The University of California (UC) CD-ROM Information System comprises about 200 GB of public data. Most of the data are CD-ROMs at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBNL), and disk copies of CD-ROMs at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Additional data are served by UC DATA at the University of California, Berkeley; North Carolina State University; and the Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA.
funding needed to maintain this system
Most of the CD-ROMs were provided by the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Library, which is a Federal Depository Library and from University of California Data Archive and Technical Assistance (UC DATA), which is a California Depository Library.
The delivery system was designed to handle the needs of UCB and the Department of Energy (DOE) and cannot sustain heavy usage by the entire Internet community.
The CD-ROMs at LBNL and UC DATA are publicly available for purposes of designing and testing new software, but they should not be considered a free public resource. Heavy users should locally install their own public data, which will greatly improve system performance. Data on CD-ROM (and other media) can be obtained at nominal cost from a number of public data sources.
You do not need to request permission to point to our CD-ROMs from your own server (but we make no guarantees and we would appreciate being informed).
The software in the CD-ROM Information System is in the public domain and may be freely copied for local installation.
It is hoped that the present system, by reducing the difficulty of obtaining and using government statistics, will stimulate the purchase of CD-ROMs and encourage the creation of other similar systems. We want others to imitate us, not rely on us!