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Released today by the Social Security Administration (SSA). Top 10 Baby Names of 2010 Boys: 1) Jacob Girls: 1) Isabella 2) Ethan 2) Sophia 3) Michael 3) Emma 4) Jayden 4) Olivia 5) William 5) Ava 6) Alexander 6) Emily 7) Noah 7) Abigail 8) Daniel 8) Madison 9) Aiden 9) Chloe 10) Anthony 10) Mia Some […]
Lists and Rankings: Best-Selling Graduate Works of 2010 Published by ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Pub
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Publishing, Resources, School Libraries
|From ProQuest: Best-selling graduate works are based on an analysis of sales results, search queries, and customer service inquiries of the chosen titles. Each spring the best-selling dissertations from the previous year are announced to the scholars, libraries, and researchers. This year the list has expanded to include the best selling master’s theses. ProQuest/UMI Dissertation […]
The fastest growing place in each of the 50 states (via Businessweek.com). Topping the list is Olive Branch, Mississippi. Rankings by Gadberry Group. The area used in Gadberry’s analysis is not intended to correspond to city or municipal boundaries. As a result, the data does not correspond with results from the 2000 and 2010 Census. […]
Public Health and Emergency Preparedness: CRS Experts (PDF) The following table provides access to names and contact information for CRS experts on: public health and medical system preparedness and response; legal issues in preparedness and response; medical countermeasures; homeland security research and development; and health effects of threat agents. Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS)
From the Introductory/Overview Article in the San Jose Mercury News: Roaring back from the Great Recession, the 150 biggest public companies in Silicon Valley had their most profitable year in history in 2010, as their combined stock value climbed to the highest level since the Internet boom of 2000. Revenue and profits soared as consumers […]
The Art Newspaper’s 17th annual survey of art museums and exhibitions is now online and can be accessed here (7 pages; PDF). An article summarizing several of the lists in the PDF is also available. The article also contains the methodology. Here’s a sample of some of the lists: Top 30 Exhibitions Top Exhibitions (524 […]
Lists & Rankings — Top 100 Social Media Colleges
Academic Libraries, Podcasts, Resources, School Libraries, Video Recordings
|Top 100 Social Media Colleges The StudentAdvisor.com research team continuously collects information on how active and effective each school is at engaging their audiences on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media tools, such as iTunes and podcasts. The ranking methodology also takes into account the size of each school’s population, as well as other […]
If you are a developer or work with developers the following info might be of interest. From the NY Times “Open Blog”: We recently announced the addition of e-book data to our Best Sellers API. In order to support the new data, we had to reduce the scope of the API a little. But we’re […]
Lists & Rankings: Nature Publishing Group: "United States Dominates the Nature Publishing Index Global Top 50" (Product Launch)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Publishing, Resources
|From a Nature Publishing Group Announcement: Institutions in the United States dominate a new ranking of the world’s top 50 institutions. The Nature Publishing Index Global Top 50 published today ranks the top 50 institutions in the world, according to their output of primary research articles in Nature research journals in 2010. Launched today as […]
The Top 30 books are listed. From Publisher’s Weekly: This year, for the first time in PW’s 100+ years of annual features on bestsellers, the magazine collected statistics on e-book sales. We asked publishers (and only publishers that had print bestsellers with sales of more than 100,000 in 2010) to submit e-books with sales of […]