February 24, 2018 by Gary Price
From SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) SIPRI is pleased to announce that it has expanded and improved its online database for Mapping Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)-Relevant Cooperation and Assistance Activities to include East Asia and South East Asia. The database now contains information on over 440 cooperation and assistance activities aimed at building capacity in areas […]
July 1, 2015 by Gary Price
From the Center For Medicare and Medicaid Studies: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today published 2014 Open Payments data about transfers of value by drug and medical device makers to health care providers. The data includes information about 11.4 million financial transactions attributed to over 600,000 physicians and more than 1,100 teaching […]
April 23, 2013 by Gary Price
From the Treasury Board of Canada: The tool gives Canadians a quick picture of how taxpayer dollars are spent and allows Parliamentarians to better analyse government expenditures. [Clip] The database allows users to search for spending information in three categories: by Authorities and Expenditures, which compares the amount of funding that was authorized to what […]
April 22, 2013 by Gary Price
From CRL: TRAIL [Technical Report Archive and Image Library] has recently uploaded new U.S. government technical reports to the University of North Texas Digital Library, which serves as one of the repositories of TRAIL’s digitized collections. Recently added content includes reports from the United States Bureau of Standards, United States Bureau of Mines, and the National […]
April 20, 2013 by Gary Price
From FCW: A new Web-based federal resource makes more than 100 million mapped records of nearly every living species nationwide searchable by any user. The Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) system allows users — often land managers, researchers, refuge managers, citizen scientists, agriculture professionals, fisheries managers, water resource managers, educators and others — to search for […]
February 14, 2013 by Gary Price
American FactFinder is a database for data from the U.S. Census. Details about the data it offers. The intro webinar is titled, “Access Census Bureau Stats: American FactFinder” and was recorded on February 13, 2013. During the one hour webinar, you’ll learn: How to Access the American FactFinder A Look at Key American FactFinder Features […]
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July 23, 2012 by Gary Price
From the United States Census: The U.S. Census Bureau today launched an interactive global resource on the prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS cases and deaths. The database was developed in 1987 and now holds 149,000 statistics, an increase of approximately 10,800 new estimates in the last year, making it the most complete of its […]
June 29, 2012 by Gary Price
From the USC Shoah Foundation (via PR Newswire): The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has completed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar project to digitally preserve the video interviews in its Visual History Archive. The archive contains testimony from nearly 52,000 Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. [Clip] The Institute recorded the testimonies on 235,005 Betacam SP videotapes between 1994 […]
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June 27, 2012 by Gary Price
From the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism: Who Owns the News Media was developed to enhance the information available in the State of the News Media report, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual report on the health of American journalism. The tool uses a tab format to house […]
June 22, 2012 by Gary Price
Some of the many company announcements out of ALA 2012. ProQuest Releases More Digitized NAACP Archives Material Ahead of Schedule 12 New Publishers Sign With OCLC To Provide Metadata and Full Text to Several WorldCat Services EBSCO Partners With Innovative Interfaces, SirsiDynix, and OCLC for Enhanced Discovery