FedWorld is a comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information. In 1992, FedWorld was established by The National Technical Information Service( NTIS), an agency of the U.S Department of Commerce, to serve as the online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information disseminated by the Federal Government. This new service assisted agencies and the public in electronically locating Federal Government information, both information housed within the NTIS repository and information they made accessible through an electronic gateway of more than 100 Government bulletin boards. What started out as a small dial-up access system has grown tremendously over the last four years in size, technology, and content. Today, the FedWorld Information Network consists of an integrated network offering the public broad access to information including: World Wide Web; Over 20 databases; File Transfer Protocol; Bulletin Board Service; Subscriptions.
The FedWorld Information Network works to bring government closer to the public. Browse the Federal Job Announcement Database, to review the current jobs available within the U.S. Government. If you are planning vacation or business travel, surf US Customs Traveler Information. Search the Internal Revenue Service to review and download the tax forms, instructions and publications that are available for tax filing. If business information sounds more interesting, FedWorld can link you to the U.S. Business Advisor. FedWorld and NTIS offer simple, global access to government and business information in the most efficient and cost effective manner to you, their customer. NTIS is a self-supporting federal agency which does not receive appropriated government funds. Therefore, NTIS is run like a business to provide a service - they bring information from around the world to the desktop and to the doorstep.

At this official IRS web site, you can find the almost all the information you will need concerning the IRS and your taxes. (This site is extremely busy, please be patient.) Information provided at the site include:
Tax Stats | Tax Info For You | Tax Info For Business | Electronic Services | Taxpayer Help | Tax Regs In English | IRS Newsstand | Forms & Publications | What's Hot | Meet The Commissioner | Comments & Help
(See also the entry titled Tax Information below.)

At this official NASA web site, you can find the most recent Hubble Space Telescope Images, links to the Shuttle Web and the latest news releases. (This site is extremely busy, please be patient.) Content headings at the site include:

NASA Organization - A list of the offices at NASA Headquarters with links to their Web sites. Below this list, you'll find an extensive subject index of NASA Web sites. Questions and Answers - Have you ever wondered where you can order NASA photographs? Or how to become an astronaut? Or how to see a launch? This is the place to go to find the most commonly sought information about the U.S. space program. NASA Centers - Most of NASA's work is done at the agency's field centers. Here you'll find links to their Home Pages. Gallery - Video, audio clips and still images are here for the downloading. Aeronautics - An overview of NASA's aeronautics research and links to related Webs. Space Science - What lies beyond our home world? Here's information on NASA's planetary exploration, astronomy and research into the origins of life. Mission to Planet Earth - Dedicated to understanding the many ways the Earth is constantly changing and how human beings influence those changes. Technology Development - NASA is dedicated to improving U.S. technological capability through innovative developments. Here's where you'll find information on that effort, including reducing the cost of access to space and technology transfer. Human Space Flight - This Web site provides links to the Office of Space Flight, including the Space Shuttle and Space Station Home Pages, and the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences, which conducts research aboard the Shuttle and is planning experiments for the Space Station.

The usscplus.com, by InfoSynthesis, Inc. -- is devoted to making the decisions of the United States Supreme Court accessible to attorneys and the general public. Features at this site include: Session Calendar: An overview of the Court's calendar for the entire current term. Argument Calendar: A daily listing of the cases to be heard in oral argument for the current term. Supreme Court News: A collection of articles and links to other web resources with current Court news, courtesy of the New York Law Journal. About the Court: The electronic version of an informational booklet created by the Court containing biographies of the justices and other basic information. U.S. Supreme Court Decisions - (Preceding Term.) As full decisions (not orders or other miscellaneous files) are handed down by the Supreme Court during the preceding Term, are posted here in ASCII format for immediate viewing. Also, the full text of the decision may be downloaded in WordPerfect and MS Word formats. Decisions appear here usually within a day or two after they are handed down. USSC+ OnLine: Search 1953 - 1997 Cases. Users may search over 6,700 cases in the USSC+ collection by subject matter, and may browse an electronic table of cases. Classic Case of the Week. Each week they post a leading United States Supreme Court from earlier years for online viewing. The cases are chosen from among those the Supreme Court itself has most often cited in its subsequent opinions. Note that not all services at this site are free; some are fee-based.

This site contains the full text of 7,407 U.S. Supreme Court Decisions from 1937 to 1975. Decisions are available as ASCII text files that can be read on your browser's screen or saved to your hard drive and accessed by using most word processor programs. Most Decisions are very large and may take a while to download if you have a slow internet connection. After conducting a search, the search results screen lists the size of the Decision in bytes so that you can esimate download times. Currently available search strategies are simple. They expect that most users will know the case name of the decision they need and will most likely use the Case Name search option. Otherwise, you may use the full text search option, but beware that the size of the database and the number of words (14.5 million) may require that conduct a number of searches to find what you are looking for.

This site is maintained by Cornell University's Legal Information Institute (LII). The institute offers Supreme Court opinions under the auspices of Project Hermes, the court's electronic-dissemination project. This archive contains (or will soon contain) all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990. In addition, their collection of over 300 of the most important historical decisions of the Court is available on CD-ROM and (with reduced functionality) over the Net. During their first four years of operation, the LII simply built finding aids -- such as tables of party names and searching tools -- which in turn pointed to the Hermes archive at Case Western Reserve University. They have now acquired their own Hermes subscription and begun streamed conversion of the decisions into HTML at the time of release. They have also converted the entire CWRU backlist to HTML, and have begun working to fill some long-standing gaps in the Hermes collection. As the foregoing implies, there are still some omissions and errata in this collection, and a high likelihood that in the process of conversion they've missed a few links here and there. If you run into a problem which is not mentioned in their list of errata and items under construction, do let them know.

Other information provided at this site include: Historic decisions (where 'historic' means 'before 1990') The LII collection of historic decisions of the US Supreme Court contains over 300 of the court's most important decisions through the whole period of its existence, and can be purchased on CD-ROM.

Information about the Court They provide a variety of information related to the court, including: the court calendar for this term; the current schedule of oral arguments; a gallery of the justices, including pictures, biographies, and lists of decisions by the current members of the court; the Supreme Court's rules, and information about the court's organization, authority, and jurisdiction; and a glossary of terms for those who don't speak legalese.

Site description as provided by the site:

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory is a comprehensive index of Internet resources. It is designed to be a
starting point for people who are searching the World Wide Web for tax and accounting information and
services.

You are encouraged to bookmark this site and use it whenever you are trying to locate a tax or
accounting resource on the Internet. Since this is a specialized directory, you should be able to find
resources faster through this site than by using a general search engine.

Please feel free to add a hyperlink to Tax and Accounting Sites Directory on your website.

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory is the intellectual property of Schmidt Enterprises, LLC and is
maintained by its principal member, Dennis Schmidt.

(See also the entry titled the IRS, above.)

This is the website you go to find out anything and everything concerning the U.S. Congress. The types of information available at this site include:

CONGRESS THIS WEEK: Floor Activities
BILLS:
Major Legislation
Access: Browsable by topic, short/popular titles, bill/amendment numbers, bills enacted into law.
Bill Summary & Status
Bill Text
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Congressional Record Text
Congressional Record Index
COMMITTEE INFORMATION:
Committee Reports
Committee Home Pages
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS:
Coverage: Chiefly from 1774 - 1789, although amendments to the Constitution through the 27th (ratified 1992) are included.
Description: Includes broadsides from the Constitutional Convention and Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence,
the Federalist Papers, and the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments. Background, describing the
origin and impact of the documents, is also provided.
Access: Historical documents are keyword searchable, as a collection, as well as searchable and browsable individually. (Note:
The Declaration of Independence is searchable as part of the broadsides collection, but is not individually searchable.)
THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS:
How Our Laws Are Made
Enactment of a Law

U.S. GOVERNMENT INTERNET RESOURCES:
Congressional Internet Services: The THOMAS home page also provides links to information on other Congressional and
legislative support agency servers residing outside of the THOMAS system.
House of Representatives
Description: Links to official Internet resources of the United States House of Representatives, including the House
World Wide Web, Gopher, Constituent E-Mail System (i.e., electronic addresses for constituents to send e-mail to
their Representative).
Senate
Description: Links to official Internet resources of the United States Senate, including the Senate World Wide Web,
Gopher, Constituent E-Mail System (i.e., electronic addresses for constituents to send e-mail to their Senators).
The Library of Congress (LC)
Description: Links to the Library's WWW server (LC Web), the LC Marvel gopher server, and LOCIS, a telnet
service that provides the oldest online source of legislative data. Records on bills date back to the 93rd Congress.
Government Printing Office (GPO)
Description: Links to the Government Printing Office's World Wide Web databases:
GPO Access - a rich variety of WAIS-searchable legislative and executive branch databases. Most
documents are available in both plain text and PDF (Adobe Acrobat) formats.
Federal Depository Libraries - a searchable list of Federal Depository Libraries where the citizen can obtain
the help of professional documents librarians in locating printed and online Federal information.
Government Information Locator Service - GILS identifies, locates, and describes publicly available Federal
information resources, including electronic information resources, to assist the user in obtaining government
information.
General Accounting Office (GAO)
Description: Links to the GAO's World Wide Web databases. (The GAO is the investigative arm of Congress
charged with examining matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds. It performs audits and
evaluations of Government programs and activities.)
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Description: Links to the CBO's gopher server. (The CBO was created in 1974 for the sole purpose of providing
Congress, in particular, the House and Senate Budget Committees, with economic and budgetary information.)
Architect of the Capitol (AOC)
Description: Information on the U.S. Capitol: its construction history, architecture, art, and bibliography of source material.
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
Description: Although the Office of Technology Assessment was closed September 30, 1995, a number of mirror sites for
the discontinued OTA server will continue to offer its publications -- major assessment reports, background papers,
briefings, and testimony.
The John C. Stennis Center for Public Service
The Stennis Center is an independent, legislative branch agency created by Congress in 1988 to promote and strengthen
public service in America.
Library of Congress Web Links:
Description: Internet indexes to Internet resources on Federal Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches, as well as State and
Local government prepared by subject specialists on the Library's staff. The Judicial page includes links to regulatory information
as well (Federal Register, CFR, Unified Agenda).

HOW OFTEN IS THOMAS UPDATED?
As soon as new files are received from the Government Printing Office, they are indexed and made available for searching. The bill text files are
updated several times throughout the day. The Congressional Record files are received once a day, when Congress is in session, usually in the
morning. Committee reports arrive intermittently, after they are published by GPO, and are indexed when they arrive.
Information about bills in the Bill Summary & Status files is made available one day after it is entered into the system. Depending on the amount
of legislative activity, inputting of the legislative status may lag behind. Bill digests usually are available within 48 hours of the introduction of the
bill; likewise, subject terms may take several days to be assigned to bills. However, very long or complicated bills may take additional time to
digest and index. A table of contents is supplied for these bills, until the digest can be written.

Adopted by convention of States, September 17, 1787; Ratification completed, June 21, 1788.

PREAMBLE

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and their Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Services from the US Postal Service available through the World Wide Web at this site include:

• Express Mail Tracking (Track your Express Mail package).
• Postage Calculator (Calculate the estimated postage to mail a letter, postcard, or package and including all special services).
• MoversNet (Moving? Use MoversNet to file a change of address).
• ZIP Code (Looking up the ZIP Code).
• Supplies Online (Ordering Express Mail and Priority Mail supplies).
• Postal Facility Locators (Find your local Address Management Office, Bulk Mail Entry Office, Business Center, Post Office, and Postal Inspector).