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LexisNexis Digital U.S. Congressional Hearings Collection
September 14th, 2009 by Marcia MeisterUC Davis now has access to the LexisNexis Digital Hearings Collections Part A (1824-1979). This new collection contains full-text, searchable, pdf versions of Congressional committee hearings, including both published and unpublished hearings. Access to this collection is through LexisNexis Congressional.
You must be on campus or logged in through the VPN to access this collection. When you perform a search in the above time frame, you will see at the top of the results list a new format: Hearings–Digital Collection. Click on this link to access the hearings that have been digitized. You can search this collection exclusively by using the Advanced search on LexisNexis Congressional with the Hearings box checked.
This digital collection fills in gaps in the library’s collection of older congressional hearings in print and provides easy access to the content of congressional committee testimony so valuable for understanding the background and variety of views on an issue.
The library has full-text access to U.S. Congressional Serial Set reports and documents through a different service – Readex/Newsbank.
Please contact me if you would like more information or a demonstration of the LexisNexis Digital U.S. Congressional Hearings Collection.
CIA OIG Report on Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities (September 2001-October 2003)
August 26th, 2009 by Marcia MeisterThe CIA Special Review of Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities.
As widely reported in the press, the CIA Office of Inspector General has just released material on past detention practices in the ‘War on Terrorism’. The release of this material came about following a FOIA request by the American Civil Liberties Union, and a copy of the OIG report (along with supplemental documents) is currently available on their website.
New document: Political Violence Against Americans
June 22nd, 2009 by Marcia MeisterThe State Department has released the latest version of their report
“Politi
cal Violence Against Americans.” The 2008 report is available at
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/125224.pdf, and the title is cataloged for the library’s catalog. It was produced by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Office of Intelligence and Threat Analysis (DS/DSS/ITA) to provide readers with a comprehensive picture of the broad spectrum of political violence that American citizens and interests have encountered abroad on an annual basis.
There were no reports produced from 2003-2007, but previous reports are available online or in the library.
New Library web page on H1N1 (swine influenza)
May 14th, 2009 by Marcia MeisterThe library has compiled a web page with some of the many suggested resources for keeping up with and studying the H1N1 virus (aka swine influenza).
Special Election Resources
April 30th, 2009 by Marcia Meister
The UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Affairs Library has a Special Election, Hot Topics on the May 19th election guide to ballot measures for the May 19th Special Election. The guides provide concise descriptions of the ballot measures including non partisan analyses, official voter information, background materials, pro-and-con websites, newspaper articles and editorials, opinion polls, political endorsements, and financial-contribution records. It also links to a Ballot Initiative Endorsements page for positions on the propositions by major organizations.
OpenSecrets.org Goes OpenData
April 14th, 2009 by Marcia Meister
The Center for Responsive Politics announced on April 13 that it’s putting 200 million data records from its archive directly into the hands of citizens, activists, journalists and anyone else interested in following the money in U.S. politics. The data are available through the site’s Action Center.
To download bulk data from OpenSecrets.org, users must register on the site and agree to prominently credit the Center for Responsive Politics, along with other terms of service. CRP is making its data available through a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, which allows users to remix, tweak, build upon and share the Center’s work non-commercially. CRP will continue to offer its data to commercial users for a negotiable fee.
The following data sets, along with a user guide, resource tables and other documentation, are now available in CSV format (comma-separated values, for easy importing) through OpenSecrets.org’s Action Center at http://www.opensecrets.org/action/data.php
CAMPAIGN FINANCE: 195 million records dating to the 1989-1990 election cycle, tracking campaign fundraising and spending by candidates for federal office, as well as political parties and political action committees. CRP’s researchers add value to Federal Election Commission data by cleaning up and categorizing contribution records. This allows for easier totaling by industry and company or organization, to measure special-interest influence.
LOBBYING: 3.5 million records on federal lobbyists, their clients, their fees and the issues they reported working on, dating to 1998. Industry codes have been applied to this data, as well.
PERSONAL FINANCES: Reports from members of Congress and the executive branch that detail their personal assets, liabilities and transactions in 2004 through 2007. The reports covering 2008 will become available to the public in June, and the data will be available for download once CRP has keyed those reports.
527 ORGANIZATIONS: Electronically filed financial records beginning in the 2004 election cycle for the shadowy issue-advocacy groups known as 527s, which can raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, labor unions and individuals.
OpenSecrets.org also offers a number of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to give users direct access via web programming to data displayed on OpenSecrets.org. Web developers are already using these APIs to display OpenSecrets data on their web pages and create mashups using live, up-to-date data.
Users can also share CRP data using OpenSecrets.org’s widgets, which can be placed easily on any website or blog. New widgets for the 2010 election cycle are in development.
OpenSecrets.org, an independent website tracking the influence of money on U.S. politics, continues to offer campaign financial disclosure information, data and analysis through it’s website.
GPO’s Federal Digital System Available – FDsys
April 7th, 2009 by Marcia MeisterThe Government Printing Office recently released the first public version of the Federal Digital System, or FDsys. The new search tool provides authoritative electronic versions of Federal government information. You can search the collection by keyword or browse by type of publication. New content will be added over the coming year.
Currently, FDsys contains the following collections:
* Congressional Bills (1993-)
* Congressional Documents (1995-)
* Congressional Hearings (1995-)
* Congressional Record (1994-)
* Congressional Reports (1995-)
* Federal Register (1994-)
* Public and Private Laws (1995-)
* Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993-)
More content is available from the GPO Access system until it is completely migrated over the FDsys.