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Bipartisan coalition urges Congress to make CRS reports available
A bipartisan coalition of 40 organizations and 91 private citizens urged Congress to make non-confidential CRS reports widely available to the public. The organizations signing the letter include AALL, ALA, ARL, and FGI. Letter to Chairman Blunt, Chairman Miller, Ranking Member Schumer, Ranking Member Brady, and Vice Chairman Harper (August 24, 2015). Congress Should Publish […]
GPO announces availability of CFR for bulk download in XML
GPO announced today that the digital version of the Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR) is now available for bulk download in XML format. A 58 page User Guide (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) XML User Guide (ECFR XML User Guide). U.S. Government Publishing Office, Federal Digital System, 8/24/2015), is available in PDF format. Press […]
Former CRS Researcher Calls for Public Access to CRS Reports
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) asked Kevin Kosar, who was a researcher at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for 11 years, to talk about the concerns often expressed by Hill staffers regarding making formal CRS reports public. Former CRS Researcher Calls for Public Access (August 19, 2015). Kosar gives an informed, insider perspective on […]
New FRUS volume: 1969–1976, Volume XXIII, Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1969–1972
Yay! A new volume of Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) has just been released. I’m assuming that GPO will be distributing this volume via the FDLP, but in the meantime, it’s available as a PDF on the State Department site. I hope GPO grabs a copy, stores it and makes it available via […]
Some good news re: “link rot”
Charlotte Stichter says that new reports from the Library of Congress Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate will soon have references that include a link to an archived version of the reference using perma.cc. The announcement appears on the blog of the Law Librarians of the Library of Congress, but please see also Herbert Van […]
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