Primary Political Science Government Information

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Philadelphia Government, phila.gov
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Proquest Congressional U.S. Serial Set 1789-Present
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Fulltext for House and Senate Documents and Reports, 1789-current, as well as other U.S. documents , such as Executive publications, often included in the Serial Set in earlier years. Still in progre...   [more]

U.S. Serial Set (via GPO)
Fulltext of U.S. Congressional reports and documents, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present....   [more]
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Important Political Science Government Information

Afghanistan and the U.S. 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
- from Archives Unbound
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Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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American Diplomatic Code / Jonathan Elliott
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Early compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements, originally published in 1834....   [more]

American Friends Service Commitee: FBI Records
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American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
- from Archives Unbound
1968-1979. From Archives Unbound. These FBI files provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism....   [more]

American Legal Publishing's Municipal Code Library
Free online fulltext for municipal codes nationwide....   [more]
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American National Election Studies
Also Known as: ANES National Election Studies NES
Time series data from surveys conducted during U.S. presidential and congressional election years, 1948-present....   [more]
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    ANES data sets and codebooks (via ICPSRdirect)
    SDA interface to ANES 2000 data (crosstabs, subsetting, extracts)
    NES Bibliography
    NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
    ANES data sets and codebooks (alternative via ICPSRdirect)

Annual Review of Population Law
Summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive rights and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1974-present.
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Archive of European Integration
An electronic repository and archive for research materials on European integration and unification. The AEI collects two types of materials: freely-available independently-produced research materials...   [more]
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Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Digital versions of documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government....   [more]
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BDEEP - British Documents on the End of Empire
An annotated selection of official documents from the UK National Archives, charting British withdrawal from its colonial territories, with editorial apparatus....   [more]
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BOPCRIS
Indexing for selections among British parliamentary papers....   [more]
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British History Online
A "digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles." Includes sources for parliamentary, ecclesiastical and ...   [more]
Holdings: Access to freely available content only.

CAESAR, POLO, and ESAU Papers
Also Known as: CIA FOIA Reading Room
Subtitled, Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis of Soviet and Chinese Policy and Decision Making, 1953-1973. Declassified Central Intelligence Agency research papers on Soviet and Chinese internal politi...   [more]
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Also Known as: CFDA
Descriptions of all federal programs available to state and local governments of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; spec...   [more]
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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
Also Known as: MoCat, CGP, Monthly Catalog
This online catalog consists of bibliographic records published in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT). Records describe Government information products avai...   [more]
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Catalogue of British parliamentary papers in the Irish University Press 1000-volume series
Website providing title lists for the Irish University Press 1000-volume collection of 19th-century British parliamentary papers. Search Franklin for individual subseries titles in this collection....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    IUP 1000-volume set: Colonies: Africa

CIA FOIA Reading Room
Fulltext Central Intelligence Agency declassified documents on many topics, including the Family Jewels (illegal activities from 1959 through 1973), the CAESAR, POLO, and ESAU Papers on Soviet and Chi...   [more]
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Code of Federal Regulations
Also Known as: CFR
- from HeinOnline
Includes supplements...   [more]
Holdings: 1938-1983

Collection of Neutrality Laws Regulations and Treaties of Various Countries (Deak and Jessup)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext anthology of countries' neutrality laws and regulations and treaty provisions relating to neutral rights and duties for the nineteenth and and early twentieth centuries. Texts provided in ori...   [more]
Holdings: 1800-1938

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
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Congressional Record (Daily)
Official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, published daily while Congress is in session....   [more]
Holdings: 1994 (vol. 140) to present
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Consolidated Federal Funds Report
Also Known as: CFFR
Federal expenditures or obligations for the following categories: grants, salaries and wages, procurement contracts, direct payments for individuals, other direct payments, direct loans, guaranteed or...   [more]
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Constitutional Sources Project
Also Known as: CONSOURCE
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Country Reports on Terrorism
Country Reports on Terrorism, 2004-present. Formerly, Patterns of Global Terrorism 1995-2003. ...   [more]
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CRS Reports (Thurgood Marshall Law Library)
Congressional Research Service reports on homeland security and terrorism issues and on health law and policy....   [more]
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Current Treaty Index
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Semiannual companion service to United States Treaty Index: 1776-1990 (with supplements), listing current actions by the U.S. on treaties and agreements. Edited by Igor I. Kavass....   [more]
Holdings: v. 1 (1982)-v. 25 (1999)

DATA - Debt AIDS Trade Africa
Advocacy organization dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa. Publishes DATA Report, biennial report on G-8 progress toward Gleneagles foreign aid commitments....   [more]
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Democracy in Turkey 1950-1959: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
- from Archives Unbound
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Department of State Bulletin
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1939-1989

Development Experience Clearinghouse
Also Known as: USAID DEC
USAID technical and program documents on international development projects funded by USAID. Topics covered include democracy and governance, conflict resolution, economic growth and agricultural deve...   [more]
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Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA)
Free online digital archive of South African apartheid-era works. Includes periodicals, trial materials, and other documents....   [more]
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Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

Documents Online - World Trade Organization
Fulltext official documentation of the WTO, 1995-present, including Trade Policy Reviews and legal texts of WTO agreements. Includes selected Uruguay Round documents and GATT documents....   [more]
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Earmarks
US OMB-hosted database of funds provided by the Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents the merit-based or competitive allocation p...   [more]
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eCode360.com - Municipal Code Library
Collection of browseable fulltext municipal and county law codes and ordinance collections. Includes codes for many Philadelphia-area towns, townships, and counties....   [more]
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Election Statistics / Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
Also Known as: Statistics of the presidential and congressional election , Statistics of the congressional election
Fulltext (PDF and HTML) of biennial reports on results of U.S. congressional elections and quadrennial reports on U.S. presidential and congressional elections, 1920-present....   [more]
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Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
"Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801 - 1922 involves the cataloguing and full-text digitisation of a selection of British Parliamentary papers taken from the University of Southampton's uniq...   [more]
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EUR-Lex
Also Known as: Access to European Union Law
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Fulltext European Union / European Community legislation, case law, and preparatory documents. Includes treaties between EU member states, international agreements, seconda...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    Alternative access via LexisNexis Academic

Eurobarometer Survey Series
Also Known as: Central and Eastern Eurobarometer
Semiannual public opinion surveys for European countries conducted for the European Commission, 1974 to present. CEEB subset covers "candidate" countries, 1990 to 1997....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    European Commission public opinion sector
    Eurobarometer Survey Series data (via ICPSR)
    Central and Eastern Eurobarometer data (via ICPSR)
    Eurobarometer Interactive Search System
    Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, 1970-2002 (via ICPSR)

European Research Papers Archive
Working papers on all aspects on European integration from several European research centers, including ...   [more]
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European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Formerly the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). "The FRA helps to ensure that fundamental rights of people living in the EU are protected. It does this by collecting evidence ...   [more]
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Evaluation Resource Center - UN Development Programme
Fulltext database for UNDP project documents, 1990s-present. In part, a successor to AccessUNDP....   [more]
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Federal Assistance Award Data System
Also Known as: FAADS
Data on all types of financial assistance awards made by Federal agencies to all types of recipients, by quarter. Provides Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) program code number and name, t...   [more]
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Federal Register
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1936-1981 1996 1998 1999-

Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1981-
Tthe full text of the Federal Register. Coverage goes back to July 1, 1980. The file is updated daily, so each day's Federal Register is available online the same day as the printed version. ...   [more]

Federal Register. 1994-
Also Known as: GPO Access
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Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
- from Archives Unbound
Fulltext searchable collection of more than 87,000 document pages from the FBI Library covering 1956-1971 on individuals and organizations engaged in civil rights and anti-war activities. Reproduces f...   [more]

Federal Surveillance of African Americans 1920-1984
- from Archives Unbound
Fulltext searchable collection of more than 87,000 document pages from the FBI Library covering 1920-1984 on African-American individuals and organizations. Reproduces documents from the FBI's Investi...   [more]

Foreign Governments
Northwestern University, Government Publications & Maps...   [more]

Foreign Relations of the United States
The HeinOnline version of the complete and current FRUS....   [more]

French Government Documents
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GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions
Fulltext U.S. General Accounting Office reports on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of Federal programs. Includes blue books, published reports, testimonies, correspondence, and specia...   [more]
Holdings: 1995-present.
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Global Development Finance
Also Known as: World Bank GDF Online
World Bank time series statistical data covering 1960 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 210 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt. Data include extern...   [more]
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Government Gazettes Online
Also Known as: Directory of Online Government Gazettes
Listing by country of government gazettes available online....   [more]
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Guide to the United States Treaties in Force
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Kavass's enhanced finding aid for using TIF, Treaties in Force, providing merged bilateral and multilateral subject indexing, chronological indexing, and updates subsequent to TIF's latest edition....   [more]
Holdings: 1982-present (currently 2003)

Hansard 1803-2005 (UK Parliamentary Debates)
Searchable fulltext for the Official Report of debates in Parliament, including Lords sittings, Commons sittings, and Westminster Hall sittings....   [more]
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Highlander Folk School: FBI Records
Highlander has provided training and education for the labor movement in Appalachia and throughout the Southern United States. During the 1950s, it played a critical role in the American Civil Rights ...   [more]
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History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & economic reform in America, Part III
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext legislative histories, documents, treatises, and other materials relating to U.S. bankruptcy and related reforms....   [more]

HOLIS 14 Points application
Reports on humanitarian aid from EU country donors and ECHO (European Community Humanitarian Office). Provides dollar values and brief descriptions of individual relief programs....   [more]
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Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
US government-sponsored database of policy strategy-related documents on homeland security. Topics covered include: borders and immigration, emergency management, infrastructure protection, intelligen...   [more]

IMF Data Mapper
Choropleth mapping and data graphing for IMF time series, including variables from World Economic Outlook, Balance of Payments Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, AFR Regional Economic Outlook,...   [more]
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IMF Policy Papers
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Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties (Kappler)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties (1778-1871), laws (1871 and later), executive orders, and other documents relating to Indian affairs up to 1971. Originally published in 7 chronological volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1778-1971

Indian General Elections 2009 Web Archive (Library of Congress)
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Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration
- from Archives Unbound
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International Conciliation
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1907-1972

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Also Known as: IDEA
IDEA, an intergovernmental organization with member states across all continents, seeks to support sustainable democracy in both new and long-established democracies. Includes information on; politica...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    International IDEA Unified Database

International Legal Materials
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Reproduces selected recent treaties and agreements, judicial decisions, executive orders, and other government documents on international and legal issues from local, national, and international gover...   [more]
Holdings: 1962-present.

Kabinettsprotokolle der Bundesregierung
Digitized transcripts of the meetings of the German cabinet, eventually to cover the years 1949-1959. (Print edition: Van Pelt Library DD240 .K32 )...   [more]
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KAV Agreements
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties and executive agreements since 1950 not published in UST or TIAS. Documents are assigned KAV numbers. Most KAV documents will eventually be published in UST or TIAS....   [more]
Holdings: 1950-present.

Labordoc: Catalog of the ILO Library
Contains over 350,000 records of books, articles, documents, and reports providing international coverage of labor related topics, including employment, labor relations, labor law, working conditions,...   [more]
Holdings: Late 19th century-present
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LABORSTA
Statistics on worldwide labor, employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages, labor cost, consumer price indices, occupational injuries, strikes and lockouts. Includes reference work, Sources & Metho...   [more]
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League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents
PDF-format document collection produced by Northwestern University Library. Contains 260 League of Nations documents, 1926-1946. Includes Statistical Yearbook of the League of Nations....   [more]
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Monthly Treasury Statements of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government
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Multilaterals Project
Fulltext of international multilateral conventions, treaties, and other instruments. Topics include environmental agreements, human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other ...   [more]
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MuniCode Municipal Code Library
Also Known as: LexisNexis Municipal Codes Web Library
Fulltext (some restricted) for U.S. city and county law codes. Includes Philadelphia and Los Angeles County....   [more]
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MyCongress iPad App
Free. Quick and easy access to info about all members of the House and Senate, including brief bio, website, contact info, news about the person, their YouTube channel, and Twitter feed. Also links to...   [more]
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National and International Data Sources and Links - United Nations Statistics Division
The UN provides links to the statistical agencies of member countries, as well as the names and links (where available) for statistical yearbooks for each country....   [more]
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National Survey of State Laws (via HeinOnline)
All editions of NSSL, 1993-present (7th ed., 2015). A reference work listing U.S. state laws currently in effect for specific topics. Provides citation to U.S. state codes (usually available in Nexis ...   [more]

NATLEX
Abstracts of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation from more than 170 countries. Topics include: freedom of association, collective bargaining, elimination of child lab...   [more]
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NBER/Maryland State Constitutions Project
Tagged fulltext versions of U.S. State constitutions with amendments up to ca.2000....   [more]
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Open CRS
About Open CRS American taxpayers spend nearly $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a "think tank" that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics rel...   [more]
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PARLINE
Also Known as: Parliaments On-Line
Facts about national legislatures: general information on each parliament chamber and its presidency, description of the electoral system, results of the most recent election, and information on the m...   [more]
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Paul Robeson: FBI Report
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Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development
Includes fulltext library of documentation on municipal and county government, including planning, budgeting, and training....   [more]
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Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1789-2006
Also Known as: Wilkes University Election Statistics Project
County-level election returns for Pennsylvania covering U.S. presidential (1789-2000), U.S. senatorial (1912-2000), and Pennsylvania gubernatorial elections (1790-2002), with calculated percentages an...   [more]
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Pennsylvania Legislator's Municipal Deskbook
Covers basic topics of municipal government, with lists and links for municipal issues resources. Continually updated....   [more]
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Political Database of the Americas
The Political Database of the Americas is a non-governmental Internet-based project that provides reference materials, primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the ...   [more]
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Politics in America
Current biographies of each member of Congress and their Congressional Districts, from the 110th Congress (2008) to present....   [more]

Popular Names of U.S. Government Reports
Reproduces first four editions (1966, 1970, 1976, 1980) of a basic U.S. government documents reference work that provides bibliographic citations to reports by their popular name....   [more]
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ProQuest Congressional
Also Known as: Congressional Universe, LexisNexis Congressional, Lexis Nexis Congressional
U.S. legislative publications and government information. Much of the material is fulltext. Includes pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, Congressional heari...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with document series
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    new interface

Proquest Congressional Hearings (1824 - present)
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Retrospective 1824-1979
Digital access to the fulltext of over 150 years of U.S. Congressional hearings. Searchable by committee name, geographical location, topic, witness name or affiliation, and more. Includes abstracts, ...   [more]

ProQuest Congressional Statutes at Large
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, Proquest Congressional
Searchable fulltext for U.S. laws, 1789-present (currently, 1997). Includes U.S. treaties and international agreements, 1778-1949, and treaties with Indian tribes, 1778-1874....   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Search Statutes at Large by citation or Public Law number

Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]

Public and Private Laws
Also Known as: GPO Access, Statutes at Large
Searchable fulltext for current and recent U.S. public and private laws. Includes uncollated slip laws and laws published in Statutes at Large....   [more]
Holdings: 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present
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Records of the Persian Gulf War
- from Archives Unbound
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Refworld
Fulltext documents collection from UN High Commissioner for Refugees....   [more]
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September 11th Source Books
"National Security Archive Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War." Fulltext declassified document collection, with editorial content....   [more]
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SOLO: FBI Report
Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, a...   [more]
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State Agency Databases - GODORT
Web index of US State Government databases. Arranged by state and agency....   [more]
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State Blue Books - GODORT
Web index of US state almanacs, yearbooks or other annual government manuals....   [more]
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Terrorism Information Center - National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Nonprofit clearinghouse dedicated to "doing everything possible to add value to the nation's war on terrorism."...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    MIPT Terrorism Bibliography
    MIPT Mental Health Bibliography
    Terrorism Incidents and Significant Dates

TRACfed
Also Known as: TRAC Reports, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Trac Fed, TRAC
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Trade Policy Reviews - World Trade Organization
Fulltext of recent WTO Trade Policy Reviews, providing surveillance of national trade policies for individual WTO members. Hyperlinks to earlier editions from 1995 to present....   [more]
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Treaties and Other International Act Series (TIAS)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties and executive agreements in slip-form, considered the first authoritative publication of the document....   [more]
Holdings: early 1980s-present (currently mid-1990s)

Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (Miller)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
An early predecessor to Bevans, containing U.S. treaties and agreements through 1863. Includes notes and citations. Originally published in 8 volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1863.

Treaties and other international agreements : the role of the United States Senate
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Summarizes international and U.S. law on treaty-making. Outlines the treaty-making process, especially focusing on the U.S. Senate. Useful glossary of diplomatic terms. Latest version of a U.S. Senate...   [more]

Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776-1949 (Bevans)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
The most complete collection of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1950, originally published in 13 volumes. Multilateral treaties are grouped separately from bilateral treaties. Volume 13 is a subjec...   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1949.

Treaties Conventions International Acts Protocols and Agreements (Malloy)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
A predecessor to Bevans, being a compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1937. Originally published in 4 volumes, with volumes 3 and 4 also known as Redmond and Trenwith....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1937

Treaties in Force
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Annually published by the U.S. State Department, lists and abstracts all treaties and agreements considered to be in force for the U.S. as of 1 January for the respective year. TIF separately lists bi...   [more]
Holdings: 1955-present (currently one year delay) 1941 added 1932 added
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    Current year (via GPO permanent archive)

Treaties their making and enforcement / Samuel B. Crandall
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
A historical survey of treaty-making procedures in the U.S. and foreign nations, including France and Britain. Originally published in 1904....   [more]

U.S. Congressional Documents: HeinOnline
Also Known as: U.S. Congressional Documents: Hein Online
The Congressional Record and preceeding publications covering the period from 1789-1943 and 1971-present. Includes the Daily Record from 1994-2008. Also includes the American State Papers, U.S. Stat...   [more]

U.S. Congressional Hearings
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
Supplemental URLs
    Old URL, as DDRS

U.S. Electoral College - Office of the Federal Register, NARA
Electoral College statistics and electoral votes, 1789 to present. Includes calendars for current presidential election, FAQs. ...   [more]
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U.S. Government Documents - Research Guide
Also Known as: U.S. Government Publications - Research Guide
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U.S. Government Documents: The Basic Collection
These United States government documents are vital sources of information that support the public's right to know about the workings and essential activities of their Federal Government. List establis...   [more]
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Finding aids, catalogs, research guides, and digitized documents for curricular use from NARA....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    ARC - Archival Research Catalog
    Microfilm Publications Catalog
    Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
    Digital Classroom

U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants, Obligations and Loan Authorizations
Also Known as: USAID Greenbook
US AID's Greenbook shows a complete historical record of United States (U.S.) foreign aid to the rest of the world. The Greenbook reports all loans and grants authorized by the U.S. Government for eac...   [more]
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UN ODS
Also Known as: United Nations Official Documents Search
UN ODS, also known as UN Official Documents Search or UN Optical Disk System, provides fulltext documents, official records, and resolutions of the United Nations covering all topics of concern to the...   [more]
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UNCTAD-TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System)
A comprehensive information system at the HS-based tariff line level covering tariff, para-tariff and non-tariff measures as well as import flows by origin for more than 140 countries ...   [more]
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UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
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UNISPAL
Also Known as: United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine
Texts of current and historical United Nations material concerning the question of Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation and the search for peace, 1915-present....   [more]
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United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties and executive agreements published in chronological order....   [more]
Holdings: 1950-present (currently 1984)

University of Michigan Documents Center
Also Known as: Foreign Government Resources on the Web
University of Michigan Documents Center...   [more]
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Web Sites of National Parliaments
Maintained by Inter-Parliamentary Union...   [more]
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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Papers
1977-2003...   [more]

World Bank Documents & Reports
Also Known as: World Development Sources, WDS
Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents. Covers World Bank activities and interests worldwide in agriculture, economic policy, education and social protection, electrical power, o...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-present. Updated weekly.
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World Bank E-Library
Fulltext PDF-format collection of more than 1,200 World Bank books, including all new titles and selected titles beginning in 1984. Topics covered include:agriculture, education, environment, finance,...   [more]

World Bank Research Datasets
Datasets compiled for World Bank research in agriculture, domestic and household finance, education, environment, globalization, governance, health, population and demography, industry, infrastructure...   [more]
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World Development Indicators
Also Known as: World Bank WDI Online
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financi...   [more]
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat
Also Known as: APEC Secretariat
Web site, with publications and working group documents, for APEC, the premier forum for facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. APEC has 21 member ...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    APEC publications (free downloads, PDF and MS Word)

Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
The Latin American Microfilm Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has digitized executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between ...   [more]
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Congressional Research Service Reports
Also Known as: CRS
This is not a complete collection of CRS Reports: "The Congressional Research Service, a congressional support agency, does not make its publications directly available to the public online. The FAS [...   [more]
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FAO Corporate Document Repository
Also Known as: Food and Agriculture Organization Document Repository
Fulltext electronic library of FAO publications and meeting documents and related publications from non-FAO sources. Topics covered include agriculture, economics and nutrition, fisheries, forestry, s...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Mostly 1986-present.
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Foreign Relations of the United States
This is the U.S. State Department's own site for The Foreign Relations of the United States series, which presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and...   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States - Research Guide
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Foreign Relations of the United States facsimile
The digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. It ...   [more]
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LAPTOC Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
Also Known as: LARRP
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover...   [more]
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Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources
"This electronic resource consists of a series of volumes on selected Latin American countries that provide chronologies of elections since independence at the municipal, state, and federal levels and...   [more]
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NCJRS Virtual Library
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
Identifies and links to fulltext U.S. federal publications on criminal justice....   [more]
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Palestinian National Authority
Palestine National Authority. Office of the Prime Minister....   [more]
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UNdata
The central statistical information service for the United Nations and its affiliates and international partners. Replaces UNSTATS....   [more]
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United Nations Treaty Collection
Also Known as: UNTC, UN Treaty Series
Primary sources, fulltext and image for international treaties and agreements deposited or registered with the United Nations since 1946. Ratification and annotation information for individual tre...   [more]

UNSTATS
Also Known as: United Nations Common Database, UNCDB
Time series statistical information for countries collected from UN and related international governmental organizations. Topics covered include population composition and change; human settlements, h...   [more]
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WEB Site Locator for the United Nations System
Alphabetic Index of Websites of the United Nations System of Organizations . "This site serves as a portal to web sites of the United Nations, its funds and programmes, and specialized agencies. It al...   [more]
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