National Security Agency has now released declassified copies of the VENONA messages. All of the released documents are available for review at the Museum Library
odd, obsucred links to online books including gutenberg, and government books but also, perhaps, pirated copies of copyrighted books? over 100,000 free online books and ebooks. All books are sorted and categorized automatically by a computer program. Some of them might have been misplaced in a wrong category.
BEA digital library of seminal documents related to the history of the U.S. national economic accounts. The library includes key Survey of Current Business articles from the 1930s through the 1990s, early reports by the Department of Commerce on the measurement of national income and product, volumes from the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Annual Review articles through 1974, and selected other documents
a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner.
“insanely useful Web sites” for government transparency. They provide a broad range of information available to track government and legislative information, campaign contributions and the role of money in politics.
Discover the data behind the Department of Energy's scientific publications. Use the DOE Data Explorer (DDE) to find scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines.
Sunlight Foundation. This bipartisan, collaborative initiative will study the Senate’s current information-sharing practices to recommend how to improve public access to the Senate’s work on the Web. This project is modeled off of Sunlight’s parallel initiative, the Open House Project.
here's a lot of great information out there about politics — votes, lobbying records, campaign finance reports. Unfortunately, it's split across a dozen different web sites and often hidden behind confusing interfaces. We're pulling all of that together and letting you explore it in one elegant, unified interface. (Plus, we're sharing all the results so you can come up with new ways to explore it.)
designed to provide quick and easy access to a wide range of data on tax rates, collections and overall tax burdens. All data are posted in Excel when available.
Collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. Organizations Involved: The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA - www.gwla.org) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL - www.crl.edu).
The rule proposal often includes a call for public comments, which are maintained in the federal docket. Here's where both the docket and the language for the rule can be found. Searching through the docket is a good way to determine the parties interested in a particular rule.
The Regulatory Information Service Center (RISC)'s principal publication is the Unified Agenda, which is published in the spring and fall of each year. Since 1978, Federal agencies have been required by Executive orders to publish agendas of regulatory and deregulatory activities. The Regulatory Plan, which is published as part of the fall edition of the Agenda, identifies regulatory priorities and contains additional detail about the most important significant regulatory actions that agencies expect to take in the coming year.
The Federal Audit Clearinghouse operates on behalf of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Purposes: To disseminate audit information to Federal agencies and the public; To support OMB oversight and assessment of Federal award audit requirements; To assist Federal cognizant and oversight agencies in obtaining OMB Circular A-133 data and reporting packages; To help auditors and auditees minimize the reporting burden of complying with Circular A-133 audit requirements.
The U.S. Congressional Bibliographies enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted.
NDIIPP Project. The Minnesota Historical Society is working with representatives from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the California Digital Library (CDL), as well as representatives from the states of California, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Vermont who are involved in preserving and providing access to government information. The goal of working with these partners is to address common concerns in preserving state government digital information. The All Partners Meeting held in December 2008 was the first time that all of the representatives were brought together.