Take a look at the GPL Economic and Government Census shelves (row 107). Sara has finished the project of making labels to indicate the various censuses. It looks very nice, and will make its use easier. In the early years what we now call "Economic Census" information was part of the decennial census. We have pulled those volumes out, starting with 1905, and have put them on 107. Like the population census on the shelves, the organization is by census year first, then series. Over the years there have been many - manufacturing, business, retail, wholesale, service, mineral industries, etc. So whatever is a census and not population/housing or agriculture, it is on 107 and now nicely marked.
The Census of Governments follows the Economic Censuses.
My last project is to craft the wording for new signs on the stack ends, which I'll have Miguel make.
Julie
From LexisNexis Academic Listserv:
In the past, we have received numerous requests to change the hyperlink on
our news results from the source to the headline. I am pleased to announce
that effective Tuesday, March 1, 2005, LexisNexis news results will have a
new look. The headline of news articles will now appear first in the results
list, impacting news results in LexisNexis Academic as well as LexisNexis
Environmental and LexisNexis State Capital. This enhancement will allow
customers to more quickly and easily scan their answer sets.
The new Document List display will deliver results in reverse chronological
order by date and alphabetical by publication in the following order:
1) Headline
2) Publication
3) Date
4) Volume or section
5) Page number
6) Number of words
7) Byline
Currently the results set information appears in the following order:
1) Publication
2) Date
3) Volume or Section
4) Page number
5) Number of words
6) Headline
7) Byline
We hope this change is welcome news!
LexisNexis
--Amy
Remember: trade by commodity by country = SourceOECD. There are other resources, but this one is our best/most comprehensive/most up-to-date, so start there. If any one of the countries the patron wants the data for is a member of the OECD, then you should be able to get the statistics from SourceOECD.
If only one country is a member and, for example, the patron says, "I want Guatemalan banana exports to the UK" you can still use SourceOECD: just turn it around to "UK imports of Guatemalan bananas".
Overall, data is available from 1961-present. To get into the Statistics section, click on the Statistics tab at the top of the home page. Then put your mouse over the "OECD Databases" link on the menu at the left. The database is called ITCS International Trade by Commodity. SITC Revision 2 is 1961-1990; SITC Revision 3 is 1991-. Historical data for new members may not be available.
OECD members & dates they joined can be found here: OECD Members. -- Amy
Mintel - new market research report database on Business Reference website, under "Marketing Databases."
As a globally recognised market analyst, Mintel produces some 600 reports into European, UK-specific and US consumer markets every year.
Each report that Mintel publishes provides a unique overview of a market's dynamics and prospects, giving you the knowledge to devise informed and profitable marketing strategy.
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"Search" tab is at the top of the page, in gray strip.
You can search by keyword, and select a country.
Virginia
Deleted these pages:
govpubs.lib.umn.edu/guides/eric.phtml - see http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=1472
govpubs.lib.umn.edu/home_index.phtml?oldreleases=1 - just the oldreleases - see Spotlight Archive
govpubs.lib.umn.edu/stat/tool_cbpcenstats1.phtml - see County Business Patterns Guide
govpubs.lib.umn.edu/stat/tool_cbpcenstats2.phtml - see above
govpubs.lib.umn.edu/census/2000data.phtml - see U.S. Census
govpubs.lib.umn.edu/census/2000help.phtml - see U.S. Census
govpubs.lib.umn.edu/guides/un_general.phtml - see UN Guide
Updated these pages:
EU Guide - see http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=1553; changed site links.
Eurostat Guide - see http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=1686; changed links.
We now have the Fall 2001 full year study loaded on the Business Reference CDROM stations. This is a survey covering Oct 2000 - Sept 2001 of populations and households. I have made it the default survey on the computers.
You can still use "Change Survey" to load other survey data, like the Fall 2001 month (April 2001- Sept 2001) or the Teen Study, etc. This may be needed when searching Simmons for a particular product (Kia Sedona) that you are not finding in the current default survey.
-- Van
Since this is always harder for me than it seems it ought to be, here's the story:
1. the Fortune 500 should be in the first April issue of Fortune
2. the main list is "Largest U.S. Corporations"
3. other lists include "Arrivals and departures {from the list}", "How the companies stack up", "Ranked within states" and "Ranked within industries"
4. Therefore, for issues from 1995-, to find the list quickly, choose fortune as your source and "largest U.S. corporations" as the title when on the advanced search screen of Business Source Premier. -- Amy
Staff Aleph Page:
Course List and Materials
Gary's Tip Sheet for Public Services Staff
It does appear to have problems w/Firefox
Main access points on home page and sub-pages all by mouseover
Themes:
Key EU policies indicators
General statistics
Economy and finance
Population and social conditions
Industry, trade and services
Agriculture and fisheries
External trade
Transport
Environment and energy
Science and technology.
except for the key EU policys, all themes have further links to Publications, Data and Full View. Data links to just the part of the database with that theme's data. Full View is page that consolidates all types of information available on that theme, regardless of whether the information is in pdf or an interactive database. Publications goes to publications.
Publications: Heavily Used publications include Panorama of the EU, Statistics in Focus and some series, such as Pocketbooks.
Dedicated Sections: For reasons not immediately apparent, the link to the Eurostat Yearbook is under this section and not publications. Users can either download a pdf edition or go to the main Eurostat database (via the "long tem indicators link"). This section also includes euro-indicators, structural indicators, Regions (Regio is Eurostat's harmonised regional statistical database." goes to same data explorer as other links), co-operation (e.g. statistical cooperation), European Business (nothing unique; just business-specific content) and external trade (information about how external trade stats are generated; links to same pubs/dbases).
Data:
GPL has withdrawn the CANSIM CD-ROM. It was very old data (1991 and earlier) and old software which could no longer be used. Amy was unable to get the disk to run. Canada has much later statistical databases on the web. Unfortunately, we do not have access - we would need to pay, or to have a faculty member in Canadian Studies. But in any case, there was no remaining use for CANSIM, and it is gone. Record of this decision is in Aleph staff side.
Julie