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Gapminder
Gapminder is a data visualization tool. I saw it first on this Newshour story about Hans Rosling, who uses it to inform people about global health, population, and development statistics. (Note to the squeamish — the video ends with sword swallowing.) To get an idea of what this tool can do, watch “2000 countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes“. If …Read the Rest…
KSL Summon: A First Glance from a Law Librarian
KSL Summon, a new search service, is a “web-scale discovery tool” that has been adopted primarily by academic libraries. It is designed to compete with Google Scholar by providing quick access to scholarly full-text resources available from selected scholarly databases to which the library subscribes. Summon is programmed to simultaneously search the campus libraries’ Library …Read the Rest…
The Research Works Act, Part 2
The conflict ignited by the December, 2011 introduction of the Research Works Act, H.R 3699, by U.S. Representatives Darrell Issa (R-Ca) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), has morphed into an international protest of one the most powerful STM journal publishers in the world, Elsevier Inc. The Research Works Act prohibits all federal agencies from putting any privately published articles …Read the Rest…
Ohio Zoning Law: Selected Treatises
Ohio Planning and Zoning Law (handbook), Print: Law Reference KFO 458.O38 2011 ed.; Westlaw, OHPLZL Ohio Appellate Practice (handbook), Print: Law Reference KFO 555.A4 2011-2012 ed.; Westlaw, OHAPP: Chapter 9: Appeals from Administrative Proceedings James Klein and Stanton G. Darling, II. Civil Practice (Baldwin’s Ohio Practice), Print: Law Reference KFO 529.K58 2004-; Westlaw, OHPRAC-CIV (several sections mention/discuss …Read the Rest…
Featured Gov Doc: PACER
Do you need case or docket information from a Federal appellate, district or bankruptcy court? Public Access to Court Electronic Records (more commonly known as PACER), a service of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, provides online access to court records. PACER’s date coverage varies by court. Its Court Information page contains specific dates …Read the Rest…