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The Essential Neil Gorsuch Reader: What Judge Gorsuch Cases Should You Read? (open access)

The Essential Neil Gorsuch Reader: What Judge Gorsuch Cases Should You Read?

This report discusses President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and deliberation by Senators as part of the initial phases of determining whether to provide "Advice and Consent" to the nomination.
Date: February 13, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gun Control, Mental Incompetency, and Social Security Administration Final Rule (open access)

Gun Control, Mental Incompetency, and Social Security Administration Final Rule

This report discusses the Congressional Review Act disapproval resolution (H.J.Res. 40) passed by the House of Representative to overturn a final rule promulgated by the Social Security Administration (SSA) regarding implementation of firearms restrictions for certain persons.
Date: February 13, 2017
Creator: Krouse, William J.; Szymendera, Scott D. & Morton, William R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The United States Withdraws from the TPP (open access)

The United States Withdraws from the TPP

This report discusses discusses the withdrawal of the United States as a signatory from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as directed by President Trump.
Date: February 13, 2017
Creator: Williams, Brock R. & Fergusson, Ian F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 2, Pages 33-158, January 13, 2017 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 2, Pages 33-158, January 13, 2017

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 13, 2017
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Factors Affecting Faculty Attitudes Towards Open Access Institutional Repositories (OA IR): UNT Case Study

This presentation discusses factors affecting faculty attitudes toward open access institutional repositories uses results from a survey of University of North Texas faculty.
Date: April 13, 2017
Creator: Tmava, Ahmet Meti
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2017-04-13 – Wind Ensemble

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
Date: April 13, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. Wind Ensemble.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Membership of the 115th Congress: A Profile (open access)

Membership of the 115th Congress: A Profile

This report presents a profile of the membership of the 115th Congress (2017-2018) as of March 13, 2017. Statistical information is included on selected characteristics of Members, including data on party affiliation, average age, occupation, education, length of congressional service, religious affiliation, gender, ethnicity, foreign births, and military service.
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: Manning, Jennifer E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gun Control, Mental Incompetency, and Social Security Administration Final Rule (open access)

Gun Control, Mental Incompetency, and Social Security Administration Final Rule

This report discusses the Congressional Review Act disapproval resolution (H.J.Res. 40) passed by the House of Representative to overturn a final rule promulgated by the Social Security Administration (SSA) regarding implementation of firearms restrictions for certain persons.
Date: February 13, 2017
Creator: Krouse, William J.; Szymendera, Scott D. & Morton, William R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings for Supreme Court Nominations: Historical Overview and Data (open access)

Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings for Supreme Court Nominations: Historical Overview and Data

This report discusses the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA; P.L. 108-173), which requires the Medicare Board of Trustees to provide in its annual reports an expanded analysis of Medicare expenditures and revenues (§801 of the MMA).
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Gold Medals, 1776-2016 (open access)

Congressional Gold Medals, 1776-2016

This report discusses the Congressional Gold Medal which is a sponsor proposals recognizing historic events and outstanding achievements by individuals or institutions.
Date: February 13, 2017
Creator: Glassman, Matthew Eric
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Visits President Trump (open access)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Visits President Trump

This report discusses the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel with President Donald Trump at the White House on March 17, 2017.
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: Belkin, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Transitions: Issues Involving Outgoing and Incoming Administrations (open access)

Presidential Transitions: Issues Involving Outgoing and Incoming Administrations

This report discusses issues surrounding the transition of Presidential power, including the variety of events, decisions, and activities contribute to it.
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: Halchin, L. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
India's Natural Gas: A Small Part of the Energy Mix (open access)

India's Natural Gas: A Small Part of the Energy Mix

This report discusses India's natural gas plans that have implications for a number of issues in which Congress has expressed an interest. Those issues include the prospects for U.S. hydrocarbon exports, U.S. energy companies' investments, Indian investments in U.S. natural gas production, India's ability to meet its international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to combat climate change, and India's plans for integrating itself into the growing South Asian energy market.
Date: February 13, 2017
Creator: Ratner, Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Major Disaster Declarations for Snow Assistance and Severe Winter Storms: An Overview (open access)

Major Disaster Declarations for Snow Assistance and Severe Winter Storms: An Overview

This report describes snow assistance and assistance for severe winter storms, including the declaration process, the criteria used to make eligibility determinations, and the types of assistance that are provided after the President has issued a major disaster declaration for the incident. This report also provides historical data on winter incidents since 2009 including obligations for the incidents from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund (DRF). The DRF is the main account used to fund a wide variety of programs, grants, and other forms of emergency and disaster assistance to states, local governments, certain nonprofit entities, and families and individuals affected by disasters.
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: Lindsay, Bruce R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Debt Limit Since 2011 (open access)

The Debt Limit Since 2011

This report discusses the federal debt increase, which can increase when the government sells debt to the public to finance budget deficits and acquire the financial resources needed to meet its obligations (increasing debt held by the public), or when the federal government issues debt to certain government accounts in exchange for their reported surpluses (increasing debt held by government accounts).
Date: February 13, 2017
Creator: Austin, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. World War I (1917-1918) Centennial (open access)

U.S. World War I (1917-1918) Centennial

This report outlines background information and congressional actions regarding the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of War resolution against Germany and subsequent entry in "The Great War" (World War I).
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: Salazar Torreon, Barbara
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings for Supreme Court Nominations: Historical Overview and Data (open access)

Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings for Supreme Court Nominations: Historical Overview and Data

This report discusses the Supreme Court nomination to the Senate, and the Judiciary Committee that assumes the principal responsibility for investigating the background and qualifications of each Supreme Court nominee.
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Broadening access to books on Texas and Oklahoma

Slides presented during panel “Four Case Studies, Four Ways: Highlights from AAUP's Review of OA Projects” at the 2017 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses. This presentation by the principal investigator of this grant-funded project describes how we chose the topic of Texas and Oklahoma, what has surprised him about working with outside organizations and presses, what the challenges of working with outside organizations and presses have been, and what the good things about working with outside organizations have been.
Date: June 13, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genome Sequences of Five Streptomyces Bacteriophages Forming Cluster BG (open access)

Genome Sequences of Five Streptomyces Bacteriophages Forming Cluster BG

This article discusses the isolation of five novel phages, which were used to established the cluster BF, using Streptomyces griseus subsp. griseus strain ATcC 10137 as the host.
Date: July 13, 2017
Creator: Donegan-Quick, Richard; Gibbs, Zane A.; Amaku, Patricia O.; Bernal, Joshua T.; Boyd, Dana A. M.; Burr, Angela R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crosby County News (Ralls, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 2017 (open access)

Crosby County News (Ralls, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Ralls, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Digital Trade and U.S. Trade Policy (open access)

Digital Trade and U.S. Trade Policy

This report discusses the role of digital trade in the U.S. economy, barriers to digital trade, digital trade agreement provisions, and other selected policy issues.
Date: January 13, 2017
Creator: Fefer, Rachel F.; Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias & Morrison, Wayne M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings for Supreme Court Nominations: Historical Overview and Data (open access)

Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings for Supreme Court Nominations: Historical Overview and Data

This report the process of Supreme Court nominations to the Senate and the role of the Judiciary Committee, which investigates the background and qualifications of each Supreme Court nominee.
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Benefits for Members of Congress and Designated Congressional Staff: In Brief (open access)

Health Benefits for Members of Congress and Designated Congressional Staff: In Brief

This report discusses the health benefits for federal employees through the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program.
Date: January 13, 2017
Creator: Cornell, Ada S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saudi Arabia: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Saudi Arabia: Background and U.S. Relations

This report discusses the kingdom of Saudi Arabia's relations with the United States; the kingdom's stability, and its future trajectory are subjects of continuing congressional interest.
Date: June 13, 2017
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library