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Directories, Guides, and Search Engines Catalog of United States Government Documents  (index to federal publications available through the Federal Depository Library Program, of which Sprague Library is a participant.  Some records contain links to the web version of a document.  This is a good place to search for federal publications on a particular subject) Federal Government Resources on the Web (excellent site maintained by the Univ. of Michigan Library.  This is a good place to begin a subject search of federal agency web sites)   FedLaw ("a select group of references of particular use to those persons doing Federal legal research")  Federal Web Locator (“one-stop shopping point for federal information on the World Wide Web;" maintained by the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy) FedWorld (“a comprehensive central access point for… government and business information”) FirstGov (official U.S. Government portal to government information, services, and online transactions) GPO’s Browse Topics (provides topical pathfinders to U.S. Government information) Library of Congress Guides The Legislative Branch Official U.S. Executive Branch Web Sites U.S. Judicial Branch Resources LSU Libraries Federal Agencies Directory (comprehensive list of federal agency sites on the Internet arranged according to the U.S. Government Manual; maintained by the Louisiana State University Library.  This is a good place to begin to find the web site of a specific federal agency) SciTechResources.gov (comprehensive guide to government science and technology resources) U.S. Government Information on the Web Subject Index (contains links to guides on a subject maintained by various libraries or organizations)   Full Text Collections Guides and General Collections | Specialized Collections   Guides and General Collections Catalog of United States Government Documents (index to federal publications available through the Federal Depository Library Program, of which Sprague Library is a participant with links to the web version of publications.  This is a good place to find U.S. government publications on a particular subject) Free Searchable Public Records Databases (links to free international, U.S., and state public records databases; maintained by Pacific Resources Inc.) GPO Access (database of the official version of federal documents from all three branches of government.  This is a good place to find links to databases that search the text of important executive and legislative branch publications) Science & Technology Research Publications and Studies (subject guide to full text of federal science and technology publications; from the SciTechResources.gov site) Selected United States Government Full-text Documents (bookmarks to popular full text U. S. government documents; maintained by the U. of Penn Library) THOMAS (database of Congressional documents) Uncle Sam: Migrating Government Publications (this site links to the full text of U.S. Government serials and periodicals; maintained by the U. of Memphis Library) U.S. Government Documents Ready Reference Collection (bookmarks to regularly used government documents; maintained by the Columbia University Library) U.S. Government Periodicals on the Web (maintained by the Univ. of Louisville Library) Specialized Full Text Collections Congressional Research Service WWW Accessible Reports (guide to sites that link to CRS reports; maintained by Gary Price, George Washington University) DOSFAN Electronic Research Collection (site “mainly includes the archived electronic documents from the US State Department website and US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency”) GAO Reports (General Accounting Office reports)http://www.gao.gov/audit.htm Specialized Collections of Full Text Information (provides links to full text collections of U.S. Federal Government information.  Some require a password; call the Documents Librarian at 973-655-7145 for appointment) STAT-USA (A database of reports and statistics for the U.S. business, economic and trade community; available only in the Library) U.S. Patent Full Text Database (full-text database of all US patents issued from January 1976 to the most recent weekly issue date)     U. S. Census and Statistical Information Census Information | Other General Statistical Sources | Specialized Statistics   U.S. Census Bureau Statistics Sources American FactFinder (contains data from the 2000 and 1990 censuses; maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau.  This is the place to begin to find the most recent information from the 2000 decennial census)   CensusScope: Your Portal to Census 2000 Data ("an easy-to-use tool for U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michiga"). Selected Historical Census Data (maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau) U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Census Subjects A – Z (Census reports arranged by subject) United States Historical Census Data Browser of the U.S. (U.S. Census data from 1790 to 1970) 1990 Census Data (from the Social Science and Government Data Library at the Univ. of California Berkeley) 1990 Census Lookup (data from the following 1990 U.S. Census Summary Tape Files) Other General Statistical Sources Economic Statistics Briefing Room (White House site designed to provide “easy access” to current federal economic statistics) FedStats (key statistics from over 100 federal agencies) Government Information Sharing Project (covers major federal databases; maintained by the Univ. of Oregon Library) Social Statistics Briefing Room (White House site designed to provide “easy access” to current federal social statistics) Statistical Abstract of the United States Statistical Resources on the Web (from the U. of Michigan Documents Center) U.S. Government Statistical Sources (provides links to major federal statistical sources; maintained by the U. of Pennsylvania Library) Specialized Statistical Sources Encyclopedia of ED stats (data from several National Center for Education Statistics sources) Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (data on the Federal criminal justice system) National Center for Health Statistics  National Science Foundation Statistical Division (science and engineering statistics) Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online (data on all aspects of U.S. criminal justice) Send suggestions and comments to: Steven Shapiro