US Federal Government
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Nexis Uni features news, business, government, and legal sources from LexisNexis, dating back to 1790. Importantly, it also contains publications, reports, and legislation from US government entities at the state and federal levels. - ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
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Congressional publications and legislative histories. Publications include bills, public laws, and statutes, Daily record, hearings, reports, and executive documents.
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Resources on American government, current affairs, history, politics, public policy, and data analysis for the social sciences.
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Full text declassified government documents. The collection covers critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century. Glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs are included.
- FDsysThe Federal Digital System, or FDsys, is maintained by the Government Printing Office and is the official source for online freely available authenticated information from the executive, congressional, and judicial branches of government. Coverage concentrates on the mid-1990s to present but selective older materials are also available.
- Catalog of U.S. Government PublicationsThe Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is a finding tool for electronic and print publications from the U.S. government which collectively make up the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. More than 500,000 records generated since July 1976 are contained in the CGP and it is updated daily and will grow to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s.
- A-Z Index of US Government AgenciesA comprehensive portal of links to federal government departments and agencies which often include publications pages collecting their official content.
State and Local Government
- Ohio.govLaunching pad for all official Ohio executive, congressional, and judicial government web sites and online publications included therein such as the constitution, budgets, laws, agency rules and court opinions.
- Guide to Law Online: U.S. States & TerritoriesFrom the Law Library of Congress's Guide to Law Online, this portal collects links to constitutions, executive, legislative and judicial branches, and legal guides for all 50 states.
International Governments
- CIA World FactbookThe World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
- European UnionThe official website of the European Union. It is a good starting point if you are looking for information and services provided by the EU including basic information on how the EU works, the latest EU news and events, and links to EU information on the websites of EU institutions and agencies.
- Guide to Law Online: Nations of the WorldFrom the Law Library of Congress's Guide to Law Online, this portal presents an A to Z index of countries each of which includes links to constitutions, executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, legal guides, and other general sources of information.
- iKNOWpoliticsInternational Knowledge Network of Women in Politics is a discussion site about women in politics, activism, campaigns, and organizations.
- IPU - PARLINEThe PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 271 parliamentary chambers in all of the 193 countries where a national legislature exists. Additionally, PARLINE provides access to national election results with details about contesting parties.
- IPU- Women in National PoliticsStatistical tables showing the participation of women in national politics.
- UN PublicationsOfficial documents portal for the United Nations includes links to their Official Document System and other catalogs of UN authored materials along with an extensive research guide to help understand and interpret UN documentation symbols.