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Pay It Forward Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions

University of California Libraries, June 30, 2016, Revised July 18, 2016. Pay It Forward Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions “As the global open access movement continues to grow and evolve, the question of whether a wholesale shift of the scholarly journal publishing system to …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

24/7 Wall St. ranks job opportunities by state

“More than a quarter million jobs were added to the U.S. economy in July, and the official unemployment rate remained unchanged at just under 5%, according to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, some of these jobs were undesired part-time positions, and the official unemployment rate often gives an incomplete …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Working Paper – Low long-term interest rates as a global phenomenon

Low long-term interest rates as a global phenomenon by Peter Hördahl, Jhuvesh Sobrun and Philip Turner. Working Papers No 574. August 2016. “International linkages between interest rates in different currencies are strong, and ultra-low rates have become a global phenomenon. This paper compares how interest rates in advanced economies and in emerging economies are conditioned …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Paper – Securing the Connected Car

Commonalities in Vehicle Vulnerabilities, Corey Thuen, Senior Security Consultant, IOActive: “With the Connected Car becoming commonplace in the market, vehicle cybersecurity grows more important by the year. At the forefront of this growing area of security research, IOActive has amassed real-world vulnerability data illustrating the general issues and potential solutions to the cybersecurity issues facing …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Transportation

Inspection of Federal Computer Security at US Department of the Interior

Inspection of Federal Computer Security at the U.S. Department of the Interior, August 9, 2016: “In accordance with Section 406 of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, we inspected DOI’s policies, procedures, and practices for securing its computer networks and systems for all covered systems related to logical access control policies and practices, use of multifactor …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management

Social and Economic Rights and Gender in Constitutions

Goldblatt, Beth, Social and Economic Rights and Gender in Constitutions (August 8, 2016). Draft Chapter in ‘Gender and Constitutions Handbook’ edited by Helen Irving, Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017 Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2819905 “Social and economic rights that offer to address poverty have special significance for women who, as a group, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Sources and the Enforcement of International Law: What Norms International Law-Enforcement Bodies Actually Invoke?

Shany, Yuval, Sources and the Enforcement of International Law: What Norms International Law-Enforcement Bodies Actually Invoke? (August 4, 2016). Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law (Oxford: OUP; Samantha Besson and Jean D’Aspremont eds.) (Forthcoming). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2819122 “The paper explores the sources of law used by international law-enforcing bodies, thus …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

The Political Economy of International Law A European Perspective

Fabbricotti, Alberta and Benvenisti, Eyal and Boisson de Chazournes, Laurence and Delcourt, Barbara and Kica, Evisa and Kohut, Ulyana and Lehmann, Tobias A. and Lewis, Meredith Kolsky and Panizzon, Marion and Merkouris, Panos and Nollkaemper, Andre and Petersen, Niels and Stephan, Paul B. and Trachtman, Joel P. and van Aaken, Anne and Vitiello, Daniela and …

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

New or Expanded Content and Features in FRASER

Via Katrina Stierholz -Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: * “Bulletins of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/series/1486) are available from Bulletin 1 (November 1895) to Bulletin 2299 (March 1988 * The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1339), a weekly business newspaper, is available for 1871-1935 (with several gaps in coverage). * The Financial …

Subjects: E-Records, Economy, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Over 1,000 pages of declassified docs on Argentina posted online

Argentina Declassification Project, August 8, 2016. “During his landmark visit to Argentina in March, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. government would declassify records relating to human rights abuses under Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship. At a ceremony commemorating the victims of these human rights abuses, held on the 40th anniversary of the 1976 coup d’état, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

Baltimore Sun – DOJ report finds Baltimore police routinely violated civil rights

Del Quentin Wilber and Kevin Rector, August 9, 2016: “Baltimore police routinely violated the constitutional rights of residents by conducting unlawful stops and using excessive force, according to the findings of a long-anticipated Justice Department probe to be released Wednesday. The practices overwhelmingly affected the city’s black residents in low-income neighborhoods, according to the 163-page …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research

The Copyright Holdout Problem and New Internet-Based Services

Cross, John T. and Yu, Peter K., The Copyright Holdout Problem and New Internet-Based Services (July 29, 2016). EXPLORING SENSIBLE MECHANISMS OF PAYING FOR COPYRIGHT, Liu Kung-Chung and Reto M. Hilty, eds., Springer, 2016. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2815825 “This chapter examines the holdout problem involving a copyright holder’s refusal to license digital content …

Subjects: Copyright, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal Research, Libraries

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