Government Documents

Finding Government Documents

Major Gateways/Web Sites

• FDsys

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

• GPO Access

A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) that provides free access to the official, published versions of documents produced by the Federal Government.

• USA.gov

Provides "one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources."
Links to USA.gov blog and other government agency Blogs, Podcasts, RSS Feeds and USA.gov on Twitter.

• FedWorld

NTIS gateway to federal government information.

• Google's U.S. Government Search Engine



• 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

• Documents in the News (University of Michigan)

Links to resources about government issues making headlines in the news.

• Government Internet Sites by Topic (GPO Access)


• Legislative & Regulatory Information


• Library of Congress Science Tracer Bullets

Bibliographic guides on subjects in the field of Science and Technology.

Finding Periodical Government Information

• Government Periodicals (University of Louisville)