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GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 

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

Federal Government:
General Information

• Documents Center (one-stop shopping from the University of Michigan)
• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT FDTF)
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory (locate all federal agencies via LSU)
• INFOMINE (huge collection of government resources and guides from the University of California, Riverside)
• US House of Representatives
• US Senate Home Page
• White House Home Page

Federal Government:
Legislative and Regulatory Information

• 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)
• Thomas (search & retrieve legislation from the 103rd to current congresses)

State Information

• Virginia Government (University of Virginia Site)
• Virginia: Offcial Home Page
• State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)
• State Government Collections -- try one of the following:
1. American Law Sources On-Line
2. Virtual Law Library (Indiana University School of Law) From the "Browse by Information Type" menu, select "State Government Servers"
3. FindLaw
4. State and Local Government on the Net

• StateList (The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists from UIUC)

International and Foreign Information

• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• Documents Center (University of Michigan)
• Foreign Governments (links to individual foreign government pages, Northwestern Univ.)
• Foreign National Governments, International Governmental Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizaions (ALA GODORT International Documents Task Force)
• International Organizations (Northwestern University)
• US State Department Home Page
• United Nations

Statistical Resources

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
• InfoNation (United Nations)
• Statistical Information (UNT's Government Information Connection)
• US Census Bureau

Additional Resources

• "Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet (tutorial)
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (search for government documents)
• GPO's Finding Aids)
• Meta-Subject Access to Government Information (Idaho State University)
• Migrating Government Publications (full-text docs via the University of Memphis)
• Sales Product Catalog via GPO (also see the commercial version from Claitor's)

Learn about the Government Documents Service and Collections at JMU

E-mail questions and comments to:
gillgl@jmu.edu

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