SIRS® Government Reporter is a comprehensive student resource for the study of all aspects of U.S. federal government. It contains thousands of full-text documents, summaries, and graphics covering a wide variety of topics including health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, business, and industry.

All the articles and graphics in SIRS Government Reporter are carefully selected according to strict SIRS criteria for content reliability, relevance, and age-appropriateness. Titles include: Agricultural Research, All Hands, Background Notes, English Teaching Forum, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Juvenile Justice Bulletin, Mariners Weather Log, NCI Cancer Bulletin, Nutrition Insights, Prologue, and State Magazine.

Users can easily retrieve information by subject heading, topic browse, and keyword searches. The articles are indexed by Library of Congress subject headings to ensure the best results and can be printed, saved, and emailed.

New state and national standards search help educators locate standards-aligned articles and other resources, which saves teachers time in the lesson planning process, and ensures that library resources are correlated directly to learning benchmarks. Lexile Reading Levels have also been integrated into the product. Lexile scores match reader ability and text difficulty, allowing individualized monitoring of student progress.

The resources in SIRS Government Reporter include:

• Editor’s Top Pick regularly recognizes an article and accompanying graphic for its research value; updated every Monday.
• Country Profiles, U.S. State Department profiles, flags and maps of nearly 200 countries.
• Federal Agencies, contact and background information for hundreds of federal departments and agencies.
• Historic Documents, selected full-text documents and speeches of exceptional historic value, summaries included (summaries to be completed for all docs by March 2006).
• National Archives Documents, primary sources from the National Archives and Records Administration that illustrate social, political, and cultural themes in U.S. history.
• U.S. Congress, data on members of the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and congressional committees.
• U.S. Presidents, a brief biographical description and photograph or portrait of each U.S. president, as well as information about presidential libraries, burial sites, and families.
• U.S. Supreme Court, hundreds of full-text case documents, both landmark and recent, dating back to the inception of the Court, plus a directory of Justices. Summaries for all landmark cases available.
• Spotlight of the Month presents a sampling of articles to encourage research and awareness of a monthly topic, chosen for its timeliness and high interest. (Archive)
• Suggested Research Topics offers keywords, subject headings, and topic browse paths that link directly to coverage of hot topics and timely issues.
• Challenge Quests, presented monthly, pose insightful questions with answers in the form of pathfinders, to encourage student research. (Archive)