GPO Access is an online collection of federal documents that is administered by the Government Printing Office and funded by the Federal Depository Library Program. The website publishes full-text documents that are produced by the executive, judicial and legislative branches of the federal government. For a full listing of the resources available on the GPO Access website, click here for its A-Z Resource Guide. GPO Access also has a comprehensive Catalog of US Government Publications that lets you search across all of its content by keyword, title, author or subject and an advanced search option to limit the years, format and language. Following is an overview of the specific types of records you can find on GPO Access by government branch. Depending on the type of indexing, searches can be performed by date and/or keyword. Most results can be viewed and saved in HTML, PDF or TEXT formats.
Executive
- The Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents (January 2009 - present), preceded by the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993 - January 2009)
- Economic Report of the President (1996 - present)
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (1991 - present)
- State of the Union and Inaugural Addresses (1992 - present)
- Publications submitted to the President's office by government bodies such as the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior and Education Resources Information Center
- Unified Agenda (1994-present)
- Government Budget (Fiscal Year 1997 - present)
- Privacy Act Issuances (1995 - 2009)
- Current and previous editions of the US Government Manual (1995 - present)
- Code of Federal Regulations (1996-present)
- Federal register (1994-present)
Judicial
- GPO Access refers users to the US Supreme Court for recent decisions, but Supreme Court decisions are available from 1937 - 1975 and 1992 - 2000
- US House Committee on the Judiciary hearings (1995 - present), prints (1997 - present), calendars (1991 - present) and publications (2005 - present)
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearings (1991 - present), Supreme Court nomination hearings (1971 - present), calendars (1999 - present) and reports (1997 - present)
- Annual editions and supplements of the US Constitution (1992 - present)
Legislative
- House Calendars (1995 - present) and Senate Calendar of Business (1995 - present)
- Congressional committee materials, hearings (1995 - present), prints (1997 - present) and various subject-specific reports written by committees
- Congressional Documents (1995 - present), which includes House Documents, Senate Documents, Senate Executive Documents and Senate Treaty Documents
- Congressional Reports (1995 - present), including House Reports, Senate Reports and Senate Executive Reports
- Debates and proceedings in the Congressional Record (1994 - present) and House Journal (1991-1999)
- Independent counsel reports and investigations (1998 - 2002)
- History of bills with summaries and statuses (1983 - 2010) and all published versions of bills (1993 - present)
- Conference reports (current Congress)
- Public and Private Laws (1995 - present)
- Statutes at Large (2003 - 2009)
- US Code (1994 - 2006 editions)
- Congressional rules, procedures and handbooks
The web site also has a Federal Depository Library Locator. With almost 1,250 locations nationwide to disseminate information free of charge, these libraries house similar documents and resources to those available online through GPO Access and may have the record you need if it predates the online content.