Guide to Government Information

Government Departments and Agencies

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Federal Government: General Information

• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy-A core group of current and historical Government publications is being made available for free, permanent, public access via GPO Access.
• Documents Center - One-stop shopping from the University of Michigan
• FedWorld Information Network-FedWorld was established by The National Technical Information Service (NTIS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, to serve as the online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information disseminated by the Federal Government.

• GovSpot-A commercial, non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for government information online

• LSU Libraries Federal Agencies Directory-This partnership provides for Federal depository library access to the List of Federal Agency Internet Sites from Louisiana State University Libraries.  Based on the U.S. Government Manual, the List directs users to the Web sites of active Federal agencies, and can be searched in several ways.
• MarciveWeb DOCS - Search for U.S. Government Publications from July 1976 to the present (SDSU campus or affiliates, only).
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United State Copyright Office
• United States Government Manual
• USA.gov
• U.S. Government Online Bookstore
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate Home Page
• White House Home Page

Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information

• Congressional Research Service Reports via the University of Maryland Thurgood Marshall Law Library
• Congressional Research Service Reports via the University of North Texas
• GPO Access - Search and retrieve congressional information from the US Government Printing Office, with mirror, or Gateway, sites at over 20 universities, each with their own strengths.
• GPO Access Specialized Collections - Full text information online. Core documents, statistics, environment, transportation and more.
• LexisNexis Congressional Universe - Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. (SDSU campus or affiliates, only).
• Library of Congress - Guide to the U.S. Legislative Branch
• Thomas - Search & retrieve legislation from the 103^rd to current congresses
• U.S. Code - Cornell Law School

Federal Government: University Subject Links

[Agriculture & Biological Sciences]   [Arts & Science]   [Education & Counseling]   [Engineering]  

[Family & Consumer Sciences]   [General Studies]   [Nursing]   [Pharmacy]

Agriculture and Biological Sciences
• Census of Agriculture
• Climate Change--Methane and Other Greenhouse Gases
• EPA Office of Pesticides Programs
• Food and Agricultural Policy: Taking Stock for the New Century
• Food Safety Research Information Office - USDA
• National Agricultural Library
• AGRICOLA - Search & Browse for Articles
• List of Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA
• National Library of Medicine - Free MEDLINE searching plus other NLM information
• National Science Foundation
• Office of Pesticide Programs - Environmental Protection Agency
• National Park Service
• Periodic Table of the Elements - Los Alamos National Laboratory
• SciTechResources.gov - Access to key U.S. Government scientific, technology, and engineering resources
• Surf Your Watershed
• USDA

Arts and Science  

• Climate Change--Methane and Other Greenhouse Gases
• Environmental Health Information Service
• EPA
• EROS Data Center
• EPSCoR, the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
• Fed in Print: An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research
• FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
• Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
• InciWeb: Incident Information System-interagency wildland fire incident information management system.
• Library of Congress American Memory-digital collections and more from the Library of Congress.
• List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology with Index to Authors and Titles
• National Archives and Records Administration
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
• 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC Correspondence Tables
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (U.S. Census Bureau)
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS): An Unofficial Clearinghouse Concerning NAICS (Georgetown University)
• The National Atlas of the United States of America
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
• National Science Foundation
• National Technical Information Service Depository Access to Reports, Technical & Scientific (DARTS)
• NIST ONLINE Reference Databases - Chemical data
• OSTI-Office of Science and Technical Information provides searchable information resources providing access to scientific and technical information (STI) in the physical sciences and other disciplines of concern to the Department of Energy (DOE). To search across important DOE collections via a simple query, see the DOE Science Accelerator Advanced Search page.
• ParkNet - National Park Service
• SciTechResources.gov - Access to key U.S. Government scientific, technolgoy, and engineering resources
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics-( J29.9/6:2003 at Information Desk)
• Surf Your Watershed
• Topozone - Interactive topographic map of the United States
• United States Department of the Interior Library
• United States Government Electronic Commerce Policy

Education and Counseling  

• Career Guide to Industries, 2006-07 Edition
• ERIC-Education Resources Information Center
• Education Statistics - Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and other National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) publications
• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• National Public School and School District Locator
• No Child Left Behind
• Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07
• Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
• Title IX: 25 Years of Progress - U.S. Department of Education

Engineering

• Department of Energy
• DOE Information Bridge - Full-text reports from the Department of Energy
• Energy Citations Database (1948+)
• EnergyFiles
• Department of Transportation's On-Line Publications
• EPA Environmental Information Management System
• Federal R&D Project Summaries
• The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Wind Technology Center 
• National Science Foundation
• National Technical Information Service Depository Access to Reports, Technical & Scientific (DARTS)
• NASA for Researchers
• OSTI-Office of Science and Technical Information provides searchable information resources providing access to scientific and technical information (STI) in the physical sciences and other disciplines of concern to the Department of Energy (DOE). To search across important DOE collections via a simple query, see the DOE Science Accelerator Advanced Search page.
• Patents & Trademarks
• Science Accelerator-Searches science including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishements and more via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Dept. of Energy.
• Science.gov-Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results
• SciTechResources.gov - Access to key U.S. Government scientific, technolgoy, and engineering resources
• United States Department of the Interior Library
• United States Army Corps of Engineers Publications
• Wind Energy Program

Family and Consumer Sciences

• Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion - USDA
• ChildStats.gov
• Food Safety Research Information Office - USDA
• healthfinder - Consumer health and human services information
• Household Products Database
• Medicare
• MedlinePlus-Consumer Health Information
• National Children's Study
• National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
• National Food Safety Database - Sponsored by USDA's Cooperative State Research, Extension, and Education Service and the Food Research Institute
• Partnership for Healthy Weight Management
• U.S. Consumer Gateway

• www.FoodSafety.gov - Gateway to Government Food Safety Information from the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

General Studies

• AmeriCorps-National community service organization

• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Includes links to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, Career Guide to Industries, Monthly Labor Review

• Career Voyages-Explore career options, high demand occupations, and better wages                                

• USA.gov

• U.S. Department of Education-Useful information for Students including programs, financial aid, and accreditation.

Nursing

• Centers for Disease Control

• Community Health Status Indicators Project - Community Health Status

• HCUPnet: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - National data on "hospital utilization, access, charges, quality and outcomes

• Medicare

• MedlinePlus

• National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services resources to help plan for future long-term care  needs

• Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Health 1964-2004 - Guide from the University of Minnesota's Government Publications Library

• Vital Statistics of the United States

Pharmacy

• DailyMed

• FDA Electronic Orange Book

• Food and Drug Administration   

• Medline/PubMed

• National Institutes of Health

• National Library of Medicine

 

   

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This guide is only an introduction to locating government materials.
For more in-depth information or for assistance in using these sources, contact Vickie Mix Documents Librarian.

Documents Department

Hilton M. Briggs Library, Box 2115
South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007-1098
Telephone: (605) 68805576 or (605) 688-5958 or (800) 786-2038 

Fax: (605) 688-6133
E-mail: vickie.mix@sdstate.edu

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This page was last edited 1 November 2007

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