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…
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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
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It can be hard to find government documents…
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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
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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
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LexisNexis Congressional
‘Digital Collection’ means full text is available
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GEORGE record for hearing
GEORGE record shows microfiche
holding for Vandenberg
Resolution on the North Atlantic
Treaty
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Found that Defense Appropriations hearing…
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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
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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)
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Congressional Record November 15, 1918
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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
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Some people can be so demanding…
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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)
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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
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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
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Registry of Digitization Projects
http://registry.fdlp.gov/
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Google U.S. Government
http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Limits results to .gov, .mil, .us internet domains
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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!
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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
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Time for exercises…
Any questions?Any questions?