Wednesday, 30th June 2004

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Ancestry--United States--Statistics
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Just Released - Ancestry: 2000 [PDF]
Highlights ||| Full Text
"Nearly 43 million people - about 1-in-6 U.S. residents - identified their ancestry as German in Census 2000, the Census Bureau reported today. Other large ancestry groups were Irish (30.5 million), African-American (24.9 million), English (24.5 million) and Mexican (18.4 million)."
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Iraq
Source: Congressional Research Service (via FAS)
Full Text Report: U.S. Treatment of Prisoners in Iraq: Selected Legal Issues
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Education--Policies
Source: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
State Policy Inventory Database Online (SPIDO)
"This State Policy Inventory Database Online is a joint project between WICHE and the Pathways to College Network. SPIDO is designed to provide state and national policymakers, education leaders, practitioners and education consumers with an inventory of state-level policies and resources in key policy domains related to student achievement, access and success in higher education." Search by state or search by issue. Resources include state statutes, state board policies, and hyperlinks to state agencies, resources, reports and studies.
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Cartoons--United Kingdom
Source: The Library of Congress
New Collection Available in the LC Print and Photos Database
The new collection is titled, "British Cartoon Collection" and contains about five per cent of the complete collection (about 500 prints). From the site, ". British political and satirical prints (ca. 1621-ca. 1853, bulk, 1780-1830) highlighting aspects of British political life, including tensions with its colonies and other nations, as well as society, fashion, manners, and theater...The cartoons represented online are primarily those that have been photographed and individually cataloged in response to requests from researchers."
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Weblogs--Academia
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Academic Web Logs
"All of the Web logs listed here feature occasional discussions about academic life, careers, and the job market."
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Medical Literature--Handhelds
Source: National Library of Medicine
PubMed� for Handhelds Offers Searching via PICO
From the article: "PICO, which stands for Patient/Problem, Intervention, Compared to, and Outcome, is a method used for structuring clinical questions. This format can also be used for structuring literature searches and may be helpful to those interested in evidence-based medicine"
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Historical Information
Source: International Council on Archives
Exchanging Knowledge on Digital Society of the Past
From the Press Release: "DIVA (the Association for Records Management and Archives in the Netherlands) has recently launched a pioneering project: the Digital Society of the Past. The Digital Society of the Past is an innovative application for exchanging historical information on the Internet. The core of the system is a peer-to-peer participation structure open to members of the public and heritage institutions alike. This application is being developed under an open source licence. A website is now online containing lots of background information on the subject. Please visit our website for more detailed information."
Direct to the Digital Society of the Past
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Government Information--United States--Business
Source: Rosenfeld Library, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Government Information by Type of Business Information Need
"Links to selected government agency Web sites (U.S. and California), topic-specific home pages, and to Web versions, most in full text, of government publications of highest value to business and economics research and information needs." Coverage includes demographics, economic conditions & indicators, employment & the workplace, finance/banking/financial markets, industry, international country & foreign trade, law & regulation, news/press releases, real estate, small business & entrepreneurship, state/county/local governments, statistics other than business, taxation, additional finding aids.

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