Government Information
The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign levels of government.
- Federal Government: General Information
- Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
- State Information
- Local Information
- International and Foreign Information
- Statistical Resources
- Additional Resources
Federal Government: General Information
- Federal Government Resources on the Web (Univ. of Michigan)
- Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT FDTF)
- Federal Agencies Directory (Louisiana State Univ.)
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S House of Representatives
- United States Senate
- White House Home Page
Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
- Code of Federal Regulation (GPO Access)
- Congress Org(Searchable directories and current awareness)
- Legislative Branch Internet Resources-Thomas (Library of Congress)
- Thomas (Search and retrieve Legislation)
- Law (Univ. of North Texas)
State Information
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Website
- Government Resources on the Web-States (Univ. of Arizana)
- State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell Univ.)
- State Government Collections --try one of the following:
- American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)
- Virtual Law Library (Indiana Univ. School of Law) From the "Browse by Information Type" menu, select "State Government Servers"
- FindLaw
- StateList (Electronic Source for State Publications, Univ. of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign)
- U.S. State and Local Gateway
Local Information
International and Foreign Information
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- Foreign Governments (Northwestern Univ.)
- Foreign National Governments, International Governmental Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (ALA GODORT International Documents Task Force)
- International Governmental Organizations (Northwestern Univ.)
- US State Department Home Page
- United Nations
Statistical Resources
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Business & Economics Numeric Data Starting Points (Mansfield Univ.)
- Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
- InfoNation (United Nations)
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Statistical Agencies & Information (Univ. of North Texas)
- US Census Bureau
Additional Resources
- Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet (tutorial)
- FirstGov, and Google Uncle Sam (Search engines for government information)
For information or suggestions concerning this page, please contact Loretta Righter at LRighter@mclinc.org