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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
American FactFinder (population, housing, economic and geographic data)
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (1774 to present)
Congressional Bibliographies (from North Carolina State University)
Documents Center (one-stop shopping from the University of Michigan)
Elections 2008 (University of Michigan)
Executive Branch Web Sites (Library of Congress)
Government Databases by Subject (IUPUI site)
NCJRS (National Criminal
Justice Research Service)
Abstracts Database searches summaries of periodicals, government publications
and research reports. When the full-text is
available online, a link is included with the abstract.
Science.gov ("Selected science information ... including research and development results")
USA.gov (The U.S. government's official web portal)
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Federal Government:
Legislative and Regulatory
Information
A service of the US Government Printing Office that provides access to
information products produced by the Federal
Government
Thomas (search & retrieve the Congressional Record and the full text legislation from the 101st to current congresses)
U.S. Congress (GPO Access)
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Kentucky State Government
1. Kentucky Atlas and
Gazetteer (University of Kentucky)
2. Kentucky Court of Justice
Includes Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Circuit,
District, Family & Drug Courts
3. Kentucky Governor's Office
4. Kentucky
Revised Statutes
5. Kentucky
Stats (Kentucky Virtual Library)
6. Kentucky State Data
Center
7. Kentucky State Legislature
8. Kentucky.gov (Commonwealth of
Kentucky web site)
American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)
State & County Quickfacts (facts about people, business, and geography)
State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)
WWW Virtual Library-Law (Indiana University School of Law)
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Country Studies (Library of Congress)
International Agencies and Information on the Web (University of Michigan)
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Election Statistics (Clerk of the House - official vote counts for federal elections from1920 to the present)
Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
InfoNation (United Nations)
Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
U.S. Historical Census Data 1790-1960 (University of Virginia)
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GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (search for government documents)
U.S. Government Online Bookstore via GPO (also see the commercial version from Claitor's)
Subject Bibliographies (current government documents arranged by topic)
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15 January 2008