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Major Minor

2007-07-09T23:39:00.000-07:00

The new Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC) is an initiative of ICPSR (Inter-univeristy Consortium for Political and Social Research) at the Univ. of Michigan. The goal of the site is to provide data resources to educators, researchers and students who are interested in analyzing issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the US. The data includes large on-going national surveys in the large gathering of data. Subjects include: education, employment, history, housing, immigration and health.

Growing Pains

2007-05-11T08:40:00.000-07:00

The BIRTH Television Archive (BTA) is the World's first internet archive of vintage from the early times of European television. This unique archive was built up by five major European television archives from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Nederlandse Instituut voor Beeld and Geluid, Radio Télévision Belgique Française (RTBF) and Südwestrundfunk (SWR) together with the technical partners Joanneum Research and Noterik Multimedia. Currently, the BTA comprises more than 630 television programme items, over 370 images, 110 television guides and schedules as well as over 80 articles.

Obligation To Preserve

2007-04-20T18:40:00.000-07:00

The American Presidency Project is an online archive, maintained by the University of California at Santa Barbara, it contains over 72,000 documents related to the U.S. Presidency. The searchable database includes, the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington - Taft (1789-1913), the Public Papers of the Presidents:Hoover to Bush (1929-1993), the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:Clinton - G.W. Bush (1993-2007). These documents include Executive Orders and Proclamations, State of the Union Addresses, Inaugural Addresses, press conferences, and much more.

Close To Home

2007-02-18T20:20:00.000-08:00

California's Legislature is an electronic version of the most recent edition of the California Legislature handbook, "first published in 1942, [which] is regarded as one of the most authoritative and detailed sources on our state's legislative branch of government." Topics include California's historical background, the California Constitution, elections, the executive branch (governor, lieutenant governor, and other state officers), the judicial branch, legislative sessions, legislative districts, the legislative process, and more.

United We Stand

2007-02-02T08:11:00.000-08:00

American President: An Online Reference Resource Collection of material about U.S. presidents, including "essays about each President and their lives before, during, and after their presidential terms. It additionally provides information about the First Lady and cabinet officials of each administration." From the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Divided We Fall

2006-12-22T23:07:00.000-08:00

Database of Declarations and Conventions contained in General Assembly Resolutions This database contains links to declarations, conventions and other instruments, the text of which appear in resolutions of the General Assembly or their annexes. Instruments that have not been submitted for adoption by the General Assembly, i.e. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, are not included. Each resolution is followed by the link to a pop-up window providing access to the document in all six UN 0fficial languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Resolutions in Arabic are available starting from 1957). Documents are retrieved from the Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS).

Trading Up

2006-11-16T17:54:00.000-08:00

FTC Decisions Since 1969 Now Available Online, "commission actions from the past 37 years, including documents previously available to the general public only in book form, are now available on the agency’s Web site. These volumes – more than 70,000 pages covering 1969 through 2005 – contain virtually all administrative documents issued by the Commission, including Opinions, Final Orders, Complaints, and Consent Orders that result from negotiated consent agreements, as well as all Initial Decisions issued by Administrative Law Judges in administrative trial proceedings.”

Go To The Source

2006-11-09T15:03:00.000-08:00

Harvard Business School's Baker Library Research Guides focus on topical resources to help in your research. Research Guides cover general business topics, specific industries, and countries. There are also Guides that step you through the research process.

Get Out The Vote

2006-11-07T09:52:00.000-08:00

Smart Voter is produced by the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund. Designed to help voters understand their choices better including local contests, Smart Voter offers extensive background information on candidates in participating counties as well as information on state and local ballot measures. The Smart Voter site allows users to find their custom ballot and polling place by entering their street address and zip code. Users may access "home pages" of each participating candidate that include their biography, endorsements, top priorities if elected, and position papers. All candidates in the participating counties are invited to participate. Each page about a contest includes links to relevant news or analysis articles written by online local media organizations or other nonpartisan information.

Until The Fat Lady Sings

2006-10-22T09:46:00.000-07:00

Developed in association with the Indiana University Digital Library Program, the Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States. The database traces performance programming from early live presentations on experimental TV stations, to contemporary productions released on broadcast television, various cable forms, and home video.

Go With The Flow

2006-10-19T09:31:00.000-07:00

StreamStats is a Web-based tool that allows users to obtain streamflow statistics, drainage-basin characteristics, and other information for user-selected sites on streams. StreamStats users can choose locations of interest from an interactive map and obtain information for these locations. If a user selects the location of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data-collection station, the user will get previously published information for the station from a database. If a user selects a location where no data are available (an ungaged site), a Geographic Information System (GIS) program will estimate information for the site. The GIS program determines the boundary of the drainage basin above the site, measures the physical characteristics of the drainage basin, and solves the appropriate regression equations to estimate streamflow statistics for the site. The results are presented in a table and a map showing the basin outline. The estimates assume natural flow conditions at the site. In the past, it could take an experienced person more than a day to estimate this information for an ungaged site. StreamStats reduces the effort to only a few minutes.

By The Numbers

2006-10-18T08:34:00.000-07:00

Economic Indicators is prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers to supply monthly updates related to the economic conditions in the United States. Economic Indicators provides statistical data both in tabular and graphic form and includes information on consumer and producer prices, employment, production, and money and banking. Tables typically display 10 years of annual data with the most recent 12 to 15 months broken out in detail.

In The KnoW

2006-10-17T08:40:00.000-07:00

The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga has opened up access to one of its search tools to all web users. The National Library, in association with the Te Puna Strategic Advisory Commitee and Knowleage Basket, has moved to provide more ways to access Index New Zealand (INNZ). INNZ describes over half a million articles published in or about New Zealand over the past 20 years. The titles indexed range from popular magazines such as ‘North & South’ and ‘Consumer’ to more specialised journals such as ‘New Zealand Law Review’ and ‘Art New Zealand’.

Birth Of A Nation

2006-10-16T08:37:00.000-07:00

The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) provides access to texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Documents can be located by browsing the title or author index, or the documents are searchable by various field indicators.

What You Say

2006-08-18T08:41:00.000-07:00

The U.S. Supreme Court has begun posting transcripts of oral arguments on the same day the cases are heard. Older transcripts are also available on the site.

At What Cost

2006-08-17T09:18:00.000-07:00

The Personal Disclosure Database took those hard-to-read pdf files and put them in a searchable database. You can now search the most recent reports for net worth, major holdings, liabilities and transactions, as well as sources of income, gifts, and travel reimbursements. The Congressional Travel database tracks lawmakers' privately sponsored trips around the world. Also, OMB Watch created FedSpending.org, a database that allows searching of over $12 Trillion of federal spending.

For Our Defence

2006-08-16T08:42:00.000-07:00

The CNSS - The Committee on National Security Systems: Under Executive Order (E.O.) 13231 of October 16, 2001, Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Information Age, the President redesignated the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee (NSTISSC) as the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS). The Department of Defense continues to chair the Committee under the authorities established by NSD-42. This was reaffirmed by Executive Order 13284, dated January 23, 2003, Executive Order Amendment of Executive Orders and Other Actions, in Connection with the Transfer of Certain Functions to the Secretary of Homeland Security.

The CNSS provides a forum for the discussion of policy issues, sets national policy, and promulgates direction, operational procedures, and guidance for the security of national security systems. National security systems are information systems operated by the U.S. Government, its contractors or agents that contain classified information or that involve intelligence activities; involve cryptographic activities related to national security; involve command and control of military forces; involve equipment that is an integral part of a weapon or weapons system(s); or are critical to the direct fulfillment of military or intelligence missions (not including routine administrative and business applications). Index of National Security System Issuances

Documenting A Democracy

2006-08-15T08:50:00.000-07:00

The National Archives of Australia has recently created this website which explores the various documents that tell about the creation and formation of their country as a commonwealth. The homepage presents a map of the country, divided into its contemporary political divisions, allowing visitors to click on each area to read primary documents that provide insight into each locale. Areas such as New South Wales include transcripts and original documents, such as the secret instructions to Captain James Cook on what to do if he finds land and the New South Wales Courts Act of 1787. Other sections of the site include “Pathways”, which allow users to delve into these documents in a thematic fashion (related to issues surrounding land and the like) and a basic timeline that begins in 60,000 BC and continues to 1836.

Head Count

2006-08-14T09:00:00.000-07:00

The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) is a project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all available aggregate census information for the United States between 1790 and 2000. The NHGIS work invloves three major components: collecting and enriching historical and contemporary U.S. Census summary data, incorporating this data into a Geographic Information Systems framework, and creating a web-based system for access to both census data and the metadata.

Earth Angel

2006-08-13T08:40:00.000-07:00

As the crucial element of the National Science Digital Library that provides information on the area of geoscience, the Digital Library for Earth Science Education (DLESE) provides access to “quality teaching and learning resources about the Earth as a system for a wide range of learners.” With an impressive array of materials, it’s hard to know where to start, but first-time visitors may wish to look over the most recent edition of their in-house newsletter, which profiles some of the materials that have been added to the site. Of course, there is also a general search engine that allows users to search all of the materials by grade level, resource type, standards, and thematic collection.

Connect The Dots

2006-08-12T09:31:00.000-07:00

Environment Dot is the online resource for environment. Provide environment resources, water resources, vegetarianism, pollution prevention, agriculture, microbia, ozone and more.

The Fourth Element

2006-08-11T09:24:00.000-07:00

The Encyclopedia of Earth is a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public. The scope of the Encyclopedia includes; The hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, magnetosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, and their interactions, especially in regards to how these systems support life and underpin human existence and the living organisms on Earth that constitute its biological diversity.

Beeker Full Of Secrets

2006-08-10T09:12:00.000-07:00

The WWW Chemistry Guide is a comprehensive collection of annotated links for chemists and researchers involved in organic, biochemical, computational, medicinal and/or other chemistry research. All sites listed in the directory are examined by our team of editors (scientists with Bsc, Msc and Ph. D. degrees of chemistry), and only if qualified are granted inclusion. Editorial review ensures that all sites are appropriately listed in their most relevant category; all sites included must contain substantive unique content, navigate in a user-friendly manner, contain no broken links or pictures, be up and running 24/7, and conform to universally accepted web standards.

A Pin Drop

2006-08-09T08:58:00.000-07:00

The Musical Acoustics Research Library (MARL) is a collection of independent archives or libraries assembled by distinguished groups or individuals in the field of musical acoustics research. MARL is directed by representatives of each member collection, in conjunction with the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, which maintains the contents of each library. Currently, MARL is comprised of the Catgut Acoustical Society Library, the Arthur H. Benade Archive, the John Backus Archive, and the John W. Coltman Archive. MARL consists of an extensive collection of files compiled by or about many of the most prominent acousticians of our time.

Moving Picture Show

2006-08-08T09:10:00.000-07:00

Moving Image Collections Union catalogs archives with portals providing specific information for general users, archivists, or science educators. The collection offers bibliographic records from more than 230 institutions and archives. Some records include links to file downloads or streaming video.

Make Them Laugh

2006-08-07T08:35:00.000-07:00

The American Comedy Archives was established at Emerson College in 2005 to acquire, preserve and make available primary source material that documents the professional activities of the ground breaking individuals who have written, produced or performed comedy for radio, television, motion pictures or live performance. It is the first academic collection of its kind devoted to exploring the nature of comedy as an American art form and reflects the College's view that examining the history, sociology, and culture of comedy represents an important and underrepresented field of study.

White Collar

2006-08-06T08:34:00.000-07:00

The Government Accountability Office's Financial Restatement Database alllows you to download two files containing its Financial Restatement Database, which includes 1,786 announcements from July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2006 "identified as having been made because of financial reporting fraud and/or accounting errors."

Democratic Control

2006-08-05T08:57:00.000-07:00

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) is an online legal database on security sector governance. This "database provides reference information and texts of over 300 laws and regulations from some 30 countries of the Euro-Atlantic region, relating to one of the following five topics; armed forces, democratic control of armed forces, intelligence, national security and police and non-military security forces." There is also publications from DCAF who’s goals are to "work with governments and civil society to foster and strengthen the democratic and civilian control of security sector organizations such as police, intelligence agencies, border security services, paramilitary forces, and armed forces." The publications area of this site includes "backgrounders," books, handbooks, occasional papers and policy papers from DCAF, freely available in PDF.

Lost In Translation

2006-08-04T08:34:00.000-07:00

The Asia-Pacific Literacy Data Base is a resource from UNESCO for literacy facts and figures, reports, publications, and non-formal educational curricula and NGO literacy programs in the Asia-Pacific: Afghanistan, India, Maldives, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Bhutan, Iran, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Vietnam. Fulltext publications are in PDF format.

Casglu'r Tlysau

2006-08-03T08:41:00.000-07:00

Gathering the Jewels: The Website for Welsh Cultural History is a website about Welsh history provides "over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales." Searchable; or browse by county in Wales or by subjects such as agriculture, industry, arts, religion, politics, education, transportation, domestic life, and war. In English and Welsh. From the National Library of Wales

All Aboard

2006-08-02T09:39:00.000-07:00

Cruise Critic is a "cruise vacation planning guide which includes objective cruise reviews on 225+ ships, 55 cruise line profiles, information on what to do and where to go in 135+ worldwide ports, readers' ship ratings and reviews, cruise bargains and cruise tips." Browse cruises by destination, city of departure, cruise line, price range, interest (such as golf), and lifestyle (such as gay and lesbian). From the Independent Traveler, publishers of a travel exchange website.

SpecOps

2006-08-01T09:33:00.000-07:00

Overview and history of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), such as the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), Psychological Operations (PSYOP), Rangers (special light infantry operations), and others "operations conducted by specially trained, equipped and organized Department of Defense forces." The mission of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command is to organize, train, educate, man, equip, fund, administer, mobilize, deploy and sustain Army special operations forces to successfully conduct worldwide special operations, across the range of military operations, in support of regional combatant commanders, American ambassadors and other agencies.

An Gorta Mor

2006-07-31T09:02:00.000-07:00

The Great Hunger Archive offers a collection of primary source materials from Irish workhouses during the famine of the mid-19th century as well as other documents and bibliographies related to Irish history. The minute books are a record of the administration, bookkeeping, accounts, and daily activities of workhouses for the poor, with original page images and transcriptions provided. There is also a multimedia presentation on these books.

A Peek Into Chinatown

2006-07-30T08:58:00.000-07:00

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 "collection illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life in California. Chinatown in San Francisco receives special treatment as the oldest and largest community of Chinese in the United States. The materials in this online compilation are drawn from collections at The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley; The Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley; and The California Historical Society, San Francisco."

Public Data

2006-07-29T08:54:00.000-07:00

"The State and Metropolitan Area Data Book for 2006 features more than 1,500 data items for the United States and individual states, counties and metropolitan areas from a variety of sources. The files include data published for 2005 population and housing unit estimates and many items from the 1990 and 2000 Census of Population and Housing." Tables are available in PDF and Excel formats.

Fame

2006-07-28T08:51:00.000-07:00

Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD) is a performing arts digital library and database containing images, video, audio, and texts. Covers dance, theatre, opera, television, film, music, kabuki, puppetry and other performing arts. Search or browse by performance organization, place, name, title, or genre.

Chinese Life Blood

2006-07-27T09:46:00.000-07:00

China Vitae is a cross-referenced biographical database with over 3,000 entries on Chinese leaders in business, government, the military, academia, and the media. Along with this main database, there is a directory of VIP appearances detailing the travel, activities, and meetings of senior officials. These may be browsed by date, official, location, or topic.

For The Record

2006-07-26T09:29:00.000-07:00

Domesday Book is one of England’s earliest surviving public records, and the foundation document of The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom. You can now search and download images of Domesday online. Learn how and why Domesday was created, the differences between Great and Little Domesday and how to interpret the book in Discover Domesday guide. Read about the people, the landscape and the life in towns and villages in eleventh century England, and the rich landscape William the Conqueror inherited.

Died In Office

2006-07-25T09:08:00.000-07:00

McKinley Assassination Ink (MAI) is designed as a means for providing individuals—scholars and school children, professionals and lay folk—with free and unfettered access to Primary source materials relating to the McKinley. MAI primarily consists of transcriptions of original published documents dating from, though not limited to, 1901-02. Some of these documents are presented only in excerpt form, but many of the documents are included in full. Each document (comprising its own webpage) includes publication information, keywords, and a listing of “named persons.” The site also includes: 1) a set of seven browsing indexes, complete with links to the individual documents; 2) a selected listing of quotations culled from the documents; 3) a selected bibliography; and 4) a page of links to relevant external websites. The goal of MAI is simply this: to gather the largest possible selection of full-text primary source documents relating to the assassination of William McKinley and the immediate aftermath of that event, including the succession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency and the incarceration, trial, and execution of assassin Leon Czolgosz.

A Block Of Writers

2006-07-24T09:05:00.000-07:00

American Writers: Journey through history and American Writers II: The 20th Century are now available as permanent archives for educators, researchers and every one interested in the writers featured in the C-SPAN series. In 2001 C-SPAN produced an American history series that looks at the lives and works of selected American writers who have chronicled, reflected upon, or influence the course of our nation. In 2002 they brought together writers, scholars, historians and actors to examine the lives and works of Twentieth Century American writers who have influence our modern nation. Find information on writers and their works, View streaming media of complete author programs & related video.

Under The Canopy

2006-07-23T08:55:00.000-07:00

The University of Washington's College of Forest Resources Fact Sheets and Forest Resources is dedicated to generating and disseminating knowledge for the stewardship of natural and managed environments and the sustainable use of their products and services through teaching, research, and outreach. Development of concise and timely fact sheets available to the academic community, the natural resource professions, public agencies, and the public is one mechanism of disseminating this knowledge. The current index provides information on topics ranging from traditional forest management and products, natural resource economics and policy, and emerging areas such as phytoremediation, forest canopy research, and urban forest benefits.

Border Patrol

2006-07-22T09:23:00.000-07:00

TRAC Immigration is a collection of "independent and nonpartisan information about U.S. federal immigration enforcement." Includes government studies, reports and bulletins, statistics, and other publications about immigration policy, border security, visas, and related immigration topics. Also provides a glossary of immigration-related terms. From the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.

Sit Back And Relax

2006-07-21T09:17:00.000-07:00

The Hallmark Hall of Fame: The First Fifty Years site celebrates television broadcasts sponsored by Hallmark from 1951 through 2001. It features an introductory essay, timeline, and synopses of programs (browsable by title or by decade) such as for the memorable live premiere in 1951 of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and the 1953 production of "Hamlet," which "marked the first presentation of a Shakespearean play on U.S. network television." From the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Over The Top

2006-07-20T09:18:00.000-07:00

U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: 300 Million is a website which spotlights the occasion of the U.S. population reaching 300 million in 2006, "the Census Bureau steps back in time by comparing contemporary life and statistics to those in the time periods in which the nation reached other noteworthy population milestones in 1967 ... and in the year 1915." Includes comparisons of population, education, life expectancy, prices (gasoline, milk, postage stamps, and more), earnings, and other data. From the U.S. Census Bureau.

Rank And File

2006-07-19T08:25:00.000-07:00

The Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology online features are divided into several sections. First is searchable access to collections of objects, paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs. A secetion on 'Finding Aids On-Line' provide lists of several archival collections, both photographic and paper. With the sites 'Peabody Profiles' they have put together materials highlighting the work of museum staff and faculty of the Anthropology Department. They list Special Projects of the museum staff and faculty as well as Annual Reports of the Peabody Museum's "rise and progress" from its founding in 1866 through 1888

Go Medieval On You

2006-07-18T09:15:00.000-07:00

Medieval English Towns provides information on urban medieval England, offering histories of selected towns, images, glossary, and a selection of translated primary sources on community, economy, government, and lifecycle (including documents related to retirement and death). The site also features a large collection of links to other resources, with sections on urban history, urban economies, bibliographies, specific English towns, and medieval cities in the rest of Europe.

Stone Age Day Dream

2006-07-17T08:42:00.000-07:00

The Stone Age Reference Collection provides access to information and images about the raw materials, weapons, technology, and tools used during the Stone Age. Links to other sites are available, as well as a bibliography and several publications.

The Sparrow Glen

2006-07-16T09:54:00.000-07:00

Fauna Europaea has assembled a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals. Experts in taxonomy have provided data of all species currently known in Europe. Together this data has been assembled into a huge database, which will be accessible to everyone. The University of Amsterdam has coordinated the project, assisted by the University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.The Fauna Europaea database will provide a unique reference for many groups such as scientists, governments, industries, conservation communities and educational programs.

Canadian Voices

2006-07-15T10:00:00.000-07:00

The Canadian Encyclopedia website now offers an online version of the prestigious Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, with some 4,000 articles on all aspects of music in Canada. With the aid of its partners and the generous support of Canadian Heritage, Historica presents this site to all Canadians and to interested users around the world. The website can be searched via the simple search or advanced search and the user can switch languages at any time.

Toe Tapping Tunes

2006-07-14T09:42:00.000-07:00

Music from the Movies offers news, articles, and reviews on film scores, concerts, and composers. The guide to composers contains over 1,300 biographies, with discographies and links to reviews on the site. You can find content searching by the composer, a film title, or keyword.

Show Must Go On

2006-07-13T09:33:00.000-07:00

Show Music on Record is a revised electronic version of the definitive reference source by Jack Raymond, first published in 1982. The database -- to be updated periodically -- provides discographic information for commercially-released show music recordings starting with those captured on early cylinders in the late 19th century and continuing through recent compact disc productions of the early 21st century. In addition to listings of original cast recordings of American shows produced for the stage, screen, and television, and foreign stage shows and motion pictures that played in the U.S., Show Music on Record includes commercial recordings of later albums and medleys from shows, individual show tunes performed by members of original, revival, and studio casts, records of composers performing their own show songs, and selected additional recordings of related interest. The online database was developed by the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (Recorded Sound Reference Center) and the Network Development and MARC Standards Office in collaboration with the Public Affairs Office and the Office for Strategic Initiatives.

Hallowed Halls

2006-07-12T09:05:00.000-07:00

Congresspedia is a collaboratively written "citizens' encyclopedia on Congress," designed to shine more light on the workings of the U.S. Congress. Congresspedia is part of SourceWatch, a similarly collaborative, wiki-based website documenting the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. The purpose of Congresspedia is to give citizens and media the ability to root out corruption and bring transparency to the system. It is based on a set of basic ideas; "A well-informed public is an essential ingredient of a healthy democracy, Most people feel they’re not being well represented in Washington, while 'special interests' are. But few people could name the interest groups that support and lobby their own representatives, The cost of winning election to Congress has become so expensive that most members raise funds year-round and work hard to maintain good relations not just with their constituents back home, but also with the 'cash constituents' who supply the money for their campaigns. We all need to know who those cash constituents are. Despite the constant flow of news from Washington, much of what happens in the halls of Congress is not widely known outside the Washington beltway – and plenty of insiders like it that way." With 11,341 articles SourceWatch/Congresspedia is the world's 14th largest wiki website by article count.

Big Money

2006-07-11T09:03:00.000-07:00

The Investment Company Institute sponsors it's Mutual Fund Statistics website as part of its efforts to enhance public understanding of the investment company industry and the policy issues that affect it.Institute staff collect, compile, verify for accuracy, and release a wide range of statistics on approximately 8,000 U.S.-based mutual funds. The Institute also collects data on U.S.-based closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, and unit investment trusts, as well as foreign open-end investment companies in conjunction with investment company industry associations around the world.

Policy Papers

2006-07-10T08:57:00.000-07:00

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) seeks to advance global security and prosperity in an era of economic and political transformation by providing strategic insights and practical policy solutions to decisionmakers. CSIS serves as a strategic planning partner for the government by conducting research and analysis and developing policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change. CSIS experts conduct research and analysis and develop policy initiatives that are organized around more than 25 programs grouped under three themes. With one of the most comprehensive programs on U.S. Defense & Security Policy, CSIS proposes reforms to U.S. defense organization, defense policy, and the defense industrial and technology base. CSIS Global Challenges programs offer solutions to the issues of proliferation, transnational terrorism, homeland security, and post-conflict reconstruction. With programs on demographics and population, energy security, global health, technology, and the international financial and economic system, CSIS addresses the new drivers of risk and opportunity on the world stage. CSIS is the only institution of its kind with resident experts studying the Regional Transformation of all of the world's major geographic areas. CSIS specialists seek to anticipate changes in key countries and regions–from Africa to Asia, from Europe to Latin America, and from the Middle East to North America.

To Fetch A Pale Of Water

2006-07-09T08:45:00.000-07:00

The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum provides access to a collection of images of primarily Greek ancient vases dating from 6,000 B.C. to 400 A.D. from more than 120 collections in 26 countries. This searchable database of digitized text and images, is browsable by country and museum, and searchable by fabric, technique, provenance and other aspects.

On The Board

2006-07-08T09:30:00.000-07:00

The Securities Class Action Clearinghouse provides detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. The Clearinghouse maintains an Index of Filings of 2,431 issuers that have been named in federal class action securities fraud lawsuits since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Clearinghouse also contains copies of more than 16,000 complaints, briefs, filings, and other litigation-related materials filed in these cases.

Rate The Prime

2006-07-07T09:22:00.000-07:00

Liber8 is an economic information portal of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The bank librarians designed the site with university and government document librarians, students, and the general public in mind. Economic information can, at times, be difficult for the non-economist to find and understand. The site provides a single point of access to the economic information that the Federal Reserve System, other government agencies, and data providers. Liber8 is provided by the Research Library of the 8th Federal Reserve District.

Shining Example

2006-07-06T09:01:00.000-07:00

Judgements of the Supreme Court of Canada provides, with some exceptions from between 1985 and 1988, all judgments rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada since 1985. It also includes all judgments pertaining to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms rendered in 1983 and 1984.

Breaking A Color Barrier

2006-07-05T08:49:00.000-07:00

A Comprehensive Reference Guide to Recorded Works by Black Composers Available on Compact Disc is compiled by Richard Greene. At this web site you will find varied information including a comprehensive Black composer discography. Currently, more than 130 black composers have been recorded on compact discs. The 800+ listed works are primarily instrumental, ranging in format from solo to orchestral. This reference guide also includes the recording label and the catalog identification number. Overall, more than four hundred classical music composers of African heritage have been identified. Recorded offerings, therefore, represent only a small subset of this total creative output. A bibliography and webliography is also part of this resource.

International Relations

2006-07-04T08:34:00.000-07:00

The Underground

2006-07-03T08:46:00.000-07:00

Subway Navigator gives you a direct access to the world's subways including world subway maps and general information concerning the Official Transport Authority (official website, e-mail, timetable and fares if available. The site also has a route finder that helps you to find your itinerary from one station to another and links to interesting places nearby the subway station you have selected.

The Golden Dawn

2006-07-02T07:56:00.000-07:00

Thelemapedia is the original open-source encyclopedia of Thelema. Articles on Thelemapedia represent a wide range of interests, with a focus on the magick and philosophy of Aleister Crowley. At Thelemapedia, you can find articles on Thelema, magick, ritual, OTO, astrology, Book of the Law, godforms, and more. The site's goal is to make Thelemapedia the single best, most comprehensive source of information on Thelema. You can browse over 870 articles on Thelemapedia.

Watch What You Say

2006-07-01T08:52:00.000-07:00

The Diplomacy Monitor, brought to you by St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, Florida synthisises the global output of communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of diplomacy-related websites in near real-time for scholars, diplomats, journalists, researchers, students and others interested in the interaction among nations. The site allows you to globally track diplomatic and international trade communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of government sources in a single monitoring system; access official or computerized English translations of non-English documents; follow the major and evolving international issues of the day, such as Iraq, the Middle East, human rights and anti-terrorism; Display other nations' diplomatic positions relative to a specific nation; isolate the diplomatic interaction between two nations; identify emerging diplomatic and trade alliances; supplement news media reporting with the original source documents without abridgement or filtering; and conduct full-text Boolean searching of more than 14,000 diplomatic and trade documents issued in the past 90 days.

Call To Order

2006-06-30T08:47:00.000-07:00

The Parliamentary Archives of England holds several million historical records relating to Parliament, dating from 1497. These include the Records of the House of Lords and House of CommonsOfficial records of both Houses of Parliament, including Acts, Journals, Deposited Plans and Appeal Cases, access to Other Parliamentary Collections relating to Parliament, including the papers of the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Lord President of the Council, the Private PapersCollections of political papers and records of political bodies and pressure groups, including Lloyd George, Bonar Law, and Beaverbrook, and Records about the Palace of Westminster records about the building, including the papers of Charles Barry and AWN Pugin, the drawings of J Hardman & Co, the Benjamin Stone photographs and the records of various government departments responsible for maintaining the new Palace, as well as many other sources.

Biobibliographies

2006-06-29T09:31:00.000-07:00

The Modern British Literature Index provides access to biographies and bibliographies of writers working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with links to online texts and other resources when available.

For Your Information

2006-06-28T09:23:00.000-07:00

British National Archives : Public Information Films site allows visitors to view a selection of public information films from 1945 to 2006. The films range in length from (15) seconds, "TV Licence - Columbo" (1977), to more than nineteen (19) minutes, "The Wonder Jet" (1950) and "Atomic Achievement " (1956). Covering a wide range of topics the films can be viewed with Windows Media Player or Quicktime in a low or high resolution format. A text transcript is also provided.

Spectator And Tatler

2006-06-27T08:19:00.000-07:00

The Spectator Project is an interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general. The most innovative feature of the project developed out of the object of study itself. The format, style, and even the content of The Tatler and the Spectator were immediately and closely imitated in hundreds of periodicals in Europe and the Americas. The Spectator Project will allow users to compare imitated and imitating formats and passages of text through the means of hyperlinks. A footnote will appear, for example, in the text of Marivaux's Le Spectateur français or Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator, and the user will click on it to bring up the passage in the Spectator that it derives from.

Various Versions

2006-06-26T09:09:00.000-07:00

The Wordsworth Variorum Archive (WVA) is a digital archive of the poetry of William Wordsworth. The archive makes available Wordsworth's poetry as it was originally published, arranged by published volume. Students, scholars and the merely curious can examine Wordsworth's poetry in the context of its original publication and subsequent re-publications.

Peace Operations

2006-06-25T09:03:00.000-07:00

The SIPRI Database on Multilateral Peace Operations uniquely provides transparent and reliable data on all multilateral peace operations (both UN and non-UN) conducted around the world. Here you will find information on where an operation is located, the dates of its deployment and operation, the mission mandate, the participating countries, the approved and actual number of personnel deployed broken into personnel types, the financial costs, and the number of fatalities suffered.

Off Off Broadway

2006-06-24T09:30:00.000-07:00

The Lortel Archives, also known as the Internet Off-Broadway Database is a searchable database of information on shows produced Off-Broadway in New York. For each production, we have included all information available, including title page credits, original cast members and replacements, window card photos, awards won, number of performances and much more. In addition, there’s information about Off-Broadway theatre spaces, theatre companies and the people who make Off-Broadway come to life.

Read The Manual

2006-06-23T08:32:00.000-07:00

The Army provides online policies, regulations, pamphlets, field manuals and training materials on its intelligence and security doctrine. This includes the "Department of the Army Freedom of Information Act Program," "Legal Lessons Learned from Afghanistan and Iraq" and the "Operational Law Handbook," a 600-page manual intended to help Army lawyers "recognize, analyze, and resolve the problems they will encounter in the operational context." Or even the "Army Band Section Leader Handbook."

Go Figure

2006-06-22T08:37:00.000-07:00

The Online Encyclopaedia of Mathematics is the most up-to-date and comprehensive English-language graduate-level reference work in the field of mathematics today. This online edition comprises more than 8,000 entries and illuminates nearly 50,000 notions in mathematics. The Encyclopaedia of Mathematics is updated on a regular basis to remain a quick, precise source of reference to mathematical definitions, concepts, explanations, surveys, examples, terminology and methods, which will prove useful for all mathematicians and other scientists who encounter mathematics in their work.

Lost In Translation

2006-06-21T08:02:00.000-07:00

The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, an international bibliography of translations. The database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totalling more than 1.600,000 entries in all disciplines . The subjucts cover literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth. Index Translationum can produce statistics to obtain the number of translations published around the world. The totals obtained can apply to all translations of the Index (from 1979 to 2002, for all languages and world regions). The totals can also be obtained for a restricted set of translations by using a filter. In addition, the totals can be detailed for u quantitative differences and can be viewed according to different parameters such as country, language, and across time intervals.

Pressed Kiwi

2006-06-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

"Papers Past showcases selected 19th century New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The site currently contains digital images of over one million pages from 41 publications." Browse by newspaper and publication date. Publication history for each newspaper is provided. Full page images are displayed using a browser plugin that requires no software download. Site also features a Maori language interface.

Worth More Than Paper

2006-06-19T09:10:00.000-07:00

From the U.S. Department of State is the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation: Treaties and Agreements which provides the text of historic arms control agreements from the U.S. Bureau of Arms Control and the U.S. Bureau of Nonproliferation (which merged to become the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation in 2005). Some of the treaties include the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Geneva Protocol, the Open Skies Treaty, the Outer Space Treaty, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I and SALT II).

Dino Discourse

2006-06-18T07:54:00.000-07:00

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) scientific publications disseminate the results of laboratory investigations and fieldwork conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology. This collection includes full-text PDFs of current and back issues of AMNH scientific series.

Urban Renewal

2006-06-17T09:09:00.000-07:00

Department of Housing and Urban Development's "State of the Cities Datasystem" (SOCDS) offers demographic and economic information from the 1970 to 2000 census, current employment statistics for city residents, data on county business patterns, FBI crime data, local building permit data, information on city and suburban public finances and more.

It's The Numbers

2006-06-16T08:32:00.000-07:00

PopPlanet is a resource of up-to-date country specific information on key population, environment, and health issues. Topics include: biological, flora and mineral resources, water pollution and scarcity, land resources and degradation, health services, and health impacts from the environment

A Clear Shot

2006-06-15T21:37:00.000-07:00

The Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC) Public Library provides access to approximately 50,000 pages of reports, transcripts, and documents relating to political assassination. Many of these documents were released in recent years under the provisions of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. The AARC Public Library features easy browsing as well as a powerful search engine.

Old Mariners Tale

2006-06-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

The Census of Marine Life is a growing global network of researchers in more than 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans past, present, and future. Through 2010, scientists worldwide will work to quantify what is known, unknown, and what may never be known about the world's oceans-which comprise more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface and more than 90 percent of its biosphere. They help identify threatened species and important breeding areas, helping authorities develop effective strategies for the sustainable management of marine resources. New pharmaceuticals and industrial compounds are also among the potential uses of the estimated thousands of undescribed species that will be found. And as the secrets of the planet's last unexplored frontier are revealed, understanding of elemental processes such as climate, evolution, extinction, and migration will expand.

Northwest Passage

2006-06-13T08:50:00.000-07:00

The Northwest History Database contains material of significance to the history of the Northwest during the first half of the twentieth century. The core of the database is the Northwest newspaper clippings collection. The newspaper articles were collected and organized in the late 1930's by dedicated historians working for the Works Progress Administration. The database also includes primary source material such as government reports, laws, maps, etc. pertaining to the settlement and development of the northwest. In addition the site has extensive links to other related web sites, such as Native American cultural sources, relevant dam websites and important laws and legislation.

Pick Your Poison

2006-06-12T09:26:00.000-07:00

ToxSeek from the National Library of Medicine is a "meta-search and clustering engine for environmental health and toxicology." It searches multiple Web databases using "natural language processing and artificial intelligence to retrieve, integrate, rank, and present search results as coherent and dynamic sets. ToxSeek'’s results 'clustering' feature helps users to more easily identify particular concepts. These 'clusters' are created from what is retrieved in the original query, and can be useful in uncovering a specific concept or focus for more in-depth searching."

The Monster Mash

2006-06-11T08:18:00.000-07:00

Monstrous is a global knowledge repository about all monsters and creatures including graphics, texts, movies, music, games, artefacts, references and discussion forums. Monstrous.com Is organized as a non-profit organization which aim is to take over the role of Teratology Societies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They base their analysis and work on historical archives, documents, active field research and testimonies rather than 'word of mouth' stories.

Dryads Pixie, And Fairies

2006-06-10T09:43:00.000-07:00

SurLaLun Fairytales is a portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 44 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, and over 1,300 illustrations. Discover hundreds of fairy tales from around the world.

Inspiration

2006-06-09T08:35:00.000-07:00

Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand offers many pathways to understanding New Zealand. When complete, it will be a comprehensive guide to the country’s peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society. Te Ara consists of 9 themes, appearing progressively between 2005 and 2012; New Zealanders – describes the arrival and settlement of the people, Earth, Sea and Sky – explores the marine life, people and the sea, natural resources, and shaping forces such as geology and climate. The Bush – covers New Zealand’s landforms, fauna and flora. The Settled Landscape – looks at how people live in, use and change their environment. Trade and Exchange – examines the economy, business and city life. Connections – details social groups, families and communities. Nation – focuses on systems of government and symbols of national identity. Daily Life – tells of the intricacies of the customs, leisure activities and beliefs that make New Zealand unique. Creativity – views the beauty of the arts, culture, invention and innovation. The New Zealand in Brief gives concise, up-to-date information and essential facts about New Zealand.

Our Turn To Learn

2006-06-08T09:30:00.000-07:00

The Condition of Education 2006 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 50 indicators on the status and condition of education and a special analysis on international assessments. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available. The 2006 print edition includes 50 indicators in five main areas: (1) participation in education; (2) learner outcomes; (3) student effort and educational progress; (4) the contexts of elementary and secondary education; and (5) the contexts of postsecondary education.

Rosemary, Sage, Parsley And Time

2006-06-07T08:49:00.000-07:00

View 253 digitised Renaissance festival books (selected from over 2,000 in the British Library's collection) that describe the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 - marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, coronations, stately entries into cities and other grand events. In the Background section you can find out what festival books are, and where and how these events were staged and who took part. Other web resources appear in our Links section and further reading in References. The Texts section allows you to read the digitised books in their original languages, search using a series of indices, and gather information on aspects of festival across a range of books.

Written Defense

2006-06-05T08:46:00.000-07:00

The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The theses will be available worldwide via the web. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and promote Australian research to the international community. The ADT concept was an initiative of 7 Australian universities; University of New South Wales, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, Australian National University, Curtin University of Technology and Griffith University in association with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL).

Its In The Blood

2006-06-04T09:38:00.000-07:00

The Performing Arts Encyclopedia serves as a guide to the collections and resources at the Library of Congress that pertain to music, theater, and dance. Most of these collections and resources can be found in the Music Division, the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, and the American Folklife Center, although there are additional resources available in other divisions of the Library such as the Manuscript Division and the Rare Books Division. Browsing by subject will allow the user to retrieve lists of library collections and resources, such as finding aids, databases, online presentations, and exhibitions. The subject list is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather a reflection of what can be found at the Library of Congress. Each collection or resource has a descriptive summary and additional information when available. If the collection has been digitized or is available online, a link to it will be provided. These links generally lead to other areas of the Library's Web site, including American Memory, The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance, and a number of reading room Web pages.

All Shook Up

2006-06-03T08:29:00.000-07:00

The Significant Earthquake Database contains information on destructive earthquakes from 2150 B.C. to the present that meet at least one of the following criteria; moderate damage (approximately $1 million or more), 10 or more deaths, magnitude 7.5 or greater, modified Mercalli Intensity X or greater, or the earthquake caused a tsunami. The events were gathered from scientific and scholarly sources, regional and worldwide catalogs, and individual event reports.

Till The Fat Lady Sings

2006-06-02T08:49:00.000-07:00

The Aria Database is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Search by Opera, Title, Composer or Role. Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles. Currently, the Database holds information on the complete operatic aria collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other composers. There are 1278 Arias, 170 Operas, 60 Composers, 381 Translations and 1027 Aria Texts.

Erik The Red

2006-06-01T09:30:00.000-07:00

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga is a Smithsonian webpage about the Norse in North America. Along with highlights of the exhibit, there's also an interactive map of the Viking voyages.(Although L'Anse aux Meadows, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the only confirmed Viking colony in North America). The Saga of Eric the Red contains the story of the voyages and discovery, but there are other primary sources as well.

The Boy King

2006-05-31T09:02:00.000-07:00

The University of Oxford's Griffith Institute has put together a digital collection of records documenting Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, including ninety-three pages of photographs taken by Harry Burton during the excavation. You can also read Carter's diaries and eyewitness accounts of the excavation.

POTUS Delivers The SOTU

2006-05-30T09:26:00.000-07:00

"State of the Union (SOTU) provides access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006. SOTU allows you to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time, and to link to information on the historical context for their use. SOTU focuses on the relationship between individual addresses as compared to the entire collection of addresses, highlighting what is different about the selected document. You are invited to try and understand from this information the connection between politics and language–between the state we are in, and the language which names it and calls it into being."

Come Together

2006-05-29T10:04:00.000-07:00

The Archive of European Integration (AEI) is an electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification. The AEI collects two types of materials: certain types of independently-produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents. All told, the archive currently contains over 4,800 documents ranging from working papers on topics such as the common agricultural policy as well as cultural policy.

Green Man Reading

2006-05-28T09:08:00.000-07:00

The Little Green Data Book is an annual publication which features statistics on agriculture, forests and biodiversity, energy, emissions and pollution, water and sanitation, environment and health, and other environmental topics, for world regions and countries. The site includes a glossary. and the archived editions go back to 2001. The data is published by the Development Economics Data Group and the Environment Department of the World Bank.

Fourteen Points

2006-05-27T08:50:00.000-07:00

Although the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946, its archives and historical collections survive as invaluable resources for historical research. In 1957, the Archives of the League of Nations was created. The Archives includes official records as well as portraits, paintings, caricatures, original artworks and unique objects d'art. In June 2000 Robert Goehlert led a research team to the League of Nations Archives, which included Jian Liu and Kris Bell, to start a digital library project dedicated to digitizing one of the League of Nations Archives’ photograph collections.The League of Nations Overview of Photo Collections includes photos of: Personalities, Assemblies, Councils, Delegations, Commissions, Conferences, the Secretariat, the Permanent Court of International Justice, the Bureau International du Travail, and miscellaneous photos.

By The Numbers

2006-05-26T09:01:00.000-07:00

Economic Statistics Briefing Room provided by the White House. Here, visitors can peruse sections that offer information on income, output, transportation, and prices. Drawing on the research and statistical databases of several dozen federal agencies (including the National Agricultural Statistics Services), visitors can view tables and charts that offer such timely material as crude oil prices, poverty rates, and household wealth. Within each section, visitors can view summary statistics, and then if they wish, they can proceed to the homepage of the agency that provided each set of information.

Ready For Class

2006-05-25T08:52:00.000-07:00

Webcast.Berkeley has placed some of their course materials online for the general public. With the help of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center visitors can either look at an archive of course webcasts and podcasts or view the archived webcasts that feature prominent speakers who have visited the campus. The events archive dates back to a January 2002 appearance by Bill Clinton, and includes dozens of interesting talks and lectures. Visitors can learn about each event in the information section, and for some, they have the option to download the audio portion of each event. Visitors can view webcasts here, and also download podcasts. The range of courses here is quite broad, and includes lectures on general chemistry, wildlife ecology, and foundations of American cyberculture. Finally, visitors can also subscribe to event and course podcasts.

Thomas Guide

2006-05-24T08:41:00.000-07:00

Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress.The site includes the Congressional Record text and index, bills and voting records, current session schedules, and committee information.