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No More Proquest Congressional!&^%@#
So what?
Jenn Huck&
Barbie SelbyUniversity of Virginia Library
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Session Overview
• What’s in Proquest Congressional anyway?• Why should you care?• What you can still get (for free!)• What you can’t get any longer• Alternative sources• How Virginia’s federal depository libraries can help
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You’re losing access to indexing to all Congressional materials back to 1789, and full text of many Congressional materials.
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Proquest Congressional - Basic• CQ Political Transcripts - 1995-• Roll Call - 1998-current • Washington Post - 1987- • Published Hearings Abstracts and
Indexing - 1970-• Selected Testimony Transcripts and
Submitted Statements - 1988- • Temporary Hearings Records – 2005-• Committee Prints - Abstracts and
Indexing 1970- (selected full text – 1993-2004)
• GAO Reports Abstracts and Indexing, with links to PDFs -2004-
• Committee Reports Abstracts and Indexing - 1970-
• Committee Reports Full Text - 1990-
• Congressional Record Daily Edition - 1985-
• House and Senate Documents Abstracts and Indexing -1970- (Full text from 1995- )
• Bill Text & Bill Tracking -1989-• Public Laws - 1988-• U.S. Code • Code of Federal Regulations -1981- • Federal Register -1980-• Legislative Histories, All Public Laws -
1969-• Campaign Contributions from
Individuals and PACs -1987- • Campaign Financial Data -1989- • Key Votes in Congress -1987- • Member Financial Disclosures 1991-
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For Free • CQ Political Transcripts - 1995-• Roll Call - 1998-current • Washington Post - 1987- • Published Hearings Abstracts and
Indexing - 1970-**• Selected Testimony Transcripts and
Submitted Statements - 1988- • Temporary Hearings Records – 2005-• Committee Prints - Abstracts and
Indexing 1970- (selected full text – 1993-2004)**
• GAO Reports Abstracts and Indexing, with links to PDFs -2004-
• Committee Reports Abstracts and Indexing - 1970-**
• Committee Reports Full Text - 1990-• Congressional Record Daily Edition -
1985-
• House and Senate Documents Abstracts and Indexing -1970- (Full text - 1995- )**
• Bill Text & Bill Tracking - 1989-• Public Laws - 1988-• U.S. Code • Code of Federal Regulations -1981- • Federal Register -1980-• Legislative Histories, All Public Laws -
1969-• Campaign Contributions from Individuals
and PACs - 2002- • Campaign Financial Data -1989- • Key Votes in Congress - 1987- • Member Financial Disclosures - 1991-
**Post-1996 full text for many congressional publications is available
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Specific Free Sources
• GAO Reports – Full Text – FDSys (www.gpo.gov/fdsys )– 1993-
• Congressional Record – FDSys – 1994-
• Bill Text -– Congress.gov (http://www.congress.gov) – FDSys – 1993-
• Bill Tracking –– Congress.gov – 1973-
• Public Laws – – FDSys – Congress.gov - 1995-
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More Specific Free Sources• U.S. Code
– FDSys – 1994-• Code of Federal Regulations
– FDSys - 1996-
• Campaign Financial Data – http://www.fec.gov/pindex.shtml - 1980-
• Key Votes in Congress– Congress.gov - 1989-– Govtrack.us – 1789-
• Member Financial Disclosures –– Clerk of the House database http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial.aspx - 2008-– Senate - https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/ - 2012-
• Campaign Contributions from Individuals and PACs • http://www.fec.gov/portal/super_pacs.shtml - 2002-
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Congress.govhttps://www.congress.gov/
• Bill tracking
• Bill actions
• Links to full text from FDSys
• Easy interface
• Bill summaries
• “Related Bills”
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FDSys – Federal Digital System• Mostly Congressional content,
but slowing expanding to other agencies
• Provides full text for Congress.gov & other sites
• Full text back to about mid-1990s
• No bill tracking information
• Less than idea interface, but it works
• Adding older content
• Adding library contributed content
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/
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Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
• Full text of Congressional documents from 1774-1885
• Part of American Memory
• Full text of early laws
• Less than ideal interface
• Many documents have both transcriptions and page images
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/
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VIRGOhttp://search.lib.virginia.edu
• U.Va.’s online catalog
• Links to GPO supplied full texts of hearings back to about 1996
• Links to Hathi Trust full text
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Non-Government Sources• Sunlight Foundation
– http://sunlightfoundation.com/ – Cool tools and data to analyze govt. & corporate activities
• Govtrack.us – https://www.govtrack.us/– Tracks votes from 1789– Brief member profiles– Analysis of votes
• Project VoteSmart– http://votesmart.org/– State and national level
• OpenSecrets.org– https://www.opensecrets.org/
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Additional Help & Education
• U.Va. Library - Virginia’s Regional Depository – Jenn & Barbie– http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/findinggovinfo
• Free Congressional & Presidential sites LibGuide– http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/congressionalOpenWeb
• Help, I’m an Accidental Documents Librarian!– http://
www.nclaonline.org/government-resources/help-im-accidental-government-information-librarian-webinars
• Government Publishing Office Webinars– http://login.icohere.com/public/topics.cfm?cseq=1172
• Virginia Depository Library Directory– http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/vadepdir