Government Publications - Federal Documents

Legislation, Laws, & Regulations
Agency Web Pages & Information
U.S. Statistics

Legislation, Laws, & Regulations

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html

Provides indexing and full text of federal bills, laws, and regulations, Congressional Record, and committee reports. Coverage varies from 1973-74 to the present. Also has full text of historical federal documents. Free to all users.

GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces004.html (all GPO Access Gateways)

Provides indexing and full text of federal bills, laws, and regulations. Includes full text of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, the Code of Federal Regulation, the Federal Register, the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, the federal budget, and Supreme Court decisions. Free to all users.

Lexis-Nexis Congressional "Databases" on the University Libraries Home page

Provides indexing and full text of federal bills, laws, and regulations, as well as information on Congress, legislative histories from 1970 to the present, and current legislative activities. Full text of related articles from the National Journal, and links to related web sites. Available off-campus to BSU faculty, staff, and students. You will be prompted for your Outlook email username and password.

U.S. House of Representatives http://www.house.gov/

U.S. Senate http://www.senate.gov/

Congress.Org http://congress.org/

Search for congresspersons by ZIP code. Provides Washington and local office address, phone/fax numbers, e-mail address, web site URL, background information and PAC contributions.

Map of Indiana Congressional districts http://www.IN.gov/sos/elections/voters/index.html

Project Vote-Smart http://www.vote-smart.org/

Provides information on 40,000 candidates of federal and state public offices, including issue positions, voting record, campaign finances and performance evaluations made by over 100 liberal to conservative special interest groups. Maintained by On Common Ground, a non-profit organization.

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Agency Web Pages & Information

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (MOCAT) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/index.html

Provides bibliographic information for federal publications. Coverage begins in 1994, and new records are added daily.

USAGov http://www.usa.gov/

Serves as the official U.S. government web site. Find information from local, state, and U.S. government agency web sites.

U. S. Internal Revenue Service http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs/index.html

Federal tax forms and IRS publications.

Federal Web Navigator http://lawdbase.law.villanova.edu/fedweb/

Search for federal agencies' web sites by name or by subject.

FedWorld http://www.fedworld.gov/

Search, locate, order, and acquire government and business information. Locates federal web pages, and reports available on the web.

Federal Gateway http://fedgate.org/

Locate web pages for the three branches of government, and for state and local governments.

Federal Citizen Information Center http://www.info.gov/

Find federal agencies' telephone numbers, federal employees listings, and information about Social Security, consumer information, Medicare/Medicaid and other hot topics.

Yahoo! Government http://dir.yahoo.com/government/index.html

A directory of government and military Internet sites.

Migrating Government Publications http://www.lib.memphis.edu/gpo/mig.htm

Locate government publications that have migrated to the Internet. The sites are arranged by title and by Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) classification number.

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U.S. Statistics

U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/

Provides economic and demographic statistics and characteristics for the United States, the 50 states, and counties. Includes geographic resources.

FedStats http://www.fedstats.gov/

Statistics from more than 70 agencies in the U.S. government. Created by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy.

Historical United States Census Data Browser http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/

Census data for each state and county from 1790 to 1960. Compile the state and county data, select up to 15 topical variables, and generate graphical representations of the data.

STATS Indiana http://www.stats.indiana.edu/

Provides economic and demographic statistics and characteristics for the United States and each of the fifty states.

GovStats http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/

Online statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Education.

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