A variety of links and suggested search strategies for finding information from national, provincial (territorial or state) and municipal (region, city, town) governments - and from many international government organizations. Links have been gathered together based on subject and jurisdictional themes. Getting Started Government documents: comprehensive databases & portals  Publications from many national, provincial (territorial or state) and municipal (region, city, town) governments - and from most international government organizations (IGOs) - can be found on the Internet, with a simple Google search. But not all publications are online and often, Google search results are too large to properly sift through. For a more controlled searching experience or for finding documents that have been gathered together based on subject or jurisdiction, try the following for your searches:  Canada  Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents; include geographic location (e.g. Canada or Ontario) as an "Author/Creator".  Canadian Research Index Federal, provincial and municipal government documents available on microfiche (1982 to present); check Omni or the internet to find publications in print and/or online.  Government of Canada Publications (main site) Advanced Search Find publications by department or agency  GALLOP Portal: Government and Legislative Libraries Online Publications Portal From the Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada, find Canadian provincial & territorial publications.  FCM (Federation of Canadian Municipalities)  A directory of close to 2,000 municipalities & their links, organized by province and territory.   Ontario  Legislative Assembly of Ontario Library Catalogue  AMCTO Municipal Google Search A basic search engine crawl across 420 of Ontario's municipalities, as set up by the Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario (AMCTO)   United States  GovInfo "Free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government."  USAGov Publication collections, as issued by individual departments.  PAIS International (1915 to present) Select "Government & Official Document" as a "Document type".  Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents; include geographic location (e.g. "United States" or Hawaii) as an "Author/Creator".   United Kingdom  UK national government publications From the British Library, links to key government document collections.  U.K. Parliamentary Papers  Digitally scanned Sessional Papers from the 18th century (1701-) through to the 2009/10 parliamentary session & supplementary material from Great Britain's House of Commons. (Some House of Lords papers, if presented to the House of Commons.)   Hansard Online  Full text of UK members’ debates, 1803 to the present. Includes both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. View Full Description  Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents; include geographic location (e.g. "United Kingdom" or "Great Britain" or Scotland) as an "Author/Creator".   International  Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents; include geographic location (e.g. Australia or "United Nations") as an "Author/Creator".  International Organizations: Selected Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), as listed by the United States Library of Congress.  UN-iLibrary: Freely available United Nations "publications", from 1945 to present.  OECD iLibrary Access to books, journals, reports, papers and other resources from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.  Publications Office of the European Union "The official provider of publishing services to all EU institutions, bodies, and agencies."  PAIS International (1915 to present) Select "Government & Official Document" as a "Document type".  Statistics & Data Canada  Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents from statistical agencies in print, microfiche and electronic format; for Statistics Canada publications, include "Statistics Canada" as an "Author/Creator".  Statistics Canada (main website)  Statistics Canada: popular web resources on their site  The Daily: released Mondays to Fridays at 8:30am, this site provides announcements of new statistics and data, publications, surveys, scholars and initiatives.  Analysis: statistical tables, articles, journals, reports and other publications.  Statistics by subject  Census results & analysis  Statistics by geography  Statistics Canada: publications (not noted above)  Index of downloadable Statistics Canada publications: by subject & Statistics Canada catalogue number (from the Publishing and Depository Services, December, 2010)  Government data (results from official Canadian government numerical surveys) can be found through these sites:  <odesi> "A web-based data exploration, extraction, and analysis tool...(that) lets you search for survey questions (variables) across thousands of datasets held in a growing number of collections, and supports basic tabulation and analysis online....Statistics Canada‘s public-use survey data forms the core of <odesi>’s social survey data holdings,...(and) key polling data collections include the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA), Canadian Gallup, and Ipsos Reid."  Open Data Open access Canadian federal data.  Ontario Data Catalogue   United States  Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents from statistical agencies in print, microfiche and electronic format; for publications from American government agencies, include "United States" as an "Author/Creator".  Data and Statistics About the U.S. Find data about the U.S., such as demographic and economic data, population, and maps. Get information about the 2020 U.S. Census.  Census Bureau  Federal Government Data and Statistics Listed by government department.  Data.gov "The U.S. Government's open data. Find federal, state, and local data, tools, and resources to conduct research, build apps, design data visualizations, and more."   United Kingdom  Research and statistics From GOV.UK  Office for National Statistics   International ​​ Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents from statistical agencies in print, microfiche and electronic format; for publications from foreign countries' government agencies or from international government organizations, include the name of the country or the organization as an "Author/Creator".  OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web Links to statistics from official statistical agencies around the world. (University of Auckland Library, 2008 to August 2017)  Popular international statistical resources:  United Nations UNData Large, comprehensive statistical database covering all countries of the world. Pulls together statistics from all the major UN sources. United Nations Statistics (Department of Economics and Social Affairs, ECOSOC) Includes demographics, social indicators, vital statistics, disability and national accounts. Explore these links in the drop-down menus: Data Publications  OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) OECD.stat OECD iLibrary Access to books, journals, reports, papers and other resources with statistical information, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.  World Bank World Bank Open Data World Development Indicators Development data from more than 200 countries.  European Union eurostat  From the European Commission  World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) Very basic statistical information on select countries of the world, updated regularly. The World Factbook Archives (back to 2000) Â