Abstract
The improvement in the bibliographic control of French government documents, which began with the establishment of two bibliographies of official publications in the 1950s, has recently been greatly enhanced by the publication of lists of official serials by the Commission for the Coordination of Government Documentation. The Commission also played a leading role in the campaign to improve legal access to French government documents which resulted in the passage of a Freedom of Information Act in 1978. The production and distribution of documents remains decentralized, with publishing activities divided among three government printing houses and several individual agencies. The catalogs produced by these publishers are listed, together with information on how they may be obtained. Later sections of the article present the main guides and directories for the government as a whole, and for each branch, and discuss the most important documents currently being published, giving particular attention to the Journal officiel and publications on budgeting, economic planning, and statistics.
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