Scout Reports for Social Sciences & Humanities and Business & Economics
Scout Report for Social Sciences & Humanities
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/socsci/2001/ss-010403.html
Scout Report for Business & Economics
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/bus-econ/2001/be-010405.html
The thirteenth issues of the fourth volumes of the Scout Reports for Social Sciences & Humanities and Business & Economics are available. The In the News section of the Social Sciences & Humanities Report annotates eight resources on the arrest of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. The Business & Economics Report's In the News section offers seven resources on pay disparities between American women and men.
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Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide
http://hopkins-abxguide.org/
Designed expressly for medical professionals, this peer-reviewed database will offer users free and frequently updated information on antibiotics and their proper use. This is the first in a planned series of digital medical specialty handbooks from Johns Hopkins and is available both on the Web and on PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). At present, the guide contains information on over 160 drugs and more than 140 diseases treated by both specialists and primary care physicians. After free registration, users may search the database by diagnosis, pathogen, antibiotic type, or by keyword. Additional features at the site include recent news and feature articles. Johns Hopkins is to be congratulated for this excellent new initiative. [MD]
[Back to Contents]US Trade Internet System
http://www.fas.usda.gov/ustrade/
Announced on April 2, this new site from the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) will allow anyone to access "the most up-to-date trade data on US exports and imports of agricultural, fishery, and forestry products." Visitors may search for a commodity by keyword or code or select from over 20 commodity groupings of interest. Searches in the latter are easily customized with numerous options, including year range, country, and specific commodity, among others. In addition, the data for exports and imports date back to 1989, allowing users to track specific trade trends. The most recent data, for February 2001, will be added on April 18. [MD]
[Back to Contents]Australian Digital Theses Program (ADT) [.pdf]
http://adt.caul.edu.au/
Based on the Virginia Tech model and utilizing the deposit process software developed at Tech (see the January 21, 2000 Scout Report), this site offers access to the full text of digitized theses from seven Australian universities. The database is searchable by keyword or institution with multiple field modifiers. Results link to an abstract page which then links to the text in .pdf format, usually offered by chapter. Further information on the ADT program is available from the main page. [MD]
[Back to Contents]Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10021.html
This new report from the National Research Council of the National Academies explores what we really know about the effectiveness of drug-control efforts. The 360-page report, which is forthcoming in print but available online in full text, finds that there is a severe deficiency of adequate, reliable data on drug use, drug market economics, and enforcement activities. In addition to reviewing what is and what is not known, the study examines how data are collected and used by federal agencies and offers recommendations for closing the current gaps in our knowledge. Users may read the full text of the report in Open Book format at the National Academies site. [MD]
[Back to Contents]Stock Markets Performance
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro/cur_policy/stock.html
This informative portal is a section of the larger site Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy (reviewed last in the September 21, 2000 issue of the Scout Report for Business & Economics), maintained by Nouriel Roubini, NYU Associate Professor of economics and international business. The site investigates recent US stock market activity and tries to understand whether we are currently experiencing the "crash of a bubble." Along with an introduction extrapolated from a recent issue of The Economist, this site links to a number of new articles and readings from a variety of reputable sources including The Financial Times,Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and Bloomberg. The site is updated nearly daily and is an excellent source for commentary on the US stock market. [EM]
[Back to Contents]Women's Economic Independence and Security: A Federal/Provincial/Territorial Strategic Framework [.pdf]
http://www.weq.gov.bc.ca/publications/FPTENG01.PDF
Press Release:
http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/news2001/0308-e.html
In honor of International Women's Day 2001, Canada's Status of Women Ministers released their latest report earlier this month, Women's Economic Independence and Security: A Federal/Provincial/Territorial Strategic Framework. The 40-page document "examines social and economic conditions for women in Canada, and points to priorities for advancing women's economic equality.... The Strategic Framework presents socio-economic trends that affect women's opportunities, including market globalization and changes in the labour market and family structures" as well as examining factors such as education, the wage gap, balancing home and work responsibilities, unpaid work, and issues of power and leadership. The target audience of the report includes not only federal, provincial, and territorial government officials, but also women's groups and general readers. [DC]
[Back to Contents]A Romantic Natural History
http://www.dickinson.edu/%7Enicholsa/Romnat/romnat1.htm
Created by Ashton Nichols, Professor of English at Dickinson College, this interesting site should appeal to users in both the history of science and literature. Basically, the site explores connections between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin's Origin of the Species. At the site, visitors will first find several essays by Ashton, some short case studies, and a timeline. The site also hosts two collections of short biographies of prominent natural historians, literary figures, and illustrators from the period. A bibliography is also provided. All of the site's content is thoroughly hyperlinked and generously illustrated, and links to related sites are provided throughout. [MD]
[Back to Contents]Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD)
http://www.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/
Provided by the US Department of Education, EROD is a metasite that indexes over 4,000 sites that offer information and assistance on a wide range of education-related topics. The index may be searched by keyword or via an advanced search or browsed by state or type of organization. Each entry includes contact information and, in many cases, a link to their Website. A useful overview section describes the database, the types of organizations it includes, and what specific audiences (teachers, librarians) might find. A submission form is also provided for those wishing to suggest organizations for inclusion. [MD]
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
This new collection from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress presents digitized transcripts of interviews of former slaves, conducted under the auspice of the Federal Writers Project (FWP), a Depression-era Works Progress Administration program that put unemployed writers to work. Between 1936 and 1939, the FWP collected the life stories of ordinary people. In 1937, John A. Lomax, the curator of the American Folk Song Archive at the Library of Congress, became interested in the narratives of ex-slaves that were appearing, and directed field workers to concentrate on this material. This resulted in over 2,000 of these narratives in the Library of Congress collection, which were bound into seventeen volumes in 1941. Accompanying the digitized narratives are more than 500 photographs. Users can search the narratives by keyword, browse by narrator's name or volume, and search and browse the photographs. Since the digitized collection was made from microfilm of the bound volumes, it is necessary to do a separate search to see if there is a photograph of the narrator; text and images do not display simultaneously, except in the specially selected section, Voices and Faces from the Collection, where excerpts of eight narratives can be viewed along with a picture of each speaker. [DS]
[Back to Contents]The Mill Hill Essays 2000
http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/millhillessays/2000/
The UK National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) has placed online the 2000 edition of The Mill Hill Essays (first reviewed in the July 9, 1999 Scout Report). Published annually and written by NIMR staff members and guest authors, the essays "are designed to be accessible to anyone with an interest in science and the natural world." Six volumes (1995-2000) are currently available in their entirety at the site. Sample essays include "From microbes to cancer," "Of frogs and men," and "Unravelling the workings of the brain." Essays are presented in HTML format and are generally equivalent to several printed pages. [MD]
[Back to Contents]NewPages - Alternatives in Print and Media
http://www.newpages.com/
This site is an excellent, straightforward portal to information on "independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more." Users in search of new and interesting journals, weeklies, and publishers would be hard-pressed to find a better starting point than this site. Links are listed at the site by category (publishers, bookstores, weeklies, literary periodicals, etc.), and most include a brief description culled from the site. Other resources at the site include book review sources, a resource library, and a Weblog. [MD]
[Back to Contents]Aboriginal Canada Portal
http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/
A partnership effort between the Canadian government departments and the Aboriginal community, this site is designed to serve as a portal to Canadian Aboriginal Internet resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services. From the site, visitors may access homepages for national Aboriginal associations, governmental, and other sites. The latter are organized by resource type (business, learning, employment, health and social services, etc.) and further divided between government sites and other sources of information. An internal search engine and French and no-frames versions are also provided. [MD]
[Back to Contents]Budget 2001 Investing for the Long Term: Building Opportunity and Prosperity for All
http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/hmt/budget2001/hc279.htm
Released last month by HM Treasury, the UK budget is composed of two sections: the Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report (EFSR) and the Financial Statement and Budget Report (FSBR). The first section describes the government's economic objectives and how the budget will further them, while the second offers a summary of the main budget measures and forecasts for the UK economy and public finances. Visitors may read the full text of the budget by chapter in HTML format at the site. [MD]
[Back to Contents]The Art Newspaper
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/
Published since 1990, the Art Newspaper is written for "keen exhibition viewers, museum professionals, collectors, artists," and others who are "in the game a little" while striving to "know and show where the power lies in the art world." The most journalistic art periodical this reviewer has seen, The Art Newspaper reports on a wide range of events and trends in worldwide art, including significant sales, theft and destruction, important new hirings, conservation, and exhibitions, among others. The short pieces are arranged by topic (Art Market, Books, Preservation, Law, etc.) and are usually accompanied by several news snippets in a side column. Daily stories are also offered on the home page. [MD]
[Back to Contents]Search for Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/index.shtml
A complimentary site to the BBC's new ten-part series that explores the history of Scotland, this site offers a plethora of information which can be arranged and viewed according to users' preferences. Visitors to the site can choose to view resources about "the nature of Scottish national identity" by sifting through related topics, exploring time periods, reading a variety of personal histories of those who contributed to Scottish culture, or browsing by place (including BBC television regions!). Public records, historic documents, oral histories, and photographs contribute to making this site useful and intriguing. Navigation is a bit tricky, and getting back to where you started can sometimes be a challenge, but all in all, the site is well worth investigation. [REB]
[Back to Contents]ArtMagick.com [RealPlayer]
http://www.artmagick.com/index.asp
This online art gallery specializes in paintings and poetry from art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on artists "who have been forgotten or neglected in recent years." Visitors may browse the collection of over 1,000 paintings by artist (by name, date, or nationality) or by painting (by artist, theme, or location). The paintings are offered as thumbnails which link to medium and then full-sized images, and users may also send them as free email postcards. Biographies of varying lengths, which also include lists of recommended readings and (sometimes) exhibition catalogs, are provided for the more than 100 artists featured at the site. Also included are a collection of poetry from over 40 authors and some art videos (though we had trouble viewing these). [MD]
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PrcView for Windows
http://www.teamcti.com/pview/
What's really going on under the hood on your Microsoft Windows system? Find out with PrcView, a freeware tool that shows you a list of every program that's running on your system at any given moment. PrcView displays the executable and application name, as well as an array of more nitty-gritty details like the number of threads in use by the application and whether it is a 16-bit or 32-bit program. In addition to details about the program that's running, PrcView will also give you a list of DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) that are currently in use, which can prove to be very handy when you're trying to decide if a DLL is obsolete, or if upgrading a DLL to a newer version could have unintended consequences. PrcView is available for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, and 2000, at no cost. [EA]
[Back to Contents]Google Machine Translation (Beta)
http://www.google.com/machine_translation.html
Google has recently announced yet another feature: machine (automatic) translations of search results. Users can access this beta service in two ways. First, all search results published in Italian, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese will have a link to a translated version as well as to the original. Users can also set their preferences to have Google automatically translate their search results into English. This option worked fairly well in several test runs. While machine translations are notorious for quirks and mistakes, this reviewer was rather impressed by the quality of Google's service. Still, the test runs were generally on university or governmental sites rather than on extended and nuanced text passages. [MD]
[Back to Contents]Bantha Tracks.com - Star Wars Search Engine
http://www.banthatracks.com/
Well, it had to happen eventually. Noted by ResearchBuzz (see the March 12, 1999 Scout Report), this site helps users navigate the literally thousands of Star Wars fan sites on the Web. Currently indexing over 4,000 sites, the search engine may be keyword searched or browsed by topic and category. Icons indicate if sites are international, offer videos or sounds, include graphics, and if they offer links. Each site is also rated based on user feedback. Visitors may browse new additions, top-rated sites, and "hot sites," as well as add their own. As with any directory, there are some broken links, but there is more than enough here to vaporize hours of any Star Wars fan's free time. [MD]
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US-China Standoff - Views from Outside America
China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.net/
People's Daily
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/home.html
China Radio International [RealPlayer]
http://webcri.cri.com.cn:8000/news/english.html
Shanghai Daily
http://english.eastday.com/
China Post (Taiwan)
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/
Central News Agency (Taiwan)
http://210.71.181.201/index-e.html
China Times (Taiwan)
http://www.chinatimes.com.tw/english/english.htm
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
http://www.scmp.com/
RTHK [RealPlayer] (Hong Kong)
http://www.rthk.org.hk/
Inside China Today (Hong Kong)
http://www.insidechina.com/
Spy Plane Row -- BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/asia_pacific/2001/spy_plane_row/
Special Reports : China -- The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/
"Signs of possible end to the China-US standoff" -- Irish Times
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/0406/wor1.htm
"US regret OK, but not enough: China" -- Times of India
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/06worl2.htm
"China and US move to cool spy plane stand-off" -- Syndey Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0104/07/world/world3.html
Foreign Media Reaction -- US State Department
http://usinfo.state.gov/admin/005/wwwh1a04.html
Scout readers may well be tiring of this story altogether, but we thought many might be interested in coverage of the US-China standoff over the airplane collision and American crew from non-US media sources. These newspapers and radio services offer a range of views and interpretations of the events since last Sunday's accident and their impact on international diplomacy, US-China relations, and the region. All sites listed offer content in English. [MD]
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