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Beet.TV: “A major defense department contractor, BBN of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has applied a national security technology application, developed to fight terrorism, to “crawl” the audio tracks of public Internet videos through its Podzinger subsidiary. Podzinger has analyzed, transcribed and organized some 1.5 million YouTube clips since December and is crawling many thousand every day, according …
Press release: “The Center for Research Libraries and RLG Programs (a unit of the OCLC Programs and Research division) announce the publication of Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist.”
The World’s Billionaires, Forbes 2007: “Forbes pinned down 946 billionaires, including 178 newcomers and 17 people who climbed back into the ranks after being absent for a year or more. Two-thirds of last year’s billionaires are richer. Only 17% are poorer, including 32 who fell below the billion-dollar mark. The billionaires’ combined net worth climbed …
Press release: “The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Elsevier have established an agreement to make author manuscripts of articles published in Elsevier and Cell Press journals publicly available six months following final publication. It takes effect for articles published after September 1, 2007…Elsevier will deposit author manuscripts of original research articles, along with an …
“REMM (Radiation Event Medical Management – Guidance for Diagnosis and Treatment for Health Care Professionals) was produced by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Office of Planning and Emergency Operations, in cooperation with the National Library of Medicine, Division of Specialized Information Services, with subject …
From Vicenç Feliú: “Civil Law Dictionary Wiki project based on an article previously published in the Louisiana Law Review, Volume 54, Number 5, May 1994, for the use of Common Law practitioners unfamiliar with Civil Law terminology.” See also “JurisPedia, an encyclopædic project of academic initiative devoted to worldwide law, legal and political sciences.”
News: “Item records in WorldCat.org, WorldCats open-Web interface, now include a Cite this Item link that provides bibliographic citations in five common styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Turabian. Displayed in a separate pop-up window, the citations follow the reference standard for each style. The citations window cautions users that “formatting rules within a style …
The Changing Landscape of U.S. Public Education -Hispanics Account for Most of Rising Enrollments, by Rick Fry, Senior Research Associate, Pew Hispanic Center, March 7, 2007: “Since the mid-1990s, two trends have transformed the landscape of American public education: Enrollment has increased because of the growth of the Hispanic population, and the number of schools …
Via Metafilter, this link to current issues of the IBM Journal of Research and Development and the Systems Journal (no fee) as well as to a Special Report – Celebrating 50 years of the IBM Journals: “Since the first publication of the IBM Journal of Research and Development in 1957 and the IBM Systems Journal …
Tim Stanley and the Justia team keep rolling out new services for the legal community that assist us in accessing essential government documents via user-friendly websites, with accompanying RSS feeds and customized search capabilities. Today news is about the launch of a free, searchable database of Federal Register Regulations, Proposed Rules and Notices. This site …
Google Librarian Center posting: “Today we announced our 13th Library Project partner, the Bavarian State Library. With the announcement of a fourth library partner located outside the U.S., we’re making headway towards our goal of helping people find books from libraries all over the world through Google Book Search. We’re making a good deal of …
Via DefenseTech: “Compiled by former West Point professor and military historian Kim Kagan whos the sister of Robert Kagan, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and frequent commentator on military affairs and Fred Kagan, one of the principle authors of Bushs new surge plan the newly-released Iraq Report is a bi-weekly …
