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A new collection of CRS Reports

A new web site is hosting publicly accessible Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports.

The Washington Post quotes Antoine McGrath, who is collaborating with software programmers on the project, as saying that they scan about 100 sites for metadata in CRS studies and host those they find. The oldest one they have so far is from 1989.

I searched for several that I know of that were issued between 2003 and 2012 and was not able to find any before 2012.

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1 Comment

  1. You beat me to it mr j! According to Antoine, the site has:

    • 672,509 URLs of the public web led to
    • 501,751 unique pdfs
    • 300,000+ CRS docs,
    • 33,300 Unique CRS docs
    • 11,300 OrderCodes

    And they’re using Internet Archive for back end preservation and access. Here’s their official press release:

    CRSreports.com Press release

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