Government Resources

Government Resources links to federal and state agencies that collect, evaluate and publish statistics and other information on a wide variety of topics.

Federal

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov
This lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people offers a great deal of related information on its web site, including "Health Topics A to Z," health news for travelers, women, men and seniors, and reports on occupational health and injuries.

Central Intelligence Agency
http://www.cia.gov
A most useful part of this federal agency website is "The World Factbook 2000," found under "Publications and Reports." Profiles of all countries are included here, with information ranging from the countryÕs flag to its economy to its military.

Federal Bureau of Investigation
http://www.fbi.gov
Check out the "Ten Most Wanted" list, read up on major ongoing investigations, or enter the Electronic Reading Room to view scanned documents of now declassified information. Of major interest to Criminal Justice students will be the "Uniform Crime Reports" link, which leads to crime data collected from each state.

First Gov
http://firstgov.gov/
The Official Government Gateways for Government helping citizens connect to services, and providing the government and its employees with resources. Everything from government grant information, to understanding employer id numbers and finding government benefits and jobs can be found here.

Forms from the Feds
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/forms.html
This site provides printable, downloadable government electronic forms.

United States Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

United States Congress
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/index.html
Database pertaining to the Legislative process in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate. The following are official, searchable publication databases authorized for dissemination to the public via GPO Access. Includes the publication of Congressional bills and hearings, history of bills, public and private laws of the 104 through 107 Congress, the United States Code, U.S. Constitution, Analysis and Interpretation: 1992 Edition, 1996 Supplement, and 1998 Supplement, and the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Links to a multi-database search engine.
U.S. Congress - Biographical Data

United States Federal Register
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents. This database is for the 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 Federal Register (Volumes 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 67)

United States Government Agencies

The following are websites to various agencies.

Dept. of Agriculture
http://www.usda.gov/

Dept. of Commerce
http://www.doc.gov/

Dept. of Defense
http://www.defenselink.
mil/

Dept. of Education
http://www.ed.gov/

Dept. of Energy
http://www.energy.gov/

Dept. of Health & Human Services
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

Dept. of the Interior
http://www.doi.gov/

Dept. of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/

Dept. of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/

Dept. of State
http://www.state.gov /index.htm

Dept. of Transportation
http://www.dot.gov/

Dept. of the Treasury
http://www.ustreas. gov/

United States Government Manual
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html
This site covers 1995 through 2002.

United States Government - Office of Homeland Security
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/
News and issues.

United States Government Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/multidb.html
Searchable database of GPO materials. This is a good place to begin, or to go when all else failed in your search of Federal Givernment information.

President

United States Government - Office of the President - George W. Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/
News about the President, policies, programs and biogaphical material.

United States Goverment - Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/search.html
This online service makes available material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, in hardcover printed volumes entitled The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. This hardcopy series includes volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, as well as President William J. Clinton.

Congress

Congressional Research Reports
http://www.digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/searchform.tkl
While theCongressional Research Service (CRS) does not provide direct public access to its reports, requiring citizens to request them from their Member of Congress, this site provides posted reports from its members. It aims to provide integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different Web sites since 1990. Hosted by University of North Texas libraries, this site provides an easy to use search engine.

United States House of Representatives Home Page
http://www.house.gov/
Members, directory, operations and search engine.

United States Senate Home Page
http://www.senate.gov/
Members, directory, operations and search engine.

Supreme Court

Federal Government Resources: Judicial Branch http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedjudi.html#supct
This informational site put up by the Universiy of Michigan includes links to decisions and cases as well as biographical materials on the Supreme Court justi and statistical information on all past presidential appointments to America's highest court.

FindLaw - US Supreme Court
http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/
FindLaw is an excellent source for legal information online, including Supreme Court decisions, biographical materials on Justices, historical information and data on recent cases. This site is easy to search. Tip: when conducting a Party Name Search, type in only one of the party's name.

United States Supreme Court
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
Official page of the US Supreme Court, the Legal Branch of the United States Governement.

United States Supreme Court - Opinions
http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov/court01.htm
Supreme Court Opinions and Orders from the 1992-1993 session through the 1999-2000 session in WordPerfect 5.1, ASCII and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document (PDF) format.

United States Supreme Court - Decisions - 1937 - 1975
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/supcrt/index.html
A searchable database.

Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm
This excellent site includes basic research instruction and links to Supreme Court cases, opions, case summaries, oral arguments, Supreme Court Justices, and court administration. This Law Library Resource Exchange site is maintained by Gail Patin, Associate Law Librarian in the Sheely-Lee Law Library at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law.

White House

The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Policies, the President, news, appointments, history, the library and even what the First Lady is up to. For information and continuous updates of Presidential documents go to the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Site at http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html

State

Commonwealth Communities
http://www.state.ma.us/cc
Search this alphabetical listing for information on the 351 towns and cities in Massachusetts. Information includes community and public school profiles, finances, state legislatures, and helpful phone numbers.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
http://www.state.ma.us
The official website of the Commonwealth, with links to publications, government services, and web pages of government officials.

MassCHIPS
http://masschip.state.ma.us/
"The Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (MassCHIPS) is a dynamic, user friendly information service that provides free, online access to these and many other health and social indicators. With MassCHIP you can obtain community-level data to assess health needs, monitor health status indicators and evaluate health progress"

Massachusetts Government
http://www.Mass.Gov/portal/index.jsp
The new (May 8th) portal to the Massachusetts Governement.

Massachusetts Senators and Representatives by City and Town
http://www.state.ma.us/legis/citytown.htm
A terrific resource complete with phone numbers, addresses and photos of the elected representatives who serve you.

Massachusetts State Laws - General Laws of the State of Massachusetts
http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/index.htm
Text of the General Laws organized by chapters. You can also search the General Laws at the related General Court Of The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/mgllink.htm The following cautionary warning is issued: "This is NOT the official version of the Massachusetts General Laws (MGL). While reasonable efforts have been made to assure the accuracy of the data provided, do not rely on this information without first checking an official edition of the MGL." The Jonathan Edwards Library maintains the up-to-date, hard-copies of the General Laws.

MassStats
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/madiv/stats.htm
Demographic information about Massachusetts.

National Conference on State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/
The NCSL web site provides personalized, comprehensive access for state legislators and legislative staff. Some of this site is accessible by public. Use the public access link.

Statistics

United States

Census Gateway
Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of the Census.
http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html
This web site is the Census Bureau's primary vehicle for distributing Census publications.

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

MassStats
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/madiv/stats.htm
Demographic information about Massachusetts. Very complete and easy to use.

MISER
http://www.umass.edu/miser/
Demographic materials based on the US Census for Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research (MISER) is an interdisciplinary research institute of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts.

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Information on all aspects of health and health care in the United States.

State and City Datasystems
http://socds.huduser.org/
The SOCDS provides data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs

State and County Quickfacts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/
uick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography based on the 2000 Census.

Statistical Abstracts
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Online version of the 2001 Print edition with Backfiles going back to 1995

Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Provided by the University of Michigan, this site offers extensive statistical data on the United States and the world.

United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://stats.bls.gov/
Employment, unemployment, job safety, wages and earnings and productivity are just some of the subjects of these statistical studies.

International

InfoNation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical
data for the Member States of the United Nations.

OECD, Statistics
http://www.oecd.org/statsportal/0,2639,en_2825_293564_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
Data from the European Economic Community.

US Census International Database
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.