in PDF format.
Why Use It? To get historical demographic data from United States decennial census.
Chicago Defender (1921-1975)
Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition (Online edition) What Is It? Guide to writing research paper, citing, formulating footnotes, creating bibliographies in Chicago 15th edition format.
Why Use It? Find definitive answers to using the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.
Chicago Tribune (1985-Present)
Chicago Tribune Historical (1849-1986)
Chicano Database (1960s-Present) What Is It? Index to all types of material for information about Mexican-American and Chicano topics; selective coverage back to 1900. Since 1992 covers the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
Why Use It? Research all aspects of the Mexican-American, Chicano and Latino experience, including art, literature, law, education, economics, politics, music, film, religion, health, psychology, sociology.
Christian Science Monitor (1988-Present)
Christian Science Monitor Historical (1908 - 1994)
Chronicle of Higher Education (1995-) What Is It? Digital version of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Includes access to job classifieds and ability to subscribe to
Academe Today, a daily e-mail report which summarizes
the latest news in higher education.
Academe Today Set up instructions
Why Use It? To research issues relating to higher education. To consult job classifieds for academic positions.
Civil Rights Digital Library What Is It? "The initiative promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement through its three principal components: 1) a digital video archive of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component delivering secondary Web-based resources"
Why Use It? To view footage of primary source news clips of Civil Rights era television coverage, plus other web-based secondary sources.
Code of Federal Regulations (1938 - present) What Is It? Codification (arranged by topic) of the rules and regulations (also called administrative law or federal regulations) published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the United States government. The CFR is published by the Office of the Federal Register, an agency of the National Archives and Records Administration. See CFR User Guide.
Why Use It? Use the Code of Federal Regulations to find out the specific regulations or rules by broad area (e.g., Environment) that are in use to implement or enforce current Federal law.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online (Current) What Is It? Entries in the Gazetteer include basic information on many of the following: demography; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; distance to relevant places; pronunciations; official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings.Their length varies from a brief notation on a small village to an essay on a country or region
Why Use It? Look up Geographical information; check the spelling of a place name; gather basic socio-demographic information about cities, towns, regions worldwide.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (current) What Is It? Official website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Why Use It? Find information about Massachusetts laws, policies, citizen information, links to localities and more.
Congressional Publications (1789 - Present) What Is It? Index and full-text of Congressional prints, hearings, reports, legislative histories. Includes full text of Congressional Research Service reports from 1916 - present; full-text of Serial Set documents produced from 1789 to 1969. Index and full-text of Congressional Record from 1985 - present. Search tip: use "US" for "United States" (no quotes).
Why Use It? Get citations to and full-text of United States Congressional documents produced from 1789 to current. Search and retrieve full text of Congressional Record from 1985- present.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (past two years) What Is It? The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.
Why Use It? To get current and historical information about product safety recalls and records
Consumer Sentinel (1997 - present) What Is It? Secure investigative cybertool and complaint database, on a separate restricted-access secure web site, that provides hundreds of law enforcement agencies immediate access to Internet cons, telemarketing scams and other consumer fraud-related complaints. It gives consumers a way to voice their complaints about fraud to law enforcement officials worldwide.
Why Use It? Get the facts on consumer frauds from Internet cons, prize promotions, work-at-home schemes, and telemarketing scams to identity theft. Report your fraud complaints so they can be shared with law enforcement officials across the U.S. and around the world.
Contemporary Authors (Coverage Varies) What Is It? Database providing biographical and bibliographical information for mostly 20th century U.S. and international authors.
Note: Contemporary Authors is included in the database Biography Resources Center.
Why Use It? Search for biographical information about an author.
Contemporary Fashion (Current) What Is It? A reference book covering individual designers and fashion houses that have been active throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Informative essays mirror the many facets of the fashion world.
Why Use It? To locate information about fashion and fashion designers from the 20th and 21st century.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (1959-Present)
Contemporary Women's Issues (1992-Present) What Is It? Database of materials about women's issues worldwide. Includes references to journal articles, primary sources in archival collections, pamphlets, unpublished scholarship, and small press publications.
Why Use It? Research women's issues by country or geographical area. Search for articles, pamphlets and newsletters.
Core Documents of United States Democracy (1700's - present) What Is It? Includes Articles of Confederation, The Bill of Rights, Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873, The Constitution of the United States of America, The Constitution of the United States of America, Analysis and Interpretation, The Declaration of Independence, Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789, Emancipation Proclamation, The Federalist Papers, The Gettysburg Address
Why Use It? To study the most important documents associated with the founding of the United States.
Corpus Montaigne (Coverage Varies) 
What Is It? Full-text of the titles published while Montaigne was alive; Titles published posthumously by his daughter in law, Madame de Gourmay; The most famous editions published between 1603 and 1942 with notes; The best editions of the complete works in English, German, Spanish, Italian in modern spelling; Facsimile of all the Essais published while Montaigne was alive including the famous 1588 "edition de Bordeaux".
Why Use It? Search online full-text collection of Montaigne's works. Contains: Les Essais; La Teologie naturelle de Raymond Sebon (Translated by Montaigne).
Council of Europe (1949-current) What Is It? Founded in 1949, the Council of Europe seeks to develop throughout Europe common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts on the protection of individuals.
Why Use It? To find centralized information about human rights, democracy and the rule of law; the CoE is the European forum for discussion and promotion of these ideals.
Country Profiles / Area Handbooks (current) What Is It? This series is part of the Country Studies Program, formerly the Army Area Handbook Program. They offer brief information on a country’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.
Why Use It? To get summarized current information about the countries profiled.
CQ Weekly (1983 - present) What Is It? Weekly journal covers the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, political liaisons and lobbyists.
Why Use It? To research Congressional activity - votes, political maneuvering, influence and more.
Credo Reference (Coverage Varies) What Is It? Collection of electronic editions of reference dictionaries and handbooks.
Why Use It? Find overviews of topics in nearly all disciplines. Search for definitions. Find biographical information. Search for quotations. Check the meaning or spelling of a foreign language term.
Current Index to Statistics (1971-) What Is It? Bibliographic Index to articles about statistics and statistical methodology. This is not a resource for finding statistics themselves.
Why Use It? Find scholarly articles about methods and theories in statistical sciences. Do not use to find actual statistics.