Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Identity Theft–Surveys
Source: Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc.
Just Released, 2005 Identity Fraud Survey Report
“This report provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of identity fraud in the United States, in order to better understand methods for prevention, detection and resolution. Co-released by Javelin Strategy & Research and the Better Business Bureau, this report is issued as a longitudinal update to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) 2003 Identity Theft Survey Report. The phone-based survey methods used as the basis for the 2003 and 2005 reports were nearly identical, while additional research areas were made realizable through the addition of a control group.”
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Intellectual Property–Canada
Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office
New Resource, IP Toolkit
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Intellectual Property–United States
Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
USPTO Releases FY 2004 Performance and Accountability Report
“In fiscal year 2004, the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted 187,170 patents, including 169,296 utility (inventions), 16,533 design, and 998 plant patents as reported in its fiscal year 2004 Performance and Accountability Report released today. Since 1790, over seven million U.S. patents have been granted. U.S. resident inventors received 97,913 U.S. patents in fiscal year 2004. California resident inventors received the highest share (23 percent, 22,389 patents) of these patents, followed by inventors from New York (7 percent, 6,788 patents), Texas (7 percent, 6,424 patents), Michigan (4 percent, 4,260 patents), and Massachusetts (4 percent, 4,109 patents).”
Summary Statistics Direct to Full Text
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Documents in the News
Airliner Anti-Missle Systems
Source: RAND Corporation
Protecting Commercial Aviation Against the Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat
“Examines the capabilities and costs of onboard technologies to divert missiles attacking commercial airliners. Given the significant uncertainties in the cost and effectiveness of countermeasures, a decision to install them should be postponed, and concurrent development efforts to reduce these uncertainties should proceed as rapidly as possible.”
Summary (PDF; 0.2 MB) Full Document (PDF; 0.7 MB)
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United States–Forecasts
Source: Federal Research Division/Library of Congress
Domestic Trends To The Year 2015: Forecasts For The United States
This 261-page report published in 1991 was just made available on the FRD web site. Topics include:
+ Demography
+ The Economy
+ Resources
+ Education
+ Society
+ Technology
+ Military Science
+ Geopolitics and Threat
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September 11th–Archives
Source: AP
Library of Congress puts record of Sept. 11 attacks online
A lengthy account of the Sept. 11 attacks has been put online by the Library of Congress in the form of nearly 170 audio and video interviews, totaling 40 hours, with photos, drawings, written narratives, and poems.

Citation Briefs
Source: ISI
Science in Ireland, 1999-2003
Science in Scotland, 1999-2003
Sociology & Anthropology: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 1999-2003
Neurology: Most Prolific U.S. Universities, 1999-2003
Journals Ranked by Impact: Forestry

Professional Reading Shelf
Digitization Projects
Source: AP
Library Collections Find Home Online
“‘Some archivists envision the day when Internet surfers will be able to request to see a particular document — having it “scanned on demand,” perhaps for a fee. But, for now, many librarians are focusing on helping Web surfers find archive images online and understand their significance. David Bertuca at the Buffalo Arts and Sciences Libraries at the University of Buffalo is one who regularly gathers reliable links on particular topics, including the 100th anniversary of the paper that introduced the world to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Among other things, the page links to images of Einstein’s handwritten journals at the Jewish National & University Library in Israel. To Bertuca, compiling such pages is only logical. ‘It’s what librarians do,’ he says.”
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Research Libraries–Expenditures
Source: ARL
Expenditure Trends in ARL Libraries 1986-2003
+ All ARL Libraries [PDF]
+ ARL Public University Libraries [PDF]
+ ARL Private University Libraries [PDF]
+ ARL Canadian University Libraries [PDF]
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Online Information
Source: Intelligent Enterprise
Add Value To Beat ‘Googlization’
“‘There’s a growing mentality, particularly among the younger generation, that if it doesn’t come up in an Internet search engine then it doesn’t exist’ says [Amanda] Spiteri, marketing director of Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, a subscriber-based service for libraries, universities and research institutes.”

Web Search–Google
Video Search
Source: Search Engine Watch Blog
Google Video Search Goes Live
You can read an overview here. In another post on the SEW Blog, Gary has a few comments about Google Video and provides an overview of several other video search resources available on the web (many free). Finally, new stuff from Yahoo! on the video search front.
See Also: And on a related note…EBSCO Adds Video To History Resource Center

Briefly
+ LexisNexis Launches Chinese Online Service
+ The American Chemical Society and Thomson Announce Linking Agreement
+ Education Full Text Expands Coverage by 49 Journals

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Academy Awards
Source: AMPAS
Just Released, 77th Academy Awards Nominations Press Kit
Images of nominees, fact sheets and more.
See Also: 77th Academy Awards Press Kit
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State Legislators–Financial Disclosure
Source: Center for Public Integrity
State Legislators’ 2004 Personal Disclosures
“Ever wonder what outside financial interests a legislator in your state might have? Now you can find out with a couple of clicks of your mouse. Putting the country’s government ethics laws to work, the Center for Public Integrity today made thousands of state legislators’ outside interest disclosure filings available to online users. Researchers at the Center collected nearly 7,000 personal financial statements state lawmakers submitted in 2004 to oversight agencies in the 47 states requiring disclosure. Three states — Idaho, Michigan and Vermont — do not require disclosure at all. Click on a state below to access the only warehouse of its kind.”
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Corporate Archives–Sears
Source: Sears, Roebuck and Co
Sears Archives Home Page
“Once again, Sears has made history. For the first time, Sears has opened the doors to its vast archival collection and invited the public to peek inside. More than 100 years of stories, product and brand histories, photographs, catalog images are now available online.”
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Training–Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
New, Study: Training and technology in Canadian workplaces
“The stronger the technological skills in a workplace, the more likely it is to provide training for its employees, according to Canadian Economy in Transition: Who Trains? High-tech Industries or High-tech Workplaces?, the sixth study in a new analytical series examining industrial transitions in the Canadian economy.”
Summary ||| Direct to Full Text
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Philanthropy–United States–Statistics
Source: Foundation Center (via DocuTicker.com)
Just Released, Giving in the Aftermath of September 11: Final Update
“…a comprehensive overview of the more than $1.1 billion in grants reported by 1,339 foundations and corporations, including nearly $8 million awarded in 2003 alone for long-term needs and emerging social issues.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Information Industry–OneSource
Source: Information Today
OneSource Aims for New Markets with Streamlined Product
“Business information aggregator OneSource Information Services has introduced a new streamlined service targeted to sales and marketing professionals in small and mid-sized businesses. The new OneSource Express offers a package of essential company and executive data that is smaller than its enterprise Business Browser products, but at a price that is affordable for this market. The new service represents the first move by OneSource beyond its core market of large customers and is clearly designed to go head-to-head in this market segment with services offered by Hoover?s, a D&B company.”
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Digital Information
The Winter 2005 Issue of the Global Resources Newsletter is Now Online
Global Resources is an initiative from the Association of American Universities and ARL in cooperation with CRL. This issue features a look at The Latin American Open Archives Portal.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Internet–Crime–Statistics
Source:
New, IC3 Annual Internet Fraud Report
The report covers the period, January 1, 2004 – December 31, 2004.
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Phishing–Statistics
Source: The Anti-Phishing Working Group
New, Phishing Activity Trends Report – December 2004
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Consumer Information
Source: SmartMoney.com (Dow Jones)
10 Things Archive
Archive of popular “10 Things” columns from magazine — e.g., 10 Things Your Cosmetic Surgeon Won’t Tell You, 10 Things Your Preschool Won’t Tell You, 10 Things Your Cleaning Service Won’t Tell You, etc.

Briefly
+ Scirus Offers Comments About Google Scholar (via SEW Blog)
+ Dialog NewsRoom Now Offering Deeper Archive of The New York Times
“North American Embargo Lifted With Fulltext of Articles From 1980 Now Available For All Customers Worldwide”
+ OCLC, Safe Sound Archive to work together to digitize and preserve audio collections

Have You Visited DocuTicker.com Lately?
A daily update of new full text reports from governments, ngo’s, think tanks, and other groups compiled by the ResourceShelf team.

Web Search
Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project
New Report: Internet searchers are confident, satisfied and trusting — but they are also unaware and naive.
Findings from a new survey from Pew are online this afternoon. Chris has a summary on the Search Engine Watch blog. We’ve posted a few random thoughts (from the info pro perspective) about the report on our ResourceShelfPLUS site.
See Also: An October Post About A Recent Study That Looked at Searcher Behavior
More to chew on.

Web Search Briefs (via SEW Blog)
Google Increases Maximum Number of Query Terms

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries–Philadelphia
Source: Library Journal
At Free Library of Philadelphia, 20 Branches to Operate Without Librarians
“Faced with staff and budget cuts, the Free Library of Philadelphia will operate 20 of 49 branches without librarians. This decision will allow systemwide Saturday service. The branches–each of which will be open four afternoon hours for six days a week–will be managed by a library assistant supervised by a library supervisor at a full-time branch.”
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Online Research–Law Firms
Source: Thomson Legal & Regulatory
Cost Recovery for Online Legal Research (PDF; 290 KB)
“The shift from ‘purchased’ physical collections to ‘leased’ online research has presented a number of challenging questions for librarians, financial officers, and law firm management with regard to cost recovery. This white paper examines the issues and choices associated with such cost recovery for online research. The paper applies primarily to large and medium law firms; the cost recovery issues and practices of smaller firms may be different.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Africa–Bibliography
Source: Air University Library
Africa: Special Bibliography No. 159
Extensive updated bibliography includes regional breakout as well as by individual country. Internet resources, books, periodicals.
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Consumer Information
Source: SmartMoney.com (Dow Jones)
10 Things Archive
Archive of popular “10 Things” columns from magazine — e.g., 10 Things Your Cosmetic Surgeon Won’t Tell You, 10 Things Your Preschool Won’t Tell You, 10 Things Your Cleaning Service Won’t Tell You, etc.
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Law Enforcment–Manual
Source: International Association of Chiefs of Police
Police Chief’s Desk Reference (PDF; 5.1 MB)
“This Police Chiefs Desk Reference (PCDR)…was designed with the new chief in mind and contains a wealth of resources to assist you in your new role as a police executive. Police chiefs from around the country who share a desire to pass along their knowledge and experience with their peers contributed many of the writings…. Chapters are included on leadership, ethics, policies and procedures, accreditation, and funding. Also included are sample internal and community surveys as well as best practices guides written specifically for smaller agencies on a wide range of topics. It also contains information about state associations of chiefs of police and many other resource listings, summaries, and Web site referrals.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Data Mining
Information Industry–ChoicePoint
Source: Washington Post
ChoicePoint finds wealth in information
“It began in 1997 as a company that sold credit data to the insurance industry. But over the next seven years, as it acquired dozens of other companies, Alpharetta, Ga.-based ChoicePoint Inc. became an all-purpose commercial source of personal information about Americans, with billions of details about their homes, cars, relatives, criminal records and other aspects of their lives.”
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Stock Images
Source: The Guardian
Image library that began as a ‘hobby’ of world’s richest man may be floated
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Weblogs
Source: Free Pint
Enterprise Blogging
A new article (and plenty of resources) by Dr L. Anne Clyde at the University of Iceland.
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Digital Resources
Source: IMLS
New Report, Digital Resources for Cultural Heritage: A Strategic Assessment Workshop on Current Status and Future Needs
“Report and recommendations stemming from an IMLS sponsored workshop of 63 specialists from 26 states representing libraries, museums, archives, higher education institutions, public broadcasting, research consortia, public and private funding organizations, and service providers, to assess progress on and plan for the development and use of digital cultural resources.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Reports
Higher Education–Graduation Rates–Statistics–Databases
Source: Des Moines Register/Education Trust
New Tool, Compare Graduation Rates at Four-Year Colleges and Universities
“A new online tool lets prospective college students and others compare graduation rates of students at thousands of similar schools…the new tool helps families make choices about students’ likelihood of graduating from particular institutions, said Kevin Carey, director of policy research at the Education Trust, the Washington, D.C. group that offers the online tool.” Direct to College Results Online.
Note: This tool users six year graduation rates. Thanks to Michael A. for the info.
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Astronomy–Image Galleries
Source: NSF
A Stellar Debut for Gemini Observatory’s Online Image Gallery
“In addition to housing many views of astronomical objects, the Gemini Image Gallery contains downloadable posters, illustrations, videos and animations, as well as multiple images of the twin telescopes themselves.” Direct to the Gemini Observatory Image Gallery.
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Gardening–Directory
Source: Dave’s Garden
The Garden Watchdog Guide to Gardening by Mail
“Welcome to the most complete directory of gardening sources! There are 3,600 gardening vendors listed within the Garden Watchdog and this directory makes it easy to find and contact them. Our name sums up our mission: we’re here to protect and serve consumers by providing information on gardening companies.”

Briefly
+ Ten Years of Coverage Added to Index to H.W. Wilson’s Legal Periodicals Retrospective
+ Alibris Offers Access to Books For Sale Through OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing Service
+ LexisNexis Introduces “My Lexis”

Resources of the Week
by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
Two sites this week especially for all you catalogers (and those of you interested in cataloging) out there. Folksonomies, controlled vocabularies, metadata, and similar issues have become popular topics to many non-librarians.
1) Cataloging–Portals
Source: Library of Congress
Cataloger’s Learning Workshop
This “just launched” portal, which offers “cataloging and metadata training resources for information workers,” is actually a joint project of LC, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, and the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALA). If you’re looking for workshops, you’ll find links here, as well as links to training materials and distance learning opportunities. You’ll also find pointers to:
+ Training Publications (print)
+ Readings in Cataloging and Metadata Education (online)
+ Training Providers (including bibliographic networks & utilities, national libraries and professional associations)

This appears to be a work in progress, with more content yet to come, including a Resource Gateway. Browse here now and bookmark the site so you can come back from time to time and see what’s been added.
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2) Cataloging–Government Documents
Source: ALA, Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT)
Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging Federal Government Documents
Managing documents from the federal government (of which there is no shortage) presents its own unique set of challenges, and GODORT’s Cataloging Committee is here to help, along with John A. Stevenson of the Acquisitions Department at the University of Delaware Library. This well-maintained page will point you to such resources as:
+ GPO Item Selection and Classification Information
+ GPO Cataloging Records
+ Cataloging Handbooks, Manuals and Guides
+ Megapages by Library Organizations (GODORT’s Handout Exchange for Processing Procedures is a don’t miss.)
+ Tool Collections by Individual Libraries (Be sure to visit the University of Oregon Libraries’ Cataloging Documentation on the Web.)

Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries and Librarians
Source: CNI & LITA
Audio: Libraries and Library Systems in the New Information Landscape
A presentation (two MP3 files) by Cliff Lynch at the LITA National Forum. Lynch talks about preservation, personalization, education delivery and learning management systems, and consumer marketplace developments.”
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Libraries
Source: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
The January/February 2005 Issue of CLIR Issues is Now Online
Articles include:
+ The Value of Library as Place
+ Scholars? Panel Explores Digital Scholarship Needs

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Reports
Sarbanes-Oxley Act–Databases
Source: askSam
New, Searchable Version of Sarbanes-Oxley Act From askSam
Another free tool from askSam. “The text from the 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 pertaining to specific topics. The database also contains a pre-defined report that gives you an overview of all sections containing any search term you enter. You can download the searchable version of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act with the free askSam viewer at: http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/Sarbanes/ This news release lists all of the free, searchable databases askSam has made available in the past few months.
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Hazardous Materials–Australia–Databases
Just Made Publicly Accessible, Hazardous Substances Information System
From an IndustrySearch article, “The Hazardous Substances Database Information System was released by the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission. Users can retrieve classification information on more than 3,500 substances through the online database, which also contains national exposure standards for almost 600 atmospheric contaminants.”
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Weblogs–China–Censorship
Source: Open Net Initiative (via DocuTicker.com)
New Report, Filtering by Domestic Blog Providers in China
“Over the last year, the Chinese government has focused increasing attention on the control of blogs. Three popular domestic blog providers in China were temporarily shutdown in March 2004.”