Open AccessReview: Locating U.S. Government Information Handbook, 3rd ed.
Author(s) -
Carl Olson
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
dttp/documents to the people
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0270-5095
pISSN - 0091-2085
DOI - 10.5860/dttp.v44i4.6228
Subject(s) - successor cardinal , pity , government (linguistics) , work (physics) , census , political science , engineering , operations research , world wide web , data science , computer science , sociology , psychology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , social psychology , mathematics , demography , mathematical analysis , linguistics , population
Web guides of all kinds suffer from a brief shelf life, owing to rapid changes and redesigns in the online environment. It is almost a pity that the authors of this work devised such excellent chapters on FDSys and Census, as the former will be superseded by govinfo.gov, while American Factfinder has its successor in Alpha testing. Happily, this third-edition work has a sufficient strength of organization, comprehensive resources, and easy-to-follow guides and background information that it can stay useful for several years at least.