Dirt Diggers Network: Digest No. 20
October 11, 2002
Editor: Philip Mattera
1. Senate committee issues report on Enron
2. Corporate crime bibliographies
3. Response to query about software for mapping home visits
4. Lexis-Nexis exands international business content
5. New sources for corporate annual reports from around the world
6. Spread the word about the Dirt Diggers Network
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1. Senate committee issues report on Enron
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee issued a report this
week on the fall of Enron that found "systematic and catastrophic
failure" on the part of various parties that are supposed to serve
as watchdogs--the SEC, Wall Street analysts and credit rating agencies.
The report, along with a letter to SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt asking
for a response to the document, can be found on the committee's
website at http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/enron100702.htm.
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2. Corporate crime bibliographies
The OCLC Public Affairs Information Service has put together a
collection of resources under the heading "Corporate America in Trouble" (http://www.pais.org/hottopics/2002/September/resources/web.stm). The
site consists of citations to and abstracts of recent articles on the subject
as well as links to relevant web pages.
Stephanie Burke, a librarian at the Boston University Law Library, has
been compiling a bibliography focused on the collapse of Enron. The
latest edition can be found at http://www.llrx.com/features/enron.htm.
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3. Response to query about software for mapping home visits
Albert Carlson writes:
RE: maps. I have found arch view GIS works well except when mapping
residents in hills where streets tend to be narrow and wind back and forth.
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4. Lexis-Nexis exands international business content
Lexis-Nexis has announced (http://www.lexisnexis.com/about/releases/0542.asp)
the addition of numerous new business sources. These include PRLine, which
provides financial data, annual reports, analyst presentations and the like
for companies in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Holland and the UK; the Japan
Corporate News Network; and the World Market Share Reporter. Other additions
include the full text of Business Monitor International newsletters and business
publications from countries such as Israel, Australia, Germany and Switzerland.
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5. New sources for corporate annual reports from around the world
Global Securities Information Inc., producer of the expensive SEC service
LIVEDGAR, has announced (http://www.gsionline.com/Articles/AnnualRep.html)
the acquisition of a collection of more than 100,000 annual reports from more
than 30,000 companies in 106 countries. LIVEDGAR users will have access to
the reports in PDF format and will be able to do full-text searching.
A similar announcement was made recently by Edgar Online Inc., which said
(http://www.edgar-online.com/investor/news/081202.asp) that subscribers to
Edgar Online will have access to annual and interim reports from more than
13,300 companies in 45 countries.
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6. Spread the word about the Dirt Diggers Network
If you find the Dirt Diggers Network valuable, tell a colleague about it.
Participation is open to anyone engaged in corporate research for the
labor, environmental, public interest, community organizing and other
social justice movements. You can forward one of the digests to a friend
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Philip Mattera
pmattera@goodjobsfirst.org