U.S. Government Resources: General Sites

A - Z Online Resources
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html

Browse an alphabetical listing of online federal resources kept by the Government Printing Office.

Access America E-gov E-zine
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/accessamerica/index.html

This archived web site provides information on Access America, former Vice President Gore's e-government initiative, as well as Gore's full report.

Administrative Decisions and Other Actions
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/govdocs/fed_decisions_agency.html

This web site, a product of the University of Virginia Library, contains links to Federal administrative decisions and other actions arranged in alphabetical order by
agency.

American Memory - Historical Collections for the Libraryy of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

This web site is "a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections."

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/index.html

Ben's Guide serves as the educational component of GPO Access, GPO's service to provide the official online version of legislative and regulatory information. This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
http://catalog.gpo.gov/F

This site provides a searchable datatbase of print and electronic publications created by Federal agencies. When available, a link is provided to full-text documents. Visitors may also use the locate libraries feature to search for local libraries that have print publications available.

Congressional Research Service Reports
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/

The National Library for the Environment offers links by topic to CRS Reports.

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html

GPO Access presents authentic online versions of various democratic core documents, which include both current and historical publications.

Cornell Law School - Online Legal Resources
http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/esources/default.aspx

This Cornell Law School web site provides access to legal resources on the Internet.

Cybercemetery
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/

The University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government Printing Office formed a partnership to provide permanent public access to Web sites and publications of the now defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.

Digital Interlibrary Loan
http://www.loc.gov/rr/loan/illscanhome.html

The Library of Congress Collections Access, Loan and Management Division now scans items that are too fragile to circulate on interlibrary loan and makes them available to the public through this website. All the items are available in PDF format for easy viewing.

Digital-Librarian.com/Government
http://www.digital-librarian.com/government.html

A searchable index of online Government resources maintained by a librarian in Cortland, New York.

Documents Center
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/

The Documents Center of the University of Michigan is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.

eGovLinks
http://www.egovlinks.com/

The egovLinks web site serves as a directory to online topics of interest in the federal government.

Federal Bulletin Board
http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov/

A free electronic bulletin board service from the U.S. Government Printing Office. Federal agencies use the FBB as a means to distribute electronic files to the public. All available documents can be downloaded for free.

Federal Resources Organized by Topic
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/index.html

Provides links to the Federal Bulletin Board, Browse Topics, Sales Product Catalog, and links to federal agency Internet sites.

Federal Web Locator
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/fedloc.html

Collection of links to federal government web sites. Lists over 550 separate government information sites.

Fedworld
http://www.fedworld.gov/

The FedWorld.gov web site is a gateway to government information. This site is managed by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) as part of its information management mandate.

Global Legal Information Network
http://www.glin.gov/search.action

The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources. The documents included in the database are contributed by the governments of the members from the original, official texts which are deposited, by agreement of the members, in a server presently located at the Library of Congress. Searches can be done by jurisdiction, subject, date, or type of legal instrument, or by a combination of these elements.

Google U.S. Government Search
http://www.google.com/ig/usgov

Google's government search engine for searching all .gov and .mil sites.

Government Information Connection
http://www.library.unt.edu/govinfo

This site provides access to a variety of government resources and information.

Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gils/index.html

GILS is a decentralized collection of agency-based information locators that direct users to publicly available Federal information resources, including electronic information resources.

GPO Access (Government Printing Office)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

This web server for the Government Printing Office provides free online access to most electronic government documents, including the Congressional Record, CFR, Federal Register, Congressional bills, U.S. Code, the full text of bills introduced in Congress, Public Laws of the Congress, agency publications, and much more. It is the web version of Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (Monthly Catalog), which indexes documents from 1994 to the present. Reliable because it is the official publisher.

GPO Access: Alphabetical Site Listing
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html

An A-Z resource list of all the U.S. Government Printing Office’s (GPO) online resources.

GPO Access: Browse Electronic Titles (Updates to Electronic Titles)
http://catalog.gpo.gov/F/?func=file&file_name=find-net&local_base=NEWTITLE

Monthly PDF files with links to web-accessible U.S. Government publications of public interest or educational value are directly available through this site until the GPO’s new catalog system becomes publicly available.

GPO Access: Federal Bulletin Board
http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov/

Accessible through this site are Federal Agency File, GPO Access, and FDLP file libraries. One highlight that might be of interest is under the U.S. Supreme Court link. From here, one has access to all the U.S. Supreme Court decisions/opinions and order for the 1992-1999 terms.

GPO Access: Federal Resources Organized by Topic
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/index.html

Provides links to the Federal Bulletin Board, Browse Topics, Sales Product Catalog, and links to federal agency Internet sites.

GPO Access: Federal web sites hosted by GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/hosted.html

Listing and links to all the Federal websites hosted by GPO Access, the website of the Government Printing Office.

GPO Access: Online Databases
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/multidb.html

Search across multiple databases accessible through the GPO Access website.

GPO Access: GPO Global Information Locator Service (GILS)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gils/index.html

Search beyond GPO Access for government information. Locator service also provides access to databases for the individual agencies and NASA.

Guide to Law Online
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.html

The Guide to Law Online, prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.

INFOMINE (Collection of government resources and guides)
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=govpub

Search engine for U.S. Federal, state, local, regional and international government resources. Subject topics range from the various arts through social, physical and other sciences.

Law Library of Congress: Nations of the World
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/nations.html

A portal of Internet resources of interest to the legal researcher. Emphasis of the editors has been to provide sites offering full texts of laws, regulations, court decisions, and commentary from lawyers for lawyers. Government sites directed at or written by lay persons is also included. This particular web link permits searching the Library of Congress database for information about the various nations and jurisdictions around the world.

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html

This extremely versatile site features the American Memory and the American Treasures projects which provide documents, photographs, motion pictures and sound recordings from the Library's collections and exhibits. It also provides search capabilities for the library catalog, direct access to THOMAS (full text of U.S. House and Senate documents), the Global Legal Information Network, the U.S. Copyright Office, as well as links to other internet research sources.

Library of Congress: Digital Interlibrary Loan
http://www.loc.gov/rr/loan/illscanhome.html

The Digital Interlibrary Loan (Digital ILL) Project began in 2000 for the purpose of exploring the possibility of scanning and digitally delivering materials requested. Small items are too fragile to physically circulate; however, photocopying shortens the life of the original material. The Project provides a means of both providing the information to the public while still preserving the integrity and life of the original. Over 150 titles are now available through the Project.

Library of Congress: Gateway to Library Catalogs
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/

Links to a large variety of state, national, and international library catalogs.

Library of Congress: Research & Reference
http://www.loc.gov/rr/

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, serving as both the oldest federal cultural institution and the researching arm of Congress. This particular link provides access to the various reference tools and services available for accessing information from the Library.

Library of Congress: U.S. Legislative Branch
http://thomas.loc.gov/links/

THOMAS was launched in 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. Created in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, this site is intended to make federal legislative information freely available to the public. Features include information about and/or links to bills and resolutions, the Congressional Record, committee information, President nominations, and many more relevant links.

Links to Government Libraries
http://www.libraryspot.com/governmentlibraries.htm

Supported by Westlaw, this public site provides access to national libraries of the United States.

LSU Libraries Federal Government Agencies Directory
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

This directory is designed to provide access to web sites of and brief descriptive information about the major agencies of the United States Federal Government. LSU Libraries' site enables searching for government agencies by name, description, or acronym. Resulting information comes primarily from The United States Government Manual.

Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
http://catalog.gpo.gov/F

The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications provides and index to print and electronic publications created by Federal agencies. Links are provided to the full-text of these publications when available. Coverage is from January 1994 to April 2005. A new initiative is in the works for publications after April 2005.

New Electronic Titles (Updates to Electronic Titles)
http://catalog.gpo.gov/F/?func=file&file_name=find-net&local_base=NEWTITLE

Online access to Government publications having public interest and educational value.

State and Local Governments: A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html

Index of general state and local government sites and sites by state.

THOMAS
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Legislative information on the Internet can be accessed through this comprehensive Library of Congress web site. Links are provided to legislation, Congressional Record, committee information, and other congressional material.

U.S. Executive Branch (Library of Congress Internet resource page)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/fedgov.html

This Library of Congress site provides links to Executive Branch resources, including departments and independent agencies.

U.S. Government Online Bookstore
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/

U.S. Government Telephone and E-mail Directories
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Directories.shtml

Links are provided to the federal community through this USA.gov directories site.

USA.gov
http://www.usa.gov/

The "official gateway" to all government information provides links to federal, state, and local government agencies and well as tribal governments and foreign governments. Search by topic or keyword.

Virtualchase - Government Resources
http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/government.shtml

The Virtual Chase provides useful websites and resources discussing research strategies for finding government information.

Virtualchase - Legal Research
http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/legal_research_index.shtml

Streamlined listing of legal research links tailored specifically to finding law resources.

Who's Who in the Federal Government
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/whos.html

Find membership and biographical information on members of the Executive Branch, Cabinet, House of Representatives, Senate, the Supreme Court, and more.

Yahoo: Government Index
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government

Directory of the Yahoo search engine specifically focused on finding information related to governments, politics, laws and other related topics.