As part of the current policy of open access and freedom of information in the United States of America there are a variety of search engines available on the internet to help people to find online government documents and related reference information. This creates the effect of a vast digital library of source information on national and local government policy and processes. Some of the search tools for finding government information are listed below:
- Business.gov
- Catalog of US Government Publications
- Data.gov
- FirstGov
- Google U.S. Government Search Discontinued as of June, 2011.
- Abbreviations and Acronyms of the US Government
- Meta-Subject Index to Government Information
- U.S. Government Information on the Web Subject Index
- GPO Access
- Federal Web Locator
- NTIS - National Technical Information Service
- U.S. Blue Pages
- UNH Reference Department Home Page
- Agency Index
- Documents Center Web Site Directory (University of Michigan)
- Federal Bulletin Board Online (via GPO Access)
- Federal Information Center
- FedStats
- Government Information Exchange
- Govspot
- Library of Congress
- Pathway Services
- Thomas - Legislative Information
- LibWeb
- Google University Search
- Way Back Machine
- Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909, Third Edition
- Government Documents Email Reference
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“If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of uniting free states and slaveholding states in one nation is, perhaps, a failure.... There probably is an “irrepressible conflict” between freedom and slavery. It may as well be admitted, and our new relations may as be formed with that as an admitted fact.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contempory who reads it, invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!”
—Ellen Terry (1848–1928)
“We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
But search of deep Philosophy,
Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry,
Arts which I loved, for they, my Friend, were thine.”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
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—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)