For more information, please see their news release.

For more information on Public Health Reports, please see the article, Electronic Access to Public Health Reports.

As a result of this partnership, the dissemination format for Public Health Reports will be switching from paper to electronic only on January 11, 2010. Until January 2010, the dissemination format will remain paper.

Title: Public Health Reports
SuDoc number: HE 20.30:
Item number: 0497 (EL)

Title: Public Health Reports (separates)
SuDoc number: HE 20.30/A:
Item number: 0497 (EL)

To request electronic access to Public Health Reports, interested depository libraries must complete an account validation form that is signed by the library’s director by December 18, 2009. ASPH will then begin supplying user names and passwords to all depositories that have completed the account form.

Federal Depository Library Public Health Reports Account Validation Form

By faxing the signed form, your library has agreed to the terms on the form:

• Username or password cannot be released to organizations or individuals other than authorized library personnel serving a public service function; and
• Organizations or individuals outside your library cannot be allowed to connect to Public Health Reports using your username or password via your library’s computer network.

Congratulations to the staff at UNT for developing and continuing to expand this important resource.

To learn more about other GPO partnerships and the partnership marketing plan, please visit the Partnership page. If your depository has a project or a possible partnership idea that you would like to discuss with GPO, please complete the partnership inquiry form.

The pilot commenced in October 2007 and was suspended after 11 months for an evaluation. The data collected during that time suggests that the target population, a segment of the public that would be unlikely to go to the court house or establish a PACER account, was not reached as anticipated. In October 2009, the GPO and the Administrative Office will be holding a "Lessons Learned" focus group session with the librarians who participated in the pilot to pin point what worked and what could be improved.

Although the pilot was initially well publicized, the level of ongoing public outreach about the pilot did not reach the desired level. More fundamentally, PACER is a tool, not a program. Therefore, the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has been contacted to discuss ways the pilot could be reinvented to make PACER part of a legal research and training program for librarians and the users. The AALL strongly supports the GPO and the FDL program, and is willing to assist with developing a proposal to move forward. Once a proposal is developed, it will be submitted to the Judiciary's advisory groups and the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management for consideration.

The logo is for use on the partner's library Web site, the partnership Web site, or for use in printed educational and public relations materials related to the partnership that are developed.

Additional partnership marketing strategies will be undertaken in the future. Stay tuned to FDLP-L and the Desktop for more information.

The FAQs and the revised validation form are now available from the FDLP Desktop.

All depository libraries wanting to obtain access to STAT-USA’s databases, either for the first time or as a continuation, must complete, sign, and submit the new validation form to GPO by March 2, 2009. The form should be faxed to 202-512-2300. For those libraries that currently have access to USA®/Internet™ and USA Trade® Online, an interruption in service may occur if you do not return the form by the deadline.

Please read the FAQs prior to filling out the form. A signature on the form signifies that you have read the FAQs and understand the obligations of your library in providing no-fee public access to USA®/Internet™ and USA Trade® Online through the FDLP.

When GPO receives the completed form, a new password will be e-mailed by GPO to the Coordinator of record in the Federal Depository Library Directory. Your current password will remain valid until March 6, 2009, and issuance of new passwords will be completed by the same day.

The GAO Reports database contains reports on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of Federal programs conducted by GAO. The content in this database dates back to 1970 and earlier. The Comptroller General Decisions database contains decisions and opinions issued by the Comptroller General in areas of Federal law such as appropriations, bid protests, and Federal agency rulemaking. It also contains historic material dating back to 1970. GAO is actively working on digitizing its legacy collection so historic material will continue to be added to the two databases.

The content contained in the GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions databases is currently duplicated on GPO Access. With a partnership to ensure permanent public access to the content on the GAO Web site, this duplication is no longer necessary. GPO will maintain archives of both databases as they were at the time the agreement was signed, but no new content will be added to the GPO Access versions of these databases. This agreement will eliminate duplication of effort on these databases, as well as minimizing version control issues. Under the partnership agreement, if for any reason GAO is not able to provide access to these materials, GPO will resume the responsibility.

GPO and GAO have a long history of collaborating to provide the Federal depository library community and the public with access to GAO materials. GPO looks forward to continuing this productive relationship with the new partnership.

The pilot has been suspended, pending an evaluation. Once the evaluation is complete, the judiciary and the GPO will determine what steps need to be taken in order to move forward.

The pilot is part of GPO's efforts to increase public access to government information as well as the judiciary's continuing effort to expand public access to court records.