Government Libraries, Archives And Virtual Reading Rooms

Informational government websites for general research purposes. Government Libraries, Government Archives and Virtual Reading Rooms.

FOIA Library contains thousands of documents from Fusion GPS, to Jeffrey Epstein to Nikola Tesla.

Finding DHS Forms, DHS Employee Resources, DHS Open Data, Check Immigration Case Status or Get a Green Card, Check the National Terrorism Advisory System, Apply for a U.S. Passport, Check Wait Times, Cross U.S. Borders, etc.

Central Intelligence Agency’s Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room.

ACLU provides invaluable work with law and policymakers to protect the civil rights of citizens. NSA has gone far beyond its counterterrorism and foreign intelligence mandate, implementing a massive system to conduct bulk surveillance of millions of innocent Americans.

The National Security Archive is an investigative journalism centre, open government advocate, and international affairs research institute, and is the largest repository of declassified U.S. documents outside the federal government

A non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales.

The national library of the United Kingdom. Over 170 million items include artefacts from every age of written civilisation. From newspapers to sound recordings, patents, prints and drawings, maps and manuscripts

Declassified National Security information, including information relating to defence against transnational terrorism.

Is a collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues of 267 world entities. The Reference tab includes a variety of world, regional, country, ocean, and time zone maps; Flags of the World; and a Country Comparison function that ranks the country information and data in more than 75 Factbook fields.

Research history, veteran’s service records, previous presidents and presidential materials, etc.

The Commons Library publishes politically impartial policy analysis and statistical research, free for all to read. Explore quick-read articles, in-depth research, and interactive data visualisations.

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