In the past few years federal agencies and departments have rapidly joined the Internet superhighway, offering free information to the public. Many hot tips and invaluable pieces of information are there for the taking from these key sites including: bills introduced to Congress, Supreme Court opinions, hundreds of thousands of images from NASA, and the Library of Congress catalog. Even top-level agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency -- the nation's top-secret spy agency -- has a publicly accessible Internet site.Although a wealth of online federal government information is available to the public for free, accessing this information can be a daunting task. The new, expanded 1998 edition provides detailed descriptions of more than 500 Internet sites, mailing lists, databases, and other resources. Step-by-step instructions explain how to access and navigate each site.The book describes how to access: texts of bills being considered by Congress, lists of holdings at the NationalArchives, a wide range of information about AIDS, economic data, federal income tax forms, electronic card catalogs at numerous federal libraries, including the Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine, and much more.