Research Resources for IUS Alumni & Local Community Members: Finding Quality Websites

Provides access to Indiana-related sheet music, including sheet music by Indiana composers, arrangers, lyricists or publishers as well as sheet music about the state.

A scholarly, open-access online encyclopedia covering a full range of philosophical topics.

Provides national, international, regional, and industry estimates from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.
See also Survey of Current Business.

A searchable interface for finding financial information submitted to the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) on public companies. Includes annual 10-K reports, from 1994 to the present when available

Provides access to the web version of Ernst & Young's popular tax library. Offers a wealth of tax and business knowledge on more than 60 countries.

A comprehensive listing of manufacturers and suppliers serving major segments of the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) industrial manufacturing marketplace across the United States

Provides access to resources on marketing, market research, advertising, selling, promotion, and other marketing-related areas. Includes marketing tutorials, analyses of current industry news and events, and a glossary of marketing terms.

Provides abstracts and some full-text to thousands of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers in the social sciences, including accounting, business, cognitive science, economics, government, and political science.

Provides the latest national, international, regional, and industry estimates from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.
See also Bureau of Economic Analysis Digital Library.

A comprehensive directory of industrial information, products, services, CAD drawings, and more.

Provides access to information about the Center for Cultural Resources' collection of resource kits which provide instructional resources and lesson plans designed for thematic, interactive and realistic learning. Each kit is organized to teach a core of 12 universal themes on unity and diversity.

Provides access to statistical indicators and analyses describing important developments in the status and trends of education from early childhood learning through graduate-level education.

Offers free and open lesson plans and learning resources that have been classroom tested. Resources are searchable by grade level/age range, subject, and type of resource.

Provides a compilation of statistical information covering American education from pre-kindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes data from many sources, both government and private, and contains information on a variety of subjects in the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international education. Digest of Education Statistics is compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics.

A directory of Indiana schools and related information, sorted both alphabetically by school name and corporation name.

Provides access to preK-12 educational resources, including lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions, and more.

Provides projections for key education statistics, including enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary public and private schools. Included are national data on enrollment and graduates for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2020. Also included are state-level data on enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools and public high schools from year 2002 and projections to year 2020.

Now called Library of Congress Digital Collections.
Note: A small number of American Memory collections are still available on the older platform: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Contains digitized newspapers from thirty-seven states, including Indiana and Kentucky, as well as information about American newspapers published from 1690 to the present. The years available for each newspaper vary, but coverage extends from 1836 to 1922.

Provides access to free online scholarly resources focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994.

A collection of electronic texts written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.

Provide access to digitized primary sources about Indiana and its history and culture. Includes digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps, and other media.

Provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Note: A small number of American Memory collections are still available on the older platform: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

A searchable collection of primary sources in American social history, primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The resource is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. See Making of America Journals (University of Michigan) for related resources.

A searchable collection of primary sources in American social history, primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The resource is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. See Making of America Journals (Cornell University) for related resources.

Provides access to summary tables and time series of population, housing, agriculture, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for years from 1790 through the present and for all levels of U.S. census geography, including states, counties, tracts, and blocks. (Our access to this data was previously through the Historical Census Browser from the University of Virginia Library, which is no longer supporting this tool.)
Note:You must create a free username and password for access to summary tables, time series, and GIS-compatible boundary files.

Provides links to full-text historical newspapers from the United States and the Caribbean. Current content is primarily from the Southeastern United States.

A scholarly search engine for finding digitized texts from and about the nineteenth century, focusing primarily on British and American history. Some collections searched are freely available as full-text; others only provide access to citation information.
ACCESS NOTE: Must be on-campus in order to access some of the subscription collections searched through this search engine (i.e. JSTOR, Project Muse, and any Alexander Street Press collection).

Includes transcriptions of works by lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. Genres include poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, and more.

Provides access to a collection of peer-reviewed, open access journals covering several areas in science, technology, and medicine.

A free online database of millions of chemical structures and their associated information. Includes information freely available on the web as well as links to subscription databases of chemical structures, some of which IUS has access to.

Provides information on the Affordable Care Act and options for health insurance coverage under this act.

See PLoS.

U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) free searchable digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

An interactive teaching and learning portal to articles, study resources, and scientific insights on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. Also provides the ability to network with fellow students and faculty in these areas of study in the "People" and "Groups" sections of the website.

Provides statistical information on the wages, earnings, and benefits of workers in the United States.

Provides subnational economic data by industry. This resource is updated annually by the US Census, and can be useful for studying the economic activity of small areas, analyzing economic changes over time, and as a benchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic censuses.

Provides free, public access to official publications from all three branches of the United States Government.

Provides current and archival access to the Indiana Register, which includes rules filed with the Secretary of State, proposed rules, emergency rules, and selected other documents, such as official opinions of the Attorney General and executive orders of the Governor, and the Indiana Administrative Code, which includes the text of all unrepealed and unexpired permanent rules.

Provides summaries of criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources.

A nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.

Includes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
ACCESS NOTE: This URL takes you to the US Department of Veterans Affairs website. The PILOTS database is available as a link on the right hand side of the screen.

Provides access to statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
ACCESS NOTE: The last Statistical Abstract of the United States published by the U.S. Census Bureau was the 2012 edition. The current edition is available in the IU Southeast Library Reference Collection -- HA202 .A3.

Provides access to US Census statistics compiled by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University.

Provides access to a wealth of international data, including statistics on global finance, development, economic conditions, national governance, business, education, gender, health and nutrition, and more.

Provides full-text access to articles, books, theses, images, and additional resources from open access repositories around the world.

Provides access to thousands of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.

Provides access to citations and some full-text of scholarly articles on the open web.
ACCESS NOTE: To access IUS subscribed-to resources from off-campus, go to the Google Scholar Preferences menu and under the heading "Library Links," search for "Indiana University Southeast." You will then be asked to log in using your IUS username and password. From there, you should be able to access all articles that are available through IUS subscriptions.

Provides access to a collection of peer-reviewed, open access journals covering several areas in science, technology, and medicine.

A digital repository that makes the work of Indiana University scholars freely available, while insuring that these resources are preserved and organized for the future.

Provides access to today's issues of the News & Tribune (formed when the Jeffersonville Evening News and the New Albany Tribune merged) as well as a searchable archive of previous issues from 2006-present.