US Government Information

"A list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965. The list begins with the Lee Resolution of June 7, 1776, a simple document resolving that the United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be free and independent states. . . and ends with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a statute that helped fulfill the promise of freedom inherent in the first documents on the list. The remaining milestone documents are among the thousands of public laws, Supreme Court decisions, inaugural speeches, treaties, constitutional amendments, and other documents that have influenced the course of U.S. history. They have helped shape the national character, and they reflect our diversity, our unity, and our commitment as a nation to continue our work toward forming a more perfect union."

There are over 3,000 counties in the United States. You can get information on them here, a page maintained by the National Association of Counties.

"The official site for U.S. Government information. In September 2000, FirstGov.gov was launched, the only official U.S. Government portal to 47 million pages of government information, services, and online transactions."

"FirstGov offers a powerful search engine that searches every word of every U.S. government document in a quarter of a second or less."

"FirstGov.gov also features a topical index, online transactions, links to state and local government, options to contact your government, and other tools so you don't have to know the name of the government agency to get the information you want anytime you want it."

Your government has used your tax dollars to produce many of the most useful sites to be found anywhere on the World Wide Web, from the Library of Congress to NASA to the CIA to the Social Security Administration, to name just a few examples. You'll find vital information for students, business people, scientists, researchers, veterans, senior citizens, artists and just about everyone else.

Use these fast and subject-specific government search engines to find information about the US Government: IRS documents, Customs Services, NTIS, US Law Code, legislative information, OSHA regulations and many other agencies and departments.

"The United States has three major bases in Australia. One is in South Australia (Nurranger, near Woomera, T.N.), another in New South Wales, and the third (and by far the largest) is located within about 230 km (143 miles) of the geographical center of the continent, not far to the west of Alice Springs (Northern Territory), at the foothills of the southern slopes of the MacDonnell Range. This base is completely underground, with barely visible entrances to the surface."

"This 'Top Secret' base is entirely financed by the United States Government, and is officially known as the Joint Defense Space Research Facility."

US Federal Government Guide

In 1992, FedWorld was established by The National Technical Information Service( NTIS), an agency of the U.S Department of Commerce, to serve as the online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information disseminated by the Federal Government. This new service assisted agencies and the public in electronically locating Federal Government information, both information housed within the NTIS repository and information we made accessible through an electronic gateway of more than 100 Government bulletin boards. What started out as a small dial-up access system has grown tremendously over the last four years in size, technology, and content.

A part of the FedWorld Information Network, the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) is essentially a card catalog. It identifies public information resources throughout the U.S. Federal Government, describes the information available in those resources, and provides assistance in obtaining the information. Ultimately, GILS consist of a decentralized collection of agency-based information locators and associated information services. GILS supplements other agency information dissemination mechanisms and commercial information sources. GILS uses network technology and international standards for information search and retrieval so that information can be retrieved in a variety of ways, and so that GILS users can find other information resources worldwide. GILS provides automated linkages that facilitate electronic delivery of online information products and services.

The Query Server is an advanced meta search tool that broadcasts a single query across a set of Web-enabled search engines.

The Query Server is a powerful solution offered by Open Text that allows organizations to unify access to multiple internal and external information sources - including repositories, news feed systems, document management systems, intranets, and the Internet.

To provide American citizens direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society, a core group of current and historical Government publications is being made available for free, permanent, public access via the GPO Access service. These titles contain information which is vital to the democratic process and critical to an informed electorate. They support the public's right to know about the essential activities of their Government. Immediate, online access to authenticated versions of these Core Documents of Democracy increases in importance as Americans grow ever more dependent on remote electronic access to basic information resources -- both past and present.

     

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