More US Government Research Tools

I must be jinxed.

Everytime I get a reference question that requires me to search some obscure American government sources, I come across another wonderful article that could have helped me cut down on my time and effort.

LLRX.com has a new feature article on New Tools For Government Research.

The article covers:

• Elegus : searches the text of US federal and state government web sites
• Clusty Gov+: combines a metasearch of FirstGov, MSN limited to the ".gov" domain, DefenseLink, political news from Reuters, the Associated Press, and CNN, and a number of prominent American think tanks
• FirstGov Directory of US government RSS feeds
• Government Information Online: a virtual reference service specializing in answering questions about US government information, sponsored by the Illinois State Library, OCLC, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, with more than 30 government, academic and public libraries involved