Government Resources

Comprehensive government documents catalog covering Government Publications Office (GPO) since 1994. Links to documents available online.

Official mobile friendly federal government website for the public to access critical federal documents easily. Included are documents from all three government branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. Executive: Budget and Presidential materials. Legislative: Congressional Bills, Public and Private Laws, Statues At Large, U.S. Code. Judicial: U.S. Courts Opinions, Independent Counsel Investigations.

Data.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. This tool will replace American Fact Finder (AFF) in spring 2020 and becomes a centralized tool for U.S. population, housing, and economic information.

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. The scope of data begins in January 1995, when the 104th Congress convened. Congressional documents from the first 100 years of the U.S. Congress (1774-1875) can be accessed through A Century of Lawmaking .

Search federal and state codes, statues, and legal cases. In addition, it offers legal reference sources and legal journals.This database is available via Rider Key.

This collection provides the public with access to research products produced by the CRS (Congressional Research Service), a federal legislative branch agency, which works exclusively for the U.S. Congress, providing timely, authoritative, objective and nonpartisan research and analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate. CRS has been a valued and respected resource on Capitol Hill for more than a century.

Includes homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a wide variety of sources including federal, state and local governments, international governments and institutions, nonprofit organizations and private entities.

Locate federal, state and local government information.

Find contact information for U.S. federal government departments and agencies including websites, emails, phone numbers, addresses, and more.

Documents are integrated with the Library's other materials and can be searched using the Library Catalog. Use Advanced search interface, enter keyword(s) in the first search box. In the second search box, enter the issuing agency as the author - a department or a committee, started with "United States." Use the abbreviated "dept" instead of the whole word "department" (e.g. dept of homeland security). If you do not know which department is the issuing agency, enter "United States." Choose "Author" in the drop down menu.