Blogs

Britannica Blog

•  The Siren Song of the Internet: Part II

Michael Gorman  - (Web 2.0 Forum)

Google and the like are much touted as “second generation” search engines that put the world’s information (that word again) at your fingertips.  Information retrieval systems have been studied for many decades.  In the course of that study two important criteria have been developed to evaluate such systems—those criteria are recall and relevance.  ...

•  Do We Still Need Books

Search Engines

Diri.bg - New Bulgarian Search Engine

Dir.bg, one of the largest web portals in Bulgaria  announced on its website the launch of a new standalone service - Diri.bg. “Diri” in Bulgarian is an old-style word for “Tarsi”(v), meaning - “Search”. Visitors to Diri.bg are presented with a very clean interface - just search box and tabs with vertical search suggestions. The verticals are as follows: News, Images, Video, Music, Products, Blogs, Forums, Wiki, Jobs, Law, Real Estate, Auto, Mobile Phones, Cinema. 

New database subscription - ScienceDirect College Edition

This databases will be of great use to anyone conducting research in the social sciences. Content includes access to over 350 full-text journals in Social & Behavioral Sciences . For a full list of titles  download list  and  read English - Quick Start on ScienceDirect.

Access can now be gained at AUBG library web page  - online databases section. To access full-text articles in the search options  users should choose subscribed sources from the pull-down menu.

Databases News

Update on the Darfur Crisis From the CIAO Database:

Darfur's New Security Reality

Six Months Since 1706: The International Failure to Protect Darfur

Darfur and Beyond: What Is Needed to Prevent Mass Atrocities

Getting the UN into Darfur

Leveraging New International Action on Darfur

Databases News

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry  has new interface. Check out new search capabilities, subject browsing, and side-by-side poem comparison.

e-Books

2007 Digital Economy Fact Book Released

The Ninth Edition of The Progress & Freedom Foundation's "Digital Economy Fact Book" was released and is available on the PFF web site. The resource guide features an expanded section on international data, reflecting the global importance of the digital economy. The reference book was co-written by Stephen McGonegal, President of Independent Analysis, Inc., and PFF Research Associate Daniel B. Britton. Sam Eckman and Grant Eskelsen also provided extensive research assistance for the publication.

Working Papers

Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel
Mika Maliranta, Pierre Mohnen and Petri Rouvinen 
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
ISSN 1871-9872
Abstract: An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others' R&D labs to one's own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring workers previously in R&D to one's non-R&D activities, however, boosts both productivity and profitability. This is interpreted as evidence that these workers transmit knowledge that can be readily copied and implemented without much additional R&D effort.

e-Journals

IAENG International Journal of Computer Science 

Publisher: IAENG - International Association of Engineers; Language: English

IAENG International Journal of Computer Science is published with both online and print versions. The journal covers the frontier issues in the computer science and their applications in business, industry and other subjects. The subjects covered by the journal include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computational statistics, database, data mining, financial engineering, hardware systems, imaging engineering, internet computing, networking, scientific computing, software engineering, and their applications etc.

Start year: 2006

e-Journals

Z Magazine 

Z Magazine was founded by Michael Albert and Lydia Sargent. ZCommunications and Znet are great resources.

Selected Internet Resources

• The Asian American Journalists Association  stylebook  
• GLAAD's resource guide and stylebook 
• Maynard Institute for Journalism Education's Diversity Guide
• Society of Professional Journalists: Guidelines for Countering Racial, Ethnic and Religious Profiling