Social Science Library News

LexisNexis Academic now makes it easy to focus a search within government and political blogs, including Twitter. This collection includes blogs by commentators as well as many elected officials.

You can locate this group file in the source directory in LexisNexis Academic by doing a Find on the word blogs. Or you can use this direct link:
http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/api/version1/sf?shr=t&sfi=AC00NBGenSrch&csi=300273

Once you have selected this source, you can filter for a specific blog using the PUBLICATION segment, for example: PUBLICATION(cantor) returns posts from Rep. Eric Cantor’s Twitter blog.

"Now, a special Google public data search feature will show numeric results for 17 World Development Indicators (WDI) reliably sourced to the World Bank. [Full WDI subscription database is available to current Yale affiliates.] For example, a Google search for GDP features a box at the top of the page highlighting Bank data and linking to Google's public data graphing tool. Google's graphing tool lets users see and compare country-by-country statistics and offers customized graphs with a ‘link’ or web address that can be easily embedded and shared in other websites."

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"The World Development Report 2010 explores how public policy can change to better help people cope with new or worsened risks, how land and water management must adapt to better protect a threatened natural environment while feeding an expanding and more prosperous population, and how energy systems will need to be transformed." read more, including the full text of the report