Over 2,000 World Bank datasets once available only to subscribers are now available to app developers, business consultants and researchers looking for international data.

In what could become the wave of the future, the Los Angeles Times has instituted an online, crowd sourced document repository. The system is both novel and potentially groundbreaking.

New data from the US Department of Education on college costs is now available allowing for cost comparisons across colleges. For researchers, the raw data files hold cross comparison potential beyond the pre-packaged lists on the site.

To tie up the series, we've created the PDF below as a quick reference comparison of the Congressional support agencies

Library of Congress THOMAS search engine

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) works with Congress to provide information, estimates and analysis that support the federal budget process.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) prepares reports related to government operations and expenditures.

Faster FOIA Act of 2011 Passed by Senate; Now to House

First in our 3 part series on records created by independent Congressional support agencies. This week: the Congressional Research Service (CRS)

The Wall Street Journal has waded into the debate over whether flight data generated by private aircrafts should be considered public information even if aircraft owners request that the data be blocked from public view.

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) makes many of its records available online.

The Bay Area News Group, which first launched its public employee salaries database last year, has updated the site with data for 2010.