Government Information
The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign levels of government:
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- Federal Government: General Information
- Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
- State Information
- International and Foreign Information
- Statistical Resources
- Additional Resources
Federal Government: General Information
- The American presidency project - 67,000 documents to date, covering all 43 presidencies and including public papers, executive orders, proclamations, addresses, and press conferences from many of the presidencies.
- Documents Center (one-stop shopping from the University of Michigan)
- Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT FDTF)
- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents (from Washington to Bush 1789-1989)
- Official US Executive Branch Web Sites (Executive branch only sites)
- Open Secrets (online source for money in politics data; compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics
- POTUS (Presidents of the United States, links to all 42 presidents)
- Scripps Library - The American Presidency from the Miller Center of Public Affairs
- UnitedStates.com (news about America)
- U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory (locate all federal agencies via LSU)
- U.S. Government Info/Resources (annotated links presented by Mining Company)
- US House of Representatives
- US Senate Home Page
- White House Home Page
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Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
- Biographical Directory of US Congress (includes biographies of each of the more than 13,000 individuals from 1774-2005)
- Biographical Directory of US Congress - biographies of members of congress in PDF format.
- Congress.Org searchable member directories and current awareness
- GPO Access (search and retrieve congressional information from the US Government Printing Office)
- Library of Congress (guide to the U.S. Legislative Branch)
- Project Vote Smart (political information on public officials)
- Thomas (search & retrieve legislation from the 103rd to current congresses)
- Law (Government Information Connection, Univ. of North Texas)
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State Information
- Governing.com - Current information by and about state and local government.
- State Agency Databases - databases of useful information - information on businesses, licensed professionals, plots of land, even dates of fish stocking
- State and County Quick Facts (U.S. Census Bureau quick facts)
- State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)
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State
Government Collections -- try one of the following:
- American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)
- Virtual Law Library (Indiana University School of Law) From the "Browse by Information Type" menu, select "State Government Servers"
- FindLaw
- State and Local Governments on the Net
- Stateline.org (professionally edited, journalistically sound, nonpartisan state resources)
- StateList (The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists from UIUC)
- State Tax Forms (tax forms from all 50 states)
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North
Carolina Collection
- Official North Carolina Webpage
- NC State Board of Elections (election results, campaign information)
- The North Carolina Court System (Supreme Court, opinions, and etc.)
- North Carolina General Assembly (follow the legislative branch of state government)
- North Carolina Offender Information (Public information on inmates, probationers or parolees since 1972.
- The North Carolina State Publications Collection - digital collection contains current and historical North Carolina state publications.
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Office of
the Governor
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Local
Government
- Local Government Information (information for U.S. cities and municipalities)
- North Carolina Counties, Cities and Towns (from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
- U.S. Conference of Mayors (find mayors from cities all over the country)
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International and Foreign Information
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- Embassy.org (a resource of and for the Washington, DC foreign embassy)
- Foreign Governments (links to individual foreign government pages, Northwestern Univ.)
- FedWorld.gov (FedWorld and NTIS offer simple, global access to government and business information)
- Foreign National Governments, International Governmental Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (ALA GODORT International Documents Task Force)
- International Agencies and Information on the Web - University of Michigan Documents Center
- International Governmental Organizations (Northwestern University)
- US State Department Home Page
- United Nations
- United Nations- Official documents of the UN
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Statistical Resources
- Bureau of Justice (US primary source for criminal justice statistics)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
- Statistical Abstracts Online - statistics from 1995 forward from the U.S. Census Bureau
- Statistical Information (Government Information Connection, Univ. of North Texas)
- United States Historical Census - census data from 1790 to 1960
- US Census Bureau - overall census information, economic census, projections, income, poverty, etc.
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World
Development Indicators (statistics from World
Bank, can be manipulated)
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Additional Resources
- The American presidency project - 67,000 documents to date, covering all 43 presidencies and including public papers, executive orders, proclamations, addresses, and press conferences from many of the presidencies.
- Consumer Information Center (browse the consumer information catalog)
- Freedom of Information Act Reading Room
- Internal Revenue Service (news and information from IRS)
- Moving Ideas (news and resources from the policy action network)
- National Park and Conservation Association (voice of the American people in the fight to safeguard the scenic beauty, wildlife, and historical and cultural treasures)
- ParkNet (information on National Parks)
- Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets (presented by the State Department
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (official site for information on patents)
- "Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet (tutorial)
- GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (search for government documents)
- USA.gov and Google Uncle Sam (Search engines for government information; see also GPO's Finding Aids)
- Meta-Subject Access to Government Information (Idaho State University)
- Migrating Government Publications (full-text docs via the University of Memphis)
- Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians (ALA GODORT)
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