Primary Sources for 79-314: Government Documents

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Citations and some full text from 19th and early 20th century periodicals, books and government documents.

1976-present. Finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options, e. g. like searching Congressional Publications, Internet Publications, Serials, Historic Shelflist (1800s to 1992), etc.

Center for Research Libraries Catalog
Foreign government documents: several hundred thousand volumes of publications from the government agencies of more than 100 countries, including more than 1,750 official gazettes.
U. S. State Documents: more than a half million volumes of deposited and purchased monographic and serial publications of the U. S. state governments, including financial reports and research studies through 1950. CRL also maintains a collection of legislative journals through 1990.

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Formerly classified U.S. government documents on international relations since WWII.

Offers ways to search government web sites, reports, and databases

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1941-1996.
The original mission of FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. These translations, or transcriptions in the case of English language materials, make up the Daily Reports.

The HathiTrust a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust (including CMU), and membership is open to institutions worldwide. While full access may not be available due to copyright limitations, many government documents are freely available or can be obtained through interlibrary loan after being identified here.

Carnegie Mellon users only.
1975-present (incomplete)

Carnegie Mellon users only. Most info ca. 1991-present.
Bills, statutes, consitution, bill tracking for the United States.

Consolidates the contents of OSTI's Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database.

Catalog containing descriptions of just those government web sites that are key entry points to government science and technology resources

The Senator H. John Heinz III Archives at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries contain the congressional papers of the late Pennsylvanian John Heinz (1938-1991), a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971-1976) and the U.S. Senate (1977-1991). The Heinz House of Representatives Papers focus on local and regional issues of importance to Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania as well as his committee service. The Heinz Senate Papers document his work on national issues, such as health care, retirement, international trade and finance, and the environment.

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Session laws (from inception to present) of all 50 U.S. states as well as Canada, Australia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the D.C. Register.

Federal legislative information on the internet.

The official U.S. gateway to all government information