Includes bibliographical references and index.

The shape of United States government information -- Federal information dissemination -- Legislative branch information sources -- Legislative history research -- Documents of the presidency -- Executive branch information sources -- The regulatory process -- Judicial branch information sources -- Statistical sources (not including census) -- Census basics and background -- Census data for people and housing -- Economic census and related business data -- Mapping and geographic information systems -- Federal STEM information -- Intellectual property, secrets, and declassifed information -- State and local government information -- Citing government publications -- Appendix A: Superintendent of documents classification system -- Appendix B: Congress/Year table -- Appendix C: Foreign government Internet domains -- Appendix D: Acronyms -- Appendix E: Correspondences between U.S. Code and Code and Federal Regulations -- Appendix F: Selected major federal databases.