Roanoke College is a selective depository library for U.S. Government Documents. The documents are received in a variety of formats, including paper, fiche, and CD-Rom. Most of the material received is listed in our online catalog.

Some government information is available online. The following is a list of some government document gateways. Please see a librarian for further assistance.

The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign levels of government.

Sections

1. Federal Government: General Information
2. Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
3. State Information
4. International and Foreign Information
5. Additional Resources

Federal Government:
General Information

• Agency Index-links to executive and independent agencies
• Ben's guide to U.S. Government for kids
• Documents Center (one-stop shopping from the University of Michigan)
• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT FDTF)
• US House of Representatives
• US Senate Home Page
• White House Home Page

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Federal Government:
Legislative and Regulatory Information

• Congress.Org (searchable member directories and current awareness)
• GPO Access (search and retrieve congressional information from the US Government Printing Office, with mirror, or Gateway, sites at over 20 universities, each with their own strengths.)

• Library of Congress (guide to the U.S. Legislative Branch)
• Regulations.gov- Federal Regulations
• Thomas (search & retrieve legislation from the 103^rd to current congresses)
• Internet Law Library (laws and regulations)

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State Information

• State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)
• State Government Collections -- try one of the following:
  1. American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)
  2. Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington)
  3. FindLaw
  4. State and Local Government on the Net / [Piper Resources]
• StateList (The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists from UIUC)
• VIRGINIA - Weldon Cooper Center

International and Foreign Information

• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• Documents Center (University of Michigan)
• Foreign Governments (links to individual foreign government pages)
• International Governmental Organizations (links to home pages of international organizations and agencies via the University of California at Berkeley)
• US State Department Home Page (Archive)  
• US State Department Home Page
• United Nations

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Additional Resources

• Depository CD-ROM Guides (links to guides on government CDs via the University of Michigan; see also GODORT's CD-ROM Documentation Project)
• GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (search for government documents)
• FirstGov (Search engine for government information; see also GPO's Finding Aids)
• Migrating Government Publications (full-text docs via the University of Memphis, or try the collection of links and library-scanned publications at the Government Documents Brochures and Pamphlets region of the University at Buffalo Libraries web site)
  University of Buffalo)
• Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians
• Sales Product Catalog via GPO

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