Government & legal

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City & county

Databases

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    Read entire articles from the Kansas City Star newspaper. All issues since 1991 are available.

State

Databases

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    Read newspapers from across Missouri, including Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, St. Joseph, Columbia and more.

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    Read articles from newspapers, magazines, and business journals.

Federal

Databases

  • As part of the U.S. Census site, American FactFinder offers a rich source of detailed data on population, housing, economics, geographic and industry statistics. It gives users the ability to create and customize maps, modify statistical tables, and save data in a presentation format. Because of the complexity of some of its capabilities, it also provides excellent video tutorials.

  • Search and locate all Federal publications from 1976 to the present. Many are available online, other documents can be located at a local library through the site.

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    Find and read documents produced by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

International

Databases

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    Read articles from newspapers, magazines, and business journals.

Legal

Databases

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    Access thousands of downloadable legal forms, including state, federal, business, real estate and personal forms. Also use an attorney directory, arranged by state and practice area. A new feature is their Law Digest -containing summaries of all 50 state statutory laws, arranged in easy-to-use alphabetical topics and subheadings. Note: This resource used to be called Thomson Gale Legal Forms.

Taxes & tax forms

Databases

Check the list of databases by topic.