Government Information Web Page Template

The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign levels of government.

Federal Government: General Information

• Federal Government Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT FDTF)
• Federal Agencies Directory (Louisiana State University)
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States House of Representatives
• United States Senate
• The White House

Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information

• Code of Federal Regulations (GPO Access)
• Congress.org [Searchable directories and current awareness] (Capital Advantage)
• The Federal Register (GPO Access)
• GPO Access (U.S. Government Printing Office)
• 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)
• Law (University of North Texas)

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)
• WWW Virtual Law Library [From the "By information source" menu, select "State Government"] (Indiana University School of Law)
• State Resources (FindLaw for Legal Professionals)
• State and Local Government on the Net (HelloMetro Group)
• StateList: The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• State Government (USA.gov)

International and Foreign Information

• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• Foreign Governments (Northwestern University)
• Foreign National Governments/International Governmental Organizations/Non-governmental Organizations (ALA GODORT International Documents Task Force)
• International Governmental Organizations (Northwestern University)
• U.S Department of State [see also U.S. State Department Archive]
• United Nations

Statistical Resources

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Department of Labor)
• Fedstats [Statistics and information produced by U.S. federal government agencies]
• InfoNation Advanced [View and compare statistical data for U.N. countries] (United Nations)
• 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)

Additional Resources

• The "Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (Western Illinois University)
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (U.S. Government Printing Office)
• GITCO CD-ROM Documentation Service (University of Iowa)
• FirstGov, and Google U.S. Government Search [Search engines for government information]
• Federal Information by Topic or Title (Idaho State University)
• Professional Resources (ALA GODORT)
• Migrating Government Publications [full-text documents via the University of Memphis; see also the collection of Brochures & Pamphlets at the University at Buffalo]

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