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The Reports, published biennially from 1858 to 1887, are verbatim reports of the legislative proceedings and history of the Indiana General Assembly during those years.
Brevier Legislative Reports are a comprehensive record of the debate and speeches delivered from the floor of the Indiana Senate chamber and the Hall of the House of Representatives. They contain a record of each bill introduced in the House and the Senate. At times, the full text of the bill was recorded if it was read on the floor, and was accompanied by the sponsor's statement. The volumes also include veto statements and other messages from the Governor.
Comprehensive information on Congressional bills, laws, proceedings provided by the Library of Congress, the Congressional Record and information on Members and Congressional Committees.
Library of Congress web site that provides full text of bills, resolutions, and laws as well as tracking legislation through the Congressional process.
For historical access to Congressional publications and information, contact the staff in Government Information, Maps and Microform Services, C264 Wells Library.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains nearly 500,000 records selected from important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for over 315 magazines and journals.
Focuses primarily on practical issues, including crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, policing, and criminal justice in general. Coverage includes U.S. and international journals.
FBI files documenting the scrutiny of African Americans
The database contains reproductions of hundreds of FBI files documenting the federal scrutiny, harassment, and prosecution to which black Americans of all political persuasions were subjected. Many of the documents originated with black "confidential special informants" enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate a variety of organizations. The collection provides detailed coverage of: "Negro radicals" and their organizations; the FBI's infringement of First Amendment freedoms; and its preoccupation with black radicalism between 1920 and 1984.
Contents: COINTELPRO: Black Nationalist "Hate" Groups -- FBI file on A. Philip Randolph -- FBI File on Adam Clayton Powell -- FBI file on the Atlanta child murders (ATKID) -- FBI file on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina -- FBI file on the Committee for Public Justice -- FBI file on Elijah Muhammed -- FBI file on the Highlander Folk School -- FBI file on the Ku Klux Klan murder of Viola Liuzzo -- FBI file on Malcolm X -- FBI file : MIBURN (Mississippi Burning) -- FBI file on the Moorish Science Temple of America -- FBI File on the Murder of Lemuel Penn -- FBI file on Muslim Mosque, Inc. -- FBI file on the NAACP -- FBI file on the National Negro Congress -- FBI file on the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) -- FBI file on Paul Robeson -- FBI file on the Reverend Jesse Jackson -- FBI file on Roy Wilkins -- FBI file on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- FBI file on Thurgood Marshall -- FBI file on W. E. B. Du Bois -- FBI investigation file on Communist infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- FBI surveillance file: Malcolm X -- FBI investigation file on Marcus Garvey. (OCLC)
U.S. Federal Government website, mandated by law, to assure secure access to information produced by federal agencies. Formerly FDSYS (Federal Digital System), and prior to that, GPOACCESS.
A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office, govinfo provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. This free service is funded by the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law 103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Enhancement Act of 1993.
IUB has served as a U.S. Federal Depository Library since 1881. Most of the resources available have historically been available in print. Consult reference staff in East Tower 2, Wells Library (Government Information, Maps and Microform Services).
Chapter 1. Origins of Judicial Power
Chapter 2. From the Gilded Age to the Great Depression
Chapter 3. The New Deal, Civil Rights, and the Conservative Revival
Chapter 4. The Court and the Powers of Congress
Chapter 5. The Court and the Powers of the President
Chapter 6. The Court's Role in Shaping the Powers of Government
Chapter 7. The Court and the States
Chapter 8. The Court and the Individual
Chapter 9. Freedom for Ideas: The First Amendment and the Right to Believe, to Speak, to Assemble, to Petition, and to Publish
Chapter 10. The Rights of Political Participation
Chapter 11: The Second Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms
Chapter 12: Crime and Punishment
Chapter 13: Equal Rights and Equal Protection of the Laws
Chapter 14: Liberty and Privacy
Chapter 15: Congressional Pressure
Chapter 16: Presidential Pressure
Chapter 17: The Court, the Media, and Public Opinion
Chapter 18: How the Court Decides: Operations and Traditions
Chapter 19: The People of the Court
Chapter 20: Courtrooms and Costs
Chapter 21: Members of the Court
Chapter 22: Brief Biographies
Provides full-text of historial treaties, regulations, and presidential documents. Also includes numerous law resources.
Provides full-text of
-The Federal Register 1936-2007
- Federal Register Indexes 1939-2004
- Code of Federal Regulations and Supplements 1938-1983
- Compilation of Sections Affected 1949-2004
- List and Index to Presidential Executive Orders (1789-1941) (Lord)
- Public Papers of the President (1931-2001) including FDR's
United States Government Manual 1935-2005
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 1965-2004
Also treaties and other items. For full information, see https://libraries.indiana.edu/heinonline
Indexing to documents from the 1990 sessions onward, including the House of Commons Sessional Papers, the House of Lords Sessional Papers and Hansard's Debates.
Contains indexing to documents from the 1990 sessions onward, including the House of Commons Sessional Papers, the House of Lords Sessional Papers and Hansard's Debates.
For 1801-1990 see the Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
IUB's Government Publications Department retains most British Parliamentary Papers either in print or in microfiche.
Cumulative index to all House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1801 to 1990. Microfiche housed in GIMSS.
NOTE: Printing requires identification of the printer from? the settings.? (Go to start on the Windows lower toolbar, settings, printers, and select the printer to which you are printing. In GIMSS, it is identified as GIMSS1). Consult with staff if needed.
Cumulative index to all House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1801 to 1990.
For 1990 and later see the CD-ROM of the Index to British Parliamentary Papers, available for in-library use only from the Find Information Page.
GIMSS: (Government Information, Microforms and Statistical Services--IUB Herman B Wells Library, 2nd Floor) holds most of the parliamentary papers either in print or on microfiche.
Coverage:1801 - 1990; for 1990 and later see the Index to British Parliamentary Papers. No longer Updated; for later years, see Readex Index to British Parliamentary Papers
Originally derived from two essential reference collections for historical legal studies, the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections. Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history, including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.
The making of modern law: Primary sources, 1620-1926 covers 300 years of legal sources, including legal glossaries, law dictionaries, state statutes, colonial records, legislative journals, votes and proceedings, constitutional conventions, compilations of laws, city charters, colonial charters, documentary histories, governmental proceedings and meeting minutes.
The database is fully searchable, and items may be downloaded and saved in the pdf format. You may do a simple search or an advanced search; advanced searches allows for significant limiters and field choices.
A comprehensive index to historical information published by the United States federal government.
Provides online access to all issues of the Monthly Catalog from 1895 to June 1976, both as keyed full text records and as page images of the original printed catalog. This is a finding aid only, and does not include full text for any of the publications included.
ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information. The ODS is a multilingual system.
Index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government
Provides easy access to congressional publications since 1789 and some full-text of reports, bills, resolutions, and laws to the present.
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.
Use Advanced Search to select specific series included:
-Congressional Research Digital Collection
-Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
-House and Senate Unpublished Digital Collection
-ProQuest Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection
-ProQuest Congressional Serial Set Maps Digital Collection
-ProQuest Statutes at Large
-ProQuest U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
-Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations
-U.S Bills and Resolutions
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
Provides access to United States Federal legislative history documents
Compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. Covers over 27,000 laws, including all CIS histories from 1970-2012 (many with updated research and indexing) and approximately 18,000 new histories from 1789-1969.
Access to over 450 political science and international relations journals.
ProQuest Political Science provides the full text of many core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. The database also includes thousands of recent, full-text, political science dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities and other sources such as country reports and policy papers.
Subject coverage includes political science, international relations, comparative politics, political economy, international development and environmental policy.
Indexing and full text of the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1901-2022.
The U.K. Parliamentary Papers are part of the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the world in general. They provide detailed primary sources for the study of history and for an understanding of legislation, policy making and the political environment.
The official U.S. government portal to 47 million pages of information on federal and state government programs, benefits, and services.
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.
