Research Guides: Political Science: Government Information

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Tips & Tools for Searching Gov Info

Information is arranged by government entity or agency. The agency is the best place to start.

Identify the agency by conducting a site search in Google or using one of the tools below
Scan the results to identify relevant agencies.
Go to the agency homepage to browse or search

Tools

Site Search - to site search in Google type site:.gov and your search term. For example, site:.gov environmental statistics
USA.gov
Govinfo.gov
Custom Google Search for IGO's or NGO's

Government Information

Government publications provide you with access to a vast and rich collection of primary resources. They also help you identify and track policy over time, while locating official data and statistics.

Check out our Guide to Government Information

We Recommend

Here are your best bets for locating government information on your topic

ProQuest Congressional Legislative & Executive Publications
Hearings, Congressional Record, laws, regulations, biographies and voting records of individual members, and many more primary resources

FDsys: Federal Digital System
Recent congressional publications, bills, committee hearings, presidential materials, statutes, regulations, budgets

Legislative Insight (ProQuest)
Provides a legislative history for significant laws from 1789 to the present. A legislative history tracks all of the publications produced from when a bill is introduced into Congress until it becomes law.
OECD iLibrary
Economic, social, and government policy and statistics for the 30 member countries of the OECD

Declassified Documents Reference System (Gale)

Homeland Security Digital Library

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) (ProQuest)