National Gazette vs Gazette of the United States
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Almost every jurisdiction outside the U.S. publishes newly enacted legislation and regulations in an official publication that is similar to the Federal Register. These publications are referred to generically as official gazettes, national gazettes or government gazettes. Some gazettes also selectively publish decisions by constitutional courts and other courts of final appeal. Show In many jurisdictions, newly enacted laws may not take effect until they have been published in the official gazette. For some jurisdictions, particularly those in the developing world, the official gazette is the only published source for both legislation and regulations. Some common characteristics of official gazettes worth bearing in mind:
Electronic Access to Official Gazettes The online version of the official gazette of Chile. Many jurisdictions now publish their official gazette online. Unfortunately, not all online gazettes are free to access. Some require a subscription in order to download content. Gazettes that do offer free online access often have limited search capabilities. Many can only be browsed chronologically. In those cases, it is essential to know the date (or at least the year) when a law was enacted to retrieve the full text. For information about a jurisdiction's official gazette, including its name, whether or not it is available online, and whether the electronic version is free to access, consult one or more of the following resources:
Searching Official Gazettes From Multiple JurisdictionsResearchers who are reluctant to navigate an electronic version of an official gazette in a language other than English should use Global-Regulation instead. This subscription database enables users to search by keyword in English across official gazettes and legislative databases from 110 jurisdictions that are freely accessible online. For non-English speaking jurisdictions, Global Regulation provides machine generated English translations of legal texts. It also provides a link to each legal text in its original language, as it was published in the jurisdiction's official gazette or database of national legislation. An official gazette is the legal newspaper of a country, or of an administrative part of a country, which publishes the text of new laws, decrees, regulations, treaties, legal notices, and court decisions. The laws published in official gazettes are primary law in the official source; publication in the gazette, in many cases, initiates jurisdiction. The text published is the authoritative version, and commonly, the only published version. FOG DatabaseThe Foreign Official Gazette database (FOG) contains records for approximately 650 official gazette titles from countries outside the United States. It serves as a “union list” of holdings within the major collections residing in North America, encompassing both CRL holdings as well as the holdings of five other major libraries. More information can be found in the FAQ. Click here to view the more information about the FOG program and database. Digitized Official GazettesIn 2014, CRL was awarded a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to to preserve and make available on the open web endangered government documentation from ten African and Persian Gulf nations where the integrity of the public record is at risk (see original announcement). CRL has worked with partners such as LLMC, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, LA Law Library, New York Public Library, and Princeton University to source content for scanning. Digitized content is presented via a specialized Digital Collections page (Official Gazettes & Civil Society Documentation), which enables issue-level browsing and text searching within each item. LLMC will share access to the digital files to enhance discoverability and enable cross-searchability with other international legal content in LLMC-Digital. See also the CRL resources below related to Human rights, Law and government, Newspapers: FOCUSCRL’s quarterly publication examining the challenges of preservation and access for primary source materials in various fields. Official Gazettes & Civil Society Information, Fall 2016 Assessing News Databases, Fall 2014 - This issue of FOCUS reports on recent CRL efforts to support libraries' decision-making on investment in developing and maintaining library newspaper holdings and the purchase of commercially... Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Age of Big Data, Summer 2014 - The oceans of information that government agencies produce and collect, along with the fluidity of digital media, require a rethinking of preservation practices. This issue of FOCUS reports on CRL... The Evolving Supply Chain for Government-Produced Information, Fall 2013 - As governments expose more documents and information directly to the web, the role of libraries in facilitating access to that information is changing. This issue of FOCUS reports on these changes... Civil Society: Legal and Governmental Resources, Fall 2012 - Civil society and its institutions are topics of growing interest to researchers in a wide range of fields. Documents produced by early governments, courts, and legislatures provide unique... Topic GuidesProviding insights on key source materials in areas of special interest to CRL libraries. Government Publications and Information--Non-U.S. Government Publications and Information--U.S. Legal Databases: Comparative Analysis U.S. Census Data News Law Government Records and Archives--U.S. Latin American Studies Human Rights CRL ProgramsCommunities of interest working under the CRL umbrella. ICON - The International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) is a multi-institutional effort to promote the accessibility and preservation of international newspaper collections by gathering and providing... HRADP - The Human Rights Archives and Documentation Program (HRADP) facilitates efforts by institutions to identify, preserve, and provide access to human rights-related archives and documentation by... CRL ReportsPreserving News in the Digital Environment - This report is based on a study undertaken by the Center for Research Libraries in 2010 and 2011, to map the “lifecycle” of news content published in print and on the Web; and to clarify the... Human Rights Electronic Evidence Study - In 2008, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) was awarded funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to examine the practices and technologies used by human rights monitoring... Chronopolis Audit Report 2012 - The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) conducted a preservation audit of Chronopolis (chronopolis.sdsc.edu) between November 2010 and December 2011, and on the basis of that audit certifies... Political Communications Web Archive - The Political Communications Web Archive Project was an investigation and planning effort to develop effective methodologies for the systematic, sustainable preservation of Web-based political... What was the significance of the Gazette of the United States and the National Gazette?The National Gazette was founded at the urging of Democratic-Republican leaders James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in order to counter the influence of the rival Federalist newspaper, the Gazette of the United States. Like other papers of the era, the National Gazette centered on its fervent political content.
What is the US Government Gazette?The Gazette is an official Government publication. Government uses it to publish acts and bills, regulations and notices in terms of acts, changes of names, company registrations and deregistrations, financial statements, land restitution notices, liquor licence applications and transport permits.
What is the difference between newspaper and gazette?Gazette is French for newspaper. And in the 17th to 18th centuries, official government journals in England were called gazettes. This usage of the word became a name for any newspaper.
Why are some newspapers called gazette?gazette, originally, a newssheet containing an abstract of current events, the forerunner of the modern newspaper. The word is derived from the Italian gazzetta, a name given to informal news or gossip sheets first published in Venice in the mid-16th century.
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