ResourceShelf Newsletter Number 272 August 10, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The ResourceShelf Newsletter is a weekly selection of content and links from ResourceShelf. Please visit the Web site whenever you have a free moment, to review the latest items: RSS Feed: Visit DocuTicker for a daily update of new reports from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks, and other groups: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ready for the next professional challenge? *** US-Based Jobs for Information Professionals *** Recently added jobs: Legal Research Librarian Experienced, dynamic Librarian for law firm that is consistently rated as one of the top ten most prestigious law firms by Vault.com! http://www.jinfo.com/go/j5641 Project Manager Full-time role for growing technical company; MLIS/MLS or equivalent experience; great opportunity for someone who likes variety and works well independently. http://www.jinfo.com/go/j5642 West Coast Library Manager Preeminent international law firm seeking a library manager to serve 3 West Coast offices with a total of 130 attorneys. http://www.jinfo.com/go/j5640 The above listings were supplied by Library Associates, an agency advertising with Jinfo. Learn more about Library Associates: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ Editor's Comment ++ Note: This week's comment is coming from Robin Neidorf, General Manager of Free Pint Limited. Wednesday morning began with a load of traffic on the ResourceShelf site - 10 to 50 visits per minute! With that much activity, our servers started responding as if they had chewing gum in their circuits, so we did a bit of investigation. Turned out that a ResourceShelf post had been added to Digg , and other Digg'ers had promoted the post to among the most popular articles. Some quick maneuvering of the post in question to a redirect enabled us to continue to serve those visitors who wanted to see it, without tying up service on all the sites in our network. The episode speaks to the power of social networking and social publishing. Digg is among the 100 busiest sites of the 'Net, and the interactions that happen there clearly have an enormous impact on the Web environment. Free Pint Limited also relies on social networking and publishing, both on our sites (especially within the FreePint Bar: ) and in our editorial planning for our publications. This month, our editorial team has jointly planned to take on the topic of compliance. Each of our publications will explore this complex topic from a number of different angles. Compliance affects almost every business out there, regardless of industry, location, size or scope, so we expect that these features will serve you well. Editor Shirl Kennedy starts us off with a compliance-focused Resource of the Week. FreePint will feature compliance-related articles, including a book review on compliance for IT. And the entire August issue of VIP will dissect the issue of compliance, considering information vendors and products that help companies address compliance. Finally, although it's a bit later than 'Compliance Month,' I'll be attending the IT Compliance Institute in Washington, D.C., in October. In addition to giving me a chance to talk with practitioners and vendors about the IT side of the information industry, the trip will enable a bit of face-to-face social networking and publishing, as it's Gary Price's hometown. Enjoy this week's edition of the ResourceShelf Newsletter -- a brief intro to the content posted this past week to ResourceShelf and DocuTicker. Visit the sites to browse and search the full archive. cheers, Robin Don't Forget: ResourceShelf's RSS feed can be found at: Do you find ResourceShelf and DocuTicker to be helpful in your work? Forward this email to a friend, or provide a testimonial to support@resourceshelf.com, and help us spread the word! Gary Price Editor, ResourceShelf gary.price@resourceshelf.com Shirl Kennedy Deputy Editor shirl.kennedy@docuticker.com Steven Cohen Contributing Editor Dan Giancaterino Contributing Editor Laura Gordon-Murnane Contributing Editor +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Unbiased Reviews of Premium Content Products Do you make purchase decision or advise others on their decisions for products like Factiva, Lexis-Nexis and Dialog? Are you looking for products that highlight a sector or type of information? VIP's detailed product reviews help you make an informed decision. In July: reviews of HighBeam and OneSource Coming in August: an in-depth look at compliance Back issues and subscriptions available for online purchase and immediate access: Learn more: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Resources of the Week: Compliance Round-Up By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor In the course of looking for material to post on DocuTicker, I occasionally see papers and reports that tend toward the esoteric -- at least for me. Not that this stops me from including a particular document; if the source is good, I figure that people who know a lot more about a given topic than I do would probably be glad to learn that something new is available. Every once in awhile, when it seems as if I am seeing a lot of information about a subject I really don't understand well, I feel driven to explore, to "read around" until I get a better feel for what it's all about. Take "compliance," for example. Reports keep coming out about compliance in the health care industry, compliance in the financial arena, IT compliance... I always assumed that compliance was a relatively straightforward thing -- e.g., doing what someone or some entity tells you to do. (I work for the military.) But the fact that there are so many reports and studies about it -- and that it hits the news on a regular basis -- would indicate that it's really quite a complex issue. Compliance, in this sense, really means "regulatory compliance" -- specifically, corporate regulatory compliance with rules set forth by various and sundry government agencies. A good starting point, if you want to get an overall sense of what is involved here -- at least from a U.S. perspective -- is the Compliance Assistance section of the Office of Management and Budget's Business.gov website, which bills itself as "the single access point to all government services and information to help businesses operate within the parameters of Federal rules and regulations." This is a relatively new site that is directed mainly at small business, and it offers "compliance assistance summaries and points of contact" for an extensive list of "cabinet" agencies (e.g., the U.S. Department of Agriculture) and "non-cabinet" agencies (e.g., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers). Why is this here? "The Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002 requires the Office of Management and Budget in conjunction with the Small Business Administration to publish on the Internet a list of the compliance assistance resources available at federal agencies in for small businesses. With help from the Small Business Administration’s National Ombudsman, the OMB has assembled a list of available compliance assistance resources and the agency contact." You can view the list by agency or by point of contact (alphabetical). Some pieces of compliance regulation are more "famous" than others. For instance, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (PDF; 209 KB), which has to do with financial accounting rules. News.com offers a Sabanes-Oxley Cheat Sheet that provides an excellent overview, without throwing a lot of technical details at you. Another piece of compliance legislation that has likely crossed your radar screen is HIPAA -- the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 -- which applies to health care institutions and providers. The most notable slice of this particular pie has to do with medical privacy. Remember that booklet or fact sheet you received at your doctor's office, and the form you had to sign that acknowledged you'd received it? Here is a nice collection of Congressional Research Service reports on HIPAA via the University of North Texas Libraries. HIPAA 101 is a PowerPoint presentation by Electronic Medical Records Inc. which provides basic information. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has an excellent fact sheet, HIPAA Basics: Medical Privacy in the Electronic Age. Environmental compliance is a multifaceted web of regulations. The Environmental Protection Agency offers a comprehensive library of policy and guidance documents. For those stalwart souls who wish to learn more about compliance, these links are particularly informative: + American Hospital Association: HIPAA + American Institute of Certified Public Accountants: Sarbanes-Oxley + ComplianceResources.org + Enviromental Compliance Consortium + eWeek.com: Compliance + Glossary of Regulatory Compliance Terms + International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement + International Organization of Standardization (ISO) + Regulatory Compliance 101 Direct LINK to this post: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Review of HighBeam - Bridging the Gap Between Free and Expensive Get an informed user review of HighBeam, and find out if its unique combination of free and paid content belongs in your tool kit. Reviewed by editor Pam Foster in July's VIP. 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