06 February, 2008

Ontario Gov. Docs archive now online

Gov. Docs. from the Legislative Library of Ontario are now available on the OurOntario site http://govdocs.ourontario.ca/index.html and searchable by keyword - Advanced search option also available. There's a browsable index by author, title, department, subject, date. Documents are captured from publicly available websites and archived in PDF format. Not all Government of Ontario documents are included, but at the moment there are 14,000 monographs and 900 serials, and the archive will be added to on a monthly basis. This has been in the works for some time so it's great to see it up and working with a good search engine. Try it out using keywords like "Walkerton" or "Ipperwash" or "ontario electricity system" - it brings up good results