Government Information

The United States Government has recently revised a site at USA.gov (formerly FirstGov) which it describes as "the first-ever government website to provide the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources."

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

Sections

1. Federal Government: General Information
2. Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
3. State Information
4. International and Foreign Information
5. Statistical Resources
6. Additional Resources

• USA.gov the federal government's site to index government resources
• Federal Agency Index (locate federal agencies via Washburn University-School of Law)
• INFOMINE (government resources search engine and guides from the University of California, Riverside)
• FDsys Federal Digital System aid in tracking down information by the Government Printing Office
• US House of Representatives
• US Senate Home Page
• White House Home Page
• Supreme Court

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• FDsys Federal Digital System GPO Access (retiring 2012)

Legislative, executive, judicial, regulatory links and connections to: CFR, Federal Register, US Code, Congressional Record, Congressional Bill, etc. Search and retrieve congressional information from the US GovernmentPrinting Office. Use A-Z Resource List for index or the catalog of U.S. Government Publications.

• Library of Congress (guide to the U.S. Legislative Branch)
• Thomas (search & retrieve legislationfrom the 103^rd to current congresses)
• A Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation - The Library of Congress has provided links to Important Congressional Documents and Debates including: Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, Journals and Letters to Congress, American State Papers, Maclay's Journal, Register of Debates, etc.
• Laws and Regulations section at FirstGov (you may need to scan down page) additional statistical links
• Internet Law Library formerly U.S. House of Representatives InternetLaw Library (laws and regulations)

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• Supreme Court of the United States The official web page of the U.S. Supreme Court includes oral arguments and full-text opinions from 1991 to the present.
• FedWorld - FLITE Full-text of Supreme Court decisions issued between 1937 and 1975; volumes 300 -422 of US Reports.
• Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Media Audio oral arguments back to 1955; unofficial transcripts back to 1979.
• US Court of Appeals Cases & Opinions beta. Has full-text of circuit court opinions from 1970 to current.

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• State Constitutions,Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)
• StateDocuments (LawMarks)
• State Government Collections -- try one of the following:
1. American Law Sources On-Line(ALSO!)
2. FindLaw - State Resources Index
3. State and Local Government on the Net from Piper Resources
4. State Web Locator
5. State, Tribal and Federal Appellate Courts from the National Conference of Appellate Court Clerks


• State Legislative Database(GoverNet Affairs)
• StateList (TheElectronic Source for State Publication Lists from UIUC)
• StateSearch
• 50States.com commercial site

West Virginia

• State of West Virginia Homepage
• State of West Virginia Department Agencies | West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
• Census Information
• Children's statistics from KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Caset Foundation
• West Virginia Statistics on the Internet prepared by Hardway Library, Bluefield State College, includes business, agriculture, employment, crime rate, education, environment and health.
• WV Code º WV Constitution º WV Code of State Rules º State Register
• FindLaw WV Resources
• Supreme Court of Appeals of WV: case search
• WV Legal links from Washburn University School of Law. Other states, Federal and International legal links from Washburn University.
• 50States - West Virginia commercial site.

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• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• International Agencies and Information on the Web (University of Michigan Document Center)
• International Documents Task Force - Foreign Governments (links to individual foreign government pages)
• International Governmental Organizations (links to home pages of international organizations and agencies via the University of California at Berkeley)
• US State Department Home Page
• United Nations, UN cyberschoolbus
• Human Development Reports: Adult Literacy Rate from United Nations Development Programme. Additional reports/statistics can be retrieved from their links.
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics check education, culture, science link on their sidebars
• Constitutions of the Countries of the World from: International Constitutional Law, National Constitutions from the Constitution Society, and Constitution Finder from the University of Richmond.

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• STAT-USA: State of the Nation (SOTN) and Global Business Opportunities (GLOBUS) & National Trade DataBank (NTDB)
• Business &Economics Numeric Data
• Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
• GovernmentData (NetEYE, Inc)
• Country at a Glance(United Nations)
• US Census Bureau; US Census Bureau-Minority Links
• US Historical Census Data Browser from 1790 - 1960 data taken from US decennial census compiled by the University of Virginia Geospatial & Statistical Data Center
• Population Statistics of countries of the World compiled by Jan Lahmeyer at Utrecht University
• World Gazetteer personal site, includes population statistics for countries, metropolitan areas, cities, flags
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics

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• GoogleUncleSam rated as one of the best search engines for government resources
• FirstGov.gov the US Government's "search engine" for accessing online Federal Government resources
• GPO MonthlyCatalog (search for government documents)
• Easier access to the Federal Government's scientific and technical research is provided by:
  • GrayLit Network a portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects
  • Federal R & D Project Summaries information about Federal research projects. Both links provide single-query searching across databases at different agencies.
• Migrating Government Publications(full-text docs via the University of Memphis)
• Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians
• US Government Online Bookstore (commercial versions of some titles also available from Claitor's)
• The 9/11 Commission Report, the full report both as a single file (2.3 MB, 585 pages) and as a collection of smaller pdf files arranged in a browse table based on the report's table of contents

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