US Databases

• US criminal databases
• US personal databases
• US general
• US health
• US tobacco
• US legal
• US commercial services
• US business

• J'Net's Computer Assisted Reporting Page for more databases.
• Canadian Databases
• World databases
  

Government databases :

 

• GAO
• Lobbyists - Domestic: Office of Public Records Lobby Filing Disclosure Program
  
• Lobbyists - Foreign Agents Registration
• Excluded Parties List -- Companies banned
• Federal government procurement -- Get the goods on the contracts

Health and Environment:

• PubMed       From the US National Library of Medicine. Access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE, one of the world's largest medical databases, with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.  Only abstracts are available.
• MedlinePlus         National Library of Medicine offers excellent background articles on any disease with links to experts and organizations. Check out the useful search engine
• NLM Databases     Extensive list of other medical databases from the NLM
• Dr. Felix's Free Medline Page         A comparison of twenty-eight web based services that offer free access to parts or all of Medline.
• Healthgate              Offers quick and advanced searches of Medline, plus CancerLit and AIDS databases.
•  Various health databases from the World Health Organization
•  Pharmaceutical Information Network          Search for information on drugs by name, with links to background articles
• AMA Files on American doctors       Information on almost every licensed physician in the United States.  If there's a complaint lodged against the doc, you should find it here.
• Toxic Substances and Disease Registry         Over 200 environmental contaminants, with a map indicating wher they exist
•   The Chemical Scorecard    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory. Search for pollution reports via a map interface or by specifying the desired state. Reports are available for states, counties, cities, and companies

Tobacco:

• US House Committee on Commerce Tobacco Documents          800 tobacco related documents from the cigarette companies going back to 1954. They can be browsed and viewed in their original format
•   Galen:           Tremendous collection, including the famous tobacco archives
•   The Tobacco Resolution          This site, provided by Media On Demand, Inc., is meant to be an information clearinghouse on the ongoing tobacco litigation in the US.
  

• Duke University School of Law Journals      Duke University's School of Law provides the full text of six of its journals
• Cornell Law Library            Links to US Supreme Court decisions and other American legal sites
• Foreign and International Law Resources on the Internet
• Other Cornell Law Library Legal Research Guides
  

• Lexis-Nexis    Lexis-Nexis is the king of databases.  It is not free, but it can be well worth the money.· The largest news and business online information service, including comprehensive company, country, financial, demographic, market research and industry reports. You can tap into thousands of worldwide newspapers, magazines, trade journals, public records, legislative records, data on companies and their executives. The Nexis Web Search runs searches against an exclusive database of 300,000 relevant Web sites collected from its extensive newspaper and wires sources. Company Dossier, with 500,000 listings, allows users to enter a company name or ticker symbol and pull together a full company report
• Uncover Web          CARL unCover Database includes more than 7 million articles in English, with 5,000 more added each day, from 17,000 periodicals. Searches are free but ordering articles isn't.
• Electric Library   Vast array of magazine, news articles, plus TV and radio transcripts.
• Electric Library Canada

• Wall Street Journal                 Company briefing books from the leading financial newspaper
• Standard and Poor's             Stock market news, company research and statistics
• Internets List of Business Databases
• Banking Databases
• Fortune 500
• World Bank Database    Search from 8,000 reports
• Disclosure     See also their rules for International Filings
• Stock Exchange Database
• U.S. Marketting Data          Everything from crime stats to real estate values for 255 metropolitan areas in the States
• IBM data base Access to a vast patents database (United States, Japan, Wipo) with search engine.

General:

• Lexis-Nexis    Lexis-Nexis is the king of databases.  It is not free, but it can be well worth the money.· The largest news and business online information service, including comprehensive company, country, financial, demographic, market research and industry reports. You can tap into thousands of worldwide newspapers, magazines, trade journals, public records, legislative records, data on companies and their executives. The Nexis Web Search runs searches against an exclusive database of 300,000 relevant Web sites collected from its extensive newspaper and wires sources. Company Dossier, with 500,000 listings, allows users to enter a company name or ticker symbol and pull together a full company report
  
  
  
• Directory of Databases              The Poynter Institute's list of available databases -- a very good place to start
• Pac Info        Extensive list of 1,100 free nationwide and state databases
•  InvisibleWeb.com       A directory of over 10,000 databases, archives, and search engines that contain information that traditional search engines have been unable to access.
• Utyx archives

• Internets        An extensive databade of databases
• Search interfaces of databases    Much of the most useful info available on the web is hidden in databases that the general tools do not index.  One American librarian helps out
• Speech and Transcript Center   Speeches and testimony from government and business leaders.
• Direct Search    Several thousand web searchable databases.
•  FERRET--The Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool         A service of the US Census Bureau allows researchers to extract information from the Current Population Surveys March 1995 and 1996
• U.S. Census Data              All the data from American census reports
• Illinois Department of Corrections         The site that allows you to look up inmates by last name, state DOC number or social security number and their location/incarceration records.
• Financial Crime & Organized Crime Database             Michael Moore's Massachusetts Background Check Database. If you're on the IRE mailing list, you can even search a name without cost by simply E-mailing your subject's name and locale to Moore with the subject heading "IRE inquiry"
• National Transportation Accident Reports         Search American air accidents by carrier, date location
• FAA Service Difficulty Reports              Search American reports by manufacturer, aircraft and date
• Airworthiness Alerts
• Airport Search Engine             Can be used to search three letter airport codes, information on 9000 airports from all over the world and 200 links to airport home pages
•  Government Accounting Office              Many GAO reports can be goldmines of information on various subjects