Broken links for U.S. government documents

The links to many U.S. government resources are currently not working.

These links, also called "PURLs" or "persistent URLs" are maintained by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). GPO's PURL server had a significant hardware failure on August 24, 2009. The hardware has been fixed, but the process to restore online document service is on-going.

No data has been lost, and if you have a non-PURL internet address for the documents, you will still be able to reach them. Even documents hosted by GPO itself should still be available.

If you do encounter a broken PURL, do an internet search on the title, using Google or another search engine. I'm also happy to help look for a document.

Here's what a GPO PURL looks like: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS5149

And here's a MadCat library catalog record with a PURL link.

Alternate access...

...to selected government documents in the plant & insect sciences not available in print at the UW-Madison:

• "Chemicals and fuels from whole-crop utilization"
• "Crop Disaster Program"
• "Crop genetic resources: an economic appraisal"
• "Database of Lotic invertebrate traits for North America"
• "Effects of rain gardens on the quality of water in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota, 2002-04"
• "Emerald ash borer: the green menace"
• "Field guide to insects and diseases of Arizona and New Mexico forests"
• "Information resources on the care and use of insects: 1968-2004"
• "Management and research applications of long-range surveillance radar data for birds, bats, and flying insects"
• "Mapping risk from forest insects and diseases"
• "Monitoring of biocontrol insect release sites in southern Idaho, 2002-2003"
• "Planting and maintaining your native landscape to ensure survival of your plants"
• "Possible implications for U.S. agriculture from adoption of select dietary guidelines"
• "Regulatory barriers in international horticultural markets"
• "U.S. agriculture after Hurricane Katrina: status and issues"
• "USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and DHS' Customs and Border Protection: working together to protect agriculture"
• "Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology National Program (U.S.): Annual report"
• "Waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Crop Insurance Program: hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 3, 2007"

White papers and pre-prints

Working papers, white papers, gray literature, pre-prints, technical reports, conference presentations...

There's a wealth of research publications that don't fall into the categories of "journal article" or "book" -

ASABE Technical Library

Publications of the American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers:

• Standards, meeting papers, conference proceedings, lecture series, journals, and more
  

Conference Papers Index

Index to presentations from such conferences as:

• Annual Conference of the American Society for Horticultural Science
• Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America
• Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology
• International Plant Protection Congress
• Symposium on Horticulture in Europe
• Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships

NTIS (National Technical Information Service)

Published results of U.S. federally-funded research, such as:

• Documentation and User Guides for SPBLOB: A Computer Simulation Model of the Joint Population Dynamics for Loblolly Pine and the Southern Pine Beetle (Forest Service)
  
• Honey (National Agricultural Statistics Service)
• Invasive Species Databases: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 12-13, 1998
• National Plant Genome Initiative: 2009-2013 (National Science and Technology Council)
• Rice: Situation and Outlook Yearbook 2008 (Economic Research Service)
• Soybean Rust: A Rising Star in Phytopathology (Department of Energy, Joint Genome Inst.)

Arxiv E-prints

The Quantitative Biology subject area includes subcategories for:

• Biomolecules
• Cell Behavior
• Genomics
• Populations and Evolution
• Subcellular Processes
• Tissues and Organs

Science Accelerator

Publications of the U.S. Department of Energy, such as:

• Bioenergy Alliance high-tonnage bioenergy crop production and conversion into conventional fuels
• Bioenergy Feedstock Development Program status report
• Development of a nematode biocontrol agent for agriculture
• Microbially derived agriculture crop protection products
  

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

Focus on socioeconomics, but still a source of plant and insect research such as:

• Actual Crop Water Use in Project Countries: A Synthesis at the Regional Level (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4288)
• Analysis of Crop Choice: Adapting to Climate Change in Latin American Farms (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4162)
• Conserving Crop Genetic Resources on Smallholder Farms in Hungary: Institutional Analysis (FEEM Working Paper No. 63.04)
• Crop Diversification in Orissa: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis (Jawaharlal Nehru University Working Paper Series)
  
• Insect Resistance Management for Bt Corn: An Assessment of Community Refuge Schemes (AgBioForum)
• Trends in Australian Agriculture (Productivity Commission Research Paper)

ScienceAccelerator.gov - new & improved search

The Office of Scientific and Technical Information at the U.S. Department of Energy has added new features to ScienceAccelerator.gov, the search engine for 10 key DOE sites.

Customize Your Search

New search and retrieval features and capabilities have been added:

• automatically spell check your search terms
• e-mail your search results
• export results into your citation management software
• links to EurekAlert! Science News and Wikipedia
  
• clusters results by topic and/or by date
  

Other search and retrieval features include:

• advanced searching
• searching within a search
• sorting search results
• narrowing your search results by individually selecting items of interest

Science Accelerator helps you to find research and development reports; e-prints; science conference proceedings; DOE patents, accomplishments, project descriptions, and software; DOE-associated Nobel Prize Winners; and more.