Water Research Guide: Resources & Websites

Research guide for Water Resources. Including groundwater, and water security.

Websites

Other Resources

U.S. Government Documents

  • Congress and the Nation
    An authoritative reference on Congressional trends, actions, and controversies for over forty years.
  • Congressional Publications
    Provides Congressional material from 1789 to the present. Full text for many titles (including Congressional Research Service reports, 1916-present) generally from the early 1990's to the present. Includes bills, laws, Hearings, House and Senate documents and reports, the Congressional Record, and Congressional Research Service reports.
  • Declassified Documents Reference System
    The database ranges from the years immediately following World War II, when declassified documents were first made widely available, through the 1970s. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered.
  • Digital National Security Archive
    Contains more than 43,000 of the most important declassified primary documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.
  • HeinOnline
    Contains the full text of the Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents, Foreign Relations of the U.S., Presidential Executive Orders, Congressional Record, U.S. Statutes at Large, and other documents from the executive, congressional and judicial branches of the U.S. government.
  • Legislative Insight
    A compilation of full text primary source publications such as Public Law, all versions of enacted and related bills, Congressional Record excerpts, and committee hearings, reports, and documents to produce a legislative history.
  • Voxgov
    Access to original source news, social media, and information direct from U.S. Government web locations, including press releases, speeches, transcripts, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

 

News Sources

  • Alt-PressWatch
    Full text database of selected newspapers, magazines, journals of the alternative and independent press.
  • Associated Press collections online
    Includes a decades' worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more.
  • CQ.com
    News and analysis service. Tracks legislation before Congress and alerts users to late-breaking news and updated Hill schedules, status of bills, committee coverage with votes and markups, votes analysis, member biographies, daily news wrap-up, comparisons of competing versions of bills, and more. 
  • CQ Homeland Security
    Provides daily news, legislation, bills and analyses on the latest homeland security spending and policy issues.
  • Factiva
    Full-text database providing news sources from around the world. It also provides detailed facts, figures and analyses of companies, industries and financial markets. Coverage varies by source.
  • Meet the Press
     Includes every surviving program of NBC's Meet the Pressfrom the show's inception in 1947 through the present day.
  • Mideastwire.com
    Offers a daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing via the print, radio and television media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.
  • National Journal
    A collection of resources on U.S. politics and policy, including the National Journal, The Hotline, Congress Daily, Technology Daily, Poll Track, Ad Spotlight, and The Almanac of American Politics. Also provides Congressional markup reports and update reports on key legislation.
  • World Politics Review
    Daily online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals.

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