Open Access: Going Forward
This has been a milestone year for the advancement of open access to scientific and academic research and publishing. The introduction of the Research Works Act, HR. 3699, in December, 2011, ignited an international protest against Reed Elsevier, a major STM publisher and a proponent of prohibiting US federal agencies, such as the National Library …Read the Rest…
Searching My EBSCOhost
A familiar database has a new look. The EBSCO suite of databases, has a new search and display option called Visual Display. Fairly familiar basic and advanced searching selections remain (and a button to view and interact with your search history). But the new Visual Display allows the researcher to see an interactive map, or …Read the Rest…
Urban Community Resources
Community Activism Community Economic Development Property and Community Sustainable Cities When you think of the numerous ways that people intersect with the law or the judicial system, it is often as a result of our lives as residents in a community. Whether in a city, suburb or town, we have the common experience of educating our children, renting …Read the Rest…
Stand Your Ground Laws
(See also this Issue Backgrounder for bibliographic references.) I had not heard the term “stand your ground” since I was a youngster. The phase sounds like something my parents would have said to me as a child when I felt another child was giving me a hard time. But as the past few weeks have …Read the Rest…
Tracking the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court
For three days beginning Monday, March 26, six hours of opposing arguments on the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be heard by the justices on the U. S. Supreme Court. There are a number of options for reading the briefs and listening to the arguments in the days to come. Supreme Court of the United States Website …Read the Rest…
The Research Works Act: The End
It was gone before many even noticed — the Research Works Act, H.R. 3699, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on December 16, 2011 and declared dead by its sponsor, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Cal.) on February 27, 2012. The Research Works Act would have prohibited all federal agencies from putting any privately published articles …Read the Rest…