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Useful guides to Case law

OZCase

“The OzCase Project is an initiative of the Queensland University of Technology Law Library Manager. Based on the successful Case Project in the United Kingdom, permission was given by Case to utilise their ideas and formats to develop a similar Collection Collaboration within the Universities, Government Departments and Private Legal firms within South East Queensland.
The OzCase Project aims to evaluate and document the feasibility of improving library and information support for law researchers in the South East Queensland region.”

Case Law & Courts Australia

This part of the Walter Harrison Law Library guides to legal resources. It provides a comprehensive listing of Australian Commonwealth and State eResources

Courts & Case Law

This site is maintained by the State Library of Queensland and provides links to International, Canadian, UK and USA case law as well as Australian.

Lead Free Wheels

Background on this program that promotes alternatives to lead wheel weights, which "are used worldwide to balance vehicle tires." It notes that many of the wheel weights fall off and abrade into lead dust, "and increase the risk that lead will contaminate surface, groundwater, and drinking water supplies." Provides information about alternatives (such as zinc), listing of U.S. distributors of lead-free wheel weights, and a wheel-balancing fact sheet. From the Ecology Center.
URL: http://www.leadfreewheels.org/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/28380

Websites about Colour

This is especially for those of you who missed out on the book of colour offered on the Giveaway list no 16. Here are three websites I found listed on Librarian’s Internet Index which might interest you and make up for the fact you missed out on the book.

Color Matters

"It's all about the world of color" and its physiological and psychological effects. "This site explores how color affects appetite, vision, sexuality, energy conservation, and its relationship to architecture and interior design." A passion for color and its unique characteristics led the site's author to search for answers to some puzzling questions: Does pink make strong men weak? Can colors create accidents? What colors are predominant in different cultures? Do marketers use color to influence our decisions? Browse Resources and Interact for additional questions and issues on how color really matters. Searchable.”

Causes of Color

“Explores the "fifteen causes of color derived from a variety of physical and chemical mechanisms." Features information on vibrations and simple excitations, ligand-field-effect colors, molecular orbitals, energy bands, geometrical and physical optics, colorblindness, how the eye and brain process color, early theories of color, and what animals see. Searchable”


Pantone Color Think Tank

Pantone "is known worldwide as the standard language for accurate color communication, from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer, across a variety of industries." Its "Color Think Tank" plans and chooses color palettes for businesses. Of interest to the general public are pages on color fundamentals such as how we see color, other ways to define color, how color is reproduced, and psychology of color. Also includes links to some color trend material.

Keeping Up with the News

NewsCred is free news service where you may sign up to get the latest news from a wide range of sources including The Australian and The Australian Financial Review

The Organic Center

The Organic Center is a great website that focuses on the science behind organic agricultural production. Their mission is "to generate credible, peer reviewed scientific information and communicate the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to society." Under the "State of Science" tab at the top of the page visitors should check out the "Hot Science" section. The articles listed here will give the visitor an idea of all the aspects of organic production there are, and why they are important. For instance, articles such as "Common Insecticide Causes Neurological Deficits in Children", "Soil Quality from Long-term Organic Management Nearly Doubles Flavonoids in Organic Tomatoes" and "Hormone Growth Promoters Feed to Beef Cattle Linked to Adverse Impacts on Male Sexual Development". The "Organic Resources" tab at the top of the homepage has links to "Consumer Resources" and "Science Resources", which are loaded with links to websites regarding all aspects of organic agriculture. The "Leaders in Organics" link, also under the "Organic Resources" tab, has articles by a food scientist and by the chief marketing executive of an organic food company. Visitors interested in receiving the Organic Center's monthly e-newsletter, The Scoop, can sign up by clicking on the "News & Media" tab, and then clicking on the "Newsletter Archive" link. After signing up, visitors should browse the archives of the newsletter, which go back to the beginning of 2007. – Scout report. Volume 15, Number 15, April 17, 2009

Green Library

This is an article about the "Green" library, Cardiff's new Central Library.

The library which opened in March features "a Sedum grass roof which insulates the building in winter and prevents heat gain in the summer and also assists in the removal of CO2 and other pollutants from the air in the city centre and it is patrolled by two fearsome-looking hawks who stop birds from eating the grass seeds."

First Fleet Artwork Collection

On 13 May 1787 eleven ships, now commonly referred to as The First Fleet, set sail from Portsmouth to establish a colony in New South Wales, Australia. They reached their destination on 18 January 1788, 18 years after Captain James Cook had first landed on the east coast of Australia at Botany Bay. One of the unplanned but long-lasting outcomes of this event was the large number of outstanding drawings of aboriginal people, the environment and wildlife found on arrival as well as of the early foundation of the colony.

The drawings have been arranged under 4 themes – Natural history, Ethnography, Topography and History.

Freeze Frame

This is the online collection of Polar Images from the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge, covering the years 1845-1982. It brings together images from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. There are over 20,000 images in the collection.

The Resources section contains Environmental change, Expedition summaries, Biographies, and History of polar photography.

World Bank: Environment

This website provides access to an overview of the Bank's work on environment and links to relevant activities across the Bank, both in the operational regions and in different sectors with which it works. Information about the Environment Strategy, Operational and Safeguard Policies, their environmental work in the regions, projects, analytical studies, capacity-building efforts, partnerships, and publications can all be found through the navigation buttons on the left of the screen.

.Marine Protected Areas of the United States

This site includes information and news about the US Marine Protected Areas and some useful resources such as their Virtual Library, Lessons Learned and Case Studies

By Aeroplane to Pygmyland

by Paul Michael Taylor, Asian Cultural History Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Anyone interested in New Guinea and its cultural history might like to look at this presentation from the Smithsonian Libraries which includes not only the diaries by the American participants but over 700 photos, interpretative essays and films about the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea.

Links to Internet Resources

All the library links to internet resources have now been entered on Delicious and shortly we plan to switch our links to this site.

Here is a brief guide to the features on the site

Viewing options
Title – this just displays the title of the website
Title and Tags – this shows what tags have been assigned to each site

Users can sort the bookmarks
Most recent
Alphabetically

TIP - - Library staff recommend sorting and viewing them in alphabetical order since this provides the viewer with an alphabetical listing of the websites


Users can show up to 100
Use the little blue arrow at the foot of the page to select the number you want from 10 to 100

Tip - - Library staff recommend selecting 100 as this makes it easier to work through the alphabetical list of the websites


Searching for sites using the TAGS
Type the first letter of your subject into the search box and then select term from the dropdown list

Top 10 (the most frequently used on the site) are at the top


Dig down or hone in using the Tag bundles
Tag bundles are the broad subject areas/access points
These are used to organise the indexing into the equivalent of chapter headings in a book.
Within each tag bundle are associated tags (sub-headings) which you access in two ways:
by Clicking on the Tag Bundle heading
by clicking on the arrow head beside the tag bundle
Search within the these headings using the Related tags at the right of the screen to locate more specific topics


Unbundled tags
These are headings not assigned or associated with any particular bundle.
They provide access to individual subject areas regardless of which Tag bundle they may be associated with


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Green Collar Blog

The primary aim of the blog is to help persons in the US to locate jobs that focus on environmental and social responsibility the Reports & Research section may provide resources of interest to others and the News items inform of current trends in “green jobs”.

Linne online

On this website Uppsala University presents research relating to the work of one of the most famous professors throughout its history, namely Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) (1707 - 1778). There is a particularly interesting section on the site dealing with “Linnaeus and Ecology".

Walk Score

Although the about information on this site claims it is set up to investigate the walkabalilty of North American site it also allows the user to check out the Walkability of a neighbourhood in many places around the world including Australia. Use it to find out how walker friendly your own neighbourhood is or to locate great places for a walking holiday.

ARROW Discovery Service

The number of records in the ARROW Discovery Service has reached over 250,000. Each of these metadata records link to research outputs held in 26 university repositories across Australia and includes theses, preprints, postprints, journal articles, book chapters, music recordings and pictures.

EPA Fugitives

This site has bee n set up by the United States EPA as a new web-based tool to help track down and apprehend those accused of violating environmental laws and evading arrest.

Energy [r]evolution

The energy [r]evolution is an independently produced report that provides a practical blueprint for how to half global CO2 emissions, while allowing for an increase in energy consumption by 2050. By dividing the world into 10 regions, with a global summary, it explains how existing energy technologies can be applied in more efficient ways. It demonstrates how a ‘business as usual’ scenario, based on IEA’s World Energy Outlook projections, is not an option for environmental, economic and security of supply reasons.

Environmental Auditing

This site contains an index, and links to Environmental audits conducted worldwide. Users can search by country or browse through and extensive subject listing. It also contains studies and guidelines related to environmental auditing.