Government Information

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

1. Table of Contents:
2. Federal Government: General Information
3. Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
4. State Information
5. International and Foreign Information
6. Statistical Resources
7. 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 103^rd 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)
• 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 Type" menu, select "State Government Servers"
  3. 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)
• North Carolina Collection
  1. Official North Carolina Webpage
  2. NC State Board of Elections (election results, campaign information)
  3. The North Carolina Court System (Supreme Court, opinions, and etc.)
  4. North Carolina General Assembly (follow the legislative branch of state government)
  5. North Carolina Offender Information (Public information on inmates, probationers or parolees since 1972.
  6. The North Carolina State Publications Collection - digital collection contains current and historical North Carolina state publications.
  7. Office of the Governor
     
• Local Government
  1. Local Government Information (information for U.S. cities and municipalities)
  2. North Carolina Counties, Cities and Towns (from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
  3. 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.
• 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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