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March 3, 2019 / Leave a comment
The Government Publishing Office has a brief proposal to omit some metadata in the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP). As written in the announcement, the proposed change in policy seems simple and obvious. GPO says that, for publications in govinfo, “historic URLs” (the original, source URL) and PURLs (the Persistent Uniform Resource Locators) are “identical.” […]
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December 1, 2010 / Leave a comment
On the both/and front, this is good news indeed. GPO will soon begin sharing its metadata from the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP) with the EBSCO discovery service. This will break down to govt documents silo, combine non-documents metadata with that from the federal govt, extend the findability of US govt publications to students and researchers, AND point them to depository libraries for access -- all the things we've been advocating here at FGI! I hope GPO is talking with other database vendors to do the same.
U.S. Government Printing Office content available through EBSCO Discovery Service
Metadata from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will soon be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing. EDS Customers will be able to search for federal records from the Government Printing Office's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.
The U.S Government Printing Office provides publishing & dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, federal agencies, federal depository libraries, & the American public. GPO resources that will be available through EDS include federal publications from the following catalogues:
- Congressional Serial Set Catalog
- Congressional Publications
- GPO Access Publications
- Internet Publications
- Periodicals
- Serials
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April 3, 2010 / 2 Comments on Three Spendid Govdocs
In the process of searching the March batch of publications reported to the Lost Docs Blog against the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP), I came across the amusing factoid that there appear to be three and only three federal government documents with the word "splendid" in their title, at least according to the CGP:
- Splendid vision, unswerving purpose : developing air power for the United States Air Force during the first century of powered flight. D 301.82/7:C 33
- Tearing up the ground with splendid results : historic mining on the Coronado National Forest / 1995 Farrell, Mary M. A 13.101/2:15
- The most splendid carpet / 1978 Anderson, Susan H. I 29.2:C 22
Hopefully soon, these three docs will be joined by a fourth which was reported to GPO in March 2010:
Three splendid little wars : the diary of Joseph K. Taussig, 1898-1901 D 208.210:16
Wouldn't that be splendid? Anyone know of other words rarely used in govdoc titles? Do you think there are more or less than seven "magnificent" feddoc titles?
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