Government

Federal Government Sites:

• Fed World Information Network - Gateway to government information such as government development and research publications, government science and technology resources, and supreme court decisions.  The network is provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
  
  
• First Gov - Official U.S. Government portal to U.S. Government information, services, and online transactions including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government as well as state government homepages, governmental forms and applications, and U.S. statistical data.
  
  
• Google Uncle Sam - Google search engine that searches the web for U.S. government and military sites which end in .gov and .mil.
  
  
• GovSpot - StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc.'s U.S. government network that provides links to U.S. federal, state, and local government sites, U.S. governmental reports, and links to international government sites as well as data about education, employment, law, crime, business, government contracting, travel, food, etc. in the U.S.
  
  
• GPO Access - Service of the U.S. General Printing Office that provides free electronic access to information produced by the Federal Government such as congressional bills, hearings, and reports, public laws, the U.S. Code, the House Journal, Supreme Court decisions, the U.S. budget, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, and the U.S. Government Manual.
  
  
• Library of Congress - Homepage of the Library of Congress which gives information about the library's events and services as well as provides LC classification outline, copyright information, country studies, and links to web sites arranged by topic.
  
  
• SearchGov - Service from Maxbot that provides links to federal government executive departments, independent government agencies, state and local government sites, SearchMil, SearchEdu, and SearchEBooks.
  
  
• Thomas Legislative Information Database -  Searchable database provided by the Library of Congress that allows you to search for bills, public laws, the Congressional Record, Congressional roll call votes, and Congressional committee reports, homepages, schedules, and hearings by number or keyword.
  
  
• U.S. Postal Service (USPS)  - Homepage of the U.S. Postal Service which provides shipping information, postage rates and fees, change of address forms, government links, tax information sites, small business information sites, and international business information sites as well as allows you to search for zip codes, track package deliveries, send certified mail electronically, and pay bills electronically.
  
  
• University of South Carolina's Government Documents Department - Homepage of the Government Documents Department of the University of South Carolina which provides access to MarciveWeb Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe, GPO Access to U.S. Government Publications,  and Access UN Index to United Nations Publications.  The site also provides library guides to census reports, consumer information, statistics, tax information, federal government information, state/local government information, and international government information as well as guides for proper citation of government documents and publications.