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Many publications are available on GovInfo that are not in one of the collections listed on the What's Available page. These publications are part of two general collections, either the Additional Government Publications (GPO) collection or the Miscellaneous Government Publications (GOVPUB) collection. They can be accessed by navigating to their landing page from the Browse A to Z list or the Browse by Category page, or the individual publications can be accessed through basic or advanced search.

For example, you can access NIST Publications by:

Navigating to the landing page where there are links to each series of publications in search results
Conducting a basic search for keywords or field operators
Conducting an advanced search and selecting Additional Government Publications or Other under Refine by Collection

In addition, GovInfo contains "hybrid" collections that may comprise both standard collection publications and GPO or GOVPUB collection publications. Examples are the Senate Journal collection, which includes publications from the Congressional Serial Set (SERIALSET) and Additional Government Publications (GPO) collections, or the Congressional Reports collection, which includes publications from the Congressional Reports (CRPT), the Congressional Serial Set (SERIALSET), and the Miscellaneous Government Publications (GOVPUB) collections. This is important to know because URLs and search fields may differ slightly. Not all collections can be searched using "collection-specific" search fields because the packages may not contain the necessary metadata to support those search fields.

Searching Other Publications

General GovInfo Search Tips

Search Examples

Search by Keyword and Date Range For example, documents from December 31, 1994 to January 1, 1997 with the word debate in the text or metadata.

Using Basic Search, enter: debate collection:gpo publishdate:range(1994-12-31, 1997-01-01)
Using Advanced Search, under Date Range select Date is betweenfrom the first box, enter 12-31-1994 in the second box, and enter 01-01-1997 in the next box, then select Additional Government Publications and/or Other (Miscellaneous Government Publications) under Refine by Collection and under Search In, enter debate in the second box;

Search by Congress Number For example, documents from the 94th Congress.

Using Basic Search, enter: collection:gpo congress:94
Using Advanced Search, select Additional Government Publications under Refine by Collection, then under Search In select Congress Number from the first box and enter 94 in the second box

Search by Title For example, documents with Hinds Precedents in the title.

Using Basic Search, enter: collection:gpo title:(Hinds Precedents)

Using the Advanced Search page, select Additional Government Publications (GPO collection) and/or Other (Miscellaneous Government Publications) under Refine by Collection, then under Search In select Title from the first box and enter Hinds Precedents in the second box

Metadata Fields and Values for Select Other Publications

Metadata fields and values can be used to increase the relevancy of your searches. The metadata fields available for select publications are listed in the table below. Metadata fields and values are used throughout GovInfo for

Narrowing Your Search,
Browsing Government Publications,
Field Operators,
Advanced Search, and
Display on Details Pages.

Metadata fields and values can be entered into the Basic Search box using field operators. The field operators available for the GPO and GOVPUB collections are listed in the table below, along with examples for each metadata field. Using Field Operators

Some of these metadata fields are made available for use in Advanced Search. The metadata values can be entered in the same format for the fields available on the Advanced Search Page. Using Advanced Search

Metadata Field Display Name	Metadata Field Definition	Field Operator	Field Operator Example
Collection	The collection to which the document belongs. Typically the same as the publication or series.	collection:	collection:gpo "gpo" is used for Additional Government Publications AND collection:govpub "govpub" is used for Miscellaneous Government Publications
Government Author	The names of the Government organizations responsible for authoring or assembling the document.	governmentauthor:	governmentauthor:"congress"
Publication Date	The date the document was first made available to the public.	publishdate:	publishdate:1994-01-01 Date format is YYYY-MM-DD
Language	The language code of the original document, from the ISO639-2b standard.	language:	language:eng
Former Package ID	The document ID of the "package" as originally specified on www.gpoaccess.gov.	mods:identifier:(@type:"former package identifier":______)	mods:identifier:(@type:"former package identifier":52093c22_txt-1)
SuDoc Class Number	The SuDoc class number from the U.S. Superintendent of Documents which classifies Government publications by publishing agency.	sudocclass:	sudocclass:"Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 13151-7"
Ingestion Date	The date the document was ingested into the GovInfo preservation repository.	ingestdate:	ingestdate:2009-08-15 Date format is YYYY-MM-DD
Electronic Location (URL)	The URL where the document or the document in context (the content detail page) is located.	url:	url:"http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-HPREC-DESCHLERS-V7/pdf/HPREC-DESCHLERS…"
Publisher	The government organization who publishes the document or publication. Not typically the Government Publishing Office (who serves as the printer and distributor), except in the case of Congressional publications.	publisher:	publisher:"u.s. government printing office"
Branch	The branch of Government responsible for the document's contents.	branch:	branch:legislative Possible Values: Executive, Legislative, Judicial
Type of Resource	The media type for the document, typically "text". Defined as part of the Library of Congress MODS standard.	typeofresource:	typeofresource:text
WAIS Database Name	The name of the WAIS database to which the document belonged in the former GPO Access system.	waisdbname:	waisdbname:deschler_precedents
Record Origin	How the record was originally generated. Typically "machine generated."	recordorigin:	recordorigin:"machine generated"
Title	The title of the publication.	title:	title:"deschler-brown precedents"
Citation	The GPO standard method for searching citation references from the selected publication.	citation:	citation:"h. doc. 94-661"
Publication Name	The name of the publication or group of publications to which the document belongs.	fedpubname:	fedpubname:“Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives”

Searching MODS Metadata

MODS is a metadata standard that includes information about a digital object. It stands for Metadata Object Description Schema and the standard is maintained by the Library of Congress. Every single document in GovInfo has a MODS file; they can be accessed on the Content Details pages under the Download panel on the left side of the page.

You can perform a search over any field in the MODS metadata. This applies to every collection in GovInfo, and can be especially helpful for the GPO and GOVPUB collections.

Examples:

A search for mods:presidentialDoc:@type:execord will result in a list of documents that have the attribute type:execord in the presidentialDoc field in the MODS and are therefore Executive Orders.
A search for mods:dateIngested:(2012-04-13) will result in a list of documents that have the value 2012-04-13 in the dateIngested field in the MODS and were therefore ingested into the system on April 13, 2012.
A search for mods:identifier:(@type:"former package identifier":"f:h100ih.txt") will result in a list of documents that have the value f:h100ih.txt for the attribute type:"former package identifier" in the identifier field in the MODS.