A meta-database from the federal government, the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online.
Search this form for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library is a congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. Public access to the government documents collection is guaranteed by public law. (Title 44 United States Code). The King Library is one of over 1,300 libraries in the United States designated as a federal depository library. The library joined the depository program in 1962 and serves California's 19th U.S. Congressional District
If you need assistance with the government publications collection, please see the staff at the first floor Universal Service Point. If you need any research assistance, please contact Essy Barroso-Ramirez at essy.barroso-ramirez@sjsu.edu.
Sources for citing: DocsCite and Basic Legal Citation. Arizona State University has set up an interactive program, called DocsCite. Use this to cite in either APA or MLA style. Basic Legal Citation is from Cornell University.
Basic legal citation by Peter Martin is helpful in determining the correct legal citation. This also includes 3 tutorials on the basics related to legal citation.
Overview of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set
The Federal Digital System provides free access to publications from all three branches of the federal government. You can search or browse for any reports and download the information.
For help in using this system please click on this link to access tutorials on searching FDsys.