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Government Information on the Web |
Last Modified: February 19, 2003
Special section added:
TAXES FOR 2002!!!
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The following list suggests the best sites to find government
information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign
levels of government.
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The
Branches of the U.S. Government
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State
Information
- International and
Foreign Information
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Hot
Topics: The Government in the News
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Consumer
Guidance and Electronic Commerce
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Education
and Child Information
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Finance
and Taxes
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Health and
Medicine
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Scientific
Information
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Statistical
Resources
- Information
Collections
- Taxes for 2002
Hot Topics:
The Government in the
News
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The Branches of
the United States
Government
Executive
Falling through the
net : defining the digital divide (published by the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration and mentioned by President
Clinton in his 2000 State of the Union speech)
White House Home Page
Judiciary
Supreme Court of the United
States (Provides access to information about the Court's current term,
including slip opinions and orders (starting in 1999), argument calendar, and
schedules, as well as general information)
CRS Reports and Issue
Briefs on judiciary issues (civil rights, immigration, impeachment)
compiled by the House Judiciary Committee
Legislative
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate Home Page
Congress.Org (searchable member
directories and current awareness)
Guide to
the U.S. Legislative Branch (from the Library of Congress)
Thomas (search & retrieve
legislation from the 103rd to current congresses
U.S. Code Classification
Table (produced by the U.S. House Law Revision Counsel. It
includes recent changes to the US Code.)
U.S. Code
All laws (titles 1 through 50) in effect as of January 28, 1998 are
contained in Supplement 3. Titles 1 through 41 for laws in effect as of
January 5, 1999, are contained in Supplement 4. Please remember that the
"supplements," as GPO titles its databases, are actually full versions of the
1994 U.S. Code as modified by the subsequent supplements that are published
annually by the Law Revision Counsel. Therefore, unless you are performing
historical research of past versions, you would want to search the most recent
"supplement" that contains your title for the most up-to-date information.
CRS Reports and Issue
Briefs on the legislative and budget process compiled by the House Rules
Committee
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State Information
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International and Foreign Information
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Consumer Guidance and Electronic Commerce
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Education and Child Information
- U.S. Department of Education
(contains links to a wide range of educational programs and literature)
- ERIC (Search the ERIC database, the
world's largest bibliographic database of education literature, for
education-related reports and journal articles, beginning in 1966.)
- Department of Education
documents in ERIC (Find any publication produced or funded by the U.S.
Department of Education since its creation in 1980 which appears in ERIC)
- ChildStats (offers
access to federal and state statistics on children and their families
including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health,
behavior and social environment, and education)
- Encyclopedia of Ed Stats (from
the National Center for Education Statistics)
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Finance and Taxes
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Health and Medicine
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Scientific Information
- CRS Reports on natural resources and
the environment compiled by the National Library for Environmental Science
- CRS Reports on Space
and Science compiled by the Federation of American Scientists
- World Map Connection
(interesting collection of links for U.S. maps as well as international maps
and maps for places in the news)
- DOE Information Bridge
(Access to full
text Dept. of Energy research and development reports in physics, chemistry,
materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering,
computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics)
- PubScience (Users can search across
a large compendium of peer reviewed journal literature with a focus on the
physical sciences and other disciplines of concern to the Department of
Energy)
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Center for
Environmental Information and Statistics (CEIS) (produced by EPA and
includes the toxic release inventory among other databases)
- CRS Reports and Issue
Briefs on national security issues compiled by the Federation of American
Scientists
- CRS Reports on
Nuclear, chemical, and missile weapons and proliferation compiled by the
Federation of American Scientists
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Statistical Resources
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Information Collections
Documents/Speeches
Documents
Center (one-stop shopping from the University of Michigan. Includes
excellent and updated section on current news items)
Nixon Watergate Tapes (The site is
called History and Politics Out Loud. Click on Nixon's name. When
complete this set will consist of 12.5 hours of audio requested in the
Watergate trials of Nixon aides. It now includes the "smoking gun" tape
plus transcript)
Speech and
Transcript Center (maintained at George Washington University. Includes
legislators as well as executive branch executives, state officials, and
historical speeches. Good source for Tipper Gore and Hilary Clinton
transcripts.)
Meta-indexes/FAQs
Frequently
Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT
FDTF)
U.S. Federal Government
Agencies Directory (locate all federal agencies via LSU)
INFOMINE (huge collection of
government resources and guides from the University of California, Riverside)
Meta-Subject Index
to Government Information
GPO
Access (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.)
CRS WWW Accessible
Reports (Up to date directory maintained at The George Washington
University)
Search Full-text U.S.
Internet Government Periodicals (Maintained by Washburn University School
of Law, this page provides access to full-text government periodicals.
It can be searched by subject, sudoc number or title.)
Depository
CD-ROM Guides (links to guides on government CDs via the University of
Michigan; see also GODORT's CD-ROM Documentation
Project)
GPO Catalog of U.S.
Government Publications (search for government documents)
Government
Information and Depository Management Clearinghouse
(ALA GODORT Education
Committee)
Migrating Government
Publications (full-text docs via the University of Memphis, or try the
collection of links and library-scanned publications at the University
of Buffalo)
Resources of Use to
Government Documents Librarians
Sales
Product Catalog via GPO
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