Strategies for adding 
Government Documents
Subject Searching
• Search engines
• Library catalogs
• Depository library sites

Strategies for adding 
Government Documents
• Documents Search Engines
      Google Uncle Sam
               (http://www.google.com/unclesam)
      Altavista-Advanced Search
               (http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/webadv) 
      Hotbot-Advanced Search
               (http://hotbot.lycos.com/)  
      FirstGov 
               (http://firstgov.gov/)



Strategies for adding 
Government Documents
• Library Catalogs with Depository Libraries 
          PALS
                (http://www.csbsju.edu/library/books/palscat.html)
             MnLINK
                   (http://www.mnlink.org/)










Strategies for adding 
Government Documents
• Large Depository Library Sites
     University of Colorado at Boulder
       (http://www-libraries.colorado.edu/ps/gov/us/federal.htm)
	
     University of Michigan Documents Center
       (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedelec.html)

     University of Idaho
       (http://db.lib.uidaho.edu/govdocs/index.php3)

     University of Memphis
       (http://exlibris.memphis.edu/govpubs/mig.htm)




Strategies for adding 
Government Documents
For whatever your topic, there are 
two pretty good certainties:

1.  Some federal agency has collected statistics about it or created regulations on it.

• Congress has talked about it in a report, hearing, bill, law, etc.
Strategies for adding 
Government Documents
Federal Agencies
• Determine agency

      	Federal Agencies on the Web	(http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/agency/index.html)

		US Government Manual 	(http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara001.html)
Strategies for adding 
Government Documents
Federal Agencies
• Determine regulations

	Code of Federal Regulations (http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html)

      Federal Register
	(http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html)
Strategies for adding 
Government Documents
Federal Agencies
• Statistics
	Statistical Abstract
	(http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html)

	American Factfinder
	(http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet)

	U. of Michigan Documents Center
	(http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html)


Strategies for adding 
Government Documents
• Congress
	GPO Access
	(http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/index.html)
	
	Congressional Universe
	(http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/)


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