Government Documents
Online Resources
Connecticut College Library

General Guides--Electronic Documents-- Congress, Laws, and Regulations-- The Courts-- Statistics-- The States-- International--
Documents Administration-- Current /Popular/Useful

General Guides and Gateways

Google Search -- US Government
FirstGov (WW information portal for the US Govt)
Documents Center (excellent gateway from the University of Michigan)
Federal Web Locator (locate all federal agencies via Center for Information Law and Policy )
Catalog of US Govt Publications (search for government documents)
US Government Online Bookstore (also see the commercial site from Claitor's)

Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications

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Electronic Documents: Lists and Links

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (from GPO Access)
GPO Finding Aids (incl. Agency Sites and Topics)
Federal Agencies (from WashLaw Web)
USLinks --FedGov Agencies Database (from Duke)
Migrating Government Publications (internet sites linked from print publications, from the U. of Memphis)
U.S. Depository Ready Reference Sources (from Columbia University)
Other Bookmarked Lists .

(titles+ from UVa & NWU, serials from Auburn, pamphlets from UB )

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Congress, Laws, and Regulations

GPO Access
US House of Representatives
US Senate Home Page
Guide to the U.S. Legislative Branch from Thomas
Thomas (search & retrieve legislation from the 103^rd to current congresses)
Internet Law Library (laws and regulations)
Native American Law from NESL
Lexis-Nexis Congressional Home Page (access to US legislative information, formerly CIS---ConnCollege use only)
Lexis-Nexis Academic Search (full-text access to news and legislative information---ConnCollege use only)
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (from LOC's American Memory collections) includes Statutes at Large to 1873
Biographical Directory of the US Congress, 1774-present

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The Courts

Supreme Court Website
FindLaw(search Supreme Court Opinions from 1893 to the present)
Selected Historic Decisions (over 600 historic Supreme Court decisions, from Cornell)
Federal Judiciary Homepage
LII's Eye on the Courts (cases in the news, from Cornell)
Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Libraries

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Statistics

Statistical Abstract of the United States 2006 (1995-2005 editions)
Fedstats (search engine for government data)
US Census Bureau (also see its Customer Information Exchange Page)
Census 2000 Demographic Profiles, easy access from Missouri Census Data Center
U.S. Historical Census Data Browser
Bureau of Labor Statistics
StatUSA, including the National Trade Data Bank and the Economic Bulletin Board (password required---see Reference Librarian)
The Beige Book, Current Economic Conditions from the Federal Reserve Board
The Green Book, data on federal entitlement programs (last edition 2000)
Federal Budget (PDF and spreadsheet)
Economic Report of the President

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The States

Connecticut Official Website
Connecticut Cities and Towns
Connecticut State Documents on the Internet
Connecticut Economic Information from DECD (including CT Town Profiles)
Connecticut School Profiles
Connecticut Market Data

State Constitutions, Statutes, and Related Legislative Information (from Cornell University)
American Law Sources On-Line(includes state-by-state legal links)
FindLaw (resources list for individual states)
State and Local Government on the Net

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International

CIA World Factbook (profiles of world countries and territories)
Country Studies(Library of Congress)
Portals to the World (electronic resources selected by LC)
International Organizations and Related Information (University of Michigan)
Foreign Governments (links to individual foreign government pages from NWU)
World Constitutions and International Treaties (from Texas A&M)
U.S. State Department Home Page

PCL Map Collection (from UTex---many CIA maps)
United Nations
InfoNation (UN: compare data for member states)

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Documents Administration

Federal Depository Library Program Desktop (from the GPO Homepage)

(includes Item Lister and Documents Data Miner)

Toolbox (processing and cataloging documents)
GODORT Handout Exchange (subject guides and pathfinders)
CD-ROM page of GODORT's Handout Exchange (links to guides on government CDs)
Superseded CD-ROMs (U of Memphis)
State and Local Information (GODORT-SLDTF)
Columbia's DocsAdmin Page
Connecticut GODORT
GPLNE (Government Publications Librarians of New England)

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Current / Popular / Useful

Elections and Voting (FedDocsTaskForce Frequently Used Sites)
Federal Tax Forms and Publications
Connecticut Tax Forms
State Tax Links
Documents in the News (from the University of Michigan)
CRS Reports (from Gary Price at GWU)
MedlinePlus (health information from the NLM)
Healthfinder (consumer health and human services information)
CPI Calculation Machine (worth of a dollar)
FBI FOIA Electronic Reading Room (selected FBI files)
EPA New England Annual Reports
Forms from the Feds (from the University of Memphis)
Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids

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For comments or suggestions concerning this page, please contact Jim MacDonald.
Last Modified: 26 July 2006.
Thanks, James.