Links to sources of Government Information.

• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Search the United States Code
• Federal Register
• Office of Governmentwide Policy - GSA
• Presidential Directives and Executive Orders
• Government Printing Office Access
• Core Documents/Resources--

TIPS ON FINDING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION ON THE WEB

• Government Information Sites -- St. Mary's University Library popular and useful sites for finding government information, as well as links to other libraries.
• "Government Resources on the Internet" (Cindy Pitchon and Genie Tyburski)
• InfoSpace- Legislative Branch-- Search the federal legislative branch by formal leadership, committee, or state.
• InfoSpace-Government Executives-- Search for government executives by name or title.
• University of Michigan Documents Center
• "Confessions of a Deep Linker: Advanced Techniques for Linking to Government Documents & Databases" (Phillip A. McAfee, Esq.)
• "Electronic Rule Making: Broadcast List Servers, Hypertext Manuscripts, Proprietary Formats and Tagged Email" (Phillip A. McAfee, Esq.)
• OMB Circular A-130
• Paperwork Reduction Act PL 104-13
• Taxpayer Assets Project (TAP): TAP produces excellent materials on public access to government information.
• GovAccess: Jim Warren produces excellent notes about access to government information and other matters.
• NetAction: Audrie Krause prepares useful briefings called NetAction Notes about access to government information and other matters.

GOVERNMENT SEARCH ENGINES

• FirstGov-- Search all U.S. state and local government Web sites.
• FedWorld-- Search U.S. government Web sites.
• Google-- One of the most active spiders resulting in one of the largest databases. It searches .gov and .mil sites only.
• GovBot-- Database of over a million government sites.
• GovSpot-- One stop search for all the branches of US government.
• Gov't Info XChange-- Searches resources of government agencies.
• Government Guide-- Sponsored by Netscape and AOL.
  GPO Access:
• Usgovsearch-- Free access to Northern Light's search engine for government resources.
• Private Academic Library Network of Indiana-- Search GPO full-text databases, including the Federal Register, Congressional Bills and the U.S. Code.

SOURCES OF CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION

• Library of Congress U.S. Legislative Branch: Collection of legislative branch materials.
• House of Representatives web page
• U.S. Senate
• FECInfo: Best source of federal campaign finance data.
• Roll Call Online: Online version of the best insider source on the Congress.
• Vote Smart Web: Excellent collection of materials about the Congress and the federal government maintained by Project Vote Smart.
• Center for Responsive Politics: Site includes an abundance of useful data about financing of Congressional elections.
• CQ's American Voter: Much useful Congressional material from Congressional Quarterly.
• FEC official site: Official Federal Elections Commission site.