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U.S. Government Information in Electronic Format
The federal government is producing increasing numbers of publications
in electronic formats. You may find the information you're seeking on
the Internet or a CD-ROM, rather than in a book or on microfiche.
Internet
The various agencies of the federal government maintain hundreds
of Web sites. Fortunately, many tools have been created by the
government and by librarians to help you find the information
you need:
The Government Printing Office maintains GPO Access, an extensive Web site with more than 70 full-text databases, including the Federal Register; the Congressional
Record; the budget; bills; laws; Congressional reports, documents,
and calendars; General Accounting Office reports; and Supreme
Court decisions. GPO Access also hosts web pages and publications
for Congress and other government agencies such as the FDA and
the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In addition, there are various
useful finding aids for government information, including:
Other useful sites:
- The DocLaw Agency Index from the Washburn University School of Law links not only to agencies' home pages, but also directly to their pages for publications, organizational charts, forms, opinions, manuals and directories.
- The Federal Web Locator at Auburn University is an exhaustive index of federal Web sites organized by agency.
- The Google government search page is a very accurate search engine which searches only in domains ending in .gov and .mil.
- GovSpot is a nicely arranged commercial portal.
- Thomas is a user-friendly site for information about Congress and legislation.
Thomas is maintained by the Library of Congress.
- The University of Louisville has a handy list of the Government periodicals available on the Internet.
- Some older documents are also being made available on the Internet.
- Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids contains basic facts about the U.S. and the Government, and links to federal agency web pages for children.
CD-ROMs
The Newark Public Library currently has more than 3,000 government documents on CD. All of our government CD-ROMs are cataloged in the library's online catalog.
Our most popular titles include:
- The National Trade Databank
This CD is designed to promote international trade. It features
market research reports, country commercial guides, Commercial
Service international contacts, the Export Yellow Pages and an
archive of historical trade leads.
- U.S. Exports of Merchandise and U.S. Imports of Merchandise
These monthly CDs provide statistics on United States exports
and imports. Data is divided by product and country.
- New Jersey Census CDs
These CDs provide statistics on the population of New Jersey.
Some of the characteristics included are age, income, gender,
race and education.
- Ancestry of the Population of the United States
This CD from the Census Bureau tabulates the population by
their ancestral nationalities. You can find, for instance, statistics
on how many people in a given area are of Irish or Japanese decent.
Related CDs include: Persons of Hispanic Origin in the United States, Characteristics of the Black Population of the United States, and The Foreign-Born Population in the United States.
Last updated 4/13/09
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