Public Documents Masterfile 
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Description: Public Documents Masterfile is a comprehensive index of federal, state, local, and some international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication. The database provides searching across millions of records using: Titles; Authors; Subjects; SuDocs numbers; Publication dates; Index terms; Monthly Catalog entry numbers; and Microfilm locations. The database features include:
- Title information for federal government documents from 1789 forward with SuDocs numbers.
- Hundreds of thousands of subject index entries from B.P. Poore's "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774 - March 4, 1881," John H. Hickcox's "Monthly Catalogue," and the GPO Monthly Catalog.
- Full bibliographic records for all post July 1976 GPO documents.
- Full bibliographic records for public documents held by the Library of Congress from all sources and for all dates.
- Initial files of full bibliographic records for state, provincial and international public documents.
- International / Foreign / NGO Public Documents, including wide ranging topics in World Bank publications.
Coverage: 1700s to the present
Subject(s)
Business, Economics & Industry
Government Documents
History, Genealogy & Archives
Law
Multidisciplinary
Politics & Government
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