Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography (open access)

Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography

This bibliography provides citations of books, articles, and technical reports about the Open Access movement.
Date: 2010
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Scholarship 2009 (open access)

Digital Scholarship 2009

The work is a bibliography of digital scholarship containing citations of articles, books, and technical reports on institutional repositories and scholarly electronic publishing
Date: 2010
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks, 2004-2008, Volume 1: Technical Report (open access)

Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks, 2004-2008, Volume 1: Technical Report

A report describing the monitoring of the East and West Flower Garden Bank in accordance with the long-term monitoring protocol.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Zimmer, Beth; Duncan, Leslie; Aronson, Richard B.; Deslarzes, Kenneth J. P.; Deis, Donald R.; Robbart, Martha L. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Framing the Flow: Innovative Approaches to Understand, Protect, and Value Ecosystem Services Across Linked Habitats (open access)

Framing the Flow: Innovative Approaches to Understand, Protect, and Value Ecosystem Services Across Linked Habitats

This report presents a framework for understanding the connection between a variety of marine ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrasses, and coral reefs, across several contexts with policy recommendations for land use and management.
Date: 2010
Creator: Silvestri, Silvia & Kershaw, Francine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Observations on Funding, Oversight, and Investigations and Prosecutions of ACORN or Potentially Related Organizations (open access)

Preliminary Observations on Funding, Oversight, and Investigations and Prosecutions of ACORN or Potentially Related Organizations

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Nonprofit organizations, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), play an important role in providing a wide range of public services. To provide these services, these organizations rely on funding through federal grants and contracts, among other sources. Just as it is important for federal agencies to be held accountable for the efficient and effective use of taxpayer dollars, it is also important for these nonprofit organizations to be held accountable for their use of federal funds. ACORN was established in 1970 as a grassroots organization to advocate for low-income families. By 2009, ACORN reportedly had 500,000 members and had expanded into a national network of organizations involved in the development of affordable housing, foreclosure counseling, voter registration, and political mobilization, among other things. ACORN organizations relied on membership dues and on federal and private foundation funding to support various activities. Voter registration fraud allegations in a number of states and widely distributed videotapes depicting what appeared to be inappropriate behavior by employees of several local ACORN chapters spurred calls to identify federal funding provided to ACORN and ACORN-related organizations and for legislation to …
Date: June 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
35 Years and Growing... (open access)

35 Years and Growing...

A list of past workshops, conferences, awards, and publications sponsored by the Northeastern Ohio Chapter of the Church and Synagogue Library Association from 1975 to 2010. Prayers and memories written by chapter members, along with a scan of a workshop flyer from 1979, are also included in the compiled document.
Date: 2010~
Creator: Kight, Joyce
System: The UNT Digital Library
State of Biodiversity Markets Offset and Compensation Programs Worldwide (open access)

State of Biodiversity Markets Offset and Compensation Programs Worldwide

The report provides the status and trends of biodiversity offset and compensatory mitigation programs by geographical region. It summarizes the total active programs and developing activities, and broad metrics like total known payments and land area protected. It also analyzes the characteristics of offset programs and looks at recent developments in nascent and existing programs in the region.
Date: January 2010
Creator: Madsen, Becca; Carroll, Nathaniel & Moore Brands, Kelly
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latin America and the Caribbean: Environment Outlook (open access)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Environment Outlook

This Global Environmental Outlook report (GEO LAC 3) is the third comprehensive environmental assessment of the status and perspectives of the environment in the Latin American and Caribbean region. It highlights the need to move away from sectoral, uncoordinated and short-term policies, and to work towards consolidating comprehensive and cross-sectoral environmental ones that put sustainability at the centre stage. GEO LAC 3 is part of UNEP’s contribution to catalyzing improvements to human well-being and framing a fresh debate around the concept of sustainability in the context of a world evolving from six billion, to nine billion people by 2050.
Date: 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme. Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe
System: The UNT Digital Library
LLE Review, Quarterly Report: Volume 116, July-September 2008 (open access)

LLE Review, Quarterly Report: Volume 116, July-September 2008

This issue has the following articles: (1) Optimizing Electron-Positron Pair Production on kJ-Class High-Intensity Lasers for the Purpose of Pair-Plasma Creation; (2) Neutron Yield Study of Direct-Drive, Low-Adiabat Cryogenic D2 Implosions on OMEGA; (3) Al 1s-2p Absorption Spectroscopy of Shock-Wave Heating and Compression in Laser-Driven Planar Foil; (4) A Measurable Lawson Criterion and Hydro-Equivalent Curves for Inertial Confinement Fusion; (5) Pulsed-THz Characterization of Hg-Based, High-Temperature Superconductors; (6) LLE's Summer High School Research Program; (7) FY08 Laser Facility Report; and (8) National Laser Users Facility and External Users Programs.
Date: March 12, 2010
Creator: Marozas, John A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recovery Act: Opportunities to Improve Management and Strengthen Accountability over States' and Localities' Uses of Funds, an E-supplement to GAO-10-999 (Appendixes) (open access)

Recovery Act: Opportunities to Improve Management and Strengthen Accountability over States' and Localities' Uses of Funds, an E-supplement to GAO-10-999 (Appendixes)

Other written product issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This supplementary report to GAO-10-999 provides individual state appendixes for 16 states and the District of Columbia for GAO's work on the seventh of its bimonthly reviews of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act)."
Date: September 20, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library