Law & Government

Legal Information

  • AltLaw Beta - Offers the full text of the U.S. Supreme and Circuit Appeals Courts, browsing U.S. Code and all cases, as a joint project of Columbia Law School’s Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School
  • American Law Sources On-line (ALSO) - Provides a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible online sources of law for the United States and Canada, with the U.S. resources including both federal and state, and also a link for Mexico (free with registration)
  • Legal Information Institute (LII) - Is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School, including popular collections such as the U.S. Code, Supreme Court opinions, and Law about...
  • LexNotes - For legal research professionals, providing categorized links to research sources, bibliographies, pathfinders, articles, reviews, papers, and legal news
  • WashLaw - Subject-oriented guide to legal resources, legal research databases, and international topics, by Washburn University School of Law

U.S. Government

  • American Memory - National historical collections containing rich and primary materials relating to U.S. history and culture
  • Central Intelligence Agency - Information on foreign intelligence on national security topics
  • Code of Federal Regulations - With links to Federal Register, Public & Private Laws, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Public Papers of the Presients of the United States, U.S. Government Manual, privacy act issuances
  • Congress Merge - U.S. congressional schedule, data tables linking zip codes to congressional and/or state legislative districts as well as databases with legislator contact information, committee assignments, biographies, and district offices
  • Copyright & Fair Use - Good resource for understanding the complexities of fair use, by Stanford University Libraries
  • Copyright Website - provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information
  • Creative Commons (Copyright licenses) - Provides an alternative to "All Rights Reserved," building a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules, founded by a group of intellectual property and technology experts in 2001. Summarized article is available.
  • CQ.com - Congressional Quarterly, having the largest news team covering Capitol Hill to keep readers updated in print and online on a weekly, daily and real-time basis
    directory of the legal disciplines
  • CyberCemetery - Provides defunct web sites of U.S. governmental agencies and commissions, by a partnership between GPO and University of North Texas
  • DOSFan - Archive of web sites of the State Department and Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, searchable research collections of archived electronic documents, by a partnership of State Dept., Library of University of Illinois, Chicago, and Federal Depository Library Program
  • EPA -- Window to My Environment - Offers local information about environmental issues, and enables users to identify landmarks or geographical features to be mapped and to integrate with data collected by the partners, by U.S, Environmental Protection Agency in partnership with state and local government
  • Federal Citizen Information Center - U.S. government services, federal benefits & services, consumer action website, medicare publications, and federal information in other languages
  • Federal Gateway - U.S. agencies, news, acronyms, with links to U.S. consumer gateway, U.S. government & grant resources, national women's health information center, U.S. ready reference documents at Columbia University libraries
  • Federal Information Sources - Budget & finance, codes, laws & regulations, consumer information, criminal justice statistics, educational, demographic, economic, and health statistics, and U.S. Governemnt documents by Joyner Library, East Columbia University
  • FedForms.gov - "One-stop-shopping" for federal forms most used by public
  • FedWorld.gov - National Technical Information Service, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information
  • FindLaw - For legal professionals, Sureme Court resources and docket including opinions and briefs, historical and biographical information, and U.S. & international legal resources
  • FirstGov for Science - Gateway to reliable information about science and technology from across Federal government organizations
  • Foreign Policy Association (U.S.) - Provides impartial publications, programs and forums to increase public awareness of, and foster popular participation in, matters relating to those policy issues
  • GPO Access - Official federal government information with links to Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, Congressional Bills,
    Catalog of U.S. Gov't Publications, and other databases
  • GPO Access: Multi-Database Search - Government information databases, collections of government information available through the federal depository libraries, provided by the U.S. Government Printing Office
  • Guide to Law Online - Annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online, with selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information, by Public Services Division, U.S. Law Library of Congress
  • The History of Social Security - Includes the institutional history of the Social Security Administration as well as the history of the Social Security program, social security pioneers, speeches & articles, and a photo gallery
  • Internal Revenue Service - For tax information via Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Dept. of Treasury, as the nation's tax collection agency which administers the
    Internal Revenue Code enacted by Congress
  • The Law Library of Congress - Includes information on a range of legal issues and research topics, providing established products such as the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), Guide to Law Online and the Global Legal Monitor, with new Law Library products
  • The Library of Congress - U.S. Copyright Office, national recording registry, jobs & fellowships, featured cybercast, and news & events
  • National Arhives and Records Administration - U.S. Government Manual, Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the U.S., other government organizations
  • Natonal Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped - Provides program users, librarians, and the public a wide range of access to NLS publications, program information, and bibliographic data
  • Social Security Online - Official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration, for information on benefits, earnings & employment, immigration, international issues, law & regulations, medicare, retirement planner, and forms & publications
  • Supreme Court of the United States - Supreme Court files, court docket files, oral arguments, bar admissions, court rules, case handling guides, opinions, public information, and related websites
  • Thomas - U.S. Congress and legislative agencies, Congressional Record, and committee information
  • U.S. Copyright Office -serve the copyright community of creators and users, as well as the general public
  • U.S. Department of Educaton - Information on grants and contracts, financial aid, education resources, research and stats, and policy
  • U.S. Federal Government Information - Frequently used sites related to GPO access, census 2000 gateway, IRS tax forms, statistical abstract, terrorism, and Iraq, by Government Information Services at Vanderbilt University Central Library
  • U.S. Government Information - Information about libraries, education & careers, awards & scholarships, issues & advocacy, professional tools, events, products & publications, by American Library Association
  • U.S. House of Representatives - Annual congressional schedule, committee hearing schedules, current daily debate summary, and related websites
  • White House - White House Press Releases, press briefings, policies on focus, major speeches, and nominations
  • Yale University Library - Information-packed site on digital licensing

New York State

  • New York State Government Information Locator Service - Provides a single
    point of access to information services provided by New York State
    Government agencies, the State Legislature and the Judiciary, hosted by the New York State Library
  • New York State Archives - Provides access to more than 130 million documents that tell the story of New York from the seventeenth century to the present, by N.Y. State Dept. of Eductation

Non-Governmental

International

  • Access Middle East - Provides breaking news about Middle East, with links to journalistic sources for information, and offers background information on major regional issues, media and quotes archives
  • embassy.org - Resource of and for the Washington D.C. foreign embassy community
  • International Information Programs - Department of State, current issues and events in the fields of foreign affairs
  • Library and Archives of Canada - National Library of Canada, Searchable for Canadian information by subject, research tools in Canadian libraries and on web, and Canadiana quick reference
  • Nations of the World - Provides links to information on all the countries' constitutions as well as their legislative, executive, and judicial bodies, and related websites such as World Factbook, Country Studies, and Human Rights Reports