Archive for July 2011

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Use JSTOR to Search Academic Journals

JSTOR is a resource for searching academic journals to confirm expert credentials or determining their area expertise

World Bank Open Data Initiative

Over 2,000 World Bank datasets once available only to subscribers are now available to app developers, business consultants and researchers looking for international data.

LA Times Sunshine — Novel Approach to Crowd Sourcing Public Records

In what could become the wave of the future, the Los Angeles Times has instituted an online, crowd sourced document repository. The system is both novel and potentially groundbreaking.

College Tuition Costs Aggregated by US Department of Education

New data from the US Department of Education on college costs is now available allowing for cost comparisons across colleges. For researchers, the raw data files hold cross comparison potential beyond the pre-packaged lists on the site.

Quick Reference Comparison of Congressional Support Agencies

To tie up the series, we’ve created the PDF below as a quick reference comparison of the Congressional support agencies