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Monday, 4th January 2010

Resource of the Week: DocuTicker!

Resource of the Week: DocuTicker!
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor

You're probably at least peripherally aware of our sister site, DocuTicker, which features "a hand-picked selection of resources, reports and publications from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest organizations." It's an information junkie's paradise (and believe me -- we live the information junkie lifestyle here on ResourceShelf).

You'll find no commentary or ideological slant over on DT; we post items from organizations in every corner of the socio-political spectrum. We know our readers are sharp enough to take a close look at the organizations behind some of these resources and weight the information therein accordingly. We think it's important that you be aware of what is "out there" on contemporary issues in the public policy sphere. Mostly, though, we try and post items from reliable sources that you can safely cite -- government and international agencies, scholarly journals, well-regarded "think tanks" like RAND and the Brookings Institution, academic research centers, etc. Adrian Janes, our contributing editor "across the pond," finds interesting items from a variety of UK and EU sources. (And we always appreciate it when our readers e-mail us to let us know about new and interesting papers and reports.)

As with ResourceShelf, you'll find a list a list of categories on DocuTicker down the right side of the page. Just click to browse items in the category of interest. It is also possible to subscribe to an RSS feed that contains just items from a specific category. Contributing editor Pete Weiss, our oracle of All Things Technical, offers simple instructions:

An an example, if you were interested in subscribing to the category Energy, you would click on it from the in the list on the righthand side and find this in your browser's GOTO bar:

http://www.docuticker.com/?cat=19

You would then construct a new URL by appending

&feed=rss2

to the URL, resulting in

http://www.docuticker.com/?cat=19&feed=rss2

This is the URL for the Energy RSS feed that would then be added to your aggregator.

DocuTicker does, of course, have an "everything" feed that shows you every item posted, regardless of category -- feed://www.docuticker.com/?feed=rss. If you're social media-minded, you can follow DocuTicker on Facebook or Twitter.

Here's a sampling of recently posted DocuTicker items


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