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Frequently Used Web Resources
Major Indexes
- The Catalog of United
States Government Publications (via GPO ACCESS)
Indexes print and electronic government information products created by federal
agencies and Congress. (1994- )
- FedWorld (National
Technical Information Service)
Access point for locating government information by subject (some available
only by subscription).
- GPO ACCESS (Government
Printing Office)
Access to the Federal Register,
the Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR), the List
of CFR Sections Affected (LSA), the Congressional
Record, Congressional
Bills, Public and Private
Laws, the Public
Papers of the Presidents of the United States, the Weekly
Compilation of Presidential Documents, the Unified
Agenda, and more than
70 government databases.
- LexisNexis
Congressional
Search the text of bills, laws, hearings and other Congressional publications,
as well as the Congressional Record and Federal Register. (off-campus
access)
- LexisNexis
Statistical
Includes the American Statistics Index (ASI), Index to International Statistics
(IIS) and Statistical Reference Index (SRI). The focus is on coverage of basic
economic, demographic, industrial, and social statistics. (off-campus
access)
- THOMAS
Primary source Congressional documents: bill texts, bill summaries and legislative
status, public laws, Congressional Record, explanations of the legislative
process, links to other Congressional internet sites.
- U.S.
Government Manual
Comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial,
and executive branches. The Manual also includes information on quasi-official
agencies; international organizations in which the United States participates;
and boards, commissions, and committees. Browse the current edition, or search
earlier editions back to 1995.
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Congress
- Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
- Senate
- Committees
of the Senate
- House
of Representatives
- Committees
of the House
- Search congressional publications using LexisNexis
Congressional. (off-campus
access)
- Search congressional publications using GPO
ACCESS or THOMAS
(see descriptions under Major Indexes)
- Congressional
Pictorial Directory
- Congressional
Budget Office
Provides
Congress
with basic
budget data
and analyses
of budgetary
policy issues. The
site includes
full text
studies
and reports,
cost estimates,
transcripts of testimony and other documents.
- Congressional
Research Service Reports
CRS works exclusively and directly for Members and committees of Congress
in support of their legislative, oversight, and representative functions.
Locate CRS reports through the following sources:
LexisNexis
Congressional
- Full-text, 1916-present (off-campus
access)
National
Council for Science and the Environment
OpenCRS
Thurgood
Marshall Law Library - University of Maryland
U.S. Department of State
- Government Accountability
Office
The investigative arm of Congress. GAO performs audits and evaluations of
government programs and activities. Full text of reports
and testimony, Comptroller
General decisions and special publications available back to the early 1970's.
Order single free copies by
mail.
- Library
of Congress
Online catalog, research
guides and bibliographies, and digital collections
of primary source materials. The American
Memory collection includes digitized spoken word, sound recordings,
still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music.
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State and County Information
- County
and City Data Book - 1944-2000
Made available by the University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data
Center. The recent editions have the more detailed level of data.
Original CCDB on the
Census Bureau site.
- County
Business Patterns
Annual series includes a separate report for each State, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and a U.S. summary. The divisions of the economy
covered are agricultural services, forestry, and fisheries; mining; contract
construction; manufacturing; transportation and other public utilities; wholesale
trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.
- FirstGOV
Includes
a list of State and Local government
resources
- LexisNexis
State Capital
State government bills, regulations, statutes, members, issues and
policies. (off-campus
access)
- National Association of Counties
(NACo)
A national association, founded in 1935, that
focuses on federal legislation that affects counties.
- State
and County Quick Facts
Browse profiles at the national, state, county and city level.
- State
and Local Government on the Net
Includes links for state home pages, statewide offices, legislative, judicial
and executive branches, boards and commissions, regional sites, and counties
and cities.
- State
and Metropolitan Area Data Book
From the U.S. Census Bureau. Social and
economic conditions at the state and metropolitan
area level.
- State Data Centers
Locate state and county level data through this list
of contacts from the Census Bureau.
- USA Counties
"Information is derived from the following
general topics: age, agriculture, ancestry, banking, building permits,
business patterns,
crime, earnings, education, elections, employment, government, health,
households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population,
poverty, retail trade,
social programs, veterans, vital statistics, water use, and wholesale
trade."
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Foreign Countries
- CIA
World Factbook
Brief country information including geography, people, government, economy,
transportation, communications, and defense forces. The Rank
Order pages list countries in order of area, population, birth and death
rates, GDP, and other subject areas.
- Background Notes
Reports on individual countries from the
State Department. A good source for general background
on the geography, people, history, economy, and political
relations of foreign countries.
- Country Studies
and Area Handbooks
Extensive descriptions of countries' political,
economic, social, and national security systems created
at the Library of Congress. The series, published
from 1988 to 1998, contains studies of
101 countries. Includes photographs,
tables,
glossaries,
and bibliographies. The Country
Profiles are more recently updated sources on
individual countries.
- U.S. Embassies, Consulates, and
Diplomatic Missions
Listing of web links to foreign embassies, from
the State Department.
- International
Organizations
Llinks to inter-governmental
and non-governmental organizations from Northwestern
University Library.
- Foreign Governments
Links to foreign
government sites from Northwestern University Library.
- International
Statistical Agencies (Census)
- Portals
to the World
Portals to the World links to authoritative information selected by Library
of Congress Subject Specialists about nations and other areas of the world.
When complete, the project will include all nations.
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Statistics
- FEDSTATS
A collection of links to more than 100 federal
agencies that produce statistics.
- Bureau
of Economic Analysis
The BEA publishes the Survey
of Current Business, papers and working
papers, methodologies and
methodology papers, and has interactive
access to national income, product accounts, international transactions,
local area personal income, GDP by industry,
and other estimates. The Glossary defines
the economic terms used.
- Bureau
of Justice Statistics
The Bureau of Justice Statistics web site is
a broad-based portal to a range of crime statistics
and publications. Find data on crime
and victims,
criminal offenders, special
topics,
law enforcement, prosecution,
the federal justice system, courts
and sentencing,
corrections, and criminal
record systems.
- Bureau of
Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics site is a comprehensive
site for statistics on labor-related issues. One
of the most popular publications is the Occupational
Outlook Handbook. Find data on inflation
and consumer spending, wages
and earnings, occupations, demographics, employment
and unemployment, industries,
and more.
- Bureau of
Transportation Statistics
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics provides
data on multiple modes of transportation: airline,
maritime,
highway, transit, rail, pipeline, bike and pedestrian,
and others.
- Census
Bureau
The Census Bureau is the predominant source
for demographic and economic statistics.
>American
FactFinder is
the portal to multiple statistical sources.
The data sets included are from the 2000
Decennial Census, the American
Community Survey, the Annual
Population Estimates, the Economic
Census, and the Annual
Survey of Manufactures.
>The Publications page
has links to reports on agriculture,
business -
trade and services, the census of population
and housing including historical
decennial censuses from 1790 to 2000, construction
and housing publications, the economic
census, foreign
trade, general and reference
sources, governments, manufacturing
and mining industries, other population
reports and special studies, technical
documentation and working papers, and transportation.
>The Statistical
Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive overview of the
statistical state of the country. It includes
data on population, vital
statistics, health,
education, law
and crime, geography, elections,
government at the federal, state
and local levels, national
security, employment,
income, agriculture, natural
resources,
energy, construction
and housing, trade,
transportation, banking
and finance, arts
and entertainment, and some international
statistics. Each section is available in
Portable Document Format (.pdf) and Excel
(.xls). Copyright
restrictions prevent the inclusion of some
tables in the electronic versions. Tables
include source information for further
research.
>When in doubt, try searching the Census Bureau web site using the Google
search tool, or check the A
to Z list.
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DataFerrett for TheDataWeb
DataFerrett, a collaboration between the Census
Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control,
is a downloadable
application that allows for data mining and extraction of multiple data
sets. Since DataFerrett is a fairly sophisticated tool, be sure to consult
the tutorials and user
guide, or contact the DataFerrett team.
- Energy
Information Administration
This Department of Energy site has
data on petroleum, natural
gas, electricity, coal, nuclear fuel, renewable
and alternative fuels, international data, forecasts
and analyses, historical
data, information on homes
and commercial buildings, and environmental resources.
- Interactive
Tariff & Trade DataWeb
A service of the U.S.
International Trade Commission, the DataWeb integrates
international trade transactions with tariff and customs treatment. The information
in Dataweb is freely available, but you must
create
an account to
access the data. Import and export materials
are updated monthly. Coverage
begins
in 1989.
- International
Statistical Agencies (Census)
An alphabetical list to global statistical agencies.
- LexisNexis
Statistical
Includes the American Statistics Index (ASI), Index to International Statistics
(IIS) and Statistical Reference Index (SRI). The focus is on coverage of
basic economic, demographic, industrial, and social statistics. (off-campus
access)
- National
Agricultural Statistics Service
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),
find data from the Quick
Stats Database on the federal, state, and county level. Search for data
from the census
of agriculture (1992-2002) or find summaries of state and county
reports.
Or browse
statistics by subject, from almonds to wool.
- National
Center for Education Statistics
The Digest of Education
Statistics has data on all levels of education, from K-12 to post
secondary education.
The Condition of Education is
a congressionally-mandated report on the current trends and developments nationwide
in
education, while the Projections
of Education Statistics looks ahead to coming
developments.
Indicators of School Crime
and Safety is a joint project with the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The
Educational
Resources
Information
Center,
or ERIC
Database, is an index of citations of journal and non-journal education literature
going back to 1966 with some articles available in full-text. Search the Site
Index or the Subjects
A-Z for more information.
- National
Center for Health Statistics
The NCHS, part of the Centers
for Disease Control (CDC), is the main source
for health statistics. The Faststats
A to Z lists statistics alphabetically by keyword
or general subject area. The site also includes
the full text of Health,
United States, an annual
publication on national health trends.
The National Vital Statistics System
(NVSS) contains data on births, deaths,
and marriage
and divorce statistics.
- NOAA
National Climatic Data Center - Annual Climatological
Summary
This data set contains monthly and annual summaries for over 8000 U.S. locations.
Login and password required. Ask at the Government Documents Reference desk.
- Population
Reference Bureau Country Statistics & Reports
Comprehensive directory of population-related web sites from the Population
Reference Bureau. Browse by organization, by region or country, or by
topic within countries, or search the site. The DataFinder allows
for selection by a range of variables such as region of the world, country,
education, employment, environment, health, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health,
or all variables.
- STAT-USA/Internet (Access
from Lauinger Library network)
Stat-USA provides a broad range of domestic economic and international trade
information, including National Trade Data Bank and Economic Bulletin
Board files.
- Tax
Stats (IRS)
The Tax Statistics site from the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS) has links to data on business
taxes, charitable
statistics, compliance
statistics,
individual
tax statistics, statistics
by form,
and products
and publications.
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Citation Guides
- Uncle
Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
A very useful guide from The University of
Memphis.
- Creating
a Citation from LexisNexis Congressional
Universe
Information on how to cite electronic, print and microfiche congressional publications.
- Citing
Electronic Sources
From the Learning Page of the Library of Congress'
American Memory project, this site includes information
on a range of documents found on the site. Find
out how to cite an entire
website, cartoons
and illustrations,
films, legal
documents and government publications,
maps,
newspapers, photographs, sound
recordings, special
presentations, and text.
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Business
- EDGAR
Searchable archive of SEC electronic filings
from 1994 to the present.
- North American
Industrial Classification System (NAICS)
The first data to be available on a NAICS basis
is from the 1997 Economic Census and the 1997 Foreign
Direct Investment Benchmark Survey. Includes NAICS
to SIC correspondence tables.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
From the U.S. Department
of Labor, this OSHA site
provides statistics and data on OSHA inspections
by establishment,
inspections
within industry by SIC code, accident
investigation searches,
Standard
Industrial Classification (SIC) searches. See
also the OSHA site, Workplace
Injury, Illness and Fatality Statistics.
- STAT-USA/Internet (Access
from Lauinger Library network)
STAT-USA provides a broad range of domestic economic and international trade
information, including National Trade Data Bank and Economic Bulletin
Board files.
- U.S. Business Advisor - business.gov
Managed by the Small
Business Administration (SBA), Business.gov is a portal to government services and information for businesses, focusing on applicable Federal rules and regulations. It has printable and electronic forms, state and local government web-based resources, and information from non-profit and for-profit organizations.
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Last update 6/29/06
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