Government Documents for You

November 9, 2009 is the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. To commemorate this event, I have created a LibGuide highlighting resources available at Mississippi State University and on the Internet about the history of the Berlin Wall. Additionally, in cooperation with the German Missions in the United States, we have books and pamphlets concerning the Berlin Wall and Germany available in the Government Documents, Microforms, and Current Journals Department at the Mitchell Memorial Library.

Additionally, the Mitchell Memorial Library will host an event on November 9th, from 4:30 - 6:00 in the Grisham Room. Five of MSU's professors will each speak about the History of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War, and the lasting significance of this event.

http://guides.library.msstate.edu/Berlin_Wall

There is a great search engine hosted on Google for for students, faculty, researchers, and officials who are doing research in intergovernmental organization topics. The IGO Search searches across hundreds of IGO websites, enabling users to research topics such as active IGOs working on HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

Located at: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=006748068166572874491:55ez0c3j3ey

**What is an Intergovernmental Organization (IGO)? Think United Nations or NATO.**

OpenCRS.com provides a directory of websites where you can find almost 4,000 CRS reports. Included in the directory is the National Council for Science and the Environment, Federation of American Scientists, Thurgood Marshall Law Library/University of Maryland School of Law, National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, and the Center for Democracy & Technology.

This website is available at: http://opencrs.com/

The Government Documents Department at the University of North Texas, in collaboration with the University of Texas and Oklahoma State University, also has CRS reports available to the public.

This collection is available at: http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/

Access to Science Information Expands with Science.gov 5.0 Launch

200 Million Pages of U.S. Government Science Resources Now Available on the Internet

The latest version of Science.gov http://www.science.gov -Science.gov 5.0-was launched Sept. 15th, allowing users to search additional collections of valuable science resources; more easily target their searches; and readily find links to information on a variety of science topics. Science.gov is a free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies.

Science.gov 5.0 improves upon the previous version, Science.gov 4.0, by offering seven new databases and portals which allow researchers access to over 200 million pages of scientific information.

In addition to quadrupling the amount of searchable content and enhancing the search technology, Science.gov 5.0 now provides links to related EurekAlert! Science News http://www.eurekalert.org and Wikipedia, and provides the capability to easily download research results into personal files or citation software.

Another key feature of Science.gov 5.0 is a "clustering" tool which helps target searches by grouping results by subtopics or dates. This technology was recently developed through a DOE Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program award.

Science.gov is hosted by DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), within DOE's Office of Science. In addition to DOE, Science.gov is supported by contributing members of the Science.gov Alliance, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, and the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Government Printing Office, the Library of Congress, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation, with support from the National Archives and Records Administration.

New information available includes:

Thousands of patents resulting from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research and development:
DOepatents
http://www.osti.gov/doepatents

Documents and bibliographic citations of DOE accomplishments:
DOE R&D Accomplishments Database
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments

Millions of electronic scientific documents from around the world known as e-prints:
Eprint Network
http://www.osti.gov/eprints

Comprehensive and peer-reviewed toxicology data for thousands of chemicals:
HSDB Hazardous Substances Databank
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB

As well as more than 3 million references to worldwide literature on the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms:
TOXLINE Toxicology Bibliographic Information
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?TOXLINE

New information also includes a digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature:
PubMed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov

Cancer-related information of all kinds for all audiences, including support and treatment resources for patients, comprehensive descriptions of research programs and clinical trials for healthcare professionals and the general public, and funding opportunities for researchers:
Cancer.gov
http://www.cancer.gov

Post on GovDocs-L from: Tim Byrne, Information International Associates, Inc., DOE/Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Census Atlas of the United States: Census 2000 Special Reports. Bureau of Census. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Census, 2007.
SUDOC: C 3.205/8-3:29

The recently published Census Atlas of the United States is the first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s. The Census Atlas is a large-format publication about 300 pages long and containing almost 800 maps. Data from decennial censuses prior to 2000 support nearly 150 maps and figures, providing context and an historical perspective for many of the topics presented. A variety of topics are covered in the Census Atlas, ranging from language and ancestry characteristics to housing patterns and the geographic distribution of the population. A majority of the maps in the Census Atlas present data at the county level, but data also are sometimes mapped by state, census tract (for largest cities and metropolitan areas), and for selected American Indian reservations. The book is modern, colorful, and includes a variety of map styles and data symbolization techniques.

***Abstract taken from GPO***

Available on the Internet: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS92179

The CIA World Factbook is an excellent resource to find out basic, but thorough information about a country. It is published annually and contains sections on: History, Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications, Transportation, Military, and Transnational Issues.

It is located at:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

To learn more about the history of the CIA World Factbook check out the following resource:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/history.html

There are not many events as important in the history of Western
civilization as the invention and widespread adoption of printing
techniques. This site from The University of Iowa Libraries will enchant
even those who haven't thought about Gutenberg and his ilk since their
Western Civ class in junior high. The Atlas of Early Printing is designed
primarily to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in
Europe and visitors can use the interactive map to learn more about this
process.

The interactive map of Europe allows users to turn on and off different
layers on the map that document the spread of printing, paper mills, fairs,
and trade routes in order to get a better sense of how this technology
gradually spread. Visitors can also click on each map element to learn a bit
more, and in the case of each city, visitors can learn about the first
recorded work printed there. Overall, this resource will be invaluable to
educators, and even those with a passing interest in this area of human
endeavor may find themselves making numerous return visits to the site.

http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/

**Text taken from posting by Joanne Riley on The University of Alabama's SLIS-Listserv.**

Post on UA SLIS-L from: Joanne Riley, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Services, Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts-Boston

"Statistics - National Agencies and Compendia" is a comprehensive resource linking to national statistics websites for almost every country in the world. This resource is hosted by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University and was created by Brian Boling, a member of their Government Information Services department.

http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/natlstats.html

Post on GovDoc-L from: Larry Romans, Head of Government Information Services, Vanderbilt University

This is not information published by the government; however, Mike Wallace did interview a number of individuals related to the government such as Members of Congress or Cabinet Secretaries.

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/holdings/wallace/

**Following text taken from "The Mike Wallace Interview" Collection website.**

Mike Wallace rose to prominence in 1956 with the New York City television interview program, Night-Beat, which soon developed into the nationally televised prime-time program, The Mike Wallace Interview. Well prepared with extensive research, Wallace asked probing questions of guests framed in tight close-ups. The result was a series of compelling and revealing interviews with some of the most interesting and important people of the day.

The Mike Wallace Interview ran from 1957 to 1960, but the Ransom Center collection includes interviews from only 1957 and 1958. In the early 1960s, Mr. Wallace donated to the Ransom Center kinescopes of these programs and related materials, including his prepared questions, research material, and correspondence.

Copyright of all of the interviews is held by Mike Wallace, who generously agreed to allow the Ransom Center to present them here in their entirety. Any further use of this material requires the permission of both Mike Wallace and the Ransom Center.

There are 65 interviews in the Ransom Center's collection. Five are on audio tape, and the others are kinescopes, 16mm recordings of the television programs made by filming the picture from a video monitor. These 16mm films were transferred to video and, along with the audio tapes, were digitized. The interviews were then transcribed and were both embedded in the video files in the form of subtitles and included on the website as text files.