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An increasing amount of information about the Government and Government Publications is available on the World Wide Web. Most Government Departments have home pages with information about their work and publications, including the full text of some publications e.g. press releases from Government Departments. The full text of most of the latest Parliamentary Publications is available from the UK Parliament web pages. The following are a few useful Web pages:

BOPCAS (British Official Publications Current Awareness Service)
BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service)
http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/
BOPCRIS is a web-based finding tool for over 38,000 British Official Publications from 1688 to 1995.

Government Departments and Agencies
http://www.direct.gov.uk/
Aims to tell you all you need to know about government. From July 2001 the old open.gov.uk service is hosted by ukonline.gov.uk, giving links to government departments and official bodies.

Government Press Releases
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/
This is the location for Government News Network, where you can find details of recent press releases from all Government departments in full text format.

INFOLAW
http://www.infolaw.co.uk/
A Gateway to the UK Legal Internet including Government and Parliament on the web.

UK Parliament
http://www.parliament.uk/
You will find here information about the UK Parliament, the House of Commons and the House of Lords, including many full text Parliamentary Publications.

UK Official Publications on the Internet
http://www.official-documents.co.uk/
Here you can find the full text or summary of selected documents, e.g.Command Papers and House of Commons Papers.