Reference Internet Resources

Subject Reference

Government — Foreign

BOPCRIS: the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service

www.bopcris.ac.uk/index.html

Search and browse information on over 23,000 key British official publications. Coverage: 1688-1995.

EUROPA: Gateway to the European Union

www.europa.eu.int/index_en.htm

Portal site of the European Union providing information on EU actvities, institutions, documents and services. European Governments on-line provides links to the main governmental sites of member states and other European countries.

European Information

www.ex.ac.uk/library/internet/eurostudies.html

Pointers to resources on the European Union and research sponsored by the European Community.

Gov Info @Univ Waterloo

http://tug.lib.uwaterloo.ca/gp/

Contains well-organized links to world-wide government information, including legal information, constitutions, treaties and other agreements.

Library and Archives Canada - Foreign Government Information and Intergovernmental Organizations

www.collectionscanada.ca/services/005-1120-e.html

Library and Archives Canada maintains this selective collection of links to official and non-official sites containing information on foreign governments and international organizations and their publications.

UMich Documents Center

www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html

Extensive central reference and referral point for government information (including local, state, federal, foreign and international.) Useful for research in government, political science, statistical data, and news. Includes helpful Directory of Online Government Gazettes.

Subject Reference

Government — International

ALA/GODORT International Documents Task Force Homepage

www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/idtf/home.htm

Links to lists of foreign national governments, international governmental organizations (IGO's), nongovernmental organizations (NGO's), and to Web guides on a variety of research topics, including IGO's, foreign national governments, and subject-based research guides.

ASIL Electronic Resource Guide: United Nations

www.asil.org/resource/un1.htm

Helpful guide from the American Society of International Law. Includes information on accessing official United Nations Internet Sites, statistics, UN Resolutions & Documents, International Courts and Tribunals.

G8 Information Centre

www.g8.utoronto.ca/

Links to information pertaining to the G7, G8, and G20 summits by University of Toronto. Links to summits, meetings, and documents, etc.

GATT Digital Library: 1947-1994

http://gatt.stanford.edu/

Provides access to documents of and information about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947 to 1994.

Library and Archives Canada - International Organizations

www.collectionscanada.ca/services/005-1120-e.html#d

Library and Archives Canada maintains this selective collection of links to official and non-official sites containing information on international organizations and their publications.

SourceOECD (access limited to BAC on-site users)

http://new.sourceoecd.org

OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals.

United Nations Official Document System (ODS)

http://documents.un.org/

Covers all types of official United Nations documentation. Includes full text of United Nations parliamentary documents (including resolutions and decisions) issued at United Nations Headquarters in New York and the United Nations Office in Geneva since 1993 as well as at the United Nations Office in Vienna since 1997. The official record version of older United Nations resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards are stored separately on ODS in the “Resolutions” database, accessible only from the advanced search screen. ODS Training Guide available.

United Nations Scholars' Workstation

www.library.yale.edu/un/index.html

Contains a collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography.

United Nations System Pathfinder

www.un.org/Depts/dhl/pathfind/frame/start.htm

Excellent tool to aid in the identification of major publications (printed and electronic) of the organizations of the United Nations system. Other helpful tools from the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library are UNBISnet - UN Bibliographic Information System and the UN Documentation: Research Guide.

Subject Reference

Government — USA

First Gov: the U.S. Government's Official Web Portal

www.firstgov.gov/

Official U.S. gateway to all government information: federal government, local and tribal governments. The Reference Centre provides links to wide range of information: laws and regulations, statistics, publications.

Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information

www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/staff/fdtf.html

A directory of links to popular U.S. government sites on the Internet. The links are organized by topics including major government indexes, business, crime, census, congress, consumer information, copyright, education, foreign countries, health, impeachment, natural resources, law, scientific reports,and tax forms. From the Federal Documents Task Force (FDTF) and the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).

THOMAS (Library of Congress)

http://thomas.loc.gov/

Legislative information from the Library of Congress. Provides access to the full texts of bills and laws from the United States Congress, the daily Congressional Record, relevant proceedings and proposed legislation, committee reports, and roll call votes, variously available from the present back to the 93rd Congress (1973).

US GPO Access

www.gpoaccess.gov/

Service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides electronic access to a wealth of information sources from the U.S. federal Government. Provides helpful pages linking to legislative, executive, and judicial resources. It is possible to search many of these individual resources and also to search across multiple databases.

US GPO Catalog (access limited to LAC on-site users)

http://web5s.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=
c68923&databases;=(GP)

Bibliographic database of citations to United States federal government publications. Based on the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. Coverage: 1976 - .