Information Resources for Information Professionals

U.S. Federal Government: Basic Sources

Compiled by:
Joe Ryan

Table of Contents

[How Government Works] [Government-wide Guides] [Search Engines] [Subject Guides] [Gateways and One Stops] [Agency Guides] [People & Telephone Directories] [Periodicals] [Core Documents] [Acronyms]

How Government Works

Cruse, Patricia & DeDecker, Sherry. How to effectively locate federal government information on the world wide web: Organizational structure.

Department of State. Structure of federal government.

InfoUSA. About US government.

FAQs of the U.S. government.

National Archives via GPO Access. US government manual (Searchable).

National Archives. US government manual 2000/2001.

House of Representatives. How our laws are made.

House of Representatives. Annual budget process.

Department of State. Budget process.

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Government-wide Guides

Governmental Guides

Access America Online Magazine.

Government Printing Office. Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT)and GPO Access including: Core Documents of U.S. Democracy, Federal Depository Library electronic Collection, GPO Pathway Services Browse Topics and the Pathway Indexer.

Hays, Janet & Brudno, Deborah. (1997, January 21). Where to get publications from the executive and independent agencies: A Directory of sources for official documents (97-129). Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service. Available: PDF or ASCII.

Library of Congress. Government sources.

FirstGov.

Department of Commerce. National Technical Information Service (NTIS). FedWorld.

University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department. CyberCemetery.

Provides "permanent public access to the electronic Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions."

White House. Citizens handbook.

Non-Governmental Guides

University of Michigan. Documents Center. Government resources.

University of Michigan. Documents Center. Government bibliographies and Web bibliographies tutorial.

Cruse, Patricia & DeDecker, Sherry.. How to effectively locate federal government information on the world wide web.

American Library Association (ALA). Government Documents Round Table (GODORT). Federal Documents Task Force (FDTF). Frequently used sites related to U.S. Federal government information.

Vanderbilt University. Frequently used US government sites.

Androit, Laurie. (2000). Internet blue pages: The guide to federal government web sites. Medford NJ: Information Today.

Hernon, Peter; Shuler, John & Dugan, Robert E. (1999). U.S. government on the web. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Maxymuk, John. (Ed.). (2001). Government online. NY: Neal-Schuman.

Notess, Greg R. (Ed.). (2000). Government information on the Internet (3rd Ed.). Lanham MD: Bernan Press.

US Federal Government Search.

Washington Post. Federal Internet guide.

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Search Engines

Altavista. Add: +domain:.gov

Excite!

Google Government Search/Uncle Sam.

HotBot: SuperSearch.

Northern Lights. USgovsearch.

Yahoo! Government & U.S. Government.

Query Server.

USgovsearch.

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Subject Guides

Woods, Stephen. Meta subject index to government information.

Government Documents Round Table (GODORT). Education Committee. Handouts/Subject Guides.

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Gateways and One Stops

Kellett, Rich. (2001, May). Federal one-stop roundup. Internet Connection. Androit, Laurie. (2000). Internet blue pages: The guide to federal government web sites. Medford NJ: Information Today. See Chapter 21 Gateways.

FirstGov has Gateway list.

Fedforms.

Federal Computer Week. (2001, May 28) Government e-retail sites.

General Services Administration (GAO). FedLaw.

Ben's guide to U.S. government for kids.

E-gov links.

Students.Gov - Student Gateway to the U.S. Government.

U.S. State & Local Gateway.

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Agency Guides

Louisiana State University. Libraries federal agency directory.

Federal web locator.

Doc-Law web.

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People & Telephone Directories

Carroll's 411 for government. See also: Who's new.

Uncle Sam - Biographical resources of the U.S. government.

U.S. blue pages - Your online directory to the U.S. government.

Federal Consumer Information Center. National Contact Center.

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Periodicals

FedWorld.

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Core Documents

Budget of the United States Government. From the Office of Managment and Budget or alternate site.

Commerce. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Information Technology Laboratory. National Information Infrastructure Virtual Library

Constitution of the United States or Constitution of the United States of America Analysis and Interpretation: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 1992.

Declaration of Independence.

National Archives and Records Administration. Code of Federal Regulations.

National Archives and Records Administration. United States Government Manual

National Archives and Records Administration. (1993 to present). Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register (OFR). Federal Register

University of Oklahoma. A chronology of US historical documents.

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Acronyms

Abbreviations and acronyms of the U.S. government.

U.S. government commonly used abbreviations and acronyms.

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