Federal Government Documents Tutorial Home

1. The Universe of Federal Government Information

2. Depository Libraries

3. SuDoc numbers

4. Federal Document Shelflist

5. The NCSU Libraries on-line catalog

6. Monthly Catalog

7. Monthly Catalog cumulative indexes

8. 1909 Checklist

9. CIS

10. Other Congressional Sources

11. Specialized Indexes

12. Patents and Trademarks

13. Periodical Indexes

14. Web sites

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Web sites

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Internet sites for federal government information.  Here are a few references to help you locate electronic data from specific agencies.

Comprehensive agency lists:

Federal Web Locator

"is a service provided by the Center for Information Law and Policy and is intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web.  This list is maintained to bring the cyber citizen to the federal government's doorstep."

University of Michigan's Documents Center

maintains a suite of pages with links to federal, foreign, international, state, and local documents.  The links here are also organized by subjects.

Uncle Sam - Migrating Government Documents

This University of Memphis site records the format changes, largely from paper to electronic, of federal documents provided to depository libraries.

THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet

"In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, a service of the Library of Congress" containing legislative information on the Internet.  Thomas provides access to the full texts of most of the documents created during the legislative process:  bills, reports, Congressional Record, public laws.  Dates of coverage vary between files; some go as far back as 1973- 74, the 93th Congress.

GPO Access

"The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government," legislative, executive, and judicial.

U.S. Congressional Bibliographies

compiled at NCSU "enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted. ... Its primary goal is to be an authoritative, exhaustive reference source of meetings held and documents released by House and Senate committees."

Fedstats

is "the gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies"

STAT-USA

"STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government."

LexisNexis Statistical

provides an in-depth indexing and abstracting service for statistical publications issued worldwide.  It is composed of three component parts:  American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Resources Indes (SRI,) and Index to International Statistics (IIS).

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