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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:42:23 GMT
Subject: ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 196
From: Gary Price <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ResourceShelf
E-Mail Reminder
Week 196
January 13, 2005
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Greetings from DC (Gary), FL (Shirl), NY (Steven), and PA (Dan).

It's nice and warm in FL; don't know about all those other places.  Hope
it's not too awful where y'all are.  If you're looking for beaucoup
information on countries or might like to troll through a new CIA database,
don't miss this week's Resources of the Week.  And always remember -- what
you find in this reminder is not the sum total of the contents posted on the
site each week. So check out http://www.resourceshelf.com  regularly.

And also DocuTicker --
http://www.docuticker.com -- where you'll find a stready stream of new
reports, studies, issue briefs and what-have-you from a wide range of
government agencies, NGOs, trade associations, think tanks...

Have a great week!

ResourceShelf is Compiled and Edited by
Gary D. Price, MLIS
Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting

Deputy Editor
Shirl Kennedy, MLIS

Contributing Editors
Dan Giancaterino, MLIS
Steven Cohen, MLS

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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Resources of the Week
By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
Two totally unrelated but interesting sites for you this week.
1) Business--Country Guides
Source: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Deloitte Country Guides
Reminiscent of the venerable Ernst & Young "Doing Business In..."
guides -- downloadable in PDF but somewhat scattered around the Global
E&Y site -- Deloitte's Country Guides are conveniently available from a
single page. Actually, what we have here is three sets of guides:
+ Snapshots -- "A concise digest of facts, figures, economic indicators and
country tax rates for 60 significant trading countries around the world. The
Snapshots are updated annually, they highlight general economic data and
country analysis, and are also posted on
Deloitte.com."
+ Business Guides -- "This dynamic repository contains valuable
information about regulatory, tax and business matters, including the
investment climate, labour relations and work force considerations,
business regulations, foreign investment and tax rates for major
trading nations."
+ Human Resource Guides -- "A companion to the Business Guides, the HR
Guides provide helpful information for international human resource and tax
professionals and international assignees, including national
holidays, visa details, important addresses and web links."
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2) Intelligence Analysis and Operations
Source: CIA
New, Searchable Database, Studies in Intelligence
This is an "indexed and searchable archive of articles" from a
publication called Studies in Intelligence, created by "Intelligence
trailblazer Sherman Kent -- the 'father' of intelligence analysis in
America." The database contains more than 400 articles, covering the
time period 1955-1976. A simple navigation area on the left side of the page
allows you to access the contents via an Author-Title index, an analysis
Subject index or an Operations Subject index. Alternately,
full-text search is available. (You'll get dumped into a general CIA
search page, but you can restrict your search to the Studies in
Intelligence database via a dropdown menu.) Content is PDF format.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Newspaper Web Sites--Lists & Rankings
Source: The New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/mostpopular/articles2004.html>
The 10 Most Viewed NYTimes.com Articles in 2004.
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Presidential Inauguration--2004
Source: U.S. Census
Fast Facts:
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_feature
s_special_editions/003426.html>



Inauguration Day: 2004
Inaugural first and other "fun" facts.


Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Data Visualization
Source: OCLC
Online Demo Now Available: OCLC's Data Visualization Pilot with
Antarctica Systems Inc.

Professional Reading Shelf
Current Awareness
Source: The Virtual Chase
New Web Accessible Presentation: Finding News Faster
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Music
Source: National Library of Australia
MusicAustralia: Towards a National Music Information Infrastructure
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Librarians
Source: Billings Gazette
Electric libraries: Technology changes community resources
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Metadata
Source: IEEE Multimedia (Visions and Views)
Is It Time for a Moratorium on Metadata?

Web Browsers--Opera
Opera Site Licenses Now Available for Free to Higher Education
Institutions

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
New/Recently Updated CRS Reports
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American
Scientists)
+ Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns:
Issues for Congress
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Patents--Lists & Rankings
Source: IFI CLAIMS Patent Services
IFI CLAIMS Compiles List of Year's Top Patent Winners
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Explorers--Digital Collections
Source: Library of Congress's Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Just Released, The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake


Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Mobile Web
Business Research--Hoover's
New and Improved Mobile Access to Hoover's Business Data

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries--United States
Public Library Association Launches Blog
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Internet Filters--United States
Public Libraries--Virginia
Source: AP
Bill Aims To Filter Internet Content at Va. Libraries
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Federated Search
Source: PublicTechnology.net
UK Health Web Site is Now Using Federated Search Technology

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Patents--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: USPTO (via ResourceShelf.com)
Just Released, USPTO Releases Annual List of Top 10 Organizations
Receiving Most U.S. Patents
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Broadcast Media--CBS News
Source: CBS News (via DocuTicker.com)
Review of the Independent Panel on the September 8, 2004 Sixty Minutes
Wednesday Segment "For the Record" Concerning President Bush's Texas
Air National Guard Service
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Black History Month
Source: City College of New York Libraries
"Black Studies"

Briefly
+ Openly Informatics Unveils OpenURL 1.0 TO Google Scholar Plugin
+ Xrefer Adds New Content from Sage, H.W. Wilson, Continuum and
Macquarie
+ ebrary Announces New Technology, Custom Collections, and Partnerships
(via Information Today)


Monday, January 10, 2005

Professional Reading Shelf
Librarians--United States--Military
Source: AP
Military librarians help readers from warriors to retirees
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National Libraries--Canada
Source: The Toronto Star
National Web library do-able, affordable, visionary

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Internet
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
Just Released, The Future of the Internet
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Tennessee--Online Encyclopedia
Source: University of Tennessee Press, Tennessee Historical Society
The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
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Landslides--California
Source: USGS
Southern California Landslides -- Current Information and Q&A's


Sunday, January 9, 2005

Professional Reading Shelf
Publishing Industry
Source: New York Daily News
Book biz website takes on industry mainstay
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E-Mail--United States Government
Access to Information
Source: Government Executive
Agencies back plan to delete old e-mails

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Financial Markets--Research Guide
Source: Baker Library, Harvard Business School
New/Updated Research Guide: Financial Markets
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Clinical Trials--United States
Source: USA Today
Drugmakers to voluntarily post info online about clinical trials



Saturday, January 8, 2005

Professional Reading Shelf
Electronic Information--Webliographies
Source: Marian Dworaczek, University of Saskatchewan Library
New Edition Available: "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic
Sources of Information"
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Online Research
Source: Syracuse Post-Standard
Six tips to hone your searches

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Transportation--United States--Statistics
Source: BTS
Three Just Released Statistical Reports About U.S. Transportation


Friday, January 7. 2005

Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries--United Kingdom
Digital Libraries--Health
Source: Kable's Government Computing
NHS claims library success
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Libraries
Source: University at Buffalo Reporter
Internet threat to libraries analyzed
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Academic Libraries--Weblogs
Source: Georgia State University Library
Delivering the News With Blogs: the Georgia State University Library
Experience

Briefly
+ Public Library of Science to Launch Additional Open-Access Journals

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Energy--Web Resources
Source: C&RL News
Alternative energy: Resources from coal to wind
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Adverse Drug Reactions--Canada--Database
Source: Health Canada/CBC
Canadian Adverse Drug Reaction Database
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Anti-Semitism
Source: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights,
and Labor
Report on Global Anti-Semitism, July 1, 2003 tp December 15, 2004


Thursday, January 6, 2005

Resource of the Week
Documents--United Nations--Database
Source: United Nations
United Nations Official Document System

Professional Reading Shelf
Reference Reviews
Source: Peter Jacso
Peter's Digital Reference Shelf: January 2005
Dr. Jacso begins the new year with reviews of:
+ BBC Country Profiles
+ Chambers Biographical Dictionary
++
Libraries and Librarians
Source: Boston Globe
Op/Ed: Don't close the book on libraries

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Advertising--Europe--Lists & Rankings
Source: Netimperative
Top 15 Online Advertisers and Ad Publishers in Europe, 2004



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