Government Publications
Collection overview
Government publications material formerly available on the 6th Floor has been sent to the Depository, as part of the rewiring and refurbishment project. Items can be requested via the Stack Service located at the Issue Desk, 4th Floor. For further information please contact the Information Desk on 020 7862 8461. Please note that 18th, 19th and 20th-century parliamentary papers are now available in full-text online. To access, please click on this link: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth century. 20th century material is also available on Microfiche in the Information Centre, 4th Floor.
Senate House Library holds print backruns of many UK statistical titles most of which are at the Depostory Library. Holdings are recorded in the online catalogue. For information on online official statistics click here.
Government Publications
classmarks are divided by type of report or paper. See: Finding
references to Government Publications
The collection contains primarily 19th and 20th century material, although some earlier material is held, such as journals of the House of lords and Commons, the Oceana reprint of House of Lords papers 1714-1805 and the microprint edition of House of Commons sessional papers 1731-1800. The Goldsmiths' Collection contains much early parliamentary material.
Other 19th century material held in the Collection includes Commons Votes, Divisions Lists, Standing orders of both Houses, Debates and Statutes. The CD-Rom Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1995) is also available. Between 1970 and 2001 the Library received most HMSO-published Non-Parliamentary publications. Before 1970 these were acquired selectively and are entered in the Online Card Catalogue. In some instances, important monographs have been shelved with the appropriate subject collection. Most of the statistical series published by HMSO have been brought together in a separate sequence within the Government Publications collection.
Note - where bibliographic records have the paper numbers in Arabic numerals and volume numbers in Roman numerals in them it is worth noting these details as they can be useful for tracing the volumes on our shelves. It is also important to take note of the sessional year.
NB Most official publications are not included in the Main Catalogue.
