Blogs

Politics1

Founded in 1997, Politics1 is published as a non-partisan public service to promote fully informed decision-making by the American electorate. The traffic statistics show that Politics1 continues to be one of the most popular political blog on the net.  

Search Engines

Meta-search engines that cluster results

Vivisimo

Vivisimo developed at Carnegie Mellon, has received top ratings by Yahoo! Internet Life in 2001 and Search Engine Watch (http://www.searchenginewatch.com) in 2001 and 2002. It is a good starting place for students deciding on an aspect of a topic for further study.

iBoogie 

This meta-search relies on advertising on its front page and on pages containing search results.

Killerinfo 

Killerinfo can search subject-specific channels, health, business, reference, sports, science, government, the arts, government, news, and kids, as well as the Web. Results are clustered on the right.

QueryServer

This meta-search engine will send queries to the News, Health, Money, and Government sites, as well as to the Web.

Databases News

"Bentham OPEN"  

Bentham Publishers are launching more than 200 peer-reviewed open access journals during this year, under the banner of  "Bentham OPEN". The journals cover all major disciplines and are exclusively open access publications.

Databases News

LABORSTA
View and download data and metadata for over 200 countries or territories from  an International Labor Office database on labor statistics operated by the ILO Bureau of Statistics. This dynamic application on Internet allows user to access data and metadata from the International Labor Organization Bureau of Statistics. It consists of:
Data 
- Yearly statistics (mainly time-series) which serve to publish the ILO Yearbook of Labor Statistics. The application presents data covering 9 subjects in 31 tables 
- Periodical statistics (time-series) which serve to publish the ILO Bulletin of Labor Statistics. The application presents data covering 5 subjects in 10 tables 
- October Inquiry statistics (time-series) which serve to publish the ILO October Inquiry. The application presents data covering 2 subjects in 2 tables 
- Segregat - Employment for detailed occupational groups by sex (time-series) 
ILO-Comparable annual employment and unemployment estimates, adjusted averages (time-series) 
Public Sector Employment (time-series) 
- Economically Active Population Estimates and Projections data (time-series) 
- Household Income and Expenditure Statistics (time-series) 
Metadata 
- Sources and Methods, Labor Statistics: methodological descriptions of national statistics by source 
International classifications. Description of the Bureau of Statistics' topics. 

Databases News

UNCTAD
UNCTAD compiles statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI).  The FDI database presents aggregate inflows, outflows, inward stocks and outward stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) for 196 reporting economies in an interactive format

e-Books from the World Bank e-Library

The Global Family Planning Revolution: Three Decades of Population Policies and Programs

The striking upsurge in population growth rates in developing countries at the close of World War II gained force during the next decade. From the 1950s to the 1970s, scholars and advocacy groups publicized the trend and drew troubling conclusions about its economic and ecological implications. Private educational and philanthropic organizations, government, and international organizations joined in the struggle to reduce fertility. Three decades later this movement has seen changes beyond anyone's most optimistic dreams, and global demographic stabilization is expected in this century.
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Working Papers 

Knowledge Flows, Patent Citations and the Impact of Science on Technology
UNU-MERIT working papers

By Onder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen 
Technological innovation depends on knowledge developed by scientific research. The number of citations made in patents to the scientific literature has been suggested as an indicator of this process of transfer of knowledge from science to technology. Authors  provide an intersectoral insight into this indicator, by breaking down patent citations into a sector-to-sector matrix of knowledge flows. They  then propose a method to analyze this matrix and construct various indicators of science intensity of sectors, and the pervasiveness of knowledge flows. Their  results indicate that the traditional measure of the number of citations to science literature per patent captures important aspects intersectoral knowledge flows, but that other aspects are not captured. In particular, they  show that high science intensity implies that sectors are net suppliers of knowledge in the economic sector, but that science intensity does not say much about pervasiveness of either knowledge use or knowledge supply by sectors. Authors  argue that results are related to the specific and specialized nature of knowledge.

e-Journals - Latest addition in CEEOL

Baltic Journal of Economics
The Baltic Journal of Economics is a scientific journal published by Eurobaltic Centres of Excellence and refereed by international recognized scientific standards. The Journal is intended to provide a publication medium for original research in economics for scholars working in the Baltic States or those who are working with topics relevant for the Baltic States or for transition economies in general. The Journal will stimulate a dialogue between scientists in social science, policy makers as well as other decision makers involved with economic development in the Baltic States. Publisher: EuroBaltic Centers of Excellence

e-Journals

M/C Journal
M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analyzing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. As such, it is fully blind peer-reviewed, but also open to submissions and responses from anyone on the Internet. We take seriously the need to move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some resonance with wider political and cultural interests. Each issue is organized around one word theme (see our past issues), and is edited by one or two editors with a particular interest in that theme. The editors change for each issue. Each issue has a feature article which engages with the theme in some detail, followed by several shorter articles.

e-Journals

Media History Monographs (MHM)
Media History Monographs (MHM) is an online journal  devoted to publishing scholarly journalism and mass communication history works. The journal is affiliated with the American Journalism Historians Association. 

e-Journals

Invisible Culture
This journal is dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute. As the title suggests, Invisible Culture problematizes the unquestioned alliance between culture and visibility, specifically visual culture and vision. Cultural practices and materials emerge not solely in the visible world, but also in the social, temporal, and theoretical relations that define the invisible. 

Selected Internet Resources

Create a Family Tree

Geni   

Geni is a tool for understanding and staying in touch with your family. Geni lets you create a family tree through fun and simple interface. You can expand your tree by adding relatives' email addresses. They will be invited to join your tree and can add other relatives. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives. Each family member has a profile which can be viewed by clicking their name in the tree. This helps family members learn more about each other and stay in touch. Family members can also share photos and work together to build profiles for common ancestors.

Selected Internet Resources

Wise Guide
This Wise Guide portal was designed to introduce many fascinating, educational and useful resources available from the nation's library and one of the most popular Web sites of the federal government.
The "Wise Guide" will be refreshed monthly, much like a magazine, offering links to the best of the Library's online materials. Each of these "articles" is based on items contained in a collection, database, reading room or other area of the Library's online offerings.  User can see that LC is "more than a library," and holdings range from prints, photographs, films, audio recordings, maps, manuscripts, music and digital materials to (of course) books.