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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“Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can; but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“... 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)
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“A life I didn’t choose
chose me: even
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for what I have to do.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)