Resource Guides: Government Information: Introduction

Introduction to Government Information

This guide provides a starting point for resources on government information. Use the tabs on the side for guidance on resources:

Data & Statistics
Census & Demographic Info.
Elections/Voting
Congress
Laws, Regulations, & Supreme Court
President & Administration

And, be sure to consider checking sources in the boxes on this page, especially HathiTrust.

Key Sources

General sources for government information:

GovInfo
Browze A-Z for: Budget; Economic Indicators; Executive Orders; Federal Register; Presidential Documents, Compilation of; Plum Book ; Public Papers of the Presidents; U.S. Code, and many more.
HathiTrust - U.S. Federal Documents
About 1 million books and reports from the U.S. government, full view to all. Can download (log in with GT credentials).
USA.gov
Topics and services related to the U.S. government (also can search for some state-level material).

Resources for technical reports (results of federally sponsored research) include:

NTIS Database (National Technical Information Service) This link opens in a new window
Access the latest research sponsored by the United States and select foreign governments. Online coverage back to 1964. Note:this is the GT subscription version; the free version, NTRL (much less searching options) is at: https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/

Science.gov
Reports and more from 10 federal scientific agencies.

In addition, the Georgia Tech Library is also a member of the TRAIL project (Technical Report Archive & Image Library) for digitization of federal technical reports. It has digitized about 100,000 reports that are available for free online. It has a search interface; most reports are included in the TRAIL collection of HathiTrust.

GT Library catalog

Library catalog
Search for books/e-books, theses, journal TITLES, media, archival materials, maps, and other material in the Library collection.

Many government documents are online; most linked from the catalog.

To request books or volumes from our offsite storage facility:

GT-affiliated users, please sign in when using the catalog, and follow the prompts

others - please contact the Library, 404-894-4500

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