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O'Reilly Safari Bookshelf
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Collection of online books for programmers and IT professionals. Contact the reference desk for login/password.
Office of the Federal Register - Public Inspection Desk
Documents recently filed, from federal department and agencies, to be published the next day (or soon thereafter) in the Federal Register.
Official Documents of the United Nations
ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases (posted at http://www.un.org/News/Press/full.htm), UN sales publications , the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.
OpenCongress
Website devoted to all things Congress. Track pending legislation, members and votes. A project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation.
OpenCongress - How a bill becomes a law
Good elaboration of the legislative process, from the OpenCongress wiki.
OpenRegs.com
User-friendly federal regulatory portal that makes it easy to keep track of proposed and final regulations, and to submit comments to the agencies. Announces recently-opened comment periods for proposed regulations, and keeps track of dates when comment periods will close.
Oxford English Dictionary
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Web-based version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Provided by American University's Bender Library.
P - Requires a personal password. Please call the Circulation Desk at x4350 for passwords.
A - American University community only.
W - Washington College of Law community only.
If you are off-campus, our proxy server will ask you to login in with your Eaglenet userid and password (the ones you use on my.american.edu) when you click on the links above marked with an A or a W. More information on the proxy server is available.