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The ACM SIGMOD Anthology - This anthology covers 25 years of database research spanning 1975-1999. It is a digital library for the database systems research community developed by ACM SIGMOD in cooperation with the VLDB Endowment, the IEEE TC on Data Engineering, and the EDBT Endowment. The bibliographic information of ACM SIGMOD Anthology is integrated into the DBLP Bibliography.

IEEE Signal Processing Electronic Library (SPeL) - is a collection of documents from among the periodicals and technical meeting proceedings published under IEEE Signal Processing Society - SPS, the period 1950-2001. It contains about 238,000 pages of more than 44,800 documents. The whole library compressed on two DVDs.

International Financial Statistics - IFS 2003 - IFS is a statistical product of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and corresponds to the printed International Financial Statistics. IFS contains time series of financial and economic variables: exchange rates, fund accounts, international liquidity, international banking, money, interest rates, prices, wages, production, employment, international transactions, government finance, national accounts and population are included for most members of the Fund. It is updated monthly.

PC-TAS - Trade Analysis System - PC-TAS contains five-year time series of foreign trade (import/export) statistics extracted from the COMTRADE database of the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSTAT), which covers over 90% of world trade. The data provides an overview of actual import and export values, quantities and trends broken down by country of origin or destination, for each product. It contains foreign trade data covering 200 countries and territories broken down into 3,800 Standard International Trade Classification (SITC revision 3) products viewable at the 1-, 4- or 5-digit level or 5,300 Harmonized System (HS revision 0) products viewable at the 2- and 6-digit level.

United Nations Statistical Yearbook - United Nations Statistical Yearbook SYB-CD provides data on every aspect of social and economic life for nearly 200 countries and areas of the world. The content of the SYB-CD is the same as the print edition but the CD provides an easy means of searching and grouping of countries, periods and series. The Yearbook presents 81 tables in the fields of demographic and social statistics, national accounts, finance, labour force, wages and prices, agriculture, manufacturing, transport and communications, energy, environment, science and technology, intellectual property, international merchandise trade, international tourism, balance of payments, and development assistance.

World Bank Global Development Finance 2003- contains statistical data for the 138 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections. Data selection screens are intuitive and easy to use. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Data can also be exported in standard formats.

World Bank TradeCan 2002 - is a comprehensive database for the analysis of the competitiveness of nations. It is based on the official UN international trade statistics, using the 4-digit SITC. It covers the period 1985-2000 for all exporter countries in the world. Around the central concept of "market share," TradeCAN offers novel indicators of the quality, structure and performance of international trade specialization of nations. TradeCAN 2002 has a user-friendly interface that allows rapid data retrieval and easy report preparation.  

World Development Indicators - is World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. It is a collection of statistical data and commentary. It focuses on people, economy, environment, states and markets, and global links. The CD-ROM contains a database of more than 550 indicators selected from a time series database of 40 years and 208 countries, where data is available. It also contains full text of WDI book. The data can be exported in several formats. WDI 2003 has new user friendly interface.

World Development Report 1978-2003 (WDR) - published annually by the World Bank since 1978, is a mine of information on the economic and social state of the world today. This omnibus CD-ROM edition includes all reports from 1978 through 2003, fully indexed and cross-referenced. Designed for ease of speed of use, this edition uses a complete text indexing. Multiple volumes of text are turned into a single powerful resource database, which can be used as an encyclopedic reference tool by professionals and students alike.