Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items)
Military Law–United States
Source: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
New Resource Compilation: Military Legal Resources
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Election 2004
Factiva Posts Media Visibility Index (Week Ending 3/28/04)
“The Factiva Media Visibility Index will track the number of weekly media mentions garnered by each of the candidates competing in the 2004 Presidential election.”
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Travel–United States
Source: BTS
BTS Announces New Air Travel Price Index
Official Announcement/Tables ||| Home Page
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Online Music
Source: Harvard Business School
CD Sales Not Reduced by File Sharing, Say Researchers at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“A new study by two researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, finds that sharing digital music files has no effect on CD sales. This is the first study that directly compares actual downloads of music files and store sales of CDs.” Some findings from the study:
+ “File Sharing Cannot Explain the Decline in Sales of Music during This Period”
+ “More Popular CDs Benefit from File Sharing”
+ “File Sharers Download a Small Selection of Songs”
+ “Songs from Top Current Albums Are Most Often Downloaded”
+ “Marketing Strongly Influences What People Download and What They Buy”
+ “U.S. Has Largest Number of File Sharers”
+ “Germany Is the Most Important Foreign Supplier of Music Files”
See Also: Direct Link to Full Text of Study (PDF; 360 KB)
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Special Collections
Source: Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections, Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University
Pastimes and Paradigms: Games We Play
“The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections investigates the evolution of games since 1800…. The exhibition includes a wide variety of antique and contemporary games, as well as rare books on rules, strategies, and recreation. Featured items include early nineteenth-century geographical board games; a Civil War game; suffrage games that garnered support in the battle for women’s votes; a vintage Monopoly game…; gambling punchboards; and a selection of games inspired by television programming.” Thanks to SDK for the link.

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