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.
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
- Federal Times
- Governing Magazine
- Government Technology
"Solutions for state and local governments in the information age" - Government Executive
- The Hill
- Next.gov
"Technology and the business of Government" - Roll Call
- Stateline
Sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts
Associations
- American Political Science Association
- American Society for Public Administration
- Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- Association of Government Accountants (AGA)
- Blacks in Government
- Coalition for Effective Change
- Conference of Minority Public Administrators
- Federally Employed Women
- National Academy of Public Administration
- National Association of Counties
- National Association of Hispanic Federal Executives
- National Forum for Black Public Administrators
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- National Governors' Association
- National League of Cities
- Public Management Research Association
- Senior Executives Association
- Western Governors' Association
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