Ever needed trustworthy statistics to back up your research? Not surprisingly, Statistics Canada is your “go-to” source for Canadian stats, but you may not be sure where to find what you need. The major issue for most people is deciding which of the two main databases that UBC Library subscribes to will have the information […]
After discovering this morning that a brand of potato-leek soup might have undeclared clams in it….this seemed like an appropriate database to highlight. The Healthy Canadians website has played host to a database of recalled food and consumer products since 2007. You can search by product or by food and the site also provides links […]
The US Census Bureau conducts an official census every 10 years, with the next one coming up in March 2010. In between years the Bureau conducts a variety of smaller-scale nationwide surveys, including the American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is sent to approximately 3 million households. The most recent 3 year estimates based on […]
Sunlight Labs – “a non-profit, non partisan Washington, DC based organization focused on digitization of government data” has been running a contest to identify the top three websites offering applications that provide “easy access and understanding for the public” to US government data/information. They all make it just a bit easier to access high quality […]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an international non-profit organization with a special focus on “science, engineering and innovation.” It also publishes the journal Science. AAAS has just launched a new database which has the lofty goal of providing fundamental information about “the accuracy, reliability and security of voting technologies, election […]
The International Monetary Fund recently launched a database of “financial sector soundness” indicators, or FSIs, for member countries who choose to participate. The aim is to provide users with a means of judging the soundness of financial institutions as well as national economies. The IMF’s list of core FSIs focuses on areas such as debt […]
UBC has a trial to the World Bank e-Library and a few other of their databases until the end of August. You can access the trial page here World Bank e-Library: An electronic portal to the World Bank’s full-text collection of books, journals, working papers and other documents on social and economic development. It is […]
It’s always exciting to discover a reliable source of international statistics! The US Census bureau has a great database of demographic indicators for “countries and areas of the world with a population of 5,000 or more.” Indicators are: Birth, death, and growth rates, migration rates, infant mortality, and life expectancy Fertility rates Total population and […]
GPO Access is in the process of moving information into a new database: Federal Digital System (FDsys). Some collections are no longer available in GPO Access, one is available in both and the rest are set to be moved into FDsys by the end of 2009. According to the GPO FDsys “is an advanced digital […]
The UN recently put up a database of Diplomatic Conferences which will provide the searcher with access to documents/background information on the negotiation of 12 international treaties. The oldest conference contained in the database is the Law of the Sea, 1958 and the most recent is Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, […]