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Government Information Databases

Selected Bibliographic & Full Text Databases

Lexis Nexis Academic
Description: Lexis Nexis Academic provides access to the full-text of nearly 5,000 publication on a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Provides access to court cases, the Federal Register, state laws, patent information, and European Union legal materials.
Coverage: 1990 - present

Catalog of US Government Publications 
Description: This online catalog consists of bibliographic records published in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT) since January 1994. These records describe Government information products available through the Federal Depository Library Program. (free access anywhere)
Coverage: 1994 - present

Lexis Nexis Congressional
Description: Allows you to search the following: Hearing transcripts and submitted testimony, Committee reports, Bills, Public laws, Selected committee prints, Congressional documents, Congressional Record, Federal Register, current Code of Federal Regulations, and the current US Code. Most have full-text available except for Congressional hearings. (on campus access only)
Coverage: Varies from source to source; many back to 1970.

Fedstats (http://www.fedstats.gov/)  
Description: FEDSTATS provides easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by more than 100 agencies in the United States Federal Government. (free access anywhere)
Coverage: Current 
Vendor: US Government 

Government Documents Catalog Service  
Description: Government Documents Catalog Service is a accumulation of the complete Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications with coverage 1976 to date. The database contains over 400,000 citations to books, journals, reports, maps and other materials. Subject coverage includes agriculture, education, health, environment, defense, labor, energy, transportation, forests and fisheries, mining, manufacturing, domestic and foreign trade. (on-campus access only)
Coverage: 1976 - present

GPO Access (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/tools.html) Find information about the Federal depository Library program and publications made available through it. GPO Access is a service of the US Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. GPO Access includes these services:

National Criminal Justice Abstracts (http://abstractsdb.ncjrs.org/content/AbstractsDB_Search.asp) 
Description: Contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. (free access anywhere)
Coverage: Early 1970's to date
Vendor: National Criminal Justice Reference Service

PubMed   (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed)
Description: National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries, as well as access to pre-medline articles. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English language sources or have English abstracts.(free access)
Coverage: 1966 - present
Vendor: National Library of Medicine

STAT-USA *PASSWORD NECESSARY. Library reference staff MUST type in password at LIBRARY workstation for full access.
Description: STAT-USA, provides economic, business, and international trade information produced by the US Government. Includes USA Trade database (on-campus access only)
Coverage: Current
Vendor: US Census Bureau

THOMAS  (http://thomas.loc.gov/)
Description: THOMAS offers bill summaries & status, full text of bills, major legislation enacted into law, the Congressional Record and CR Index, Congressional Committee information, Congressional directory information, information about the legislative process, and a selection of historical documents. (free access anywhere)
Coverage: Varies; some back to 1973
Vendor: Library of Congress

Assistance with using our Government Publications collections is available through the Third Floor Reference Desk. You can contact the staff by phone at 920-465-2303 or via e-mail at refdesk@uwgb.edu