I know not everyone will love this site as much as me, but I had to share it because of my own inner geek. I know everyone gets the Information Today magazine, but it has turned out to be great resource for me. Each month several websites are featured and one of these justified my membership for the year.
Policypointers.org was featured a couple months ago and I had torn the page out with the site highlighted and stacked on my desk. A recent re-organization made me sort through everything to move and I ran across this sheet of paper. I wish I had looked at it earlier because it has turned out to be not only a great resource, but unfortunately, a little bit of a distraction due to all the great content.
The site describes itself as:
Policypointers is an online facility created to enable those involved in government, academe and the media to gain rapid access to the research and conclusions of think tanks, institutes and government departments around the world.
We believe that policymakers and those who influence the policymaking function can frequently learn from the research done and the results achieved in countries other than their own. This belief is the rationale for creating this website.
This is a great site to get a global perspective on most issues and it aggregates content for a ton of think tanks. Think tank publications can be difficult to track if doing it on a site-by-site basis - trust me...I have tried.
Happy searching!!!
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Posted by: ldayrit | 08/28/2010 at 08:02 AM