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Follow up to Google Scholar Now Includes Free Case Law Database and Bridging the DiGital Divide: A New Vendor in Town? Google Scholar Now Includes Case Law, this related article – Google Scholar: A New Way to Search for Cases and Related Legal Publications.
Eastern, New Age Beliefs Widespread – Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, December 2009 “The religious beliefs and practices of Americans do not fit neatly into conventional categories. A new poll by the Pew Research Centers Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that large numbers of Americans engage …
A Guide for the Perplexed Part III: The Amended Settlement Agreement – On Friday, November 13, 2009, Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers filed an Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) in the copyright infringement litigation concerning the Google Library Project. The amendments proposed by the parties are designed to address objections made …
Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book Search settlement, this letter to DOJ Antitrust Division: “The American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries (the Library Associations) write to express our views concerning how the United States should respond to the Amended Settlement Agreement filed …
Jose Antonio Vargas, Technology and Innovations editor, Huffington Post: “This is the transcript of a wide-ranging, two-part, three-hour interview with Al Gore, touching on the impact of technology and the Internet in politics, both in the U.S. and abroad; the state of the mainstream media and the left and right blogosphere; the role of the …
Deep Web Research 2010: Marcus P. Zillman is a an internet search expert whose extensive knowledge of how to leverage the “invisible” or “deep” web is exemplified in this guide. The Deep Web covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion pages of information located through the world wide web in various files and formats. …
Melting snow and ice: a call for action, A report commissioned by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore and Norways Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre, Centre for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems, Norwegian Polar Institute, Polar Environmental Centre, NO9296 Tromsø, Norway. “Snow and ice are melting far above normal seasonal changes, and the changes …
How to Learn Your Credit Score, by Andrea Coobes, WSJ “The world of credit ratings is getting more transparent, thanks in part to a number of Web sites offering free credit scores and credit-management tools. But that doesn’t mean understanding your credit ranking is any easier. It may be more complicated than ever. Those Web …
Pew Hispanic Center Report – Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America, December 2009 (156 pages, PDF) “Hispanics are the largest and youngest minority group in the United States. One- in-five schoolchildren is Hispanic. One-in-four newborns is Hispanic. Never before in this country’s history has a minority ethnic group made up …
National Alliance for Caregiving in Collaboration with AARP: “Caregiving is still mostly a woman’s job and many women are putting their career and financial futures on hold as they juggle part-time caregiving and full-time job requirements. This is the reality reported in Caregiving in the U.S. 2009, the most comprehensive examination to date of caregiving …
“Here we go again our latest list of the 100 best websites sees short attention spans, the rise of Twitter, more browser wars and celebrity gossip sites setting the news agenda.”
Shawn Moynihan: “Editor & Publisher, the bible of the newspaper industry and a journalism institution that traces its origins back to 1884, is ceasing publication. An announcement, made by parent company The Nielsen Co., was made Thursday morning as staffers were informed that E&P, in both print and online, was shutting down…Editor & Publisher was …
