Government Resources - United States

Branches of Government

• Executive - White House | Departments | Independent Agencies | Presidential Documents | Federal Staff Directory
• Legislative - Senate | House | THOMAS | Library of Congress | Congressional Publications | Directories
  Documents: Bills | Congressional Record | Reports | Documents | Hearings | Prints | Public Laws
  Related Sites: Campaign Finance | Ratings | Voting Records | Floor Debates | CRS Reports
• Judicial - Supreme Court and Decisions | Federal Judiciary | Court Links | FindLaw | Judicial Staff Directory

Government Publications and Data

• Selected Full-text Documents - by Title
• Selected Statistical Sources including Census Data
• GPO Access and Title List - Service of the Government Print Office that provides electronic access to many official, published versions of documents.
• Catalog of United States Publications (MOCAT)
  Search for cataloging records of government publications. Some links to online versions included. Gives holding depository libraries, coverage is 1994 - present. (See also Carl for indexing to government publications back to 1976.)
• Congressional Universe
  Includes pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, selected Congressional hearings and committee prints, and biographical data about members of Congress.
• THOMAS - Legislative Information on the Internet
• Declassified Documents and FOIA

Indexes to Government Sites and Information

• FirstGov
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory - LSU Libraries
• FCIC National Contact Center
• Federal Government Resources on the Web - University of Michigan Documents Center
  
• Federal Web Locator - Information Center at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
• FedWorld.gov

Van Pelt Library Guides related to Documents

• U.S. Government Documents - an overview
• Congressional Hearings
• Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
• Foreign Relations of the United States
• Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS)
• Treaties and other International Agreements
• U.S. Legislative Process
• U.S. Political Parties and Elections

Depository Library Program Information

• U.S. Government Online Bookstore
• Federal Depository Library Program
• Documents Data Miner
  Search List of Classes, Inactive/Discontinued Lists, profiles of all depository libraries.
• List of Classes
• Item Lister - List a Depository Library's Current Item Number Selections
  Penn 0513B, Biddle 0513C, Free Library 0515
• Basic Depository Library Documents: The Unauthorized HTML Editions
• GODORT
• Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program
• Glossary of Terms used for U.S. Government Publications

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