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G a r y  P a t t i l l o  

Gary Pattillo is reference librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, e-mail: pattillo@email. 
unc.edu 

Survey of earned doctorates 
The 45,596 research doctorates awarded during the 2005–06 academic year 
represent an increase of 5.1 percent from 2005. This is the highest number 
in the history of the survey of earned doctorates. In 2006, 51 percent of all 
research doctorates awarded to U.S. citizens went to women, marking the fi fth 
consecutive year U.S. women were awarded more doctorates than their male 
counterparts. Twenty percent of all research doctorates awarded to U.S. citizens 
in 2006 were earned by U.S. racial/ethnic minority group members. This is the 
highest percentage recorded in the survey of earned doctorates. 
T. B. Hoffer, M. Hess, V. Welch, Jr., and K. Williams. “Doctorate Recipients from United States Universities: Summary Report 
2006,” 2007, Chicago: National Opinion Research Center. (The report gives the results of data collected in the Survey of 
Earned Doctorates, conducted for six federal agencies, NSF, NIH, USED, NEH, USDA, and NASA by NORC.) www.norc. 
org/NR/rdonlyres/C22A3F40­0BA2­4993­A6D3­5E65939EEDC3/0/06SRFinalVersion.pdf, November 26, 2007 

Scholarly expenditures 
From 1997 to 2004, college and university library serials budgets increased more 
than 53 percent. During the same period, total scholarly monograph spending 
increased about 25 percent. Operating expenses increased only about 11 per­
cent. Total expenditures were up about 37 percent. Monograph per­unit costs 
increased 10.49 percent, while inflation (CPI) increased 17.69 percent, and GDP 
was up by 44.32 percent for the same time period. 
Albert N. Greco et al., “The Changing College and University Library Market for University Press Books and Journals: 
1997–2004,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Vol. 39, No. 1, October 2007. muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_schol­
arly_publishing/v039/39.1greco.pdf,  December 10, 2007 

Government attic 
GovernmentAttic.org provides online access to previously unavailable govern­
ment documents. As of this writing, the collection of documents is relatively 
small, but growing. It consists of FOIA request logs and documents obtained 
via FOIA. Access to the documents is provided via a simple menu or via a 
Google custom search. It also provides links to other sites providing access to 
previously secret fi les. 
www.governmentattic.org/, December 8, 2007 

Web search numbers 
Internet users conduct about 1.4 million Web searches every minute, according 
to a study by comScore. Google accounts for about 60 percent of all searches 
worldwide. Yahoo came in second worldwide with 8.5 billion searches in August. 
Baidu.com, a Chinese search company, placed third with 3.3 billion searches, 
followed by Microsoft Corporation at 2.2 billion and NHN (a South Korean 
search engine) at 2 billion searches. 
Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press, “Study: Google Gets Bulk of World Search,” October 9, 2007, The Washington Post, 
www.washingtonpost.com/wp­dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100900965.html, December 9, 2007 

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