Online repository of data sets (raw data collected by social scientists during primary research) from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Links to statistics from over 100 U.S. government agencies. Browse alphabetically, by subject, or by state.

Contains Presidential documents, the Code of Federal Regulations, public and private laws, the U.S. Code, Congressional reports, bills, and documents and the federal budget.

Fiscal Year 1996 - present fiscal year
Issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Also available in the library (see below)

1991-2016 volumes are subdivided into individual documents
1929-1990 volumes are available as large (1000+ pages) downloadable PDFs, but are not subdivided by document.
Also available in the library (see below)

Speeches, statements, vetoes, legislation in process, recent legislation, memos, executive orders, and more.

Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is a service of the federal Judiciary. Its mission is to provide the public with the broadest possible access to court records and to foster greater public understanding of the court system. All court opinions are available through PACER for free for registered users.

The opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States are published officially in a set of case books called the United States Reports
This site includes PDF copies of United State Reports from 1991 (Volume 502) -2014 (Volume 574).
Also includes preliminary prints of more recent volumes.

2014 - present
“Slip” opinions are the first version of the Court’s opinions posted on this website. A “slip” opinion consists of the majority or principal opinion, any concurring or dissenting opinions written by the Justices, and a prefatory syllabus prepared by the Reporter’s Office that summarizes the decision.

FindLaw's searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1760
Supreme Court opinions are browsable by year and U.S. Reports volume number, and are searchable by party name, case title, citation, full text and docket number.

National and international news articles, primarily from newspapers, company and industry profiles, stock trends, Wall Street Journal in full text.

Find newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, company profiles, court cases. (The new platform for LexisNexis Academic.)

1999-present. National and international newspapers; television and radio news transcripts

1741-1940

1851-2016

1877-2003

1881-2015

The official website for U.S. federal legislative information
Includes the text and status of legislation, the Congressional Record, member profiles, committee information and meeting transcripts, executive communications, and more.
Congressional documents from the first 100 years of the U.S. Congress (1774-1875) can be accessed through A Century of Lawmaking.

Search the Congressional Record from 1789 to 1997

U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875

The Center for Legislative Archives preserves and makes available to researchers the historical records of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

Provides access to NCSL's 50 state bill tracking databases.

Access through Virginia's Legislative Information System (LIS)

Legislative bills and resolutions; sessions of the Virginia General Assembly from 1994-present. Also includes Code of Virginia, Virginia Administrative Code, and Constitution of Virginia.

A list of publications currently in print and available to the public from agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia

Most recent versions are available online.
Simpson Library has 1935-2017 in print. (see below)

An international collaborative project whose aim is to give voice to public opinion around the world on international issue
WorldPublicOpinion.org is managed by the Program for Public Consultation.

These digests provide comprehensive analyses of international and US polls on the world’s most pressing challenges — and the institutions designed to address them.

U.S. and international surveys, demographic analysis, and more.

Identifies online resources for locating the legal materials of African states

Contains "digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government."
Maintained by the Lillian Goldman Law Library (Yale Law School).

Links to constitutions of countries worldwide.

EU legislation is divided into primary and secondary. The treaties (primary legislation) are the basis or ground rules for all EU action.
Secondary legislation – which includes regulations, directives and decisions – are derived from the principles and objectives set out in the treaties.

The register has references to or the contents of the Council documents from 1999 onwards.

The official home of UK legislation, 1267-present.
Due to Brexit, UK's legislation documents are not viewable on the EU's website.
This includes most (but not all) types of legislation and their accompanying explanatory documents.

Command Papers include government policy, proposals, treaties, and other documents; House of Commons Papers (HCP's) document reports, votes, and proceedings of Parliamentary sessions.
Since Brexit, information about the United Kingdom is not available on the European Union website

Includes treaties, declarations, speeches and other primary sources from major events in world history
Also available in the library (see below)

Authoritative data on the parliaments of the world. It comprises 600+ data points for every country where there is a functioning parliament. Parline is produced with the cooperation of national parliaments.

Information on approximately 179 member countries.