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A - Z Resource List - Federal Online Resources

REFERENCE easy access to Government Information

• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO Access) - The new and improved CGP currently offers more than 500,000 records to both historical and current Government publications. These records have been created or updated since July 1976. Plans are underway to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s. "Locate Libraries" is incorporated into the enhanced CGP. If a user needs a paper copy, CD-ROM, or a librarians' expert assistance, clicking on the "Locate in a Library" feature within the displayed record will find a Federal depository library that has the particular publication. New features of the CGP include "Other Catalogs to Search" that provide access to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, periodicals, and Internet publications. Various functions and features will be added in the next 90 days during a live beta testing period. There may be scheduled downtimes during this beta testing period to bring up new applications and conduct system performance tuning. These downtimes will occur during low usage time periods. Additional functionality is planned for future phases of implementation.

• Catalog of U.S. Government Documents (Marcive) - (HSU users only) Database of print and online government documents from 1976 to the present which has links to our holdings.

• CIA World Factbook - Maps and general information on many countries
• Country Studies - Fairly detailed information on many countries
• Environmental Health Perspectives - ehp Online, a service of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is the most extensive international database of searchable information on the environment, toxicity, and cancer. Browse or search and retrieve full text from Environmental Health Perspectives and its supplements, Chemical Health and Safety Database, carcinogens reports, toxicology technical reports, and the Tumor Incidence in Historical Control Animals Report. Depository libraries must use their external password in order to access the portions of this service that are fee-based. This service is restricted to one user at a time.
• First Gov - U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
• Google and Google Uncle Sam - Simple but effective search engines (Google Uncle Sam limits to government web sites)
• GPO Access - The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government
• Research Guide - HSU Library page on "Natural Resources Agency Government Documents and Reports"
• Science.gov- Version 2.0 was launched in May 2004 and introduced real-time relevancy ranking to government science retrieval. This technology, helps citizens sort through the government’s reservoirs of research and return results most likely to meet individual needs. Each agency selects its best science information for science.gov. Two major types of information are included — selected authoritative science Web sites and often hard-to-access scientific databases (specific content varies by database). This gateway to government science information allows searches across 30 databases and more than 1,700 science Web sites. Science.gov currently accesses over 47 million pages of government science information. Science.gov allows users to search the surface Web as well as the deep Web, where traditional search engines cannot go. The information is free, with no registration required.
• State and Local Government on the Net - A privately operated site with links to national, state and local government sites
• Terrorism and Homeland Security - Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) Education Committee
• U.S. Government Manual - Official handbook of the Federal Government
• Library of Congress - The mission of the Library of Congress (LC) is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations

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EXECUTIVE BRANCH

• Current White House
• Budget of the United States
• White House Statistics - access to current Federal economic indicators:
  • Economic Statistics - Output; income; employment and earnings; production and business activity, prices; money, credit and securities market; transportation; international statistics
  • Social Statistics - Crime, demographics, education, health
• Executive Office of the President: Councils and Offices - Offices of senior policy advisors and those responsible for the correspondence and communications of the President, Vice President, the First and Second families
• Presidential Debates - Transcripts from the Commission on Presidential Debates
• Presidential Speeches from Scripps Library at the Miller Center of Public Affairs—a research center at the University of Virginia whose focus is the American presidency
• AmericanPresident.org - Targeting college undergraduates and high school students, American President.org is the Internet’s most comprehensive, non-partisan resource on the history and workings of the American presidency. The website includes extensive biographies of every president and first lady; richly detailed event timelines; biographies of cabinet officials, presidential staffers, and advisers; multimedia resource galleries for each of the 43 presidencies; essays on key areas of presidential responsibility; and articles about White House administrative units.
• Clinton's White House (archived by NARA)
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  • Version 2
  • Version 3
  • Version 4
  • Version 5

    
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LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

• Congress: Sessions of Congress
• Congress and its Working Committees
• Congressional Directory -Official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. GPO Access contains Congressional Record volumes from 140 (1994) to the present
• Congressional Documents - BROWSE the catalog of House, Senate and Treaty documents, by Congress, beginning with the 104th Congress (1995-1996)
• Congressional Research Reports - OpenCRS: A new Web site aims to make widely available to the public certain government reports about topics from terrorism to Social Security that congressional researchers prepare and distribute now only to lawmakers. The site links more than a half-dozen existing collections of nearly 8,000 reports from the Congressional Research Service and centrally indexes them so visitors can find reports containing specific terms or phrases.
• The U.S. Legislative Branch - Organized gateway to resources by and about the Legislative Branch, Members of Congress, Committees of Congress, Congressional Organizations, Voting Records
• The United States Senate
• U.S. House of Representatives Home Page
• The Office of the Clerk Information Center (House of Representatives) - Historical and biographical information about the House, directory information (including mailing labels), election statistics, and legislative links
• The Legislative Process - How our laws are made
• Legislative Information - Bills, Congressional Records from Library of Congress, Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet.
• Legal Research Guides - HSU Library's Legal Research page
• Code of Federal Regulations - Rules made by federal agencies and executive departments - (Docs AE 2.106/3)
• Federal Register - Official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents - (Docs AE 2.106)
• Public and Private Laws - from the Office of the Federal Register (Docs AE 2.110)
• Slip Opinions - (2001 forward) - (Docs JU 6.8/8)
• United States Reports (Bound Volumes) - (Docs JU 6.8)
• United States Code - The codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States - (Docs Y 1.2/5)

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• Understanding the Federal Courts - Organization, operation, and administration of the entire federal court system; the location and number of judges who sit on each court; charts of the structure of the federal court system; and the path a case takes as it works its way through this system (requires Acrobat Reader to view)
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Federal Courts Finder (Emory) Full text opinions of the U.S. Court of Appeals (also known as Circuit Courts)
• Supreme Court Decisions - Laws, Cases and Codes ,1937-present; Court of Appeals Decisions; US State Laws
• Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975
• Supreme Court Decisions 1990-Present
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• Call numbers for Census Information at HSU
• U.S. Census Bureau:
  • Census 2000 - Gateway to Census 2000 information. Includes links to American Fact Finder, Summary Files, and more
  • State and County Quick Facts - Summaries of the most requested data for states and counties
  • United States Historical Census Data Browser - Wealth of information and data on every federal census from 1790 to 1970, down to the county level
• Congressional Universe - LexisNexis Database: Find Testimony, Bills, Laws, Regulations, Hot Bills/Topics
• County and City Data Book
• Fedstats - Provides links to statistics generated by over 100 federal agencies
• Statistical Abstract of the United States and BackFiles to 1878
• Statistical Agencies Around the World
• StatUSA (HSU users only): contains business, trade and economic reports and statistical series. Includes information from the National Trade Data Bank, Economic Bulletin Board, Commerce Business Daily, Trade Opportunity Program, and Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Uniform Crime Report - County-level statistics on crimes reported and arrests made as provided to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program
• USA Counties - USA Counties compiles useful demographic, economic, and governmental information spanning several years and sources for county comparisons and profiles