Federal Information

Federal Information Listed Alphabetically
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• Administration on Aging
• Agricultural Statistics
  • Includes annual reports since 1994.(Adobe Acrobat format only).
• Agriculture Department
• Air Force
• Army
  • Army Center of Military History (CMH).
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
  • Provides a large collection of US and international statistics.
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing
• Bureau of Indian Affairs
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • Crime and justice statistics.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  • Quick links into the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    • National Transportation Statistics Online.
    • Transportation Statistics Annual Report .
• Census Bureau
  • Also FTP.
    
    • Census 2000.
    • U.S. Census Monitoring Board .
• Centers for Disease Control
  • CDC Wonder, access to CDC reports, guidelines, and public health data.
• Coast Guard
• Commerce Business Daily
  • Notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, and sales of government property.
• Commerce Department
• Defense Department
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
• Economic Research Service
  • Provides a large collection of U.S. and international statistics.
• Education Department
• Electronic Research Collection
  • Archival publications, from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Energy Department
• Energy Department Bibliographic Database
• Energy Information Highway
• ERIC Digests
• Executive Orders , issued by President John F. Kennedy.
• Federal Aviation Administration
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Federal Highway Administration
• Federal Railroad Administration
• Federal Student Loan Information
• Fish and Wildlife Service
• Health and Human Services
• Housing and Urban Development
• Immigration and Naturalization Service
• Interior Department
• Internal Revenue Service
• International Trade Administration
• Justice Department
• Labor Department
• Marine Corps
• Maritime Administration
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Geophysical Data Center
  • Also GOPHER and FTP.
• National Guard
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Institutes of Health
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• National Park Service
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
  • The official resource for government-sponsored scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.
• Navy
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration, (OSHA)
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• OMB Through FinanceNet
  • Includes additional OMB resources.
• Patent and Trademark Office
• Presidents
  • Contains inaugural addresses, State of the Union and other speeches, biographical material, and documents.
• Publications
  • From DefenseLink.
• Reserves
• State Department
• State Department Travel Warnings
• STAT-USA
  • A statistical database of current and historical US economic, financial, and trade data. This database is only available for searching from terminals on the UNC-CH campus. Not available on terminals at UNC-CH Hospitals.
• TIGER Mapping Service
• Transportation Department
• Treasury Department
• US Customs Service
• US Department of Agriculture Economics and Statistics System
  • Via Cornell University.
• US Geological Survey (USGS)
• US Mint
• US Secret Service
• Veterans Affairs
• White House
• White House Fellows
• Women's Bureau

• Congressional Research Service Reports
• Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States
• General Accounting Office (GAO)
• Government Printing Office (GPO)
• GPO Access
  • Links to full texts of publications from the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches as well as regulatory information, administrative decisions, and "Core Documents of US Democracy."
• GPO GILS
• House of Representatives
  • Features information on House members, committees, full text of bills introduced in the House, reports on the status of bills, voting information, daily information on major floor and committee actions.
    • Line Item Vetoes from the Office of the Clerk.
    • THOMAS -- Legislative Information from the Library of Congress.
• LC's Z39.50 Gateway
  • Use the Z39.50 standards to search the Library of Congress and many other library catalogs.
• Legislative Branch Links
  • A detailed list from Louisiana State University.
• Legislative Information
  • From GPO Access. Includes numerous Congressional publications such as bills, public laws, the Congressional Record, Committee publications (Prints, Documents, Hearings), etc.
• Library of Congress (LOC)
• LOC Finding Aids
  • Provides more detailed searching tools for researchers than standard catalog records.
• Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
  • Closed since 1995, the OTA provided Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative reports on the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century. Princeton University maintains a site with full text of these reports.
• Senate
  • Features information on Senate members, full text of bills introduced in the Senate, reports on the status of bills, voting information, daily information on major floor and committee actions.
    • THOMAS Legislative Information from the Library of Congress.
    • US Senate Bibliographies -- A comprehensive listing of hearings, prints, and publications.
• THOMAS
  • Legislative Information at the Library of Congress.
• US Legislative Branch
  • From the Library of Congress.

• Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • 1990-present, via Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
• Federal Courts Finder
  • From Emory University, School of Law.
• Federal Judiciary Home Page
  • From the Administrative Office of the US Courts.
• FedWorld Supreme Court Decisions
  • 1937-1975, from the US Department of Commerce.
• Supreme Court
• Supreme Court Opinions
  • 1893-Present, from "Findlaw."
• Supreme Court Resources
  • From "Findlaw."
• US Courts of Appeal D.C. Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal Eighth Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal Eleventh Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal Fifth Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal First Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal Fourth Circuit (including North Carolina)
• US Courts of Appeal Ninth Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal Second Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal Seventh Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal Sixth Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal Tenth Circuit
• US Courts of Appeal Third Circuit
• US Supreme Court Justices' Biographies and Pictures

• Central Intelligence Agency
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Communications Commission
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Federal Election Commission
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Federal Information Center (FIC)
• Federal Reserve Board
  • Fed in Print -- An Index to Federal Reserve economic research.
    • FRED Federal Reserve Economic Data, from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Federal Telephone Directories
• Federal Trade Commission
• General Services Administration
  • Government Information Exchange -- GSA's online information site. Includes the Federal Directory and Federal Yellow Pages.
• National Aeronautic and Space Administration
  • NASA Science and Technical Information(STI)
    • StarChild -- General Astronomy Learning Center for Young Astronomers. Astronomy site geared toward children.
• National Archives and Records Administration
  • NARA's Center for Electronic Records.
• National Endowment For The Humanities
• National Science Foundation
  • Science and Engineering Degrees 1966-94
    • Science and Engineering Degrees, by Fine Field of Study and by Race/Ethnicity of Recipient: 1995.
• National Security Agency
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Office of Personnel Management
  • Electronic Forms.
• Peace Corps
• Securities Exchange Commission
  • SEC EDGAR Database.
• Small Business Administration
• Smithsonian Institution
• Social Security Administration
• US Agency For International Development
• US Export/Import Bank
• US Information Agency
• US International Trade Commission
• US Postal Service
• Voice of America
• Zip Code Directory

• Cornell Law School
  • Features Supreme Court decisions since 1991 and full text of Copyright, Patent, and Trademark acts.
• Federal Administrative Decisions
  • Links to various federal administrative decisions not included in the "Federal Register" or "Code of Federal Regulations".
• FindLaw
  • A comprehensive site providing links to legal information.
    • Constitutional Law Center -- This offers an annotated Constitution, a history of the US Constitution and the founding fathers, and many related links. The front page of this section applies current events to articles of the Constitution.
    • Legal News -- Includes current legal issues in the news.
    • Supreme Court Opinions -- This section from FindLaw allows a person to search or browse US Supreme Court decisions from 1893 to the present.
• JURIST
  • "The Law Professors' Network" site at the University of Pittsburgh.
• WashLaw Web at Washburn University
  • Click on the name of a state to link to court information and state statutes.

• Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • Crime and justice statistics.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  • Quick links into the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    • National Transportation Statistics Online.
    • Transportation Statistics Annual Report .
• STAT-USA
  • A statistical database of current and historical US economic, financial, and trade data. This database is only available for searching from terminals on the UNC-CH campus. Not available on terminals at UNC-CH Hospitals.

For additional assistance in this area, contact:
Mike Van Fossen, International and State Documents Librarian
Email: vanfosen@refstaff.lib.unc.edu

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