* Economic Bulletin Board (EBB)

This service is an outgrowth of a dial-up bulletin board offered by the U.S. Department of Commerce. It contains about 4,500 files from the Departments of Commerce, Labor, Energy, and Treasury, the White House, the Federal Reserve (including the New York Fed), and other agencies.

The EBB is currently offered on the Internet in two places. The first is a telnet interface to the EBB at the Department of Commerce, and the second is at a library gopher at the University of Michigan. There are a few more files (about 4,500 to 3,500) at the Commerce Department, but Michigan does have the vast bulk of the Commerce Department files of interest to academic economists. Most of the differences consist of agricultural, budget and trade files (the latter two are available on other places on the Internet). In addition, some of the files at the Commerce Department are only kept in binary archive files at Michigan.