What is the Serial Set?

The Serial Set is comprised of House and Senate documents and reports, Senate executive reports, and Senate treaty documents.

Many details are available from the Government Printing Office publication U.S. Congressional Serial Set: What It Is and Its History.

Where can I find it?

• Online (Yale subscription)
  U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Digitization in process by Readex; for current years of coverage, check the upper right corner of the search screen.
  Earlier Congressional documents can be found in the Readex database American State Papers, 1789-1838.


• 1935-2002: Paper
  Contact the GDIC with the document or report citation (Senate or House, document or report number, number and session of Congress, date) to request the corresponding Serial Set volume.

  Example (from LexisNexis Congressional®):

  TITLE: Gooding, John, and James Williams CIS-NO: 40 H.rp.1
  DOC-TYPE: Serial Set Collection
  DOC-NO: H.rp.1, 16-1
  SERIAL-VOL-NO: 40
  SESSIONAL-VOL-NO: 1
  CONG-SESS: 16-1
  SESSION-DATE: 1819, 1820
  CONGRESS: 16

• 2003-present: Online GPO Access: documents and reports.