New On LLRX - The Government Domain: New & Free Regulations Trackers

Published on April 21, 2010, the new addition to the LLRX.com titled The Government Domain: New & Free Regulations Trackers, by Peggy Garvin, highlights few online resources that make the federal legislative information available in new ways. Those include the following:

• GovTrack.us
• OpenCongress.org
• RegInfo.gov
• Regulations.gov
• Federal Register
• OpenRegs.com
• FedThread.org
• Regulations Tracker from Justia
• Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative

Federal Register On HeinOnline is Updated Daily

Via HeinOnline Weblog, in a post titled HeinOnline's Federal Register Coverage Is Now Updated Daily it is featured that federal register is daily updated.

Regular users of HeinOnline's Federal Register Library already know that with coverage starting in 1936, HeinOnline has the most comprehensive coverage of the Federal Register available online. Now, HeinOnline's coverage is updated daily with the most current Federal Register content available!

Starting at the end of July HeinOnline began updating the Federal Register on a daily basis. This means that you are now able to access yesterday’s Federal Register today! This current content is completely browseable, full-text searchable, and image-based, just like all other content in HeinOnline.

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New on LLRX: The Government Domain - Congressional Documents on FDSys: the Basics

On July 27, 2009 Peggy Garvin published an article on LLRx.com titled The Government Domain - Congressional Documents on FDsys: the Basics. Peggy Garvin of Garvin Information Consulting is author of The United States Government Internet Manual 2006-2007 (Bernan Press) and Real World Research Skills (TheCapitol.Net).

The U.S. federal government’s content shop, the Government Printing Office (GPO), is rolling out a new website for the government documents stream that it manages. The Federal Digital System (FDsys) is to replace GPO’s fifteen-year-old GPO Access website by the end of this year. GPO is moving content to FDsys gradually, collection by collection, with congressional documents leading the pack. GPO refers to the current system as a public beta version.

Congressional documents collections currently (as of 26 July 2009) available through FDsys are listed below. The capitalized acronym for each document collection is the “collection code” used in advanced FDsys command line searching, described later.

• Congressional Bills, 103rd Congress (1993-1994) to present; BILLS
• Congressional Calendars, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present; CCAL
• Congressional Committee Prints, 100th Congress (1987-1988) to present; CRPT
• Congressional Documents, 103rd Congress (1993-1994) to present; CDOC
• Congressional Hearings, if available from committee, 105th Congress (1997-1998) to present; CHRG
• Congressional Record, 103rd Congress, 2nd session (1994) to present; CREC
• Congressional Committee Reports and Senate Executive Reports, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present; CRPT

Read the full article to learn more about the search options, including tips for a Boolean search and basic syntax, about the search results and the future of the FDsys.

Data.gov - New Page at USA.gov

USA.gov has recently been updated with Data.gov as a part of the Data and Statistics - General Reference Resources page. The following is the stated purpose:

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Further,

Data.gov includes a searchable data catalog that includes access to data in two ways: through the "raw" data catalog and using tools.

The Primary Goal of this site reads as follows:

A primary goal of Data.gov is to improve access to Federal data and expand creative use of those data beyond the walls of government by encouraging innovative ideas (e.g., web applications). Data.gov strives to make government more transparent and is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. The openness derived from Data.gov will strengthen our Nation's democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

Users may also suggest other data and materials to be added to this page and the searchable database.

And don't forget that you can subscribe to receive automatic updates from USA.gov via email or via RSS feed.

Public.Resource.Org

Public.Resource.Org is a project that makes the government information more accessible to the public. Check it out yourself and see how you can find it helpful. It provides agency directory, archived materials, codes, court materials, and materials about copyright, gao, gpo, irs, patent, Smithsonian images, and trademark. It also has a feature to recycle used PACER documents.

FedFlix was a joint venture with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Each month they send us government videotapes. We upload them to the Internet Archive and YouTube, then send the government back their videotapes and a digital copy for their files. No cost to them, more data for all of us. Enjoy!

One can also subscribe via RSS feed to government documents such are Congressional hearings, congressional bills, presidential papers, federal register, house journal, and others.