Research for State Employees
Arizona State Library, Archives & Records COVID-19 Response – Temporarily suspending all in-person services, while maintaining our statutory responsibilities
- Our number one goal is to keep the public and our employees safe
- The situation related to COVID-19 is rapidly developing, as is the response from this office and the state. Please check back regularly for updates
- We are committed to providing continuity of services while reducing exposure risks
- In-person trainings for ALL divisions are on hold until further notice. Divisions will hold trainings by webinar as needed.
- Department staff will attend community meetings virtually or by phone, when available.
- Services impacted:
- In-person Patent and Trademark Resource Center consultations
- The Arizona Capitol Museum is closed until further notice.
- In-person retrieval and immediate checkout of materials to patrons of Arizona Talking Book Library
- Walk-in reference service for Archives & the Research Library
- Ask a Question - online reference service
- Digital Arizona Library, including statewide electronic resources
- Records retention schedules assistance
- Arizona Talking Book Library requests and link to downloads
- Tools and resources for library staff
- Online continuing education for library staff
- Consulting for library staff on grants, electronic resources, digital inclusion efforts, Public Library Survey and all library services
- Communications channel for County Librarians
- E-rate Services offered online and by phone
- Arizona Capitol Museum Giftshop orders can still be placed online
- Arizona Capitol Museum collections can be viewed online through the Arizona Memory Project and Google Cultural Institute
- Arizona Capitol Museum staff can respond to email and phone call inquiries.
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Research for State Employees
State employees may have access via IP authentication at their workstations. If you are working from home, or are prompted to enter a library card number and do not have one click here to apply for remote access.
If you are NOT a state employee, you have remote to access the resources with a globe icon only. Please contact us if you have questions.
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US Newsstream Indexed newspapers, includes Arizona Republic, complete citations and articles. |
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Infotrac Newsstand Offers news articles from the Arizona Republic (1999-2003), Arizona Daily Star (1996-2006), and the Arizona Capitol Times (2003-current). |
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Newsbank Full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 75 newspapers including the Arizona Capitol Times, (June 2005-current), Arizona Business Gazette (1999-current ) and Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ) (1991-current). |
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Gale OneFile News Full text newspaper article from over 1000 U.S. newspapers, with article citations from over 500 more news sources. |
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Arizona Historical Digital Newspapers Select digitized Arizona newspapers spanning from the mid-1800s through the 1960s. |
| Law and Government Information | |
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ProQuest Congressional Access to Federal Executive Branch Documents from 1933-1948. |
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Hein Online Comprehensive, image-based collection of hundreds of legal periodicals and other legal collections. |
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GovInfo a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch. govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. |
| eBooks & Library Catalogs | |
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Reading Arizona a selection of nonfiction and fiction eBooks and Audiobooks for all ages interested in Arizona topics and themes. |
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State of Arizona Research Library Catalog a searchable database of physical and online books, maps, newspapers, and government documents held by the Research Library. |
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WorldCat FirstSearch Listing of books and other library materials in libraries worldwide. |
| Arizona Memory Project | |
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Arizona Memory Project is an online platform for over 200 digital collections related to the history and statecraft of Arizona. Collections include government documents (local, state, and federal), law materials, photographs, maps, and oral histories. |
| General & Business Reference | |
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Gale General OneFile explore thousands of online articles and images from popular magazines, scholarly journals, current newspapers and other reference works. |
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ReferenceUSA real-time access to more than 20 Million Businesses, 222 Million Consumers, U.S. New Businesses, U.S. New Homeowners and Movers. |
| Maps | |
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Fire Insurance Maps (FIMo) A research portal to find, view, and download high-resolution, color Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Real Estate Atlases, Plat Books, and other historical maps showing building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information. Arizona maps only. VPN only or IP authentication. |
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LOC Sanborn Maps Library of Congress Sanborn Maps Collection. A digital collection to find, view, and download high-resolution, color Sanborn maps covering Arizona and the entire United States. |
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Digital Arizona Library online portal of resources available to all Arizonans, includes K-12 and learning from home resources, general reference and research tools, and access to Arizona history and government resources. |
