Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Twitter in disasters

Lockheed Martin has received a grant from the US Office of Naval Research and is researching the role of social media in disasters and crises.

Monday, June 28, 2010

EDUCAUSE Review, May/June 2010

Two articles on the opportunities and risks of cloud computing. As well, the top-ten IT issues for higher education.

Top Air Polluters

From ResourceShelf: Top 100 Air Polluters in the United States.
Political Economy Research Institute's index of air polluters.
Includes company reports.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Aboriginal Language Indicators for Inuit, Métis and Off-reserve First Nations Children in Canada

From Statistics Canada three articles on aboriginal language indicators for Inuit, Métis and off-reserve First Nations children.

Check out our online tutorials!

Tutorials on choosing a database and constructing a search strategy can be found at Search...but how?

2010 Global Peace Index

2010 Global Peace Index
Peacefulness ranking of 149 nations.

New from Statistics Canada: Women's participation and economic downturns

From Statistics Canada's The Daily
Women's participation and economic downturns in the Summer 2010 issue of Perspectives on Labour and Income.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Oil spill database

Search for information on oil spills since 2000.
Access database.

Gender Differences in Police-reported Violent Crime in Canada, 2008

From the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
Full report

New database: GREENR

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)
Contains articles, videos and case studies on a wide variety of environmental topics.
All RRU research databases can be accessed from the Search for Articles link at the
RRU Library webpage.