Federal Government Resources and Statistics: General Information Resources

Official website of the government agency responsible for publishing and disseminating official U.S. government publications to Congress, federal agencies, federal depository libraries, and the American public. Includes links to GPO Services and Products, the U.S. Government Bookstore, and information about the Federal Depository Library Program.

Ben's Guide provides a fun and educational introduction to how the U.S. Government works.

Full-text of the document, with analysis and interpretation.

Contains records for the approximately 20 million works and documents recorded with the Copyright Office since 1978.

Machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Centralized resource for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and its librarians. The FDLP is responsible for disseminating federal government information to the American public through the nation’s depository libraries.

Consolidates links to official federal, state, and local government information websites for the Unites States, Guam, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Access to the various catalogs of the library, the American Memory Project (subject-based access to historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video), exhibitions, Global Gateway (multilingual resources on world culture), and Congress.gov (legislative information, both current and historical).

See its Resources for Genealogists.

Covers all U.S. Presidents, with information about presidential libraries if one has been established.

Complete source of information about copyright, including information for authors about why and how to register for copyright on their works.