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 Brazil
- Embassy to the
United Kingdom
- Brazil in Brief summarizes the country's governmental
structure, economy, military establishment and political parties
- Short biographies of executive branch officials
- Statements of Brazilian foreign policy
- Beautiful graphics but time-consuming to load
- Ministry of External
Relations
- Statements of foreign policy
- Brazilian embassies throughout the world and links to their web
sites
- Text in Portuguese only
- Mission to
the United Nations
- Text of policy statements before the UN
- Embassy to the United
States
- Cultural and statistical information
- Tracing German ancestors
- Government includes section on foreign
policies such as Middle East, United Nations, and former Soviet Union
- German Bundestag
- Directories of members
- Recent calendars and press releases on current topics being considered
- German Federal
Government
- History, organization and function of the federal government
(Bundesregierung)
- Biographies and background on the Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler)
and various Ministries (Bundesministerien) with links to individual
ministry web pages as available
- Press releases
- Web site primarily in German
- Facts About Germany provides background information,
demographic and economic statistics, and press releases in English
- Permanent
Mission to the United Nations
- Press releases and speeches in English
- India Embassy to
the United States
- Foreign policy issues and news
- Links to the Indian President and Cabinet
- Election statistics since 1952 as well as current election information
- Search engine
- India
Ministry of External Affairs
- Economic statistics, social policy, and trade policy
- Describes foreign policy by country
- Similar to the U.S. Embassy web site
- India Network (Bowling Green State
Univ.)
- A Research Information and Statistics section has links to
census and other data about the Indian states
- Links to businesses, discussion groups, and news digests
- India
Parliament
- Description of the Parliament
- Full text of Parliamentary debates beginning November 27, 1995
- English and Hindi
- Permanent Mission to the
United
Nations
- Statements made since 1998
- Use the APORT Search
Engine to translate Russian text pages into English
- Embassy
to the United States
- Description of the Russian government and 1995 civil code
- How to obtain Russian visa
- Press releases on foreign policy
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Press releases and briefings
- Statements made at the United Nations
- Text in English with English search engine
- Permanent
Mission to the United Nations
- Statements made before the Security Council, Economic and Social
Council, and General Assembly in English and Russian
- Section on Russian policies
- Russia Today
- News, business, culture, and travel information for Russia and CIS
countries
- News service archived to December 2, 1996
- Russian Legal Server
(UTenn)
- Constitution and civil code in Russian text
- Open Government
- List of all British Government web servers by subject and function
- Foreign and Commonwealth
Office
- Annual report and background briefs on British foreign policy
- Travel and consular advice
- Mission to the United
Nations
- Statements made to the General Assembly, 1997+, and Security Council
- Parliament
- House
of Commons
- Full text of debates, oral questions, and written answers beginning
October 23, 1996 (Hansard's)
- Searchable by keyword, speaker, type of document, and date
- Members, committees and officers of the House of Commons
- House
of Lords
- Full text of Hansard's House of Lords debates beginning June 10, 1996
- Members of the House, bills, committees, and officers
- Publications
- Prime
Minister (10
Downing Street)
- Biographies of previous prime ministers and current cabinet officials
- Prime Minister's speeches, interviews, and press releases
- United States Foreign Policy (UMich)
- Extensive annotated guide to current and historical sources
- Listing below is a selection from that web page
- Federal Agency Web Sites
- Cleancut alphabetical listing of federal agency web sites
- Includes search engine
- Google Search Engine
- Web search engine devoted exclusively to sites with .gov and .mil extensions
- Excellent for federal policy papers
- Department of State
Foreign Affairs Network
- State Department speeches and foreign policy
- Index located at the top of the page
- Regions includes country information as well as State Department testimony and press releases on such topics as China's trade status and the Asian economic crisis
- Department covers the biographies of officials
- Outreach links to State Department reports and foreign policy magazines
- Foreign Relations of the United States is available on-line with selected volumes, 1945-68, and provides additional examples of memoes
- International Trade Administration
- United States EXPORT policy and export leads
- International Trade Commission
- Reports and press releases on U.S. IMPORTS
- Agency directs U.S. actions on what it considers unfair foreign trade policies
- Permanent Mission to the
United Nations
- United States Trade Representative
- Negotiates TRADE RELATIONSHIPS with other countries
- Web site has press releases, speeches, statements, and testimony on trade relations
- Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press
conferences, names of nominees
- Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized
(e.g. "china" AND "most favored nation")
- Table of contents search (contents AND "july 28, 1997)
- White
House Electronic Publications [Web]
- Press releases, speeches and documents beginning January 1993 and updated daily
- Browse by date or broad subject category
- There is no keyword searching but publications can be identified using a forms interface
specifying date, broad subject, type of publication, and principal
speaker
- Searching by
keyword and date
- Foreign Trade
Data (Census Bureau)
- Imports and exports since 1996 by commodity and country
- U.S. foreign trade balances with individual countries
- Economic
Report of the President (GPO)
- Historical summary of key economic statistics with future projections
- Implications for government economic policy
- Searchable only with output in ASCII or Adobe Acrobat format
- STAT-USA (Doc Cen Password
Only)
- Market research reports, CIA intelligence, and trade opportunities
for individual countries in GLOBUS/National Trade Data Bank
- State of the Nation Library is devoted to U.S. economic data
- Statistical Web Sites (UMich) [Web]
- Federal and international Internet sites for economic, demographic,
and other statistical data
| Publication |
Definition |
UMich Source |
Public Access Source |
| Background Information |
Identifies bills, keyplayers,
politics of issue |
Academic Universe
Congressional Quarterly, 1983+
Congress Daily, 1991+
National Journal,
1977+
ProQuest
|
AllPolitics
Google Uncle Sam
Policy Com
Political Information
|
| Bills |
Proposed Legislation |
Congressional Universe, 1989+
THOMAS, 1973+ |
THOMAS, 1973+ |
| Hearings |
Committee Testimony |
Congressional Universe, 1970+
--Index, 1970+
--Full Text, 1988+ |
Hearings Bibliography, 1995+
Selected full text |
| Committee Prints |
Background Research |
Congressional Universe, 1970+
--Index, 1970+
--Full Text, 1993+ |
Hearings Bibliography, 1995+
Sometimes on committee web site |
| Committee Reports |
Committee
Recommendations |
Congressional Universe, 1970+
--Index, 1970+
--Full Text, 1988+ |
GPO
Access, 1995+ |
| Congressional Record |
Floor Debates |
Congressional Universe, 1985+ |
THOMAS,
1993+, |
- Background
- Academic Universe (UMich
Only)
- Full text of newspapers from around the world and journal articles
- Search Government and Political News/Legislative
News
- Sample search: china w/10 (world trade organization or most
favored nation)
- All Politics
- Today's political news from Time, CNN, and Congressional
Quarterly
- Congress Daily (UMich
Only)
- Full text of Hill news since 1991 and updated twice daily
- Searchable by keyword and year
- In Inside Washington section of Congressional
Universe
- CQ
Weekly Report (UMich Only)
- 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
- Paper copy in Documents Center as JK 1.C12--Ref.
with older issues in Graduate Library
- Web subscription includes CQ
Researcher which provides briefing
reports on public policy issues
- Google's Uncle
Sam
- Indexes federal government web pages with a .gov and .mil extension
- Great for obtaining statements by members of Congress and reports of
the Executive Branch
- National
Journal [Web and Library]
- Weekly periodical on government agencies; includes major
legislative issues
- Full text, 1977+, available under Inside
Washington from Congressional Universe
(UMich Only)
- Also in Graduate Library as 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
- Political
Information
- Index limited to political information on the web
- Links to full text
- ProQuest
- Index to over 2300 popular and scholarly journals since the mid-1980s
- Full text of numerous journals since the 1990s
- Bills
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes bills since 1989 by subject, keyword, sponsor, and date
- Provides the full text and legislative status
- Also includes the full text of laws and regulations in force
- THOMAS
- Indexes bills since 1993 by keyword, sponsor and date
- Provides the full text and status
- Committee
Publications
- Includes hearings (testimony), committee prints (research reports), reports (recommendations on bills), and documents (Executive Branch communiques)
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- 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
- From the main page, search under Congressional Publications
- Paper and CD-ROM indexes of hearings and all publications, as well as paper and/or
microfiche copies, located in the Documents Center
- Illustrative Slides
- Congressional Record
[Web]
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes Congressional Record since 1985 by keyword, speaker, and date
- Provides the full text
- Located under Congressional Publications
- THOMAS
- Indexes speeches on the floor of Congress by subject, Member of
Congress, and date since 1993
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