strategies for finding electronic government documents
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Strategies for Finding Electronic
Government Documents
Kristina [email protected] 5, 2008
Keeping Up…Keeping Up…
Overview of today’s session Updates on digitization initiatives: what’s
complete, what’s still in progressDatabases
LexisNexis Congressional HeinOnline
ALADIN e-GovDocsWeb initiatives
Digitization projects
Forthcoming releasesExercises: practice your skills
It can be hard to find government documents…
LexisNexis Congressional Collections already available in full text: CRS (Congressional Research Service)
Reports1916-present
Committee Prints & Misc. Publications1830-present
Historical Serial Set + Maps1789-1969House & Senate Reports, Documents
LexisNexis Congressional
Updated Digital Hearings: last year at this time, digitized back to the 1970’s
Now, for fall 2008: hearings are being digitized back to the 1800’sEmail: citations onlyNot RefWorks compatibleScans vary in quality
LexisNexis Congressional
‘Digital Collection’ means full text is available
GEORGE record for hearing
GEORGE record shows microfiche
holding for Vandenberg
Resolution on the North Atlantic
Treaty
Found that Defense Appropriations hearing…
HeinOnline – includes full text of… Code of Federal Regulations 1938-2008 Federal Register 1936-2008 American State Papers 1789-1828 Foreign Relations of the United States
(FRUS) 1861-1976 U.S. Federal Agency Library U.S. Presidential Library U.S. Statutes at Large 1789-2005
HeinOnline
The Big News: complete digitization of the Congressional Record Annals of Congress (1789-1824)Register of Debates (1825-1837)Congressional Globe (1833-1873)Congressional Record (1873-2003)Congressional Record Daily (1994-2008)
Congressional Record November 15, 1918
HeinOnline cont’d
Plus: Citation Navigator tool - accurate for known citations
Minus: Search leaves a LOT to be desired - can be long and unproductive
Not RefWorks compatible
Some people can be so demanding…
WRLC Government e-Docs
Marcive 100% loadDocuments Without Shelves
Library listed as E-GovDoc Location:
US GovPubs Online - Available to All Focus on recent documents (2000 and
later)
WRLC Government e-Docs To search only E-GovDocs
Click on ‘More Limits’Select LOCATION ‘EGovDoc’Click on ‘Set Limits’Search using keywords and retrieve only
electronic Gov DocsGPO titles: no authentication requiredMost useful for subject areas where our
collection is not strong
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/ Search on ‘government documents’ Collection is continually growing; multiple
contributors Good internal search Potential to be a major archive of full text
government documents
Registry of Digitization Projects
http://registry.fdlp.gov/
Google U.S. Government
http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Limits results to .gov, .mil, .us internet domains
MARC Records for Serial Set
283,529 MARC records will be loaded into GEORGE from the LexisNexis Congressional Serial Set
Documents from 1789-1969 Included with our LN subscription Annual reports, House and Senate documents
and reports, more here… Full text and coming soon!
MARC Records for Digital Hearings As soon as they are available:
MARC Records will be loaded for the Digital Hearings collection
Included with our LN subscription Link to full text of hearing As with other subscription-based sources,
will require authentication from off-campus from to view
Time for exercises…
Any questions?Any questions?