Federal Register
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Federal Register (Government Publishing Office) (1936+)"Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents."
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Federal Register (Nexis Uni) (1936+)"Federal Register (FEDREG) contains the full text of all documents that are published in the Federal Register. The Federal Register (FR) is the official vehicle for making the regulations and legal notices issued by the federal agencies and departments available to the public. These include federal agency documents, such as regulations (proposed, temporary, amended, and final) having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, federal agency documents of public interest, meeting notices, and Presidential proclamations and executive orders. Documents from June 1979 to March 1936 are available in PDF format. Additionally, while these documents do not display in full-text, they are searched in natural language queries and will return with results. However, they are not searched with Boolean language searches."
Federal Register Resources
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Thesaurus of Indexing Terms (National Archives)"The Thesaurus of Indexing Terms is a basic indexing vocabulary for Federal regulations that are published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations."
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Federal Register: What it Is and How to Use It (National Archives)45 minute video tutorial that includes:
- An explanation of the relationship between the Federal Register (FR) and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
- A "Guided Tour" of an issue of the FR and a volume of the CFR.
- An introduction to FR / CFR finding aids.
- An introduction to using the FR and CFR online. -
govpulse (not updated past January 2013)provided visual displays of activity levels for individual agencies
