Government Publications

Selected Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--(country)--Indexes.
(Country)--Foreign relations--United States--Indexes.
United States--Foreign relations--(Country)--Indexes.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Bibliographical literature--Bibliography--Government publications.
Bibliography of bibliographies--Government publications.
Government publications--Bibliography--Catalogs--Periodicals

A Guide to Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part I, 1942-1945: The Soviet Union. Ed. Paul Kesaris. Compiled by Randolph Boehm. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, c1981.
SML Reference E183.8 S65 G85 (LC)

A Guide to records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part II, 1946-1953: Europe and NATO. Ed. Paul Kesaris. Compiled by Randolph Boehm. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, c1980.
SML Microform UA23 G857 (LC)

A Guide to Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part II, 1946-1953: the Soviet Union. Ed. Paul Kesaris. Compiled by Norm Quist. Washington, DC: University Publications of America, c1979.
SML Microform E183.8 S65 G853 (LC)

International Committee for Social Sciences Documentation. Étude des bibliographies courantes des publications officielles nationales: guide sommaire et inventaire. A study of current bibliographies of national official publications: short guide and inventory. Ed. Jean Meyriat. Paris: UNESCO, 1958.
SML Stacks Xo11 958J
Part I discusses the nature and access to government publications in general. Part II is a breakdown by country. For each country it describes the printing and distribution of documents, lists catalogues or bibliographies and descriptive secondary works, and describes the types of official publications available.

List of the serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931. Ed. Winifred Gregory. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1932.
SML Reference Z7164 G7 +L57 (LC)
SSL Reference Z7164 G7 L57 1966 (LC)
A union list... [of] government serials, including only genuine government serials and omitting publications of universities, societies, etc., which are subsidized by a government. Arranged alphabetically by country name (except that Russia is in a separate list at the end), with subarrangement by government departments, bureaus, etc., and with indication of holdings of the various publications in some 85 American libraries. (Balay, AF13)

New York Public Library. Research Libraries. Catalog of government publications in the Research Libraries: the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox & Tilden Foundations. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1972. 40 v.
SML Reference Z7164 G7 +N695 1972 (LC)
Photoreproduction of the catalog cards of a collection of more than a million volumes of government publications. While the collection started in the late 1840s, it includes a group of American legislative publications printed before 1800. Arranged by political jurisdiction. Serials and monographs are listed separately under each agency; serials are arranged alphabetically, monographs according to publication date. Census material is arranged by numbered census. No subject entries. (Balay, AF10)
Continued by two annual series (see below).

-----. -----. Bibliographic guide to government publications--foreign. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975- .
SML Reference Z7164 G7 +G683 (LC)

Especially good for countries where Yale's holdings are weak, such as Italy and Spain.

-----. -----. Bibliographic guide to government publications--U. S. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1975- .
SML Reference Z7164 G7 +G682 (LC)

Peaslee, Amos Jenkins. Constitutions of nations. Third revised edition. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1965. 4 vols. in 7.
SML Stacks K P43 1965
Volume 3 covers Europe. Contains for each nation complete text of latest constitution with any amendments.

Yale University Library. Government Documents and Information Center.
URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/govdocs.

Balay = Guide to reference books. Edited by Robert Balay. 11th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.
Shelved at Reference Desk

Sheehy = Guide to reference books. Edited by Eugene P. Sheehy. 10th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1986.
Shelved at Reference Desk