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Federal Documents
Comprehensive sites/Search
engines/Indexes
Ben's Guide (a
source of U.S. government information
for kids K thru 12)
Catalog
of U.S. Government Publications (the major finding tool for
Federal publications, both historical and current, with direct links to
those that are available online)
Cyber Cemetery
(this site provides permanent
public access to the electronic web sites and publications of defunct
U.S. government agencies and commissions)
Federal Digital
System (a
comprehensive Government Printing Office site which offers links to the
Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record and
other important sources; formerly called GPO Access)
GovEngine.com
(this
site provides quick access to a large number of Federal, State and
Local government and court resources)
Governmentattic.org (provides
electronic copies of hundreds of government documents obtained under
the Freedom of Information Act)
Government
Information Online (a
free online information service that allows you to ask questions and
receive responses from government information librarians located at
various libraries across the nation)
Government
Information Subject Index (a
keyword index which leads to lots and lots of links to government
information by subject)
INFOMINE
Scholarly Internet Resources/Government Information (another
one of those wonderful cornucopian gateways to a large number of
government web sites)
MetaLib (a product of the
Government Printing Office, this site allows for retrieval of reports,
articles, and citations by simultaneously searching across multiple
databases)
New
Electronic Titles
(electronic publications recently added to the Federal government's
depository library program)
Internet
Sites by SuDocs Numbers (quick jumps to Federal websites
arranged by
Superintendent of Documents classification numbers)
USA.gov
(formerly FirstGov, this
is the government's most robust search engine giving access to
thousands of web sites)
U.S. Federal
Government
Agencies Directory
(an awesome collection of links to all major Federal agencies, their
subagencies and their sub-subagencies; if it's not here, it probably
doesn't exist
University
of
Michigan Documents Center, Federal (many many U.S.
government links on the mother
of all government information web sites)
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Congress
A Century of Lawmaking
for a
New Nation (a linked set of published congressional records of
the United States from the Continental Congress through the 42nd
Congress)
Congress.org
(an excellent one-stop site for Congressional information that
facilitates civic participation by allowing, among other things, direct
online communication with elected officials)
C-Span/Congressional
Quarterly Capitol Spotlight (an informative site that focuses
on major Washington political events)
Thomas:
Legislative
Information on the Internet (information
on Congress, texts of bills, the Congressional Record and other capital
things)
Metavid
(this site offers
an archived collection of televised proceedings of the United States
Senate and House of Representatives, with video footage provided
by C-SPAN)
Tracking
the U.S. Congress (a nice site that tracks all manner of
Congressional activity)
U.S. Congress
Votes Database (sponsored by the Washington Post, this site
provides a searchable database of Congressional voting from 1991
to the present)
United
States House of Representatives (offical site giving schedules
of house floor
action and hearings, information about members, tallies of roll call
votes, links to other Federal sites and lots more)
United
States Senate (official
site of the world's most exclusive 100 member club, with lots of
information similar to what's found on the House site)
Senator
Carl Levin's Website (Michigan's
senior senator)
Senator
Debbie Stabenow's Website (Michigan's junior senator)
Representative Gary Peter's
Website (represents the 9th Congressional
District, wherein lies our beloved OU)
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Census/Demographics
American Factfinder (your
link to all the information from the 2000
Census of Population, plus some useful economic and geographic data)
Bureau
of the Census (your
gateway to a plethora of statistical data compiled and presented by our
nation's human being counters)
Historical Census
Data
Browser (allows for
browsing of U.S. census data from 1790 to 1960; data goes down to
county level in most cases)
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under Michigan:
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International:
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Information
about Foreign Countries
Background Notes (the
long-standing State Department series of
brochures, now electronic, which gives general information about other
countries)
Constitutions
of the World (constitutions in English for all the
countries in the world)
Country Studies
(the renowned series of Area Handbooks, originally published by the
U.S. Army and long a mainstay of government documents collections, now
available in electronic format for more than 80 countries)
Department of State Countries and Regions
Page (gives links to all State Dept. websites giving
information about foreign nations.)
Portals to the World (selective
links providing in-depth information about nations and areas of the
world)
UnitedStates
Embassies (links to
official home pages of U.S. foreign embassies and consulates)
World
Factbook (this Central
Intelligence Agency source is a
standard for obtaining up-to-date
information on any country on this
planet)
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Technical
Information
Data.gov (this
site's purpose is to increase public access to high value, machine
readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal
Government)
FedWorld (the National
Technical Information Service offers a comprehensive access point for
searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government technical report
literature)
FirstGov for Science
(a gateway to authoritative selected science
information provided by the United States government)
National
Climatic Data Center/NOAA (the gateway to lots and lots of
local
and national climate and weather statistics)
North
American
Industry Classification System/NAICS (this site provides
for searching in NAICS, the industrial classification system which is
replacing the old Standard Industrial Classification System/SIC)
Patent and
Trademark
Office (if you've got that
ol' inventive bent, here's the site that could start you on your way to
fame and fortune)
Science
Accelerator (a gateway to science, including R&D
results, project descriptions and more, via resources made available by
the U.S. Department of Energy"s Office of Scientific and Technical
Information)
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Laws,
Regulations, Forms
FedLaw (Federal laws and regulations
by subject, and more)
FindLaw
Forms (lots and lots of Federal and state forms in PDF format)
Internal
Revenue Service (a link to
the site providing all the forms and publications we all need every
April 15th)
Regulations.gov(a
one stop site which allows a user to both view and comment upon any
Federal regulation)
Statutes at Large (a complete
collection of all public laws from 1789 to 2009 in PDF format)
Thomas:
Legislative
Information on the Internet (information on Congress, texts of
bills, the Congressional Record and other capital things)
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President/Executive
Branch
Advice to the President (this
site compiles links to papers of potential interest to the current
administration in 49 different policiy areas with five major
subdivisions--defense, fiscal policy, foreign policy, homeland security
and the economy)
American Presidency
Project (over 30,000 historic documents regarding
American presidents, including State of the Union addresses, Inaugural
addresses and Public Papers)
American
President: An Online Reference Source (a comprehensive
collection of
material about the President of the United States and the history of
the presidency)
GODORT's
Frequently Used Sites (a very good comprehensive site offering
links to just about everything Presidential that one could think of)
The Living Room
Candidate (an online exhibition presenting more than 300
television commercials
from every election year since 1952, when the first campaign TV ads
aired)
Portraits
of
the Presidents and First Ladies (part of the Library of
Congress American
Memory Project, this source provides likenesses of each U.S. president
and most of the first ladies)
Presidential
Libraries (provides links
to all the presidential libraries beginning with Herbert Hoover's)
Presidents of the United
States
(this site offers a plethora of
information about each of the chief executives of our great nation)
The American
Presidency: a Glorious Burden (this website is based on a
fall of 2000 Smithsonian exhibition containing artifacts and facts
dealing with the lives and times of our country's presidents)
The
White House (news and
information emanating from that famous residence located at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue in our nation's capital)
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Elections and Politics
American
National Election Studies (this site provides access to
statistical data on American elections since 1948)
Atlas
of U.S. Presidential Elections
(this is a commercial site, but a good one providing lots of
detailed information)
Federal Elections Commission
(site of the federal agency charged with enforcing campaign finance
law and overseeing public funding of Presidential elections)
Guide
to U.S.
Elections and Voting (provides
non-partisan as well as partisan sources of information on elections,
voting and lots of additional things)
Opensecrets.org
(your
guide to just how much money is spent on U.S. elections, by PAC's,
lobbyists and other groups)
Policy Agendas Project (a
collection of online data sets recording U.S. federal government
activities since 1947; includes, among other things, congressional
hearings, statutes, Presidential executive orders, Supreme Court cases,
and roll call votes in Congress)
Political
Advertising Resource Center (a non-partisan website
that analyzes the televiision advertisements used in local, state and
national political campaigns)
Political Information (a search engine
leading the user to a multitude of things of a political nature)
Project
Vote Smart (a good source
of election-related information, including lobby group ratings of
candidates, campaign finance data and candidate biographies)
Publius (voter
education site that allows for viewing a specific voter's ballot,
mapping of polling locations and other election/voting issues)
Voting America: United States Politics,
1840-2008 (excellent presentation of US electoral history
via the use of interactive maps)
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Supreme
Court
Cornell/Legal
Information Institute (current Court decisions since 1990, plus
a collection of 600 historically-important decisions)
FindLaw(contains
a searchable database of Court decisions since 1893)
GPO Access
(gives access to Court decisions from 1937 to 1975 and from 1992 to
date)
The Oyez Project (a
terrific site providing access to decisions plus a lot more concerning
our nation's highest court)
Supreme Court Historical
Society (for both the novice and the scholar, this site
provides valuable insights into the history and working of the Court)
United States Supreme
Court Home
Page (latest opinions and
more on the Court's home turf)
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Statistics
Bureau of Justice Statistics
(various crime statistics on many topics)
ChildStats
(easy access
to statistics and reports on children and families)
Education Statistics (provides
direct access to major NCES publications such as Digest
of Education Statistics, Condition
of Education and more)
FBI Crime Statistics (links
to three annual statistical publications: Crime
in the United States, Hate
Crime Statistics, and Law
Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted)
Faststats from the National Center for Health
Statistics (provides quick a-z access to statistics on
topics of public health importance)
FedStats (provides
access to statistical information produced by more than 100 Federal
government agencies)
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
(includes data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of
criminal justice in the United States)
State and Local
Government Finances (financial statistcs taken from the
Census of Governments are given in four categories)
USA
Trade Online (premier
site for obtaining monthly and annual trade statistics at the district
and port level, as well as state exports)
Statistical Abstract of
the United States (the national data book of sociological
and economic statistics, this site offers access to the current edition
plus older issues back to 1878)
TranStats (the intermodal
transportation database brought to you by the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics)
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Miscellaneous
Links
Catalog
of Federal Domestic Assistance (a government-wide compendium
of Federal
programs, projects, services and activities which provide assistance or
benefits to the American public)
Federal
Business Opportunities (this
site provides up-to-date information about Federal government
procurement opportunities
FirstGov
Citizen Gateway (locate government offices and services in your
local community, region or state by using this website)
National Climatic Data Center
(the gateway to lots and lots of local and national climate and weather
statistics)
The
Student Guide (student
financial aid from the United States Department of Education)
War of the Rebellion Records (the
official Civil War records of both the Union and Confederate armies
and navies)
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