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 Research Sites and Tools

U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT ARCHIVE SITES

 

• NATIONAL ARCHIVES

• NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVES

  • Afghanistan/Taliban Project
  • Brazil Project
  • Chile Documentation Project
  • China Documentation Project
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  • Nunn-Lugar Project
  • Russia and Former Soviet Union Program
  • Southern Cone Documentation Project
  • Torture Archive
  • Vietnam Project

• CIA Declassified Documents (FOIA)

• CIA: CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE

• FBI Declassified Documents — The Vault

• Library of Congress

  • Historical Newspaper and Periodical Archive
  • Science Reference Archives @ The Library of Congress
  • U.S. Federal Research Service

• U.S. Department of State Archive Websites

• U.S. Government Accountability Office

• U.S. Government Documents | Columbia University Libraries

• USA.GOV – Libraries and Archives

• USA.GOV – U.S. History and Historical Documents

• State Libraries

Government FOIA Sites

• Central Intelligence Agency
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• Postal Rate Commission
• Railroad Retirement Board
• Securities And Exchange Commission
• Selective Service System
• Social Security Administration
• United States Agency For International Development
• United States Information Agency

 Top Non-government Archive Sites

• MARY FERRELL FOUNDATION
• FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS
• Public Intelligence
• California State Archive Collections

Other Non-Government Archive Sites

• BLACK VAULT
• CRYPTOME
• GOVERNMENT ATTIC
• Our Documents – 100 Milestone Documents

Presidential Research Sites

• Compilation of Presidential Documents
• Miller Center For Presidential Research
• Presidential Foreign Policy Archive
• Commission on Presidential Debates

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES OFFICIAL SITES

• Herbert Hoover Library
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• Richard Nixon Library•Gerald R. Ford Library
• Jimmy Carter Library
• Ronald Reagan Library
• George H. W. Bush Library
• William J. Clinton Library
• George W. Bush Library

U.S. Government Resources 

• U.S. Library of Congress

  • U.S. Library of Congress Federal Research Division 
  • LOC ONLINE COLLECTIONS
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    • Historic Newspapers 
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    • Local Legacies: Community Roots
    • Manuscript Collections
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    • Performing Arts 
    • Poetry 180: For the School Year
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  • Customized Research & Analytical Services Site for Federal Data. 

• U.S. PROPAGANDA AND INFORMATIVE POSTERS COLLECTION

• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

• U.S. Government Publications

• USA.GOV

  • USA.GOV – Genealogy and Family History

 

• National Technical Information Services
• U.S. Department of Sciences

 

 

FOREIGN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT ARCHIVE

European Union

• Centre for European Reform

  The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the future of the European Union.

• European and Canadian Affairs

  A web site from the U.S. Dept. of State, includes sections on the New Transatlantic Agenda, NATO, Information on U.S. Embassies in Europe, Contacts in the State Dept., and links to Dept. of State publications about Europe

• European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity

  The European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity was founded in January 1993. It was established by the social democratic parties and political foundations from EU countries as a joint institution dedicated to support the transformation and democratisation processes in Central and Eastern Europe and to function as a platform for co-operation with social democratic oriented personalities, groups and parties in the region.

• European Governments on the Web:

• EuroStudies is part of the Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) in the UK. It provides links to information about all European countries, including Articles/Papers/Reports, Data, Government Publications, Governmental Bodies, Journals (Full Text), News, Organizations/Societies, and Research Projects/Centres.

• The European Library

  Searches the content of European national libraries

• George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

• Maps of Europe

  The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin

• Statewatch Database

  Searchable database which monitors the state and civil liberties in the UK and Europe

United Kingdom

• United Kingdom NATIONAL ARCHIVES

CANADA

• Library and Archives Canada

• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca

 

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UNIVERSITY DIGITAL LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

 

• Baylor University Libraries

  • Featuring: JFK Assassination Collections of:
    • John Armstrong JFK Research Files
    • Penn Jones – JFK – Continuing The Inquiry and Research Documents
    • Robert Cutler JFK Research Digital Collection

• Cal-Berkeley Digital Library

• Columbia University Digital Collections 

  • Featuring:
  • U.S. Intelligence Resource Center
  • Col-Univ: U.S. Government Document Subject Guide
  • Col-Univ: U.S. Federal Guides

• Cambridge University Digital Library (UK)

  • Featuring:
  • Isaac Newton Papers
  • Charles Darwin Manuscripts
    • Including:
    • Charles  Darwin Manuscripts Project
    • Charles Darwin Correspondence Project
  • Also Featuring One of a Kind Religious Collections: 
    • The Cairo Genizah Collection
    • Hebrew Manuscripts
    • Islamic Manuscripts
    • Christian Works
    • Sanskrit Manuscripts
  • Royal Commonwealth Society
  • Royal Library

• Harvard University Online Collections 

  • Featuring: Harvard University Think Tank Databases

• Oxford University (UK) Digital Library

• Princeton University Digital Library

  • Featuring Several Collections including:
  • Dixon Collection and Travel Books Collection
  • Government Documents
  • Historic Maps Collection
  • Industrial Relations Library
  • Manuscripts Division
  • Maps and Geospatial Information
  • Miriam Y. Holden Collection
  • Near East Collections
  • Numeric Data and Statistics
  • Papers of Princeton
  • Population Research Collection
  • Princeton University Digital Library
  • Public Policy Papers
  • Rare Books Division

• University of Pennsylvania

  • Featuring: Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP)

• University of Iowa

• University of Massachusetts Collections Archive

  • Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives

• Univ. Texas-Austin

• Univ. of Oregon

  • Featuring the American Policy Directory

• University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

  • Featuring: JFK Assassination Collection of Harold Weisberg

• University of Virginia Center For National Security Law

• Yale University 

  • Featuring : The Avalon Project: Documents of Law, Diplomacy and History

 

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THINK TANKS

DIRECTORIES

• Inside Gov/Think Tanks

• Harvard Think Tank Search

• Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP)

• NIRA’s World Directory of Think Tanks

• PRWATCH (Government Watchdog)

• Source Watch

TOP POLICY CENTERS/THINK TANKS

• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) :

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (US)

• Chatham House (UK)•East-West Center (EWC) :

• Heritage Foundation :•Institute for International Economics (IIE) :

• New America Foundation :

• Pew Research Center

• Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) :

• Social Science Research Council (SSRC) :

• Tavistock Institute•The Brookings Institute

• The Cato Institute : 

• The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace :

• The RAND Corporation (RAND) :

• Urban Institute

 

ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE

• Earth Watch Institute

Business

• American Petroleum Institute

• Center for the Study of American Business

• Committee for Economic Development

CIVIL, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL ADVOCACY

• Americans for Peace Now 

• Transparency International — Germany

• Amnesty International — United Kingdom

• Freedom House — United States

• Human Rights Watch — United Kingdom

• Brookings Institution

• Open Society Foundations 

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — United States

• International Crisis Group (ICG) — Belgium

• National Endowment for International Peace — United States

 

DEFENSE

• American Defense International

• ANSER Institute for Homeland Security

• Center for Defense Information

• Center for International Security and Strategic Studies

• Foundation for Defense of Democracies

• Institute for Defense Analyses

• Rand Corporation

DOMESTIC ECONOMIC POLICY

• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

• Peterson Institute for International Economics

• Heritage Foundation

• Chatham House — United Kingdom

• Adam Smith Institute — United Kingdom

• RAND Corporation

• Bruegel — Belgium

• American Enterprise Institute (AEI) — United States

 

FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY

• Peterson Institute for International Economics

• Brookings Institution 

• Bruegel — Belgium

• 4. Chatham House — United Kingdom

• Kiel Institute for the World Economy — Germany

• Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Heritage Foundation

• Cato Institute 

• American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) — Belgium

ENVIRONMENT

• Pew Center on Global Climate Change

• World Resources Institute

• Chatham House — United Kingdom

• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) — Germany

• Worldwatch Institute 

• Ecologic Institute — Germany

• Resources for the Future 

• Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) 

• Earthwatch Institute 

• Copenhagen Consensus Center 

Globalism and Developing Nations

• Center for Global Development 

• Overseas Development Institute (ODI) — United Kingdom

• Center for International Development, Harvard University

• German Development Institute — Germany

• United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) — Finland

• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

• Institute of Development Studies — United Kingdom

• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) — United Kingdom

• Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) — Germany

GOVERNMENT STUDIES

• Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies

• Center for the Study of the Presidency

Health/Nutrition

• American Council on Science and Health

• American Industrial Health Council

• American Life League

• Bloomberg School of Public Health Research Centers (JHSPH)

• Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy (KPIHP)

• Fraser Institute — Canada

• Council on Foreign Relations Global Health Program

 

 

MEDIA AND ENERTAINMENT

• Accuracy in Media

Social Policy

• Ariel Center for Policy Research

• Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs

• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

• Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Bureau of Governmental Research

• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Carter Center•Cascade Policy Institute

• Center for American Progress

• Center for Digital Democracy

• Center for Governmental Studies

• Center for National Policy

• Committee for Justice

• Commonwealth Institute

• The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)

• Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) — Germany

• Heritage Foundation

• Center for American Progress

• RAND Corporation — United States

• American Enterprise Institute (AEI) — United States

• Urban Institute — United States

• Fraser Institute — Canada

• Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) — United Kingdom

Science and Technology

• Center for Democracy and Technology

• Human Genome Project

• Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) — Germany

• RAND Corporation 

• Bertelsmann Foundation — Germany

• Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO)

• Battelle Memorial Institute 

• Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU) 

• 7. Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) 

• Santa Fe Institute — United States

• Korean Development Institute — Republic of Korea

• Center for Development Research (ZEF) — Germany

SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

• Center for Strategic and International Studies 

• Brookings Institution

• Council on Foreign Relations

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Chatham House — United Kingdom

•  RAND Corporation

• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) — Sweden

• International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) — United Kingdom

• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

• German Institute for International and Security Affairs — Germany

UNITED KINGDOM

• Centre for the Study of Public Policy (CSPP) :

• The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) :

• The Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA)

• Institute of Development Studies — United Kingdom 

• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) — United Kingdom

• Overseas Development Institute (ODI) — United Kingdom

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ALTERNATIVE NEWS AND MEDIA SITES

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INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM SITES

• COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ONLINE

  • FIND OUT WHAT THINK TANKS ARE THINKING

• COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW 

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    • GREAT RESOURCE TO FIND OUT WHO REALLY OWNS LARGE CORPORATIONS AND WHAT COMPANIES REALLY HOLD ALL THE POWER.
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OTHER RESOURCE SITES

• LANDMARK CASES AND TRIALS

  • Collection of Trials and Cases that had great effect on society and the law itself

• Inside Gov

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