Selected Government Information Sites

The following is a list of recommended sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international and foreign levels of government.

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Federal Government: General Information

• Basic Collection for Federal Depository Libraries
• Explore Government Documents (University of Michigan)
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
• MetaLib: A federated search engine of U.S. Federal government databases
• Federal Agency Directory (Louisiana State University)
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Other Federal Courts  
• United States House of Representatives
• United States Senate
• The White House

Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information

• Code of Federal Regulations (FDsys Access)
• Congress.org [Searchable directories and current awareness] (Capital Advantage)
• The Federal Register (FDsys Access)
• Regulations.gov  (Regulations nearly 300 federal agencies. Submit a comment on a regulation )
• Federal Register 2.0, (Citizen-friendly Federal Register )
• FDsys  (Federal Digital System, GPO)
• FDsys/GPO Access Online Resources: A-Z Resource list
• THOMAS: In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress
• Government Resources: Links to congressional information from official and non-official sources (Library of Congress THOMAS)
• Federal Tax Forms and Publications

State Information

• Government Resources on the Web: States (University of Arizona)
• State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute)
• State Government Collections - Try one of the following:
• American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!) (LawSource.com)
• State and Local Government on the Net (HelloMetro Group)
• State List: The Electronic Source of State Publications (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• State Government (USA.gov)
• State of Illinois Home Page 
• Illinois General Assembly (includes Illinois Compiled Statutes, links to House and Senate floor debates)
• Illinois Administrative Code
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
• Illinois  Courts
• Illinois Tax Forms and Publications

International and Foreign Information

• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• EUROPA: The Official Website of the European Union (EU)
  
• Foreign National Governments/International Governmental Organizations/Non-governmental Organizations (ALA GODORT International Documents Task Force)
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
• Organization of American States (OAS)
  
• U.S. Department of State [see also U.S. State Department Archive]
• United Nations (UN)
• globalEDGE (Michigan State University, collection of web-based international business resources and much more)
• U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library (Department of Commerce, international trade-related documents )

Statistical Resources

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Department of Labor)
• Fedstats [Statistics and information produced by U.S. federal government agencies]
• National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education/Institute of Education Sciences)
• National Center for Health Statistics (Department of Health and Human Services)
• Statistical Resources (University of North Texas)
• U.S. Census Bureau (U.S. Department of Commerce)
• Census NEW American FactFinder 

Additional Resources

• Research Guide - U.S. Government (DePaul University Libraries)
• Research Guide - Illinois & Chicago (DePaul University Libraries)
• The "Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (Western Illinois University)
• USA.gov (Search engine for government information)
• PURL Information Page (U.S. Government Printing Office)
• DRAGNET (Uses a Google Customized Search Engine on selected, free law-related Web resources)
• CLL Legal Research Engine (Cornell Law School - Legal research guides, selected legal web, legal blogs)

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