Introduction to Government Information
- Finding Government InformationEssential links and information about how to access materials produced by U.S. federal agencies, bureaus, and offices.
- Reading Government CitationsInformation about how to read and find citations to government information like bills, laws, statutes, codes, and regulations.
Spotlight: Government Reports & Publications
- National Park HistoriesLinks to reports or histories of U.S. National Park sites.
- Bureau of Land Management PublicationsBLM publications include documents produced by the BLM's precursors, the General Land Office and the U.S. Grazing Service. Most BLM publications are held at the BLM Library in print form but many also are available online. Online access generally dates back to the 1990s.
- U.S. Geological Survey PublicationsThe Publications Warehouse provides access to over 160,000 publications written by USGS scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau.
Information about Land and Water
- Bureau of Land Management National NEPA RegisterUse either the map or text search to find information about BLM projects including management plans and environmental impact statements.
- Bureau of Land Management General Land Office RecordsSearch land patents archived by the Bureau of Land Management. The site "provide[s] live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present. We also have images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records."
- National Parks Management PlansAlphabetical list of management plans by National Park site.
- Utah WatershedsMaps of Utah watersheds. Includes links to reports, usage data and more by management units.
Historic Publications
- HathiTrust
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The HathiTrust is a shared digital repository, incorporating digitized content from some of the largest research libraries in the United States.Note: Login required for some collections.
- GovinfoGovinfo is a site produced by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) that provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
- Bureau of American EthnologyAccess digital versions of reports from the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE). From 1879 to 1965, BAE primarily undertook anthropological studies of indigenous peoples of North and South America.
- Library of Congress Digital CollectionsThe Library of Congress provides access to digitized primary sources through a variety of digital collections. Some of these materials were formerly part of the American Memory project.
