Search Engines
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- Fed World
- The government's attempt to organize itself for web users. Uses search boxes that allow you to search across government for certain keywords.
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- FedWeb Locator
- One of the originals and still pretty good. This site looks at government by hierarchy. Use it to find agencies you might not know even exist.
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- FirstGov
- A new search interface from the U.S. government. Nicely done and easy to use. Uses search terms and hierarchial menus.
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- Full Text Search
- Compiled by Washburn Law Library, allows searches by keywords, sudoc numbers and titles.
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- GPO Access
- The General Printing Office runs Access, which is a hierarchial menu look at government. An excellent site and well worth checking out.
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- GPO Databases
- A listing of some of the more popular-- and interesting-- databases maintained by government with hyperlinks to their search interfaces.
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- Multi Search
- A search engine that will search across dozens of databases at a time. Another tool from the General Printing Office.
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Search Hierarchial Menu
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- Judicial
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- Legislative
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Specialized Links
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- US Blue Pages
- A listing of governmental offices.
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- Catalog of U.S. Governmental Publications
- No reporter should be without it. This is a listing of all publications, pamphlets and press releases issued by the government, organized by subject and searchable by keyword.
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- Direct Search
- Gary Price's page has lots of state and federal government databases that don't show up in most search engines.
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- Federal Bulletin Board System
- Pretty explanatory in the title. Go here to find out what government agencies are posting for their employees.
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- General Accounting Office Reports
- The watchdog of government spending creates reports on how agencies and programs are working.
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- Hearings Before the Congress
- The transcript of hearings before various committees of Congress are a goldmine of expert sources and expert testimony.
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- Michigan Document Center
- Created by the University of Michigan, this database has an impressive collection of government records neatly categorized.
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- National Security Archive
- Supposedly the world's largest collection of non-government documents of declassified materials. Housed at George Washington University. Take a look at the picture of Elvis with Nixon and then click on the links to get all correspondence between the two.
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- Northern Light
- USGovSearch is a specialized search engine from Northern Light that allows you to search governmental records and newspaper archives at the same time.
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- Thomas
- The Library of Congress brings you Thomas, the search engine for all things Congressional. Check it for status of legislation, floor speeches, and more.
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- World Lecture Hall
- This non-governmental site contains course syllabi from various university professors. Check it out to find what professors in a particular field suggest are good internet resources for that subject.
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