Alacra, a provider of business information, has a wiki with free industry information organized by industries ranging from candy to mining. While anyone can post to this wiki and change or add information, there are valuable links to reputable organizations that might be difficult to find otherwise. For example, under coal, there are links to the World Energy Council and the United Nations's Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics.

Check it out at:

http://www.alacrawiki.com/index.php?title=Alacra_Industry_Spotlights

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Hoover's reports are available in the LexisNexis Academic database - although they are a bit buried. Here's how to find them.

In the LexisNexis database (available from the Libraries Research Database link), click on the "Sources" tab at the top of the screen. At the far right of the next screen, you will see a box that say's "find a source." Type "hoovers" in the box and click "go." The next page will allow you to select the type of Hoover's report that you want to search including Company profiles, IPO reports, and industry reports. Just mark the box next to the ones you want and then click "ok - continue" (red box at the far right of screen). You can then search within the hoover's publications that you have selected.

http://lib.colostate.edu/databases/

If you have difficulties, please don't hesitate to contact me and I'll help you out.

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I love listening to NPR's Marketplace from American Public Media. They have interesting stories and I can usually catch the morning edition while I drive to work. They also have an excellent website where you can view transcripts of stories and listen to podcasts. How do the Colorado Rockies fit in? Well, this morning there was an interview with their sports commentator, Diana Nyad, about the baseball industry and big budgets vs. small. Here's a link to the transcript:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/10/12/big_wins_on_small_budgets/

The book mentioned in the story, Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game by Michael Lewis, is available through CSU Libraries or through the regional catalog, Prospector.
http://prospector.coalliance.org/screens/mainmenu.html

Marketplace website: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/

Go Rockies!

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Mediascrape provides videos from television news agencies around the world. With Google Maps integrated into its search interface, you can browse news videos by country or search by topic. Mediascrape's press page provides links to articles with more info http://www.mediascrape.com/Site/Press.aspx

Check it out at: http://www.mediascrape.com/News/Home.aspx

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The October 2007 issue of Liber8 has just come out. It covers the topic of declining or low personal savings rates and its effect on the U.S. economy; providing a good quick overview of the topic along with links to additional reading. The Liber8 newsletter is produced by the Research Library of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/newsletter/2007/200710.pdf

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CSU Libraries now has a subscription to NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers. You can access it via the Libraries catalog or directly through the NBER Working Papers website.
Catalog record:
http://catalog.library.colostate.edu/record=b2857136
NBER:
http://papers.nber.org/papers/

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