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Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Law School.
Available online.
Recent winner of the Grand Prize in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Country-by-country access to and translations of accounts written by "bridge bloggers" -- people who are talking about their country or region for a global audience.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Public Broadcasting System.
Available online.
State-by-state listings of proposals on the ballot in the upcoming November elections (links go to state election offices), as well as information on each state's campaign finance disclosure laws (links go to the Campaign Disclosure Project).
After you click on the appropriate state, links will appear at the bottom of the screen. Not all states have ballot initiatives this year.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Cambridge University Press.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Published in 2006 as a five-volume set, HSUS is a database of over 37,000 data series (statistical categories) from U.S. and Colonial history. The database also contains extensive essays on the measurements of U.S. history. Data are available as published tables, spreadsheet files (Excel), PDF documents, and custom graphs or charts. This is the first update -- and major expansion -- of a two-volume set published by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1976.
The search and display functions of this database take a while to get used to, so if you have any questions, please let me know.
Links will be maintained in several location in our Web site, including here.
This is a reminder that Leyburn Library maintains a subscription to the online Oxford English Dictionary, almost certainly the most important modern English-language dictionary.
Unlike the set-in-stone printed OED, the online form is updated several times a year and Oxford University Press always releases lists of new (newly-acceptable) words and new meanings. The latest additions include, among others:
bling
Lollywood
bada-bing
drive-by
offshoring
liposculpture
If you should want to check on any of these, or other terms, here is our link to the Oxford English Dictionary.
You might notice that the opening screen includes a link to New Words.
U.S. Federal Election Commission.
Available online.
Apparently, the FCC suppressed a research report which indicated that local ownership of media outlets results in more coverage of local news than when such outlets are not locally owned. The above link takes you to a Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting page describing the controversy, with a link to the recently-discovered FCC document (now on the FCC Web site) here.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
The Washington and Lee University Library subscribes to JSTOR, a digital archive of about 800 important scholarly journals. Our access page is here.
JSTOR recently added a number of new titles to its database, including the following ones:
American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Vols. 1 – 59, 1941-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc.
California Law Review
Vols. 1 – 90, 1912-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: California Law Review, Inc.
Environmental Health Perspectives
Vols. 1 – 114 (Issue 3), 1972-2006
Moving Wall: none
Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Law and Philosophy
Vols. 1 – 21, 1982-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
Luso-Brazillian Review
Vols. 1 – 40, 1964-2003
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Review of Religious Research
Vols. 1 – 45 (Issue 2), 1959-2003
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: Religious Research Association, Inc.
Social Scientist
Vols. 1 – 30, 1972-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Social Scientist
The "moving wall" refers to the range of most recent issues/volumes which are not available.
In addition to the above changes, JSTOR has announced a reduction in the "moving wall" for these two important social science journals:
Annals of the American Academy of Political an Social Science
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science
International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Ltd.
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
Available online. Printed copy to be ordered.
"A comprehensive review of the field, current knowledge and recent trends on the subject of offensive and harmful media content and the protection of minors, evaluative research on different measures, examples of resources and projects from many parts of the world and, not least important, reflections on protective measures and media and information literacy."