You might want to search the Internet for government information. This is more likely to be productive if you are looking for a fairly recent publication or a web site that still exists. In addition, there are an increasing number of sites with digitized historical government documents.
Here are a few of the search engines that might be helpful in doing a known item search:
- govinfo
This cite provides links to U.S. government documents that are full text on the Internet. USA.gov is an excellent source for current U.S. government documents.
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
This indexes publications issued by the U.S. government from 1976 to date. Some records include links to the full text of the document or Internet site.
- Google Book Search
Google Book Search includes many recent publications published by governments worldwide.
- Google
Because many government agencies publish reports and other information on the Internet, any Internet search engine, such as Google, might be able to find your desired information.
If you're using Google, remember to add "site:gov" or "site:mil" (without the quotation marks) in order to limit the search results to a government or military site.
- Popular Names of U.S. Government Reports
This database allows you to search for a U.S. government publication by the popular name, such as the Meese Report or the Dillingham Commission. It also allows searching by other factors, such as LC Subject Heading, words in the notes field, etc.