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A Google Maps Project Focused on Scholarly Publishing

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Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship’s Hidden Terrain, by Jennifer Howard

  • Imagine a Google Maps of scholarship, a set of tools sophisticated enough to help researchers locate hot research, spot hidden connections to other fields, and even identify new disciplines as they emerge in the sprawling terrain of scholarly communication. Creating new ways to identify and analyze patterns in millions of journal citations, a team led by two biologists, Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West, and a physicist, Martin Rosvall, has set out to build just such a guidance system. Trapped in disciplinary valleys, surrounded by dense forests of information, researchers have a hard time seeing a lot of scholarship that might be relevant to their work, especially if it’s not published in the places they already know to look. The work of Mr. Bergstrom and his colleagues is a response, they say, to the problem of how to work with an overwhelming and ever-growing amount of information.”

    • Federal Reserve: The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame?

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    The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame? Robert B. Avery and Kenneth P. Brevoort, 2011-36 “Abstract: A growing literature suggests that housing policy, embodied by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the affordable housing goals of the government sponsored enterprises, may have caused the subprime crisis. The conclusions drawn in this literature, for… Continue Reading

    EIA – Short Term Energy Outlook

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    Short-Term Energy Outlook, September 7, 2011 Release: “EIA’s economic growth assumptions have been lowered substantially compared with last month’s Outlook. This forecast assumes that U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) grows by 1.5 percent this year and 1.9 percent next year compared with 2.4 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively, in the previous Outlook. World oil-consumption-weighted… Continue Reading

    Speech by Fed Chair Bernanke on the U.S. economic outlook

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    Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Economic Club of Minnesota Luncheon, Minneapolis, Minnesota – September 8, 2011 – The U.S. Economic Outlook: “Notably, the housing sector has been a significant driver of recovery from most recessions in the United States since World War II, but this time–with an overhang of distressed and foreclosed properties, tight… Continue Reading