Government Information

ProQuest Congressional provides indexing and full-text access to various publications of the U.S. Congress. It provides easy search access to congressional publications and includes full-text of reports, bills and resolutions, and laws.

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Most publications are owned by IUB, either in print, on microfiche or electronically. IUB has been a Federal Depository Library since 1881. For specific assistance or to ask questions about using congressional publications, contact Government Information, Maps and Microform Services, located on the 2nd floor of the Herman B Wells Library. Email libpgd@indiana.edu or telephone 812-855-6924

USA.gov offers a powerful search engine that searches every word of every U.S. government document in a quarter of a second or less. USA.gov also features a topical index, online transactions, links to state and local government, options to contact your government, and other tools so you don't have to know the name of the government agency to get the information you want anytime you want it. The Spanish Site is Gobierno.USA.gov, formerly FirstGov en español.gov.

IUB's Government Information, Maps and Microform Services (East Tower 2, or ET2) department has served as a Federal Depository Library since 1881.

Published continuously since 1905, the Indiana Magazine of History is one of the nation's oldest historical journals. Since 1913, the IMH has been edited and published quarterly at Indiana University, Bloomington. Today, the IMH features peer-reviewed articles, research notes, annotated primary documents, reviews, and critical essays that contribute to public and scholarly understanding of midwestern and Indiana history.

IndianaMap or the GIS Atlas for Indiana is an interactive digital atlas that can be used to make maps related to Indiana's environment, geology, biology, hydrology, transportation, demographics and population. It can be used to access and map over 250 layers of geographic and geologic information. GIS Data for Indiana can be viewed online using a web browser, or downloaded for use with geographic information systems (GIS) software.

STATS Indiana provides Census information for Indiana including population, economic, and workforce statistics as well as maps. Detailed county information is also provided. (OCLC)

Population: Census counts & 1990 profiles; Census estimates; County projections; Health & vital statistics; households; migration; poverty & welfare -- Economy: Agriculture; Briefing report-IDOC; Building permits; Earnings by industry; Property taxes; Time series; Vehicle registrations -- Workforce: Annual & monthly labor force; Commuting patterns; Education; Employment by industry; Median income; Personal income -- Profiles, etc.: County profiles; FIPS codes; Data definitions (glossary); Tract outline maps.

The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. Many of these materials are first-hand reports of events as they occurred. As such, the FBIS Daily Reports constitutes an archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news.

FBIS Daily Reports is comprised of the reports from Middle East and [North] Africa (MEA), 1974-1987; Near East and South Asia (NES), 1987-1996; South Asia (SAS), 1980-1987; Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), 1974-1980 and (AFR), 1987-1996; China (CHI), 1974-1996; Asia and the Pacific (APA), 1974-1987; East Asia (EAS), 1987-1996; Latin America (LAT and LAM), 1974-1996; Eastern Europe (EEU), 1974-1996; Soviet Union/Central Eurasia (SOV), 1974-1996; Western Europe (WEU), 1974-1996.

The IUB Libraries' Government Information, Maps and Microform Services (East Tower 2, or ET2), located on the 2nd floor of the Herman B Wells Library at 10th and Jordan, received these reports as part of the Federal Depository Library Program on microfiche. Feel free to contact ET2 staff regarding reports not yet available on this full text database, for earlier and later reports, and about related federal documents (including Congressional and Department of State documents).

Includes journal articles, books, government documents, pamphlets and the reports of public and private bodies.  Also indexes publications in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Print source: PAIS bulletin (1915-1990), PAIS Foreign Language Index (1968-1990), PAIS International in Print (1991-)