U.S. Government Information on the Internet
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
- FDsys - GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides public access to Government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies.
- 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
- Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL), available on UC Hastings Electronic Resources page under Government Information Sources.
Legislative and Regulatory Information
- 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)
- Law (Univ. of North Texas)
Additional Federal Legal Information
State Information
- Government Resources on the Web - States (Univ. of Arizona)
- 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
- State & Local Government on the Net
- StateList (Electronic Source for State Publications, Univ. of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign)
- U.S. State and Local Gateway
California State Information
- California State Homepage
- California Laws & Regulations
- California Courts, Judges, & Cases
- California Election Information
- California Ballot Measures Database
Additional California Research Resources
Local Government Information
San Francisco City/County Government Information
- City and County of San Francisco Homepage
- City and County of San Francisco Departments and Agencies
- San Francisco organization chart
- San Francisco Municipal Codes (Searchable, unofficial source)
- San Francisco City Charter (unofficial source)
- San Francisco Courts Homepage
- Mayor's Office: Budget Documents, Policy Papers and Official Correspondence
- Meeting notices and agendas for the City and County of San Francisco's Boards and Commissions.
- Mayor's Addresses and Speeches
International and Foreign Information
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- Foreign Governments (Northwestern Univ.)
- Another List of Foreign Government Website
- 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)
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (U.S. Government Printing Office)
- GODORT CD-ROM Documentation Service (Univ. of Iowa)
- FirstGov, and Google Uncle Sam (Search engines for government information)
- Meta-Subject Access to Government Information (Idaho State Univ.)
- Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians (ALA GODORT)
- Migrating Government
Publications (full-text docs via the Univ. of Memphis, or try the collection of brochures and pamphlets at the Univ. at Buffalo)
Updated September 24, 2009.
Prepared by
Catherine Deane, J.D. Assistant to
