Federal Government Documents Tutorial
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- The Universe of Federal Government Information
What's published and what's available to the public
- Depository Libraries
Sites that hold copies of federal documents
- SuDoc numbers
Call numbers usually used in depository libraries
- Federal Document Shelflist
What documents are in the NCSU Libraries
- Meaning of SuDoc numbers
What federal document call number mean
- The NCSU Libraries on-line catalog
The primary access to The Libraries collections
- Monthly Catalog
The primary index of U.S. government documents
- Monthly Catalog cumulative indexes
Indexing for multiple years
- 1909 Checklist
A list of the first 125 years of federal documents
- CIS
A commercial firm publishing document indexes
- Other Congressional Sources
Some non-CIS titles
- Specialized Indexes
Indexes to federal documents not in the Monthly Catalog
- Patents and Trademarks
Resources used to search for intellectual property
- Periodical Indexes
Indexes to contents of periodicals put out by federal agencies
- Web sites
A few Internet entry points
This tutorial was prepared by Jack McGeachy, Research & Information Services.
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