Canada
General information on the Canadian Government
Starting Points
Aggregate searches allow you to search across a number of information sources, and are a great starting point for government information research.
- Government of Canada PublicationsCatalogue of over 275,000 Government of Canada publications, with 150,000 free electronic publications available for download.
- VoilàLibrary and Archives Canada's National Union Catalogue.
- Federal Science Libraries NetworkThe FSLN is a one-stop, self-serve web portal that makes government research and resources visible to all Canadians by connecting them with the collections of seven departmental libraries.
- EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)Also known as Search the Library (University of Alberta Library). It searches for print and ebook holdings in the NEOS Libraries catalogue AND ~300 databases AND the Education and Research Archive (ERA).
Custom Google Search
Use this custom google search to restrict searches to federal government web pages. Make sure to keep the site domain included.
Government News Sources
Historic Document Databases
Government of Canada Open Data
- Completed Government of Canada Access to Information (ATI) RequestsSearch ATI summaries by keyword, institution, month, and year.
Archived Government of Canada Websites
- Government of Canada Web ArchiveLibrary and Archives Canada (LAC) has federal and non-federal web resources in the context of its Web Archiving Program since 2005.