Government Documents Index
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Government Documents on Electronic Commerce
The Internet has transformed the way individuals
and companies conduct economic activity. Itīs now possible
for individual firms to sell their products on the other side
of the world and for individuals to purchase desired products
and services from around the world via computer transactions.
The economic, legal,and privacy implications of this have
come to the attention of government agencies as well as they
grapple with the economic, financial, personal, and other
implications of these developments. These governments are
producing numerous resources on electronic commerce or ecommerce
as it is often called.
Purdue Libraries have numerous government publications
on ecommerce located in the MEL and HSSE Libraries. Examples
of subject headings you can use to search for government publications
on ecommerce in the Library Catalog include:
The principal index for U.S. Government publications
is the Monthly Catalog
of U.S. Government Publications
HSSE REF & Periodicals 016.353 UN36. An online version
of this index is also available from 1994-present. The GPO
Index on
the Purdue Libraries Indexes web page also searches U.S.
Government documents from 1976 to the present.
An additional useful index is Congressional
Information Service (CIS) Index HSSE
REF 328.73005 C76 covering congressional publications.
Numerous U.S. Government agencies
produce publications on electronic commerce. Examples from
the executive branch and independent agencies include the
Small Business Administration, the Department of Commerce,
International Trade Administration, and other agencies.
Congressional committees are also good sources
of electronic commerce information since they consider legislation
affecting ecommerce. Examples of congressional committees
producing publications on ecommerce include:
Internet Resources
Increasing volumes of government information are on the Internet.
There are numerous government websites with ecommerce information.
GPO Access contains
the full text of the U.S. Governmentīs major legal,
legislative, and regulatory information sources such as
congressional
bills, public laws, congressional committee reports on legislation,
the Code of Federal Regulations, and the
Federal Register.
The Purdue
Libraries Government documents department homepage
is also a good starting point. Examples of other U.S.
Government ecommerce websites include:
International Government Organizations
Foreign Governments
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