Additional Research Resources
The internet sites listed below are provided by organizations outside the California State Library. Staff of the Library have selected these particular sites as convenient sources of information to supplement the main collections of the State Library and to further its mission to serve the information needs of all California citizens.
The California State Library bears no responsibility for the accuracy or the content of external sites. Please contact the external site's administrator for any questions regarding these sites.
Book and Photo Preservation
Braille and Talking Book Resources
California History
- American Memory Project of the Library of Congress (Historical collections for the National Digital Library)
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- California Historical Society
- California Indians and Their Reservations
- California Newspaper Project
- California Pioneer Project
- California Shipwrecks
- Calisphere
- Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
- The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
- First Ladies of California
- Gold Rush Exhibit
- Governors of California
- Maritime Heritage Project
- Sacramento History Online
- San Diego History
- San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection (San Francisco Public Library)
- San Francisco History
- Southern California Electronic Neighborhood (Los Angeles Public Library – California and regional history topics)
California Reference Resources
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- California Newspaper Project
- California Statistics (Economic and demographic statistics from the Dept. of Finance)
- California Weather Databases
- Vital Statistics Data Tables
Genealogy
- American Heritage Library (Sons of the Revolution in the State of CA)
- California Genealogical Society
- California Pioneer Project
- California State Genealogical Alliance
- FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
- The Genealogy Page (National Archives and Records Administration)
- How to Order from the California State Office of Vital Records
- Federal Land Patent Records (including California)
- Interment.net – Cemetery Transcription Library
- Maritime Heritage Project
- National Center For Health Statistics (How to obtain birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates)
- San Francisco Call Database
- Search Systems (Searchable Public Records Databases)
- Selected Guide to Sources for Genealogy in the California History Section of the California State Library
- USGEN Web Project: California
General Reference Resources
- Acronym Finder
- Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
- Bartleby.com (Reference books online)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Bigcharts Historical Stock Quotes
- CIA World Fact Book
- Dictionaries (A WEB of On-line Dictionaries, including 130+ foreign languages)
- ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
- FEDSTATS (A clearinghouse of federal agency statistics)
- Financial Data Finder
- Medline – PubMed
- On-Line Books Page
- Online Citation Styles
- OpenThesis.org
- Population Reference Bureau (Population and health data)
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Sunrise, Sunset, Twilight, and Moonrise, Moonset, Phase
- Today in History (from the Library of Congress)
- UNdata (United Nations statistics)
- U.S. Gazetteer
Government, State of California
- State Agency Index
- California State Government Home Page
- California State Government YouTube
- California State Publications
- California Courts
- California Executive Agencies
- California Tax Service Center
- Easy Voter Guide
- Executive Orders and Proclamations
- First Ladies of California
- Governor's Home Page
- Governors of California
- Legislative Information (old website)
- Legislative Information (new website)
- California Legislature
- California Legislature, Assembly
- California Legislature, Senate
- California State Contracts Register
- Department of Health Care Services Data and Statistics
- Voter's Edge California
- State Leadership Accountability Act Reports (SLAA)
Government, Federal
General Sites
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Congress.gov
- Federal Register
- FDsys [Federal Digital System] (includes Congressional Bills and Reports, Presidential Documents, and Federal Codes and Regulations)
- Data.gov (Open Data Portal for the U.S. Government)
- Govinfo.gov
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS) / National Technical Reports Library (NTRL)
- New Federal Electronic Titles
- Science.gov (USAgov for Science)
- U.S. Consumer Gateway
- USA.gov (the WEB portal for the United States Federal government)
Selected Agency Sites
- Access to Archival Databases (National Archives and Records Administration)
- The Edgar Database (Securities and Exchange Commission's database of financial information on publicly held companies)
- Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Publications Search
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Uniform Crime Reports
- Federal Agency Index
- FEDSTATS (A clearinghouse of federal agency statistics)
- SciTech Connect (Research from the U.S. Dept. of Energy)
- Library of Congress
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Medline – PubMed (Public access to Medline)
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- U.S. Courts
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service
- U.S. Senate
- The White House
Government, Local California
- California Local Government Finance Almanac
- California State Association of Counties
- California Cities (League of California Cities)
- City Codes and Charters (UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies)
- Search Systems (Searchable Public Record Databases)
- State and Local Government on the Net – California
- USGEN Web Project – California (A geneaology site with local government links)
Government, Other States
- Internet Sites of the State Legislatures (National Conference of State Legislatures)
- Municipal Codes (Code Publishing, Inc.)
- National Association of Counties
- National Center for Health Statistics (How to obtain birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates)
- National Governors' Association
- National League of Cities
- State and Local Government on the Net
- Search Systems (Searchable Public Record Databases)
- StateLine.Org
- U.S. Conference of Mayors
Law
California Sites
- Ballot Propositions (full-text and searchable)
- Bill Information (1993-present; status, history, bill text, analyses, votes)
- California Code of Regulations
- California Codes
- California Courts
- California Legislature
- California Legislature, Assembly
- California Legislature, Senate
- California Supreme and Appellate Court opinions (1850-present)
- California Supreme and Appellate Court opinions (1934-present)
- City and County Codes and Charters (Institute of Governmental Studies)
- LawHelpCalifornia.org
- California Courts, Self Help Center
- State Bar of California (with searchable member records)
- State Constitution
- Statutes (1993-present)
- Superior Courts (locations, phone numbers, web sites)
- Witkin Legal Institute (includes biography of Bernard E. Witkin)
United States Sites
- THOMAS (federal legislation, committee information, Congressional Record)
- U.S. States and Territories Guide to Law Online
- U.S. Supreme Court Information (Legal Information Institute)
- U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (FindLaw)
- USAgov (federal government portal)
General Sites
- Attorney directory from Martindale
- FindLaw (Extensive source of legal information)
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases (New York University School of Law)
- Guide to Law Online: Nations of the World (Law Library of Congress)
- Hieros Gamos (legal information portal)
- Legal Information Institute (School of Law at Cornell University)
Library Links
Libraries
- Access to Archival Databases (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Ask a Librarian (Library of Congress)
- California African American Museum
- California Community College Libraries
- California County Law Libraries
- California Digital Library (University of California)
- California Energy Commission Library
- California Environmental Protection Agency Library
- California Geological Survey Library
- California Libraries Catalog (holdings of California public libraries)
- California Peace Officer Standards and Training Library
- California State Railroad Museum Library
- California State University, Sacramento
- California State University System, Systemwide Electronic Information Resources (SEIR)
- Calisphere (University of California primary source images and documents)
- InFoPeople: Internet & California public libraries
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress Catalog
- LibrarySpot (A "virtual" library)
- Libweb: Library Servers via WWW
- Melvyl Catalog (Univ. of Calif. libraries and the State Library)
- Online Archive of California (includes California State Library materials)
- Sacramento County Public Law Library
- Sacramento Public Library
- University of California, Davis
Associations
Patent, Trademark, and Copyright
Libraries
Search Engines & Subject Guides
- InFoPeople — Best Search Tools (Such as Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc.)
- Search Engine Guide
- Scout Report (Evaluates and classifies sites on the World Wide Web)