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Government Information

This guide will help library users to access government information through websites and online databases.

General Government Information

USA.gov

This website is the official guide to government information and services.  Its mission is to create and organize timely, needed government information and services and make them accessible to the public.


Cornerstone Documents

This website is a collection of the most important documents of the United States' government.  They include the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address and others.


United States Government Manual

The official handbook of the Federal Government is a regularly updated special section of the Federal Register. It includes leadership tables and describes agency activities and programs of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government as well as activities and programs of quasi-official agencies and institutional organizations in which the United States participates as a member.


DATA.gov

This website provides searchable data sets on topics such as agriculture, health, climate, manufacturing, and science.  The data is generated by the agencies of the Executive branch.


GovEngine.com

GovEngine.com provides a database with more than 17,000 links to information on the government on a federal, state, and local level.


Recreation.gov

Recreation.gov is your one stop shop for trip planning, at 2,500 federal areas for over 60,000 facilities and activities.  It is brought to you by 12 federal partner agencies including the Army Corps of Engineers, Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Archives.


Benefit Finder

The Benefit Finder survey can help identify any benefits a person may be eligible for and how to apply for them.


Grants.gov

The Grants.gov website is organizations can find federal funding opportunities for the development and management of government-funded programs and projects. 

Freedom of Information Act

Freedom of Information Act

Passed in 1967, the Freedom of Information Act gives the public the right to request access to records from any federal agency.  This website gives more information on requesting information and allow you to make a request for information from several federal agencies.


Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Reading Room

The CIA Reading Room is the CIA's official FOIA website.  Here you can search and view documents released through the FOIA and other release programs.  You can also check the status of your information request.


Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Vault

The Vault is the FBI's official Freedom of Information Act website.  Here you can search and view documents released through the FOIA.  You can also check the status of your information request.


Department of Homeland Security FOIA Library

On the Official DHS Freedom of Information Act website, you can browse through records that have already been released under the FOIA. 


Department of State Virtual Reading Room

The Virtual Reading Room is the official FOIA website for the State Department.  Here you can search for and view more than 200,000 documents released through the Freedom of Information Act.

Government Document Databases

Catalog of Government Publications

The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available.  Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject and general knowledge.


Govinfo.gov

The GPO's Federal Digital System provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.


U. S. Government Bookstore

The U. S. Government Bookstore is an online market where the public can search for and purchase books and other documents published by the U. S. Government.  They can also subscribe to government published magazines and document series.


United States Government Documents Collections

The HathiTrust US Federal Government Documents Collections are searchable databases of digitized documents representing the comprehensive corpus of U. S. federal documents produced from 1789 to the present.  New documents are continuously being added.


Science.gov

Science.gov is a portal that searches more than 60 databases and 2,200 scientific websites to provide access to more than 200 million pages of research and development performed by federal agencies such as the Forest Service, NASA, The U. S. Geological Survey, Homeland Security, and many more.


World Wide Science

World Wide Science provides a multi-lingual gateway to databases from around the world.  It provides access to and translation of international scientific research.  The site is maintained by the Department of Energy on behalf of the World Wide Science Alliance.

Fact Checking Websites

Politifact

Politifact is a nonpartisan fact-checking website that rates the claims by elected officials, candidates, leaders of political parties and political activists from all levels of government


Project Vote Smart

The background and records of thousands of political candidates and elected officials including voting records, campaign contributions, public statements, biographical data and evaluations of them generated by over 100 special interest groups.


GovTrack

Publishes the status of federal legislation, information about representatives and Senators including voting records and original research on bills and votes.


Snopes

The Snopes.com web site was founded by David Mikkelson in 1994 and has since grown into the oldest and largest fact-checking sites on the internet. 


Factcheck

Fackcheck.org is run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania as a nonpartisan, nonprofit site that aims to monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U. S. political players in TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.


Media Bias Fact Check

Mediabiasfactcheck.com was founded in 2015 by Dave Van Zandt to provide a comprehensive rating system for media sources as to how biased they are and in what direction.  It's searchable database is a good source for checking the credibility of a media source.  The site also provides fact checking of news media.

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