Circulation » gpo access http://lindybrown.com/blog Mixing Student Affairs & Information Sciences Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:26:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 GPOAccess –> FDsys http://lindybrown.com/blog/2009/02/gpoaccess-fdsys/ http://lindybrown.com/blog/2009/02/gpoaccess-fdsys/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:34:44 +0000 lindybr1 http://lindyjb.wordpress.com/?p=411 fdsysFor those of us taking government documents/searching classes: I found today’s post at the Library Journal, Government Documents Move to Improved Federal Digital System, extremely interesting, timely and applicable to my current studies! Changes are a-coming to GPOAccess… In fact, by mid-2009, GPOAccess will be no more as the Government Printing Office’s new Federal Digital System (FDsys) will completely replace it. FDsys is supposed to offer better search capabilities, handle millions of more documents, and have a friendlier user-interface.

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With Barack Obama’s plan for transparency, government information has expanded to social networking sites such as YouTube (which I described in an earlier post).

Is Scribd part of the action now? It sure looks like it! Barack Obama’s official inaugural address is now posted on Scribd for all to see, access, download, embed in webpages or blogs.

Could Scribd join the ranks as THOMAS and GPO Access? I don’t think so, but I must admit I am impressed with the idea of being able to download – or more so – embed government documents into a web page!

Barack Obama Inaugural Address

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