Reference Resources

U.S. Federal Resources

• Administrative Decisions & Other Actions - By Agency / University of Virginia

  "This page is not an attempt to link to Federal Register or the Code of Federal Regulations information for each federal agency. It links to other administrative actions which are outside the scope of the CFR or the FR. What is available via the Internet varies from agency to agency."

• Department/Agency Search / Congress.org

  "A service of Capitol Advantage, a private, non-partisan company that specializes in facilitating civic participation." Find hundreds of agencies. Users can identify and contact elected leaders in Congress, the White House and state legislatures, post letters online, have letters printed and hand-delivered to Congress, have your representative's vote sent to you weekly, and much more.

• Guide to CRS Reports on the Web / Stephen Young / LLRX

  Includes products, history, and listings.

• Congressional Research Service Reports / Hosted by UNT Libraries

  "The Congressional Research Service (CRS) does not provide direct public access to its reports, requiring citizens to request them from their Member of Congress. Some Members, as well as several non-profit groups, have posted the reports on their Web sites. This site aims to provide integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different Web sites since 1990."

• Open CRS / Congressional Research Reports for the People

  "Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports."

• USA.gov

  "The U.S. Government's Offical Web Portal"

• GovEngine.com

  "The premier federal, state, and local government site on the internet."

• GovSpot

  "A non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online. This free resource offers a high-utility collection of top government and civic resources hand-selected by our editorial team for their quality, content and utility."

• FDsys: Federal Digital System

  "America's Authentic Government Information"

• Internet Law Library / LawGuru.com

  "The site provided links to a large number of legal resources relating to American (federal and state) and foreign laws."

• LLSDC Legislative Sourcebook

  The Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC) was established in 1939 for educational, informational and scientific purposes."

• Library of Congress

  "[T]he nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 58 million manuscripts."

• Legislation Resources

  A general legislation reference page with links to Congress, GPO Access, directories, Senate, House of Representatives, US Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and more from Washlaw.

• The National Archives

  "Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever. Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you."

• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States / U.S. Government Printing Office

  "[A]n official series in which Presidential writings, addresses, and remarks of a public nature could be made available."

• Science.gov

  "Science.gov searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 12 federal agencies"

• The White House

  White House web site covering news, speeches, budgets, and much more. In Spanish and English.

• The Federal Court Locator / Villanova University School of Law

  "It is intended to give net citizens a means to access information related to the federal judiciary, including slip opinions. This information can be viewed on-line or it can be downloaded."

• U.S. Courts / The Federal Judiciary

  A site by the US Government of the US Courts, including geographic boundaires of appeals and district courts; links to circuit courts and maps; court locator to all courts including district, probation office, appeals, bankruptcy, and pretrial; administrative office; educational outreach; federal rulemaking; and much more.

• Federal Judicial Center

  "The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency for the federal courts. Congress created the FJC in 1967 to promote improvements in judicial administration in the courts of the U.S. This site contains the results of Center research on federal court operations and procedures and court history, as well as selected educational materials produced for judges and court employees."

• CourtListener

  "At present, the site has daily information regarding all precedential opinions issued by the 13 federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States."

• Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals

  Official web site of the 10th Circuit.

• U.S.District Court / Kansas

  The District of Kansas US District Court of Appeals internet home page.

• U.S. Bankruptcy Court / District of Kansas

  Official Web site.

• Landmark Supreme Court Cases

  "This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case."

• Supreme Court Collection / LII: Legal Information Institute

  "Includes recent decisions, current awareness, and archives"

• Oyez / A multimedia archive of the Supreme Court of the United States

  " It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955."

• Supreme Court of the United States

  Official Web site including recent decisions, search capability, dockets, oral arguments, merits briefs, bar admissions, court rules, case handling guides, opinions, orders and journals, public information, jobs, and more.

• United States Supreme Court / WashLaw's Links

  Links to Supreme Court opinions, briefs, nominations, archives, multimedia, fedlaw, and the USSCPLUS site.