Professional Reading Shelf
Happy Halloween
Public Libraries–Paranormal Phenomenon
Source: Star Beacon (Ashtabula, OH)
Ashtabula library is still watched by deceased director
“Ethel McDowell became the head librarian when the library opened in 1903. She was by far the longest-working employee of the library, dedicating 45 years of her life to the books and readers of Ashtabula…. She died shortly after her retirement in 1968, prompting library employees and visitors to claim she haunts the old building, moving objects, dropping books and making her opinions known. ‘It seems like we get more activity from her when we make a significant change such as renovation or a change in a program which she may not approve. If I was to guess I would say she is proud of her library system and does not appreciate the changes we have made,’ Library Director William Tokarczyk said.”
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Public Libraries–Theft
Source: Daily Item (Lynn, MA)
Lynn librarian keeps wary that books on witchcraft, astrology go missing this time of year
“The library has over 100 titles on these subjects listed in its bibliography index, but just over a dozen are currently available for borrowing. The other books were checked out by students of the black arts and never returned.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Seafood–Database
Source: Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation
Seafood InfoCenter
“The Seafood InfoCenter is a database designed to house information about wild-caught and farm-raised (aquaculture) seafood consumed in the United States and around the world. This site will serve as a platform for sharing fisheries and aquaculture knowledge. The Seafood InfoCenter intends to be a solid and consistent information base available to anyone who wants to learn more about seafood including: consumers, suppliers and restaurants, conservation organizations, resource managers, academics, students, industry associations and others. This comprehensive clearinghouse of seafood information is free to all users and we encourage you to submit new relevant materials.”
See also: Seafood Reports
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Folk Music–UK
Source: English Folk Dance and Song Society
English Folk Song Bibliography
“This bibliography is intended to serve both as an introduction to the study of English folk song, and as a guide to the numerous collections of songs which exist in print and manuscript. It is intended to be of assistance both to students of the subject, and to those who wish to sing the songs. The annotations offer a very brief guide to the nature of each item.”
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Public Policy–Glossary
Source: The Urban Institute
Urban Institute Policy Decoder
“This glossary contains some of the terms used in the Urban Institute’s publications and in policy debates more generally. The glossary is a work in progress and will be updated and expanded periodically.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Records–United States
Source: The Federal Judiciary
Electronic Access Available to Criminal Case Files
“Beginning November 1, 2004, all criminal case file documents available to the public at a courthouse also will be available remotely through the court’s electronic access system. Remote electronic access to civil and bankruptcy case files has been available since 2001. Similar access in criminal cases was delayed while a pilot project involving 10 federal district courts and one court of appeals was conducted. A Federal Judicial Center study of the project determined the advantages and disadvantages of such access to criminal cases.”
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Information Age
Source: St. Petersburg Times
The Truth Is Out There
“What if we’ve mistaken information for knowledge? What if the advent of the Information Age has given people not only a better opportunity to spread truth, but misinformation?”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Election 2004–Electronic Voting
Source: California Voter Foundation
Just Released, E-Voting And The 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: Top 25 Places To Watch
“To make it easier for the public and the media to track electronic voting in this presidential election, CVF has compiled a list of the 25 most populous places in the country using e-voting. This list was compiled using data from state election web sites, the Census Bureau, Election Data Services’ map, and the National Association of Counties’ web site.”
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Hurricanes–Map
Source: US Agency for International Development
Recent hurricanes in the Caribbean (PDF; 444 KB)
Provides statistics as to people affected, agencies providing aid, etc.
See also: The Caribbean: Hurricanes Fact Sheet #6
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Military Issues–Bibliography
Source: Air University Library
The Future
Extensive bibliography identifies books, documents, periodicals and Internet resources in these subject areas:
Africa, Air Force, Air Warfare, Aircraft, Arms Control, Army, Asia and the Pacific, Coast Guard, Communications and Electronics, Computers, Engineering, Europe, Land Warfare, Latin America, Logistics, Marine Corps, Mexico, Middle East, Military Forces, NATO and the Atlantic Alliance, Navy, Sea Warfare, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Technology, Third World, United Nations, United States, Warfare, Weapons, Worldwide.

Professional Reading Shelf
Library Portals
Source: ASIS&T
The October/November 2004 Issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology is Now Online
It includes a special section devoted to library portals. From the intro, “The papers included in this special section are primarily based on presentations given through a Library Information and Technology Association (LITA) Internet Portals Interest Group full-day pre-conference held in June 2004 at the American Library Association annual conference.”
Articles include:
+ Portals In Libraries
Amos A. Lakos
+ Portal Vision
Amos A. Lakos
+ An Environmental Landscape
Robert H. McDonald
+ Library Technology and Planning for Change
Krisellen Maloney
+ MyUB: UB’s Personalized Intranet Portal
Hugh W. Jarvis
+ The Scholars Portal Project: A June 2004 Update
Sarah Michalak and Mary E. Jackson
+ The Scholars Portal Project: The USC Perspective
Marianne Afifi
+ Assessments and Outcomes
Amos A. Lakos
+ Portal Implementation Issues and Challenges
Eric Lease Morgan
+ Symposium Summary
Roy Tennant and Sarah Michalak
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Research Libaries–Statistics
Source: ARL
Just Released, ARL Supplementary Statistics 2002?03
“The Association of Research Libraries is pleased to announce the availability of the ARL Supplementary Statistics 2002-03, a compilation of data that answers these questions about electronic resources. The percentage of the average library budget that is spent on electronic materials has increased more than fivefold, from an estimated 3.6% in 1992-93 to 25% in 2002-03. 111 ARL university libraries reported spending almost $230 million on electronic resources in 2002-03.”
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Research Libraries
Source: CRL
Center for Research Libraries Welcomes 14 New Members
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Books–Photography
Source: The British Library
Catalogue of Photographically Illustrated Books
“Use this website to search and view information and images from one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of photographically illustrated books and texts in many languages relating to the history and development of photography, from 1839 to 1914.” (via Peter Scott’s Library Blog)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Internet
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project (via DocuTicker)
Just Released, The Internet and Democratic Debate: Wired Americans hear more points of view about candidates and key issues than other citizens
“As wired Americans increasingly go online for political news and commentary, we find that the internet is contributing to a wider awareness of political views during this year’s campaign season. The new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Information survey belies those worries. It shows that internet users have greater overall exposure to political arguments, including those that challenge their candidate preferences and their positions on some key issues.”
Summary Direct to Full Text
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Poverty–United States–Statistics
Source: BLS
Just Released, A Profile of the Working Poor, 2002
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Crime–United States–Statistics
Source: BJS
Just Released, Crime and the Nation’s Households, 2003

Resources of the Week
A couple more for you to explore….
1) Marine Science–Directory
Source: International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), UNESCO
OceanPortal
If you’re looking for data or information in the marine sciences, this searchable directory of more than 5,000 related websites is a good place to start. The directory is organized into several major areas, each of which is the top of a subject tree:
+ Information Resources — libraries, literature, documents, repositories, directories, training & tools for librarians, discussion groups/news groups/listservers, e-repositories, expert directories
+ Data Resources files, images, software, data inventories, data centers, data products
+ Scientific Topics — marine topics, including detailed descriptions of specific research projects within the topic
+ Agencies & Institutions — government agencies, schools and laboratories, international scientific unions, etc.
+ Societies & Associations — NGOs, professional societies, conservation and environmental groups, marine science library societies and associations
+ Administration, Conservation & Policy — conventions/treaties/laws, coastal zone management, marine protected areas
+ Commerce & Trade — commercial fishing equipment/services, maritime industry
+ Miscellaneous — careers/employment funding sources, language translators

Scroll down the front page to see the latest links that have been added to the directory, or click on New Listings on the navigation menu at the top. If you click on Hot Listings, you’ll see a page of links to those directory entries that have been accessed most often. There’s also an Editor Pick link, where you can see resources that have been culled out by the site’s (human) editors.

Each directory entry consists of a record that contains some or all of the following: the resource’s title, URL, a brief description, top-level category or categories (as listed above), date the resource was added to the directory, a contact name and e-mail address. Registered users can write a review or rate the resource. (If you register — which is free — you can maintain a list of links to “favorite” resources. A link at the bottom of each entry allows you to e-mail the resource entry to a friend or colleague. Got a website you think belongs here? You can add it by clicking on the List Your Site link on the top navigation menu when you’ve browsed to the level of the subject tree where you think it belongs. A form is displayed that allows you to enter the information.

A simple keyword search box is available at the top of the home page, but you may want to take advantage of the site’s Power Search page, which features a dropdown menu that allows you to confine your search to one of the main categories of links as detailed above — i.e., Administration, Conservation & Policy; Agencies & Institutions; Commerce & Trade; Data Resources; Information Resources; Scientific Topics; Societies & Associations; and Miscellaneous. Most of these categories are subdivided by specific subject area, country, type of data, etc. The search engine indexes html files, MS-Word (.doc) documents, Acrobat PDF (.pdf files) and PHP files.
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2) Library of Congress–Webcasts
Source: Library of Congress
CyberLC
There’s always something interesting going on at the Library of Congress, but it’s impossible to take advantage of every single event. Even if you live in the Washington, D.C. area, you can’t really abandon the day job to go running off to LC every time you want to hear a public policy speaker or listen to an author read from his or her work.

But you can catch at least some of these events after the fact, at your convenience via CyberLC, an archive of webcasts from LC happenings. Choose from the recent webcasts on the main page, or explore the various offerings under Lectures, Events, Conferences and Interviews. You’ll need RealPlayer to view these webcasts. Transcripts are available for some of the events. The archive is keyword searchable.

Some events archived here would be especially interesting to information professionals:
+ 2004 FLICC Forum on Information Policies: “E-Competencies for E-Government: Changing Role of the Federal Information Profession”
+ Inside the Library with Kurt Maier: “Senior Cataloger and longtime docent at the Library of Congress, shares a personal perspective on the Library’s historic buildings and collections.”
+ Library and Information Science Education in North America: Bridging the Gulf Between Education and Practice: “R. David Lankes (Syracuse University) chairs a panel on the ongoing tension in the library and information science (LIS) field between the demands of preparing professionals and the forward-looking research mission of many of today’s LIS programs.”
+ Stewardship in the Digital Age: Roles and Issues for Libraries for Preserving Our Cultural Heritage: “Meg Bellinger of Yale University explores the development and evolution of the digital repository and how digital preservation or archiving in the repository environment fundamentally differs from the purposes of preservation services in the past attempts to refine definitions.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Federated Search
Source: The Exponent
Federated Search Comes to Purdue University
“Michael Fosmire, associate professor of library science, said that the lack of depth and reliability in Google’s search results should make students wary. To help give students access to information that has gone through some process of peer review, Fosmire assisted the library in creating a ‘megasearch’ tool.”
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Online Information
Source: Science Advisory Board
Scientists Frustrated with Limited Access to Full-Text Documents
“While scientists often cite staying abreast of developments in their field as the most common reason for reading scientific literature, it is by far from the only reason. ‘Scientists perceive their ability to access scientific and medical literature almost as an unalienable right of their profession,’ observes Tamara Zemlo, Ph.D., MPH, Director of The Science Advisory Board. The Internet has reinforced this perception by increasing the speed and ease by which these searches can be conducted.” Thanks to OCLC Abstracts for the news tip.
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Digital Preservation–United Kingdom
Source: JISC
JISC Announces 1 Million Pounds Digital Preservation Programme
“The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) announced today that it is making grants totalling more than 1 million pounds to nine UK educational institutions and their partners to support digital preservation and asset management in UK Higher and Further Education institutions.”
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Divine
Andrew ‘Flip’ Filipowski
Source: The Business Ledger (IL)
The Rise and Fall of a Dot-Com Pioneer
From the where-are-they-now file. “In the 18 months since Andrew ‘Flip’ Filipowski’s watched as his high-tech incubator-turned-integrator, Divine Interventures Inc., was sold in pieces at a bankruptcy auction, he has regained several of his former companies, created a new entity — SilkRoad Technologies, Inc. — and found new challenges and success in North Carolina…. RoweCom, Inc. sued Divine in early February 2003, charging that Divine had fraudulently transferred $73.7 million from RoweCom into its own accounts, according to court documents filed in Boston. RoweCom claimed that those transfers forced it to default on its duties to pay for magazine and journal subscriptions that its customers — many of them universities and libraries — had ordered and paid for. Both RoweCom and Divine were facing lawsuits at that time from a group of libraries and publishers and the New York attorney general. A settlement is now being hammered out in bankruptcy court. Divine has consistently denied any charges of fraud or mismanagement.”
See Also: Citing divine, AIP Wants Payment On Time (via LJ)

Search Briefs (via SEW Blog)
+ Yahoo Adds Local, Web, and Image Search to Mobile Platform
Mobile/sms search seems to be everywhere these days.

Semantic Web
Information Access–Desktop
Source: Technology Review
Learn About Haystack: The Universal Information Client
With desktop access being a popular topic these days, here’s research from MIT (an early version of some of the software is available) might be of interest. From the article, “Computer science professor David Karger hopes new software will transform the way people organize and search for information on their computers. The Haystack project, which Karger started in 1995 with former MIT professor Lynn Stein, offers more-intuitive ways of organizing files, far beyond the traditional categories of file name, type, or date.” You can find the HayStack overview here. Screenshots here. Download (semantic web browser, an early release) here.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Digital Archives
Source: UCSF
Just Released, Long-concealed British tobacco industry documents released online: British American Tobacco Documents Archive
From the news release, “UCSF released online (October 26) a million pages of formerly secret documents belonging to the world’s second largest tobacco company (BAT). The papers, acquired legally but in the face of many BAT obstructions and delays, include documents related to international cigarette smuggling, BAT’s efforts to thwart World Health Organization anti-smoking initiatives, and the on-going trial in the U.S. against six tobacco companies on federal racketeering charges for deceiving the public about cigarette smoking hazards.”
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Human Resources–United State–Legislation
Source: Towers Perrin
Recently Updated, Towers Perrin U.S. Legislative Tracking Charts
+ Human Resources
“These charts summarize selected federal legislation that would affect employee benefit programs. The bills included on the charts are based on judgments regarding the prominence of the issue, the likelihood of enactment, and the influence of the sponsors.”
+ Retirement
+ Health and Welfare
Many thanks to Stuart B. for the news tip.
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Federal Expenditures–United States
Source: TRAC
Latest Figures on Federal Expenditures: National Trends and Area Rankings
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Parliament–Canada
Source: Library of Parliament
New, About Officers of Parliament
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Information Technology–Salary Surveys
Source: Computerworld
Just Released, Computerworld’s 2004 Salary Survey (18th Annual)
Registation (free) is required to access the Interactive Salary Tool and to view some charts.
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Election 2004–Polling Places
Source: People for the American Way
Polling Place Locator
“To find your polling place, learn on what type of machine you will cast your vote and get instructions on how to use that machine, type in your street address (for example, 123 Constitution Ave) and ZIP code in the spaces below and click the ‘Find My Polling Place!’ button. Your address will remain private.”

Briefly
+ OverDrive Audio Books Platform Released
+ Readex (a division of NewsBank) launches the Digital Archive of Americana

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: Kable’s Government Computing
Go the library online
From the article, “The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has said an internet visit counts as a trip to the library. The DCMS has defined its position in a new set of public library standards, published on 25 October 2004. It says that efforts to develop an advanced standard for virtual or remote access to libraries have been put on hold due to technical issues, but that it expects the standards to evolve on a ‘rolling basis’…In the meantime, it advises authorities to report the number of visits as one for every time an external user connects to a networked library resource, including a website, for any length of time or purpose. This is regardless of the number of pages viewed.”

We’re glad to see (it makes sense) that the use of web-based tools and services that UK public libraries offer will now be considered “visits” to the libarary. It aligns well with our thinking that we need to demonstrate that the world of the library resources and the help of a librarian extends beyond the walls of a library building.

See Also: Direct to New Public Library Standards
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Data-Mining–Humanities
Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mellon grant to fund project to develop data-mining software for libraries
“The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the two-year, nearly $600,000 multi-institutional project, which John Unsworth, dean of Illinois’ Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), will lead. In his winning project, titled ‘Web-based Text-Mining and Visualization for Humanities Digital Libraries,’ Unsworth expects to produce software “for discovering, visualizing and exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text humanities resources in digital ibraries and collections.” The collections he’s focusing on are at Illinois, Indiana University, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina, Tufts University, the University of Virginia and other universities. In traditional ’search-and-retrieval’ projects, scholars bring specific queries to collections of text and get back more or less useful answers to those queries, Unsworth said. ‘By contrast, the goal of data-mining, including text-mining, is to produce new knowledge by exposing unanticipated similarities or differences, clustering or dispersal, co-occurrence and trends.’”
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Scholarly Publication–Latin Americans
Source: National Science Foundation (via DocuTicker.com)
Latin America Shows Rapid Rise in S&E Articles
From the press release: “The number of science and engineering (S&E) articles credited to Latin American authors almost tripled in the 13-year period from 1988-2001, significantly outpacing authors of other developing regions in the world. The output of Latin American authors grew by about 200 percent, by far the highest rate of increase during the period.”
+ Read the report [PDF]
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Wikipedia
More on the Wikipedia
More press for the Wikipedia. Noted UK info pro and search guru, Phil Bradley is quoted. He says, “‘Theoretically, it’s a lovely idea,’ says librarian and internet consultant Philip Bradley, ‘but practically, I wouldn’t use it; and I’m not aware of a single librarian who would. The main problem is the lack of authority. With printed publications, the publishers have to ensure that their data is reliable, as their livelihood depends on it. But with something like this, all that goes out the window.’” As I’ve said before, one of these days (when I find some time) I’ll share my Wikipedia experience. I’ll also remind you that several years ago we read about how the Open Directory Project (DMOZ) was going to be the greatest directory that man ever created. Today, well, it’s not what was promised (and that’s putting it mildly). Finally, I (Gary) would like to briefly comment on a quote from journalist and author Dan Gillmor. He says, “I don’t think anyone is saying Wikipedia is an absolute replacement for a traditional encyclopedia. But in the topics I know something about, I’ve found Wikipedia to be as accurate as any other source I’ve found.” That’s fine Dan, as a journalist you understand something about info quality/authority and REALIZE that other tools exist and where to find them. However, what about all of the Wikipedia users who consider it THE source. Seems like another example of why teaching info skills is so important. Also, since anyone can download Wikipedia data and have it included in a web engine, how do we know that the site owner is constantly downloading the updates and changes?
See Also: ResourceShelf’s Steven Cohen shares some thoughts on LibraryStuff
See Also: Editors Coming to Wikipedia?
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Open Access
Source: ARL
Just Released, FAQ: Enhanced Public Access to NIH Funded Research
Written by ARL’s Prue Adler, Associate Executive Director, Federal Relations and Information Policy

Briefs
+ LexisNexis Creates Federal Agency Information System
LexisNexis has been selected to “create and maintain an information system for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Under the contract terms, LexisNexis will create and maintain a Web-enabled, Web-accessible, fully searchable database for the storage and retrieval of CFTC’s historic legislative documents. This new award continues a relationship that began in 1979.”
+ EBSCO Now Offers Searchable Cited References for The CINAHL Database

Special Events
Belated Birthday Wishes to MedlinePlus!!!
Congrats and kudos! ResourceShelf tries hard to mention new MedlinePlus health topic compilations as soon
they’re released. Also, the MedlinePlus weekly announcement list is wondeful. A must have “collection development” tool. It was a Resource of the Week in January.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Intellectual Property–United States–Statistics
Source: BJS
Just Released, Intellectual Property Theft, 2002
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Media
Access to Information
Source: Reporters Without Borders
Released Today, Third Annual Worldwide Index of Press Freedom
“Reporters Without Borders announces its third annual worldwide index of press freedom. Such freedom is threatened most in East Asia (with North Korea at the bottom of the entire list at 167th place, followed by Burma 165th, China 162nd, Vietnam 161st and Laos 153rd) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia 159th, Iran 158th, Syria 155th, Iraq 148th)…Reporters Without Borders compiled the index by asking its partner organisations (14 freedom of expression organisations in five continents), its 130 correspondents around the world, as well as journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights activists, to answer 52 questions to indicate the state of press freedom in 167 countries (others were not included for lack of information). Region reports (PDF docs) are also available for:
+ Africa
+ Americas
+ Asia
+ Europe and former USSR
+ Middle East
++ How the index was compiled
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Medicare
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
New, Talking About Medicare and Health Coverage
“This new, online consumer guide helps people on Medicare and their family members and caregivers to make informed decisions about their health care.”
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Brain/Nervous System
Source: Society for Neuroscience
Brain Facts (PDF; 984 KB)
“Brain Facts is a 52-page primer on the brain and nervous system, published by the Society for Neuroscience.” Intended for “a lay audience interested in neuroscience”.
See also: Brain Briefings (”A series of two-page newsletters explaining how basic neuroscience discoveries lead to clinical applications.”)
See also: Brain Backgrounders (”An online series of articles that answer basic neuroscience questions.”)
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Legal Information
Documents in the News
Source: JURIST
Updated, A New Version to JURIST is Now Online!!!
This wonderful site with breaking legal related news, direct links to full text legal docs (in the news) and much more has a new look. They even offer a guide to law/legal webcasts (great idea)! Congrats to Professor Bernard Hibbitts and his team. This is one great resource. Make sure to spend some time with this site. Btw, Paper Chase, a blog from JURIST that is CONSTANTLY updated remains online. It was a Resource of the Week in February.

Search Briefs (via SEW Blog)
+ On The Search Habits of the Web Searcher
Note: This will be of special interest to those of you who conduct web search training.
++ Is This the New Look of MSN Search?
++ Google Acquires Satellite Image Software Firm
Note: We’ve also linked to a couple of web-based apps that are very cool!

Professional Reading Shelf
Access to Information–United States
Source: GCN
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Removes Docket Database From Web
Another Invisible Web database (temporarily?) says goodbye. From the article, “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday suspended public access to its online docket, following reports that terrorists could use information from the database to steal radioactive materials and make dirty bombs. NRC spokesman Dave McIntyre said the agency would keep the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System offline for about three weeks while employees check its content for information terrorists could use. After the review, NRC will begin restoring the ADAMS information, McIntyre said. The agency also suspended access to documents concerning the planned Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada.”
See Also: Official NRC News Release

and while we’re talking NRC, a new database:
“Yucca documents available on Internet” (via Las Vegas Sun)
“The Licensing Support Network database, which compiles the millions of documents included in the Energy Department’s license application for the nuclear waste dump, is part of a multimillion-dollar investment in technology by the department. It is modeled after popular search engines that allow users to scan documents based on the precision of terms within the documents.”

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National Library and National Archives of Canada
Source: National Library and National Archives of Canada
Report on Plans and Priorities for 2004-2005
The 2004-2005 Report on Plans and Priorities for the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada.
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British Library
Source: BL
Preserving the UK’s Theatrical Heritage
The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB)/British Library Theatre Archives Project team at the University of Sheffield aims to complete the archive and raise awareness of the Act. The Library wants copies of plays as they were performed rather than published editions and the team are approaching companies and stage managers to check their stores for discarded scripts.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Business–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: Inc.
The Inc. 500 2004
“America’s Fastest Growing Companies.” The Top 25 only. The complete list will not be available online until November 22nd.
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Philanthropy–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Highlights: Philanthropy 400
“Giving to the nation’s 400 most-successful fund-raising groups rose by a total of 2.3 percent last year, a sign that charities are beginning to see a recovery from 2002, when the organizations on The Chronicle’s annual Philanthropy 400 suffered a loss of 1.2 percent.”
The complete report is available online for a fee.
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Transportation–Canada
Source: Transport Canada Library
New, Canadian Transportation Research Gateway
“The Canadian Transportation Research Gateway (CTRG) is a collection of Web resources on transportation research in Canada. It is intended to provide access to evaluated websites, through a single gateway, for researchers, students, government, and industry.”
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State and Local Goverments–United States–Employees
Just Released, 2003 Annual Survey of State and Local Government Employment and Payroll
Summary ||| Direct to Full Text
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Genetics–Glossary
Source: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
“The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help people without scientific backgrounds understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. Simply click on the term of interest to open a page with a wealth of information, including the term’s pronunciation, audio information, images and additional links to related terms. Students, teachers and parents will find the glossary an easy-to-use, always available learning source on genetics.”

Briefly
+ CrossRef Adds New Services and Expands to New Content Areas