{"id":9,"date":"2007-06-18T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T21:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/library\/find-articles\/arkansas-government-links\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:06:56","slug":"arkansas-government-links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/library\/onlineresources\/arkansas-government-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Government and History Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Arkansas Government<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.ar.us\">Arkansas State Homepage<\/a> (provides access to a wide range of information about the State of Arkansas, links to government agencies, colleges and universities, newspapers, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dese.ade.arkansas.gov\/\">Arkansas Department of Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.ar.us\/dfa\/\">Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration<\/a>\u00a0(Electronic forms available on the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration page. Also available at your local revenue office)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcourts.gov\/\">Arkansas Judiciary Home Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkleg.state.ar.us\">Arkansas State Legislature<\/a>\u00a0(Information about the State Legislature. You can access information about committees, state representatives and senators, and what is happening in the legislature)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Arkansas General<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asl.lib.ar.us\">Arkansas State Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org\/cdm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arkansas Studies Institute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cals.org\/butler-center-for-arkansas-studies\">Butler Center for Arkansas Studies<\/a> is a department of the Central Arkansas Library System.\u00a0 Its purpose is to promote \u201ca greater understanding and appreciation of Arkansas history, literature, art, and culture.\u201d\u00a0 Its online collections and projects can be viewed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butlercenter.org\/online-collections\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.butlercenter.org\/online-collections\/index.html\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net\/\"><em>CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas<\/em><\/a> \u00a0is a free online encyclopedia which, according to its website, \u201cstrives to offer a definitive, comprehensive, and accurate record of America\u2019s twenty-fifth state.\u201d\u00a0 In addition to the articles, the website has galleries of photos, maps, documents, videos, and audios. Click on the Browse Media tab next to Encyclopedia Navigation for the galleries.\u00a0 For a list of other websites pertaining to Arkansas, click on Resources at the top of the <em>Encyclopedia<\/em>\u2019s homepage.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magale.driving-tests.org\">Driving-Tests.org\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Free practice\u00a0tests for the Arkansas Driver&#8217;s Examination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Arkansas History Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arkansashistoricalassociation.org\/?page_id=4\">Arkansas Historical Association<\/a>\u00a0has a photo\u00a0gallery, a list of county historical societies and their contact information, and a list of archives in Arkansas and their websites.\u00a0 Some archive sites have digitized materials; other archive sites have finding aids and\/or a catalog intended for those who are able to visit the archive in person.<\/li>\n<li><em>Arkansas Historical Quarterly<\/em> is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, issued quarterly by the Arkansas Historical Association, that \u201ccovers economic, political, and cultural history of Arkansas from pre-history to contemporary issues.\u201d \u00a0(description from <em>Ulrichsweb<\/em>)\n<ul>\n<li>See cumulative index to <em>AHQ<\/em> from 1942 to 2000 at <a href=\"http:\/\/arkindex.uark.edu\/ahq\/\">http:\/\/arkindex.uark.edu\/ahq\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Full text access to <em>AHQ<\/em> articles from March 1, 1942, to December 31, 2012, is found in the database <a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/\"><em>JSTOR<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Indexing and full-text access to articles from April 1, 1999 to present are found in <a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/\"><em>ProQuest Central<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/\">EBSCO\u2019s <em>Academic Search Complete<\/em><\/a> has full-text access and indexing from March 1, 2005, to the present.<\/li>\n<li>Print issues of the <em>AHQ<\/em> from Volume 1 (March 1, 1942) to the present are in the non-circulating Periodical Collection in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/library\/\">Magale Library<\/a> under call number F 406 .A6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies<\/em> is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, issued three times a year by Arkansas State University.\u00a0 It is a literary periodical publishing chiefly prose -fiction and literary essays- and a small number of poems.\n<ul>\n<li>Print issues in Magale Library\u2019s Periodical Collection are from July 1999 to present under call number AP 2 .K22.<\/li>\n<li>Full text is available from 1997 to present through <a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.asp?profile=web&amp;defaultdb=ulh\">EBSCOhost\u2019s <em>MasterFile Premier<\/em><\/a> database and <a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/\">EBSCOhost\u2019s <em>Academic Search Complete<\/em><\/a> database.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.arkansas.gov\/\">Arkansas State Archives<\/a> (new name, as of 2016, for the Arkansas History Commission) Look for their digital collections and for their two online exhibits under Outreach or Resources for Educators if you cannot make the trip to Little Rock to research what has not yet been digitized.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.presidentiallibraries.us\/\">Clinton Digital Library<\/a>\u00a0is a virtual research room and digital repository that provides free and open access to the digitized collections of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library &amp; Museum to everyone, anywhere in the world. Whether you are a lover of history, a student working on a school project, or a scholar, the Clinton Digital Library allows you to keyword search for archival documents, videos, audio recordings, and photographs and to search, browse, and view whole files, just as you could if you came to the Library\u2019s research room in-person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Legal Information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.asp?profile=web&amp;defaultdb=lgh\"><em>Legal Collection<\/em><\/a>, an EBSCO database, may also have articles pertaining to Arkansas legal topics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Newspapers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Online access to various runs of the <em>Democrat<\/em>, the <em>Gazette<\/em>, the <em>Democrat-Gazette<\/em>, and other Arkansas newspapers and news sources is available through <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/apps\/news\/browse-multi?p=AMNEWS&amp;f=advanced&amp;t=country%3AUSA%21USA\">Newsbank\u2019s <em>America\u2019s News<\/em><\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/apps\/news\/browse-multi?p=AMNEWS&amp;f=advanced&amp;t=favorite%3AADG%21Arkansas%20Democrat-Gazette%20historical%20and%20current\"> <em>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/apps\/news\/browse-multi?p=AMNEWS&amp;f=advanced&amp;t=custom%3ACustBucket1%21Arkansas%20News%20Source\"><em>Arkansas Sources<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Print (last three months) and microfilm (1992 to 2017) of <em>ADG<\/em> are in the Periodical Collection in Magale Library. Microfilm of the <em>Arkansas Gazette <\/em>from 1819 to 1991 is also in this area.\u00a0 The print index for the <em>Gazette<\/em> is in the Reference area of the library and covers 1819-1894 and 1960-1991.\u00a0 Print index for the <em>Democrat\u2014Gazette<\/em> covers 1991-1999. Call number for the indexes is AI 21 .A831 H46.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/\"><em>Arkansas Times<\/em>: <em>Arkansas\u2019s Source for News, Politics &amp; Entertainment<\/em><\/a>&#8211; Back issues are retained for one year in the Periodical Collection in Magale Library.\u00a0 Current issue is on display in the library.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lafayette County Press <\/em>print issues are retained for three months in the Periodical Collection.<\/p>\n<p>Magnolia <em>Banner News <\/em>print issues are retained for three months in the Periodical Collection.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Print books in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/library\/home\/\">Magale Library<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Library of Congress call numbers for Arkansas history are in the range of F 406 to F 420.\u00a0 Use \u00a0the library\u2019s online catalog to locate items by title, subject, or author.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>E-Books (reference)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Under <a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/library\/onlineresources\/ebooks\/\">E-book Collections by Title<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/gold.greyhouse.com\/login?customer=saumag&amp;username=saumag&amp;password=magnolia&amp;database=10043\"><em>Profiles of America <\/em><\/a>(Grey House)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/literature.salempress.com\"><em>The Fifty States <\/em><\/a>(Salem Press)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/go.galegroup.com\/ps\/start.do?p=GVRL&amp;u=so_ak_u&amp;authCount=1\"><em>WorldMark Encyclopedia of the States<\/em><\/a> (Gale Virtual Reference Library)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Databases<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Under <a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/library\/onlineresources\/databases\/\">Databases by Title<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/statabs.proquest.com\/sa\"><em>ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.saumag.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/online.infobaselearning.com\/Direct.aspx?aid=102746&amp;pid=WE39\"><em>World Geography &amp; Culture Online <\/em><\/a>(very brief entries)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas Government Arkansas State Homepage (provides access to a wide range of information about the State of Arkansas, links to government agencies, colleges and universities, newspapers, etc.) Arkansas Department of Education Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration\u00a0(Electronic forms available on the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration page. 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