Government Publications - Subject Guide
AgricultureBrowse Topics (A GPO & OSU Library Partnership)
- Current Bibliographies in Medicine
- Government Periodicals
- Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Business /Economics/ Industry Information (see also International Business)
- Business, Economics and Industry Statistics
- The Commerce Business Daily (Search also through GPO access)
- Consumer Price Indexes
- County Business Patterns, 1977-1995
- CPI Detailed Report
- Current Industrial Reports
- Electronic Commerce Policy - United States
- Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
- Measuring Electronic Business: Definitions, Underlying Concepts, and Measurement Plans
- Economic Report of the President
- EDGAR (from Securities and Exchange Commission)
- Corporate annual reports and other filings with the SEC
- GAO Reports and Testimony
- Industry, Trade and Technology Review
- Minerals Yearbook Vol. I -- Minerals
- Minerals Yearbook Vol. II --Area Reports: Domestic
- Minerals Yearbook Vol. III --Area Reports: International
- North American Industry Classification System
- Small Business States Profiles: From the Small Business Administration
- Standard Industrial Classification Search
- Survey of Minority and Women Owned Businesses
- Table of Redemption Values for U.S. Savings Bonds
- U.S. Industrial Outlook
- U.S. Business Advisor
- Administration for Children and Families
- Include press releases on child abuse, welfare, and child support
- Office of Child Support Enforcement
- Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics
- Provides national data on child abuse by type, conditions, and results
- Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Review of Self-Regulation and Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries
- Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics
- Provides State, national, and international data and statistics on the incidence of child abuse and neglect and fatalities due to child abuse and neglect
- State of the World's Children 1999 (State of the World Children 1998)
- Federal Citizen Information Center
- Consumer Product Safety Review
- FDA Consumer
- Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC)
Copyright, Patents, Trademarks and Records
- Basic Facts about Registering a Trademark
- Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
- Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright
- Scirus - indexed 13 million patents.
- United States Copyright Office
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Where to Write for Vital Records
- Your Guide to Researching Public Records
- China
- China Vitae
- A resource of information for more than 2500 current Chinese political, military, economic, business and academic leaders. The extensively cross-referenced biographical database is designed to be an indispensable research tool for those who closely follow activites in China.
- CIA Country Maps
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- Full-text of several of the Army's country series reference books
- Country Commercial Guides
- Country Analysis Briefs
- Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices
- Country Reports on Terrorism
- Background Notes: Country Profiles
- Global Legal Information Network - Laws in Countries Around the World
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
- Human Development Report
- Annual report from the UN Development Program. Provides economic and social characteristics for both developing and industrialized countries. Topics include: status of women, demographic profile, profile of human development, and wealth, poverty and social investment.
- Portals to
the World
- Links to electronic resources from around the world by the Library of Congress.
- Progress of Nations
- Country statistics on children include age, mortality rate, nutrition, immunization, and education.
- Maternal mortality rates and female mutilation cases by country
- National Trade Data Bank
- The most comprehensive source of world trade data. Topics include: export opportunities by industry, country, and product; foreign companies or importers looking for specific products; how -to - market guides; demographic, political and socio-economic conditions in hundreds of countries and much more!
- World Fact book
Crime and Justice (see also Laws, Regulations and Supreme Court Cases)
Demographics (Population and Aging)
- State Drug Resources National Directory
- Drugs@FDA
database
- A database listing most brand name and generic drug products approved
by the Food and Drug Administration since 1939, including prescription
and over-the-counter human drugs currently approved for sale in the
United States, as well as discontinued drugs.
- A database listing most brand name and generic drug products approved
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- NIDA Notes
- NIDA Notes is a publication of the U.S. Government produced by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The publication is intended to report on advances in the drug abuse field regarding current treatment and prevention issues and recent research activities and findings.
- Orange Book - Approved
Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
- Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
- Body and Mind
- Brought by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). BAM! was created to answer kids' questions on health issues and recommend ways to make their bodies and minds healthier, stronger, and safer. BAM! also serves as an aid to teachers, providing them with interactive activities to support their health and science curriculums that are educational and fun.
- College Navigator
- compare up to four institutions in one view, and maintain a list of favorite institutions from different searches.
- Coloring Books
- Common Core of Data
- Information on public schools and school district in the United States
- Compilation of Federal Education Laws
- Condition of Education
- Education Resources for Grades K-12 (U of North Texas)
- Educational Statistics
- FactFinder Kids' Corner
- FirstGov for Kids
- Free - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
- Guide to the U.S. Department of Education
- K12 Practitioners Circle
- K - 12 Related Government Agencies
- Kids Pages (on agency websites from Fedstats)
- The Learning Page (Library of Congress)
- NOAA Education Resources
- The NOAA Central Library Teachers' and Students' Corner
- Teacher Resources (biology)
- Teaching with Historic Places
- Uncle Sam for Kids
- U.S. Department of Education
Employment & Unemployment Information (see also Labor)
Environment and Natural Resources
- Air Quality
- EPA Fact Book
- Environmental Defense: Air in your City
- Environmental Defense: Scorecard (Compare selected communities)
- State
of Air Report - American Lung Association
- Check YOUR air quality in your area.
- DOE Energy Citation Database
- Energy Citations includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
- EIA Energy Overview
- Include Annual Energy Outlook, Monthly Energy Review, International Energy Outlook, etc.
- EPA -Environmental
Protection Agency
- The Environment of the Community-Window to My Environment
- Environmental Regulations - EDOCKET
- Search Your Community
- EPA Science Inventory
- The Science Inventory is a searchable, Agency-wide database of more
than 4,000 scientific and technical work products.
- The Science Inventory is a searchable, Agency-wide database of more
- Environmental Health Information Service
- An Online Database which include: Chemical Health and Safety Database , Environmental Health Perspectives and supplement and other technical reports.
- Environmental Quality
- Environmental Voting Records in Congress
- Endangered Species
- The Forest
Service Database
- The database includes over 180,000 records of natural resources
literature, with over 4,500 links to full-text publications.
- The database includes over 180,000 records of natural resources
literature, with over 4,500 links to full-text publications.
- HazardMaps
- Hazardous Substances and Public Health
- Information Bridge
- The Information Bridge provides the open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
- National Water Conditions
- Natural Resources Conservation Service Soils Web Site
- Migratory Bird Research
- National Atlas of the United States
- The National Atlas of the United States delivers easy to use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural landscapes. The new National Atlas includes products and services designed to stimulate children and adults to visualize and understand complex relationships between environments, places, and people.
- National Climatic Data Center Online Document Library
- The National Climatic Data Center is providing no charge access for the Federal depository libraries to access the Monthly Climatic Data for the World, Storm Data, and Local Climatological Data via this controlled access site (free access provided, by password, ask librarian for help.).
- National Park Service Statistical Abstract
- Selected Water Resources Abstracts
- Toxic Release Inventory
- Toxnet
- U.S. Daily Weather Maps
- Water Resources in the United States
- Statistics and search engine available
- Title IV School Search Script 1997-1998
- A resource for anyone who is completing the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)
- Provides the name, address and the title IV School Code, of each post secondary educational institution that participates in the Title IV Federal Student Financial Aid Programs
- Looking for Student Aid
- Student Guide (Financial Aid from U.S. Department of Education)
- Asian American Health
- Administration on Aging
- Agency for Health Care Research and Policy
- CRISP(Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
- A searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans
- EID Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Entrez searchable retrieval system
- WWW Entrez currently allows you to access several databases including: The NCBI PubMed database, a compendium of medical abstracts that includes all of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database; the NCBI nucleotide database; the NCBI protein database; the MMDB 3-D structures database; the NCBI Genomes database, and the taxonomy database maintained by NCBI/GenBank.
- Environmental Health Information Service
- Fact Sheets from Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Food and Nutrition Information Center
- Hazardous Substances & Public Health
- Health, United States
- Hill-Burton Uncompensated Services Program
- Provides information concerning no-fee or reduced fee health care services at certain hospitals and other health care facilities for certain persons unable to pay for such care.
- Health and Medical Statistics
- IBIDS Database
- The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) is a database of published, international, scientific literature on
- MEDLINEplus Health Topics
- Include an Illustrated Encyclopedia, a health resource containing more than 10,000 indexed pages of content with more than 4,000 articles that span over 1,500
- National Institutes of Health
- National Library of Medicine
- Nursing Home Compare
- Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
- Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals.
medical topics.
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
- A Hypertext on American History from the Colonial Period Until Modern Times
- First Person Narratives of the American South,1860-1920.
- Government Information in the Study of History (St. Mary's University)
- NARA's Archival Information Locator
- National Archives and Records Administration has put the images of thousands documents of significance in U.S. history on the Web
- Holocaust Assets
- The U.S. Government has undertaken an intensive historical study of U.S. and Allied efforts
- National Register Information System
- A database that contains information on places listed in or determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
- Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
- War of the Rebellion
to recover and restore gold and other assets stolen or hidden by Germany during World War II.
Income and poverty (see Labor)
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb
- Get customized imports and exports by a list of one or more products. Data can be sorted by country, value, HTS, SIC, SITC & NAICS codes, etc..
- Help Guide (by Duke University)
- International Economic Review
- International Business Statistics
- International Energy Outlook
- National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers
- Overseas Business Reports
- U.S. International Trade Commission Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb
Labor (income, poverty, employment data)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Resource Guide
- Davis Bacon Wage Determination Database
- DICTIONARY OF OCCUPATIONAL TITLES
- Futurework - Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century
- Labor Statistics
- NLS Annotated Bibliography
- Searchable online bibliography of US labor market experience. Contains citations to journal articles, dissertations, etc. from 1968 to present.
- Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
- Poverty Guidelines, Research and Measurement
- Poverty in the United States
- Report on the American Workforce 1999
Laws, Regulations and Supreme Court Cases
- Laws
- United States Code (GPO Access)
- Allows keyword searching of the entire US Code, and easy access to selected and significant statutes.
- The service includes full-text of the Code of Federal Regulations, various Presidential Documents and dozens of other reports
- United States Code from Cornell University
- United States Statutes and the United States Code: Historical Outlines, Notes, Lists, Tables, and Sources
- WashLaw WEB
- Index to federal and state legal resources
- Ohio Revised Code
- State Laws
- International Laws
- Internet Law Library
- Regulations
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Search the whole CFR by keywords; retrieve available CFR sections by citation
- Search the choice of CFR books on line; Search the Federal Register for related documents
- Federal Register
- Supreme Court Cases
- FindLaw
- U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
- Excellent search engine and archive of Supreme Court Cases, dating from 1900 to the present.
- Supreme Court decisions for 1937-1975 (GPO)
- Fedworld
- Search by case name or number for any of decisions representing volumes 300 through 422 of US Reports.
- U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database
- Committee Hearings
- Congressional Biliographies
- Comprehensive Lists of Hearings, Prints, and Publications Printed by the Senate, 1983 to present. And lists of House Committee Meetings Recorded in the Congressional Record's Daily Digest, 1985 to present
- Congressional Directory
- Congressional Pictorial Directory
- Congressional Record
- Congressional Record Index
- Congressional
Research Service Reports
- The site provides integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available on the Web since 1990.
- Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
- Including Congress this Week; Major Legislation; Bill Text; Bill Summary & Status; Congressional Record (full text) and Index; Committee Information (full text); Historical Documents.
- Searchable by keyword, report number, bill number and committee.
- GPO Access
- LLSDC's Legislative Source Book
- Include many useful information like "Questions and Answers in Legislative and Regulatory Research" or "Federal Legislative History Research: A Practitioners Guide"
- Election 2004 NewS, Information, and links
- Presidential Documents
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
- United States Government Manual
- National Five - Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory
- Post Office Locator
- Postal Explorer
- It includes Domestic Mail Manual, International Mail Manual, Postage Rate and Fees, Domestic Rate Calculator, International Rate Calculator, etc.
- ZIP Codes by County
- ArXiv
- arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.
- DOE Federal R&D Project Summaries
- DOE Energy Citation Database
- Energy Citations includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
- Information Bridge
- The Information Bridge provides the open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
- Pubchem
- Science and Engineering Degrees
- Science and Technology in Review
- Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR)
- National Academy of Science
- National Science Foundation
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
- Science Accelerator
- Tool for searching across collections of the DOE scientific and technical information, including the Information Bridge , Energy Citations Database , Science Conference Proceedings, DOepatents, E-print Network, Energy files , DOE R&D Project Summaries, Federal R&D Project Summaries, and DOE R&D Accomplishments
- Science.gov
- From science.gov, users can find over one thousand government information resources about science. These resources include: technical reports, journal citations, databases, Federal web sites, and fact sheets. The information is all free, and no registration is required.
- ScienceResearch.com
- a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases.
- Scientific and technical information
- From Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in broad disciplines such as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, engineering, energy efficiency, and other related subject areas. Resources include tools for cross searching bibliographic citations, full-text technical reports, preprints, and journals citations residing in multiple databases and Web sites.
- Social Security Death Index
- Social Security Online
- Social Security Handbook
- Social Security Programs Throughout the World
- SSI Recipients by State and County
- Essential Links to Taxes
- Federal
Tax Forms
- For Federal tax information, please call 1-800-829-3676 (forms) or 1-800-829-1040 (assistance)
- For Better or For Worse: Marriage and the Federal Income Tax
- Federal Tax Law Sites (University of Northern Iowa)
- Including New Tax Laws; U.S. Code; Old Tax Code; Taxation Bills; Regulations; Court Decisions; Rates (including Per Diem Rates) and Tax Treaties
- Foreign Per Diem Rates
- Ohio Department
of Taxation
- For Ohio State tax information, please call 1-800-282-1782 (forms) or 1-800-282-1780 (individual tax payer services)
- Ohio City Income
Tax
- Columbus City Tax information (614-645-7370)
- State Tax Forms
- TRAC IRS
- Audits of individuals and corporations as well as collection and IRS staffing data.
- CDC Travel Information Page
- Digital Topo Maps
- Digital Raster Graphics Finder (The Miami University Library)
- National Atlas of the United States
- Small
Geographic Areas Database
- Covers federal and Ohio government sources that give data for counties,
metropolitan areas, cities, school districts,
zip codes, census tracts, and congressional districts.
- Covers federal and Ohio government sources that give data for counties,
metropolitan areas, cities, school districts,
- Travel Warnings and Consular Information
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
- World Map Connection