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Finding Aids

Guides, Lists, and Locators

  • Federal Web Locator intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web, this site is hosted by the Information Center at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.
  • FedWorld Information Network a comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information.
  • Federal Information Center References to resources that can help answer some of the most frequently asked questions about federal agencies, programs, and services.
  • FirstGov The first-ever government website to provide the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources
  • GPO Access Finding Aids GPO Access provides a number of useful finding aids to assist you in searching or browsing for Government information
  • INFOMINE A government specific search of government resources and guides via the University of California Riverside
  • NonProfit Gateway A network of links to Federal government information and services.
  • U.S. Government Information Locator Service (GILS) essentially a card catalog, which
    identifies public information resources throughout the U.S. and provides assistance in obtaining that information.
  • Pathway Services --An Agency Index which allows you to browse and access Electronic Titles of Government Information Products Available via the Internet.

Government Information Search Engines

  • AltaVista Using AltaVista, you can find any word in any document published on the World Wide Web or in Usenet discussion groups.
  • Broadsword -- The military's own search engine which crawls dozens of its vast classified networks, providing access to intelligence and command and control information residing on a wide array of otherwise incompatible platforms and operating systems.
  • FastSearch and Transfer (FAST) -- Considers itself to be the world's most thorough search engines, with a database of more than 200 million pages in 1999.
  • google.com -- Search 1,326,920,000 web pages Including PDF files.
  • google.com/unclesam --. Government sites in the Google database have been filtered into a one government-site-specific engine.
  • hotbot.com -- Search the web or do a category search. Can search using the domains, .mil and .gov.
  • Lib-Web-Cats -- Vanderbilt's libraries have developed a directory of over 5,000 libraries worldwide Library Web pages, online catalogs, and profiles can be searched. The site can be browsed by topic.
  • SearchMil.com -- A search engine indexing U.S. military Internet sites. "the most comprehensive index of publicly accessible .mil sites on the Internet."
  • Yahoo! Government