Catalog of Government Publications (CGP)
The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word. The catalog offers you the option to find a nearby Federal depository library that has a particular publication or that can provide expert assistance in finding and using related U.S. government information.
This online catalog consists of bibliographic records published in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT) since January 1994. These records describe Government information products available through the Federal Depository Library Program. Once an information product is identified, a link is available to locate depository libraries that receive that product. The MOCAT database is updated daily with preliminary cataloging records that will be edited and published in future print issues of MOCAT.
The ? character or * character (asterisk) are place holders for any number of characters. They can be placed at the left, right or middle of a portion of a word, but it can never be used more than once in a text string.
The # symbol can be used to find variant spellings in cases where one version of the word has one more character than another version. For example, arch#eology will find both archaeology and archeology. The ! character can be used to find variant spellings in cases where a single character may vary. For example, wom!n will retrieve both woman and women.
Place parentheses around search elements to specify priority when parsing the command. For example, the search: "History and military or war" may produce very different results to the search "History and (military or war)."
The -> (hyphen and greater than symbols) can be placed between two words. This indicates that you want to retrieve records that have words from (and including) the first word, through the second word. This search is particularly helpful for limiting a set of records by year of publication. You cannot use to instead of the symbols. For example, use: 1993 -> 1996 or child -> chill. Do NOT use: 1993 to 1996 or child to chill.
