United States

* Official Sites
Locate the home pages of government agencies.

* Sites Specializing in US Politics and Government
Links to sites offering a comprehensive overview of US government and political information.

* Full text documents
Find the texts of legislation, policies, congressional debates, treaties, etc.

* In the News
Links to current political events.

* United States Government Publications in the University of Sydney Library
How to find government materials in the University Library.

Official Sites

Congress and Presidency | Federal Government Departments and Agencies | State/Local Governments | Government Information

Congress and Presidency

Congressional Information Web Page
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/cong003.html

White House
url: http://www.whitehouse.gov/

U.S. House of Representatives' Home Page
url: http://www.house.gov/

U.S. Senate Home Page
url: http://www.senate.gov/

See also Congressional Record

Federal Government Departments and Agencies

GPOAccess
An easy, one-stop access to all federal government on-line information and services.
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/agency/index.html

Library of Congress Government Guide
url: http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html

Congressional Directory
Official guide to the US Government Departments and agencies, 1997-.
url: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/

State/Local Governments

Library of Congress State Government Guide
url: http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html

Stateline.org
Political news and data about individual US states.
url: http://www.stateline.org/

Government Information

US Government Manual
url: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/

Government Printing Office Gateway
Use this site to locate and download electronic information from numerous Federal agencies.
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/

FedWorld
url: http://www.fedworld.gov/

CLIO -- The National Archives Information Server (US)
url: http://www.nara.gov/

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Sites Specializing in US Politics and Government

These sites provide links to a wide variety of US government and political sources.

FirstGov
url: http://www.firstgov.gov/

Google U.S. Government Search
url: http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for finding U.S. government information, as well as state and local government websites. You can use this site to keep up to date on government-related news from official government sources and the press. You can also personalize the page by adding content feeds on government or other topics that you're interested in.

Federal Web Locator
url: http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/

National Political Index
url: http://www.politicalindex.com/

University of California; Berkeley Government Guide
url: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/GSSI/subjects.html

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Full text documents

All-in-one Sites which allow searches for a range of document types.
Archives
Bills
Bibliographic Sources and Databases
Budgets
Congressional Record
Congressional Reports and Government Agency Reports
Elections
Hearings
Historical Documents
Legislation, Bills and Cases
Media Releases
Opinion Polls
Political Parties and their Policies
Statistics and Census
Treaties

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All-in-one:
Sites which allow searches for a range of document types.

FirstGov
A government web portal allowing s earches a cross a range of US government websites.
url: http://www.firstgov.gov/

SearchGov.com
Search engine for searches across all US government web sites.
url: http://www.searchgov.com/

GPO Access
Provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information produced by the US Federal Government.
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/

Frequently Used Sites
Frequently Used Sites related to US Federal Government Information. A listing of key websites for US government information.
url: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/staff/fdtf.html

Google US Government Search
A version of the Google Search Engine which allows you to search US Government websites.
url: http://www.google.com/unclesam

FedWorld Information Network
"FedWorld ... offers is a comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information." and "offers multiple distribution channels to disseminate information to the public and to the Federal Government" mainly via a range of government databases and bulletin boards.
url: http://www.fedworld.gov/

Federal Web Locator
"The Federal Web Locator is a service provided by the Center for Information Law and Policy and is intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web." This site is best for official and especially legal information disseminated by the US government.
url: http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/

GrayLIT
GrayLIT Network provides a portal for over 100,000 FULL_TEXT technical reports located at the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Collections in the GrayLIT collaboration include the DOE Information Bridge; the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Report Collection; the EPA National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS); the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Reports; and the NASA Langley Technical Reports.
url: http://www.osti.gov/graylit/

Government and Politics Search Engines
A comprehensive listing of US search engines. Most are government agency search engines.
url: http://www.allsearchengines.com/government.html

See also Sites Specializing in US Politics and Government above. Many of these provide search engines for full-text government materials.

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Archives

NARA: The National Archives and Records Administration (US)
url: http://www.nara.gov/

The National Security Archive
url: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

See also Historical Documents.

Bibliographic Sources and Databases

GPO Access
This is the US Government Printing Office site for access to Monthly Catalog (1994-) and other US document databases.
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/cgp/index.html

GILS (Government Information Locator Service) Search Engine
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/gils.html

MOCAT: Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/cgp/index.html

Government Information Infomine - Government Document Search
url: http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?govpub

Library of Congress Catalogue via Z39.50 client
url: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/

Budgets

Federal Budget 1997-
url: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/

Congressional Record

US Congressional Record 1995-
url: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/crecord/index.html

Congressional Reports and Government Agency Reports

Senate, House and Executive Reports
url: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/index.html

U.S. Congressional Bibliographies
Comprehensive Lists of Hearings, Prints, and Publications Printed by the Senate, 1983 to present, and Lists of House Committee Meetings Recorded in the Congressional Record's Daily Digest, 1985 to present
url: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/senatebibs/

Agency Reports
To locate the reports of federal government agencies, use USA.gov A-Z list of US government departments and agencies to locate the agency and search its website for reports.

Elections

Federal Election Commission
Official government election site.
url: http://www.fec.gov/

Online NewsHour: Election 2004
Up-to-date news on the 2004 US election campaign, produced by the PBS - Public Broadcasting Service.
url: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2004/

Elections 2004
Site produced by the University of Michigan Library covering all aspects of elections in 2004.
url: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2004.html

Project Vote-Smart
This site gives information about candidates and elected officials.
url: http://www.vote-smart.org/

The Democratic Party
url: https://www.democrats.org/

The Republican Party
url: http://www.rnc.org/

Hearings

Congressional Hearings
Search the Congressional Hearings from 105th Congress (1997/1998) onwards.
url: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/chearings/index.html

Historical Documents

The Avalon Project
An extensive web collection of Documents in Law, History and Government.
url: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Core Documents of US Democracy
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html

US Constitution
url: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html

US Presidential Speeches and Biographies
url: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/

US Presidential Inaugurations
url: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html

Foreign Relations Series - Volumes Online
Key documents dealing with US foreign policy 1945-.
url: http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusonline.html

Foreign Relations of the United States
Online records of US official foreign relations records for the years 1900-1901, 1903-1918
url: http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

Presidential Elections and the Electoral College
Historical information about the workings of the Electoral College
url: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwec.html

Florida Election Cases
Full text versions of case documents on the US Florida election cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
url: http://supremecourtus.gov/florida.html

See also Archives.

Legislation, Bills and Cases

FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources
url: http://www.findlaw.com/toc.html

Thomas
Legislative Information on the Internet.
url: http://thomas.loc.gov/

Federal Register
via Government Printing Office
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html

Code of Federal Regulations
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/index.html

United States Code
A subject compilation of US federal laws published since 1926
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/uscmain.html

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Media Releases

There is no single site for media releases. Sites such as the following have search engines which allow you to search across government agencies. You can search for your topic, and include the phrase 'media release' and/or 'press release'. Some search engines allow wildcard searching (eg media release*). Check the help screens for more information.

GPOAccess
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/agency/index.html

An alternative approach is to go directly to the site of the department or agency and find a link for news or press releases. Use:

Library of Congress Government Guide
url: http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html

Federal Web Locator
url: http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/

Opinion Polls

Public Opinion
University of Michigan site listing major sources of public opinion data.
url: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stpolisc.html#opinion

Gallup Poll
url: http://www.gallup.com/

The Polling Report
A bimonthly public opinion monitor, this site offers very frequently updated polling results and data. Updated whenever a new poll is released, the site provides a daily glimpse into public opinion trends.
url: http://www.pollingreport.com/

Public Opinion Poll Question Database.
Odum Institute Data Archive search engine for locating opinion poll data from a range of US poll databases.
url: http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/pollsearch.html

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut is "the largest library of public opinion data in the world."
url: http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/

Online Survey Research/Public Opinion Centers
University of kansas guide to public opinion data, mostly US with some international coverage.
url: http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/po/index.html

National Election Studies (NES)
The mission of the National Election Studies (NES) is to produce high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation that serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists concerned with the theoretical and empirical foundations of mass politics in a democratic society.
url: http://www.umich.edu/~nes/index.htm

Political Parties and their Policies

Directory of US Political Parties
url: http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm

Statistics and Census

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
url: http://www.bls.gov/

U.S. Census
url: http://www.census.gov/

US Census ferret
url: http://ferret.bls.census.gov/cgi-bin/ferret

Current Population Reports and Other Population Reports Index
US census and population web guide by series and subject. Good for finding data quickly.
url: http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/refweb/govdocs/CPR/CPRindex.htm

Fedstats
One-stop site for a large range of US government statistics.
url: http://www.fedstats.gov/index.html

Stat-USA
An internet based collection of government databases, including the National Trade Databank, the Economic Bulletin Board, the Commerce Business Daily, and the Survey of Current Business.
url: http://www.stat-usa.gov/

Statistical Abstract of the US
url: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html

Treaties

NAFTA
North American Free Trade Association.
url: http://www-tech.mit.edu/Bulletins/nafta.html

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