Government Information

The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign levels of government.

Highlights

1. Federal Government: General Information
   
2. Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
   
3. State Information
4. Allegany County Information
   
5. International and Foreign Information
   
6. Statistical Resources
   
7. Additional Resources
   
8. Documents Librarianship
   
9. Frostburg State University's Documents Page
   University of Maryland System's Documents Page
   (State and federal information and documents owned by FSU and other UMD libraries)
10. How to Cite a Document in a Bibliography
    and Citing a Document Using MLA Style
    

Federal Government:
General Information

• FDLP Electronic Collection (the Federal Depository Library Program's site for online access to government documents)
• FirstGov maintained by the U.S. federal government, providing links to federal, state, and tribal governments
• FedWorld Information on government jobs, science and technology issues and other top government Web sites
• GPO Pathway Services (the U.S. Government Printing Office's subject guide to government Internet sites)
• UncleSam by Google (search engine for .gov and .mil sites)
• USAJobs U.S. Government Web site for employment information
• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (another good subject guide to government Internet sites)
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory (locate all federal agencies via LSU)
• INFOMINE (huge collection of government resources and guides from the University of California, Riverside)
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate Home Page
• White House Home Page

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Federal Government:
Legislative and Regulatory Information

• Congress.Org (searchable member directories and current awareness)
• GPO Access (search and retrieve congressional information from the U.S. Government Printing Office, with mirror, or Gateway, sites at over 20 universities, each with their own strengths)
• Thomas (search & retrieve legislation from the 103^rd to current congresses)
• U.S. Code (browse, or search by names of laws) available from
  The Office of the Law Revision Council and Cornell University
  

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State Information

• State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)
• Individual States
  Maryland
      - Maryland General Assembly
      - Division of State Documents (access to COMAR, the Maryland Register, and other state documents)
      - Maryland State Data Center (social, economic, and related information)
  Pennsylvania
  West Virginia
• State Government Collections -- try one of the following:
  1. American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)
  2. Virtual Law Library (Indiana University School of Law)
     From the "Browse by Information Source" menu, select "State Government"
  3. FindLaw
  4. Villanova University (State Web Locator)
           

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Allegany County Information

• Allconet (local public agencies)

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International and Foreign Information

• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• Documents Center (University of Michigan)
• Foreign Governments (links to individual foreign government pages)
• International Governmental Organizations (links to home pages of international organizations and agencies)
• U.S. State Department Home Page
• United Nations

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Statistical Resources

• Business & Economics Numeric Data
• Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
• InfoNation (United Nations)
• U.S. Census Bureau
• Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Additional Resources

• GPO Monthly Catalog (search for government documents)
• Government Information and Depository Management Clearinghouse (ALA GODORT Education Committee)
• Sales Product Catalog via GPO

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Documents Librarianship

• Basic Depository Library Documents (University of Denver)
• Depository Library Council Web
• Documents Data Miner
• Federal Depository Library Program Administration (from the GPO home page)
• GODORT Handout Exchange (tons of subject guides and pathfinders)
• GOVDOC-L User Guide
• Government Documents Librarianship (University of Michigan)
• Government Documents Library Web Sites (University of Idaho)
• Map and Geography Round Table (MAGERT - sister organization of GODORT)
• StateList (The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists from UIUC)

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Send  your questions or comments to Robert Baldwin,      Director of Learning Resources, at rbaldwin@allegany.edu

Last update: April 26, 2006