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Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Free askSam Searchable Version (ResearchBuzz) From the press release: “The text from the several hundred page act has been imported into a searchable, hypertext-linked askSam database. The individual sections of the legislation are divided into separate documents in the database. This allows you to easily locate sections …
From CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK), Freedom of Information Web Resources. (via Net-Gold)
From the press release: “The United Nations…announced the availability of its Official Document System (ODS), the premier full-text web resource for official United Nations documentation, to the general public, as of 31 December 2004…Comprehensive coverage starts in 1993. Older United Nations documents are added to the system on a daily basis. Selective coverage of General …
New on LLRX.com for December 27, 2004: The Federal Web: Content at the Ten-year Mark – Peggy Garvin, author of The United States Government Internet Manual, takes researchers on a tour of content they can expect to find on federal, executive branch websites, and where on the site they can expect to find it. Notes …
Researcher Michael Ravnitzky obtained an archive of over 500,00 documents from the Air Force Historical Research Agency, “cover(ing) almost every aspect of US military history from the 1920s to the early 1980s…This is the first time that this massive list has been seen by the public.” His FOIA request yielded this unprecedented collection of documents …
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2004, Sixth Annual List, RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) I highly recommend reviewing this list of 30 websites that includes the Household Products Database, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog and the University of Michigan Documents Center.
According to the Boston Globe, the CIA is invoking the Glomar response to forestall responding to FOIA requests submitted by advocacy groups for documents and photos related to detainee abuse. the “CIA . . . asserts that it is not able to confirm or deny whether it has any records relating to its purported involvement …
Law Libraries Mix Online with Hard Copy to Ease Access, Cut Costs: “”At the heart of much of the federal Judiciary’s work is legal researchthe hunt for precedent, consensus, legislative intent, and other decision-making factors. Federal court librarians can ease that often-daunting task amid today’s technology explosion.”
From the RedSiren press release: “A new survey of computer security professionals reveals that while many of them believe that the time they need to comply with increased government regulations has cut into their ability to secure their computer networks, they also admit that those networks are safer as a result.” Related references: Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, …
Fortune.com has an extensive article on the slippery slope effect of relying on the “viral” linking aspect of blogs to promote products, as well as highlighting recent examples of the enormous impact of bloggers’ responses to instances of what they perceive as corporate misdeeds and the marketing of faulty products. Related article from the New …
I am delighted and honored that Dennis Kennedy has chosen beSpacific as the Best Overall Legal Blog for 2004. To be in the company of experts in the legal blogging sphere such as Tom Mighell, Ernest Svenson, Denise Howell, Kevin O’Keefe, Jerry Lawson and Martin Schwimmer is just terrific. I relish spotlighting news, resources and …
“RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 44 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.” (there are currently 193,000 items in the database)
