Created by the University of Michigan Documents Center. “The web site has annotated links to major global warming reports, the three fossil fuels and energy alternatives ranging from hydrogen, wind, and wave to fuel cells, plug-in electric cars, and various hyrids. There are articles, research reports, laws, and Congressional hearings in full text.  The Department of Energy has a truly outstanding web site, which we analyzed and supplemented with those from think tanks, automakers, state government associations, and the OECD.”

To connect:  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/debate08.html

Rand has finally been able to release its report After Saddam: Prewar Planning and the Occupation of Iraq

This report examined activities through June 2004 and part of an “eight-volume collection of reports that the RAND Arroyo Center undertook to prepare an authoritative account of the planning and execution of combat and stability operations in Iraq. Six of the volumes are classified. The other unclassified volume is being finalized.”

The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a coalition of pateint, academic, research, and publishing organizations that supports open publi access to the resulty of federal funnded research.

The site posts up-to-date information about public access issues including the newly implemented NIH public access policy. Follow this link http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/NIH.html To follow continuing developments in the NIH Public Access Policy.

The State Dept has released its latest (7th) edition of ” To Walk the code

Earth in Safety.” This is a report of the interagency U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Program.

The 2008 report is available at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/105525.pdf

Previous versions can be found at http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/rpt/walkearth/

The State Department has also released a new report - “Advancing Freedom and Democracy Report 2008″ This can be found at http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/afdr/2008/

Pursuant to Section 2121 of the ADVANCE Democracy Act of 2007 (P. L.
110-53), the Department of State has submitted the “Advancing Freedom and Democracy Report 2008 ” to the Congress regarding U.S. efforts to promote democracy and human rights in nondemocratic countries and countries undergoing democratic transitions worldwide. The Department chose the 106 countries represented after taking into consideration the Act’s definition of a “non-democratic country or democratic transition country” and the requirement that the Department take into account the views of nongovernmental organizations.

The Ohio Board of Regents just announced the release of OhioLINK’s 2007 Snapshot annual report in a press release to Ohio media. The release follows below and will be archived online soon at http://regents.ohio.gov/news/index.php.

The new Snapshot is a departure from previous versions as it focuses more on how OhioLINK delivers cost-effective, increased access to information resources, supports quality teaching and learning and enables world-class research, and less on the volume of information we provide. A PDF copy of the 2007 Snapshot is available at http://www.ohiolink.edu/about/publications.html.

A copy of the redacted version of the report that DOD decided not to release is available–Iraqi Perspectives Project Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents:

Volume 1 (Redacted)

http://a.abcnews.com/images/pdf/Pentagon_Report_V1.pdf

The related article “Report Shows No Link Between Saddam and al Qaeda is available

http://blogs.abcnews.com/rapidreport/2008/03/report-shows-no.html

The latest quarterly report on “Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq” has been released. This report can be found on the Iraq Reports page of the Department of Defense. 

http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Iraq_Reports/index.html 

According to the press release, “The latest quarterly report on the situation in Iraq notes continued security improvements and limited but important political, economic and diplomatic progress that must expand to preserve fragile security gains.”  It also notes that violence is down ….” Deaths from ethno-sectarian violence are down 90 percent, and civilian and coalition deaths by more than 70 percent since the June report.

The 2010 Census is at serious risk of massive cost increases and delays caused by problems with a contract to develop handheld computers that the Census Bureau plans to use to collect data.

Because of the problems, costs for the decennial census could increase by between $600 million to $2 billion, according to testimony given by the Government Accountability Office Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The increase would be on top of the $11.8 billion the bureau estimates the census will

cost.

GAO Report: Significant Problems of Critical Automation Program Contribute to Risks Facing 2010 Census

Based FY2000 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1202) DoD is required to submit a report “…on the current and future military strategy of the People’s Republic of China. The report shall address the current and probable future course of military-technological development on the People’s Liberation Army and the tenets and probable development of Chinese grand strategy, security strategy, and military strategy, and of the military organizations and operational concepts, through the next 20 years.”

The 2008 report is available at http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf

Previous reports can be found at http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf

The Defense Science Board Permanent Task Force on Nuclear Surety:

Report on the Unauthorized Movement of Nuclear Weapons has just been posted. 
The report is available directly at http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2008-02-Nuclear_Weapons_Surety.pdf

Or from the DSB report site - http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports.htm

The Task Force report is an independent assessment of the systemic causes of the August 30 unauthorized movement of nuclear warheads from Minot AFB, North Dakota to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. Based on the information and insights gained from investigating and assessing these systemic causes, the report includes 16 recommendations to strengthen nuclear weapons surety.”

Posted by Greta E. Marlatt, Information Services Manager & Homeland Security Digital Library Content Team Manager–Naval Postgraduate School.