This guide to “accurate and free” sites was compiled and annotated by Rebecca A. Martin and Sarah McHone-Chase, both librarians at Northern Illinois University.
Source: C&RL News
U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
On June 4, 2009, President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Cairo, Egypt aimed at launching an initiative to improve U.S. relations with the Muslim world. The address sought to enhance American credibility, promote tolerance and pluralism, and to articulate American interests on key issues of concern in the Muslim and Arab worlds. The President claimed responsibility to use his power to “fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear,” and urged Muslims to reject the “crude stereotype” of America as a “self-interested empire.”
This page brings together a collection of resources examining the evolution of U.S. policy towards the Muslim world since September 2001. It features a collection of statements from the Obama Administration, along with key statements from the Bush Administration covering America’s reactions in the wake of 9/11 and the launch of the Global War on Terrorism. Also included are key Congressional hearings and major reports from the Government Accountability Office, Congressional Research Service, and the State Department. Research & Analysis and Additional Resources spotlights critical articles and reports from think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and academic centers that specialize in the analysis of America’s engagement with the Muslim world.
Source: National Defense University Library
An updated guide to Internet resources in Zoology is now available from the Library of Congress.
You can find the guide here.
Source: Science Reference Section, Science, Technology, and Business Division, Library of Congress
From the NLM Technical Bulletin:
+ Share Your Collection or Bibliography
My NCBI collections and bibliographies are now set as either “Private” (the default) or “Public.” A collection set to Public can be shared with others.
+ Create Your Own Filters
Many searchers use My NCBI Filters to group retrieval with desirable characteristics. It is now possible to customize your own filters for any of the Entrez databases.
Source: NLM
Hat Tip: P.W.
See Also: Get Ready for a New PubMed Interface, Redesign is On Its Way
Bibliography for Work in Comparative Literature and Culture (PDF; 530 KB)
By Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, University of Alberta. Global in scope. 44 pages. Related publications here.
Source: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (via Purdue ePubs)
Resources of the Week: Swine Flu
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
This past Sunday, U.S. public health officials declared a public health emergency, as diagnosed cases of swine flu continued to mount. As expected, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is keeping tabs on the disease, as is the World Health Organization (WHO).
We thought it might be a good time to round up some reliable resources about swine flu. Pete Weiss, our contributing editor, found a blog called Effect Measure, part of the ScienceBlogs network, which he identifies as “a good aggregator of news regarding this flu outbreak.” The About page explains the blog’s name and describes its authors:
In epidemiology an effect is the endpoint of a causal mechanism. An effect measure is an estimate of the influence of a particular factor on a population’s health. The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Their names would be immediately recognizable to many in the public health community. They prefer to keep their online and public lives separate to allow maximum freedom of expression. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts “Revere” to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
The CDC link above serves as the government’s main information hub, offering:
The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report discusses Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Infection in Two Children — Southern California, March–April 2009.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers a “swine flu widget” that can be embedded n a blog, home page, whatever. It links to the swine flu info at the CDC. Click here and scroll down to the bottom of the page to get the code.
+ WHO has a swine influenza page up and running.
+ Swine flu is a zoonotic disease (Utah State Extension; PDF, 90 KB), meaning “an infectious disease transmissible under natural conditions between vertebrate animals and human beings.” This being the case, you would expect that the veterinary profession might have useful information…and you would be correct. The American Association of Swine Veterinarians offers some fact sheets right on its home page.
+ For a great general zoonoses resource, have a look at MedlinePlus: Animal Diseases and Your Health.
+ Also, MedlinePlus just put up a new page on Swine Flu.
+ The National Library of Medicine offers Enviro-Health Links - 2009 H1N1 (Swine) Flu. Includes pointers to information from government agencies — U.S. and international — as well as news feeds, maps, veterinary and scientific resources.
+ Meanwhile, Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, is compiling tips on using Twitter to understand the swine flu story. Worth a look.
+ Wall Street Journal: Swine Flu - Complete Coverage
+ New York Times Topics: Swine Flu
+ Veratect Corporation is a company that tracks global disease outbreaks (PDF; 96 KB). They offer a Twitter feed.
+ HealthMap: Latest Information on Swine Flu
+ HealthMap’s Twitter feed
+ Business Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist (from the government’s PandemicFlu.gov website).
+ The last swine flu scare was in 1976.
+ Swine Influenze coverage from the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota
+ Public Health Agency of Canada: Human Swine Influenza
+ Health Protection Agency (UK) — Swine Influenza
RAND Publications 2009 Catalog
The RAND Corporation is committed to finding effective solutions to important policy issues, and that mission is more important now than ever before. Concerns about health care, education, the global economic crisis, and ongoing security challenges in the Middle East and elsewhere present problems for governments and private sectors around the world. For 60 years, RAND has worked to help confront challenges such as these by providing objective analysis of important problems and the possible solutions to them. RAND’s commitment to making a difference is evident in the broad variety of insightful and influential titles highlighted within this catalog. The downloadable catalog features links to these publications on the RAND web site.
+ Full Document (PDF: 3.5 MB)
Source: RAND Corporation
The Business Owner’s Bookshelf: 30 books you should read and put to use
In alphabetical order.
Source: Forbes.com
From an E-Mail Announcement:
….a team of faculty and students at Rutgers have just launched the long awaited, highly anticipated Virtual Reference Bibliography designed to be used by librarians, students, scholars, and others who are interested in publications dealing with all aspects of virtual reference.
Hosted by Rutgers University’s SCILS, this site is a continuation of the digital reference services bibliography maintained from 2000 to 2004 by Bernie Sloan. It now contains 700+ entries from Bernie’s original bibliography, plus 200+ new items published from 2004 to the present. The redesigned site and new search interface was created by Ben Bakelaar of Rutgers as part of a final project for Information Design class, taught by Jacek Gwizdka, Ph.D.
Source: SCLIS, Rutgers University
A selection of print and web-based resources. You’ll also find a video from Paul Connor, Reference Specialist in the Local History & Genealogy Reading Room.
Source: Library of Congress
+ Diet
Source: National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health
Information Overload Resource Center: Articles, tools and research data about messaging overload and interruptions
Includes research papers on e-mail overload and distractions/interruptions, links to related resources, e-mail-related social issues.
Source: Information Overload Research Group
Annual Bibliography of Significant Advances in Dietary Supplement Research 2007
The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the release of the ninth issue of the Annual Bibliography of Significant Advances in Dietary Supplement Research. The papers selected for the 2007 Bibliography include research supported by government, industry, and academic institutions, as well as public-private partnerships. The research covers a wide array of laboratory, human studies, and observational studies in the following areas, as well as others:
- Supplements and Cardiovascular Health
- Supplements and Diabetes in At-Risk Children
- Supplements and Cancer Risk
For each of the 25 papers selected, the Bibliography provides the full reference citation, a description of the study’s methods and findings, and discussion of possible implications for future research.
+ Full Document (PDF; 772 KB)
Source: NIH
Information Resources on Reptiles
The citations in this bibliography pertain to the health, care and housing of reptiles owned as pets, exhibited in zoos and aquariums, or used for research.
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For this document, the compiler searched for citations from multiple sources published between the years 2002 to 2007. The sources of information include peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, theses, annual reports, dissertations, books, monographs, and reviews. Some URLs are provided for documents available as eDocuments. Readers are cautioned as to the dynamic nature of the internet and the fact that Web addresses and content are subject to change. All sites are current as of September 2008.
See also: Information Resources on Amphibians
Source: National Agricultural Library, Animal Welfare Information Center
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