The US Government Printing Office

Use

Designed both for citizens and organizations, the architecture of the website is quite easy to understand, thanks also to detailed navigational aids. In some pages, the available data may not be so intuitive or self-evident.

Searchability

Both searches by topics and listed records are available at different levels of the site architecture, with the possibility to combine them. Search engine allows multiple textual retrieval

Downloading

Official documents and reports are downloadable as a digitized copy of the paper version

Navigational Aids

Search tips are given alongside with each searching tool and a full searching manual is available for downloading

User Friendliness

Visual approach is not friendly and the huge amount of available collections can create a distracting environment