Federal Law Resources

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Executive Office Office of the President Executive Departments and Agencies Official Publications and Databases	Congress Congress Congressional Offices Official Publications and Databases	Judiciary Courts Judicial Agencies

The Federal Documents Collection at Thurgood Marshall Law Library

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library is a selective depository. We do not receive every item available from the Government Printing Office. The Library does make every effort to choose material reflecting the research needs of our students and faculty. Many, but not all, of the documents that the Library receives are cataloged and can be located by searching in the library catalog. If you are unable to locate the material you need, please ask for help at the Library's User Services Desk.

Material is arranged on the shelves by the Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) number. This number usually consists of an alphabetic identifier for the agency (Ag for Department of Agriculture, J for Department of Justice) followed by a series of numbers that represent both the type of publication and the year or congressional session the material was produced. Congressional publications are always represented by either an X or Y. When you are using an electronic index such as the Monthly Catalog or a printed index, such as CIS, you need to locate the SuDoc number in order to find material on the shelves.

Material in the Government Documents collection is published in paper, micro format and in electronic form (CD-ROM and electronic data files). CD-ROMs are shelved on the first floor in the microfilm area and are available for use in the Library at any CD-ROM workstations.

Additional, subject specific Internet links may be found by searching the Library's specialty pages and list of free electronic resources.

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Office of the President

• The White House
• Office of Management and Budget
• Presidential Libraries
• Public Papers of the President

Executive Departments and Agencies

• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Commerce
  • Patent and Trademark Office
• Department of Defense
• Department of Education
• Department of Energy
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Homeland Security
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Department of Interior
  • National Park Service
• Department of Justice
  • FBI Freedom of Information Reading Room
  • Internet Fraud Section
  • Justice Information Center (NCJRS)
  • National Institute of Justice Resources (NIJ)
  • Foreign Agents Registration Unit and Counterespionage Section
  • Immigration Research Center - Virtual Law Library
• Department of Labor
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Department of State
  • Human Rights
• Department of Transportation
• Department of the Treasury
  • Bureau of the Public Debt
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Environmental Protection Agency
  • National Environmental Publications Information System
  • Toxic Release Inventory Program
• Center for Disease Control
  • CDC - State Tobacco Activities Tracking & Evaluation System
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Federal Election Commission
• Election Law Resources
• Government Accountability Office
• National Archives and Records Administration
• Office of Government Ethics
• Office of Technology Assessment (defunct agency)(via Princeton's mirror site)
• Postal Service Commission
• Social Security Administration
• US. -China Security Review Commission
• United States Commission on Civil Rights
  • Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

Official Publications

• Cityscape: a Journal of Policy Development and Research
• Economic Report of the President
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Federal Budget
• Federal Register
  • Code of Federal Regulations
  • List of Sections Affected
• Foreign Relations of the United States
• The National Strategy For Homeland Security: Office of Homeland Security
• The National Security Strategy of the United States of America
  
• USPTO Today
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• United States Government Manual

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United States Congress

• Guide to House and Senate Members
• House of Representatives
  • Committee on the Judiciary
  • Select Committee on Homeland Security
• United States Senate
  • Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  • Committee on the Judiciary
  • Select Committee on Intelligence

Congressional Offices

• Congressional Budget Office
• Government Printing Office
  • GPO Access (Government Printing Office)
• Catalog of Government Publications
• Federal Depository Libraries
  • Johns Hopkins University, Library - Government Documents Dept.
  • University of Delaware, Library - Government Information and Resources.
  • University of Maryland, Library - Government Documents Dept.
  • University of Michigan, Library - Government Documents Dept.
  • Locate other depository libraries (via GPO Access)
• Library of Congress
  • Congressional Research Service reports (via University of Maryland School of Law)
  • Congressional Research Service reports (via University of North Texas)

Official Publications and Databases

• Congressional Record
• Deschler's Precedents
• United States Code
• Thomas
• USA.gov (search engine for the federal government)

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Courts

• United States Supreme Court (official site)
• Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (official site)
• Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (select historical, 1994 - 1999)
• Federal Court Locator

Judicial Agencies

• Administrative Office of the Courts
• Federal Judicial Center
• Law Library at the Library of Congress/Global Legal Information Network
• Supreme Court Historical Society
• US Sentencing Commission

 

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