Government Documents

Federal Resources For Locating Government Documents

The Federal Bulletin Board is produced by the Government Printing Office (GPO) as a means to distribute free federal information. Over 20 searchable databases including: The Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations.
http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov/access.htm

FedStats attempts to provide easy access to statistics produced by over 70 U.S. agencies.
http://www.fedstats.gov/

FedWorld is a comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, and ordering government and business information.
http://www.fedworld.gov/

FirstGov is a search engine containing over 500,000 U.S. Government and military web pages.
http://www.firstgov.gov/

Government Documents Librarianship is a meta-index that contains many of the resources found on this page and much more.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/
Documents.center/doclibs.html

The Government Printing Office (GPO) gives direct access to government information products and services.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/

NTIS (National Technical Information Service) indexes over 3 million government-sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related documents.
http://www.ntis.gov/about/index.html

Penny Hill Press is a commercial service supplying CRS (Congressional Research Service) Publications.
http://pennyhill.com

Thomas provides U.S. legislative information via the Library of Congress.
http://thomas.loc.gov/

U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory is an extensive master list of all Federal agencies on the Internet.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides company information for investors and others. The EDGAR Database is one click away.
http://www.sec.gov/index.html