Finding Tools

Browse Topics
U.S. Government sites arranged by topic.

USA.gov
The U.S. government's official web portal.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, or CGP
An ever-expanding project to create the complete National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications.

• New Electronic Titles in the CGP

Frequently Used Sites related to U.S. Federal Government Information
Produced by the American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).

Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
From IUPUI. Also printed in the U.S. Government Manual.

Popular names of U.S. Government Reports
From Indiana University

U.S. Government Information on the Web Subject Index
From St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library in San Antonio, Texas

Search Across Multiple Government Databases and Publications

Citing Government Information Sources
From the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries

Code of Federal Regulations and Electronic CFR

Federal Agency Directory from LSU

Federal Register

Freedom of Information Act

Government Manual
Information on all branches of the federal government, including contact information for agencies and names of key personnel.

Government Printing Office Style Manual

GPO A-Z Online Resources List

Gross Domestic Product (from the Bureau of Economic Analysis)

National Atlas

Substitution List: Official FDLP Permanent Full-Text Databases

United States Code (browse)

Charters of Freedom
The National Archives maintains this site offering reproductions of America's most important primary government documents.

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy

The Branches of U.S. Government:

• Executive
• Legislative
• Judicial

Sites from the U.S. Department of State:

• About the U.S. Government
• Outline of U.S. Government
  The Outline provides details on the structure and formation of U.S. government.

FDLP Desktop
The main site for information from and about the Government Printing Office and the nation's Federal Depository Library system.

Documents Data Miner
This search engine combines files from the latest version of the List of Classes of United States Government Publications available for Selection by Depository Libraries, the Item Lister's Current Item Number Selection Profiles for Depository Libraries, and the Federal Depositories Library Directory. From Wichita State University.

Documents Data Miner 2
An updated version of the popualr search engine. See the introduction for more information about differences between versions.

Item Lister
Using the Depository Library Number (LUC is Depository #0152A), see a list of depositiry selections by Item Number. Use the List of Classes to translate these Item Numbers into specific series of publications.

List of Classes
The List of Classes is the official listing of publications available for selection by depository libraries participating in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

Shipping Lists
The Daily Depository Shipping Lists include all publications that are mailed each day from GPO's Library Programs Service to depository libraries. Use the Shipping Lister to locate shipping lists in PDF format.

Superseded List
U.S. Documents That May Be Discarded By Depository Libraries, annotated for Retention By Regional Depositories.