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This research guide is designed to help you find easy access points for governmental research, resources, and information portals. This page helps direct you to larger government information search portals. Check out the U.S. Government Data and Statistics tab for select links to specific governmental agencies research, reports and data.
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Fundamentals of Government Information: Mining, finding, evaluating, and using government resources by Call Number: ZA5055.U6F67 2016ISBN: 9780838914205Publication Date: 2016-06-09
Helpful Research Databases
- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
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Full-text U.S. foreign policy and military policy documents. - Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Policy related documents on homeland security. NOTE: Users will need to login using their ERAU username and password. - FedFlix This link opens in a new window
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United States Government videos covering a variety of topics from various departments and agencies. - National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) This link opens in a new window
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Access to selected full-text access to federally-funded technical reports. - NASA PubSpace This link opens in a new windowPubMed Central (PMC) is a full-text, online archive of peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research. Subjects include earth and space science, materials, computing and electronics, fuels, radio communications, safety, and human health.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Under subjects, look for Political Science collection to narrow. - Proquest One Academic This link opens in a new windowUnder included databases look for Political Science Database to narrow.
One Stop Places to Search for Government Documents and Info
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) ReportsThis collection provides the public with access to research products produced by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the United States Congress. By law, CRS works exclusively for Congress, providing timely, objective, and authoritative research and analysis to committees and members of both the House and Senate, regardless of political party affiliation.
- DATA.GOVThe home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
- Federal Depository Library Program: Arizona LocationsThe mission of the FDLP is to disseminate information products from all three branches of the Government to over 1,250 libraries nationwide. Libraries that have been designated as Federal depositories maintain these information products as part of their existing collections and are responsible for assuring that the public has free access to the material provided by the FDLP.
- Government Publishing OfficeThe official, digital, and secure source for producing, preserving, and distributing official Federal Government publications and information products for Congress, Federal agencies, and the American public.
- GovinfoProvides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
- Library of CongressThe Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.
- National ArchivesLinks to government publications in the National Archives, gateways and guides to federal information, finding aids and indexes to government documents, federal directories, and other government publications.
- USA.govUSA.gov searches only federal, state, and local government websites for the public. USA.gov only returns results from government web pages, most ending in .gov or .mil.
- USA SpendingThe official source for spending data for the U.S. Government. Search by budget function, agency, or object class.
- Science.govScience.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative Federal science information including research and development results.
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