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Federal Resources: Archival Government Resources

Archival Sites

  • CyberCemetery
    University of North Texas and FDsys provide permanent access to web sites and electronic publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.
  • Avalon Project
    Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy from Yale Law School.
  • National Archives and Records Administration
    "The Nation's Record Keeper" contains textual records, maps, carts, architectural and engineering drawings, photographs, film and sound recordings.
  • Core Documents of Our Democracy
  • Online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society, including links to the Constitution and other important historical documents.
  • American Memory: Government, Law & Politics Collections
    The Library of Congress American Memory gateway to its 22 Government & Law digitized collections which may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or searched across multiple collections.
  • National Security Archive
    The National Security Archive, of George Washington University, is the world's largest nongovernmental library of declassified U.S. documents on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.
  • PolicyArchive
    The Indiana University-Purdue University's Library and Center for Governmental Studies (CGS), provides a free and open digital archive of global, non-partisan, public policy research. The archive includes summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.

Federal datasets

Dataset: Data on the Net

A listing of Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.

Dataset: ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Though Skidmore is NOT an ICPSR member, many of the datasets are freely availble for use. 

Dataset: Internet Data Sources for Social Scientists
An excellent compilation of links to data set resources. From Cornell University's Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research.

Removal of Government Information