1. No More Proquest Congressional!&^%@# So what? Jenn Huck & Barbie Selby University of Virginia Library

2. Session Overview What’s in Proquest Congressional anyway? Why should you care? What you can still get (for free!) What you can’t get any longer Alternative sources How Virginia’s federal depository libraries can help

3. You’re losing access to indexing to all Congressional materials back to 1789, and full text of many Congressional materials.

6. Proquest Congressional - Basic CQ Political Transcripts - 1995- Roll Call - 1998-current Washington Post - 1987- Published Hearings Abstracts and Indexing - 1970- Selected Testimony Transcripts and Submitted Statements - 1988- Temporary Hearings Records – 2005- Committee Prints - Abstracts and Indexing 1970- (selected full text – 1993-2004) GAO Reports Abstracts and Indexing, with links to PDFs -2004- Committee Reports Abstracts and Indexing - 1970- Committee Reports Full Text - 1990- Congressional Record Daily Edition - 1985- House and Senate Documents Abstracts and Indexing -1970- (Full text from 1995- ) Bill Text & Bill Tracking -1989- Public Laws - 1988- U.S. Code Code of Federal Regulations -1981- Federal Register -1980- Legislative Histories, All Public Laws - 1969- Campaign Contributions from Individuals and PACs -1987- Campaign Financial Data -1989- Key Votes in Congress -1987- Member Financial Disclosures 1991-

7. For Free CQ Political Transcripts - 1995- Roll Call - 1998-current Washington Post - 1987- Published Hearings Abstracts and Indexing - 1970-** Selected Testimony Transcripts and Submitted Statements - 1988- Temporary Hearings Records – 2005- Committee Prints - Abstracts and Indexing 1970- (selected full text – 1993-2004)** GAO Reports Abstracts and Indexing, with links to PDFs -2004- Committee Reports Abstracts and Indexing - 1970-** Committee Reports Full Text - 1990- Congressional Record Daily Edition - 1985- House and Senate Documents Abstracts and Indexing -1970- (Full text - 1995- )** Bill Text & Bill Tracking - 1989- Public Laws - 1988- U.S. Code Code of Federal Regulations -1981- Federal Register -1980- Legislative Histories, All Public Laws - 1969- Campaign Contributions from Individuals and PACs - 2002- Campaign Financial Data -1989- Key Votes in Congress - 1987- Member Financial Disclosures - 1991- **Post-1996 full text for many congressional publications is available

8. Specific Free Sources GAO Reports – Full Text – FDSys (www.gpo.gov/fdsys )– 1993-www.gpo.gov/fdsys Congressional Record – FDSys – 1994- Bill Text - – Congress.gov (http://www.congress.gov)http://www.congress.gov – FDSys – 1993- Bill Tracking – – Congress.gov – 1973- Public Laws – – FDSys – Congress.gov - 1995-

9. More Specific Free Sources U.S. Code – FDSys – 1994- Code of Federal Regulations – FDSys - 1996- Campaign Financial Data – http://www.fec.gov/pindex.shtml - 1980- http://www.fec.gov/pindex.shtml Key Votes in Congress – Congress.gov - 1989- Congress.gov – Govtrack.us – 1789- Govtrack.us Member Financial Disclosures – – Clerk of the House database http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial.aspx - 2008- http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial.aspx – Senate - https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/ - 2012- https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/ Campaign Contributions from Individuals and PACs http://www.fec.gov/portal/super_pacs.shtml - 2002- http://www.fec.gov/portal/super_pacs.shtml

10. Congress.gov https://www.congress.gov/ Bill tracking Bill actions Links to full text from FDSys Easy interface Bill summaries “Related Bills”

11. FDSys – Federal Digital System Mostly Congressional content, but slowing expanding to other agencies Provides full text for Congress.gov & other sites Full text back to about mid- 1990s No bill tracking information Less than idea interface, but it works Adding older content Adding library contributed content http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/

12. Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation Full text of Congressional documents from 1774- 1885 Part of American Memory Full text of early laws Less than ideal interface Many documents have both transcriptions and page images http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/

13. VIRGO http://search.lib.virginia.edu U.Va.’s online catalog Links to GPO supplied full texts of hearings back to about 1996 Links to Hathi Trust full text

14. Non-Government Sources Sunlight Foundation – http://sunlightfoundation.com/ http://sunlightfoundation.com/ – Cool tools and data to analyze govt. & corporate activities Govtrack.us – https://www.govtrack.us/ https://www.govtrack.us/ – Tracks votes from 1789 – Brief member profiles – Analysis of votes Project VoteSmart – http://votesmart.org/ http://votesmart.org/ – State and national level OpenSecrets.org – https://www.opensecrets.org/ https://www.opensecrets.org/

15. Additional Help & Education U.Va. Library - Virginia’s Regional Depository – Jenn & Barbie – http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/findinggovinfo http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/findinggovinfo Free Congressional & Presidential sites LibGuide – http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/congressionalOpenWeb http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/congressionalOpenWeb Help, I’m an Accidental Documents Librarian! – http://www.nclaonline.org/government-resources/help-im-accidental- government-information-librarian-webinars http://www.nclaonline.org/government-resources/help-im-accidental- government-information-librarian-webinars Government Publishing Office Webinars – http://login.icohere.com/public/topics.cfm?cseq=1172 http://login.icohere.com/public/topics.cfm?cseq=1172 Virginia Depository Library Directory – http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/vadepdir http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/vadepdir

16. Thank you! Jenn Huck jhuck@virginia.edu Barbie Selby bselby@virginia.edu