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Links for Government Information Resources on the Internet


Search Engines for Government information

  www.findlaw.com
  www.fedworld.gov
  www.govspot.com
  www.lii.org
Citing Government Documents - NARA http://www.archives.gov/publications/general-info-leaflets/17.html

Specialized Search Pages for Government information

  www.firstgov.com
ALA Government Documents Roundtable http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/godort/index.cfm 
ARL - Government Information Policy http://www.arl.org/pp/access/ 
  www.google.com/unclesam
NYTimes - Politics Navigator (Websites) http://www.nytimes.com/ref/politics/POLI_NAVI.html
politics for students http://content.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=63
pathfinders for government info in government documents www.library.okstate.edu/govdocs/
   
2008 Presidential Info from Census.gov www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2008/2008elections.html
   
  www.globalcomputing.com/states.html
Stately Knowledge www.ipl.org/youth/stateknow
Government Technology www.govtech.net
Congress For Kids www.congressforkids.net/
US Federal Websites in Spanish www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/topiclists/us-spanish.htm
 

State & Local Government Resources


National Conference of State Legislatures  www.ncsl.org/public/leglinks.cfm
State & Local Government on the Net www.statelocalgov.net/
Stateline - State Policy & Politics www.stateline.org
  www.govengine.com/index.html
OHIO Government  www.state.oh.us or www.ohio.gov
Ohio Capitol Connection / Rotunda www.ohcapcon.com (free at OPLIN & OHIOLink Libraries only)
County Resources
National Association of Counties www.naco.org
Franklin County, Ohio  www.co.franklin.oh.us

City / Municipal Sites


Official City Sites - Info about cities in US officialcitysites.org
American City & County http://americancityandcounty.com/ 

Other resources

Statistical Abstract www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
Historical Census & Statistical Data www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html
Congressional Addresses www.congress.org
Canadian Government Documents publications.gc.ca/control/publicHomePage?lang=English

Additional Government Information Sites
   
Soldiers & Sailors Civil Relief Act www.defenselink.mil/specials/Relief_Act_Revision
US Homeland Security Site www.ready.gov
Center for Digital Government http://www.centerdigitalgov.com/
AVALON Project - Yale University  Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
U. S. Economy at a Glance - from Bureau of Labor Statistics stats.bls.gov/eag/
Government Gazetteers www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/gazettes/
Government sites officialcitysites.org
On Politics - includes polls and political articles from the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/index.html
National Congress of American Indians www.ncai.org
National League of Cities www.nlc.org
Council of State Governments www.csg.org   
International City/County Management Association www.icma.org
American Library Association www.ala.org
US Dept of Education www.ed.gov
Government Management Information Services www.gmis.org
Municipal Codes - Seattle Public Library www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_municodes
Assoc of Records Managers and Administrators www.arma.org
Government Information Exchange www.info.gov
US Federal Gov’t Agencies  http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/
US Gov’t resources - The Practicing Attorney’s Page www.legalethics.com
US Supreme Court www.oyez.org/

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

US Supreme Court Database http://scdb.wustl.edu/
Supreme Court Historical Society http://www.supremecourthistory.org/
Politics 1 - The Most Comprehensive Online Guide to American Politics www.politics1.com/
   

Sites for information about the Presidents

POTUS - Presidents of the United States www.ipl.org/div/potus/
C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits website www.americanpresidents.org
 

Articles about government documents on the web

 

Hernon, Peter, Harold C. Relyea, and Robert E. Dugan "Access to Government Information in a Digital Environment" Academe Vol.88 no.4 (July-August 2002) available at: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2002/JA/

Drake, Miriam A. "IS the GPO Endangered?" Information Today, Inc  August 5, 2002     www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020805-1.htm

An Overview of the Congressional Record and Its Predecessor Publications  Richard J. McKinney, Assistant Law Librarian, Federal Reserve Board Law Library; Last revised in April, 2005 (Originally published by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C., Inc.as an article in the Winter, 2002 issue (v. 45, No. 2) of "Law Library Lights") http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/docs/cong-record.pdf

Electronic Sources for Federal Legislative History Documents with Years / Congresses Available http://www.llsdc.org/elec-leg-hist-docs/

 

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