U.S. Government Information Resources
Bibliographies
Books Online
Databases & Catalogs
Journals
Libraries
Websites

Bibliographies

  • Corporations, Organizations, and Associations
  • International Space Agencies
  • Legislative Research and Space Law

Books Online

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-2005 - Contains information like birth date and location, educational and professional endeavors, government services, and death dates.

World Factbook - CIA developed guide to the countries of the world includes analysis of politics, economy, and population.


Databases & Catalogs

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports - Open CRS - "A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain.." As of 7/14/2005, 8485 reports are available.

Department of Defense Directives - DOD issuances, directives, instructions, regulations and manuals.

Department of Energy Information Bridge - Offers the full-text of many DOE publications from 1995 to the present.

Department of Energy - Human Radiation Experiments - Collection of documents and multimedia concerning radiation experiments on human subjects.

Department of Transportation Documents - Offers the full-text of DOT dockets, and FAA Regulations, Advisory Circulars, and Airworthiness Directives.

Dialog - Offers more than 450 databases on ALL subjects. Covers magazines, newspapers, newsletters, Dun & Bradstreet reports, organization information, statistics, scientific journals, biographies, patents, directories, international publications, and market research. Registered library patrons can request a search. Limited to NASA HQ employees.

DoD Scientific and Technical Information Network - The public version of the Defense Technical Information Center's STINET database. NASA HQ employees may request searches in the limited database or request documents be purchased by contacting the Library.

EBSCOhost - A journal database indexing 1,400,000 articles. A few journals are available in full-text online. Articles from most other journals can be ordered through the database or requested from the Library. Limited to NASA HQ employees.

European Science Foundation (ESF) - Collection of full-text policy briefings, infrastructure studies, reports and position papers by the Foundation, 1998-present.

Executive Orders - Access executive orders (EO) from the Federal Register, or access NASA-related executive orders through the NODIS system.

FAA Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation - Collection of quarterly launch reports, forecasts, licensing, and COMSTAC reports.

FAA Documents - Office publications, reports, manuals, plans from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Factiva - Indexes full-text current newspapers, newswires, television transcripts, trade journals, and magazines. Also offers a variety of business reports. Registered library patrons can request a search. Limited to NASA HQ employees.

Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) - Offers the FAR in a variety of formats, plus supporting documentation.

Federal Information Processing Standards - Lists full-text Department of Commerce FIPS by number.

Federal Workers Lookup - Database of all civil servants (no contractors) in federal agencies across the U.S. Gives location, occupation, agency, grade, and amount of cash bonuses. Offered by the Washington Post. Compiled from OPM 2002 Personnel Data File.

Federation of American Scientists Space Policy Project - Collection of full-text space policy documents, a World Space Guide, military space documents, and related resources.

FirstGov - Specialized search engine that searches only United States government sites. The official gateway to all U.S. government information.

FirstSearch - Encompasses 38 databases on a wide variety of topics from education and life sciences to public affairs and technology. Includes Wordcat, a combined book catalog of other 30,000 libraries. The article databases often have full-text. To see which database indexes a journal, look up the journal title. Limited to NASA HQ employees.

General Accounting Office - Full-text of GAO reports and testimony, listed by date, agency and topic.

Google Scholar - Specialized search engine that searches for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. An Advanced Search option is also available.

GPO Access - Includes the full-text of the Budget of the U.S. Government, Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, Code of Federal Regulations, bills, laws, hearings, reports, Congressional Record, Economic Indicators, Federal Register, GAO Comptroller General Decisions, US Code, Supreme Court Decisions, U.S. Government Manual, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and Public Papers of the Presidents.

Ingenta - Free searching of nearly 30,000 journals from 1988 to the present. Most articles are pay-per-view.

Law Library of Congress - indexes websites for state bills, legislation, and government.

Lexis-Nexis - A full-text database with articles from major newspapers, trade journals, and newswires. Also an excellent source for legal and legislative information. Registered library patrons can request a search. Limited to NASA HQ employees.

NASA GALAXIE - NASA GALAXIE is our library catalog. It includes the collections of most NASA Center libraries. The catalog indexes books, journals, atlases, conferences, books-on-tape, video recordings, software, images, and print and electronic documents. It can only be accessed from a NASA computer. Limited to NASA employees.

NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) - full-text reports, audits, memoranda, testimony, etc.

NASA Office of Legislative Affairs - congressional hearings and testimony relevant to NASA and NASA's mission.

NASA Procurement Reference Library - NASA FAR Supplement, Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook, and guidance for submitting unsolicited proposals.

NASA/DOD Interagency Agreements - full-text of NASA and Department of Defense agreements from 1959 to present. Arranged by DoD and NASA organization name. NASA access only.

National Academy Press - full-text books from the Academies and the National Research Council. For print copies of NASA-related texts, check the library catalog.

National Science Foundation - full-text documents from 1996 to present. Includes statistical reports on science and engineering research, funding, and education.

National Technical Information Service - searches NTIS reports from 1990 to present. Many documents available in full-text. For reports before 1964 to present, registered library patrons can request a search. in the Dialog NTIS database.

NewJour - List of new journals and newsletters available on the Internet. Maintained by Ann Shumelda Okerson (Yale University) and James J. O'Donnell (University of Pennsylvania).

Office of Science & Technology Policy - recent reports from the office. To see older reports, check the archive.

Office of Technology Assessment - All of the OTA's reports in full- text archived at Princeton. Print copies of many of the reports are available in the library catalog.

State of the Union Addresses of the American Presidents - Browse or search through the full-text of every State of the Union speech from 1790-2005 (2006 coming soon).

Thomas - bills, laws, committee reports, hearings

Virtual Technical Reports Center - lists institutions that offer full-text technical reports or searchable abstracts on the web (University of Maryland Libraries).


Journals

Bureaucrat, Print: v.19 n.1 (Spr 1990) - v.20 n.4 (Win 1991/1992)

Capital Source, Print: current edition

Commerce Business Daily, Print: (July 1997) - present, Online - full-text

Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Online

Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor, Print: Mar 1999 - Jun 1999, Jan 24, 2000 - May 9, 2000

Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, Print: v.24 n.22 (Jun 1966) - present, Online - requires a personal subscription

Explorations in Economic History, Online

Federal Employees News Digest, Print: v.46 n.8 (Sept 1996) - present, Online - subscription information

Federal Register, Print: , Online - full-text

Federal Times, Print: , Online - some full-text

Games and Economic Behavior, Online

GAO Journal, Print: (Winter 1990) - (Winter 1992)

Government Executive, Print: v.23 n.1 (Jan 1991) - present, Online - full-text (click on the magazine cover for current issue)

Government Information Quarterly, Online

Government Manager, Print: n.444 (Jan. 1990) - v.548 (Dec 1993)

Journal of Comparative Economics, Online

Journal of Development Economics, Online

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Online

Journal of Economic Theory, Online

Journal of Economics and Business, Online

Journal of Housing Economics, Online

Journal of International Economics, Online

Journal of Mathematical Economics, Online

Journal of Monetary Economics, Online

Journal of Public Economics, Online

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Online

Journal of Urban Economics, Online

National Journal, Print: v.20 n.1 (Jan 1988) - present, Online - table of contents

North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Online

Public Administration Review (PAR), Print: v.51 n.1 (Jan 1991) - present, Online - full-text

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Online

Reports and Testimony/GAO, Print: Jan 1992 - Feb 1998

Research in Economics, Online

Review of Economic Dynamics, Online

Review of Radical Political Economics, Online

Roll Call, Online

United States Code, Print: current year, Online - full-text

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Print: (Jan 1967) - Feb 2001, Online - full-text


Libraries

Air University Library

Department of Defense Libraries

Library of Congress

Los Alamos National Laboratory Library

Lunar & Planetary Institute Library

NASA Ames Research Center - NASA Ames Technical Library

NASA Center for Aerospace Information - NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center - NASA Dryden Research Library

NASA Glenn Research Center - Glenn Technical Library

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Homer E. Newell Memorial Library Library

NASA Headquarters Library

NASA Independent Verification & Validation Facility - WVU / NASA IV&V Technical Library

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Beacon: Library, Archives & Records Section

NASA Johnson Space Center - Alfred R. Neumann Library at UHCL

NASA Johnson Space Center - Scientific and Technical Information Center

NASA Kennedy Space Center - KSC Library, only accessible from KSC

NASA Langley Research Center - Floyd L. Thompson Technical Library - Public access version

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - Redstone Scientific Information Center

NASA Stennis Space Center - Maury Oceanographic Library

NASA Wallops Flight Facility - Wallops Flight Facility Library

NASA White Sands Test Facility - White Sands Test Facility Technical Library

National Institute of Standards and Technology Virtual Library

National Transportation Library

Space Telescope Science Institute Library

University System of Maryland Libraries

Washington Research Library Consortium


Websites

Census Bureau

Department of Commerce, Office of Space Commercialization - Offers speeches, presentations, workshops, and reports on various space business and policy issues.

Department of Defense

Department of Energy

Department of Transportation

Federal Aviation Administration 

Government Information Online - (a pilot project sponsored by the GPO).  A virtual reference desk for government information; patrons ask questions via an online form and a librarian from one of 30 federal depository libraries will respond within 48 hours. 

Government Printing Office

House of Representatives

International Trade Commission, Office of Aerospace - Offers full-text of trade agreements and industry statistics.

NASA Freedom of Information Act Office - offers contact information and procedures for submitting FOIA requests to NASA.

National Air and Space Museum

National Archives and Records Administration

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

National Science Foundation 

National Technology Transfer Center

North American Aerospace Defense Command 

Office of Management and Budget - OMB circulars, memoranda and reports.

Office of Science & Technology Policy

Patent & Trademark Office

Senate

US Air Force Space Command

USGS Maps & Photos - links to databases of maps and aerial photos offered by businesses working in conjuction with the U.S. Geological Survey.

White House

  June 2006