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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 access to the resources with a globe icon only. Please contact us if you have questions.

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open to public -- Access for all Arizonans. login required -- State Employees Only.
Access Method Resources
News
open to public Gale OneFile News Offers news articles from the Arizona Republic (1999-2003), Arizona Daily Star (1996-2006), and the Arizona Capitol Times (2003-current).
login required 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).
open to public Gale General OneFile Full text newspaper articles from over 1000 U.S. newspapers, with article citations from over 500 more news sources.
open to public Arizona Historical Digital Newspapers Select digitized Arizona newspapers spanning from the mid-1800s through the 1960s.
Law and Government Information
login required ProQuest Congressional Access to Federal Executive Branch Documents from 1933-1948.
login required Hein Online Comprehensive, image-based collection of hundreds of legal periodicals and other legal collections.
open to public 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
open to public Reading Arizona a selection of nonfiction and fiction eBooks and Audiobooks for all ages interested in Arizona topics and themes.
open to public State of Arizona Research Library Catalog a searchable database of physical and online books, maps, newspapers, and government documents held by the Research Library.
login required WorldCat FirstSearch Listing of books and other library materials in libraries worldwide.
Arizona Memory Project
open to public 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
open to public Gale Academic Onefile explore thousands of online scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles and other reference works.
open to public Data Axle's Reference Solutions real-time access to more than 20 Million Businesses, 222 Million Consumers, U.S. New Businesses, U.S. New Homeowners and Movers.
Maps
login required 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.
open to public 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.
DAZL
open to public 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.
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