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- Don't know where to start? Try:
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- GPOAccess
- UM Libraries' Guides to Government Information
- USA.gov
Basic Resources
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- Annotated Consitution of the United States of America
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- Government Printing Office's bibliographic database of documents published by the federal government, 1976-present. Links to fulltext, if available.
- Checklist of United States Public Documents
- Index to documents published by the federal government, 1789-1909.
- Consitution of the United States of America
- GovSpeak
- A Guide to Government Acronyms and Abbreviations.
- Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- Selected volumes digitized by the Internet Archive dating from 1895-1970. (Note that more volumes are being added as they are digitized.)
- National Archives: Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
- Online catalog of the Archives' nationwide holdings.
- U.S. Government Book Store
- Purchase recent U.S. government publications.
- U.S. Government Manual
- Official handbook of the Federal Government with comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, 1995-present.
- U.S. Government Manuals 1935-1951
Search Engines
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- Google's U.S. Government Search
- INFOMINE: Government Information Search
- USA.gov
- Official portal to U.S. government information.
Directories
General Collections of Online Documents
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- Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC)
- Publications with answers to questions about consumer problems and government services.
- Government Document Brochures and Pamphlets
- Digital collection of selected general interest publications produced by the U.S. Federal Government, from the University at Buffalo Libraries.
- Government Periodicals on the Web
- An extensive directory of U.S. government periodicals that are available full-text on the Internet, compiled by the University of Louisville.
- GPO Access
- Links to databases with full-text of various government publications, including the Budget, GAO reports, Laws, and Supreme Court decisions, from the Government Printing Office. Browse the 'A-Z Resource List' or 'Resources by Branch.' These databases are being migrated to a new resource, FDsys, which has more advanced capabilities.
- National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD)
- Online access to records in a small selection of historic databases.
- Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents
- View images of the actual document or transcripts of 100 milestone documents with a role in U.S. History, compiled by the National Archives.
- Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects
- Information about and links to collections of digitized government publications, maintained by the Government Printing Office.
Citation Guides
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- American Psychological Association (APA)
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- DocsCite (Arizona State Univ.)
- How to Cite Government Documents (Univ. of Nebraska, Kearney)
- Chicago Manual of Style/Turabian
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- Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications (Univ. of Memphis)
- Citing Maps (Ohio Wesleyan Univ.)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
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- Citing Government Information Sources Using MLA Style (Univ. of Nevada, Reno)
- DocsCite (Arizona State Univ.)
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