Google Offers Index of Public Domain Works

Google started offering the full-text scanned books and government documents that are not entangled in a copyright. See the Associated Press article for more information. Also try Google Print Beta to see whether you can find your favoriate documents through Google Print. It appears that you can browse the book but can't download and can't able to copy text.

New Version of NLM Gateway

Please visit a new version of the NLM Gateway that was released on October 4, 2005. "It introduces enhanced searching for TOXLINE® Special and the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB®). It also includes the implementation of a new search process for only the data stored within the Gateway: the Meeting Abstracts and Health Services Research Projects (HSRProj) collection." (source:Gloria's blog)

2005 Fall FDLP Conference: Highlights

Authenticity: GPO released GPO's seal of authenticity, which will notify users that a document disseminated by GPO is official and authentic. Please view this seal at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/authentication/index.html
LOCKSS: GPO also launched a pilot project called LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) to manage, disseminate, and preserve access to Federal Government e-journals. See additional info and news about this project at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/lockss/index.html
Franklin: Online GPO web catalog which will replace online MOCAT will be released some time next year. This covers documents collection from 1976 to present and will have many enhanced search options.
Vision for the Future Digital Depositoy System: Depository librarians speak out and comment on “TOWARD A VISION OF THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT OF THE 21ST CENTURY: A DRAFT OUTLINE.” through the various discussion sessions by topics. You can find the outline of the sessions at HTTP://DLCVISIONOUTLINE.BLOGSPOT.COM/
The Fall 2005 FDLP meeting proceedings now available: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/proceedings/05fall/index.html

Online Soil Survey Maps Available

Soil Survey maps have long been printed and bound into soil survey books. But now these maps are available online for most US counties at http://soils.usda.gov/survey. Please check it out to access and analyze national soil data.

GPO News

Priorities for Digitization of Legacy Collection is available for your review at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/about/reports/digitization_plan_070505.pdf. Please see also additional information about GPO's digitization and preservation initiatives at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legacy.

The GPO Handout at the ALA in Chicago

is now available at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/ala_update05.pdf

Online CRS Reports

are now availabe at UNT: http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/ The website provides searchable access to the full-text CRS Reports that have been available on the Web since 1990 and continues to add reports as they become available. Please take a look.

GPO Blog for Future Digital System

GPO has created a blog called FDSys for information related to its future digital system including authentication/PKI. Please visit and read what GPO has been up to:
http://fdsys.blogspot.com

ACS move for NIH's PubChem

According to govdoc-L:
"The American Chemical Society is calling on Congress to shut down the NIH's PubChem, a freely accessible database on small organic molecules. PubChem is an important component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Initiative, which is a key element of the NIH "road map" for medical research. ACS claims that PubChem competes with Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). In reality, PubChem and the Chemical Abstracts Service databases are complementary, not duplicative."

How many public domain databases are being moved to the private sector? It started with PubScience, ERIC, and now PubChem???

New Publications for Terrorism Information

The controversy involved in the publication of Global Pattern of Terrorism has resolved itself in the appearence of two new publications:

Pattern of Global Terrorism has a new name as "Country Reports on Terrorsim" with no statistics: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/c14813.htm

The statistics appears in National Counterterrorism Center: http://www.tkb.org/documents/Downloads/NCTC_Report.pdf

It's a GOOD NEWS!

New Digital Library: GATT

This online library provides access to over 30,000 documents and publications of and about the General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barries among member states from 1947-1994.

Now Available...

The Survey Result of GPO 2005 Essential Titles is out. Look for your favorites!

FRASER is UP!

A new database, Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER), has been launched. Please explore this new database for historical economic statistical publications: Banking and Monetary Statistics (1914-1970), Business Conditions Digest, Business Statistics, Economic Indicators, and more.

American Factfinder (AFF) Update

American Factfinder where you can get online Census information has a new feature, POPULATION FINDER. Click on the population finder button in the left menu and find the Census 2000, 1990, the latest population estimate, population density, and more information for your area of interest. See the detail at http://factfinder.census.gov/jsp/saff/SAFFInfo.jsp?_content=su2_new_features_0405.html

New Document Highlights

Time for reading new items...
>Final Report of the 9-11 Commission
>Budget of the US government 2006
>2005 Economic Report of the President
>Unclassified Version of the Report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the US Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
>Reports from the meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation
>"On Sunday, March 20th, the Senate passsed Bill S. 686 for the Relief of the Parents of Theresa M. Schiavo.."

GPO News

GPO is looking for a new model for sales of their publications through public-private partnership. For more information, visit http://www.gpo.gov/salesprogramrfi

Google Unveils Satellite Map Feature

"Google Inc. has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite images--" Now you can see the location of your house as well as the feature of your house. See the article: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/05/google.maps.ap/index.html
See the Google Maps link: http://maps.google.com

Virtual Reference Service--Online Pilot Project

A national Pilot project called Government Information Online (GIO) has been established to answer government information questions since Nov, 2004. The service utilizes OCLC's QuestionPoint software and offers chat reference 57 hours a week as well as e-mail reference. For more information on this, please check it out at http://govtinfo.org

USA Trade Online-Enhanced Version Available!

Please try the enhanced version of USA trade online. It has monthly trade data for three years (instead of just the two most current years), port data, improved sorting options, and a brand new charting feature... Free trial is going on for the month of April and May. In case if you need our depository login information, you can find it from the library intranet and database password site.
The USA Trade Onine Link: http://www.usatradeonline.gov/usatrade.nsf?OpenDatabase&mc=T2500

Taguba Report

An official document of this report (prison abuse in Iraq) is not available from GPO yet. However, when someone is looking for the Taguba report, here you can find it:http://www.npr.org/iraq/2004/prison_abuse_report.pdf

Legislation in News

March 17, 2005 Senate Concurrent Resolution 18 As Amended: Appropriations Resolution FY 2006 Budget.
See the Prssident's Budget for FY 2006 at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/index.html

Tax Forms

Federal tax forms and instructions at http://www.irs.treas.gov/formspubs/index.html
VA State tax forms and instructions at http://www.tax.virginia.gov
Other State tax forms and instructions at http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/link/forms.html

Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper Format

GPO has recently finished a survey to identify additional essential titles for public use in paper format. The purpose of this survey is that everything else will be available electronically except those recommended titles to select paper format for the depository libraries.
See the exisitng 50 essential titles and the survey:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/estitles.html