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Public Documents Masterfile 1774-2011 provides single search citation access to a more than 10 million United States government publications. Public Documents Masterfile eases the process of finding documents by aggregating document types into a single search function — accessing resources you know well, and those you might not even have thought to explore.

Moreover, Public Documents Masterfile now contains over 395,000 records from Readex’s Congressional Serial Set (1817-1994), a vast cache of primary research materials related to the key events and issues of American History. Additionally, US State and non-US government agency data is also being expanded within the database. To date, more than 9 millions citations within Public Documents Masterfile link to full text documents.

Students, scholars and legal historians no longer need to wade through countless printed indexes or scattered electronic files to explore historical literature. 19th Century Masterfile brings all the relevant materials into a single source, including complete and integrated digital editions of the Index to Legal Periodical Literature 1786-1937 (Jones and Chipman)and Index to Legal Periodicals, 1908-1935 (American Association of Law Libraries), along with millions of citations to pre-1930 periodicals, books, newspapers, patents and government documents.

In addition to vast indexing sources, 19th Century Masterfile also contains over 15 million links to full text, from both subscriptions sources (e.g., JSTOR, Hein Online) as well as HathiTrust and open-source government repositories. No history or legal studies program is complete without access to this unparalleled resource.

Reference Universe is the new way to search e-reference and print simultaneously, and realize a return on the sizable investment you’ve made in your library’s specialize reference collection. A single search across nearly 50,000 specialized E-Encyclopedias and print scholarly compendia allows library users to instantly identify which titles are held by your library, at a level of analysis far deeper than that which a library catalog or broad ‘discovery layer’ can provide.