Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Human Rights–Databases
Source: HURIDOCS
New Database, HURISEARCH
“HURISEARCH is a HUman RIghts SEARCH engine. It aims to:
+ provide one point access to all human rights information published by human rights organisations worldwide, and particularly human rights NGOs
+ provide a searching tool with egalitarian and known ranking and indexing principles without regard to commercial agendas
+ provide a searching tool which is overseen by human rights people specifically to meet human rights needs
+ provide an easy to use multilingual human rights search engine [French and Spanish language interfaces available]
HURISEARCH currently directly searches over 1300 human rights NGO sites in 58 languages.” Search technology is provided by FAST.
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Transportation–Online Catalogs
Source: Managing Information
Transportation Libraries Catalog created from WorldCat
From the article: “A new library catalogue, formed by bringing together resources from leading transportation libraries, offers a single, subject-focused group of records for finding information related to transportation. The Transportation Libraries Catalog was created from catalogue records and holdings information in WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive database of bibliographic information, contributed by 15 original participating transportation libraries with special collections that feature rare and often unique items. The customized union catalogue of bibliographic records is searchable through the OCLC FirstSearch service.”
Direct Link to Transcat
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Geographic Images–New Jersey–Databases
New Database, New Jersey Image Warehouse
From a Government Technology announcement, “The New Jersey Office of Information Technology recently unveiled the NJ Image Warehouse, a new Internet application that allows users to download statewide ortho photography. ‘Ortho imagery combines the image characteristics of an aerial photograph with the geometric qualities of a map,” said Bruce Harrison, state geographic information officer. ‘We built the NJ Image Warehouse so that this essential statewide mapping resource could be available to anyone with Internet access.’”
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Geology–United States–Databases
Source: USGS
New, Shake This! USGS Releases Quaternary Fault Database for the Nation
“A new USGS website (http://qfaults.cr.usgs.gov/) summarizes geologic, geomorphic, and geographic information on about 2000 Quaternary faults and fold-related faults in the U.S. This online database contains information on faults and associated folds in the United States that are believed to be sources of M>6 earthquakes during the Quaternary time period. The Quaternary period encompasses the past 1.6 million years, and is the period of geologic time that is most relevant to earthquake studies.”
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Business-Research Guides
New/Updated Research Guide
Source: Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Alphas and Betas

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