Government Documents
The Government Documents Collection supports legislative and administrative legal research with materials acquired through United States and Kansas depository programs and by purchase. The Library acquires 43% of the federal documents distributed by the depository program. These documents are in paper, microform, and electronic formats.
Many government documents are listed in the Library's online catalog. A variety of paper and electronic indexes are also available to assist with the retrieval of government documents.
Marcive WebDocs contains a listing of all government documents from 1976 to the present. Click on the "holdings" button at the bottom of the screen to see if the Law Library owns the item.
To locate specific documents in the law library a bibliographic record (shelf list) of all Government Documents received by the law library since 1987 has been maintained electronically. This list is updated on a weekly basis. Contact the reference librarian or the documents staff for help finding materials in the law library.
The Guide to U.S. Government Publications (GP 3.22/2:) is a comprehensive annotated reference source catalogs the important series, periodicals and reference tools published by U.S. government agencies. Includes more than 35,000 entries. Agencies and titles are indexed, followed by a keyword-in-title index for quick and easy referencing. Entries include: SuDocs class number, depository item numbers, title, beginning and closing dates, frequency, select annotations, title changes, class number references to earlier and later classes, and ISSN for periodicals , a complete listing of the Superintendent of Documents Classifications Scheme outlining the basics of the U.S. government's complex document system , and alphabetical indexes by agency and title.
CD-Roms
Washburn is fortunate to have access to many government CD-Roms. These CD-Roms contain full text documents, government statistics, and indexes to a variety of publications. Use the Marcive catalog to find CD-Rom titles.
Web Resources
Congressional Universe. This database is accessible on campus by all patrons, and off campus by Washburn University faculty, staff, and students. The Congressional Universe database contains the digital U.S. Serial Set. This set includes historic and current legislative full text documents, with images.
GPO Access provides links to full text electronic legislative documents as well as presidential papers. It also links to the GPO online bookstore which lists hundreds of print and electronic items available from the Government Printing Office.
