Introduction

This issue of Indiana Libraries is sponsored by INDIGO, Indiana Networking for Documents and Information of Government Organizations. INDIGO’s goals are to provide a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas, to provide programs to increase the availability, use, and bibliographic control of government information, and to provide a voice for Indiana’s federal and state depositories concerning government information issues. INDIGO’s members include the state’s specialists in local, state, federal and international government information (see the Indiana Federal Depository Libraries Directory included in this issue). Some of these specialists have contributed articles for this issue of Indiana Libraries. The United States government is the largest print and electronic publisher in the world and locating specific items within this vast historical print and current electronic collection can be overwhelming. In this issue of Indiana Libraries Sylvia Andrews and Heather Smedberg provide guides to information concerning native Americans, Bert Chapman highlights national security policy documents, Lou Malcomb and Mardi Mahaffy locate maps of Indiana buried in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Elaine Skopelja identifies documents and Web sites for health and medicine, and Linda R. Zellmer provides government information on the environment and natural sciences. With the move to migrate from print to electronic publishing a wealth of government publications are now available free on the Internet. Any library can learn how to add electronic government documents to their online catalog and/or download and enhance a Web page template of basic government documents resources using the startup kit in this issue. This issue also includes articles by Andrea Singer on locating foreign documents and Daina Bohr on the processing of federal documents

U.S. Government Electronic Information Resources: A Start-Up Kit for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries

The U.S. Government is the largest producer of information in the world. Through its agencies it creates, gathers, and produces information on topics from the arts to the sciences and for all types of library users –children to senior citizens. Since 1858 the Federal Depository Library Program (F.D.L.P.) has been responsible for collecting, organizing, maintaining, preserving, and providing information from the federal government. Congressionally- designated libraries (up to two per congressional district) receive selected classes of government resources at no cost, and in return are obligated to provide open and free access to this material. These include some of the most useful reference sources at the information desk – the Occupational Outlook Handbook, Statistical Abstract of the United States, and the World Factbook. While depository libraries receive these items free, non-depository libraries have had to purchase these materials from the Government Printing Office (G.P.O.) or a repackaged version from a commercial publisher

Public COAPI Toolkit of Open Access Policy Resources

The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI, https://sparcopen.org/coapi ) is committed to sharing information and resources to assist in the development and implementation of institutional Open Access (OA) policies. The COAPI Toolkit includes a diverse collection of resources that COAPI members have developed in the course of their OA policy initiatives. These resources are openly accessible and published here under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licenses, unless otherwise noted on the resources themselves