Reports from the Queensland Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing (OLGR)

The Queensland, Australia Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing (OLGR) makes available a number of research-related reports on its Resposible Gambling page. I hadn't come acroos the following reports on their site... but I've now added links to them from the Gambling Literature Database:

1. The Impact of Self-Awareness and Physiological Arousal on EGM Gambling Behaviour (2007, August) -- "This report describes four experimental studies investigating psychological factors that influence betting behaviour on Electronic Gaming Machines (EGMs)."
   
   
2. Gambling and Problem Gambling among the Chinese (2007) -- "There has been a significant gap in the gambling literature regarding the role of culture in gambling and problem gambling. The studies contained in this report intend to reduce this gap by focussing on gambling amongst the Chinese."

New Journal Issue -- Gaming Law Review and Economics (2009, February)

The journal Gaming Law Review and Economics (formerly just Gaming Law Review) has just published its February 2009 issue. Article content includes:

• Lessons from the Nevada Model on Macao's Junket Operations by Carlos Siu Lam and William R. Eadington
  
  
• Wasn't the Gaming Law Business Supposed to Be Recession-Proof? by Lori Tripoli
  
  
• The Mob Never Ran Vegas by Leslie Niño Fidance
  
  
• Betfair: A Case Study on the U.S. Internet Gaming Market by David C. Williams and S. Steve Seteroff
  
  
• Quantifying Skill in Games—Theory and Empirical Evidence for Poker by Ingo C. Fiedler and Jan-Philipp Rock

Addiction-Related Datasets Available From The Transparency Project

Last month The Division on Addictions, Harvard Medical School, made available a site they've named The Transparency Project. The aim of the site is to establish a "home" for privately-funded datasets collected by multidisciplinary addiction researchers working throughout the world.

Many of the available datasets relate to Internet gambling and were obtained from European online gambling provider bwin Interactive Entertainment AG. Access to such data will be a real boon to researchers investigating Internet gambling as this type of information has previsouly been largely inaccessible. This data is already proving to be fertile ground for researchers as evident by the publications by dataset page.

NOTE: Datasets in the repository are accessible to"registered users." You register to be a user of the Transparency Project by emailing info@thetransparencyproject.org and providing basic information. Once you're successfully registered and have received a password, you can access and download the requested database. It is anticipated that the website will have an automated registration process in the future.