Briefing paper – Zyban

Briefing Paper: Waste Prevention

This paper examines waste prevention – the “reduce, reuse” part of the solid waste management hierarchy. It summarizes research findings on prevention – some generated as background papers in 2007 as part of DEQ’s Waste Prevention Strategy development — and supplements with a more recent literature review. DEQ’s Waste Prevention Strategy is also summarized. This paper concludes with a status re...

Briefing paper: Metadata Schema Registries

Metadata itself is often called 'data about data', information that typically describes what a document is, what it is about, and where one may locate it (Zeng & Jin, 2008). There are various metadata standards, such as Dublin Core and IEEE LOM. Each standard contains an element set or scheme that defines the structure and semantics of elements, such as the DC Metadata Element Set, now referred...

Children and HIV/AIDS UNAIDS Briefing Paper

EnTag D 5 . 1 : Recommendations briefing paper

This document lists recommendations for JISC derived from the EnTag project. For other deliverables and related documents, please visit

Briefing paper on the ‘feminisation of poverty’