Government

Electronic Resources Accessible from DOI Locations Only

These databases are available to all departmental employees at their desktops. Employees who are teleworking may access them through the Department's VPN. Others must contact a Reference Librarian for assistance.


EBSCO Online

Includes:

  • Legal Collection
     

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Includes:

  • Current Issues and Trends in E-Government Research
  • Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics
  • United States Government Internet Manual
  • West's Encyclopedia of American Law
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States

Web Sites - Table of Contents

 

News

Associations

 

Other Web Sites

  • American City and County
    This web site includes recent news on issues facing local governments, and current and back issues of the magazine American City and County. 
  • The American Presidency Project
    The archives contain over 100,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency, from 1789 to the present
  • The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
    Major U.S. and international documents in law, history and diplomacy, from ancient times to the present
  • Bob Behn's Performance Leadership Report
    "An occasional (and maybe insightful) examination of the issues, dilemmas, challenges and opportunities in leadership, governance, management, and performance in public agencies"
  • Digital.gov
    Sponsored by the Office of Products and Programs in the in the Technology Transformation Service of the U.S. General Services Administration. Its mission is to help agencies build a 21st century digital government.
  • Government Innovators Network
    Sponsored by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
  • govinfo.gov
    The U.S. Government Publishing Office's portal to official federal publications 
  • GovLeaders.org
    "Promoting Better Leadership and Management in the Public Service"
  • Legislative Explorer: Data Driven Discovery
    An aid to observing large scale patterns and trends in Congressional lawmaking, produced by the University of Washington's Center for American Politics and Public Policy and the design firm Schema
  • NIRA World Directory of Think Tanks
  • Office of Government Ethics
  • The Plum Book
    United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions
  • PLUM Reporting
    This website contains data on policy and supporting positions in the executive branch of the federal government and other federal entities outlined in the Periodically Listing Updates to Management (PLUM) Act (codified at 5 U.S.C. 3330f). The Act is intended to improve government transparency by providing the public with more up-to-date information on the leadership and organization of federal agencies and entities, including each Administration’s top leaders, political appointees, and certain other senior positions in the federal civil service.
  • Public Agenda
    A nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization
     

 

Updated October 2021

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