Latin American Government Documents Archive

The Latin American Network Information Center, part of the University of Texas at Austin has been archiving Latin American government publications and websites since 2005 through the Archive-It web archiving service. The collection includes Latin American Government publications in print or Printed out the early websites. It preserves the publications and official government websites. Please enjoy the collection.

National Government Statistics Collection

National Government Statistics Collection, part of the Indiana University Bloomington Libraties's Archive it documents project, provides a comprehensive collection of web sites of statistical agencies of 150 countries including Africa, Central Eurasis, East Asia, Latin America, Russia, East Europe, and more. It includes data, reports, statistical yearbooks, methodological guides, and other information.

DATA.gov

Please visit DATA.gov. This is "to increase public access to machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government" You can search the database by category and agency(source: govdoc-l).

OpenJurist.org

is an open access database to US Supreme Court and Federal Applellate opinion. It includes the Federal Reporter-US Court of Appeals and US States Reports-US supreme Court Cases. Please see whether this is a good fit for your online research guide: http://openjurist.org (source; govdoc-l).

Swine Flu Flashback

Take a look at this infoguide about Swine Flu that a librarian at BGSU created: The Swine Flu Scare of 1976 at http://libguides.bgsu.edu/SwineFlu This is a bibliography of U.S. government publications about the event accompanied by a brief article summarizing events.

National Security Archive

This Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States. Please check it out at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

AskSam: search Economic Stimulus Bill

You can search the full text transcripts of more than 200 speeches by President Obama from 2002-present: http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/obama-speeches/

Also you can search the economic stimulus bill: http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/stimulus

FDsys Public Beta Released

GPO's Future Digital System (FDsys) is now available as a public beta. The information on GPO Access is in the process of being migrated to FDsys and the process will be complete in mid-2009. Please try this system and send your feedback to GPO to improve the capabilities of FDsys.

"Show Us the Data"

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) of Open the Government.org recently launched a new website, "Show Us the Data" to allow the public to decide what government information not available on the Internet that should be. CRS reports, Bailout Funds, and Department of Justice Patriot Act Usage are currently most requested documents in order. Do not miss this chance to have your opinions heard. Also paralle to this project is transparency.gov and recovery.gov that intended to insure transparency of stimulus funding...

DOT joined Science.gov

The Science.gov gateway now includes the DOT National Transportation Library (NTL) Integrated Search and more than 30 DOT websites including TRIS online, NTK Digital Repsotioy, and other Transportation Websites. So now you can find science information from 14 government agencies!

Inaugural Address posted.

President Obama's Inaugural address is posted at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/read_the_inaugural_address/ and the video will be added soon in case you missed it.

Data for voting in the UN General Assembly

If you want to check out the original voting records for the UN General Assembly including those not passed, this site would be very useful: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/ev42/UNVoting.htm

2008 Presidential Election

"USA.gov now offers a new page on the presidential election. You’ll find information about President-elect Barack Obama, inauguration day (January 20, 2009), and the 2008 election. It also includes biographies of President- and Vice President-Elect Obama and Biden, and their wives." (source: ResourceShelf)

Fall FDLP Conference, 2008

I just got back from the Federal Depository Library Conference, Oct. 20-22. As usual, there were a lot of programs mixed with GPO activities, council discussion sessions about the future of the FDLP, and presentations where documents librarians shared what they were doing to make government information more accessible. The meeting agenda and hand outs are already up athttp://www.fdlp.gov/repository/fall-dlc-meeting-arlington-va/2.html. So please take a look at them. I will put a summary of this meeting and some highlights on the TripNotes soon. Stay tuned.

Persistent URLS by THOMAS

The Library of Congress THOMAS Legislative website has introduced Legislative Handles which is a new persistent URL service for creating links to legislative documents. See more: http;//thomas.loc.gov/home/handles/help.html. (Source: govdoc-l)

Datalab from NCES

NCES (National Center for Education statistics) announced a new web site called, Datalab, that enables people to efficiently look at education statistics.
Please visit the Website: http://nces.ed.gov/datalab/ for more details.

Global Legal Monitor

was redesigned. Please take a look at http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?home This is an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and development worldwide. Can be searched through its search interface.

Welcome to the fall 2008!

The Mason Libraries are ready to assist you with your studies and research. One of our librarians' projects this summer was to create the new InfoGuides which replace the existing subject home page. I have created the infoguides on U.S. Government Publications, State and Local Documents, Maps, and International Organizations and Publications. Please check them out!!

New Search Engine for HSDL Blogs

Search across more than 30 homeland security blogs and bloggers.


http://www.hsdl.org/?homefront:blogsearch

Google Health!

See the article, "Google Gets Into Health" at http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/19/google-online-health-tech-ebiz_cx_wt_0519google.html

The doctor is in at Google.

The search king announced Monday that consumers can now upload their medical records to Google Health, its closely-watched health information site.
(source: Resourceshelf)