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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“The government of the United States at present is a foster-child of the special interests. It is not allowed to have a voice of its own. It is told at every move, “Don’t do that, You will interfere with our prosperity.” And when we ask: “where is our prosperity lodged?” a certain group of gentlemen say, “With us.””
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“The root of the problem is not so much that our people have lost confidence in government, but that government has demonstrated time and again its lack of confidence in the people.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“... research is never completed ... Around the corner lurks another possibility of interview, another book to read, a courthouse to explore, a document to verify.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)
“Still, I search in these woods and find nothing worse
than myself, caught between the grapes and the thorns.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. “Authorities,” “disciples,” and “schools” are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)