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Grand Forks, ND

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General Web Resources
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Agricultural Library Digital Repository    
Provides access primarily to older issues of important, heavily used NAL serial publications.

 
Campus & Remote Access

Constitution Center    
This interactive site lets you search the United States Constitution by keyword, by topic and in relation to Supreme Court cases.

 
Public Access

CRS Reports    
A large collection of CRS reports maintained by the Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland School of Law, including an archive on Terrorism and Homeland Security.

 
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Economic Indicators    
Timely access to key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the US Census Bureau provide critical data to those in the business, finance and policy decision making areas.

 
Public Access

Election Guide II    
Provides election results and overviews of the electoral systems for the world. Easily searchable by region or country.

 
Public Access

Ellis Island: The American Family Immigration History Center    
Despite many commercial advertisements, this site offers "amazingly good information from government records - almost instantaneously - for genealogists and immigration history buffs." Registration is required in order to access printable information such as passenger records.

 
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Federal Government Budget FY 2009    
"Issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year."

 
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Fedworld    
Gateway to more than 100 federal bulletin board systems many of which are not available through the Internet.

 
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FindLaw Constitutional Law Center    
Historical documents, biographies of Supreme Court justices, and Supreme Court decisions.

 
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First Amendment Center    
Organized by the five primary rights/freedoms of speech, press, religious liberty, assembly and petition, this site aims to enlighten practitioners and interested individuals about the guarantees of the First Amendment and its influence on the current developments of US society.

 
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GPO Access    
Catalog of government publications. Full text of bills, Federal Register, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, economic indicators, U.S. Budget.

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NTIS (National Technical Information Service)    
Provides access to well over 3 million government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related publications covering over 350 subject areas.

 
Public Access

Regulatons - Federal    
A US government portal for proposed and final regulations of the executive branch. The interface begins with a basic search and then allows the user to refine results. RSS feeds and e-mail notifications are available.

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Campus & Remote Access

Science.gov    
Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results

 
Public Access

Small Business Help Site    
The Small Business Administration partners with 21 other federal agencies for a "one-stop shop on compliance documents and other business resources." This site contains documents from 94 government agencies in a page organized by topic.

 
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Statistical Abstract of the United States    
Published by the federal government, this site provides a user-friendly search engine to collate statistical information on very broad categories from the US census. Includes census data as far back as 1878.

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Thomas    
Legislative information on the Internet.

 
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TRAC Immigration    
This site provides nonpartisan information about federal immigration enforcement, staffing and spending. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data-gathering, research and distribution organization associated with Syracuse University.

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USA.gov    
Centralized access to information from local, state, and U.S. Government Agency websites.

 
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USPTO Web Patent Database    
Full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976, and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790. Contact the library's Patent & Trademark Depository Library for assistance or try the Fogler Library's USPTO Web Database Tutorial for information on how to search this database.

 
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Washington Post US Congress Voter Database    
The Washington Post US Congress Voter Database "is a deep database of every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). It lets you browse votes in a variety of ways -- both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress." The site allows you to view votes by a variety of categories including political party, class, record, and more.

 
Campus & Remote Access

Yahoo! Government: Countries    
links to government web sites worldwide

 
Public Access

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Web Resources on Specific Government Topics
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