Business http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/ en Copyright 2008 Tue, 13 May 2008 16:42:02 -0700 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 2008 Horizon Report - Emerging technologies and higher ed Recently, EDUCAUSE and the New Media Consortium published the 2008 version of The Horizon Report. The 2008 report focuses on six areas of emerging technologies that will have an impact on higher education including grassroots video, collaboration webs, mobile broadband, data mashups, collective intelligence, and social operating systems. Examples are given of institutions and organizations that are using these tools as well as links to further reading. This is an excellent summer read as we all consider ways to use these fabulous tools in learning.

www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI08107.pdf

Enjoy the summer!

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/05/2008_horizon_report_emerging_t.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/05/2008_horizon_report_emerging_t.html General Tue, 13 May 2008 16:42:02 -0700 Advertising Age Supplements of possible interest The following two publications were recently brought to my attention. These are particularly useful (and free) supplements from Advertising Age that contain advertising information that would be difficult to find elsewhere. For example, the Digial Marketing & Media Fact Pack contains consumer internet usage, blog user stats, search engine market share, mobile device user stats, and social networking demographics amongst other stats and info. The Search Marketing Fact Pack has info on topics such as "driving traffic to Wikipedia and YouTube" and search site statistics.

Digital Marketing & Media Fact Pack
http://www.adage.com/images/random/digitalfactpack2007.pdf

Search Marketing Fact Pack
http://adage.com/images/random/datacenter/2007/searchfactpack2007.pdf

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/05/advertising_age_supplements_of.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/05/advertising_age_supplements_of.html marketing Fri, 02 May 2008 11:41:39 -0700 UNdata - single entry point for UN statistics The UN Statistical division has recently launched a new database, UNdata, that searches across all their statistical databases, over 55 million records, making it obviously much easier to search for global statistics. The interface is fairly intuitive and results pages provide information as to what database the statistics are pulled from. The database is available at:
http://data.un.org/

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/04/undata_single_entry_point_for.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/04/undata_single_entry_point_for.html General Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:08:24 -0700 OECD.Stat - free while in beta I've just discovered that the OECD is offering access to all their statistics while their new aggregate database, OECD.Stat is in beta. Their website indicates that this will be free for the first part of 2008. Statistics cover a range of topics including agriculture, demographics, finance, education, health, science, productivity, etc. Check it out at:

http://stats.oecd.org/wbos/Default.aspx


]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/04/oecdstat_free_while_in_beta.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/04/oecdstat_free_while_in_beta.html General Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:29:51 -0700 World Economic Outlook Database The IMF's World Economic Outlook Database is a free resource that contains selected macroeconomic data series. Data is available from 1980 to the present and includes national accounts, inflation, unemployment rates, balance of payments, fiscal indicators, trade for countries and country groups (aggregates), and commodity prices. While this information is available elsewhere, this database is very easy to use and information is well organized. Tables are in tab deliminated format and easily downloadable to Excel.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2008/01/weodata/index.aspx

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/04/world_economic_outlook_databas.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/04/world_economic_outlook_databas.html Economics - general Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:38:57 -0700 Northern Lights - new free business search engine Northern Light started in the mid-nineties as one of numerous search engines vying to organize the Internet in its early days. The website has gone through various forms, including a fee-based service, but will now be offering a free business search engine. The official launch is in mid-April, but is now available in beta. From what I've seen so far, this looks like an excellent resource for finding business-related content on the web.

Recent article from Information Today
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=41368

Northern Light search
http://www.nlsearch.com/home.php

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/03/northern_lights_new_free_busin.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/03/northern_lights_new_free_busin.html General Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:03:43 -0700 Europeana - something interesting for Friday This doesn't pertain to business or economics exactly, but is an exciting project. Europeana, is a digital library collection that brings together digital content from European museums, archives, libraries, and audio-visual collections. It's expected launch date is November 2008, but you can view a demo and provide feedback on its development. It looks like a very exciting project. Be sure to watch the "boots" video.

http://www.europeana.eu/

Enjoy the weekend!

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/03/europeana_something_interestin.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/03/europeana_something_interestin.html General Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:19:27 -0700 NIH Public Access Policy You may or may not have heard that earlier this year the NIH adopted a revised public access policy requiring all peer-reviewed articles that report on NIH funded research to be deposited in PubMed within 12 months of publication. ARL (the Association of Research Libraries) in conjunction with SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) have written a white paper that details how grantees can comply with the new policy. This is available at:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/nih/copyright.html
This issue is of high interest within the library community. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/03/nih_public_access_policy.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/03/nih_public_access_policy.html General Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:52:29 -0700 ColoradoBiz Today If you are looking for information on local business news, ColoradoBiz Today is a good source for statewide information. Their website provides video interviews, blogs, web exclusives, executive interviews, business links, lists such as top private and public companies, and an event calendar. RSS feeds are also available for different content sections. Some articles from their print publication, ColoradoBiz Magazine, are available on the website. Check it out at:

ColoradoBiz Today

Additionally, CSU Libraries Regional Business News database provides access to the print magazine's articles from 1993. The database provides the ability to search within the publication and also set up email alerts or RSS alerts when new issues are available.

Regional Business News database

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/coloradobiz_today.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/coloradobiz_today.html General Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:37:31 -0700 Statistical Abstract If you are looking for statistics and aren't sure where to start, the U.S. Statistical Abstract is a good starting point. Statistics cover a range of topics including, but not limited to, demographics and business enterprise stats. Editions back to 1878 are available free online through the U.S. Census Burea.

The 2008 Statistical Abstract
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/index.html

Earlier and historical editions
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/past_years.html

Happy statistics hunting!

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/statistical_abstract.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/statistical_abstract.html General Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:21:24 -0700 NYT Article - open access of Harvard faculty's articles An interesting article in the NYT today:

At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web
By PATRICIA COHEN
Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books/12publ.html?ex=1360558800&en=76beaa86c369a2e8&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/nyt_article_open_access_of_har.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/nyt_article_open_access_of_har.html Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:45:51 -0700 Ms. Dewey Something fun for Monday...
If you're interested in a change a pace from Google, try Ms.Dewey, an experimental version of Microsoft's Live Search. Enjoy!
http://www.msdewey.com/

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/ms_dewey.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/ms_dewey.html General Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:45:22 -0700 Rockwell office hours - spring semester '08 Just a reminder that I am in Rockwell's south foyer area on Tuesdays from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. with laptop - ready and willing to answer your business reference/research questions. Pop by and say hello!

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/rockwell_office_hours_spring_s.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/02/rockwell_office_hours_spring_s.html General Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:38:04 -0700 World Economic Forum - annual meeting The World Economic Forum's annual meeting was held last week in Davos, Switzerland. I happened to catch a C-Span replay of a session with Bono, Al Gore, and Thomas L. Friedman entitled " A Unified Earth Theory: Combining Solutions to Extreme Poverty and the Climate Crisis." Heavy stuff for a Saturday morning when my intent was to find some mindless programming, but this was incredibly interesting. Gore approached Bono several months ago about combining Bono's efforts towards poverty (One campaign) and Gore's concerns on global warming. They discussed this and how the two efforts are intertwined. You can view this and other sessions from the forum's annual meeting at:

Annual Meeting 2008 Webcasts, Podcasts, and Vodcasts
http://gaia.world-television.com/wef/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2008/

The World Economic Forum website can be found at:
http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm

One
http://action.one.org/declare/index.html?gclid=CJn85-rnnpECFRE_OAodiyeCQQ

Al Gore's website
http://www.algore.com/

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/01/world_economic_forum_annual_me.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/01/world_economic_forum_annual_me.html Economics - general Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:23:59 -0700 Welcome Back! Welcome back to a rather chilly start to spring semester! Please remember that the library and librarians are here to help (and we have a coffee cart!).

A couple of updates:

Reshelving of Reference collection. The reference books are being rearranged to accomodate more computer work stations. This is a work is progress and may take a few weeks to complete. In the meantime, if you can't find something, please ask at the Information Desk.

Enhancements. Over the break, carpeting was replaced in the EIC (main computer workstation area). Additionally, last fall more group study rooms were added. (More reasons to visit the library).

Again, welcome back. I look forward to working with you all this semester. -Louise

]]> http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/01/welcome_back.html http://lib.colostate.edu/blogs/business/2008/01/welcome_back.html General Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:15:23 -0700