Quick Subject Guide - Government Information - University Library

California State Government (http://www.ca.gov/state/portal/myca_homepage.jsp)
California local government information (http://igs.berkeley.edu/library/cagovdocs/): From Institute of Governmental Studies Library, UCB
California League of Cities (http://www.cacities.org/)
California State Association of Counties (http://www.csac.counties.org/)

California Legislative Information (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/)

Bill Information (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html): Full text of bills, etc.; back to the 1993-94 session

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (http://www.cfda.gov/)

List of Federal grants

Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/)

American Community Survey (http://www.census.gov/acs/www/): From the Census Bureau, new survey will provide timely data on communities
American Factfinder (http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en): Browse, search and map data from Census Bureau Sources.
Censtats (http://censtats.census.gov/)
Selected Historical Census Data (http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html) [Census Bureau]
UC Berkeley Social Science and Government Data (http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/GovData/info/): Includes STF1, STF3, and SSTF 3, SSTF5, and Census Lookup
United States Historical Census Data Browser (http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/): The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970.

City Codes

Davis City Code (http://qcode.us/codes/davis/)
California Local Codes and Charters Database (http://igs.berkeley.edu/library/cagovdocs/calcodes.html) [UCB, IGS Library]

Climate

NOAA National Climatic Data Center (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html)

Get/View Online Climate Data from NCDC (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climatedata.html)
NCDC Online Document Library (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/mpp/freedata.html) - includes Monthly Climatological Data, Local Climatological Data and other monthly serial publications. See Government Information Librarian if the system asks for a password.

UC IPM Online, Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/WEATHER/wxretrieve.html)

Includes California temperature data.

National Weather Service (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/)

NWS Western Region forecast map (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/)

California Highway Information (http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/)

Search current road conditions

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (http://unfccc.int/)

Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations - GPO Access site, 1996- (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/)
Regulations.gov (http://www.regulations.gov/): Find, review and submit comments on Federal regulations that are open for comment and published in the Federal Register.
Lexis/Nexis Congressional (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/): Has the CFR; use the "Bills, Laws, Regulations" to search

Congress

Guide to Congressional Information in Electronic Form (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/federal/congress.php) [UCD Guide]: Links to additional online sources.
GPO Access - Access to Congressional Publications (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legislative.html)
Thomas (http://thomas.loc.gov/): Legislative Information on the Internet
Lexis/Nexis Congressional (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/): A full-service congressional information system
Lexis/Nexis Congressional Quick Guide (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/gov/comp-qui.html) [via UCSB]
Congressional Research Service Reports (http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/index.cfm) [via National Library for the Environment]

Copyright

U.S. Copyright Office (http://www.copyright.gov/)

Criminal Justice

NCJRS National Criminal Justice Reference System (http://www.ncjrs.gov/)

Economic Conditions

Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/): Includes GDP, Survey of Current Business, and more.
Economic Indicators (http://www.economicindicators.gov/)
Economic Report of the President (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/)
Economic Statistics (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/guides/economic.php) [UCD Guide]
Fedstats (http://www.fedstats.gov/): Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
Liber8 (http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/): An economic information portal for librarians and students.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/)

Education

ERIC Database (http://www.eric.ed.gov/) (Full text 1966-2004)
Search Eric via CSA (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=eric&adv=1) VPN (1966-present)
Search Eric via FirstSearch (http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=eric) VPN (1966-present)
California Department of Education (http://www.cde.ca.gov/)
Title IV School Codes (http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/FOTWWebApp/FSLookupServlet)

Elections

Federal Election Commission (http://www.fec.gov/)
California Secretary of State (http://www.sos.ca.gov/)

Endangered Species

California Natural Diversity Database (http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cnddb/)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Program (http://www.fws.gov/endangered/)
GPO Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/): Search the Federal Register for information on proposed or new regulations regarding the Endangered or Threatened Species list.
CITES - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (http://www.cites.org/)

Energy

Hearings on California's Energy Crisis (http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/senate08ch107.html)
Energy Information Administration (http://www.eia.doe.gov/): Energy information by fuel, price, sector and statistical data.

Environment

Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.gov/)

Envirofacts Warehouse (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/) - data from major EPA programs including the Safe Drinking Water Information (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/sdwis/sdwis_query.html)
Toxic Release Inventory (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/toxic_releases.html)
Superfund Overview (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/cerclis/cerclis_overview.html)

Environmental Health Perspectives (http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/)

University of California, Davis Integrated Pest Management Project (http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/)

CERES - California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (http://www.ceres.ca.gov/)

California Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.calepa.ca.gov/)

Commission for Environmental Cooperation (North America) (http://www.cec.org/)

Information Center for the Environment - University of California, Davis (http://ice.ucdavis.edu/)

NEPAnet (http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/nepanet.htm)

National Library for the Environment (CNIE) (http://www.ncseonline.org/nle/)

Full-text Congressional Research Service Reports on the Environment (http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/)

Federal Business Opportunities

Fed BusOps (http://www.fedbizopps.gov/) (formerly Commerce Business Daily)
Federal Business Opportunities/Commerce Business Daily from Committee of Science (UCD Membership) (http://cbd.cos.com/)

Federal Regulations

Federal Register via GPO Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/) 1994 - present
Federal Register via Lexis/Nexis Congressional (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/): Use "Bills, Laws, Regulations" section, 1980 - present
Regulations.gov (http://www.regulations.gov/): On this site, you can find, review, and submit comments on Federal documents that are open for comment and published in the Federal Register.

Foreign Embassies

The Electronic Embassy Page (http://www.embassy.org/)
Foreign Consular Offices in the U.S. (http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/fco/) [State Department]

Foreign Trade

United States Foreign Trade: Data and Reference Guides (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/guides/trade-us.php)
International Foreign Trade: Data and Refererence Guides (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/guides/trade-world.php)
Foreign Trade Statistics (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/): From the Census Bureau, current and historical monthly data.
U.S. International Trade Administration (http://www.ita.doc.gov/): ITA Trade Statistics (http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/)
FATUS - Foreign Agricultural Trade of the U.S. (http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fatus/)
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. (http://www.usitc.gov/tata/hts/index.htm)
World Trade Organization (http://www.wto.org/)

Forms

Forms.gov (http://www.forms.gov/): This government site provides "one-stop-shopping" for all Federal forms.
Forms from the Feds (http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/forms.html): links to forms from Univ. of Memphis' Uncle Sam

Genealogy

Genealogy Resources at the National Archives (http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/)
Access to Archival Databases (http://aad.archives.gov/aad/) [National Archives]

GPO Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/)

The U.S. Government Printing Office official site for Federal government information and publications.

Catalog of Government Publications (http://catalog.gpo.gov/)
Government Internet Sites by Topic (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/)
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (http://bensguide.gpo.gov/) (o.k. for adults too).

Historical Documents

Historical Documents (http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PrimDocsHome.html) from Thomas (http://thomas.loc.gov/) [Library of Congress]

Includes Continental Congress papers, Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Federalist Papers.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html)

U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873. Includes the Continental Congress Journals, House and Senate Journals, Annals of Congress and other documents.

United States Historical Census Data Browser (http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/)

Data from 1790 - 1960 Statistical reports

Foreign Relations of the United States (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/) [U.S. Dept. of State]

list of all volume titles in the Foreign Relations of the U.S. series (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/c4035.htm)
online volumes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/c1716.htm) begin with the Truman administration in 1945

Foreign Relations of the United States (http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/)

Digital version of volumes 1863-1958 from University of Wisconsin

American Presidency Project (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/) [from UCSB]

includes:

Public Papers of the Presidents (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/)
Inaugural addresses (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/inaugurals.php)
State of the Union Messages (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou.php)
National Party Platforms (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php)
and more.

Digital National Security Archive (http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/)

Declassified primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945

NARA Archival Information Locator (http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/)

Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties (http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/), (Kappler's) 1778-1883

Biographical Directory of the American Congress (http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp), 1774 to present

Immigration

Office of Immigration Statistics (http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/)

Laws

California Law (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html)
U.S. Code (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/) [via GPO Access]
Public Laws (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/) [via GPO Access], from 1995-
Public Laws (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/) [via Lexis/Nexis Congressional], from 1988-

Monthly Catalog of United States Publications

Catalog of Government Publications (http://catalog.gpo.gov/) [GPO Access]

Patents

Patent and Trademark Office (http://www.uspto.gov/)
Search Patents (http://patents.uspto.gov/): USPTO Patent Databases, and full text patents in text or image formats
Guide to Patents (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/federal/patents.php)

Peacekeeping

United Nations System Pathfinder on International Security and Peacekeeping (http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/pathfind/security/0201.htm)

Polls

Search Field (California) Polls (http://gort.ucsd.edu/calpol/)
Gallup Polls (http://www.gallup.com/)
Lexis/Nexis Academic (http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/): use Reference file for Polls and Surveys

Ready Reference

Statistical Abstract of the United States (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/)
Congressional Directory (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/)
Congressional Pictorial Directory (http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/108_pictorial/)
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wcomp/)
CIA World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
Country Studies from the Library of Congress (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html)
Occupational Outlook Handbook (http://stats.bls.gov/oco/)
Background Notes from the U.S. Department of State (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)

SEC Reports

Available through EDGAR (http://www.sec.gov/)

Statistics

Guide to Government Statistical Resources (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/guides/statistics.php)

Agricultural Statistics (http://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Ag_Statistics/) [USDA]

California Statistical Abstract (http://www.dof.ca.gov/html/fs_data/stat-abs/sa_home.htm)

Demographic Research (http://www.dof.ca.gov/Research/Research.php)

From the California Department of Finance, Demographic Research Unit

Census (http://www.census.gov/) (Census Bureau Home Page)

Census of Agriculture (http://agcensus.mannlib.cornell.edu/)

CenStats (http://censtats.census.gov/)

FAO Statistics (http://faostat.fao.org/site/291/default.aspx)

Fedstats (http://www.fedstats.gov/)

Gateway to statistics from all Federal agencies

InfoNation (http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm)

Data for UN Member States

Mapstats (http://www.fedstats.gov/mapstats/)

State and county statistical profiles

National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA-NASS) (http://www.nass.usda.gov)

OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web (http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/)

Penn World Tables (http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt61_form.php)

SourceOECD (http://new.sourceoecd.org/)

Online statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Statistical Abstract of the United States (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/)

World Development Indicators: Data Query (http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/DDPQQ/member.do?method=getMembers&userid=1&queryId=6)

Supreme Court

Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975 (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/judicial.html) [via GPO Access]
Supreme Court Decisions 2005-current (http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html) [via Supreme Court]
Supreme Court Decisions 1999-current (http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html) [via FindLaw]
Justia: U.S. Supreme Court Center 1791-current (http://supreme.justia.com/)
Supreme Collection, 1990 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/) [via Cornell University]
See also Lexis-Nexis Academic (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/)

Tax Forms

Tax Forms - Federal (http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/app/picklist/list/formsInstructions.html)
Tax Forms - California (http://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/)
Tax Forms - Other States (http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/link/forms.html)

Technical Reports

Guide to Selected Bibliographic and Full Text Databases (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/federal/techreports.php)

Trademarks

USPTO Web Trademark Database (http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm)

Treaties

Guide to Treaty Research (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/foreign/research.php)
Treaties on the WWW (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/foreign/treaties.php)
U.S. Department of State: Treaties in Force (http://www.state.gov/s/l/treaty/tif/index.htm)

U.S. Code

U.S. Code (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/) [via GPO Access]
U.S. Code on Lexis/Nexis Congressional (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/)

Veterans

Department of Veterans Affairs (http://www.va.gov/)
Veterans Service Records at the National Archives (http://www.archives.gov/research_room/obtain_copies/veterans_service_records.html)
Access to Archival Databases (http://aad.archives.gov/aad/)
Request Copies of Military Personnel Records (http://www.archives.gov/research_room/vetrecs/)

Water Resources

U.S.G.S. - Water Resources - California Online Reports (http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/#search:advance/page=1/page_size=100/advance=undefined/advance=undefined/page_size=100/page_size=100/page_size=100/keyword=California,Water/orderby=date%20desc:0)
CERES - California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (http://www.ceres.ca.gov/)
California Department of Water Resources (http://www.dwr.water.ca.gov/)
State Water Resources Control Board (http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/)
USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program (http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/)
EPA Office of Water (http://www.epa.gov/ow/)
CALFED Bay-Delta Program (http://calwater.ca.gov/)

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