Chronicling America provides free access to millions of pages of historic American public domain newspapers. More than 3000 titles, published in 48 states and territories and the District of Columbia are available (eventual coverage will be all states and territories, 1690-1963). The headlines, articles and advertisements capture the life and times of the American people, shining new light on historic events as they unfolded. Also provides a link to find information about newspapers published in the United States from 1690. Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress.

FRASER consists of an open archive of economic statistical publications and data within an automated system to retrieve both images and data. There are two kinds of documents on FRASER: 1) data publications from U. S. government agencies such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, and others more specialized, like the Board of Governor’s Statistical Releases; and, 2) historical publications, archival material from economic policymakers, and special collections.

HathiTrust is a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions. Initially conceived as a collaboration between the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia in order to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, HathiTrust quickly expanded to include additional partners with a fast growing treasure of digitized collections.

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The National Bureau of Economic Research concentrates on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the United States economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. Search their database for Working Papers, books, Census data and other publications by keywords to retrieve citations, abstracts, and full text. All Working Paper abstracts are freely available, and full-text papers are available to federal government employees via e-mail.Free access is provided to employees of NBER Corporate Associates, journalists, Federal, state, and local government employees in the US, and residents of low income nations.

The Nielsen Company studies consumers in more than 100 countries to give the most complete view of trends and habits worldwide. The site is constantly evolving, not only in terms of where it measures, or who it measures, but in how insights can help drive profitable growth. Whether a business is a multinational enterprise or a single storefront, Nielsen believes innovation is the key to success, in both what is created and how it markets products and ideas. That’s why Nielsen continues to develop better solutions to help meet the needs of today’s consumers, and find out where they’re headed next. Nielsen Insights includes the following types of content: Articles, Case Studies, Podcasts, Reports, Resources, Videos, Webinars. Downloading some of these resources requires free user registration.Note that users need to register to download the full report.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) is an index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from around the world. To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online. The full text of all papers lives on the original hosting site, usually the repository of the university that granted the degree. OATD indexes about the first 30 pages of some theses in order to show search hits, but in no case does OATD index or store the full text of the paper.

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