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A digital archive of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). FDLP was established by Congress in 1895 to provide free, permanent public access to Federal government information. The US Government Publishing Office administers the FDLP on behalf of the participating libraries and the American people.

Discover 40,618,010 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.

A searchable database that includes access to many articles and scholarship created from government funded research or using government information.

Governmentattic.org provides electronic copies of thousands of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Fascinating historical documents, reports on items in the news, oddities and fun stuff and government bloopers, they're all here.

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.

This collection contains digital versions of United States Government documents as well as other government documents.

A non-profit organization that seeks to make government information for accessible.

Search U.S. government technical reports digitized or harvested by TRAIL.

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world. The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world. Multilingual WorldWideScience.org provides real-time searching and translation of globally-dispersed multilingual scientific literature.