TRB INFORMATION SERVICES

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• TRB INFORMATION SERVICES
• Midwest Conference on Library Information
  Services for Transportation
• Barbara Post
• bpost_at_nas.edu

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TRB INFORMATION SERVICES

• TRB Library
• Databases
• TRB Publications Index
• PATH Database
• Research in Progress Database
• TRIS

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TRB LIBRARY

• Mission to provide library and information
  services to support TRB activities and sponsors
• Users
• TRB staff
• Committees
• Sponsors
• General Public

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TRB LIBRARY COLLECTION

• Primarily archival - all TRB/HRB, SHRP, and
  Marine Board Publication
• Over 400 serial titles
• Small reference and transportation collection

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FUNDING TRB LIBRARY

• TRB Library established 1946
• Funding from core support
• Part of National Academies access to their
  resources
• Receive complimentary publications to index into
  TRIS

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Electronic Information

• Not as advanced as I would like
• Distribute some electronic material (AASHTO
  Journal)
• Access to electronic resources through National
  Resource Council Library
• Plans for Intranet
• Reauthorization information

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TRB PUBLICATIONS INDEX

• Index all papers, articles and reports published
  by TRB from the early 1970s to date
• Contains about 22,000 records
• Available on the Web
• Links to electronic bookstore, out-of-print order
  form or full text electronic documents

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PATH DATABASE

• PATH is the largest and most comprehensive
  collection of bibliographic information on
  Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Produced by the ITS at the University of
  California - Berkeley
• Contains over 25,000 records
• Integrated into TRIS

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Research in Progress

• Over 6600 statements of research projects
• Includes records from
• State DOTs, FHWA, FTA, TRB, Universities, and
  Canada
• New RiP Web site through TRB
• Combines data entry developed under NCHRP Project
  20-39(2) and searchable database of all RiP
  records

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TRIS TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INFORMATIONSERVICES

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TRIS FACTS

• Largest and most comprehensive database on
  transportation resource
• Contains over 550,000 records of published and
  on-going transportation research
• For almost 40 years has been one of the major
  resources on transportation

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COVERAGE

• All modes
• Highway
• Transit
• Railroads
• Maritime
• Aviation

• Various disciplines
• Planning
• Finance
• Design and Construction
• Materials
• Environmental Issues
• Safety and Human Factors
• Operations

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MATERIALS IN TRIS

• All of TRB publications and papers
• Technical Reports - Federal and State governments
• University Research
• Association and Organizational publications
• Magazine Articles
• Conference Proceedings
• Monographs
• Web documents issue

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SOURCES OF INFORMATION

• TRB Indexers and abstractors
• State submitted RIP
• PATH Database
• TLIB files
• Northwestern Universitys Transportation Library
• University of California Berkeley, ITS Library
• ITRD--European Material

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ACCESS TO TRIS

• TRIS is available through two commercial
  services.
• Dialog and SilverPlatter
• Searches of TRIS available from TRB Library
• TRIS is now available free on Web as TRIS Online
  through the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  National Transportation Library

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TRIS ONLINE

• Agreement between TRB and BTS
• TRB continues to produce TRIS
• TRIS available on the Web through the National
  Transportation Library
• Valued added - links to full text public domain
  reports or document suppliers

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TRIS ONLINE

• Includes all of TRIS except Research in Progress
  and ITRD Database
• Updated monthly
• Currently over 6600 links to full text
• Links for direct ordering from NTIS and TRB
• Over 50,000 links to corporate author web sites

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PLANS FOR TRB INFORMATION SERVICES

• Improve TRIS - new production system
• Work with NTL on improving TRIS Online
• Links
• Searching
• Expand services to users
• TRB Library Web page
• OPAC Online
• Library Intranet