After Hours: Move Over, Spinach: Chocolate to the Rescue!
Kathy Biehl highlights niche, premium chocolates which boast not only unique flavors but additional medicinal herbal properties.
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Deal or No Deal Licensing and Acquiring Digital Resources – Deal Breaking License Clauses
Kara Phillips reviews the top ten deal breaking components in license agreements, including: authorized users, damages, indemnification, perpetual access, pricing, privacy, multi-site licensing, and remote access.
Technology and Policy Issues With Acquiring Digital Collections
Roger V. Skalbeck and Iva M. Futrell address issues raised with acquiring digital collections, including a discussion of two legal-specific digitization projects available to any sector that wants to acquire them, including firms, courts and universities.
After Hours: A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That
Kathy Biehl’s covers a variety of culinary points of interest. After a beverage-laden start, this month’s foray heads into food-related search tools galore.
The Impact of Social Networking Tools and Guidelines to Use Them
LaJean Humphries identifies the wide range of social networking sites with which researchers should be knowlegeable, and addresses legal, privacy and ethical concerns associated with their use. She also provides a bibliography of books, articles and reports that focus on the impact of social networking applications.
FOIA Facts: Rapid Response Team for FOIA
Scott A. Hodes recommends that federal government FOIA offices implement a rapid response team to deal with FOIA requests that are likely to lead to litigation in the short run.
Deep Web Research 2007
Marcus P. Zillman’s bibliographic guide highlights resources that focus on the history of deep web research, as well as dozens of topical sources that will contribute to your search and research efforts, through a range of respositories of valuable data, reports and scholarly literature.
The Government Domain: 2007 Calendars and Schedules
A wide range of online calendars from agencies and Congress offer valuable information to researchers that includes: release dates for topical reports, news, surveys, meeting and official travel schedules, historical commemorations, House and Senate bill histories, and links to speeches and testimony. Peggy Garvin includes numerous examples of e-gov sites with such services that should be on your radar.
Commentary: Biodefense and the Freedom of Information Act
Beth Wellington’s commentary takes an in-depth look at the divergent positions and issues associated with FOIA and biodefense related appropriations and legislation, from the perspective of legislators, public interest groups and journalists.
Deal or No Deal Licensing and Acquiring Digital Resources: License Negotiations
Kara Phillips describes how to apply the techniques and theories that are the foundation of a classic book on negotiation to the process of developing electronic licensing agreements that satisfy the requirements of all parties involved.