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The American Presidency Project
John Woolley and Gerhard Peters
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1999-
URL: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
Last visited March 2013
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Keywords Archives, Electronic media, Government, History, United States of America
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2013-0057
Founded in 1999 and hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara, The American Presidency Project (APP) is a comprehensive database of presidential documents going back to 1789. While the centerpiece of this collection is the fully indexed and searchable public papers of the presidents, additional content includes transcripts and documentation from presidential elections, supplemental presidential publications such as executive orders, charts and graphs presenting data related to the presidency, and an audio and video archive of presidential material. Current content is added on an ongoing basis and is typically made available following its addition to official channels. As the scope of the project expands, additional historical content is added to the archive.
While APP does not clearly disclose all of its primary sources for text and audiovisual content on the site, most of the current documents in the collection have been made available by the US Government Printing Office's Federal Digital System (FDsys), the National Archives and Presidential Libraries, and the Executive Office of the President. Historic presidential documents are transcribed from official government sources with some supplementary documents available as PDFs. A significant portion of the data on the presidency is compiled by APP...