The Handbook, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, is a multidisciplinary bibliography on Latin America consisting of sources from the humanities and social sciences. It is available in English, Spanish, & Portuguese versions. Includes links to full-text journals held by Penrose.

Provides citations to worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Coverage is 1970 to the present and includes articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 social science and humanities journals. Many of the citations are linked to full text.

Over 700,000 volumes of electronic in the public domain are digitized by the HathiTrust.

"Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included. Records contained in HaPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and more."

This database contains abstracts and articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, and more.

Social studies of health, public policy, health services & administration, health education, community/public health nursing.

This is a service of the National Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Healthfinder is an award-winning Federal Web site for consumers. Since 1997, healthfinder has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. It links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related organizations.

Access to over 1,500 law journals; legislative materials such as the Congressional Record and statutory compilations (Statutes at Large); presidential documents including Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Public Papers of the Presidents, and presidential executive orders; regulatory issuances such as the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; United States Reports, the decisions of the Supreme Court; Foreign Relations of the United States; and comprehensive coverage of treaties and international agreements.

Search U.S. federal censuses from 1790-1930, historic books, and other genealogical sources.

Contains newspaper titles from 22 states between 1808-1980. This digital resource represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of titles, including many published bilingually in Spanish and English.

Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book reviews, books, and dissertations covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450-present. Covers literature written since 1954. Around 2,000 journals are indexed.

HSUS is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. It updates the government document Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970. Tables are downloadable in Excel or CSV formats, and it is possible to create custom tables. Areas of coverage include population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, economic sectors, and governance and international relations.

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A product of the Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, this database is a portal to material that can be found in other databases (Congressional Research Service reports, GAO reports and testimony, DTIC documents, RAND publications) as well as materials not easily located in other places, such as thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School. Material is organized using a unique homeland security taxonomy.

Database providing histories, financial information, and profiles of worldwide public & private companies.

The bibliographic database of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development contains over 10,000 abstract citations to research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources in housing policy, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and a host of other relevant fields.

Reports on human rights violations and conditions around the world. Reports cover countries and specific issues. Penrose has many of these reports, including some that are not available on the HRW Web site, on microfiche.