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Federal Depository Library Program

The Montana State Library is a participant in the Federal Depository Library Program  (FDLP). The State Library collects 13% of the material available to depository libraries. The State Library specializes in materials relating to natural resources, often from the Department of Agriculture, Interior, Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

There are seven federal depository libraries in Montana. The Mansfield Library  at the University of Montana is the regional depository, maintaining a complete collection of federal publications.

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• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
• State Library catalog
  

Current Events

• Homeland Security information  - publications, reports and statements.
• Political news for Montana  and other states published by Stateline.org.
• Mansfield Library blog  - news on recently published government information.

Data

• Executive Branch datasets  - high value, machine readable datasets.
• Government databases  - single source for federal databases.
• Federal and state statistics  from Census and Economic Information Center.

Literature

• Federal regulation comments  - Comment on agency regulations & actions.
• Science.gov  - searches over 38 databases and 1,950 selected websites for authoritative U.S. government science information,
• Science Accelerator  - searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more; made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.

Portals

• Executive Branch sites  - links to official web sites of the executive branch.
• Government Printing Office Access  - US government information portal.
• USA.gov  - browseable guide to federal information and services by topic.
• THOMAS  - current legislative activities and searchable bill database.

Research Help

• Agency acronyms  - acronyms for searching federal information.
• Email a government librarian  - online reference help.
• Sources for Digitized Federal Publications 
• SuDoc classification system - classification system for federal publications.