AIAA Electronic Library

The AIAA electronic library contains more than four decades of technical information and documents online.

Safari upgrades to 6.0

Safari Books Online 6.0, just released on Tuesday, 27 October 2009, provides some new enhancements to the service.

Enhanced Usability / Optimized Search
The search functionality has been optimized to ensure that users can find what they need quickly and efficiently. Safari 6.0 also allows you to read the content you search while also continuing to see the list of search results.

Value-Based Ratings / Customer Ratings
Safari 6.0 provides both an Amazon rating (where available) and a Safari Books online rating on all titles within the digital library. Now users can get the technology rating of peers as well as a broader rating.

A Wealth of Knowledge Tailored to Your Needs / Categorization
Safari has added the ability for users to categorize the material in its digital library according to their own preferences. Whether they want “marketing, technology, and business” or “Linux, Java, and OpenSource,” users can now create and fill their own categories. Allowing users to find and store what they need faster than before makes Safari 6.0 easier to use than ever before.

Improved Readability of the Content You Want
With Safari 6.0, users have the ability to make inline notes in the actual text they are reading. They can now dog-ear or bookmark specific pages. They can make notes while reading on a given page. AND they can share these notes and bookmarks with others – making Safari Books Online a more powerful learning and teaching tool.

Government Finance Statistics

About GFS Online

The Statistics Department of the International Monetary Fund has  made available to subscribers the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database through an online service. GFS Online contains annual statistical data on revenue, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors as reported by member countries. Subannual GFS are available through the online application relating to International Financial Statistics (IFS).

System Overview

The GFS Online system is based on the GFS CD-ROM Browser product, which contains time series data from 1990, and many of the functions are quite similar. GFS Online provides the same data coverage as the GFS Browser product. The data are presented in the world and country tables for all reporting countries in the framework of the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 (GFSM 2001).

The Country Table and Economic Concept Views provide access to similar concepts across countries while the Matrix View is available for enhanced data analysis.

Capabilities of GFS Online

The Web interface allows subscribers to browse the database, select series of interest, display the selected series in a spreadsheet format, and save the selected series for transfer to other software systems such as Microsoft Excel^®.

GFS Online includes the following capabilities:

• browsing the directory tree,
• drilling down through the structure of the database,
• selecting either individual time series or groupings of time series within a table presentation,
• saving selected data and metadata in a variety of formats, including a spreadsheet, and
• saving and loading a query of selected time series.

The Statistics Department envisages that this product will be further developed and enhanced over time, and will be updated on a more frequent basis.

HeinOnline: Session Laws Library

HeinOnline’s digital Session Laws collection contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. States (as well as the Acts of the Parliament of Canada) from approximately 1995 to present. Future releases in HeinOnline will include new session laws as published as well as expanded coverage of historical session laws prior to 1995.

Titles:	58
Volumes:	5,119
Pages:	4,306,954