FRIEDSAM MEMORIAL LIBRARY 

Friedsam Memorial Library is a selective Federal and New York State depository for government publications.  The collection is located on the second floor of the library near the blue stacks.  Any reference librarian at the Information Desk can assist you with finding what you need in the collection.  

The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign levels of government.

Sections

1. Federal Government: General Information
2. Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
3. State Information
4. International and Foreign Information
5. Statistical Resources
6. Additional Resources -- including the Basic Collection List

Monthly Catalog--use to locate published government information

Federal Government:
General Information

• Federal Government Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT FDTF)
• Federal Agencies Directory (Louisiana State University)
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States House of Representatives
• United States Senate
• The White House
• Ben's Guide to US Government Information for Kids

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Federal Government:
Legislative and Regulatory Information

• Code of Federal Regulations (GPO Access)
• Congress.org [Searchable directories and current awareness] (Capital Advantage)
• The Federal Register (GPO Access)
• GPO Access (U.S. Government Printing Office)
• THOMAS: In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress
• Government Resources: Links to Congressional information from official and non-official sources (Library of Congress — THOMAS)
• Law (University of North Texas)

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State Information

• Government Resources on the Web: States (University of Arizona)
• State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University Law School — Legal Information Institute)
• State Government Collections—try one of the following:
• American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!) (LawSource.com)
• WWW Virtual Law Library [From the "By information source" menu, select "State Government"] (Indiana University School of Law)
• State Resources (FindLaw for Legal Professionals)
• State and Local Government on the Net (HelloMetro Group)
• StateList: The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• State Government (USA.gov)

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International and Foreign Information

• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• Foreign Governments (Northwestern University)
• Foreign National Governments/International Governmental Organizations/Non-governmental Organizations (ALA GODORT International Documents Task Force)
• International Governmental Organizations (Northwestern University)
• U.S Department of State [see also U.S. State Department Archive]
• United Nations

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Statistical Resources

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Department of Labor)
• Fedstats [Statistics and information produced by U.S. federal government agencies]
• InfoNation Advanced [View and compare statistical data for U.N. countries] (United Nations)
• National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education/Institute of Education Sciences)
• National Center for Health Statistics (Department of Health and Human Services)
• Statistical Resources (University of North Texas)
• U.S. Census Bureau (U.S. Department of Commerce)

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Additional Resources

• The "Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (Western Illinois University)
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (U.S. Government Printing Office)
• GITCO CD-ROM Documentation Service (University of Iowa)
• FirstGov, and Google U.S. Government Search [Search engines for government information]
• Federal Information by Topic or Title (Idaho State University)
• Professional Resources (ALA GODORT)
• Migrating Government Publications [full-text documents via the University of Memphis; see also the collection of Brochures & Pamphlets at the University at Buffalo]

** Copyright restrictions prevent the inclusion of some tables in electronic versions.

Note: The list of Basic Collection Titles was based upon http://www.fdlp.gov/basicollection 

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For comments or suggestion concerning this page, please contact Rayola Appleby at rappleby@sbu.edu

URL of this Page: http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/govdocs 

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