Monday, March 19, 2007

New Statistics

2006 Canada Census is just released at http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census/

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Training Session on the CGP (Catalog of the U.S. Government Publications)

Government Printing Office (GPO) just released its first web-based training seeion on the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, which is online catalog for government publications from 1976 to the present. See the demo session at http://www.opal-online.org/archiveGPO.htm.
(source: govdoc-l)

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Google to open up Federal Web Sites.

Google is trying to disseminate government information....
"Google is making strides on an initiative to make information stored on public government Web sites more accessible to people looking for it--"
"Three federal organizations recently agreed to structure their sites to make them accessible for nearly all Internet searches, the officials said." See full-text at: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0207/022107p1.htm
Title: Google moves ahead with plan to open up federal Web sites
By Daniel Pulliam
February 21, 2007
(Source: govdoc-l)

Monday, March 05, 2007

Update on Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush Book I
- January 1 to June 30, 2003 now available on GPO Access at:http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/index.html

New Database: WISQARS

WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. See also: Injury Topics and fact sheets for data related to this topic. (Source: Resourceshelf)