America.gov (Department of State)
Current U.S. foreign policy and about American life and culture.

Beige Book
Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District.

Brochures and Pamphlets
A Digital Collection of general interest and consumer-oriented government pamphlets. From the University at Buffalo Libraries, State University of New York.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
A compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the Federal government.

Constitution Day Resources:

• Delaware and the Ratification of the Constitution
• Delaware and The Bill of Rights
• Resources for Educators

Consumer Resources

• Consumer Action Website
• Consumer.gov

Copyright Office

• How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work
• Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians
• U.S. Copyright Office Forms

Copyright Resources:

• University of Delaware Policy for Copyright and Fair Use in Instruction

• Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford University Libraries)
• Copyright Renewal Database (Stanford University Libraries)
  Contains records of renewals for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963.
• Faculty Guidance for Copyright (Washington University, St. Louis)
• When Works Pass Into the Public Domain in the United States (Cornell Institute for Digital Collections)

Documents in the News (Explore Government Documents)
A great resource page from the University of Michigan Documents Center.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) (University of Delaware Library)

Federal Citizen Information Center
Phone and web information service for federal government questions.

Free Government Information (FGI)
Weblog.

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. Searching for a geographic feature, such as a town or city (referred to as "populated place") gives information about that feature, e.g., what county as city is in. Links to maps from many sources, including Census Bureau and Watersheds.

Green Book: Overview of Entitlement Programs
House Ways and Means Committee.

Health & Social Services: Ready Reference

Kids.gov (FCIC)

Kids' Pages

National Academies Press
Website offers more than 3,000 books that can be read online for free. National Academy Press is the publisher for the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.

National History Day Resources (University of Delaware Library)

National Institute for Literacy

Patents

• General Information Concerning Patents
• Search Patents: Patents Full-text (images) database, covering 1790 to present
• Patents issued before 1976 can only be retrieved by patent number and classification number
• Requires a TIFF viewer, which can be downloaded. USPTO’s recommended viewer is AlternaTIFF, from Medical Informatics Engineering
• Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program
• Resources for Patents (University of Delaware Library)
• Google patents

Postal Service

• Buy stamps
• State Abbreviations list.

Ready Reference Collection (Columbia University Libraries)

Recreation.gov

Reference Center (USA.gov)

Reports of the Surgeon General

State Department
Includes press briefings, consular information, travel information, and many other important topics.

Trademarks

• Basic Facts About Registering a Trademark
• Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program
• Search Trademarks (TESS)

ZIP Code Lookup