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Roundup of Recent Government Info News and New Resources
Time once again for a selection of news and new resources that we hope will be an interest to the FGI community. The following posts are from INFOdocket.com (@infofodocket) where we compile and post new items daily.
1. New iOS App From SEC: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission News
2. Just Released: Library of Congress Offers Congressional Record As iPad App
4. Asked and Answered Questions: U.S. Department of Education Releases Mobile Version of Answers.Ed.gov
5. Smithsonian Gets Dedicated Funds for Digitization and New Media, Will Spend $8.7 Million In FY 2012
6. The Library of Congress Names Gayle Osterberg Director of Communications
7. EPA Releases Comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Online Database and Dataset Available
8. White Paper: “Authentication of Primary Legal Materials and Pricing Options”
9. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Launches Mobile Web Site
10. Full Text Reference Resource: Trade & Development: UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2011
From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
11. NARA Launches “Citizen Archivist Dashboard”
12. U.S. Bankruptcy Courts Begin Offering Online Chat Services
13. USDA Launches New Online Nutrition SuperTracker
14. New Database: Time-Series Plots of Phrases in U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (Legal Language Explorer)
15. Statistics: NLM Updates MEDLINE Indicators With FY2011 Numbers
NLM: American Medical Books Dating Back to 1610
Medicine in the Americas: 1610-1920: A Digital Library
National Library of Medicine Releases “Medicine in the Americas,” Featuring Digitized Versions of American Medical Books Dating Back to 1610, NLM News (23 May 2011).
The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of NIH, announces the release of “Medicine in the Americas.” A digital resource encompassing over 300 early American printed books, Medicine in the Americas makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20th century.
Drawing on the collections of NLM’s History of Medicine Division and including works from the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, this initial release of Medicine in the Americas encompasses monographs dating from 1610 to 1865. Additional titles, dating up to 1920 and drawing further upon NLM’s comprehensive collection of early American printed books, will be available on an ongoing basis in the future.
Note that “All of the works included in Medicine in the Americas are in the public domain, usually because of their dates, though sometimes because they were published by a government body. Also, the National Library of Medicine does not claim copyright on the electronic files created for Medicine in the Americas, so images and text files created for the project can be published or distributed without seeking permission.”
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/americas/americascopyright.html
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