Government Documents

Finding Government Documents

Major Gateways/Web Sites

• FDsys

The Federal Digital System (FDsys) is a state-of-the-art content management system from the Government Printing Office that delivers digital government information from all three branches of the U.S. Government.

• USA.gov

Provides "one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources."

• Data.gov

  "The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government."

• FedWorld

NTIS gateway to federal government information.


• Science.gov

A gateway to science information from U.S. Government agencies.

• Worldwidescience.org

Searches 52 databases and portals from 56 countries.

Finding Information by Agency

• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory (LSU)

Finding Government Information by Subject

• U.S.Government Bookstore


• Legislative & Regulatory Information


• Library of Congress Science Tracer Bullets
  Bibliographic guides on science and technology topics that include a government documents section.