LibGuides: Government Documents: Find Government Information

Key Tools for Accessing Government Information

FDsys
Presents online versions of major U.S. government publications such as the Congressional Record, congressional publications of all kinds, the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Supreme Court decisions, executive branch documents and more. Replaces GPO Access

Access Points for Recent Government Information

Legislative info: Congress.gov
has links to Congressional committee websites
Congress. gov supersedes the Library of Congress 's Thomas website. The Popular name Tool provides official legal citations for well known U.S. laws.
United States Government Manual
A directory used to find government contacts and to learn about the structure of government agencies.
Science.gov
A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies
USA.gov
Consumer and popular information, includes and A-Z Index pf U.S. government agencies
Catalog of U.S. government publications
The CGP is a finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government

Historical and Other Government Links

American Presidency Project
The American Presidency Project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The archives contain 87,468 documents related to the study of the Presidency, including the Public Papers of the Presidents (1929-), presidential debates and news conferences.
Digitization Projects Registry
A listing of digitization projects of historical U.S. government publications that were previously only available in print format

CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new window
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
CQ Press Researcher This link opens in a new window
Search the full-text contents of CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, and over two dozen reference titles, such as the Historic Documents series, Supreme Court A to Z, Guide to Congress, Guide to U.S. Elections, Politics in America and many more! The CQ Press Electronic Library is useful for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.

CT.gov
The official website for the State of Connecticut.
United Nations
The official UN website.
Department of State: Office of the Historian
The Office of the Historian is responsible, under law, for the preparation and publication of the official historical documentary record of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign Relations of the United States series. It researches and writes historical studies on aspects of U.S. diplomacy for use by policymakers in the Department and in other agencies, as well for public information.
GAO Reports
Nonpartisan reports on government operations browseable by topic.
Foreign Relations of the United States
The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. Foreign Relations of the United States This digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. This is an incomplete run from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired and processed.
US Supreme Court Opinions
FindLaw's searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: U.S. Reports 150-, 1893-). Browsable by year and U.S. Reports volume number, and searchable by citation, case title and full text. Also links to related sources.
Public Documents Masterfile
A comprehensive online guide to
federal, state, local and international
public documents, spanning over 200
years of publication, in a single
searchable database.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
From the Library of Congress, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75.
HealthCare.gov
The official online portal for obtaining health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare").
O*NET
This is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. Replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles