Government Information via the Web

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.

	Table of Contents: Select a category from the list below to view the related government resources.

	Federal Govt: General Information Federal Govt: Legislative and Regulatory Info U.S. Judicial and Legal Resources International Law State Laws Statistical Resources Other Resources		Government Periodicals Maps State Information New York State International and Foreign Information Additional Resources Featured Sites of Current or Recurring Interest

Federal Government: General Information

Congressional Observer Publications		Legislative Action Center
http://www.proaxis.com/~cop/ Some material is free, some requires subscription. See also Online Citation Styles.		http://capwiz.com/nea/home/ Find your members of Congress by zip code; also gives the daily House and Senate Legislative Schedule.

Documents Center		Electronic Publications
www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html One-stop shopping from the University of Michigan. Superb web site for documents.		www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedelec.html Also U of M site with hotlinks to the titles mentioned.

Federal Web Locator For additional sources: LSU Libraries Federal Agency Directory		FEDWORLD
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/fedloc.html Locate all federal agencies.		www.fedworld.gov Information Network (Links to government agencies and ftp files in business, health, environment. Some are fee based.)

FirstGov		Federal Resources Organized by Topic
www.firstgov.gov "Your first click to the U.S. government" (searchable for federal, state or both)		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.

How to Effectively Locate Federal Government Information on the Web		INFOMINE
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."		http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=govpub U of CA Scholarly Internet Resource Collections; both search engine and browse features.

FirstGov for Nonprofits		U.S. Government Documents Ready Reference Collection
www.nonprofit.gov "A network of links to Federal government information and services."		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.

US House of Representatives Home Page		US Senate Home Page
www.house.gov		www.senate.gov

White House Home Page
www.whitehouse.gov Links to press releases, speeches, and other governmental information; tour the White House.

Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information

www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
Search and retrieve congressional information from the US Government Printing Office via a variety of publications. If you prefer paper, Schaffer Library does own some of these in hard copy. Check the online catalog.

Congressional Record v.141(1995)-
Congressional Record Index (1983)-
History of Bills- The History of Bills and Resolutions is a section of the Congressional Record Index that provides information about all bills and resolutions introduced during that session of Congress. 1983-)
Congressional Bills (103rd Congress, 1993-94, to current Congress)
Federal Register v.60(1995)-
Code of Federal Regulations- Most current edition
Public and Private Laws 104th Congress-
U.S. Government Manual(1995)-
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993)-
United States Code (1994 and 2000 ed.)

http://capweb.net/index.html
The Internet Guide to U.S. Congress

www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/fedup/road.html
Another useful UMich site.

www.rollcall.com
The newspaper of Capitol Hill covering people, politics and process.

http://thomas.loc.gov
Search & retrieve legislation from the 103^rd to current congresses; it also includes the full text of all bills that have been submitted to the current session of Congress.

www.house.gov/writerep
Congressional Districts determinable by searching by state and Zip Code.

www.visi.com/juan/congress
Designed to help you search the Contacting the Congress database for Congressmembers representing a given ZIP code.

U.S. Judicial and Legal Resources

www.abanet.org/public.html
Provides access to the American Bar Association's resources.

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."

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.

www.law.emory.edu/LAW/refdesk/toc.html
Information on laws by country and subject; career information; links to journals and periodicals; reference material.

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.

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.

www.ll.georgetown.edu
Edward Bennett Williams Library.

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.

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.

http://talkjustice.com/cybrary.asp
Prentice Hall collection to links on a variety of legal topics and matters of justice.

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.

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.

http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex
Arrow down for judicial decisions, etc.

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.

www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
"The Oyez Project" at Northwestern University

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."

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.

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

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.

http://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.

www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl

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

http://www.statelocalgov.net/
A directory of official state, county and city government web sites.

www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_municodes
Via Seattle Public Library: "This page provides Links to city and county codes available for unrestricted searching on the World Wide Web."

www.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html
A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page.

www.findlaw.com/11stategov/index.html
Findlaw listing of links for states.

Statistical Resources

www.census.gov

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."

http://dataferrett.census.gov/
Requires entry of email address.

www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/censusup.html
University of Michigan Documents Center

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])

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

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/other/atlas/atlas.htm

www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs

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.

http://www.bts.gov
Includes TranStats, the Intermodal Transportation Database with "...access to more than 100 transportation-related data bases."

www.bls.gov

http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddviewer/ddv20/htmls/map-intro.html
Non-Java edition

www.dismal.com
Economic Information and Analysis.

www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
Via White House.

www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Uniform Crime Report. Dates available range from 1995 to present.

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.

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.

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.

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.

www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html
Via White House.

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

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

http://library.louisville.edu/government/periodicals/periodall.html
University of Louisville

www.af.mil/news/airman
1995-present

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.

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.

www.almc.army.mil/alog/index.asp
The Professional Bulletin of United States Army Logistics: 1996-present

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."

www.ndu.edu/inss/press/DefHor.html
Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University: 2001-present.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/foodreview/Archives/
Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: replaced by Amber Waves.

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."

www.cdc.gov/mmwr

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/
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.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/RCAT/
Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/RDP
Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/Pubs/star/Star.html
Current 2 years. Older years can be obtained via email in PDF format from the NASA STI Help Desk

www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/govperiodicals.html
Draughon Library, Auburn University.

Maps

www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
U of Texas at Austin and Maps on Other Web Sites.

http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
Provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names.

http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/maps/index.html
Duke University Libraries links.

www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps
National Geographic Magazine.

www.mapquest.com
Consumer Travel.

http://terrafly.com
"Virtually 'fly' over the entire United States" even down to street address level.

http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl
The "Coast to Coast" Digital mapping Database (sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The goal of this service is to provide a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data.

http://topozone.com
Commercial topographic map site that is free and has some nice features.

http://geonames.usgs.gov
Contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates. The GNIS is our Nation's official repository of domestic geographic names information.

State Information

www.governing.com
The magazine of states and localities "The leading information source for state and local government"

American Law Sources On-Line
Findlaw State Resources
State and Local Government on the Net Includes a search engine [Piper Resources]
State Resource Center
Full-text state statutes and legislation on the Internet Personal web page but links are active.

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/statelist/check/check.htm
The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

https://www.nascio.org/aboutNascio/profiles
NASCIO, Chief Information Officers of the States.

New York State

www.state.ny.us

http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/
"ILS provides a single point of access to information services provided by New York State Government agencies, the State Legislature and the Judiciary"

http://unix2.nysed.gov
and NYS Document Depository Program.

International and Foreign Information

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/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.

www.cfr.org
A "Nonpartisan Resource for Information and Analysis," this site has a variety of information on issues of international relations.

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.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/
U.S. Department of State. Archived from 1999 to present.

www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html
University of Michigan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/essentialIGO.html
Via Northwestern University Library.

www.yahoo.com/Government/International_Organizations
Includes Yahoo links to NATO, UN, OAS, World Bank, EU.

www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/index.html
Northwestern University Library's Government Publications and Maps Department.

www.ipu.org
Information on National Parliaments.

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.

www.oas.org

http://www.unsystem.org/
Tons of UN links of all kinds.

www.state.gov

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.

www.un.org

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."

Additional Resources

http://ep.espacenet.com
150 million pages available in facsimile form.

http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Exchange
Links to guides on government CDs.

www.science.gov
"...A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results."

www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/index.html
Formerly GPO Monthly Catalog - search for government documents. The database contains cataloging records published in MOCAT since January 1994 and is updated daily.

scilib.ucsd.edu/howto/guides/findpatents.html
UC San Diego.

www.ipmall.fplc.edu
Courtesy of the Franklin Pierce Law Center.

http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/migrating/mig.html
Full-text docs via the University of Memphis) Not updated since July of 2002.

http://bookstore.gpo.gov/
via GPO.

http://vitalrec.com/index.html
Includes hot links to state sites and other links.

www.yahoo.com/Government

Featured Sites of Current Interest

www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/terrorism/911.htm
Oklahoma Department of Libraries.

www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/terrorism.htm
Illinois Institute of Technology This page makes available official documents of the United States and International governments concerning terrorism.

www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html
U. Mich.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041010153944/http:/globalsecurity.org/military/ops/penttbom.htm
Cashed/archived version from the pages of the GlobalSecurity.org site.

www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2001/d20011213ubl.pdf
Obtained by U.S. forces in Jalalabad, Afghanistan in late November 2001.

http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/pubs/descriptions/Assessing/AssessingtheNewNormal.pdf
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.

www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/iraqdecade.pdf
September 12, 2002, accompanying President Bush's speech to the UN.

www.official-documents.co.uk/document/reps/iraq/iraqdossier.pdf
55-page report, published September, 2002.

www.secretservice.gov/ntac/ssi_final_report.pdf
Compiled by the United States Secret Service and the US Department of Education. 50 pages.

www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/hate.htm
FBI web site, and the Department of Justice's Research and Statistics on Hate Crimes.

http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/report.html
U.S. Department of Energy.

www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/rpt_9905_ethnic_ksvo_toc.html
U.S. State Department report.

https://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/EmergingDig.pdf
(released April 1998) The report presents both economic analysis and case studies that paint a picture of the importance of electronic commerce and information technologies to the economy as a whole and to individual sectors of the economy. See also The Emerging Digital Economy II (June 1999).

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ngisc/reports/finrpt.html

www.bls.gov/opub/rtaw/rtawhome.htm
Overview of Report on the American Workforce 2001 Bureau of Labor Statistics report also contains link to full text in PDF.

www.mentalhealth.org/features/surgeongeneralreport/home.asp
Released December 1999.

www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_1998/index.htm
1998 Report of the Surgeon General and links from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) to the Smoking and Health Database as well as Tobacco Industry Document Web Sites and supplement with the Tobacco Control Archives (UCSF Library).

www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/usapatriotact/index.html
(Evergreen State College) This website was created to provide the public with access to information about the USA PATRIOT Act, intellectual freedom, civil rights and social justice. The included links provide access to the USA Patriot Act text and offer a variety of resources for education, government information and activism.