FRASER

"Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research" redirects here. For other uses, see Fraser (disambiguation).
FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research)
Type of site
Owner Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Website fraser.stlouisfed.org
Commercial No
Launched 2004

The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) is a digital archive begun in 2004 by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to safeguard, preserve and provide easy access to the United States’ economic history, particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System, through digitization of documents related to the U.S. financial system.[1][2]

Documents available

Digitized documents include:[2]

Collaborators

To create and maintain FRASER, the St. Louis Fed collaborated with the Federal Depository Library Program libraries (collaboration begin in 2005)[3] United States Government Printing Office, and several university and public libraries.[2]

Reception

FRASER has been praised by advocates of government transparency for continually adding to its collection of freely available historical documents.[4]

See also

References

  1. "Economic Data Publications, Historical Federal Reserve Archive, FRASER". Fraser.stlouisfed.org. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "FRASER information and collaboration". Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  3. "The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)". Federal Depository Library Program. March 14, 2013. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  4. "FRASER adds new Marriner S. Eccles Document collection on economic history and the Fed". Free Government Information (FGI): Because government information needs to be free. Retrieved April 18, 2014.

External links

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