This article is the first in a series that focuses on internet sources that are truly used by legal professionals such as paralegals and librarians to answer various informational needs.
Government information is one of the largest types of data available on the Internet.
The battle lies in finding the proper sites to obtain this information. For some background, the Federal Register , along with the Congressional Record and the U.S. Code , have been offered in electronic format due to a service called GPO Access. The bottom line is this database must be made available to the public at depository libraries, if not other public facilities. In the future, more GPO publications are expected to appear on this service to partially comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act and other legislation. If you retrieve by bill number, it displays it in cite format on screen.