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Justia.com 

Reliable, comprehensive directory of resources searchable/browsable by legal practice areas, sponsoring organization (academic, court, government, law firm)

New Databases

OECD International Direct Investment Statistics Online Database  

The International Direct Investment Statistics database gathers detailed statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) to and from the OECD (Organization for economic cooperation and development) area and draws upon a database developed by the Investment Division. This series provides the basis for analyses of direct investment trends and for regular examinations of international direct investment policies in OECD Member countries.

Country tables provide detailed statistics for reporting countries:

• Direct investment by industrial sector with a breakdown for inflows, outflows, inward positions, and outward positions. Time coverage is 1980 onwards.

• Direct investment by country with a breakdown for inflows, outflows, inward positions, and outward positions. Time coverage is 1980 onwards.

Summary tables provide comparative information for the OECD area:

•  Comparative information for the OECD area with a breakdown for inflows, outflows, inward positions, and outward positions. Time coverage is 1980 onwards for direct investment flows and 1980 onwards for direct investment positions.

•  Exchange rate tables providing yearly average exchange rates as well as end of period exchange rates for the time period 1980 onwards.                                                      Guide: International Direct Investment Statistics Guide

Global Economic Monitor 

AUBG library has been granted free access to new WB Online service, Global Economic Monitor (GEM). As part of Depository Library program, we are entitled to receive free access to all World Bank Online Resources which now include four resources: WDI Online, GDF Online, e-Library and Global Economic Monitor (GEM). Global Economic Monitor (GEM) features up-to-date analysis on global economic conditions, including a daily brief and event-driven focus reports, direct access to high-frequency datasets (commodity price indicators, and quarterly and annual macroeconomic indicators), Online publications of forecasts for commodity prices and main macroeconomic indicators for over 130 countries.

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New Databases

GreenFILE

EBSCO  offers GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.  GreenFILE’s initial release will include A&I for more than 600 titles. The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.

Are You Being Served?: New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery

This publication presents tools and techniques for measuring service delivery in health and education and people's experiences from the field in deploying these methods. It begins by providing an introduction to the different methodological tools available for evaluating the performance of the health and education sectors. Country specific experiences are then explored to highlight lessons on the challenges, advantages and disadvantages of using different techniques to measure quality in a variety of different contexts and of using the resulting data to affect change. This book is a valuable resource for those who seek to enhance capacity for the effective measurement of service delivery in order to improve accountability and governance and enhance the quality of service delivery in developing countries.  

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e-Journals  

PLoS ONE  

PLoS ONE (eISSN-1932-6203) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. It provides:

    Open-access—freely accessible online, authors retain copyright 

    Fast publication—acceptance to publication in an average of 14 working days 

    Peer reviewed by an international editorial board of over 400 experts 

    Post-publication tools to indicate quality and impact 

    Community-based dialogue on articles 

Worldwide media coverage PLoS ONE is published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization.PLoS ONE's start-up phase is supported by a grant from the Open Society Institute. PLoS ONE features reports of primary research from all disciplines within science and medicine.

Selected Internet Resources

HighWire Press - Free Online Full-text Articles
List limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press. HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth.  1,873,117 free full-text articles and 4,726,272 total articles. There are 18 sites with free trial periods and 42 completely free sites. 248 sites have free back issues.