Recently added sites in Government Information

From the 2008 presidential election to tax information, here is a selection of recently added resources from INFOMINE's Government Information.

US Elections 2008 : BBC
BBC News feature page on U.S. presidential election of 2008. Includes articles, candidate profiles, video clips, and more.

Census Atlas of the United States
The Census Bureau has released a fulltext PDF of "the first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s." More than 800 maps in 300 pages.

NIH Public Access Policy
Site offers the text of the NIH Public Access Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research, information on compliance, policy details and frequently asked questions.

IRS Newsroom
Tax news and hot topics for businesses and consumers from the Internal Revenue Service.

Tax History Project
Documents, images and exhibition on the history of taxation in the United States. Also offers selected presidential tax returns.

U.S. Agricultural Research Service Video Archive
Brief videos on a wide range of recent scientific discoveries and the U.S. Agricultural Research Service.

More Open Access and Open Education resources

We've added a few resources to INFOMINE recently on the open access movement/debate and open education. This recent blog entry lists OpenCourseWare websites. Today we present a few items from the What's New page as well as several other resources from the INFOMINE database.

Open Access Webliography
Guide to online resources related to the open access movement. Includes "starting points," directories, organizations, blogs and more.

OpenCourseWare Finder
Search hundreds of OpenCourseWare offerings provided by universities or browse OCW courses by subject.

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Registry of nearly 1,000 institutional repositories and open access ejournals.

Association of Research Libraries : Scholarly Communication
ARL page on scholarly communication. Topics include: new models of publishing, libraries in the marketplace, copyright and intellectual property, and licensing. Also features news on the open access movement and scholarly publishing companies.

Public Knowledge Project
Publications, research, software and other information on electronic scholarly publishing, the open access movement, knowledge management, archives harvesting and technical innovations in the information sciences.

ALA Scholarly Communication Toolkit
Articles, resources, and other tools for advocating changes in the process of scholarly communication. Site covers key areas of concern and strategies for change for academic administration, faculty, researchers, and librarians.

Of special note:

Open Access News
Peter Suber's blog is an essential reference to all the goings-on in OA.

What's New in gov info: health, taxes, Iran and more

What's New in INFOMINE's Government Information category.

Iran : Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities : National Intelligence Estimate
National Intelligence Estimate, issued December 2007, assessing the "status of Iran's nuclear program, and the program's outlook over the next 10 years." [Links to 130K PDF]

Kennewick Man Documents : U.S. National Park Service Archaeology Program
Background information and detailed reports on aspects of investigations undertaken by the U.S. Department of the Interior in the Kennewick Man case.

TreeSearch : U.S. Forest Service Research and Development Publications
Over 7,000 online full-text research and development publications (books, chapters, articles, papers, reports, etc.) written by U.S. Forest Service research scientists. Search by author, keyword, originating Forest Service station or date.

National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
The NDDIC provides publications and patient information on digestive diseases (presented in an A to Z list), clinical trials listings and directories of digestive diseases organizations for patients and health professionals.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Celiac Disease Awareness Campaign
Resources on the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of celiac disease. Offers patient information, practice guidelines, examples of acceptable foods in a gluten-free diet, and a list of celiac disease organizations.

WIN : The Weight-control Information Network
"The Weight-control Information Network provides the general public, health professionals, the media, and Congress with up-to-date, science-based information on weight control, obesity, physical activity, and related nutritional issues."

SOI Tax Stats : Corporation Tax Statistics
"Numerous articles and data which provide statistics on income, deductions, tax, credits, and more as reported by corporations filing on Form 1120...returns and associated schedules...." Data is by industries in general, not specific companies.

Tax Statistics
This IRS site has data and tables on business, corporate, charitable and individual taxes. Statistics are aggregate, not specific companies, organizations or individuals.

SOI Tax Stats : International Individual Tax Statistics
This site contains "studies relating to individual taxpayers in an international context. For each of these areas, there are text articles and/or statistical tables that include both recent and historical data." Includes information on Foreign Recipients of U.S. Income, Foreign Trusts, Individual Foreign Earned Income, and Nonresident Alien Estate Tax Returns. This data is in the aggregate, not specific individuals.

IRS Data Book
The "IRS Data Book...contains statistical tables and organizational information on a fiscal year basis. The report provides data on collecting the revenue, enforcing the law, assisting the taxpayer, and managing the system, as well as lists of key officials and an organizational chart. The IRS Data Book also presents lists of principal officers and the IRS organization chart."

What's New in government info

Today, some highlights from the INFOMINE Government Information What's New page.

Citing Government Publications and Websites
University of California Riverside Libraries page connects to guides to citing print and electronic government publications and to guides to legal citation.

ILO AIDS : Legislation and Policies
International Labour Organization's collection of "legislative texts (hard law) and soft law instruments (codes of practice, guidelines, policies) dealing, entirely or in part, with HIV/AIDS and the world of work." Documents for more than 35 countries with links to other ILO HIV/AIDS resources.

Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica : LIMA
Map viewer, digital library, and datasets of new Landsat image mosaics of Antarctica, created for the International Polar Year (IPY 2007-2008). "LIMA is the most geometrically accurate (within a pixel-30 meters by 30 meters of land) mosaic of Antarctica and has the highest spatial resolution."

CBP Export Spotlight, U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) information useful to exporters. Includes information about Automated Export System, export documents and requirements, and harbor maintenance fees. Connects to Blocked, Denied and Debarred Persons Lists.

CBP Border Security Spotlight, U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection
Information about the border security activities of the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Ports of Entry : United States
Directory of the 326 official ports of entry in the United States and 15 preclearance offices in Canada and the Caribbean. Links from each port description to Canadian and Mexican border ports of entry wait times for commercial vehicles and for passenger vehicles.

MIPT Terrorism Information Center
An extensive digital library of terrorism-related information. The eDocuments section provides free fulltext reports, studies, factsheets and website links in 90 different categories: terrorism prevention, terrorist organizations, first responder and emergency management resources, databases, government information, and more. Access to the eBooks section requires registration and personal, non-commercial use license agreement. Searching the catalog returns records for physical items in the Information Center's library as well as electronic documents.

Independent Counsel Investigations
See more info for description of the independent counsel investigations texts.

Special Focus Facilities Not Showing Significant Improvement
[PDF] A listing of nursing homes in the U.S. which have been determined by the government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to be among the worst in their states.

Election 2008 : NPR
Listen to NPR broadcast news stories on the U.S. elections of 2008 and connect to related information. Includes profiles of presidential candidates.

YouTube : YouChoose '08
Feature page for the CNN/YouTube 2008 presidential debates, with candidate introductions and videos of the debates, featuring questions submitted by members of the public.

More What's New highlights

There have been many additions to the What's New page recently, so once again we'll highlight some of the interesting ones here. Subscribing to the INFOMINE What's New RSS Feed will let you see all new additions as they are cataloged.

USA.gov Tutorials : Help Finding Government Information Online
Tutorials for finding government information and services online using USA.gov, including government auctions, grants, and jobs. Referred by ResourceShelf.

Financial Aid Letter.com
An explanation and guide to costs of attending college and loans available. Sections include a glossary of financial aid terms, samples and explanations of financial aid award letters, how to estimate college costs and how to make college affordable.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics : Digital Video Library
Digital video library supporting K-12 science and math education. Videos are organized by American Association for the Advancement of Science benchmarks, National Science Education Standards, the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, state standards, and instructional methods. More than 1,000 videos.

British Museum : Collection Database Search
Search the catalog of the British Museum's pictorial art collections. More than 260,000 records with 98,000 images as of November 2007.

Sports-Reference.com
Sports statistics and resources on teams, leagues, players, coaches, records, and awards. Covers baseball, basketball, and football.

PDRhealth
Consumer web resource of the Physicians' Desk Reference offers information on drugs (prescription and OTC), dietary supplements, alternative medicine, diseases, health conditions, treatment options, and clinical trials.

Luminaries of the Chemical Sciences
PDF publications with overviews of the lives and scientific achievements of 20th century chemists.

Government information, maps, datasets

INFOMINE's Government Information subject category offers resources selected by librarians of the UCR Libraries Government Publications Department and INFOMINE editors. Physical formats intended for UCR library patrons (media on CD and DVD) and corresponding electronic resources are cataloged in INFOMINE; they are cataloged separately.

Here is a selection of government info resources from the INFOMINE What's New page.

Guide to House and Senate Members
Guide to members of the United States Congress, providing information from several publications including the Congressional Pictorial Directory and the Congressional Biographical Directory in a searchable interface.

War at Any Price : The Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget
November 2007 report, from the majority staff (Democrat) of the U.S. Congress' Joint Economic Committee, on the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [660KB PDF]

National Partnership for Environmental Priorities
The EPA's National Partnership for Environmental Priorities Program (NPEP) "encourages public and private organizations to form voluntary partnerships with EPA that reduce the use or release of any of 31 Priority Chemicals (PCs)." Includes information about NPEP and priority chemicals and metals, lists of NPEP partners, success stories, enrollment form, and EPA technical assistance tools.

World Coal Quality Inventory : South America
Reports and datasets.

Geologic Map of Nevada
"The purpose of the Geologic Map of Nevada is to provide an integrated set of digital geologic information that can be used for regional geologic and rigorous spatial analysis." [Description from USGS website]

Natural-Color Image Mosaics of Afghanistan : Digital Databases and Maps

Iowa Publications Online
Repository of Iowa state government documents. Browse by department, agency, year, or subject.

United States Air Force Posture Statement
U.S. Air Force annual posture statement articulates the major elements needed to fulfill the Air Force mission. Offers posture statements from 2004 to date.

IncidentNews
News, images, and reports on oil spills and other incidents, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Response and Restoration. Includes database of more than 1,400 incidents. Also offers maps pinpointing incidents by year, information on 10 famous spills, Spill Response 101, glossary, and links to related sites.

Citing Government Publications and Websites : UCR Libraries
Connect to guides to citing print and electronic government publications and to legal citation.

After the Storm
Video of 1/2 hour Weather Channel and EPA television program about watersheds.

Resources on developing countries

In November, several resources on the developing world were added to INFOMINE. There is a wealth of this content searchable in the INFOMINE database, authored by NGOs, international governing bodies, the US government, research centers, and humanitarian aid organizations.

SciDevNet
News, features, reports, and resource guides on science, agriculture, medicine, technology, and related issues in developing countries.

Human Development Reports
Reports on developing countries on factors affecting human development. These factors includes such areas as human rights, health, income, security and education.

Information Technology Landscape in Nations Around the World
Country reports on information technology infrastructure, IT workforce, government policy, e-business, telecommunications regulation, and related topics. Over 80 reports on developing and developed countries. Also known as Landscape of IT in Nations.

Latin American Development Archive
Archive of conference papers and working papers on Latin American social and economic development.

Statistics in Africa : World Bank
Economic, social, and development statistics on Africa and African countries. Includes most recent edition of Little Book on Africa.

Law blogs and law schools

Recently added to INFOMINE were several resources on law schools, the LSAT, law school admissions, and legal blogs. The next administration dates for the LSAT are on December 1, 2007 and February 2, 2008. More information about the LSAT.

The Princeton Review : Law Schools and Careers
A starting point for for preparing for a career in law; offers law school rankings, school search by location, cost, specialization, and selectivity, career advice, information on the LSAT, and the law school application process.

Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools
Directory of American Bar Association approved law schools, searchable by location, tuition cost, bar passage rate, curriculum, financial aid, and more. Also presents guides to legal education: prelaw, the LSAT, applying to law school, fields of law, the bar exam, being a lawyer, and post-JD programs.

Law School Admission Council
Administrator of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), the Law School Admission Council offers information on the law school application process; test dates, locations, registration (with fee) for the LSAT; sample tests and forms; financial aid information; and links to law schools and legal education resources.

Blawg Directory : ABA Journal
Directory of law blogs (blawgs), organized by subject, author, location, and law school. Each section contains an annotated list of the most popular blogs and an alphabetical list.

Law Weblogs - Blawgs : A Pathfinder
A guide to finding law blogs (blawgs) online, with select lists of legal blogs and links to blog search engines and directories.

Recently added resources

Continuing the diverse selection of items newly-added to the INFOMINE database:

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Open access journal from the Public Library of Science on the pathology, epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of neglected tropical diseases.

LibriVox
Digital library of public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. The site has been around since 2005, but recently announced in October 2007, the addition of their 1,000th audiobook.

Native American Heritage Month : Library of Congress
Digital collections and subject guides on Native American history.

Mark Twain Project
Initiative to create a complete scholarly edition of Mark Twain's works online; currently more than 2,300 letters with page images and transcription are available. See also The Mark Twain Papers and Project.

Jazz on the Screen : A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker
Filmography of jazz and blues musicians' involvement in cinema and television programs, in a database of more than 14,000 productions. Also features a short history of jazz in motion pictures.

France in America
Organized by theme and collection, the site offers manuscripts, books, images, maps, and more on the history of the French in America.

What's New

Highlighting INFOMINE's newly-added resources will now be a regular feature. Hundreds of resources are added to Infomine each month, and you can view the most recent additions in the sidebar of this page. For the complete What's New list, visit the What's New page for all subject categories or see this post about our RSS feeds. Websites chosen for inclusion here in these posts will be those the editors find most interesting or useful, so with that subjectivity caveat, here we go.

A Traveler's Guide to the History of Biology and Medicine
A unique travel guide describing places related to the history of biology and medicine. Focus is Europe from the 16th through 20th centuries, but there are also chapters on the United States and Canada.

CRS Annotated Constitution
Cornell's Legal Information Institute's edition of the Congressional Research Service's Annotated Constitution : Analysis and Interpretation. Contains links to documents cited.

Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu
Database of all references to historical Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu, the annals of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). In addition to the database (searchable by year, reign, place and personal names), site offers a publication on using the Ming Shi-lu as a source for research.

liibulletin
Electronic journal of the Cornell Law School. Contains previews of cases for upcoming Supreme Court terms, commentaries and summaries on various legal topics and New York Court of Appeals documents.

uboat.net : The U-boat War 1939-1945
Database of German U-boats and submarine warfare, with over 1,150 profiles of individual U-boats, their commanders and crews, shipwrecks, discoveries, images, and additional information on the more than 11,000 Allied warships and naval commanders of WWII.

USGS CoreCast
Official podcast site the U.S. Geological Survey with monthly episodes on science topics such as climate change, natural hazards, wildlife, and water quality.

Fact Sheet : America's Wars
Lists of numbers of servicemembers, deaths in service, nonmortal woundings, and living veterans for each United States war.

Immigration : U.S. Government Accountability Office
A selection of recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (formerly General Accounting Office) reports and testimonies that are related to immigration. Categories include: demographics; immigration enforcement; labor markets; and Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

Open access ejournals

INFOMINE, in addition to providing records from our editors and an optional subset of "robot" created records (viewable by marking the checkbox "Include Computer-Selected Websites" on the search results page), also offers catalog records from the Shared Cataloging Program. These entries do not appear on our What's New page; it is reserved for human-created entries.

There are a few ways to isolate open access electronic journals in your search. From the INFOMINE Electronic Journals search page, either select "Free" in the Resource Access dropdown, or enter the term "open access resource" with your search term in the main search field. Shared Cataloging Program records in INFOMINE generally use this tag to indicate a free resource, though it may also indicate (and provide a link to) a portion of free resources within an otherwise access-restricted site. In this way, searching with the included term of "open access resource" may return a larger number of records than simply selecting "Free" in the Resource Access box.

A reference librarian is your best source of information if you are unsure about the access requirements of any fee-based resources.

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