We here at Pierce Law offer an extensive collection of these related to IP, Commerce and Technology. See http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/crs_reports.asp
I buy these from PennyHill - an excellent friend to librarians - and post them for free for you to use. Walt at PennyHill says we are the only law school left that he will allow to do that. Otherwise, he just refuses to sell to anyone who posts them for free.
Enjoy, Jon
Jon R. Cavicchi, J.D., LL.M. (I.P.)
Professor & Intellectual Property Librarian
Franklin Pierce Law Center
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>>> <Rick.McKinney@frb.gov> 03/05/09 1:34 PM >>>
Please note that although Open CRS (http://www.opencrs.com) and Wikileaks
(https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Congressional_Research_Service) have
downloaded more than 6,000 CRS reports they don't seem to go back more
than 20 years, nor are "all" the most recent CRS reports included, nor are
"all" editions of an updated report included. See for instance, CRS Report
98-856 on Open CRS (http://opencrs.com/document/98-856/) which has only
three editions listed, with none that are listed in 2009 (and there is at
least one issued in 2009) and none before 2008, but the report series began
in the 98th Congress (1983-1984).
Since the Congressional Research Service does not willingly make their
reports available to the public (generally you must go through a member of
Congress), through somewhat secretive means commercial services have
stepped into the breach. These include PennyHill Press (which does have a
free listing of reports - http://www.pennyhill.com/), ( http://www.pennyhill.com/), ) GalleryWatch.com
(http://crs.gallerywatch.com/index.gw) and recently LexisNexis
Congressional Research Digital Collection which has more than 60,000 CRS
reports (and Congressional Committee Prints) including most all CRS report
editions and most historical reports beyond 20 years (see
http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/academic/index.php?title=Congressional_Research_Digital_Collection_(CRDC) ( http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/academic/index.php?title=Congressional_Research_Digital_Collection_(CRDC) )
).
Many other sites that are free also have CRS reports. See
http://www.llsdc.org/crs-congress/#CRS.
Rick McKinney
Assistant Law Librarian
Federal Reserve Board Law Library
20th & C Streets, N.W.
Washington, DC 20551
rick.mckinney@frb.gov
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03/05/2009 11:28 Lorelle Anderson
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[LAW-LIB:58411] Re: All CRS reports
(up till now) freely available
As you all know, the CRS are an amazingly rich source of research on the
many issues congress has considered - and we've already paid for it!
So just FYI:
>
>>>> On 3/5/2009 at 8:10 AM, in message
<5A1348EE09195A48874E9DF562FAA64464C53F@its-exch2k3be1.FAMU.EDU>,
"Anderson, Lorelle" <lorelle.anderson@famu.edu> wrote:
>Happy Thursday, all! I found out this morning that all CRS reports up
till now are freely and legally available to be downloaded.
https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Congressional_Research_Service
>
>They have been sent to Open CRS (http://opencrs.com) for hosting. Will
any of you add these to your catalogs? If so, do you plan to print and
bind them, or link to the site?
>
>I'd be very interested to see what effect this has on the effort to make
CRS reports available to the public going forward.
>
>
>Lorelle Anderson
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>FAMU College of Law Library
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