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Resources for Depository Operations

The following sites are useful for depository operations. While these sites are publicly accessible, most are intended for librarian use. (The libraries' Federal Documents page provides links to public-oriented sites.)

The Basics

FDLP Administration
Publications include Administrative Notes, Technical Supplements, and GPO manuals. Tools include Item Lister and Amendments of Item Selections. (Note: only the documents librarian may change item selections.)

WebTech Notes
Search the Administrative Notes Technical Supplements (ANTS) database.

Documents Data Miner
Customized searching of combined List of Classes and Item Selection List, Depository Library Directory, and other useful databases. Data Miner is a partnership of Wichita State University, the National Institute for Aviation Research, and the Federal Depository Library Program.

To customize for OSU Libraries' profile:

0461 Selections will be added to the tool bar at the top of the screen. Click on it to search for selected items matching your search criteria. (Note: to see all available items, check Include Unselected Items.)

Documents Dataminer 2
Searchable Shipping Lists, Superseded List, URL Locator, MARC Locator and other databases.

Ohio

State Library of Ohio Government Information Services
Needs and Offers and the Ohio Documents List.

Government Documents Round Table of Ohio


GODORT/GOVDOC-L

Government Documents Round Table

GOVDOC-L User Guide


Tutorials

Gov Docs Online Tutorial
Government Documents Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Librarians and the Government Documents Roundtable. (AALL/GODORT)

SuDocs Basics
SuDocs Tutorial developed at Michigan State University.


Guides to Resources

ERIC Clearinghouses

Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information
GODORT's annotated list of web sites

NTIS Technical Reports Database

GPO U.S. Government Bookstore
Titles for sale by GPO. Offers both search and browse features. Browse by subject replaces the former Subject Bibliographies Index,

Federal Citizen Information Center (Pueblo, CO)
Free and low cost consumer-oriented publications. Quick link to titles recently promoted in magazines, and newspapers.

Browse Topics (Oklahoma State University)
Pathfinders for online government information.

Uncle Sam - Migrating Government Publications (University of Memphis)
Find online serials by SuDoc Number or Title

Internet Publications (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Search for online publications by agency or SuDoc Number.

University of Michigan Documents Center: Government Documents Librarianship
Links to GODORT Handout Exchange and other sites.


Organizations

CIC Government Publications Task Force

CIC Floppy Disk Project
FTP site for information distributed to depositories in floppy disk format. Maintained by Indiana University.

ICPSR
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research maintains an archive of machine-readable data files and code books.

Association of Public Data Users


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URL: http://library.osu.edu/sites/reference/govdocs/resour~1.htm
Please send any questions or comments to moeller.63@osu.edu
Created by: Sherry Engle Moeller. Last Modified: 8 March 2007.