Legal Research & Government Documents

Provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

One-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases including GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and GovInfo.

From USA.gov, find contact information for U.S. federal government agencies, departments, corporations, instrumentalities, and government-sponsored enterprises.

Finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available.

Reports required by statute to be submitted by Federal agencies to the Senate, the House of Representatives, or to congressional committees or subcommittees.

Daily journal of the U.S. government.

Captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024.

Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents, and more.

The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.

Research federal laws and the lawmaking process, government services, immigration & citizenship and government benefits.

Guide to using APA Style to cite U.S. Government documents from Cornell University.