Libraries & Databases
FEDSTATS
This useful site connects users with multitudinous federally
collected data on topics from waterborne commerce to birthrates
to average wages. The topics are well organized and the
links are logical.
Journal
of Finance Financial Sites Library
The Department of Finance at Ohio State University's Fisher
College of Business offers courses in the areas of investments,
corporate finance, and banking. The web site provides links
to many online finance resources, including finance journals,
institutional working papers, professional sites, and topical
links about asset pricing, investments and microstructure.
National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) - Transportation
For advice on the scientific issues that often pervade policy
decisions, the nation's leaders frequently turn to the National
Academy of Sciences, specially created for this purpose,
and its sister organizations -- the National Academy of
Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National
Research Council. The Transportation Research Board (TRB)
is a unit of the National Research Council, and it promotes
innovation and progress in transportation by stimulating
and conducting research, facilitating the dissemination
of information, and encouraging the implementation of research
results. This website provides links to all NAS transportation
related functions, including the TRB and the Transportation
Research Information Services (TRIS), the TRB's bibliographic
database on the subject of transportation research, and
the TRB calendar. The full text of some publications and
reports are available online.
The National
Academies Press
The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National
Academies to publish the reports issued by it and its
sister organizations. NAP publishes over 200 books a
year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering,
and health, capturing authoritative views on important
issues in public policy. This website enables one to
conduct a title search or full text search, and to browse
index categories. Many full text documents are available
for online reading or download.
National Transit Database
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) collects and disseminates data on the state of mass transportation via the National Transit Database (NTD) program. Over 600 of the nation's transportation providers submit data to the NTD annually. Both the public and private sectors use this data to assess the current state of mass transit and plan for the future.
National
Transportation Library
(NTL)
The National Transportation Library contains materials
from public and private organizations around the country
and is intended to facilitate the exchange of information
related to transportation. It is administered by the
Bureau of Transportation Statistics in cooperation with
the Transportation Administrative Services Center (TASC),
the operating administrations and the Office of the Secretary
of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The National
Transportation Library contains documents and databases
provided free of any restriction on reproduction. The
site search connects you to many useful online and downloadable
documents.
Northwestern
University Transportation
Library
The Transportation Library of Northwestern University
was founded in 1955 and boasts over 400,000 volumes.
It is one of the largest transportation information centers
in the world, encompassing information on all forms of
transportation, including: air, rail, highway, pipeline,
water, urban transport and logistics. It has one of the
most complete collections of environmental impact statements
in the world. The library's website is well organized,
with a list of links to informational websites by specific
transportation topic. It also contains several on line
indexes of library holdings.
The
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
The OECD groups 30 member countries in an organization that,
most importantly, provides governments a setting in which
to discuss, develop and perfect economic and social policy.
They compare experiences, seek answers to common problems
and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies
that increasingly in today's globalized world must form
a web of even practice across nations. Among several different
areas, the OECD Website provides information on transport,
regulatory issues, and public finance.
SMI
Conferences
SMI provides business to business information targeted for
senior executives. Schedules and summaries of its strategic
management conferences, workshops, newsletters and management
reports are available at the site. Publications and transcribed
proceedings are available for purchase online. Conference
topics have included public private partnerships, private
finance initiatives, as well as relevant case study presentations.
Tenders
on the Web UK
Tenders on the Web is a subscription only service. It
provides access to a searchable database of European
Public Procurement contracts that are over a certain
value and that must be advertised and tenders invited.
Non-subscribers can browse topics covered in Procurement
News, and find online summaries of recent news items
about public procurement. Some items address public finance
initiatives.
TRB
Publications Index
This site provides online access to the searchable index
of Transportation Research Board (TRB) publications.
The TRB Publications Index contains over 21,000 annotated
citations for TRB and numerous other research publications,
special reports, circulars, conference proceedings, and
more. Links are provided from citations directly to TRB's
Electronic Bookstore, where one can order print publications
or full text electronic documents. The search engine
is easy to use and returns useful discussions of innovative
finance.