The Legislative Library recommends the following free online resources for locating additional public policy academic publishing and grey literature.

• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)

  ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

• PubMed Central

  PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)

• PubAg

  SEARCH is the USDA National Agricultural Library’s main search tool. It provides simple, one-stop access to more than 8 million records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines.

• Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)

  FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System.

• Democracy’s Library

  Democracy's Library brings together more than 700 collections from over 50 government organizations, archived by the Internet Archive since 2006.

• EconBiz

  EconBiz is an academic search portal for journals, working papers, and conferences in business studies and economics.

• WorldWideScience

  WorldWideScience.org is a global science search engine designed to accelerate scientific discovery and progress by accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge.

• IssueLab

  An open repository of research on social issues published since 2012. Search by key word or browse special collections for recent research or links to key publishing organizations and research funders.

• Google Custom Search: Think Tanks

  Search across 300 of the most important US and international think tanks.

• Primary News Source

  Posts US government documents: reports, press releases, executive actions, and more—updated daily in an easily searchable database. Also covers intergovernmental organizations and influential think tanks.

The Legislative Library recommends the following free online resources for bill tracking in the Missouri Legislature and other statewide legislatures.

• Missouri House and Senate Joint Bill Tracking

  Search for specific bills from the Missouri House and Senate from 2000 – Present

• LegiScan

  Search and track legislation from Congress and all fifty state legislatures in the most recent session.

• FastDemocracy

  Track legislation in 50 states, Congress, DC and all US territories.

• Plural

  Search for your representatives & look up legislation across the United States

The Legislative Library recommends the following free online resources for statistical research.

• U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

  The QuickFacts data access tool provides users with easy access to basic population, business, and geography statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with more than 5,000 people.

• Census Reporter

  Census Reporter is an independent project to make data from the American Community Survey (ACS) easier to use.

• Missouri Census Data Center

  The Missouri Census Data Center (MCDC) is a cooperative program among state agencies in Missouri and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Its purpose is to enhance awareness of and access to public data, especially Census Bureau products.

• USAFacts

  Non-partisan, not-for-profit resource of numbers and trends in government spending using government data from over 70 sources.

• Pew Research Center

  A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.

• State Elections Websites (usa.gov)

  Find and contact your state or local election office for help with registering, voting, and getting election results.

• Open Think Tank Directory

  A public database of think tanks and policy research organisations

• Missouri Ethics Commission Registered Lobbyist Search

  Search registered lobbyists to view a lobbyist summary, including contact information, registration type, a list of principals, and monthly expenditure reports.

• St. Louis Area Public Officials Directory (East-West Gateway Council of Governments)

  Find contact information for municipal and county elected officials and key personnel for the eight counties and 195 municipalities in the St. Louis metropolitan area as well as state elected officials, fire/ambulance districts, school districts and key regional, policy, and resource organizations.

• Revised Statutes of Missouri 1825 - Present

  The official codification of all the laws of the state of Missouri. Printed in full every decade, with supplemental volumes after each biennial session.

• Missouri Session Laws 1824 - Present

  Bound set of acts enacted during each biennial session of the Missouri General Assembly.

• House and Senate Journals 1820 - Present

  The Journal of the Missouri House of Representatives and the Journal of the Missouri Senate record the proceedings of the state legislature.

• Official Manual of the State of Missouri 1878 - Present

  The Official Manual - State of Missouri (often referred to simply as The Missouri Blue Book) is a biennial publication from the Missouri Secretary of State. It contains historical, political, and statistical information about the state of Missouri.

• Constitution of the State of Missouri 1820

  The first Missouri constitutional convention met at the Mansion House Hotel in St. Louis. Written in only 38 days, the first Missouri Constitution was adopted on July 19, 1820.

• Constitution of the State of Missouri 1865

  From January 6 to April 8, 1865, delegates met at the St. Louis Mercantile Hall to draft a new constitution. The resulting document was known as the “Draconian Constitution” for its loyalty oath conditions. Designed to exclude all but the most resolute Unionist from public life in Missouri following the Civil War, the document was ratified on June 6, 1865. In 1867, the U. S. Supreme Court struck down the oaths of loyalty in Cummings v. Missouri (71 U. S. 277).

• Constitution of the State of Missouri 1875

  Missouri citizens approved a constitutional convention in 1874. Delegates met in Jefferson City from May 5th to August 2nd, 1875. The subsequent Constitution required the legislature to appropriate 25% of the general revenue to support public schools and mandated the establishment of separate schools for children of African descent. Missouri voters ratified the constitution on October 30, 1875.

• Constitution of the State of Missouri 1945

  The final Missouri constitutional convention convened in Jefferson City on September 21, 1943. The completed document was approved by the delegates on September 28, 1944. Submitted to the voters as a single proposition, the Constitution was ratified by voters on February 27, 1945 and has since been amended numerous times.

• Missouri Digital Newspapers

  The State Historical Society of Missouri is pleased to present a growing collection of digitized historic newspapers. These images are freely available to the public and are keyword searchable.

• NOLO Legal Encyclopedia

  Thousands of free articles on everyday legal topics.

• FindLaw

  Are you facing a legal issue, or just looking for more information about a specific legal topic? FindLaw's Learn About the Law section is the perfect starting point. Learn About the Law features informational articles about a wide variety of legal topics, as well as specific information about subjects such as how to hire an attorney and understanding your state's unique laws.

• Wex Legal Dictionary and Encyclopedia

  Wex is a free legal dictionary and encyclopedia sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

• Cornell University Law School Introduction to Basic Legal Citation

  A guide to both the standard and state-specific formats for citing the most widely referenced types of U.S. legal material

• The Indigo Book

  The Indigo Book is a resource for legal citations in standard legal documents.

• Caselaw Access Project

  The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law. Our goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library.

• CourtListener

  CourtListener is a free legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal and state courts. With CourtListener, lawyers, journalists, academics, and the public can research an important case, stay up to date with case law as it develops, or do deep analysis using our raw data.