LibGuides: PHIL 385: Engineering Ethics: Finding Government Reports

Databases for Government and Legal Reports

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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NexisUni, formerly LexisNexis Academic, Includes access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted), primarily newspapers, magazines and journals. Covers local, regional and international newspapers (in English and non-English languages). Includes broadcast transcripts, case law, legal codes, regulations, Shepard's Citations to Supreme Court cases (back to 1789), company financial information, and SEC filings and reports.
HeinOnline: Government, Politics and Law This link opens in a new window
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HeinOnline’s Government, Politics & Law contains more than 100 million pages of content across 156,000 titles and 310,000 volumes. HeinOnline bridges the gap in history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,500 periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of journals, the database also contains the Congressional Record bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, constitutions for every country in the world, classic books from the 18th & 19th centuries, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register and CFR from inception, and much more!

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Government Information Databases

USA.gov
USA.gov is your online guide to government information, resources, and services.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications This link opens in a new window
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Indexes print and electronic publications created by Federal agencies. Provides links to full-text, when available. Coverage: 1994-present.
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US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Check here for government information regarding Superfund Sites, Clean-up Activities, maps, industrial engineering projects, and more...
FDsys
Comprehensive federal digital repository for current and archival documents from all branches of government. Provided and maintained by the Government Printing Office (GPO).
MetaLib
Retrieve reports, articles and citations by simultaneously searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases.

Searching Google for Government Reports

As you know, Google provides access to a vast amount of information. You can easily focus your search results, however, to information that resides only on government websites. Simply add the words site:gov in the search box after your keywords:

Finding Government Publications in the WSU Library

Use the WSU Library's online catalog to find government publications related to your topic. Enter keywords into the search box, and select Government Documents from the drop-down list of search filters: