From the National Science Foundation: Eight international research funders from four countries today jointly announced the 14 winners of the second Digging Into Data Challenge, a competition to promote innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. Winning teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States will receive a [...]
Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Launches Mobile Web Site
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Update: The FECs New Mobile Site Could Use Some Work (via Sunlight Labs) From the FEC: The Federal Election Commission [has] released the first in a series of FEC Mobile web pages designed to run on mobile devices. These web pages provide easier public access to campaign finance data and information about Commission activities. [Clip] [...]
NYC: Queens Libraries Speak the Mother Tongue
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From The NY Times: Striving to cater to the intensifying globalization of its surrounding streets, the New York neighborhood library speaks your language as never before. The surge in immigrants patronizing the Queens system has spurred its branches to offer books, DVDs and CDs in 59 languages, more than double the total a decade ago. [...]
U. of Houston Libraries Promotes Use of Images from UH Digital Library with Launch of "Image Cafe"
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From a University of Houston Libraries, Special Collections Blog Post: Image Café is a great new service that presents some of the most interesting images from the UH Digital Library. From within the Image Café you can browse and download images, find computer wallpapers, or get batches of images organized by theme. You can also [...]
Anti-Internet Piracy Law Adopted by Spanish Government
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From the BBC: The Spanish government has approved tough new legislation which could see websites deemed to be trading in pirated material blocked within ten days. The legislation creates a government body with powers to force internet service providers to block sites. [Clip] The intellectual property commission will decide whether it wants to take action [...]
STM Publishing: Springer Launches SpringerLink Mobile App for iPhone
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From the Announcement: It is free to download from the iTunes App Store providing access to the science platform www.springerlink.com containing articles and chapters from over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals and 49,000 books. In total SpringerLink is offering over 5.4 million documents spanning every area of science, technology and medicine. The SpringerLink mobile app includes a [...]
North Carolina: 1840s Charlotte Newspaper Now Online
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From the DigitalNC Blog: More than 150 issues of the Mecklenburg Jeffersonian, a weekly paper published in Charlotte in the 1840s, are now available as part of the North Carolina Newspapers collection. The Jeffersonian was a staunchly Democratic paper, and a strong supporter of North Carolina native James K. Polk in his successful bid for [...]
Archives of American Art Announces the Opening of Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art Exhibition Records for Research
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From the Smithsonian: The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art is pleased to announce the completion of a major project funded in 2007 by the Brown Foundation Inc. to fully arrange, preserve and describe the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art Exhibition Records (264 linear feet). One of the Archives’ most significant collections is now fully accessible [...]
Full Text Reference Resource: Trade & Development: UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2011
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Download Full Text, Free Report is available in English and French From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics provides essential data for analysing and measuring world trade, investment, international financial flows and development. Reliable statistical information is often considered as the first step during the preparation of making [...]
