Thursday, March 30, 2006

International Economic Statistics (IES) Database

is available at http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/iesd This site provides a search portal for world wide econonic indicators such as GDP and CPI and other useful international and national information. Designed and managed by
the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis librarians.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Central Foreign Policy Files (1974-1974)

"Central Foreign Policy Files (1974-1974)" is now accessible through NARA's Access to Archival Databases (AAD). See the details at http://aad.archives.gov/aad/

Friday, March 17, 2006

GPO's New Catalog of Government Publibations (CGP)

is now available at http://catalog.gpo.gov This is the online public access catalog of the GPO's new integrated system that will replace MOCAT. It allows you to find both historical and current government publications back to 1976. More functions and features will be added in the next three months. Please explore this new version. Comments, suggestions, or questions about this new CGP can be submitted to askGPO (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/help/index.html) using the instructions located at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/cip/cgp_questions.pdf

Monday, March 13, 2006

Census 2000 CDs by Geolytics Added

Geolytics Census 2000 package, a total of 11 CDs, is NOW available through the Government Documents Department in Fenwick Library. This package includes Census 2000 Long form (STF3), Short form, Short form (blocks), Restricting, and Restricitng (blocks). Also added to the collection is Geolytics Census 1990 long form (blocks). These products allow you to extract Census data and create thematic maps from all census tables.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Canadian Industry Statistics (CIS) Database

This database provides a wonderful resources for Canana Business information. You can access data derived from Annual Survey of Manufactures, Canadian Business Patterns (CBP) database, Canadian International Merchandise Trade Database, GDP by Industry, and Indices of Labour Productivity. Please explore at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_ecnmy/sio/homepage.html