Access Digital Publications

... All publications, one place

Welcome to Utah Government Publications Online, a digital library service of the Utah State Library in cooperation with government agencies. It provides public access to the growing number of "born digital" publications created by State of Utah agencies as well as those of some counties and cities. Most of the items in this growing collection are of recent publication.

Purpose. Utah Government Publications Online exists to provide you with easy to use and permanent access to publications. This website is designed for the general public, state agencies, and library visitors throughout the state for finding and accessing Utah government produced information. It also provide a means for government agencies to deposit their publications with the Utah State Library as required by law.

Features that benefit You!

• Find what you need using the powerful full-text search of all publications.
• Select materials and search by fields such as agency, date, subject, and type of document.
• Browse for publications by agency name.
• View your search term highlighted within the document.
• Use any of three search modes: Boolean, Concept, or Pattern.
• Search within your result sets.
• Find all references to any term in the law: statures, bills, rules, and local ordinances.
• Email publications that you find to yourself or others.
• Find "fugitive" and hard to find publications using the Web archives.
• Help us build the digital library by letting us know of publications that you need but can't find.

Some things you can do.

• Find accreditation reports of schools for your child.
• Search the Utah State Bulletin for proposed rules.
• Find statistics that would otherwise be buried in obscure reports.
• Find Geological Survey maps and the public information series.
• Get publications about Utah birds and animals for school reports.
• Easily find state publications in Spanish.
• Find legislative audit reports of government agencies and programs that you heard mentioned in the news.
• Search a library of public health documents.
• Learn how to start a home business.
• Find environmentally safe neighborhoods.

History. This online library was begun following legislation, H.B. 47, for providing the public with permanent access to Utah government publications that exist in digital formats.

Authority. Utah Government Publications Online is maintained by the Utah State Library, the library authority for the state responsible for the preservation, distribution and exchange of state publications. The collection is being built by submissions from contributory agencies under the authority of Utah Code Ann. § 9-7-201 to 9-7-209.

Submitting to the Library. Government agencies are invited to upload publications and provide descriptions of them. To submit publications, please use the state publications Submission form link. Members of the public may use the "Suggestion form" to bring publications to our attention for inclusion.

Limitations. The digital library does not contain all publications published by State of Utah agencies, counties, and cities. Many that are not yet included in the digital library can be located using our Google Custom Search of Utah Government Publications on the Web.

Many born-digital publications still exist solely on agency web sites or in their possession. If a current publication you need is not in the collection, please notify us. We can usually locate it and get it loaded and indexed within 72 hours.

Many historical documents exist only in print format in the collection of the State Library. For additional and earlier publications please search the Utah State Library Division's Online Catalog. Print-only publications can be borrowed by interlibrary loan.

Digital Archives. The State Publications Digital Archives provides a wide variety of information taken from state government websites and archived through the facilities of Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible permanent repository of web-based information on the face of the earth. State websites are selectively crawled for useful information and available even after agencies remove the information from the web, creating permanent public access.  The collection is constantly updated, and contains separate collections reflecting different aspect of state government information and services.

Usage. All publications are in the public domain unless otherwise noted.