Recommended Sites: International Government

United States

• FirstGov.gov
  The U.S. Government's official portal. It includes links to government services, information and transactions. Selected sub-sections are presented below.
  • U.S. Government Departments - an A-Z listing of U.S. government departments and agencies.
  • Federal Executive Branch - links to the President and Vice President's pages and to the various executive departments.
  • Federal Judicial Branch - links to information on the Supreme Court, and Lower Courts as well as Special Courts and various other resources.
  • Federal Legislative Branch - links to Congress (U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives).
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  Services and benefits, forms, laws and regulations.
  • Green Card Based Forms
• The White House
  A source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, the federal government.
• United States Senate
  The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States.
  • Senators of the current Congress - search by state or senator's name.
• U.S. House of Representatives, current Congress
  Member and Committee information.
  • Committee Offices - the Houses uses committees for a variety of purposes, including the review of bills and the oversight of the Executive branch.
  • Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives - provides documents, public disclosure forms, historical data and Member and Committee information for the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Supreme Court of the United States
  Featuring court's opinions and orders, calendar and schedules, rules, news releases and general information.
• Law Library of Congress
  Its mission is to provide research and legal information to the U.S. Congress as well as to U.S. Federal Courts and Executive Agencies, and to offer reference services to the public. Includes THOMAS Legislative Information on the Internet.
• U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
  The GPO is an agency of the legislative branch of the U.S. Federal government. The office prints and provides access to documents produced by and for all three branches of the federal government.
  • GPO Access - a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office providing free public access to full-text, official Federal information as well as Federal information finding aids and Federal products for sale.
  • Catalogue of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) - the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.
• Google U.S. Government Search
  A single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news.

United Kingdom

• Directgov - Guide to government
  Portal to UK government sites, links to Parliament, Government Departments, Houses of Parliament.
• Number10.gov.uk
  Official site of the British Prime Minister.
• BOPCRIS
  Search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995.

European Union (E.U.)

• Europa - Gateway to the European Union
  Portal to data on the European Union .
• European Union Internet Resources
  List of links to various subject areas relating to the European Union from the University of California Berkeley Library.
• Eurostat
  Statistical site of the European Communities from the European Commission.

United Nations (UN)

• United Nations
  Official Web site of the United Nations.
• United Nations Statistics Division
  Statistical database on topics such as population, social indicators and social statistics.
  • Statistical Databases
• Human Development Reports
  The Human Development Reports and other HRDO electronic documents provide information and statistics on the social impact on developing countries from economic development. Searchable by year, country and/or topic of publication.

World Government

• Law and Government Resources
  Worldwide legal directories from HG.org
• World Government Resources
  Law and government resources and links for 230 countries.

Maintained by Karen Young
Updated March 2010

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