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- 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.
Coverage: 1976 -
- 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.
Coverage: Varies from source to source
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Description: WPSA provides citations, abstracts and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, public administration, and public policy.
Coverage: 1975 -
- CQ Researcher
Description : The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.
Coverage: 1991-
- CQ Weekly
Description: CQ Weekly is a weekly source of information on government, politics and public policy. CQ Weekly contains an unbiased and comprehensive roundup of all-important Capitol Hill activity from the previous week. CQ Weekly takes each legislative issue being debated and provides a clear explanation of its historical significance, how it’s evolving and what to look for in the future. Status of legislation, agendas of individual members and the appropriations process are all covered thoroughly and impartially.
- GPO Access
Description : GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
- USASearch.gov portal to U.S. federal government information.
- CenStats
Description : CenStats® is a convenient, easy, point-and-click access to several popular Census Bureau databases. CenStats' basic functionality is "search and display." That is, the viewer specifies geographic areas, data sets, commodities, etc. and CenStats finds and displays the specified data.
Coverage: Current
- THOMAS
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.
Coverage: Varies
- Military and Government Collection

Description: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
Recommended Websites
- USA.gov
Official portal for U.S. federal government information
- BRB's Free Resource Center