This service, provided by the Internet Archive, is designed to help citizens better understand the issues and candidates of the 2012 elections by allowing them to search closed-captioning transcripts from more than 350,000 broadcasts and to borrow relevant television news programs on request.

This is an excellent resource for students interested in referencing current event commentary and coverage, for research papers and/or for personal interest.

http://archive.org/details/tv

Please take a look and let us know what you think.

New! All editions of the Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print are now available and searchable full-text online with Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print!


Mental Measurements Yearbook is a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 testing instruments in the areas of psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print is a comprehensive bibliography of all known commercially-published tests in the English language.

The Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition, published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, is now available full-text online. This core reference source for social work contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work.

Iona College Libraries is pleased to announce a new database, Criminal Justice Abstracts With Full Text. CJA contains 200,000+ records, many with full-text, selected from the most important sources within the disciplines of criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; probation and parole; etc.
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index provides additional journals in the field. As with CJA, many articles in this database are available in full-text.

We currently have trial access to APA's PsycTHERAPY database: an online collection of streaming video psychotherapy demonstrations featuring some of the most renowned therapists in North America on a host of therapeutic topics.

PsycTHERAPY

Access is limited to on-campus use only.

In advance of the Iowa primary election, Google launched a Politics & Elections page. According to SiliconFilter:

Maybe the most interesting aspect of the site is the real-time dashboard, which displays recent search trends, Google News mentions and YouTube video views for all the candidates. The recent surge of Rick Santorum’s campaign, for example, is nicely illustrated by this tool.

Google Politics and Elections

If you get the message "Sorry, your browser is not supported on this site", you may need to upgrade your browser or use Google Chrome.

The contents of the C-SPAN Archives at Purdue Research Park are now online and so far, 160,000 hours that span 23 years of history are available for free viewing.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/

Literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).

Try Iter Bibliography now

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:36 AM PDT by RESEARCHBUZZ

You know, there are a lot of people I WANT to follow on Twitter. However when I see that they’re twittering dozens of times a day, I just can’t do it. That’s why I’m always happy to learn about services which aggregate tweeters; recently I learned about one for journalists called Muck Rack, available at http://muckrack.com/.

What appears to be a full tweetstream of all the journalists on the site goes down the front of the home page. This is interesting but not really what I like the site for. For that you want to use one of the tabs at the top or links on the side of the page — I like the tabs.
The tabs slice and dice these lists of journalists, as well as organize their multimedia and links. The tabs will let you look at the latest as well as the most popular links that the journalists are posting. You can look at individual journalists by beat or look at a whole tweetstream of that beat. (Beats include health, environment, sports, and several metro areas. The technology beat stream is very nice.) You can view journalists or tweetstreams by source. (Surprised at how many media outlets have LOTS of Twitter users.)

There are lots of people on this site posting lots of interesting information and the RSS feeds are a big bonus (I can get updates from several people at once and hey, I don’t have to overload my regular incoming Twitter feed.) If you’re a news junkie at all it’s a can’t-miss.

(PS: And if you’re not a news junkie, visit the site anyway and look at the top of the site for the black bar leading to other aggregated tweet services, including ones for designers, musicians, pets, VCs, and coders.)

Muck Rack

America.gov

Created by the State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP), the purpose of the America website is to deliver information about current U.S. Policy an d U.S. life and culture to international audiences. The site brings together video programs, radio broadcasts, interviews with officials, and other media to accomplish this feat. First-time visitors can take a look at the six primary sections on the site to start their explorations, or they can also click on the section titled "World Regions" to look at materials that deal with the United States' involvement in Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe. The site also contains interactive quizzes and information about travel and visa information and U.S. embassies around the world.

Over 200 speeches made by President Barack Obama from 2002 - 2009
browse or search.

CQ Researcher - The CQ Researcher is your complete source for in-depth analysis, reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day. Each week, we publish an exhaustive 12,000-word report that engages with insightful, unbiased analysis of the most pressing issues in the news.

We recently added archival content which contains 3600 reports dating back to 1923. Also new is unlimited simultaneous users.

New 2007: CQ Global Researcher uses the same in-depth, single-topic structure as CQ Researcher and includes monthly reports on newsworthy global affairs written by veteran journalists with years of international reporting experience. Other features include Voices from Abroad in each report.

Link to CQ Researcher

"Wex is an ambitious effort to construct a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School (http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/). Much of the material that appears in Wex was originally developed for the LII's "Law about..." pages, to which Wex is the successor.
More information about Wex, its aims, and project plans can be found in the Wex FAQ..

"Capital Eye is a money-in-politics newsletter published by the Center for Responsive Politics. Capital Eye aims to educate its readers and encourage them to examine the role of money in the U.S. political system. It includes substantive, topical articles on issues related to money and politics, and other features designed to explore the impact of money on elections and public policy."

http://www.capitaleye.org/

The fields of gerontology and aging studies continue to grow quickly, and educators working in these fields will appreciate this particular set of instructional resources. Developed and maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the American Society on Aging (ASA), these modules deal with trends in health care utilization, health-related behaviors, and health care expenditures of the United States population. Each module has been tested by a variety of professional educators, and currently there are eight modules available on the site. Based on data from the NCHS Data Warehouse on Trends in Health and Aging, the titles include Life Expectancy and Mortality, Trends in Chronic Diseases among Aged Population, and Disability Trends Among the U.S. Aged Population. (Scout Report)

http://www.asaging.org/NCHS/

Want to know upcoming holidays, elections, sports events, trade shows, video/dvd releases and more? Resource Shelf has compiled links to these calendars and schedules.
Calendars and Schedules
New Additions

The Access to Archival Databases (AAD) provides access to over 85 million historic electronic records created by more than 30 agencies of the U.S. federal government and from collections of donated historical materials. Although this is only a small portion of the National Archives records, these were selected because the records identify specific persons, geographic areas, organizations, and dates. The records cover a wide variety of civilian and military functions and have many genealogical, social, political, and economic research uses.

http://aad.archives.gov/aad/

From the Washington Post, a congressional votes database that covers the 102nd-109th congresses (1991-present). You can now get voting information from any congressional member sent to you via RSS, as well as a feed from the most recent votes.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/

"Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing and publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world.... The Abstract Database contains information on over 104,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers. The Electronic Paper collection currently contains over 76,600 downloadable electronic documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Our users are downloading over 120,000 full text papers each month."

Social Science Research Network

Use THOMAS to search or browse current and past bill text, co-sponsors, and status from Congress. Also find floor schedules, public laws, roll calls, committee reports, the Congressional Record, and much, much more.

Visit THOMAS now

"The United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies; international organizations; and boards, commissions, and committees"

Access the US Government Manual @ GPO Access

"The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world." Links are provided to other country information sites. NOTE: Ryan Library also owns many of the country study books in hard copy (try a keyword search in the ORION catalog, "country study" to see a list of these).

"Classics in the History of Psychology is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters online."

Browse the collection by author or subject.

"The Oyez Project provides access to more than 2000 hours of Supreme Court audio ... recorded since 1995 ... Before 1995, the audio collection is selective. It remains our aim to create a complete and authoritative archive of Supreme Court audio covering the entire span from October 1955 through the most recent release." Additonal resources include a blog, news, documents and biographical information on the justices.

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 2003, the 31st edition, presents a broad spectrum of criminal justice data from more than 100 sources in 6 sections:

* characteristics of the criminal justice systems
* public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice topics
* the nature and distribution of known offenses
* characteristics and distribution of persons arrested
* judicial processing of defendants
* persons under correctional supervision

http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/

ER"ERIC is pleased to announce the availability of a substantial amount of new 2004 and 2005 content. Highlights of this content addition include approximately 20,000 new records for users to search, more than 10,000 bibliographic journal records from more than 300 current journals, and over 1000 ERIC documents (most documents and some journal articles are available in full text)."

Search ERIC now

Search or browse thousands of preprint and self-archived articles in the fields of Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Computer Science, Philsophy, and other areas sciences pertinent to the study of cognition.

Try it out: http://cogprints.org/

Social Work Abstracts now uses an updated version of the SilverPlatter interface. Please contact us with any questions.