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Other guides which may be useful for research include:
identifies resources for various subject resources.
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Resources for All States
American Library Association, Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT)
"This bibliography includes the most recent statistical abstracts for states published
since 1999, plus those that will be issued in late 2006. For some states, a near equivalent
has been listed in substitution for, or in addition to, a statistical abstract. All
sources contain statistical tables on a variety of subjects for the state as a whole,
its component parts, or both. Internet sites also contain statistical data."
provides links for each state which has electronic access to administrative rules, such
as Florida Administrative Code or Florida Administrative Weekly.
Leadership Directories (subscription cancelled)
provide Yellow Book listings for state legislative committees & staff, state agency
personnel, local cities & counties, federal & state courts, government affairs, foreign
representatives, associations, nonprofits, financial institutions, corporations, news
media, and law firms.
provides online access to the
CIS Statistical Reference Index (SRI),
a selective guide to American statistical publications from private organizations and
state government sources. The UCF Libraries have the full text of most indexed reports
in print or microfiche formats. Sources include:
- American Correctional Association
- American Legislative Exchange Council
- American Public Health Association
- American Public Power Association
- American Public Transportation Association
- Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies
- Association of Racing Commissioners International
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.
- Council of Better Business Bureaus
- Council of Chief State School Officers
- International Public Management Association for Human Resources
- National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
- National Association of Clean Water Agencies
- National Association of Counties
- National Association of Public Hospitals & Health Systems
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- National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
- National Association of State Budget Officers
- National Association of State Park Directors
- National Center for Juvenile Justice
- National Center for State Courts
- National Conference of State Legislators
- National Council of State Housing Agencies
- National Governors' Association
- National League of Cities
- National Urban League
- U.S. Conference of Mayors
- Urban Institute
- Urban Land Institute
- and over 300 other associations, business organizations, commercial
publishers, independent research organizations, state agencies,
& university research centers
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provides descriptive links to Agencies & Commissions, Governors, Public Records, State
& Local Government, Civics, Candidates & Elected Officials, etc.
provides a state-by-state guide to government sponsored Internet sites, including regional
and local sites.
provides links to Associations, Congressional Delegations, Constitutions, Courts, Executive
Branch, Flags, Forms, Government Directories, Government Reports, Governors, Jobs, Laws
& Regulations, Libraries & Archives, Podcasts, Salaries, Taxes, State Legislatures,
Bills, Legislators, Legislative Research Agencies, Advocacy Groups, Political Parties,
State Government Associations, Think Tanks, Budgets, Elections, Statistics.
provides links to many documents that relate to state and local government and legislative
information, including state statutes & court cases.
StateList (University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"provides links to state publication checklists and shipping lists that are currently
available on the Internet from 37 states."
Tapping State Government Information Sources
"For each of the 50 states, important publications are detailed, along with information
on how to obtain them. The publications' topics range from crime statistics to vital
statistics, business statistics, health information, statistical abstracts, education
directories, state budgets, economic indicators, state laws and legal information, and
more. State publication indexes and each state's official Web site are also described,
as are federal government and commercial publications that supply state government information."
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Special Resources for Specific States
The following list highlights a few of the special projects going on around the U.S. Browse
the resources listed above for many more online resources. See also
Digital Libraries.
California
Counting California "enables users
access to public use data compiled by federal, state, and local agencies, and also allows
users to collate and integrate data by topic, geography, title, and provider. "
Colorado
Colorado by the Numbers
includes data from state agencies which has been converted to electronic format and
edited versions of federal publications that are available on the Internet and/or as
CD-ROM products. See also
DenverFacts.
Georgia
Georgia Government Publications "contains full text of over 35,000 public
documents of departments and agencies within the Georgia state government published
from 1994 to the present." Types of materials included are audit reports, budget documents,
monographs, newsletters, periodicals, serials, maps, posters, and videos from state
agencies, such as those for agriculture, arts, community affairs, courts, education,
human resources, industry and trade, labor, legislature, natural resources and recreation.
Georgia Statistics System will customize
the statistics, maps and graphs that you want from the latest data sources. In the first
part that does county-by-county (or cross sectional) analysis, you can access data from
the Georgia County Guide and the Farmgate Value Report. It is a bank of 1,600 variables
that describe each of the 159 counties in Georgia. The second part lets you do year-by
year (time series) analysis for each county, for up to 50 years, for 44 variables. In
the third part you can analyze employment in one or more counties, for 12 major industry
categories, 1990+. The fourth part provides land price analysis of over 2 million property
transactions, 1997+.
Hawaii
State of Hawaii Data Book
"closely follows the organization and format of its counterpart, the
Statistical
Abstract of the United States, to facilitate comparison of state and national data.
It places the major emphasis on statewide data and less so on counties, islands, urban
places, and smaller areas. Source references for additional statistical detail are provided
in the introductions to the sections and at the end of each table."
Idaho
Inside Idaho provides a digital geospatial and
numeric data library for the state of Idaho as a cooperative effort between the University
of Idaho and many Federal and state agencies as well as local communities.
Kansas
Kentucky
Kentucky Stats provide a collection
of links to web-based sources of statistical information about Kentucky from local,
state, federal and non-governmental sources.
Maine
MaineGraph is a spreadsheet-based,
menu-driven, graphical database with 80+ graphs of Maine and national economic indicators,
with access provided to the raw data.
Maryland
Minnesota
Datanet is an online system consisting
of summarized statistical information designed to serve Minnesota's governments, businesses,
schools, nonprofit agencies and citizens. The system contains statistics about social,
economic and demographic conditions in Minnesota.
Minnesota Milestones enables the user
to: access school district and county data; compare data within a region or across the
state; create maps showing county comparisons; download data sets; search for data by
geographic area, subject or indicator with the custom report function.
Missouri
Database Extractions
provides clickable map based data extractions for Missouri counties, Metropolitan Statistical
Areas, and Labor Market Areas. Also provides some comparison data for eleven neighboring
states.
Nebraska
Nevada
New York
Oregon
Oregon Blue Book is the official state directory
and fact book about all levels of government in Oregon.
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
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Looking for something else? Ask for assistance
at the UCF Libraries' Research Assistance Desk or contact Ask A Librarian.
Prepared by: Rich Gause,
Government Documents Librarian
URL of this page: http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/states.asp
Last updated October 13, 2011 9:26:09 AM
