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Public Papers of the Presidents
The Compilation of Presidential Documents collection is composed of the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents and its predecessor, the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. The Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents is the official publication of presidential statements, messages, remarks, and other materials released by the White House Press Secretary. It replaces the Weekly Compilation as of January 29, 2009.
Marquis Who’s Who Biographies
The Marquis Who's Who Biographies Database contains active and inactive biographies from the following Who's Who publications:

• Who Was Who in America: Biographies for individuals who made significant contributions to American life and died between 1985 and 1993.
• Who's Who in Advertising: Features men and women at the forefront of the advertising field. Last published in 1989.
• Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals: Contains biographical citations of prominent human services specialists from every facet of the human services world. Last published in 1992.
• Who's Who in America: Contains men and women who are high profile achievers in business and finance, government, media, sports, science and technology and the arts.
• Who's Who in American Education: Contains biographies for the most distinguished and innovative teachers, university professors, administrators, school board members, Department of Education officials, and heads of national and local education programs, accrediting associations and testing organizations.
• Who's Who in American Law: Contains biographies for the leaders in the legal community including attorneys, educators, judges and others.
• Who's Who in American Nursing: Contains biographies for leading primary care nurses as well as nursing administrators, educators, researchers, and other specialists.
• Who's Who of American Women: Contains powerful women who often are behind the scenes or out of the national spotlight.
• Who's Who in the East: Contains biographies for leaders in Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, as well as the following locations in Canada: New Brunswick, New Foundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Eastern Ontario.
• Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America: Contains biographies for the leading men and women in the baby boomer generation. Last published in 1992.
• Who's Who in Entertainment: Contains biographies for influential men and women in the entertainment industry.
• Who's Who in Finance and Industry: Contains biographies for the principal decision-makers and business leaders in North America.
• Who's Who in the Midwest: Contains biographies for the most influential men and women in: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin as well as the followinglocations in Canada: Manitoba, Western Ontario.
• Who's Who in Religion: Contains biographies for the world's most prominent and active religious leaders. Last published in 1992 updated.
• Who's Who in Science and Engineering: Contains international figures selected for achievement in physical, life, medical, social, mathematical, computer and applied sciences.
• Who's Who in the South and Southwest: Contains biographies for the leaders in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, as well as Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Mexico.
• Who's Who in the West: Contains the most influential men and women in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming as well as the following locations in Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan.
• Who's Who in the World: Contains people from countries and territories whose activities and ideas are influencing the world. Among the people profiled are: heads of state, preeminent government figures, ambassadors and ministers, high-ranking military officers, key executives of large corporations, religious leaders, heads of educational, professional, cultural and scientific

organizations.

• Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare: Provides biographies on successful medical professionals, administrators, educators, researchers, clinicians, and industry leaders from the diverse fields of medicine and healthcare. First edition published November, 1996.
• Who's Who in the Media and Communications: Contains biographies for select broadcast executives, software developers, editors, advertising executives, media consultants, World Wide Web experts, and many other industry leaders. First edition published October, 1997.

Discover America’s Story (aka Smalltown Papers)
Discover America's Story focuses on small-town, rural, and "LOCAL" articles and reports on what is happening in-town and in-county while providing a local point of view on bigger issues such as state, regional, national politics and world affairs. The product is rich with articles relevant to geographic locations often under-reported or overlooked by mainstream news coverage such as natural resources, agriculture, land use, water rights and farming. "Small-town" news, op-ed, business, arts, government and life in general are covered well, plus published legal notices and obituaries are included.

More Al Bawaba Publications Including:

• Financial Mirror
• National Iraqi News Agency (NINA)
• Soma Digest
• The Jordan Times
• Qatar Tribune
• Banker Middle East
• Islamic Business & Finance
• Private Equity & Hedge Funds Middle East
• SMB Advisor Middle East
• Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP)
• FARS News Agency
• Jordan News Agency (Petra)
• Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
• National News Agency Lebanon (NNA)
• Saudi Press Agency (SPA)
• Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
• Computer News Middle East
• The Star
• Kabulpress.org
• Cihan News Agency (CNA)

New German Language Sources: BM Online and Welt
Welt
WELT ONLINE is a German news portal with one of the highest levels of reach and broadest ranges of content. In addition to its own coverage, the best articles from DIE WELT, WELT KOMPAKT and WELT am SONNTAG can be read here. From Germany’s largest integrated newsroom the modern and competent way of reporting is tailored to the readers expectations.

Welt Kompakt
WELT KOMPAKT is a publication dedicated to those readers, who wish to get both as well, fast and high quality information. WELT KOMPAKT's readers are mostly young, well-educated and well-funded. 59% of the buyers did not read a newspaper before or abandoned reading. 41% use WELT KOMPAKT in addition to another, primarily regional newspaper.

Die Welt
"Die Welt" is the largest regional daily paper in Germany. With its world-wide network of correspondents it belongs to a group of newspapers in Europe which are published and read daily in 130 countries world-wide. "Die Welt" includes reports on politics, economics, finances, culture, science and sport. In Berlin and Hamburg it includes a comprehensive regional section. The modern and competent way of reporting is tailored to the readers expectations.

Welt am Sonntag
The Sunday issue of Die Welt offers a wide mixture of topics with in depth information and news. Printed in colour it offers the reader exclusive reports from prominent authors. It includes an end of week review about all of the important events that have happened during the week. It also includes a preview of events over the weekend and the following week. Regional supplements include information from Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and North-west Rhine areas.

BM Online
BM online is the online service of Berliner Morgenpost, one of the most important publications in the German capital.

London Stock Exchange Corporate Actions Service
The London Stock Exchange is the premier source of high value UK corporate action information and updates several times a day. Providing detailed coverage and analysis of UK corporate actions the London Stock Exchange Corporate Actions Service covers all London Stock Exchange instruments with over 50 corporate action types. These range from cash dividends to rights issues and complex company schemes. A corporate action is an event initiated by a public company that affects the securities (equity or debt) issued by the company.

Haymarket Media Healthcare Publications

• Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR)
• Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (JAAPA)
• McKnights Long Term Care News and McKnights Assisted Living
• Clinical Advisor
• Renal & Urology News
• DMNews
• The American Journal of Hematology/Oncology (AJHO)
• Oncology Nursing News (ONN)
• Medical Marketing & Media (MMM)
  

More HT Media Limited Publications

• Bharat Observer
• IPR
• Kuknalim
• Medianama
• North East Daily
• Pluggd.in
• Tehelka
• The Friday Times
• South Asian Media Network
• Daily Times (PK)
• Daily the Pak Banker
• Right Vision News
• Dhaka Courier
• Colombo Times
• Maldives Chronicle
  

Notable Drops

Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy