CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INFORMATION
Government Information Clearinghouses

Federal Information Exchange (FIE)
http://web.fie.com/
Consortium for the dissemination of business and academic partnership opportunities. Excellent site for access to Department of Energy information and contracting data, particularly the Office of Nuclear Materials Disposition.

Government Information Exchange (GIX)
http://www.info.gov/
Established by the General Services Administration (GSA) to facilitate the sharing and dissemination of information resources among Federal, state, and local agencies. Contains links to homepages, databases and telephone directories.

Government Printing Office (GPO)
http://www.gpo.gov

GPO Access
http://www.access.gpo.gov/
WAIS searchable database of legislative documents, including bill texts and Public Laws, committee reports and documents, the Congressional Record, the U.S. Code, the Federal Register, and GAO Reports. GPO Access can also be searched via Purdue University at http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu:8100/gpo/.

GPO Pathway Services
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces760.html
Searchable index of federal government publications, data bases and web sites. Pathway pointers to browse topics such as arms control at http://www.access. gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/topics/armscont.html .

GPO OnlineDatabase
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces001.html
Database of materials printed by the federal government, including public laws, Congressional reports, the U.S. Code and other recent (1993-present) publications.

Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/adpos400.html
Searchable database of newly published government reports available through the Superintendent of Documents. Covers 1994-present.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.nara.gov/

NARA Holdings
http://gopher.nara.gov:70/1/inform/
http://clio.nara.gov:70/inform/
Including a Guide to Federal Records, lists of record groups and references to recently declassified documents under EO 12958.

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
http://www.ntis.gov/
The central repository of government technical reports, with a searchable index of publications at http://chaos.fedworld.gov/ordernow

NTIS U.S. Govt-Sponsored Research Database
http://lib-www.lanl.gov/edata/ntis.htm

FedWorld Electronic Marketplace (FedWorld)
http://www.fedworld.gov
Downloadable files on many subjects, including the environment, as well as descriptions of NTIS documents and data sets.

National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC)
http://iridium.nttc.edu/gov_res.html
Consortium for dissemination of government information on research and development opportunities. Maintains good government resources (links) by agency.

Directory of Federal Laboratories and Technologies Search
http://www.nttc.search/search.html
Searchable database of the NTTC bulletin board system and government research and development laboratories.