Comparison of Legislative Resources

GPO Access is putting themselves (and other federal information sources) to the test with their new "Comparison of Legislative Resources on GPO Access and Selected Government
and Non-Government Web Sites" avaiable at:
http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov/library/compare/compr5.pdf

Included is THOMAS, the House of Representatives web site, the Senate web site,
THOMAS, HeinOnline, Lexis-Nexis Congressional, and Westlaw.

Direct access to charts containing the results for the non-government sites can be found at
http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov/library/compare/compr5b.pdf

For the government site chart see: http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov/library/compare/compr5a.pdf

More Federal Resources

Library of Congress Handles

The LOC created "Legislative Handles," a new persistent URL service which allows users to link to legislative documents from the THOMAS web site. These links, or "handles," do not change over time. It was created to aid in potential future database and search engine changes, but also aids in creating predictable links. For example, if you want to search bills from 110th Congress you can link directly to http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c110query.html and it will remain that way no matter what Congress is currently in session.

2008-09 U.S. Government Manual

The latest version of this title is now available on GPO Access. Previous editions dating
back to 1995 can also be found here.