Government Documents

Federal Agencies

Agency Based | Searchable Indexes | Subject Based

Agency Based

Federal Agency Sites (LSU)

A partnership of the Government Printing Office and LSU, this site has an unencumbered approach to locating federal agency web sites.

Searchable Indexes

FirstGov

FirstGov is the Official U.S. Government portal to government information and websites. Search engine provides access to 30,000,000 federal and state web pages. Advance Searching allows for keyword and phrase searching.

Allows keyword searching of government websites.

A site used to “ identify, locate and describe available Federal information resources.” GILS not only identifies, but also describes the information.

Indexes over 5 million web pages in the .gov domain. The search engine allows for phrase searching but not Boolean Operators, truncation or wild card searching.

Specializes in military targeted searches, combining exhaustive coverage of the .mil domain with powerful search engine technology that ranks results  in the order of popularity.

A comprehensive site for locating and acquiring government and business information. Some databases and documents require payment to access.

Subject Based

InfoMine (University of California)

InfoMine allows alphabetical and keyword searching of government information. This site provides annotations ofelectronic publications and websites. For CD-ROM products, please check Lovejoy Library’s U.S. Government Depository Collection.

Pathway Services

This site is a list of government websites arranged by subject topic. The subject arrangement is based on the Subject Bibliography Index.

NTIS is a comprehensive subject index to federal government websites.

One of the best comprehensive subject indexes to websites, this site is complete with annotations for governmental and non-governmental sites.