Monthly Catalog

The Decennial Cumulative Index to the Monthly Catalog of the U.S. Go>v-ernment Publications, 1941-50. 25 a copy. 

In addition, government publications are also made accessible to the public at depository libraries which are entitled to receive a free copy of every publication made available to the Superintendent of Documents. The libraries may select which of these they desire. A list of depository libraries is included in each September issue of the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. 

The Monthly Catalog (15, issued by the Superintendent of Documents, is the most comprehensive periodical issued, listing publications of the various government agencies. The catalog contains both technical and nontechnical publications issued.I)y the various departments and agencies of the U. S. Government. It is indexed annually. 

Over 1500 AEC reports published in the usual scientific and technical journals are also listed in Nuclear Science Abstracts. However, over 1600 reports not published in journals or listed in the NNES are for sale by OTS, from which price lists may be obtained. These reports are also listed in the monthly catalog of the Government Printing Office. Nearly all the nonclassified AEC research and development reports which are not published in journals or in the NNES are supplied to 40 depository libraries located throughout the country and are thus readily available to literature searchers. A list of these libraries is contained in a booklet, Availability of US AEC Research and Development Reports 21). 

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications 222) with both monthly and annual indexes, is the most complete list of current U. S. government publications. 

Monthly Catalog of the United States Government Publications, Superintendent of Docu-... 

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. 

Perhaps the area which is least comprehensively indexed and abstracted is that of state publications. Information must literally be dug from these sources. Locating these publications and indexing them more fully than is normally done commercially is one approach to the problem. A publication of the Library of Congress called the U. S, Monthly Checklist of State Publications serves the same purpose for state publications as the U. S. Government Monthly Catalog does for publications of the Federal Government. 

Suggest consulting bulletins of other bureaus within Department of Commerce Foreign Trade Stalistics Notes (Bureau of Census). See Monthly Catalog of Government Publications, Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. 

Many federal documents, particularly those on environmental subjects, are obtainable from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). NTIS, an agency of the U. S. Department of Commerce, is the central source for the public sale of U. S. sponsored research, development and technical reports. The Monthly Catalog lists by agency and is available from GPO. Many publications on safety and toxicology that relate to chemical industry needs, however, must be obtained from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Cincinnati. Securing state documents can be equally frustrating. 

U.S. Government Printing Office, Monthly Catalog, Washington, D.C. 

Monthly Catalog of Government Publications This is an index to U.S. government pubhcations. 

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