Day archives: September 29th, 2015

Review of the Current Landscape of Library Data Services and Institutional Data Policies

Briney, K., Goben, A., & Zilinski, L. (2015). Do You Have an Institutional Data Policy? A Review of the Current Landscape of Library Data Services and Institutional Data Policies. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3(2), eP1232. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1232 “INTRODUCTION Many research institutions have developed research data services in their libraries, often in anticipation of or …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

EPA Revisions to the Worker Protection Standard – Pesticides

“EPA is announcing stronger protections for the nation’s two million agricultural workers and their families working on farms, forests, nurseries, and greenhouses. These revisions to the 1992 Agricultural Worker Protection Standard will afford farmworkers similar health protections that are already afforded to workers in other industries….There is a clear need for better protection for farmworkers. …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Mozilla Cybersecurity Delphi 1.0: Towards a user-centric policy framework

“From compromises of some of the world’s largest corporations, to critical vulnerabilities in widely used open source software, to exponential growth in the number of connected devices and users, the need to proactively design policies and practices to secure users and Internet infrastructure has never been greater. Yet, cybersecurity public policy conversations too often are …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S.

“Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States, pushing the country’s foreign-born share to a near record 14%. For the past half-century, these modern-era immigrants and their descendants have accounted for just over half the nation’s population growth and have …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Majority Says Any Budget Deal Must Include Planned Parenthood Funding

Pew – “With the prospect of a government shutdown apparently decreasing, the public by a wide margin says that any congressional budget agreement must maintain funding for Planned Parenthood. The latest national poll by the Pew Research Center, conducted Sept. 22-27 among 1,502 adults, finds that 60% say that any budget deal must maintain funding for …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Legal Research, Legislation

2012 Economic Census: Mining Geographic Area Series

“The 2012 Economic Census mining release continues with three geographic area series reports, which provide statistics for the state or offshore areas. Industry statistics are published at the two- through six-digit North American Industry Classification System levels and detailed statistics are shown at the two-digit NAICS level. Industry statistics by type of operation for state or offshore areas are …

Subjects: Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents

Infographic: Job Creation in the United States

“A collection of three graphs utilizing data from Business Dynamics Statistics, which provides annual statistics on establishments, firm startups and job creation and job loss. This infographic describes important trends observed in the Business Dynamics Statistics data released last week, which includes statistics through 2013. The graphs address startups’ contribution to the total number of jobs over …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

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