|
Boolean Logic
| Illustration | MIRLYN-Classic | MIRLYN-Web |
ProQuest |
Academic Universe |
| PHRASE |
k=health adj care |
health w care |
"health care" |
health care |
| AND |
k=health adj care and reform |
health w care and reform |
"health care" and reform |
health care and reform |
| OR |
k=managed or maintenance |
managed or maintenance |
managed or maintenance |
managed or maintenance |
| COMPLEX SEARCHING |
k=reform and (managed adj care or health adj maintenance) |
reform and (managed w care or health w maintenance) |
reform and ("managed care" or "health maintenance") |
reform and (managed care or health maintenance) |
| TRUNCATION |
k=dent? |
dent? |
dent? |
dent! |
| Tip |
Examples |
| Choose a tool which specializes in your area |
Congressional Universe for hearings rather than Google's Uncle Sam
Congressional Quarterly for Congress; ProQuest for general politics |
| Start with a narrow search |
"prescription drugs and medicaid" rather than "drugs and
elderly" |
| Narrow your search when necessary |
Add more words |
"prescription drugs and medicaid and bush" |
| Limit field |
Some search engines allow you to specify a field for the words
Proquest (citations/abstracts v. full text)
Academic Universe (headline) |
| Use subject descriptors if available |
Congressional Universe has official headings (e.g. child day
care or day care programs instead of day care |
| Broaden search |
Use alternate terms |
prescription drugs and (medicaid or elderly) |
| Search full text |
Proquest and Academic Universe have full text options |
Books and
Articles
- MCAT lists books in library system
- ELEC indexes electronic journals available free on the web and
through campus licenses, such as JSTOR
Comprehensive Titles
- E-Journals at the
University of Michigan (UMich Only)
- Links to journals for which the library has purchased campus access
- Arranged by discipline and title
- MEDLINE (UMich Only)
- Indexes since 1959
- Search by author, title, keyword, journal
- Can expand and limit headings
- Can limit searches to titles with full-text
- Order feature permits UMich affiliates to obtain
printout
- ProQuest
(UMich Only)
- Indexes some 2300 journal articles in all fields since the 1980s and
provides the full text of many since the late 1990s
- Includes popular and scholarly titles, such as Comparative Politics,
Governing, International Political Science Review, The Journal of
Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
- Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
- Articles may be marked for downloading
- Text in HTML and image formats
- Sample keyword searches:
prescription drug? and (cost or price)
(prescription or designer) pre/2 drugs
"patients bill of rights" w/10 republican
- Public
Health Journals (PHISA)
- Annotated list of public health journals on the web
- General titles, biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology,
and health administration/policy
- Alternative list of electronic journals can be found at Healthweb
- Wilson
Select (UMich Only)
- Full text of 800 popular journals on line since 1994
- Journal
List
Individual
Titles
- CQ
Weekly
Report (UMich Only)
- Non-partisan periodical analyzing news in Congress
- Includes major bills, background, lobbying
- Full text of CQ since 1983
- Initial page boots up to current issue
- Separate search engines for articles and
roll call votes can be limited by year
- If remote server does not work, use
National Journal/Congress Daily listed below
- National
Journal (UMich Only)
- Full text of the National
Journal,
which analyzes executive branch politics, since 1977
- Paper copy also in Graduate Library as JK 1 .N28 with current issues
in Documents Center
- Almanac
of American Politics, which analyzes Congressional
Districts and the politics of their representatives, since 1998
- Committee Markup
Reports since 1999
- Public opinion polls and election polls since the late 1990s
- Congress
Daily
- Pediatrics
- Full text of medical articles since 1997
- Browsable and searchable
- Policy.com
- Daily periodical with current policy news, issue of the
week, and in-depth analysis of 20 current policy issues
- Virtual Congress features speeches
and votes on topics
- Includes a policy chat room
- Publius:
The Journal of Federalism
- Tables of Contents listed since 1971
- The full text is located in the Graduate Library (JK 1 .P98) with current
issues in the Current Serials Service
- Full text since September 1992 available in ProQuest
- Viddya, Medical News Service
- Extensive news items on public policy, disease and treatment since 2000
- MIRLYN
- ELEC lists electronic journals available on campus; the web version
of MIRLYN provides direct links
- Wilson (WILS) indexes periodicals in the
social sciences and humanities
- Citations often include abstracts
- Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) indexes books, articles and
government documents
- Connect to MIRLYN
- Public Affairs
Information Service Bulletin (UMich Only)
- Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on
politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
- Government documents include United States, United Nations, League of
Nations, and State Governments
- There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and
foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)
- Sciences and Social
Sciences Citation Indexes / Web of Science 1956- (UMich Only)
- Indexes current periodical articles by author,
title/keyword, journal, and author's affiliation
- Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of
book/journal and year
- Results provide cross references between the cited author,
the citating author, and related items
- Social Sciences Citation Index
Examples
- Connect to MIRLYN
to identify library location and call number of book or
article
| Journal Indexes - Medicine | |
- American
Medical Association Publications
- Links to individual Archives series and JAMA
- Lists contents available on web and provides abstracts of articles
- MEDLINE (UMich Only)
- Indexes since 1959
- Search by author, title, keyword, journal
- Can expand and limit headings
- Can limit searches to titles with full-text
- Order feature permits UMich affiliates to obtain
printout
- URL also links to the National Library of Medicine's
PubMed with SFX links to the full text of journals owned
by the University of Michigan
- PubMed is also
available separately (without UMich links) to the public
- Academic
Universe/LEXIS [Full Text] (UMich Only)
- Full text of U.S. and foreign newspapers for past several years
- Access General News Topics or
General Medical and Health Topics; click on
Sources at top of page for a complete list
- Sample Search
General News/Midwest Regional Sources
medicare w/10 fraud and reform
1/1/97 to 5/31/98
- Distance
Education Access
- Academic
Universe Search Guide
- Electronic Newsstand
[Full Text]
- Links to popular newspapers and newsmagazines
- Sections on government and health
- ABC News [Full
Text]
- Requires JAVA script for viewing
- Visible without Java if graphics turned off
- AllPolitics
[Full Text]
- Daily Internet periodical sponsored by Time, CNN and Congressional Quarterly
- Includes news and public opinion polls on political issues
- APB News
- Current crime news
- Includes some health care items
- Cable News Network
(CNN) [Full Text]
- News stories on current political issues, often with the full-text
of relevant documents
- Recent material and election coverage archived in subject groups
- Summaries or full text of recent CNN political programs
- Good Remote Alternative
- Christian Science Monitor
[Full Text]
- Daily newspaper with the full text of lead articles (U.S.,
international, cultural, crossword)
- Archive back to 1980 searchable by subject
- Editor
and Publisher On-Line Newspapers [Some Full Text]
- Links to over 1000 newspapers worldwide
- Arranged by continent and country; for the United States, subdivided
by state
- Annotations describe publication, provide links, and give pricing
information when applicable
- Medscape
Today
- New York
Times [Full Text]
- Full text of today's New York Times and a searchable archive
- Initial registration required
- Registration currently free in the U.S. but organization reserves
the right to charge
- Also on Academic Universe
- Pathfinder
[Full Text]
- Hosts current issues of newsmagazines, including Time and People
- PBS OnLine News
Hour [Full Text]
- Transcripts of daily political news reported by PBS beginning 1996
- Includes links to background information
- Samples include late term abortion issue, economics, freshmen in the
105th Congress, health
- Search engine and index for browsing health topics
- Rocky Mountain Media Watch
- Essentially a lobby group against TV news stations which focus on entertainment
- Washington Post [Full
Text]
- Full text of current issue and searchable archive for two weeks only
- International section has news and web links to individual
countries
- National section has new and web links to individual states
- Searchable index creates maps for individual U.S. business
establishments
- Good Remote Alternative
- Also on Academic Universe
- Healthopedia
- Extensive number of articles on diseases, symptoms, medical tests,
surgical
procedures,
and treating wounds
- AllRefer
Health
- Articles on diseases, symptoms, and treating disease
Federal |
Private
- Agency for Health Care
Research and Policy
- Clinical Practice Guidelines allow physician to enter symptom
and obtain possible diagnoses and treatments
- Clinical guidelines for patients (e.g. how to prevent strokes)
- Research reports and statistics, including the Medical Care
Utilization Survey and
- Congressional Budget
Office
- On-line reports are primarily an economic analysis of the federal budget
- General Accounting Office
- General Accounting Office
- Accounting standards for federal agencies
- News of fraud cases
- Archive of blue book reports to Congress are listed below
GAO
Blue Book Reports (GPO Access)
- Full text of "Reports to Congress" on government resource management,
October 1, 1994+
- Searchable by keyword in text, report title, report identifier, and date
- For a known report number, use quotation marks and type the number as
shown: "PEMD-95-1"
- Phrases require quotation marks: "medicaid fraud"
- Boolean operations must be capitalized: medicaid AND fraud
- Selected reports are available in paper copy (HJ 10
.R44), GPO microfiche (Micro-F X277), and
American Statistics Index microfiche; ask Documents Center
staff for assistance
- Office of Technology Assessment
- The OTA published research reports on science and technology policy
until eliminated by Congress
- GPO
Access will serve as an index to the various OTA
sites
- Additional sources:
- All reports, 1972-95, are available on CD-ROM in the Documents Center
(Do 73)
- Search MIRLYN for printed copies of OTA reports
- OTA reports may also be available on Congressional Information
Service microfiche located in the Documents Center
- National Academy Press
- Full text of issues in Online Science and Technology since 1996
- Books available for purchase from the National Academy and its Institute of Medicine
- Alliance for
Health
Reform
- Nonpartisan think tank on health coverage issues, especially for
journalists
- Health care coverage in the states, medicare, consumer protection,
minority health
- Alpha Center
- Bibliography of publications on health policy and analysis
- Web access to newsletters about state health policy initiatives
- Health insurance coverage by various socioeconomic factors by
state
- Brookings
Institution
- Private, non-profit, independent institute analyzing U.S. government
policy, economics and international relations
- Occasional material on health care reform
- Summaries of position papers on "hot topics" and selected
Congressional testimony
- Cato Institute
- Conservative think tank with research studies and opinion pieces on public policy
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- Testimony and articles on internet issues
- Includes privacy and encyrption, bandwidth, availability of government information
- Center for Economic and Policy
Research
- Think tank on social and economic policy issues
- Issue papers on the stock market, Social Security, globalization
- Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities
- Electronic Policy Network
- Health Law
Resource
- Separate web pages summarize such issues as telemedicine, Medicare
and Medicaid, bioethics, and patient records
- Provides links to federal and state laws and regulations, AMA
opinions and decisions, and official reports, such as the RAND
Corporation
- Georgia Public Policy
Foundation
- Issue briefs on a variety of issues from a conservative
perspective
- Health
Law and
Policy Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- Dedicated to limited government, individual freedom, a free market,
and strong defense
- Text of public policy papers on various topics, including
crime, education, foreign policy, health care, and trade
- Index of Economic Freedom
for countries in the world
- Extensive list of conservative think tanks
- Numerous statistics in support of its positions
- Kaiser Family
Foundation
- Working papers on health care policy, HIV, media programs,
reproductive health, and South Africa
- State reports on medicare, medicaid, and other health insurance coverage
- Expensive public opinion polls on health policy, morals, and
politics
- National Academy of Social
Insurance
- National Center for
Policy Analysis
- Brief summaries and statistics on an extensive number of health issues
- Medicare, medicaid, pharmaceuticals, medical savings accounts
- Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
- Public policy institute focusing on the role of state governments
- Issue papers, grants, and on-going projects
- Political
Information
- Indexes lobby group and think tank reports on the web
- Devoted solely to political issues
- The Century Foundation
- Progressive think tank, formerly named Twentieth Century Fund
- Position papers on economics, government, foreign policy, and health
care
- Urban Institute
- Non-profit policy research organization on U.S. social and economic
problems
- Hot Topics includes position papers and
testimony on such subjects as block grants, civil rights, education,
health, medicare, and taxes
- Related Web Page: Political Science Think
Tanks
- Dr. Koop
- Brief medical advice by diagnosis or condition
- Web MD Health
- Popular consumer web site with tips on preventing and living with health conditions as well as
information for the newly diagnosed
- Includes extensive summaries of treatment options
- Alternative medicine
- Violence Policy
Center
- Anti-gun lobby group
- Numerous short reports on gun violence and legislation with some
statistical data by state
- Focuses on violence against women, children, and the elderly
- Embryo Research (CQ
Researcher - UMich Only)
- Debate issue covered in the December 17, 1999 issue
- Background on issue
- Two sides of the debate
- Bibliography of further sources
- Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell
Research (National Bioethics Advisory Commission)
- Full text of studies in pdf format
- Special section on religious issues
- Dated September 1999
- Medical
Research Guide (Public Agenda)
- Graphs, lobby groups, and public opinion on various medical research
issues
- Covers cloning, stem cell research, cancer, funding, and
patents
- National Bioethics
Advisory Commission
- Recommendations on human research, including stem cells, mental
disorders, and human cloning
- Fact sheets on human subjects of medical experiments
- NIH Stem Cell
Information
- News, reports, and testimony on stem cell research
- Draft NIH guidelines for stem cell research
- Politics,
Science, Morality of Stem Cell Issue (All Politics)
- A CNN FAQ issued on July 18, 2001
- Brief information on the issues and opinions of different interest
groups
- Good links to further resources
- Stem
Cell Research (Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Special hearings held December 1998 - September 2000
- Use Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) to access prepared statements
- Search CIS Index under SUBJECT: stem cell
research; last five years
- Paper copy of full text in Documents Center: Y4.AP6/2:S.HRG.105-939,
Y4.AP6/2:S.HRG.106-413, and Y4.AP6/2:S.HRG.106-413/PT.3
- Microfiche copy in Documents Center: CIS-NO: 99-S181-30, CIS-NO:
2000-S181-20, and CIS-NO: 2001-S181-18
- Stem Cells: A
Primer
- Definitions of terms including pluripotent cells
- Good and understandable descriptions of how stem cells work and their
benefit for future research
- Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents
- Full text of Presidential statements and documents since 1993
- Search "stem cell research" (using quotations) in subject line
- Opinions
- American Medical
Association
- Letters to Congress supporting embryonic stem cell research
- Culture
of
Life Foundation
- Christian organization promoting adult and umbilical cord stem cell
research
- Use search engine for articles
- Gallup
Poll
- Results of a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll taken July 10-11, 2001
- Shows that Americans not following the stem cell debate but want cures
for diseases
- Pope
John Paul
- Text of statement in meeting with President George W. Bush on July 23,
2001
- Center for Immigration
Studies
- Survey of immigration topics (numbers, legal/illegal, wages) with
annotated links to more
in-depth information
- Human rights, types of visas, etc.
- Patients Bill of Rights - 107th Congress
- Patients Bill
of Rights (S.1344, 106th Congress)
- Thomas provides text of bill, amendments and debates
- Debated on Senate floor the week of July 12 with roll call vote on
July 15
- Indefinitely postponed by Senate after provisions incorporated into
H.R. 2990
- Patients Bill of Rights (H.R. 2723,106th
Congress)
- Patients
Bill of Rights H.R. 2990, 106th Congress)
- Replaces earlier Senate and House bills
- Laid on table as of February 2000
- Pending
Patient Protection Legislation (Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Chart with detailed comparison of the provisions in conference
version of H.R. 2990, the Patients Bill of Rights
- Covers access to emergency services, hospital stays for mastectomies,
etc.
- Policy.com
- Statements by lobby groups from the various sides of managed care
reform
- Senate
Democratic Policy Committee
- Links to S.6, an alternative bill sponsored by Tom Daschle
- Lists medical cases and whether or not patients would be covered by
Republican bill
- Senate
Republican
Conference
- Attacks cost of Daschle/Kennedy plan (S.6)
- Virtues of S.1344
- Senator Ted Kennedy
- See press releases on the patients rights issue
- Prescription Drug Bills in the 107th
Congress
- Medicare
Expanded Option Plan (Senate Finance Committee)
- Proposal by Senator William Roth, issued July 2000
- Uses Medicare to expand private prescription drug coverage
- Alternate to S.
2807 and H.R.
4680, the latter passed by the House in June 2000
- Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of
2002
- Description of
H.R. 4954
- Republican plan for adding prescription drugs to Medicare
- Approved by House Energy and Commerce Committee on June 20, 2002
- President
Clinton's Medicare Reform Plan
- Provides to early buy-in to Medicare and a prescription drug plan
- Announced on June 29, 1999
- House of
Representatives Prescription Drug Task Force
- Numerous reports and studies on cost of prescription drugs in the
U.S. versus foreign countries, cost to seniors as opposed to HMOs, and
drug company profits
- Authors include the Congressional Research Service and lobby
groups
- House
Republicans
Offer Solutions to Prescription Drug Problem
- Medicare Prescription
Drug and Modernization Act of 2000
- Prescription Drug
Coverage, Spending, Utilization, and Prices; Report to the President
(DHHS)
- Drug coverage, particularly for the elderly
- Price differential in drugs between the insured and uninsured
- Areas for future research
- Issued April 2000
Lobby Guides |
Consumer |
Industry |
Political Parties |
Professional |
State Associations
- Charity
Lobbying in the Public Interest (Independent Sector)
- Comprehensive guide to lobbying laws
- Guidance on working with legislative staff
- Effective communication
- Examples of successful lobbying
- Effective communication
- American Association for Retired Persons
- Where We Stand includes policy papers, news releases, and Congressional testimony on health care issues
- Searchable by keyword
- Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
- Assists the sick and needy in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area
- Center for Medicare
Advocacy
- Center for Patient Advocacy
- Lobby group on medicare, managed care, and patient access
- Center for Regulatory Effectiveness
- Children's Defense Fund
- State rankings and profiles on children's health insurance, infant mortality,
immunizations, poverty
- Well-developed section on children's health issues with a summary of the problems
and an annotated bibliography
- Electronic Privacy Information
Center
- Advocacy group for Internet privacy
- Newsletters and annotated guide to U.S. and international electronic
privacy organizations
- Families USA
- Family Research
Council
- Conservative views on abortion, euthanasia, and medical bioethics
- Health
Advocacy Groups (Policy.com)
- Annotated list of advocacy, professional, and research groups in the
field of health
- Notes their individual policy issues and links to their web sites
- Health Policy Interest
Groups (National Political Index)
- Links to web sites of approximately 10 lobby groups interested in health care
- Health Policy Discussion List
- Discussion group on health policy issues
- To subscribe, send e-mail to
LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
- In the BODY of the message, type
SUBSCRIBE HEALTHPOL yourfirstname yourlastname
- Human Rights Watch
- Current news on human rights situation worldwide
- Special sections of international standards for children's and women's rights
- Regions section has regional and country reports on human rights practices
- Life Extension Foundation
- Minnesota Senior Federation
- Provides information for various health plans
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- National
Coalition on Health Care
- Membership includes corporations, consumer groups,
and a few insurance agencies
- Statement of principles, articles, and press
releases
- National Health Care Anti-Fraud
Association
- Mission of organization and types of health care fraud
- National
Health Council Membership
- Links to web sites of its comprehensive membership
- National Health Law Program
- Numerous reports on the Children's Health Program, medicare, medicaid, health
care reform
- National Partnership for
Women And Families
- Pennsylvania Health Care Cost
Containment Council
- Reports and statistics on hospitalizations, use of procedures (e.g. C-section), and
health care plans
- Planned Parenthood
- Information on contraception, sexual health, and healthy pregnancy
- Project Hope
- Volunteer organization providing medical assistance to countries
around the world
- Some health policy information
- Public Citizen
- Consumer organization led by Nader/Claybrook
- Use pulldown menu for reports on various health care issues
- Council of State Governments
- Suggested State Legislation is the primary source for recommended policy
- Web site includes organizational information and an index of CSG printed
publications
- Health
Policy Monitor is a quarterly periodical on health policy
issues affecting state government
- National Conference of State
Legislatures
- Federal-State Relations includes policies and testimony on
health care
- Intergovernmental Health Policy Project provides the full text of
current State Health Notes
- Organizational information, publications, and conferences
- Extensive links to state legislative web sites
- National
Governors' Association
- Extensive list and full text of policies on federal-state relations,
economic development, human and natural resources
- Issue briefs, press releases
- Background and the administration of welfare reform
- Links to governors of the states and territories, their biographies,
election status, and web sites
- Stateline (PEW Research
Center)
- Summary of news articles about state legislative issues for all 50 states
- States can be compared and ranked on population, economic, crime,
budget, and environmental factors
- Surveys and technical documentation on health risk behaviors (smoking,
dental visits, immunizations, binge drinking etc.) since 1996
- Large microdata sets in ASCII or DBF format as well as questionnaires
- Trends provides pretabulated data on health
risk behaviors for the nation and state
- Searches and Queries permits searching of data sets
and reports
- Subjects include mortality, natality, AIDS, STDs, fluoridation, Census
- Some data broken down by state or local area
- Various formats available; data may be sent via e-mail or you can
wait while on-line
- Tutorial for mortality data
- Medicare and medicaid data via press releases and detailed reports
- Formerly known as Health Care Financing Administration
- Population, economic, health, and education statistics for the nation
- International comparisons
- Nurturing fatherhood
- County level data for the United States on death by cause, infant
mortality, life expectancy, unhealthy days
- Rates county by peer counties
- Data sets from the 1972-94 General Social Survey, 1972-92 National
Election Survey, and 1991 National Health Interview Survey
- Data may be manipulated on-line
- Quick start instructions for the initiate:
- Choose Demonstration Survey Data Archive
- Choose the survey you would like and the "browse"
option; start
- Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
- Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
- Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
- Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical
and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or
percentages
- National Health Interview Survey Example
- Choose Alphabetical List to determine birthyr
is code for birthyear and hep12 is number of short-term hospital stays in
last twelve months
- Click on run crosstabulations
- Use hep12 as hortizonal, birthyr as vertical, click on
statistics and run percentages
- Result is number and percent of people born 1880-1992, by individual year, who
had none, one, two or more hospital stays
- Census
Bureau
- Longitudinal and cross-sectional health insurance statistics
by state and various socioeconomic characteristics
- Data covers 1987-99
- State Children's Health
Insurance
Program (HCFA)
- Provides grants to states for providing health insurance to poorer
children under medicaid
- State statistics on enrollment
- Laws, regulations, and individual state plans
- Uninsured in
America (PBS News Hour)
- National survey results (pdf format) of public perceptions of the
numbers and causes for people without health insurance coverage
- Surveys of the uninsured about the effects and problems they encounter
- Pop-up menus with a chronology of health insurance in America,
individual state requirements for child health coverage, and the percent
of non-elderly who are uninsured
- Essentially public opinion polls for the 2000 elections
- Summary data on the U.S. citizens withouth health insurance or living
in nursing homes
- HTML or Adobe Acrobat format
- More detailed data available for purchase
- Weekly articles on death, accidents, and disease, 1993+
- Includes interative tables for 122 cities
- News releases on natality, marriage, divorce, mortality, and
selected subjects
- FastStats is
alphabetical list by subject and state/territory of brief descriptive
data (e.g. teen births)
- Data
Warehouse has extensive links to published and unpublished
tables on mortality, natality, and behavioral risk factors
- Health, United States
1996-97 and Injury Chartbook is its annual report in pdf format
- Includes downloadable files for use with Adobe Acrobat
- Health
2000 draws relationship between health status,
income, and race (pdf format)
- Good Remote Alternative
to Statistical Universe
- Quality Compass rates participating health
plans (e.g. HMOs)
- Summary national data on childhood immunizations, health care
screening, access to health care, and percentage of mental health
patients readmitted to hospitals
- Includes the organization's annual report
- Data on health habits (nutrition, doctor's visits), health risks
(smoking), and health
outcomes (gall bladder, cancer)
- Some longitudinal coverage since the 1960s
- Data in ASCII format and codebooks in pdf
- Extensive links to biostatistics on the Internet
- Annotated links to over 20 categories of government and
non-government statistics
- Large sections on demographics, economics, and health
- Optional cumulative frames index
- Indexes and abstracts all published federal government statistics
since 1974, business and state governments since 1980, and international
agencies since 1983
- Begin search with Power Tables
- Power Tables has the full text of the most popular statistical tables
- Example: aids and mortality as keyword; previous two years; U.S. sources;
and by state
- Choose Abstracts if you don't find what you need
in Power Tables
- This usually provides a web link or a citation to microfiche in the
Documents Center but seldom has the full text
- Example:
- "aids and mortality" in any field; last two years; published by any source; and
arranged "by state"
- Results list indicates of web links to data (i.e. full text attachments) available
- If full text not available, search MIRLYN by title, come to the Documents Center with
the microfiche number (e.g. ASI 1998 4142-1), or search the Federal Web Locator
for the agency web site
- See Statistical Universe
Guide and the Statistical Universe Slide Show for
additional details
- Extensive keyword index to the text of individual web pages
- Extremely fast index to the text of individual web pages
- Provides a relevancy ranking
- Keyword index to federal government web sites with a .gov or .mil extension
- Definitive web guide to health administration, biostatistics,
public health and medicine
- Includes organizations, public and commercial sites, and discussion
groups
- All links are annotated
- Advanced Searching permits Boolean combination of words with a .gov or .mil extension
- Sample: prescription drugs [Boolean phrase] and .mil or .gov [domain]
- Popular interface to the web with a focus on Michigan sources
- Browsable and searchable
- Services and electronic resources in the School of Public Health
- Comprehensive classified subject list of world-wide web sites
Comprehensive
Listings
- United
States Government Manual, 1995/96+ (National Archives)
- Directory of agencies and officials, primarily in the Executive Branch
- Describes agency activity and cites legislative authority
- Searchable by keyword and browsable since 1997/98
- The paper copy is located at the Documents Desk as JK 421 .A3
and in most U.S. libraries
- Federal Agency Web Sites (LSU)
- Cleancut alphabetical listing of federal agency web sites
- Includes search engine
- Federal
Information A-Z (Duke University)
- Alphabetical list of agencies, titles, and subjects available on the web
- Focus is on federal government but includes foreign and international
agencies
- Government by
Sterby
- Comprehensive links to all branches of the federal government
- Especially good for independent and quasi-governmental agencies
Indexes
- Google's Uncle Sam
- Keyword index to federal government web sites with a .gov or .mil extension
- Government
Information Locator Service (GPO)
- Browse or search available descriptive abstracts of government
information files, including
electronic, print, and unpublished data
- Pointer GILS Records refers to complete
information files maintained by several agencies
- Pathway GILS Records refers to broad agency
summaries created by GPO
- HotBot
- Advanced Searching permits Boolean combination of words with a .gov or .mil extension
- Sample: prescription drugs [Boolean phrase] and .mil or .gov [domain]
Individual
Agencies
- Administration on
Aging
- Statistics on the aging population
- Federal and state programs on health care issues
- Agency for Health Care
Research and Policy
- Clinical Practice Guidelines allow physician to enter symptom
and obtain possible diagnoses and treatments
- Clinical guidelines for patients (e.g. how to prevent strokes)
- Research reports and statistics, including the Medical Care
Utilization Survey and
- Agriculture
Department
- Budget
- Searchable text of the proposed budget submitted each February
- Includes historical tables of budget expenditures in text or
spreadsheet format
- Detailed appendix of agency expenditures and analyses with mid-year
review of expenditures
- See Federal Budget for previous budgets, budget committees, and final Congressional appropriations
- Centers for Disease
Control
- Statistics and health briefings on public health concerns such as AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal health
- Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Services
- Explanation of Medicare
and Medicaid
- Regulations, news, and statistics on its programs
- Formerly known as Health Care Financing Administration
- CHAMPUS-TriCare
- Administers the military health program
- Contract information and forum on health issues
- Department
of Health and Human Services
- Press releases and links to subagencies
- Healthfinder is a keyword index to the department's on-line publications
- Department of Health and
Human Services/Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation
- Research reports on health insurance coverage, prescription drugs,
children's health insurance program, and disease prevention
- Department of
Justice
- Crime statistics
- Information on enforcing tobacco settlement and new immigration laws
- Federal Trade
Commission
- Formal opinions and news on consumer protection issues
- Food and Nutrition
Service Office of
Analysis, Nutrition, and Evaluation
- GPO Access:
Keeping America Informed
- Provides permanent free public access to most federal legislative and
legal publications
- Includes bills, hearings, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, Federal
Register
- Supreme Court Decisions, Presidential Documents, and commissions
- Many of these publications are analyzed elsewhere on Dr. Weissert's
web page
- Health Resources and
Services Administration
- Insure Kids Now
- Health plans and applications for insuring children, arranged by state
- Medicare
- Official government web site for medicare
- Choosing and comparing health plans, dialysis and nursing facilities
- Medicare plan choices
- Prescription drug programs
- National Academy
Press
- Abstracts and order information on the newest scholarly books issued
by the National Academy of Sciences
- Note that most books are not available on the web
- Section on health care
- National Bioethics
Advisory Commission
- Recommendations on human research, including stem cells, mental
disorders, and human cloning
- Fact sheets on human subjects of medical experiments
- National
Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
- Transcripts and testimony on health data and privacy standards
- National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- Bibliography and abstract of brochures, reports, and statistics on alcoholism
- Full text is not on-line
- National
Institute of Mental Health
- Reports and press releases on mental health
- Statistics embedded in text
- National
Institute on Drug Abuse
- Information on drug abuse
- Links to some full text publications and Congressional testimony
- Grants available from the NIDA
- National
Institutes of
Health
- Health information, grants, and news
- Entire web site is searchable
- Public Health
Service
- Links to Surgeon General and all of the subdivisions which comprise the Public Health
Service
- More substantial information on the subdivisions than the main site
- Surgeon General
Reports (PHS/NLM)
- Annual reports since 1964
- Over half of the reports cover various aspects of smoking
- Additional reports on mental health, youth violence, suicide, HIV,
obesity
- Additional proceedings of workshops
- Searchable and browsable by date, subject, or alphabetically
- Medical Records Executive Order
- Order protects the privacy of medical records
- EO 13181 issued by President Clinton on December 20, 2000
- Occupational Safety
and Health Administration
- Office of Minority Health
- President's Advisory Commission
on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care
Industry
- Title: Quality First
- Paper copy: PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY RA 339 .A3 U567 1997
- Recommendations include clear goals, improved measurement of health
quality, public-private partnerships, group purchases
- Consumer strength, accountability, health care workers, focusing on
vulnerable populations
- Issued July 1998
- Statements
of Administration Policy on Appropriations and Non-Appropriations
Bills
- Brief statements of the President's position on selected bills
beginning 2001
- Arranged by Congress and bill number
- Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press
conferences, names of nominees
- Sample search: "patients bill of rights"
- White House
- Press releases, speeches and documents beginning January 2001
- Clinton White House web site is archived at http://clinton.nara.gov
Legislative
Process
- Issues Matrix
- Matrix of member, party and lobby issues
- Includes lists of web sources
- Public Policy Matrix
- Outline of the policy change process from a legislative and executive perspective
- Includes influences on the decision
- Links to related materials available on the web at the University of Michigan
- Enactment of
a Law
- Senate description of the legislative process
- Includes information unique to the Senate, including ratification of
treaties and executive (closed) meetings
- How Our
Laws Are Made
- Extensive House of Representatives guide to the legislative
process with definitions and explanations of each step
- Summary
version
- Legislative Histories Tutorial
- Step-by-step guide to University of Michigan Library materials on legislation
Directories of
Congressmen
- Almanac
of American Politics (UMich Only)
- Political biographies of Congressmen and their districts
- Good source for analysis
- Issues for 1998, 2000, and 2002 available
- Congressional
Yellow Book (UMich Only)
- Most current directory of Congress available
- Brief biographies of Congressmen and great detail on legislative staff
assignments in Washington and in their respective districts
- Directories of committees and subcommittees with similar detail on
their legislative staffs
- Congressional YellowBook is searchable on its own or in conjunction
with the Federal, State, Municipal, Associations, and NonProfit sector
books
- Can search by location, industry, name, or personal characteristics
(job
title, degree, alma mater)
- Contacting
the Congress
- Most updated directory of Members of Congress
- Includes committee and subcommittee assignments
- House of Representatives
- Calendars and daily floor schedules
- Links to Member web sites
- Senate
- Directory of Members and Committees
Directories of Committee
Assignments
- Congressional Yellow
Book (UMich Only)
- Most current directory of Congress available
- Brief biographies of Congressmen and great detail on legislative staff
assignments in Washington and in their respective districts
- Directories of committees and subcommittees with similar detail on
their legislative staffs
- Congressional YellowBook is searchable on its own or in conjunction
with the Federal, State, Municipal, Associations, and NonProfit sector
books
- Contacting
the Congress
- Directory of committee assignments for the current Congress (only)
- Arranged by committee and subcommittee
- Lists individual members, their e-mail addresses and web sites, phone
and fax numbers
- Links to the committee web site
- Official
Congressional Directory (GPO Access)
- Biennial directory of Congress, committee assignments, and biographies
- Begins with the 104th Congress, 1995-96
- For committee assignments, go to the browsable on-line
revisions at the top of the page; standing committee
assignments follow the section on state delegations
Background
Information
- American
Health Line (UMich Only)
- Daily periodical with a summary of legislative issues affecting
health care in Congress and the states
- Available since 1992
- CQ
Weekly Report (UMich Only)
- Non-partisan summary of legislation before Congress
- Identifies most important bills, lobbying, and politics
- Full text of CQ since 1983; separate search engines for articles and
roll call votes
- Separate section for CQ
Researcher which provides briefing
reports on public policy issues
- Corresponding paper copy of the Weekly Report in
Doc.Cen. JK 1.C12--Ref. with older issues in Grad Library Stacks
- Some articles also appear in All
Politics
- If remote server does not work, use
National Journal/Congress Daily listed below
- Congressional Quarterly Almanac [Library]
- Browse annual table of contents or index
- Usually published six months after end of previous year
- Doc.Cen. JK 1 .C756--Ref.
- Congress and the Nation [Library]
- Cumulative summary of the CQ Almanac, 1945-
- Doc.Cen. JK 1001 .C75
- National
Journal/Congress Daily (UMich Only)
- Weekly periodical on government agencies; includes major legislative issues
- Archived and searchable since 1977
- JK 1. N28 with current issues in Documents Center--Docs.Ref.
- Policy.com
- Daily periodical with current policy news, issue of the
week, and in-depth analysis of 20 current policy issues
- Virtual Congress features speeches
and votes on topics
- Includes a policy chat room
Bill
Indexes/Texts/Status
- THOMAS
- Indexes Congressional bills since 1973 by subject, sponsor, committee, and
status of legislation
- Best public source for keyword indexing of bills
- Includes text of all bill versions
- Good Remote Alternative
to Congressional Universe for bill indexing
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes Congressional bills since 1989 by subject, keyword, sponsor and date
- Provides the full text and legislative status
- Notes
- For omnibus bills which contain many components (e.g. budget, appropriations), it may be necessary to search by subject rather than bill number in Congressional Quarterly, Congressional Universe, and the Congressional Record
Committee
Publications
- Includes hearings (testimony), committee prints
(research reports), markupsreports (recommendations on
bills), and documents (Executive Branch communiques)
- Hearings and Committee
Prints
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Search under CIS Index
- Indexes published hearings (1970+), committee prints (1993+), and reports (1989+) by
subject, keyword, committee, and date
- Provides an abstract of publications located in the Documents Center in paper and/or
microfiche format
- Includes the full text of selected testimony beginning 1988; linked from abstract and
separately searchable under Testimony
- Markups
- These are committee meetings held after a hearing to make changes in
a bill and vote on it
- The transcripts are seldom published officially
- Unofficially there are several news services which cover selected markups
- In In Testimony section of Congressional
Universe, use the term "mark-up or markup" (1988+)
- You can search National Journal Markups
by committee, keyword, date, and bill number (1999+)
- Reports and Documents
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Search under Congressional Publications
- Indexes committee reports by subject, keyword, bill number, and date
- Provides the full text of reports since 1989
- Thomas
- Full text of committee reports (i.e. recommendations) since 1993
searchable by keyword, bill number, report number, and committee
- Reports segmented into easily viewable segments
- Links to the full text of the legislation in question and legislative
status
- Reports and
Documents via GPO Access
Floor
Debates
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Search under Congressional Publications
- Full text of Congressional Record since 1985
- Searchable by keyword, speaker, and date
- Congressional
Record via GPO Access
- Full text of the Congressional Record beginning 1994
- THOMAS
- Congressional bills and Congressional Record, 1993+
- Best public source for keyword indexing of bills and Congressional Record due to proximity
searching
- Best source for text of the Congressional Record
- Includes text of all bill versions
- Prior to 1993, available in the Graduate Library stacks with issues
beginning 1985 in the Documents Center as J 11.R
Related Political
Information
- Health Law
Resource
- Separate web pages summarize such issues as telemedicine, Medicare
and Medicaid, bioethics, and patient records
- Provides links to federal and state laws and regulations, AMA
opinions and decisions, and official reports, such as the RAND
Corporation
- United States Code
- Text of all laws in force
- United States Code
(via Congressional Universe)
- Search under Bills, Laws and Regulations
- Full text of all laws updated monthly to incorporate newly-passed laws
- United
States Code (via Cornell Law School)
- Text of all laws in force as of 1997/98
- Searchable by popular title of law, title and section of the U.S.
Code, or keyword
- Currently the best interface
- Good Remote Alternative
to Congressional Universe
- Paper copy of U.S. Code in Doc.Cen. KF 62 .A2
- Code of Federal Regulations (regulations in-force)
- Code of Federal
Regulations via Congressional Universe (UMich Only)
- Code of
Federal Regulations (National Archives)
- Search CFR by keyword or a combination of title, part, and page
- Good Remote Alternative
to Congressional Universe
- Corresponding paper copy in Documents Center
as JK 416.A5-Ref
- Federal Register
- Federal
Register via Congressional Universe (UMich only) [Web]
- New regulations, proposed regulations, notices of grants and agency hearings
since 1980
- Indexed by keyword, agency, date, and type of publication
- Federal Register via
GPO Access
- Accurate results through keyword searching
- Example: "nursing homes"
- Search its Unified Agenda for agency
regulatory plans
- Good Remote Alternative
to Congressional Universe beginning 1994
- Academic Universe
(UMich Only)
- Full text of federal Supreme, Circuit, and District court opinions
- Full text of state Supreme and appellate court decisions
- See Academic Universe Guide for search
strategies
- Federal Courts
(Admin. Office of the U.S. Courts)
- Articles on and a description of the U.S. court system
- Directory of automated access to court records arranged by type
of court and district
- Laws Online
- Directories
- U.S. and State executive, legislative and judicial branch officers
- Includes names, contact information and web links
- Web links to federal and state court
decisions
- Council of State Governments
- Organizational information and telnet interface for assistance
via e-mail
- Index of CSG publications
- National Conference of State
Legislatures
- Newsletters, policies, and testimony on
federal-state relations
- Organizational information, publications, and conferences
- Extensive links to state legislative web sites
- National
Governors' Association
- Extensive list and full text of policies on federal-state relations,
economic development, human and natural resources
- Issue briefs, press releases
- Background and the administration of welfare reform
- Links to governors of the states and territories, their biographies,
election status, and web sites
- State
and Local Government
- Comprehensive link for state government web sites, updated daily
- Links to federal and non-government national organizations serving
state and local governments
- StateSearch
(National Association of State Information Resource Executives)
- Subject arrangement of state government web sites and publications
- See State and Local Government for additional indexes and state government associations
- American
Health Line (UMich Only)
- Daily periodical with a summary of legislative issues affecting
health care in Congress and the states
- Available since 1992
- Florida Legislature
- Searchable laws of Florida
- Citizens guide to State Legislature
- Current bills
- National Conference of State
Legislatures
- Newsletters, policies, and testimony on
federal-state relations
- Organizational information, publications, and conferences
- Extensive links to state legislative web sites
- State Capital
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes current codes and administrative regulations of all states
- Indexes bills and bill status since 1990
- Includes official political journals of
selected states and newspaper of record for all states
- Various policy briefs from the National Conference of State
Legislatures
- State Legal Information
- Links to legislative web sites in all 50 states
- Stateline (PEW Research
Center)
- Summary of news articles about state legislative issues for all 50 states
- States can be compared and ranked on population, economic, crime,
budget, and environmental factors
- Academic
Universe/LEXIS (UMich Only)
- State codes (laws-in-force) appear under State Legal
Research
- Can only search one state at a time
- Choose state and then state code
- Sample Search
State Legal Research/Michigan/Code
medicaid w/5 fraud
- Assessing the New
Federalism
- State data base includes statistics and law tracking for the 50
states and D.C.
- Fiscal, economic, demographic data
- Information about income security, health, employment, housing, and
child welfare programs
- EXAMPLE: State Data Base - Use Online - Begin -
Health Insurance/Proceed - Minimum Group Size/Proceed - All Years - for
state laws on minimum size of group health insurance coverage
- Similar procedure for data on food stamps and AFDC caseloads
- Includes articles on state social service policies
- Health Law
Resource
- Separate web pages summarize such issues as telemedicine, Medicare
and Medicaid, bioethics, and patient records
- Provides links to federal and state laws and regulations, AMA
opinions and decisions, and official reports
- State Capital
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes current codes and administrative regulations of all states
- May be searched by state and keyword or across states by keyword
- Provides full text and notes
- Includes Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest
- State Legal Information
- Links to free state government web sites with new laws and legal codes
- Michigan
Budget, FY 1997+
- Budget proposals to the Legislature by program and department
- Michigan Department of Community
Health
- The agency was created in January 1996 by Executive Order 1996-1
- It consolidates the Dept. of Public Health, the Dept. of Mental
Health, and the Medical Services Administration
- Web site describes agency mission and activities
- Public Health and Mental Health Code
- State health initiatives, including immunizations
- Consumer advice - AIDS, cancer
- Health Statistics has county profiles with deaths by cause
- Michigan
Governor's Office
- Governor's speeches and press releases on policy topics
- Executive Orders, State of the State address
- Links to other state government web sites
- Michigan Executive Branch
- Annotated links to the Governor and Executive Branch web
sites
Legislative Process
- Citizen's
Guide to State Government
- Organization chart of three branches of government
- Directory of executive departments with phone numbers
- Descriptions of the Michigan legislative process, directories of
legislative members and committees, how to contact government officials
- Number of signatures needed for petitions; number of
state legislative and court officials by political party for counties and
cities
- How
a Bill Becomes a Law
- Description of the legislative process from the Michigan legislature
- Michigan Legislative Histories at
the University of Michigan
- Step-by-step guide to the legislative process
- Cites printed materials, on-line services, archives, and telephone
numbers
- Sources of
Michigan Legislative History provides similar
information from the Library of Michigan Law Library perspective
Legislation
Background Information
- Detroit News
- Newspapers may be the best single source for state politics
- Newspaper is searchable since August 1996
- Also available on Academic Universe (Umich Only) and ProQuest
(Umich Only)
- Citizens Research Council of
Michigan
- Analyzes state and local government finances and organization (e.g.
tax assessments, funding a new Detroit stadium)
- Research reports on policy proposals as well as selected testimony
before the state legislature
- Web site indexes publications since 1916 and provides the text of
some publications
- Gongwer
News Service
- Behind-the-scenes political report on the Michigan Legislature and
legislation
- Quotations by legislators and lobbyists made on the floor, in
committee, and in news conferences
- Coverage begins with September 1993
- Searchable by date or keyword
- Single-site password available in Documents Center; ask staff for
sign-on
- Legislative Analyses
- Summaries of all House bills and Senate bills referred to the House
- Analyzes problem the bill addresses, impact, pros and cons
- Paper copies filed by bill number at the U Mich Law Library
- Legislative
Analyses (Mich. Dept. of Consumer and Industry
Services)
- Full text of selective analyses within the department's purview, 1996+
- Includes insurance, real estate, accounting, partial-birth abortions
- Michigan in Brief
- Analyzes 65 issues likely to come before the State Legislature
- Examples include AIDS, assisted suicide, casinos, civil rights,
crime, firearms, Headlee Amendment, roads, taxes and welfare reform
- Provides background with statistics, pro and con arguments, and web
or address sources for additional information
- Appendices address a variety of non-legislative issues (foundations,
volunteerism, basic statistics and state symbols)
- Economic, political and cultural history of Michigan since the 17th
Century
- Concise but meaty descriptions of state and local government
- Sponsored by the Michigan Nonprofit Association, Council of Michigan
Foundations, and Public Sector Consultants
- Michigan Municipal League
- Summary of proposed state legislation affecting local
governments
- Federal/state relations, environment, and public works
- Includes links to bills and Michigan Municipal League
position
- Municipal lobbying primer
- Senate
Fiscal Agency Reports
- List of special and recurring reports on economic issues of
legislative concern (e.g. prisons, local government debt, charter
schools) beginning 1994
- Most reports are not available on-line but contact
information is provided for obtaining them
- State Capital
Universe (UMich Only)
- Various policy briefs from the National Conference of State
Legislatures for past ten years
- State Net Capitol Journal for Michigan since 1998 and State Capitols
Report covering all states since 1994
Bills
- Michigan Legislative Information, 1997+
- Full text of bills with legislative status and links to the House and Senate Journals
- Find Bill: locate bills by bill number, subject category, or
sponsor
- Links to bill text, enrolled bills (final version becoming law), status, Journals (Adobe Acrobat format), and LEGISLATIVE ANALYSES
- House Bills and Senate Bills arranged by
bill number
- Links to bill text, status, and Journals (Adobe Acrobat format)
- Journals arranged by date; provide proceedings, voting records, and sometimes a text but not debates; Adobe Acrobat format
- Calendars are last five House and Senate floor
calendars
- State Capital
Universe (UMich Only)
- Full text of bills since 1991 and bill status since 1990
- Paper Copies of Bills
- Available at the U Mich Law Library; current
texts are also available on LEXIS
- Indexed by LEXIS, Status of Legislation, and the
bound House and Senate Journals
- Status of Legislation
- Indexes bills by subject and sponsor
- Lists all legislative actions on bills
- Doc.Cen. KFM 4215 .A32 - Ref.
Legislative Calendars
- Committee
Calendars
- House and Senate meeting schedules for the upcoming weeks
- Includes subject or bill and meeting room
- Floor Calendars, 1997+
- Last five calendars available through Michigan Legislative Information
Committee Hearings and Reports
- Search MIRLYN or the Library of Michigan Catalog for the text of published committee
publications
- Most committee hearings and reports are unpublished
- Contact the committee chairperson for
the accessibility of tapes or transcripts
Journals
- Michigan Legislative Information, 1997+
- House Journals and Senate Journals
available in
Adobe Acrobat format
- Searchable by date with additional links from the bill status section of the web site
- Includes proceedings, roll call votes, and occasionally the text of a bill but not the
debates
- Historic Journals
- House Journals (J 87 .M5c with current in the Documents Center) and
Senate Journals (J 87 .M5b with current in the Documents Center) contain the
text of proceedings
- Most debates are not published; contact the Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the
Senate for
the availability of tapes or transcripts
- Enrolled Bills, 1997+
- Enrolled bills are the final version before becoming law
- Text is available through the Michigan Legislature web site
- Search by subject, sponsor or bill number under Find
Bill
- Links to the enrolled text are found under the bill status
- Michigan Statutes Annotated through Academic
Universe/LEXIS (UMich Only)
- State codes (laws-in-force) appear under State Legal
Research
- Choose state and then state code
- Sample Search
State Legal Research/Michigan/Code
medicaid w/5 fraud
- Michigan Compiled Laws
- This is the official version
- Michigan
Compiled Laws
- Searchable by keyword and section
- You do not need to register despite login screen
- Michigan Compiled Laws - Paper
- Text of all laws in force in 1979; web version more updated
- Doc.Cen. KFM 4230 1979 .A24 - Ref.
- Paper version pdated by Michigan Public and Local Acts (Doc.Cen.
K .M62 A2 - Ref.) and West's Michigan Legislative Service (Doc.Cen.
KFM 4225 .W51 - Ref.)
- State Capital
Universe (UMich Only)
- Index and full text of Michigan Statutes
Annotated
- Annotations include links to relevant court decisions
- Also has Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest, which
provides easy indexing to laws across all states
- Michigan Administrative
Code
- Text of all executive agency regulations in force
- Searchable by department, number and keyword
- Updated on a daily basis
- The latest paper version, 1979, is located in the Documents
Center as Doc.Cen. K .M62 A3 - Ref.
- Paper updated by annual supplements (same call number) and the quarterly
Michigan Register (Doc.Cen K .M62 A31 - Ref.)
- Administrative
Rules (Office of Regulatory Reform)
- Rules and proposed of Michigan executive departments beginning 1995
- Arranged by agency and to be indexed by keyword
- Executive
Orders
- Governor's executive orders beginning 1991
- State Capital
Universe (UMich Only)
- RegAlert for Michigan since 1998
- Does not include Michigan Administrative Code
Ann Arbor
- Directory of city services and departments with summary, contact
information and links to agency if available
- List of current City Council members and historical list of Ann
Arbor mayors
- Links to local education, government, law, and library information
- Includes a directory of county offices and a community
calendar
- Describes judges, jury system, and operations of the criminal, civil
and family divisions
- Court dockets and instructions for filing documents
- Eventually will provide for the electronic filing of court documents
- Considered a prototype for the State of Michigan
- Subject index to county services and departments
- Application forms; list of county government job opportunities
- Schedule of official county events and current policy issues
- Directory of county officials and Board of Commissioner minutes
- Directory of social service programs includes contact
information, mission, and community served
- The directory is part of a larger Southeast Michigan community
network
- Registration is preferred but guest access is also available
- Current news on human rights situation worldwide
- Special sections of international standards for children's and women's rights
- Regions section has regional and country reports on human rights practices
Reference Tools
- Guide to paper and web citation guides
- Guides include citations to various formats
- Writing guides, dictionaries, acronyms, thesauri
- Associations, travel information
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