GPO

GPO, from the U. S. Government Printing Office, contains citations (no abstracts) to U.S. federal government publications and corresponds to the print Monthly Catalog which is the basic record of publications issued by all branches of the government.   Topics covered include:

• finance
• business
• demographics
• agriculture
• medicine
• public health

GPO contains more than 400,000 records from 1976 to the present.  The APSU Library holds approximately 30% of these items.  Formats included in GPO are monographs, serials, maps, reports, and some audiovisuals.  Many records include URLs to web versions of the publications.

You may access GPO from anywhere with a valid APSU ID.

How to Search GPO

1. TO SEARCH 

In the input box, type a word or phrase describing your topic. Click the yellow [Search] button or just press <Enter>.

Once you find the appropriate term/s, put a check mark next to term in question and click [Search Marked] button.

Results of searches are displayed toward the bottom of screen below a yellow dividing area. 

2. TO DISPLAY YOUR RESULTS 

To DISPLAY your search results, select from the "Show" drop-down menu, the option of "All Results". You can also limit your results to display only items held by the APSU Library by selecting "Available from Library" option.

Search the Library's online catalog, Felix, by title to find out if the APSU Library owns or has access to a particular journal title, book or conference proceeding.  Use Interlibrary Loan for materials not available in the Library or through full-text databases. 

3. TO PRINT, SAVE, OR E-MAIL YOUR SEARCH RESULTS

You need to MARK your records in order to print them, to save to a diskette or to email them.

To MARK a record, click the box next to the first line of the displayed record which will place a checkmark in the box.

To print: Click the print icon . After configuring output options, click [Print] then OK.

To save to diskette: Place a formatted disk in disk drive. Click the diskette icon  . After configuring output options, click [Save] and when new window opens up, select "Save this file to disk" . Be sure you select A: drive. The saved file can then be viewed using Notepad, Wordpad, or Microsoft Word.

To e-mail: Click the email icon  . After configuring output options, enter an email address in the "From" field and an email address in the "Send records to:" field. These email addresses can be the same address. When ready, click [Send Mail]. 

4. TO LOGOUT 

Click [Logout] at the top right of the window.