NARA Makes Available U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Press Release · Thursday, September 30, 2010

The National Archives and Records Administration will make available the LexisNexis® U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection of US Government publications to the public free of charge in all NARA research rooms nationwide.

The U.S. Serial Set is a collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. It contains comprehensive and often detailed information on an extremely wide range of subjects. Its earliest documents date from 1789 and additions are made continually.

This Serial Set is the latest addition to the list of online commercial resources that NARA makes available free of charge to all researchers at its research facilities nationwide. Other free online resources at NARA facilities include Ancestry.com, Footnote.com, JSTOR, ProQuest’s Research Library, HeritageQuest, Archive Finder, Digital National Security Archive, and digital New York Times and Washington Post, as well as EBSCO’s America: History and Life and Gale’s Biography and Genealogy Master Index and Declassified Documents Reference System. Together, these resources provide free and open access to digitized NARA records as well as contextual information about NARA’s holdings.

For more information on these resources, see NARA’s Archives Library Information Center [http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/]. And see information on NARA research centers nationwide [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html].