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BRIE (Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy) Based at the University of California, BRIE is a small, interdisciplinary research project which for nearly seventeen years has worked with academics, business leaders and scholars from around the world from such wide-ranging disciplines as urban planning, political science, economics and engineering to consider the real-world interactions of technology, markets and economies and to formulate path-breaking positions that challenge conventional economic policy-making. A look through their working and research papers (about half available on-line) reveals a number which relate to telecommunications.

CERP (Communications Economic Research Program) Based in Perth, Australia, CERP focuses mainly on the Australian telecoms industry. The site includes a research section listing the organisation's contributions to books, journals and conferences, together with an outline of work in progress. A number of abstracts are available but no full text.

CITI (Columbia Institute for Tele-Information) This institute focuses upon the issues of management, strategy and policy in the fields of telecommunications, information technology and electronic mass media. A large number of working papers are listed by year and can be ordered for a small fee (free to CITI affiliates). The papers' contents are not, however, available on the site. Connected with CITI is the Virtual Institute of Information (VII) which describes itself as "the source for telecommunications, cybercommunications and mass media research". It provides an excellent collection of resources relating to the telecommunications industry, including numerous papers which are freely accessible.

CRTP (The Center for Research on Telecommunications Policy) Based at the University of California, Berkeley, this is a multi-university research and outreach programme designed to foster business and public policy research on regulatory and structural issues of regional, national and international importance. Drawing on the fields of economics, business, and public policy, its research explores the interactions between business decisions of major telecommunications firms and regulatory, legislative and antitrust developments. The site gives access to their working paper series going back to 1994. These can be ordered on the site for a small fee, with a number of the more recent papers available in PDF format.

PIRP (Program on Information Resource Policy) Based at Harvard, its mission is "to help policymakers, our Affiliates, and the public address changes in communications and information resources". The site lists current research projects, some of which offer the opportunity for interaction with the work in progress. The programme's publications are also listed, a few of which are available on-line, free of charge.

SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) Located at the University of Sussex, England, its mission is "to deepen understanding of the place of science, technology and innovation in the global economy for the benefit of government, business and society". The site carries a publications list, some of which are available on-line. A search facility is also provided and gave around 150 'hits' when using telecommunications as the search term.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network) This site is geared particularly towards economics and provides a large number of abstracts and on-line articles. Contact details are normally provided for the relevant authors and an indication is also given of the number of times individual documents have been accessed. Searching the data-base using 'telecommunications' gives over 50 papers.