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American
Factfinder (U.S. Census Bureau)
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Interactive, searchable database used to find
population, housing, industry and business statistics from the U.S.
Census. Data collected in Census 2000, the 1990 Census of Population and
Housing, the American Community Survey and the 1997 Economic Census.
Allows uses to compile census data into tables, maps and downloadable
files, which can be viewed or printed.
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Bureau of
Economic Analysis
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Provides time series data for national and state
income accounts and international trade and investment. Also
includes U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by industry and
input-output tables for select years.
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Bureau of
Labor Statistics
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Presents up-to-date U.S. economic statistical
information in areas such as 'Inflation and Spending' and
'International Statistics.' Also available are the latest
numbers for the Consumer Price Index, unemployment rate, and the
Producer Price. Provides past and current statistics for the
U.S. economy as a whole; regional economic data can be obtained
by clicking the state on a color-coded map.
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Catalog of US Government Publications
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Indexes government documents printed by the US
Government Printing Office such as Congressional committee
hearings, congressional debates and records, judiciary material,
documents issued by departments such as Defense, State, Labor,
and the Office of the President. Also includes links to Federal
agency online resources.
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CDC Recommends
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A collection of more than 400 documents
containing recommendations on health, prevention, and public
health practice issues from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Includes the full text of the document or a link to
the Internet site. Also includes are more than 80 documents
archived for research or historical purposes. Two-thirds of the
documents were originally published in the CDC's Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report. The rest are books, brochures,
factsheets or other materials by CDC authors in peer-reviewed
journals,
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ChildStats.gov
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Provides access to federal and state statistics
and reports on children and their families, including:
population and family characteristics, economic security,
health, behavior and social environment, and education. Includes
the annual Federal monitoring report on the status of the
American children.
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Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
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Includes the text of more than 100 historic US
documents from the Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact to the
Truman Doctrine and the "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR)
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Provides access to the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR), the codification of the general and permanent
rules published in the Federal Register by the executive
departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is
divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to
Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each
calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis.
Jurisdiction: US/Federal
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Congressional
Budget Office
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Provides access to federal budget and economic
information including the Monthly Budget Review, Current Budget
Projections, Historical Budget Data.
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Core
Documents of U.S. Democracy
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Provides access a core group of current and
historical government publications including the Bill of Rights,
presidential inauguration speeches and other judicial and
regulatory documents.
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Federal
Register (FR)
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The Federal Register is the official daily
publication for rules, proposed rule, and notices of Federal
agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and
other presidential documents. The online version starts at
volume 59 (1994).
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FedStats
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Gateway to official statistics collected and
published by more than 100 Federal agencies.
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FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
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A database of over 3000 U.S. economic time
series which can be downloaded in Microsoft Excel and text
formats and viewed as charts of data series. Categories of data
include banking, consumer price indexes (CPI), gross domestic
product (GDP), employment and population and more.
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Geographic
Names Information Service (GNIS)
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Contains searchable information for almost 2
million physical and cultural and geographic features in the
United States. Official repository of domestic geographic names
information.
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GPO Access
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Service of the U.S. Government Printing Office
that provides free electronic access to a information products
produced by the Federal Government. Included are congressional
hearings, committee print and directory information, federal
regulations, public laws, the Congressional Record and many more
titles.
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HCUPnet
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Provides data that can be used for research on
hospital utilization, access, charges, quality and outcomes.
HCUP data can be used to describe patters of care, to analyze
hospital procedures and to study the care of population
sub-groups and do identify, track, analyze and compare hospital
statistics at the national and regional leve.
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Legal Information Institute (LII)
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Indexes Supreme Court decisions and opinions
under the auspices of Project Hermes, as well as over 500 of the
Court's most important historic decisions.
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National
Center for Health Statistics (NCSH)
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The website for the National Center for Health
Statistics, the nation's principal health statistics agency,
compiling statistical information to guide actions and policies
to improve the health.
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NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Abstracts
Database
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Indexes over 170,000 criminal justice books,
journal articles, and reports published by the US Department of
Justice, other local, state, and Federal government agencies,
international organizations, and the private sector are indexed.
Access is also provided to more than 7,000 full text documents
through the NCJRS Virtual Library linked to the database.
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Smoking
and Health Database
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Contains more than 62,000 abstracts of journal
articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, reports,
conference proceedings and conference papers, government
documents, policy or legal documents, editorials, letters, and
comments on articles related to the scientific, medical,
technical, policy, behavioral, legal, and historical literature
related to smoking and tobacco use and its effect on health.
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Supreme Court
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Provides access to the Court's recent decisions
and opinions and other documents.
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TheDataWeb
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A collaboration between the U.S. Census Bureau
and the Centers for Disease Control, TheDataWeb provides access
across the Internet to demographic, economic, environmental and
health and other databases housed in different systems in
different ageinces and organizations. TheDataWeb is a collection
of systems and software that provide data query and extract
capabilities, as well as data analysis and visualization tools.
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Thomas:
Legislative Information on the Internet
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Provides access to a wide range of legislative
information on the Congress, including the full text of the
Congressional Record and bills from the 103rd to the present, as
well as a directory of congressional committees and members of
Congress. Excellent resource for finding quick, online
legislative histories and the full-text of Congressional
Committee reports.
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U.S.
Government Manual
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The official handbook of the federal government.
Provides information on agencies on the legislative, judicial,
and executive branches. Also includes information on
quasi-official agencies, international organizations. Includes
reprints of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S.
Constitution.
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USGS
Water Resources Reports
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Includes circulars, digital data series, fact
sheets, investigation reports and other papers on the topic of
water resources published by the US Geological Survey.
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