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Joe Ryan
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See also the Information Policies Section.
For Information Professionals
Depository Library Council Web.
Government Documents Round Table. GODORT.
GODORT. Approaches to organizing government information web pages.
Government Printing Office. Administrative Notes.
Government Printing Office. Federal Library Depository Directory.
Government Printing Office. GPO Homepage.
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). IFLANET
Minow, Mary. Library law.
National Archives and Records Administration.
Sevetson, Andrea. Resources of use to government documents librarians. University of California, Berkeley.
Contains ALA GODORT, DLC, and GPO information.
Schankman, Larry. Government documents librarianship.
Superintendent of Documents Homepage.
York, Grace. University of Michigan. Documents Center.
A model for the future electronic government document center. In addition to the standard government sources, this site has information of particular interest to government documents students and professionals alike including the latest from GODART, pathfinders, depository libraries, material in support of a basic course in government documents and more. See the: Government Documents Librarianship section.
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E-government
University at Albany. Center for Technology in Government. E-gov firststop.
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General Guides to Government Information
Almanac of Politics and Government.
Arrigo, Paul A. and Barker, Dee. Search full-text US Internet government periodicals.
Subject, Sudoc number and Title access to full-text Internet government periodicals.
Ben's guide to U.S. government for kids.
Like the blue pages in telephone directories, includes phone, TTY and Web sites with a database allowing information to be filtered for local contacts only.
Cruse, Patricia & DeDecker, Sherry. (2001). How to effectively locate federal government information on the world wide web.
Extreme United States information server.
Fast-Track/Cyber Masters,Inc. Free investigative database searches.
Database of over 500,000 government and defense industry listings for a name, title, office, and telephone number.
General Services Administration (GAO). Office of Special Investigations. (1997, April). Investigators Guide to Sources of Information.
Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago-Kent College of Law. Center for Information Law and Policy Information Center. Federal Web Locator.
Infospace. Government guide.
Pitchon, Cindy and Tyburski, Genie. Government resources on the Internet A Health Sciences Libraries Consortium seminar.
St. Mary's University. Blume Library. U.S. government information on the web subject index.
Uncle Sam. Goggle.
University of California. InfoMine.
Vital records information for United States.
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International Governments
Anzinger, Gunnar. Governments on the WWW.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments.
Central Intelligence Agency. (Latest). World factbook .
Cornell University Law School. Legal Information Institute. Cornell University law archives.
Guide to researching the Council of Europe.
Lex Mundi and Global LawNet. Hieros Gamos - The comprehensive legal site
Pacific Council on International Affairs. Roadmap for e-government.
Roznovschi, Mirela. Guide to foreign and international legal databases. New York University School of Law Library.
Texas A&M Libraries. World constitutions and international treaties
United Kingdom Public Record Office (PRO). Catalogue online.
U.S. House of Representatives. Internet Law Library.
University of California, Irvine Libraries. UCI libraries government resources home page.
University of Colorado-Boulder. Government Publications Library.
University of Southern California Library. Foreign government WWW servers.
Yahoo. Governments.
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International Organizations
Yahoo Index of International Organizations
G8 Information Centre (University of Toronto)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Summit of the Americas Information Network
United Nations Dag Hammarskjld Library. United Nations documentation research guide
United Nations CyberSchoolBus. InfoNation: A database of countries
World Bank and its World Development Report 1998/99: Knowledge for development
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Basic Canadian Sources
Canadian Intergovernmental On-Line Information Kiosk
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U.S. Federal Government
See: Basic Sources
Congress & Legislative Histories
Statistics sources or
Evaluations of government web sites.
Executive Information
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Judicial Information
Cornell University. College of Law. Legal Information Institute.
Library of Congress. Understanding the federal courts and How our laws are made.
U.S. Code or from GPO. U.S. Code.
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Business Information
County Business Patterns, 1977-1993 .
IBM. Patent Server .
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes.
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Statistics
American Library Association (ALA). Government Documents Round Table (GODORT). Federal Documents Task Force (FDTF). Frequently used sites related to U.S. federal government information: Statistics and the Census.
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy. FedStats.
Guide to statistics from 100+ U.S. Federal agencies with expenditures of $500,000 or more.
Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe (via Syracuse University Libraries -- must have access to SU Libraries).
Provides access to statistical information produced by the US government, state governments, international intergovernmental statistical sources, and privately published sources. Includes the Statistical Abstract of the United States; American Statistics Index (ASI), 1973-present; Statistical Reference Index (SRI), 1980-present; Index to International Statistics (IIS), 1983-present; and other sources. Access via PowerTables (collection of 130,000+ statistical tables), Abstracts (summaries of statistical publications) and Links.
Uncle Sam. Best statistical sources.
U.S. Department of Commerce. Economics and Statistics Administration. STAT-USA.
Principal source of economic and trade-related data.
York, Grace. Statistical resources on the web.
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy. FedStats: Briefing rooms.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1994). County and City Data Book.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1993). Statistical Abstract of the United States.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. USA statistics in brief.
U.S. Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics. Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool (FERRET).
Provides access to Current Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Labor Department. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consumer Price Index
State of the cities data systems.
Create customized datasets on US cities based on statistics gathered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Bureau of the Census, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Oregon State University. Government Information Sharing Project.
University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) .
The world's largest archive of computerized social science data.
University of Virginia Libraries. Geospatial and statistical data center.
Provides access to numeric data distributed through the Federal Depository LibraryProgram, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and other sources.
U.S. State Governments
See also the State Government Information Policies Section.
Administrative codes and registers. Internet access to administrative rules.
Directory of state links to administrative codes, registers, and manuals available on the Internet.
Constitution Society. U.S. State Constitutions and Web Sites
Federation of Tax Administrators. State tax rates and structure.
Internet Prospector. Locating U.S. corporation records online - Secretaries of State directory
Provides contact information and links to official home page, Secretary of State, and corporation database (when available), official state charities databases and charity regulators for U.S. states (when available).
Library of Congress. State and local governments.
National Academy of Sciences for the Transportation Research Board. Directory of state highway and transportation departments
National Association of State Information Resource Executives (NASIRE). StateSearch
National Conference of State Legislatures.
Noonan, Dana. State and local government on the net. Piper Resources.
Pacific Information Resources. Search systems.
A directory arranged by state of searchable public record databases.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Tapping officials' secrets.
Villanova University School of Law.State court locator
Yale University. Government Documents. How to find government documents: U.S. state government information
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States' responsibilities under Section 508
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New York State
Access to state government.
NYS document depository program checklist.
NYS government information locator service.
New York state legislative history research tutorial.
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U.S. Local Governments
Chamber of Commerce directory
"The public records portal for seekers of local governments' data online, to include property taxes, deeds, plat and parcel maps, and GIS maps..."
Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community
Scott, Peter. Freenets and Community Networks Directory
US Conference of Mayors (USCM). Mayoral elections database
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Selected Government Information Related Journals
Federal Computer Week
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Selected Government Listservs
Ryan, Joe. (Compiler). Selected government information listservs, forums, and news groups.
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U.S. Elections and Voting
Center for Responsive Government.
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