Depository Library Sites
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/
GPO
Access
Billing
itself as "official government information at
your fingertips," this is the mother lode of federal information.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/index.html
University
of Michigan Documents Center
Created
by Grace York, a well respected member of the Documents community, this
is a page you can trust for up-to-date, well organized, comprehensive listings
of available materials. If she doesn't have it, it probably doesn't exist.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/dsc/news.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/dsc/nyc.html
Columbia
University Libraries Documents Service Center
Gerry
Breeze at Columbia University has also created a well thought out collection
of government and
non-governmental sites. These are two links from his main page: one highlights
local, national, official and international news sources while the other
gathers often elusive New York City-specific information on the web. They
are good examples of the range of governmental information available on
his site.
http://www.isu.edu/~woodstep/Subjects_1.html
The
Meta-Subject Index to Government Information
A
massive compilation of government information on the web arranged by subject
and host
site. Not all are free, or the site may be limited to the host's affiliates,
but it is an
excellent way of identifying sources.
Federal
Agency Sites
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Bureau
of Justice Statistics
If
you're willing to unzip and Excel you can find out just about anything
you'd need to know about Justice statistics at this site. Once you've downloaded
them use an unzip program and open them in Excel and you've got data. Many
files are in zip form to facilitate faster downloading. The site is updated
regularly and has some very good links to other non-governmental and international
justice statistics sites.
http://www.senate.gov/~dpc/crs/index.html
http://www.fas.org
http://www.cnie.org
Congressional
Research Service Reports
There
is no comprehensive site for the Congressional Research Service (CRS),
a part of the Library of Congress that provides nonpartisan
analytical research and reference services to Congress. CRS's mission is
to support an informed national legislature. Each of these sites offers
a selection of their reports. Search options vary between sites. The Federation
of American Scientists' site doesn't make the CRS Reports obvious but they
are there under the military and national security sections. The Committee
for the National Institute for the Environment has a link on their top
page with a pull down subject menu. Report dates range through the 1990s,
but there are few earlier ones.
http://www.fedstats.gov/
FedStats
More
than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics
of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical
Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of
statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. Searchable
by agency or program. Regional statistics are also available.
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/forms_pubs/index.html
With April 15th out of
the way for this year you may think it's too early to be thinking about
taxes, but this site not only offers forms, it has many tax publications
that can help you plan for next year. Bookmark now for next year.
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/
National
Geodetic Survey Home Page
It's
not everyday that you need a geodecist but this is the place to go when
you do. The
oldest civilian scientific agency in the government, it was established
by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807. Set
up to chart our coastal boundaries, its mission expanded to include surveys
of the interior as the nation grew westward. This agency produces fabulous
geological maps and aeronautic photos of the US.
http://travel.state.gov/passport_services.html
http://www.state.gov/www/services.html
Passport Information
Whether it's your first
time out of the country or you've been around the world many times, getting
a passport has gotten simpler. You
can now find the application forms you need on the web. The State Department's
Services page has many other offerings for both personal and business users
as well.
http://www.stat-usa.gov/BEN/databases.html
STAT-USA/Internet
Databases
Stat-USA,
a product of U.S. Department of Commerce, has authoritative information
from the Federal government for the US business, economic and trade community
and for anyone doing research in those areas. Databases are grouped by
US and global data. Although sponsored by the Commerce Department, data
is not limited to information collected by the Department.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces1406.html
http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/ua/AgendaApril1999/web_pages/table_index.html
http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/ua/AgendaApril1999/web_pages/subject.html
Unified
Agenda (Semiannual Regulatory Agenda)
Laws
are put into practice via regulations. Twice a year federal agencies are
required to publish regulatory information they are developing or have
recently completed. The Federal Register publishes this information in
April and October in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory
Actions. It is available from the Government
Printing Office site with an index that assumes a detailed knowledge of
regulatory material. The University of Massachusetts' site offers more
straightforward indexing with tables of agencies and a subject option.
New
York State and New York City Sites
http://www.state.ny.us/index.html
New
York State Government Page
Has
links to agencies and some subject-specific links. Linked sites vary greatly
in the level of information offered.
http://www.state.ny.us/dob/pubs/official/f_official.html
NYS
Executive Budget 1999-2000 (proposed)
http://www.osc.state.ny.us/
New
York State Comptroller's Home Page
Does
NYS owe you money? Find out by searching the Unclaimed Funds database at
this site.
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/vs94htm/toc.htm
New
York State Department of Health
Supports
a wide variety of health-related links from
both consumer and practitioner perspectives. Also gives addresses for obtaining
birth, death,
marriage and divorce records.
http://www.senate.state.ny.us/
New
York State Senate Home Page
Everything
you ever wanted to know about our legislature. Includes full-text bios,
bills, laws and reports, calendars, schedules, and the hard-to-find state
constitution.
http://www.tax.state.ny.us/Forms/income_cur_forms.htm
New
York State Income Tax Forms
Still
need tax forms? If you've got an Adobe Acrobat reader (free download from
the web), you can't beat this site for convenience. Bookmark now for next
year.
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/serdir/html/pubs.html
City
Directory Publications
Full-text
copies of numerous city publications arranged by agency.
Non-Governmental
Sites
Although
not sponsored by government agencies, these sites either draw upon government
information
or contain information pertaining to the government.
http://www.disrights.org
The
Disability Rights Activist
A
no-frills page jam-packed with links to information for individuals with
disabilities and organizations trying to make their services accessible.
It has legislative alerts, resources, research links, guides to developing
accessible web sites, online journals and much, much more.
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Lexis-Nexis
(subscription service available on campus or at home via CUNY's proxy server)
By
now Lexis-Nexis should be familiar to the Brooklyn College community. Its
standard legal resources are easy to find: Federal Case law, the US Code,
the constitution, court rules, and an array of state legal resources. However,
hidden in the Accounting, Auditing and Tax section are the ERISA Labor
Letters from the Department of Labor, the US Treasury regulations
and a long run of the IRS Bulletin. Real assets for online researchers.
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/
The
National Security Archive Home page
An
independent non-governmental research institute and library located at
George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and
publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA). Founded in 1985 NSA is the world's largest non-governmental
library of declassified documents. Using the latest in computerized indexing
technology they make their huge collection available to researchers and
the public. Using the declassified materials as a base they add auxiliary
sources both primary and secondary to make "comprehensive collections of
documents on specific topics." Check out their electronic briefing books.
http://www.noah.cuny.edu/
NOAH:
New York Online Access to Health Home Page
A
local page with a wide variety of health information, mostly for consumers
with special attention to local and regional resources. The site is available
in both English and Spanish.
http://www.smpcollege.com/smp_govt/documents
The
St. Martin's Press Documents Collection features a sampling of primary
sources from American history on this page intended to be used in conjunction
with their text book, Politics of American Government, 2nd ed. Its selection
of speeches, laws, Supreme Court cases, and a few items of international
interest make it a must-have bookmark for those historical odds and ends
that never seem to be where they should be when you're asked for them including
Roe v Wade, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Contract with
America and many of the Federalist papers.
http://www.creighton.edu/~kcfount/advocacy.html
Political
Advocacy Groups: Index
If
you need a special perspective on government policy--this is the place
to start looking. A wide ranging list of organizational sites covering
the entire political spectrum including the religious right (many varieties)
to eco-warriors, and back again. Subject and alphabetical indexing.
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/default.asp
TerraServer
Home Page
Brought
to you by Microsoft this page offers great aerial photography and an interface
that even novices can navigate. Since I found it via a link on the official
United States Geological Survey page, I'm guessing that they like it too.
http://www.xe.net/currency/
Universal
Currency Converter
Money
being a function of government, these questions come to the government
publications office
on a regular basis but there doesn't appear to be a government site that
provides this service.
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