|
|
American Legal Ethics Library
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/
Part of the Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute site (LII), the American Legal Ethics Library contains rules or codes, ethics opinions, judicial conduct codes, legal commentaries, and other materials relating to the law governing lawyers. Codes or rules are available for most of the nation's 50 states. Currently, the site also offers eleven commentaries on the "law of lawyering" for eleven different jurisdictions, written by legal scholars and major law firms in each jurisdiction's area. Another twelve narratives are in progress, including one for the European community. Accessible by topic or jurisdiction, the information is also available on CD-ROM. The hypertext format makes it easy to link from commentaries to relevant codes and rules. Roger C. Cramton, the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell, directs the project. [DC]
[Back to Contents]CYFERNET: Children, Youth And Families Education And Research Network
http://www.cyfernet.org/index.html
"CYFERNet is a national network of Land Grant university faculty and county Extension educators working to support community-based educational programs for children, youth, parents and families." This meta-site offers links to a plethora of resources for those interested in community-based, experiential education, child care issues, and policy-making concerns that impact children, adolescents, and families. Given the sponsors -- the USDA and a number of Land Grant universities -- it is not surprising to find a good deal here to do with agricultural education, including 4-H. However, there are also links to useful sites on child abuse, child development, children with special needs, infant and toddler care, children's literacy, scientific literacy, experiential learning, relevant professional journals, conferences, and much more. With a database of children, youth, and family professionals as well as subject-specific discussion groups, CYFERNet enables networking among those working in these fields. The site is searchable by keyword and offers clear instructions for search construction. CYFERNet is maintained by the CYFERNet Technology partners at seven land-grant university extension services, including Kansas State University, Iowa State University, University of Maryland, the University of Minnesota, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, and North Carolina State University. [DC]
[Back to Contents]Finding God in Cyberspace: A Guide to Religious Studies Resources on the Internet
http://www.fontbonne.edu/libserv/fgic/intro.htm
This metasite provides "a selective listing of the best Internet resources of interest to religious studies scholars and students of religion." Finding God in Cyberspace offers annotated links to print and digital resources on the Web, including e-texts, e-journals, multimedia and graphics, and software; online communities for religious study; teaching resources; and gateways to relevant sites in Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Church History, and Comparative Religions. A special section features sites that examine the "encounter between religion and digital culture." Additional links to related directories and search engines are also provided. Unfortunately, the site can only be browsed at this time. However, the depth and richness of its resources make it an excellent stop for those doing online academic research in religious studies. John L Gresham, Library Director at Fontbonne College in St. Louis and a published scholar in Religious Studies, maintains the site. [DC]
[Back to Contents]An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
Created by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress as part of its American Memory digitized library project, this site will eventually offer "28,000 primary source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present," covering "key events and eras in American history." The current site offers "fifty items from fourteen American states, the District of Columbia, and London, England," including Woman Suffrage Broadsides from the beginning of the century, a War Department "Still at Large" Poster for the assassins of Lincoln, and an admonitory poster version of Gwendolyn Brooks's famous poem, "We Real Cool," printed in Detroit, Michigan in 1966. The images are clear, readable, and easily accessible with standard browser software. An introduction to the site also offers an informative discussion of the history and uses of various ephemera. The complete site is scheduled to come online later this year. [DC]
[Back to Contents]National Institute of Justice: National Evaluation of Weed and Seed
Summary:
http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles1/175685.txt
.pdf version:
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/175685.pdf
Full report:
http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles1/176358.txt
.pdf version:
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/176358.pdf
Published this month by the Department of Justice, this report assesses the results of the "weed and seed" approach to crime prevention, monitored for the last eight years at eight selected area sites in the U.S.. "Weeding" is defined as "concentrated and enhanced law enforcement efforts to identify, arrest, and prosecute" criminals, especially violent offenders and drug traffickers. The cited objective is the removal of criminals from the targeted area. "Seeding" involves community efforts to deter further crime by offering a variety of human services, including afterschool, weekend, and summer youth activities; adult literacy classes; parental counseling; and neighborhood revitalization. The report offers cross-site analysis and finds that the most effective results were achieved in sites of smaller geographical area with more community resources to bring to bear. The report concludes that "in selecting sites for new program funding, Weed and Seed should place its funding priority on sites with geographically small target areas and with favorable community settings and program designs." The full report and summary are available in both .pdf and plain-text versions. [DC]
[Back to Contents]
|
|
USCM Mayoral Elections Database
http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/elections/99elections.asp
The US Conference of Mayors (USCM) (see the January 1, 1999 Scout Report) provides the Mayoral Elections Database. The database allows citizens from all 50 states and the District of Columbia to locate information on mayoral elections held in 1999. Users may search the database by city, state, political party, or name of candidate. Searches yield city name, state, party and name of election winner, percentage of votes earned by winner, and month of election. [AO]
[Back to Contents]Architectural Practice Research Project
http://archprac.cua.edu/
The Architectural Practice Research Project (APRP) aims "to identify obstacles to effective architectural practice and to develop guidelines for overcoming them." APRP collects ideas from architectural practitioners, compares them with ideas used by others nationwide, synthesizes the best ideas, and writes and publishes recommended procedures in the form of architectural Practice Guides. The APRP Website is a work in progress initiated and managed by Barry D. Yatt, an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America. [AO]
[Back to Contents]Do We Really Know Dewey?
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5002/
A ThinkQuest Junior site, Do We Really Know Dewey? offers students the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the Dewey Decimal system, including its originator, classifications, and call number formulations. Developed by students, Do We Really Know Dewey? features appealing images and is written with a sense of humor appropriate for its audience. (For example, Melvil Dewey has a close encounter with a UFO.) On-site puzzles and quizzes help teach the system. The site also provides links to subject-specific sites indexed by the Dewey hundreds groups. [DC]
[Back to Contents]BECTa: British Educational and Communications Technology Agency
http://www.becta.org.uk/index.html
BECTa is the premiere Website for information on Educational Communications and Technology in Britain, offering information on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) issues in curriculum, pedagogy, and policy-making. The site provides reports on educational projects employing ICT; discussions of related instructional issues, such as dealing with undesirable Internet material in an educational setting; UK policy documents addressing ICT; and an online magazine and newsletter devoted to ICT in education. BECTa also provides reviews of more than 1,000 educational CD-ROMs and information about "thousands of software packages" for pre-school education. The site links to a limited number of related sites and is searchable by user-defined topic. BECTa is a nonprofit organization funded by the British government. [DC]
[Back to Contents]The Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project: Project-Based Learning with Multimedia
http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/index.html
The Multimedia Project is a program of Challenge 2000, a broad school reform effort sponsored by the Silicon Valley Network in collaboration with the San Mateo County Office of Education. The site offers a sophisticated array of materials and information related to Project-Based Learning employing multimedia. Among other things, the site includes guidelines and examples for establishing Multimedia/ Project-Based Learning in the classroom; curriculum activities in media literacy, analysis, and production; related workstations, Web tutorials, and a resource library; a searchable database of sample projects; and a discussion forum and electronic mailing list of all participants in the project. One of the site's (and the project's) most impressive features is its emphasis on assessment. Analyses of individual project's instructional effectiveness are provided as well as tools for assessing the success of future efforts. The Multimedia Project is funded by a U.S. Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. [DC]
[Back to Contents]
|
|
(For links to additional current awareness on tables of contents, abstracts, preprints, new books, data, conferences, etc., visit the The Scout Report for Social Sciences Current Awareness Metapage: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/socsci/metapage/).Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Working Papers [.pdf]
WP 1999-007: Kohler, Hans-Peter. "The Swedish Baby Boom and Bust or 1985-1996 Revisited: the Role of Tempo, Quantum and Variance Effects"
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/Working/WP-1999-007.pdf
WP 1999-008: Philipov, Dimiter and Hans-Peter Kohler. "Tempo Effects in the Fertility Decline in Eastern Europe: Evidence from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia"
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/Working/WP-1999-008.pdf
WP 1999-009: Gjonca, Arjan, Cecilia Tomassini, and James W. Vaupel. "Male-female Differences in Mortality in the Developed World"
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/Working/WP-1999-009.pdfInstitute for Social and Economic Research Working Papers
99-16: Boheim, Rene and Mark P. Taylor. "Residential Mobility, Housing Tenure and the Labour Market in Britain"
Abstract:
http://www.irc.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/wp99-16.htm
Full .pdf version:
http://www.irc.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/pdf/99-16.pdf
99-15: McCulloch, Andrew and Heather E. Joshi. "Child Development and Family Resources: an exploration of evidence from the second generation of the 1958 British birth cohort"
Abstract:
http://www.irc.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/wp99-15.htm
Full .pdf version:
http://www.irc.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/pdf/99-15.pdf
99-12: Oswald, Christiane. "Patterns of Labour Market Exit in Germany and the UK"
Abstract:
http://www.irc.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/wp99-12.htm
Full .pdf version:
http://www.irc.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/pdf/99-12.pdfPopulation Studies Center, University of Michigan
Anderson, Barbara A. "The Effect of Elderly Household Members on School Enrollment of Children in Tibet"
Abstract:
http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/pubs/abs/abs99-438.html
Full .pdf version:
http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/pubs/papers/rr99-438.pdfRussell Sage Foundation Papers from the Working Group on the Construction and Maintenance of Trust [Word]
Jones-Correa, Michael. "American Riots: Structures, Institutions, and History"
http://www.russellsage.org/publications/working_papers/jones-correa-riots.docCenter for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin
Cartmill, Randi S. "Occupational Sex Segregation in Global Perspective: Comparative Analyses of Developed and Developing Nations"
Abstract:
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/99-12ab.htm
Full .pdf version:
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/99-12.pdf
[Back to Contents]New Think Tank Policy Papers and Briefs
Boots, Shelley Waters et al. "State Child Welfare Spending at a Glance: A Supplemental Report to the Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children" -- The Urban Institute (New Federalism Series)
Abstract:
http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/occa20.html
Full .pdf version:
http://newfederalism.urban.org/pdf/occa20_sup.pdfFarrington, John et al. "Sustainable Livelihoods In Practice: Early Applications Of Concepts In Rural Areas" -- Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Abstract:
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/slivrev.htm
Full text:
http://www.oneworld.org/odi/nrp/42.htmlLerman, Robert I., Pamela Loprest, and Caroline Ratcliffe. "How Well Can Urban Labor Markets Absorb Welfare Recipients?" -- The Urban Institute (New Federalism Series)
http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/anf33.html
.pdf version:
http://newfederalism.urban.org/pdf/anf33.pdfBalancing Data Needs in a Democracy: The Case of the 2000 Census (Urban Institute Update) -- The Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org/periodcl/update33.html"Promising Ideas In Children's Health Insurance" -- Families USA Foundation
http://www.familiesusa.org/schbrief.htm
[Back to Contents]New Offerings from Academic Publishers
Association of American University Presses: New Releases
http://aaup.uchicago.edu/new_releases/Baker&Taylor Academia -- Upcoming Books to Buy (August 1999)
http://www.baker-taylor.com/Academia/M08/Home.htmlThela Thesis -- Just Published
http://www.thelathesis.nl/new.htmlOxbow Books -- Publishers of titles on archaeology, classical studies, and medieval studies
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/newbooks.htm
[Back to Contents]New Tables of Contents/ Abstracts
Columbia Journalism Review (full-text)
http://www.cjr.org/International Journal of Public Opinion Research (abstracts)
http://www3.oup.co.uk/intpor/hdb/Volume_11/Issue_01/The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (abstracts)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-issue-abstracts.tcl?issn=00221953&volume=30&issue=1Journal of the History of Collections (abstracts)
http://www3.oup.co.uk/hiscol/hdb/Volume_11/Issue_01/Theory and Event (full-text)
http://direct.press.jhu.edu/journals/theory_&_event/toc/index.html
[Back to Contents]Cities in the New Millennium: Separate Realities or Shared Fates?
30th Annual Meeting: Urban Affairs Association (UAA)
May 3-6, 2000. Los Angeles, California
http://www.udel.edu/uaa/anmtg.htmlInterdisciplinary Studies: In The Middle, Across, Or In Between?
Annual Meeting Of The American Comparative Literature Association
February 25-27, 2000, Yale University, New Haven
http://www.yale.edu/complit/acla2000.htmNortheast Modern Language 2000 Convention (NEMLA)
April 7-8, 2000, Buffalo, NY
http://www.anna-maria.edu/nemla/
[Back to Contents]H-Net Job Guide
http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/Chronicle of Higher Education Job Openings
Humanities
http://chronicle.com/free/jobs/faculty/humanities/links.htm
Social Science
http://chronicle.com/free/jobs/faculty/sscience/links.htmAmerican Sociological Association (ASA) Employment Bulletin (August 1999)
http://www.asanet.org/Current%20EB/eb0899.htm
ASA Funding Opportunities
http://www.asanet.org/Funding/funding.htmUS Department of Education -- Funding Opportunities
http://www.ed.gov/funding.html
[Back to Contents]
|
|
Healthy People 2000 Review 1998-99
Press Release:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/99news/99news/99hp2000.htm
Report:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hp2k99.pdf
The latest report from the government's Healthy People Initiative shows mortality rates down for all targeted age groups, with significant declines in infant mortality rates throughout the nineties and a continuing decline in the mortality rates of those aged 15-24. According to the report, 59% of the objectives for Healthy People, 2000 have been met or are proceeding on schedule. However, "the report also shows that a fifth of the Healthy People objectives are moving away from their targets." For instance, some key objectives, such as reducing the number of overweight individuals and increasing physical activity "have either moved in the wrong direction or improved little." The National Center for Health Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepared the report. A press release as well as the full report in .pdf format can be viewed online. For more on the Healthy People, 2010 Initiative, the initiative that succeeds Healthy People 2000, see the September 18, 1998 Scout Report. [DC]
[Back to Contents]National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES): Employer Aid for Postsecondary Education
Brief abstract:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=1999181
Full .pdf version:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/1999181.pdf
This just-released report examines the current state of employer aid in higher education, describing the types of employees and the kinds of educational and training programs that employers support. Analyzing data collected from the 1995 National Household Education Survey (NHES) and the 1995-96 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), the report concludes that while support was relatively modest from employers, averaging less than a thousand dollars for the average undergraduate employee, such support "can be a significant source of assistance for both older and part-time students." The report notes that most undergraduate employees seeking support "attended public, less-than-four-year institutions." There was also a marked preference on the part of employers to support work-related programs over credential programs and to aid employees seeking more technical training than those in sales and marketing or in communications-related fields. [DC]
[Back to Contents]ESCAP Population Data Sheet, 1999 [JavaScript, Frames]
http://www.unescap.org/pop/data_sheet/data99.htm
The United Nation's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) (see the April 22, 1999 Scout Report for Business & Economics) has recently released its annual compendium of population and development indicators. The ESCAP Population Data Sheet for 1999 includes HTML tables presenting data on population, growth rate, birth rate, death rate, fertility rate, contraceptive usage, life expectancy, sex ratio, age breakdowns, and much more. Data are grouped by region and subdivided by country. All data sources are clearly cited. [AO]
[Back to Contents]
|
|
The Proposed International Criminal Court
1. Coalition for an International Criminal Court (CICC).
http://www.igc.apc.org/icc/index.html
2. UN Website: Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
http://www.un.org/law/icc/index.htm
3. Human Rights Watch: International Criminal Court Ratification Campaign
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/icc-main.htm
"Justice In The Balance: Recommendations for an Independent and Effective International Criminal Court" (Human Rights Watch Report)
http://www.hrw.org/reports98/icc/
4. New York Times on the Web: "U.S. to Seek to Alter Plan for Pursuing War Crimes"
http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+site+37397+4+wAAA+%22International%7ECriminal%7ECourt%22
5. H. R. 2381: "Protection of United States Troops from Foreign Prosecution Act of 1999"
Bill Summary and Status:
http://rs9.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.02381:
Text of Bill:
http://rs9.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.2381:
6. The Heritage Foundation: Casey, Lee A. and David B. Rivkin, Jr. "The International Criminal Court vs. The American People"
Summary:
http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1249es.html
Full-text:
http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1249.html
Full .pdf version:
http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/pdf/bg_1249.pdf
7. The Heritage Foundation: Schaefer, Brett D. "The International Criminal Court: Threatening U.S. Sovereignty and Security"
Summary:
http://www.heritage.org/library/execmemo/em537.html
Full .pdf version:
http://www.heritage.org/library/execmemo/pdf/em_537.pdf
8. United Nations Association of the United States of America: Laurenti, Jeffrey. "Considerations on the Financing of an International Criminal Court"
http://www.unausa.org/issues/icc/iccfinance.htm
This week's In the News concerns the UN Conference, July 26-August 13, focussing on the proposed International Criminal Court. Once established, the International Criminal Court will have a permanent status and global jurisdiction. It will be the first court of its kind empowered to investigate and charge individuals, rather than countries, who commit the most serious of crimes against the international community, such as genocide, war crimes, torture, and crimes against humanity. Such a court would have the power to charge sovereign leaders such as Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and Slobodan Milosevic as individual international criminals. First drafted at an international conference in Rome last summer, the treaty concept has been accepted by 120 nations, but the United States has withheld support, one of only two democracies to do so. The United States argues that such a court could abuse its authority for political purposes, charging, for instance, American soldiers for their participation in the bombing of Serbia in the recent NATO operation. Treaty advocates maintain that sufficient safeguards have been built into the treaty, per U.S. recommendations, to preclude such scenarios, but the State department remains opposed.
The Coalition for an International Criminal Court (1) provides news on the current status of the treaty, background information, and links to relevant governmental and advocacy sites. The UN Website (2) includes documents from the Rome Conference, among them the original statute outlining the treaty and relevant general assembly resolutions. Human Rights Watch (3) offers updated alerts and substantive commentary on the relevant issues of international law. The New York Times story (4) reports on the status of the treaty and the U.S. position as the conference commences. Representative Robert Ney has offered a bill in congress (5) to prohibit United States economic assistance for countries that ratify the treaty, calling the court "an illegal and illegitimate institution," violating principles of national sovereignty. The Heritage Foundation proffers two policy papers (6, 7) criticizing the treaty's view of international law and popular sovereignty. Jeffrey Laurenti, writing for the UN-USA (8), considers the monetary costs of such an institution and the impact of such costs on signatories.
[Back to Contents]
Subscription and Contact Information
To subscribe to the Scout Report for Social Sciences, send email to:
listserv@cs.wisc.edu
In the body of the message type:
subscribe SRSOCSCI
For subscription options, send email to:
listserv@cs.wisc.edu
In the body of the message type:
query SRSOCSCI
Internet Scout team member information
The Scout Report for Social Sciences
Brought to You by the Internet Scout Project
The Scout Report for Social Sciences is published every other Tuesday by the Internet Scout Project, located in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer Sciences.
|
Susan Calcari
Rachael E. Bower David Charbonneau Andrew Osmond Travis Koplow Paul M Schwartz |
-- -- -- -- -- -- |
Director Managing Editor Editor Editor Production Editor Webmaster |
Below are the copyright statements to be included when reproducing annotations from The Scout Report for Social Sciences.
The single phrase below is the copyright notice to be used when reproducing any portion of this report, in any format:
From The Scout Report for Social Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
The paragraph below is the copyright notice to be used when reproducing the entire report, in any format:
Copyright Susan Calcari and the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, 1994-1999. The Internet Scout Project (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/), located in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides information about the Internet to the U.S. research and education community under a grant from the National Science Foundation, number NCR-9712163. The Government has certain rights in this material. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the entire Scout Report provided this paragraph, including the copyright notice, are preserved on all copies.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Wisconsin - Madison or the National Science Foundation.
A Publication of the Internet Scout Project
Comments, Suggestions, Feedback
Use our feedback form or send email to scout@cs.wisc.edu.
© 1999 Internet Scout Project
Information on reproducing any publication is available on our copyright page.