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{{Short description|Digital archive}}
{{Redirect|Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research|other uses|Fraser (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Use American English|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox website
| name = FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research)
| url = {{URL|https://fraser.stlouisfed.org}}
| commercial = No
| type =
*[[Digital library]]
*[[Economic history of the United States]]
| owner = [[Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis]]
| launch_date = 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 [[economic history of the United States|United States' economic history]], particularly the history of the [[Federal Reserve System]], through digitization of documents related to the U.S. financial system.<ref name=FRASER>{{cite web|url=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ |title=Economic Data Publications, Historical Federal Reserve Archive, FRASER |publisher=Fraser.stlouisfed.org |date= |accessdate=October 16, 2014}}</ref><ref name=about/>
==Documents available==
Digitized documents include:<ref name=about/>
* Publications of the [[Federal Reserve Board of Governors]]
* Publications of each of the Federal Reserve banks
* Statements, speeches and archival materials of Federal Reserve policymakers
* Government data publications
* Statistical releases
* Congressional hearings
* Books
* Reports by various organizations
===2016 additions===
FRASER  in 2016 added:
1. The Commercial and Financial Chronical (over 2000 issues in 68 volumes, mostly from 1871-1935).<br>
2.The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Financial Crisis Timeline and its original supporting documents, which includes a comprehensive collection of documents from the 2007-09 financial crisis.<br>
3. The Robert Owen papers. OKlahoma's Senator Owen served from 1907-25, and was a co-sponsor of the [[Federal Reserve Act]] of 1913.<br>
4. Publications and speeches from several Federal Reserve Banks.
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5. FRASER also debuted a new "African Americans in the Economy" theme, featuring materials from the Department of Labor's Division of Negro Economics (1917-25).
==Collaborators==
To create and maintain FRASER, the St. Louis Fed collaborated with the [[Federal Depository Library Program]]  libraries (collaboration begin in 2005)<ref name=fdlp>{{cite web|url=http://www.fdlp.gov/all-newsletters/partnership-showcase/1083-partnership-showcase-fraser|title = The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)|date = March 14, 2013|accessdate = April 18, 2014|publisher = [[Federal Depository Library Program]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419014908/http://www.fdlp.gov/all-newsletters/partnership-showcase/1083-partnership-showcase-fraser |archive-date= Apr 19, 2014 }}</ref> [[United States Government Printing Office]], and several university and public libraries.<ref name=about>{{cite web|url=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/about/|title = About |website=FRASER |publisher = [[Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis]]|accessdate = October 16, 2014}}</ref>
==Reception==
FRASER has been praised by advocates of government transparency for continually adding to its collection of freely available historical documents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freegovinfo.info/node/3750 |first1= James R. |last1=Jacobs |date=July 28, 2012 |title = FRASER adds new Marriner S. Eccles Document collection on economic history and the Fed|accessdate = April 18, 2014|publisher = Free Government Information }}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Federal Reserve Economic Data]] (FRED)
* [[Research Papers in Economics]] (RePEc)
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* {{official website}}
[[Category:Economic history of the United States]]
[[Category:Discipline-oriented digital libraries]]
[[Category:American digital libraries]]
[[Category:Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis data services]]