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 only)

• U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1789-present (LexisNexis) Includes American State Papers
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 (Readex)
• American State Papers, 1789-1838, (Readex)

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

Online (public access) 1995-present

documents and reports
(U.S. Government Printing Office)