The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign levels of government. This may include links from non-governmental entities that incorporate or point to information relevant to governmental operations.
Federal Government: General Information
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www.proaxis.com/~cop
Some material is free, some requires subscription. See also Online Citation Styles. |
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http://capwiz.com/nea/home
Find your members of Congress by zip code; also gives the daily House and Senate Legislative Schedule. |
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www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html
One-stop shopping from the University of Michigan. Superb web site for documents. |
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www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedelec.html
Also U of M site with hotlinks to the titles mentioned. |
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www.infoctr.edu/fwl
Locate all federal agencies. |
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www.fedworld.gov
Information Network (Links to government agencies and ftp files in business, health, environment. Some are fee based.) |
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www.firstgov.gov
"Your first click to the U.S. government" (searchable for federal, state or both) |
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www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/index.html
This service arranges U.S. Government sites by topic. The main list of topics is based upon the current Guide to U.S. Government Information, also known as The Subject Bibliography Index. |
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http://www.library.ucsb.edu/universe/dedecker.html
"This "hands-on" workshop is designed to demonstrate how to maximize retrieval of federal government information on the Web." |
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http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=govpub
U of CA Scholarly Internet Resource Collections; both search engine and browse features. |
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www.nonprofit.gov
"A network of links to Federal government information and services." |
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www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/rref/government.html
From University of Michigan: a lot of key sources in a number of subject categories, listed with format, frequency and hotlinks. |
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www.senate.gov |
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www.whitehouse.gov
Links to press releases, speeches, and other governmental information; tour the White House. |
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www.nttc.edu/resources/government/govresources.asp
Searchable index from the National Technology Transfer Center; includes Executive Branches, Executive Departments, Independent Agencies, and Other Government. |
Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
U.S. Judicial and Legal Resources
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www.abanet.org/public.html
Provides access to the American Bar Association's resources. |
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http://lawyers.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml
"Martindale-Hubbell and the American Bar Association have joined
forces to provide you with enhanced search capabilities of the
extensive Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator database of over 900,000
listings of lawyers and law firms." |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Includes House and Senate Journals, Statutes at Large and Serial Set, Journals of the Continental Congress and the Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, and the Congressional Globe. |
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www.law.emory.edu/LAW/refdesk/toc.html
Information on laws by country and subject; career information; links to journals and periodicals; reference material. |
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www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
Supreme Court decisions from its FLITE - "Federal Legal Information Through Electronics" - system. Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports. For decisions from 1893 to present, use Findlaw and for 1990 to present, you can use Legal Information Institute's Supreme Court Collection. |
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www.findlaw.com
Contains an extensive topical index; links to many legal sources including law course outlines for law students; search FindLaw itself, as well as search the full text of law reviews online. Also includes LawCrawler to search the contents of legal sites on the Net. |
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www.ll.georgetown.edu
Edward Bennett Williams Library. |
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http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/form/academic/legalresearch.html
(Not accessible off-campus) Includes legal news and law reviews; searchable case law, both federal and state; searchable codes and regulations, also both federal and state; some international, some patents, and some career information. |
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www.priweb.com/internetlawlib
Formerly a U.S. House of Representatives site, now maintained by Pritchard Law Webs, this links to " free public access to the basic documents of U.S. law" from both federal and non-federal sources; the library has organized thousands of Internet law resources by subject or jurisdiction; full text searchable version of the United States Code from the US House of Representatives. |
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http://talkjustice.com/cybrary.asp
Prentice Hall collection to
links on a variety of legal topics and matters of justice. |
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www.ncjrs.org
A service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NCJRS "is one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, providing services to an international community of policymakers and professionals." Searchable by keyword or phrase. See NCJRS Abstracts Database for a searchable interface. |
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www.law.cornell.edu
Cornell Law School's collection of recent and historic Supreme Court decisions, hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals and commentary on them from the LII-bulletin-NY and other important legal materials -- federal, state, foreign and international and Newsworthy Decisions available on the Net. |
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http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex
Arrow down for judicial decisions, etc. |
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html
Offered through Legal Information Institute at Cornell. Covers May 1990 on; an indexed, searchable listing of decisions. |
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www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
"The Oyez Project" at Northwestern University |
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www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html
As of June 2002, slip opinions will be issued in electronic version only (for depository distribution, in any case). "The "slip" opinion is the second version of an opinion. It is sent to the printer later in the day on which the "bench" opinion is released by the Court." These ". . .will remain posted until the opinions are published in a bound volume of the United States Reports." |
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www.washlaw.edu
"...a gateway to Federal Government internet resources and other government related material. This gateway organizes documents by subject and by organizational charts. This site also has links to agency publications." Washburn University School of Law. |
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www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib
Material within the Virtual Law Library is organized by organization type; i.e. U.S. Government Servers, and by legal topic; i.e. Contracts. There is also a list of search tools and other comprehensive sites for law. |
International Law
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www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/International_Resources/foreign.htm
Annotated Cornell Law Library: A selective guide to web sites providing links to texts of laws and court decisions,
international documents, directories, trade information, and/or statistics. |
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www.glin.gov
Provides a database of national laws from contributing
countries around the world accessed from a World Wide Web server of the U.S. Library of
Congress. The database consists of searchable legal abstracts in English and some full
texts of laws in the language of the contributing country. It provides information on
national legislation from more than 35 countries, with other countries being added on a
continuing basis. |
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| www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl |
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http://lexmercatoria.net
Mercatoria, the international trade and commercial law monitor, has been extended to
include a number of other international law areas. Their stated objective is "To investigate the potential of W3 as an information resource, with regard to legal research and education". |
State Laws
Statistical Resources
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| www.census.gov |
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www.mnsfld.edu/depts/lib/census.html
Mansfield University, PA. Page by Larry Schankman |
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www.censusscope.org
"An easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at theUniversity of Michigan. With eye-catching graphics and exportable trend data, CensusScope is designed for generalists and specialists." |
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http://ferret.bls.census.gov
Requires entry of email address. |
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www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/censusup.html
University of Michigan Documents Center |
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www.stat-usa.gov
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. (two-user maximum, login required for most databases [available via Reference librarians]) |
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http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml
Provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, USA Counties is a compilation of a variety of important statistics, almost 3,000 variables. |
Other Sources
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http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/other/atlas/atlas.htm |
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http://fjsrc.urban.org/index.cfm
Maintains the Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS) Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP)
database, which contains information about suspects and defendants
processed in the Federal criminal justice system. Using data obtained
from Federal agencies, the FJSP compiles comprehensive information
describing defendants from each stage of Federal criminal case
processing. |
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http://www.bts.gov
Includes TranStats, the Intermodal Transportation Database with "...access to more than 100 transportation-related data bases." |
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| www.bls.gov |
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http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddviewer/ddv20/htmls/map-intro.html
Non-Java edition |
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www.dismal.com
Economic Information and Analysis. |
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www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
Via White House. |
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www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Uniform Crime Report. Dates available range from 1995 to
present. |
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www.fedstats.gov/index.html
Search engine for government statistics and data; The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by agencies for public use. |
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www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp
An easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations. |
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http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/resources/index.html
Social Sciences Data Center of the University of Virginia.
Access may be limited if data is proprietary or locally mounted only. |
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http://dataweb.usitc.gov
(U.S. International Trade Commission) Free registration required. Customized imports and exports by a listing of one or more products. They can be sorted by country, value, etc. as well as by HTS, SIC, SITC & NAICS codes. International trade
data are available for years 1989- present on a monthly,
quarterly, annual, or year-to-date basis and can be retrieved in a
number of classification systems. |
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www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html
Via White House. |
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http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/crime
Data (1990-present) collected
by the United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of
Investigation. The data used in this presentation were obtained via
anonymous ftp from the
National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data |
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www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/other/usfact/index.htm
"State Fact Sheets provide the most recently available farm and rural data compiled by the ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE, USDA. The State Fact Sheets provide 2 pages of facts for each state and also a summary fact sheet for the United States. Included are data on population, jobs, income and poverty, and farms. The data comes from a variety of sources including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of the Census, and ERS. The information is updated as new data becomes available." |
Government Periodicals
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http://library.louisville.edu/government/periodicals/periodall.html
University of Louisville |
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www.af.mil/news/airman
1995-present |
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www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/pdf/agout/ao.htm
Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: provides short-term outlook articles on commodity markets and food prices. It also presents in-depth analyses of U.S. agricultural policy, trade and export markets, food production and safety, the environment, the rural economy, and farm financial institutions. Each issue includes 30 pages of data on individual commodities, the general economy, U.S. farm trade, farm income, production expenses, input use, prices received and paid by farmers, per capita food consumption, and related issues." (March of 1995 to 2002) Replaced by Amber Waves; the economics of food, farming, natural resources and rural America. |
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www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/journal/start.jsp
"...Established in 1966, reports on U.S. activities in Antarctica, related activities elsewhere, and trends in the U.S. Antarctic Program.
Decision was made to terminate the publication in 2002, but a final
2005 issue is on the web site. Archived issues on the web go back to about 1993. |
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www.almc.army.mil/alog/index.asp
The Professional Bulletin of United States Army Logistics: 1996-present |
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http://cbdnet.access.gpo.gov
The CBD lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information. Each notice appears in the print CBD only once. Notices stay "active" in the CBD database online via GPO Access for 15 days and are then moved to an "archived" database. Each notice is available as an ASCII text file. The database
contains information from December 1996 to January 2002. CBD has been
replaced by Federal Business
Opportunties and it ". . . is the single government
point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities
over $25,000." |
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www.ndu.edu/inss/press/DefHor.html
Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University: 2001-present. |
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http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/foodreview/Archives/
Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: replaced by Amber Waves. |
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http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm
"...based on the print periodical, Monthly Labor Review. In many ways, Monthly Labor Review Online mirrors its print counterpart. It includes the same articles and departments in roughly the same arrangement with the same purpose." |
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www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff.html
Researches, analyzes, and validates claims that NASA technologies have been incorporated into the design and development of commercial products and services featured in this annual publication. Click "Spinoff" under "Quick Links" in the frame on the left. 1996-present. |
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www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/pdf/rcat/rcat.htm
Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
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www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/pdf/rdp/rdp.htm
Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
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www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/pdf/rdp/rdp.htm
Current 2 years. Older years can be obtained via email in PDF
format from the NASA STI Help Desk |
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www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/pdf/rdp/rdp.htm
NASA's Scientific and Technical Information, 2000-present and NASA Thesaurus Volume 1 Hierarchical Listing with Definitions and NASA Thesaurus Volume 2 Rotated Term Display (PDF version). |
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www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/govperiodicals.html
Draughon Library, Auburn University. |
Maps
State Information
New York State
International and Foreign Information
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www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html
CIA issued publication: Governments are listed in alphabetical order according to the most commonly used version of each country's name. Supposed to be updated weekly but appears out of date. |
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www.cfr.org
A "Nonpartisan Resource for Information and
Analysis," this site has a variety of information on issues of international relations. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis
of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and
national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the
world. |
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http://library.louisville.edu/government/goodsources/hrightsreports.html
U.S. Department of State, via University of Louisville. Archived
from 1993 to present. |
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www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html
University of Michigan. |
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www.embassy.org
Links the staffs and resources of the Washington D.C. embassy community to their constituencies in business and industry, education, the press and government; search foreign embassies, international business centers, commerce & trade sources, etc. |
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www.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/fco
U.S. State Department: This publication contains a complete and official listing of the foreign consular offices in the United States, and recognized consular officers. Seems to be a bit out of date. |
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www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html
via University of Michigan's Document Center - links to Foreign Government Web sites; Constitutions, Laws & Treaties, Country Information, Embassies, News, Statistics, International Agencies, and more. |
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http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/FRUS
FRUS begins with the administration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
There are two cumulative indexes covering 1861-1899 and 1900-1918. The
organization of FRUS is generally chronological, but the dates of the
volumes do not necessarily reflect the dates of documentary history.
For example, the volumes for 1900-1918 do not include the records
dealing with World War I or the Russian Revolution. Each volume has a
subject and author index. There is also typically a table of sources
and abbreviations at the beginning of each volume. Many volumes
published since 1945 are available online on the State Department
website that is maintained by the University of Illinois at Chicago. A
full description of Foreign Relations of the United States, including
a listing of the online FRUS volumes, is available from the
Office of the Historian
website. |
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www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/essentialIGO.html
Via Northwestern University Library. |
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www.yahoo.com/Government/International_Organizations
Includes Yahoo links to NATO, UN, OAS, World Bank, EU. |
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www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/index.html
Northwestern University Library's Government Publications and Maps Department. |
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www.ipu.org
Information on National Parliaments. |
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http://www.direct.gov.uk/Homepage/fs/en
Gateway to UK Government sites. Alphabetically and topically browsable, and searchable by keyword, this site also provides a subject-based public services directory.
Their "Guide
to Government" has Information about the United Kingdom and a
step-by-step guide to government in the UK from 10 Downing Street to
the regions, from the Houses of Parliament to the European Union. |
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| www.oas.org |
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www.undcp.org/unlinks.html
Tons of UN links of all kinds. |
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| www.state.gov |
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www.official-documents.co.uk
Official Documents is the official reference facility for
Command and departmentally sponsored House of Commons Papers. From May
2005 onwards, all Command Papers and House of Commons Papers, as well
as Key Departmental Papers, are available for free on the site in PDF
format. A selection of key papers published before May 2005 are also
available for free in our Documents Archive. |
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| www.un.org |
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www.library.yale.edu/un/index.html
"...A collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography." |
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