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AccessUN ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) An index of current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications including documents from the six main bodies of the United Nations - General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice.
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_______________________ American State Papers, 1789-1838 ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838.
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_______________________ Archive of European Integration The AEI is an electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification.
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_______________________ Audiovisual Library of International Law Contains documents, tapes - both audio and video - and other materials on subjects of international law.
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_______________________ Australasian Legal Information Institute Databases AustLII contains primary legal and legislative materials for Australia and New Zealand.
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_______________________ BOPCRIS : Unlocking Key British Government Publications Search and browse information in over 24,000 documents from the the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS).
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_______________________ British and Irish Legal Information Institute Databases BAILII contains primary legal and legislative materials for England and Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, United Kingdom, and the European Union.
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_______________________ Bureau of Labor Statistics Federal government statistics on inflation & consumer spending; wages, earnings, & benefits; productivity; employment & unemployment, and occupations.
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_______________________ Business Dynamics Statistics The BDS is a United States Census Bureau data series that allows users to track annual changes in employment for growing and shrinking businesses at the establishment level.
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_______________________ Canada Depository Service Program ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) The online DSP provides full text access to Canadian federal government publications.
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_______________________ Canada GovInfo Gateway to Canadian government databases, directories, reports, statistics, statutes, & other online reference sources.
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_______________________ Canadian Legal Information Institute Databases CanLII contains primary legal and legislative materials for Canada.
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_______________________ CenStats Databases The Census Bureau's CenStats provides access to several databases of demographic and economic information.
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_______________________ Census Bureau Data Demographic statistics collected by the United States Department of Commerce.
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_______________________ CIA Electronic Reading Room Search for previously released Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents covering a wide range of policy areas.
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_______________________ Comintern : Electronic Archives of the Communist International (Access from European Reading Room Only)
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_______________________ Congressional Directory Search or browse the Congressional Directory for short biographies of each member of the Senate and House, listed by state or district, and additional data, such as committee memberships, terms of service, administrative assistants and/or secretaries, and room and telephone numbers.
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_______________________ Congressional Record Database Contains the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress from Volume 140 (1994) to the present.
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_______________________ CQ.com ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Congressional Quarterly, including Congressional Weekly, provides in-depth legislative news and analysis of the United States Congress.
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_______________________ CyberRegs ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) CyberRegs provides the full text of the US Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, State Registers, State Statues and forms, and State Environmental, Safety, Health and Transportation Regulations.
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_______________________ Declassified Documents Reference System ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides full-text access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents.
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_______________________ Digital National Security Archive ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) DNSA contains primary documents central to United States foreign and military policy since 1945 obtained by the National Security Archive.
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_______________________ Economic Indicators.gov Provides timely access to the daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau.
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_______________________ EDGAR : SEC Database of Corporate Information EDGAR contains financial data of publicly held companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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_______________________ EEOC Special Reports Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Special Reports on various topics based on data from the EEO-1 survey, charge data, and/or other sources.
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_______________________ Energy Citations Database Energy Citations contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
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_______________________ Environmental Impact Statements Full-Text (2003- ) & Digests (1985- ) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) EIS Digests extract the key issues from government-released environmental impact statements, provides a brief description and abstract of the project, includes sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and details legal mandates.
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_______________________ EPA Science Inventory The Science Inventory is a searchable, Agency-wide database of more than 4,000 scientific and technical work products.
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_______________________ ERIC ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) The Educational Resources Information Center is a comprehensive database of journal and non-journal education literature.
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_______________________ EUROPA Provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration.
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_______________________ Fed in Print Online index to Federal Reserve economic research publications.
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_______________________ Federal Election System Provides links to: Campaign Finance Reports and Elections and Voting data; including information about the electoral college, the administrative structure of US elections and voter registration and turnout statistics.
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_______________________ Federal Register Library ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides search and browse options to PDF copies from volumes 1 of the Federal Register.
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_______________________ Federal Register Online The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
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_______________________ Federal Register Public Inspection Documents Desk Provides full text access to the recent rules, proposed rules, notices of Federal agencies and organizations, and other official documents of the United States government.
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_______________________ Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research FRASER is a searchable electronic archive of economic statistical publications and data.
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_______________________ Find GAO Reports Index to abstracts of Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports and testimony, with links to available electronic reports.
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_______________________ Footnote ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Contains primary source documents from the holdings of the United States National Archives relating to all aspects of American history, from the Revolutionary War, to the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents.
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_______________________ Foreign Relations of the United States This series presents the official documentary historical record of major United States foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
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_______________________ Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information GODORT is a directory of subject links to commonly requested websites such as census data, elections, science & technology, and terrorism issues.
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_______________________ GalleryWatch ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Tracks real-time legislative, regulatory, and governmental information and news.
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_______________________ Gatt Digital Library Contains over 59,000 public documents and 300 publications of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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_______________________ Global Legal Information Network GLIN is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources covering international law.
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_______________________ Google U.S. Government Search Offers a single location for searching across government information, and for keeping up to date on government news.
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_______________________ Government Auditing Standards Government Auditing Standards - the GAO Yellow Book - contains standards for audits of government organizations, programs, activities, and functions, and of government assistance received by contractors, nonprofit organizations, and other nongovernment organizations.
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_______________________ GPO Access GPO Access provides access to Federal Government Information Databases in over 70 applications provided by the US Government Printing Office.
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_______________________ GPO Monthly Catalog ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Covers all types of US government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.
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_______________________ Green Book The Green book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation.
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_______________________ Guide to U.S. House and Senate Members Search for and retrieve current individual Members by name, district, hometown, or groups of Members by state, party affiliation, or number of terms.
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_______________________ Hinds' Precedents Hinds' Precedents is a 5-volume series containing selected rulings made by the chair of the House of Representatives.
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_______________________ Historic Government Publications from WWII Search or browse a collection of over 300 United States government documents produced during World War II.
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_______________________ Historical Abstracts ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Contains annotated references to books, articles, and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
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_______________________ Historical Archives of the European Commission's Database ARCHISplus contains references to files of the High Authority of the ECSC, the ECSC Consultative Committee and the Committe of Four Presidents, Euratom, the European Economic Commission and the Commission of the European Communities for the period ranging from 1952 to 1972.
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_______________________ Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights Contains digital publications from the United States Commission on Civil Rights, an independent, bipartisan agency charged with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement.
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_______________________ Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) A compendium of statistics from over 1,000 sources containing over 37,000 data series and covering the social, economic, and political life of the United States.
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_______________________ Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 Contains annual, time-series data with national coverage on almost any aspect of United States economics, population or infrastructure since the government began recording statistics.
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_______________________ Homeland Security Digital Library ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides quick access to important United States policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
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_______________________ House of Commons Parliamentary Papers ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) HCPP contains the full text of all sessional papers issued by the House of Commons, including Bills, Reports of Royal Commissions, Reports of Select Committees, Accounts and Papers, and Command Papers.
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_______________________ Index to Current Urban Documents ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) ICUD contains reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies from more than 500 major cities in the United States and Canada.
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_______________________ Indian Affairs : Laws and Treaties Full text of documents dealing with the legal status and laws, government relations, and treaties of North American Indians.
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_______________________ ITC DataWeb US International Trade Commission (ITC) Interactive Tariff and Trade database provides international trade statistics and United States tariff data.
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_______________________ Leadership Library ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) The Leadership Library is a massive directory, consisting of the contents of 14 "Yellow Books," and containing listings of organizations and individuals in government, the mass media, business, and nonprofit groups.
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_______________________ LexisNexis Congressional ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides comprehensive access to United States legislative information, including: hearings; reports; prints; documents; bills; laws; regulations; and CIS Legislative Histories.
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_______________________ LLMC Digital ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Law Library Microform Consortium provides searchable databases of earlier full text primary United States Government documents and legal literature on microform, most of which is not available through other online resources.
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_______________________ Local Employment Dynamics The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) compiled by the Census Bureau measure the performance of the local economy - where jobs are, for what kind of workers, how much workers can expect to make and employers expect to pay them.
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_______________________ Military and Government Collection ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military and matters relating to the military and military life, with a subject emphasis on engineering.
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_______________________ NACA Technical Reports Server Contains citations and full text of technical reports issued by the predecessor organization to NASA.
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_______________________ NASA Technical Reports Server NTRS contains NASA aerospace information, including research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data.
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_______________________ National Archives Access to Archival Databases (U.S.) The AAD System provides online searching to government records in more than 350 databases created by over 20 Federal agencies.
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_______________________ National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom Contains the records of the central government and the courts of law.
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_______________________ National Center for Education Statistics Includes access to the full text of educational statistics, including the Condition of Education, Education Statistics Quarterly, Digest of Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics, and other NCES Reports .
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_______________________ National Center for Health Statistics A broad range of United States health statistics documenting the health status of the population and of important subgroups.
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_______________________ National Governors' Association Directory of Governors Provides general biographical and term information about the current and past governors of each state, territory or commonwealth.
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_______________________ National Library of Medicine Catalog The National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the National Institutes of Health, is the world's largest research library for the health sciences.
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_______________________ National Technical Information Service ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) NTIS contains nearly 3 million scientific and technical reports on US government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.
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_______________________ NCDC Climatic Data ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) includes meteorological / climatological information, environmental satellite data, and NEXRAD weather radar data.
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_______________________ Nineteenth Century Masterfile ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) 19th Century Masterfile contains more than 60 core subject indexes to periodicals, books, newspapers, patents, and US and UK government documents covering the early 1700's to 1906.
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_______________________ NIST Scientific and Technical Databases National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gateway provides access to over 80 of the NIST scientific and technical databases.
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_______________________ NLM Databases and Electronic Resources Provides links to dozens of health and science related resources maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
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_______________________ Occupational Safety and Health Standards Provides a comprehensive resource for current United States OSHA standards and compliance-related information.
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_______________________ Official Documents of the United Nations ODS contains the full text of all United Nations parliamentary documents, including preliminary (masthead) versions of resolutions and decisions.
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_______________________ OTA Archive Contains the complete collection of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) publications.
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_______________________ OYEZ A multimedia database about the United States Supreme Court.
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_______________________ Parliamentary Information Management Service PIMS provides an index to the proceedings and publications of both Houses of Parliament in the UK and includes the full text of Early Day Motions since May 1997.
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_______________________ Producer Price Index PPI is a family of indexes from the Department of Labor that measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
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_______________________ Public Documents Masterfile ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Public Documents Masterfile is a comprehensive index of federal, state, local, and some international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication.
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_______________________ Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Contains the compilations of Presidential messages, papers, writings, addresses, and remarks of a public nature beginning in 1992 with the George HW Bush Admiminstration.
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_______________________ Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects Contains links to projects that include digitized copies of publications originating from the United States Government.
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_______________________ Science Accelerator Science Accelerator searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), Department of Energy.
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_______________________ Science.gov Provides a gateway to information resources in science and technology at the US government science agencies.
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_______________________ SourceOECD ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Contains the full text of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) studies and reports from both serial and monographic publications, as well as time series databases.
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_______________________ STAT-USA ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Economic, business, and international trade information database produced by the Economics and Statistics Administration, US Department of Commerce.
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_______________________ THOMAS : Legislative Information A full-text database which includes major legislation (by bill number, subject, and title), bills (full text, summaries, and status), public laws, the Annals of Congress, the Congressional Record and the Congressional Record Index, roll call votes, Congressional committee reports, historical documents, and information about the legislative process.
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_______________________ Treaties and Agreements Library ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Includes both official and unofficial primary treaty resources in addition to helpful guides.
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_______________________ TRIS Online: Bureau of Transportation Statistics TRIS Online provides access to almost 450,000 records of published transportation research.
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_______________________ UNdata Search a variety of UN statistical resources covering a range of subject areas.
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_______________________ United States Congressional Bibliographies Enumerates and describes meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted.
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_______________________ United States Congressional Serial Set ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) The United States Congressional Serial Set contains all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th Congress to the 87th Congress, 2nd session, 1817 - 1962 (Serial Set Volumes 1 - 12427).
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_______________________ United States Federal Regulations Search for Federal Regulations and Federal Actions Open for Comment.
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_______________________ United States Geological Survey Publications Warehouse The USGS reports and thematic maps database contains more than 61,000 bibliographic citations, including numbered series begun as early as 1882.
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_______________________ United States Government Manual As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
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_______________________ United States Patent and Trademark Office The US Patent and Trademark Office databases provide extensive information on patents and trademarks.
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_______________________ United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832 - 1978 ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) A collection of over 350,000 full-text Supreme Court documents covering more than 150,000 distinct cases.
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_______________________ USA Counties Files include all of the data published for counties in the latest editions of the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book.
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_______________________ USAGov FirstGov is the official US gateway to all government information, including sources such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance .
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_______________________ USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center Databases Search for food and human nutrition information supplied by the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) at the National Agricultural Library (NAL).
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_______________________ Voting and Registration (U.S. Census Bureau Data) Contains information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics for the United States.
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