Finding and using government data. (Business Management & Marketing).

Adhesives Age,  June, 2003  by Todd Muhleman

Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Government, industry, INTERNET, search

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THERE HAS TRADITIONALLY been an enormous amount of information disseminated throughout the federal government that is of great value to the adhesives industry. The difference today is that instead of having to order CD-ROMs or hard copies with dated material, the Internet has made quickly getting "real time" government data a reality.

As was the case before the Internet, knowing what is available and where to look is still the key to a successful search. Although there has been some improvement over the years in centralizing searches across all government agencies with sites such as fedstats.gov and firstgov.gov, it ...