Introduction

Federal Government: General Information

Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information

State Information

International and Foreign Information

Statistical Resources

Additional Resources

Introduction

Federal, state, local and foreign government publications offer some of the best information on a variety of topics, including statistics. The Greenlease Library is a selective government depository for federal documents. The library selects from over 25,000 new publications issued yearly by the United States government. Our government documents collection development policy is available online.

Many of the government documents are now listed in the online catalog.

Most older government documents still exist only in print or microform. However, in the past few years the United States government has made a tremendous effort to provide current government information via the Internet, as well as in print and microform. Below are links to many government document websites.

Federal Government:General Information

Documents Center
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html
The University of Michigan provides links to important U.S. documents.

Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/fdtf.shtml

U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html
Links to all federal agencies.

INFOMINE
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?govpub
A huge collection of government resources and guides from the University of California, Riverside.

US House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/

US Senate Home Page
http://www.senate.gov/

White House Home Page
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information

Congress.Org
http://www.congress.org/
Searchable member directories and current awareness information.

GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/multidb.html
Search and retrieve congressional information from the US Government Printing Office, with mirror, or Gateway, sites at over 20 universities, each with their own strengths.

Library of Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov/links
A guide to the U.S. Legislative Branch.

Thomas
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Search & retrieve legislation from the U.S. 103^rd to current congresses.

State Information

State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information via Cornell University
http://www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html

State Government Collections -- try one of the following:

1. American Law Sources On-Line
   http://www.lawsource.com/also/
   index.htm#[United%20States]

2. Virtual Law Library (Indiana University School of Law) From the "Browse by Information Type" menu, select "State Government Servers"
   http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/

3. FindLaw
   http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/index.html

4. Piper Resources
   http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm

National Conference of State Legislature's Legislative Tracking Database
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ncsl/

StateList
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/StateList/check/check.htm
The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists from the University of Illinois.

International and Foreign Information

Country Studies via the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

Documents Center via the University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html

Foreign Governments
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/
govpub/resource/internat/foreign.html
Links to individual foreign government pages.

International Governmental Organizations
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/
govpub/resource/internat/igo.html
Links to international organizations and agencies sites.

US State Department Home Page
http://www.state.gov/index.html

United Nations
http://www.un.org/

Statistical Resources

Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/

WebEc: Economics Data
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/WebEc.html

Fedstats
http://www.fedstats.gov/search.html
Search engine for government statistics and data.

InfoNation via United Nations
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/
infonation3/menu/advanced.asp

Statistical Information
http://www.library.unt.edu/govinfo/subject/statfile.html
University of North Texas' Government Information Connection

US Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/

Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org
This site provides population data sets according to criteria such as labor/employment, income/poverty, race/ethnicity and other factors. The data is pulled from the U.S. Census Bureau.

American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
US Population, housing, economic, geographic data via the US Census Bureau.

Additional Resources

Core Documents of U.S. History
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
Historical and current documents considered some of the most important to U.S. history.

Depository CD-ROM Guides
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/godort/cdrom.htm
Links to guides on government CDs via the University of Michigan.

See also GODORT's CD-ROM Documentation Project
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/gitco_docs/gitco.html

GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
http://catalog.gpo.gov/F
Identify government documents published by the U.S. government.
See also GPO's Pathway Services
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/tools.html

Meta-Subject Access to Government Information
via Idaho State University
http://www.isu.edu/library/docs/Subjects1.htm#Subject

Migrating Government Publications
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/migrating/mig.html

Also try the collection of links and library-scanned publications at the University of Buffalo
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/cts/GovDocBP

Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/

Sales Product Catalog via the U.S. Government Printing Office
http://bookstore.gpo.gov

See also the commercial version from Claitor's.
http://claitors.com/gpo.htm

Additional resources related to government are listed on the Political Science Research Guide.

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