{"id":587,"date":"2013-10-04T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=587"},"modified":"2013-10-04T12:29:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:29:54","slug":"finding-government-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/finding-government-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Government Information During the Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-588\" alt=\"6015396482_9ab293f906_n\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/10\/6015396482_9ab293f906_n-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/10\/6015396482_9ab293f906_n-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/10\/6015396482_9ab293f906_n.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The government shutdown has cut off access to many key resources provided by federal agencies. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/10\/02\/government-shutdown-websites\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mashable<\/a> has a summary and links to where \u00a0 \u00a0some government data can be found, and EBSCO has provided access to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebsco.com\/freeERIC\" target=\"_blank\">ERIC database for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Statistical Abstract of the United States<\/em> is available in print from 1966-2008 (2nd floor, call number HA202.A2), and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com.proxy.iwu.edu\/statistical\" target=\"_blank\">electronically via <\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com.proxy.iwu.edu\/statistical\" target=\"_blank\">ProQuest<\/a> from 2009 &#8211; present. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icpsr.umich.edu.proxy.iwu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICPSR<\/a> is also a great place for data and statistics from government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about finding government information, please contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/library\/help\/ask_librarian.html\" target=\"_blank\">Help@Ames<\/a> Desk!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999\"><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mlrs193\/6015396482\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">image<\/span><\/a> by Nick Papakyriazis,\u00a0CC BY-NC-SA)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government shutdown has cut off access to many key resources provided by federal agencies. \u00a0Mashable has a summary and links to where \u00a0 \u00a0some government data can be found, and EBSCO has provided access to the ERIC database for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/finding-government-information\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}