CNS Data/Databases The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), is a nongovernmental organization devoted to research on issues of nonproliferation. Their web site provides access to several of their databases: WMD Country Profile Frequently updated profiles of countries covering their nuclear, biological, and chemical capabilities, facilities, and imports/export. NIS (Newly Independent States) Trafficking Database…
Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. Part of UC Berkeley’s new YouTube campus, a web site of lectures uploaded for viewing by the public, is a series of lectures about search engines. The lectures are part of a course taught in the School of Information by Dr. Marti Hearst. Some of the lectures are a…
The CIAO database (Carleton only link), as of fall 2007, contains selected data and information from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a respected and highly cited source in political economy. EUI country information now in CIAO Detailed country maps Basic information and data for 201 countries Political and economic structures and backgrounds (coming in October)…
When you find a document in LexisNexis, it is now possible to create a URL that will take you directly back to that document in the database, precluding the need to search again. Just use this beta tool.
The LexisNexis Academic database of news and other research sources has a new interface designed to be more intuitive and fast to search. If anyone would like some tips on using the new interface, please send me an email or call. Is anyone interested in a drop-in workshop? In the meantime, here are some basic…
A new statistical report from the United Nations: High Commissioner for Refugees Report: “2006 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons,” (June 2007, .pdf format, 15p.). http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/4676a71d4.pdf More statistics and data can be found from the UN Refugee Agency, on the UNHCR Statistics web site, including their annual statistical publication, the Statistical…
Global Development Finance is a two-volume annual report from the World Bank. The first volume, usually titled “Analysis and Statistical Appendix” is available online from the World Bank web site, free for anyone to read. The second volume, “Summary and Country Tables” contains country data in time series back to 1970. The Carleton library subscribes…
The IPUMS-International series now includes 17 new samples from Argentina, Hungary, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Portugal, and Rwanda. Back in December, 16 new samples were added for Belarus, Cambodia, Greece, the Philippines, Romania, Spain and Uganda. For more information about using these data from the University of Minnesota Population Center, see the data releases web…
I learned today that discontinued series of the World Development Indicators, WDI, are dropped from the web version. That is, even though data may have been available for a range of years for a particular series, if data are no longer being collected, you will not see them in the online database. What is a…
Castro Speech Database The LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) web site hosts this excellent free resource. Researchers at the Radio Martà Program, part of the U.S. Information Agency, have digitized the speeches (translated into English) from the FBIS collection. Discursos e intervenciones del Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, Presidente del Consejo de Estado…