Government Documents

By M. Faye Hadley, Native American Resources/Reference Law Librarian, MLIC, University of Tulsa College of Law.

The Mabee Legal Information Center has a wide variety of Government Documents, but more and more of these documents are available online via the World Wide Web. On this web site the University of Tulsa has attempted to gather many of the more commonly-used Government Web Sites and organize them for the use of law students, law faculty and library patrons.

In the News:

Cross Agency Portal Cross-agency portals are gateways that bring together federal information and services from multiple agencies about a particular topic or for a particular customer group.

Science.gov

The Official U.S. Time

Department of Homeland Security

The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal and state governments and other links that may be of interest to library users.

Federal Government: General Information

Government Printing Office (GPO) Access

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

FirstGov Includes many, many links with a good search engine to vitually every web site that is maintained by the United States Government.

Federal Government: Judicial Information

United States Supreme Court

U.S. Circuit Courts and the Federal Judiciary

Directory of United States Courts (District Courts)

Federal Government:Legislative and Regulatory Information

A Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations An excellent guide authored by Richard J. McKinney, Assistant Law Librarian at the Federal Reserve Board Law Library, also available in pdf format.

Washburn University's Agency Index

Code of Federal Regulations (GPO Access)

Congress.Org (Searchable directories and current awareness)

Federal Register (GPO Access)

GPO Access (U.S. Government Printing Office)

Legislative Branch Internet Resources - Thomas (Library of Congress)

Thomas (Search and retrieve legislation)

General State Information

State and Local Government on the Net [United States]

Virtual Law Library (Indiana Univ. School of Law) From the "Browse by Information Type" menu, select "State Government"

American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)

FindLaw

Piper Resources

StateList (Electronic Source for State Publications, Univ. of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign)

NASCIO StateSearch

U.S. State and Local Gateway

Local Information: (Oklahoma & Tulsa)

Oklahoma State Home Page

Oklahoma State Court Network

Oklahoma Administrative Code

Tulsa Revised Ordinances

Tulsa's 2002 Water Quality Report

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)

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (U.S. Government Printing Office)

GODORT CD-ROM Documentation Service (Univ. of Iowa)

Google Uncle Sam (Search engine for government information)

Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians (ALA GODORT)

U.S. Government Online Bookstore (U.S. Government Printing Office)

Migrating Government Publications (full-text docs via the Univ. of Memphis)

Collection of Government brochures and pamphlets (Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY)