What are fugitive documents? Federal government publications (print or electronic) that have not been reported to and are not cataloged by the Government Printing Office.*
How to locate them: You may discover a fugitive document from a citation in a journal or news article, in trying to fufill a request from a patron or when browsing the web site of a federal agency.
Procedure for reporting: If you think you have run across a fugitive document, follow the these steps to report it to the GPO.
1. Check to see if the document is listed in the Catalog of Government Publications at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/
2. If the title isn't in CGP, search for the publication in the OCLC Online Union Catalog, via Connexion, Passport/PRISM, FirstSearch WorldCat, or other interface. If the title is in OCLC, see if the letters "GPO" appear in field 040 of the bibliographic record. If they do, then GPO has cataloged the title. If they do not, then consider the title a fugitive document.
3. Send your report of the fugitive document to GPO by filling out the Lostdocs web form. The form is available at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/tools/lostdocs.html
4. Send our committee an email of the fugitive document(s) you have found so that we can keep track of your find. Send the email to: pjarret (at) u.washington.edu
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*"Government document" is defined in 44 U.S.C. sections 1901 and 1902.