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Creating Index to Volumes[edit]

Since this article was written and edited, most resources are now online. In particular, Hathitrust has volumes 1-12644 (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006228203, a few volumes that misses are here: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010826635). This bring it up to the 89th Congress or so, and official sites begin to pick up the slack a little before that (for instance https://www.govinfo.gov/help/serial-set). The Library of Congress's American Memory site in theory picks up some of the slack, but in practice their list is very minimal: https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsslink.html.

The University of North Texas has an index, but it does not link to the full volumes: https://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/ssi/browseVolumes.php.

There's also two services offering fully indexed versions of the Serial Set - ProQuest and Newsbank/Readex. Many can get these through their libraries, but many can't, and neither is really an option for anyone except institutions.

Would there be interest in creating a digital index of these volumes, either on this page or as a separate Wikipedia page, allowing people to access the entire history of official U.S. Government publications? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.221.4.194 (talk) 20:58, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Request - Add HeinOnline to Digital Availability[edit]

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Hello, I am a marketing representative for HeinOnline, a popular research database for students, librarians, and professionals in various fields.

Like LexisNexis, Readex, and Google Books, HeinOnline has undertaken its own Serial Set digitization project. Please add a description of HeinOnline's Serial Set project to the section of this article entitled "Technical detail on non-print format availability."

Description:

HeinOnline released the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in the form of a searchable database in October of 2018. (source: https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=8c23fcf772665da77d5536ca8&id=7613cbd43e&e=%5bUNIQID%5d; https://home.heinonline.org/blog/2018/10/now-available-u-s-congressional-serial-set/) Since that time, HeinOnline has been adding to its online Serial Set monthly and will continue to do so until the entire Serial Set is available in the HeinOnline platform. The HeinOnline digital version of the Serial Set comes with volume and citation quick locators, multiple browse options, an advanced search tool for easily searching the extensive indexing metadata, and the ability to refine search results by date, Congress/session, and document type. (source: https://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/U.S.CongressionalSerialSet.pdf)

The current status of HeinOnline's Serial Set digitization project is below. HeinOnline currently provides: - Full indexing of the Serial Set - Full coverage of the American State Papers - Full 40-year (1978-2018) coverage - 87% of the Serial Set in HeinOnline itself or via HathiTrust Digital Library

(Source: https://home.heinonline.org/content/u-s-congressional-serial-set/) MainForest (talk) 18:30, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reply 6-AUG-2019[edit]

Edit request partially implemented Spintendo 20:08, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]