New Print Periodical Subscription in AUBG Library  

Note that this  is a list of new tittles for 2007 PRINT subscription. The full list of periodicals is available on: http://www.aubg.bg/library/listperiodicalsSubscriptions.htm. URL-s are only for reference and do not provide you with full text access.

Art in America – includes a vast array of arts information such as analysis, critiques, and reviews of contemporary American painting, architecture, sculpture, photography, dance and theater. Reviews of exhibitions are provided in a timely fashion as well as news about art events in the United States and abroad. 

Bulgarian Historical Review – a quarterly journal published in English by the Institute for History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Business Horizons – publishes articles of interest to business academicians and practitioners. Articles cover a wide rage of topical areas within the general field of business, with emphasis on identifying important business issues or problems and recommending solutions that address these. Ideally, articles will prompt readers to think about business practice in new and innovative ways. Articles published in Business Horizons are grounded in scholarship, yet are presented in a readable, non-technical format accessible to a wide business audience. 

Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie – an important Bulgarian journal publishing articles and exercises in foreign language teaching and learning.

Deutsch Perfekt, Fremdsprache Deutsch, Zeit Wissen Magazin – three journals, whose purpose is to support German language teaching and learning. Featuring interesting stories from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, numerous exercises for German learners, glossaries of difficult words, texts to listen to and much more, these journals promote mutual understanding and help readers to reach their German language goals. 

Expert – Expert Magazine is among Russia’s most influential and respectable business weeklies, published by a group of professional economists and journalists, who have extensive experience in Russia’s leading economic research centers and the best business media. In almost a dozen years of its existence Expert survived political and financial crises in Russia to establish its position as a definite leader among its peers. 

Essays in Criticism – founded in 1951 by the eminent F. W. Bateson, Essays in Criticism remains one of the most distinguished British journals of literary criticism. It covers English literature of all periods and genres and privileges “originality in interpretation…. allied to the best scholarly standards.”

Journal of Economic Development – the purpose of the Journal of Economic Development is to support and encourage research in economic development, economic growth, international trade and finance, and share the economic analysis of the experience of economic development from all the countries of the world. 

Journal of European Integration – focuses on European integration and an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective, thus integrating politics, European political economy, law, history and sociology. It also presents comparative studies of federalism, other forms of regional integration, and articles dealing with EU external relations, whether in the trade or security policy field. The purpose of the journal is to serve a wide readership and provide explanations about the process of integration in a historical and a comparative fashion, and avoid specific or highly specialized writings. 

MLN. Modern Language Notes – publishes criticism of contemporary European literature, scholarly and critical studies in the modern languages, as well as works in comparative literature plus articles and notes on the theory, interpretation and history of languages. 

Written Communication – an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes theory and research in writing from fields including anthropology, English, history, journalism, linguistics, psychology and rhetoric. 

Central and Eastern European Online Library

C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive that provides access to full text PDF articles from 260 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics. The subjects include: Central and Eastern European politics, economy, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, fine arts, gender studies, philosophy, reviews, etc. Each document is searchable by its individual bibliographic description in the database. This description comprises an abstract of the article in English, keywords, title in English and in their native  language.

Students from East-European countries (Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, etc.) can read serials on  their native language.

Access via AUBG net. See http://www.aubg.bg/library -Electronic collections section.

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GDF Online is getting a new look!
Using the same database, providers are introducing new features to make GDF Online more useful. 

The new features include:
	- multilingual menu items – you can choose English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian,

 Arabic or Chinese 
                - improved charting – you have more control including 10 different chart types 
	- new mapping function – you can map your indicators with zoom in/out and pan options 
	- saving chart/map – you can save both charts and maps as JPG images to your desktop
For a limited time, users can use the either the enhanced new GDF Online or use the existing system. 

Free Trial to all Palgrave Macmillian Journals 

From January 15 th, we are offering you free online access to all Palgrave Macmillian journals. You will have unrestricted access to ALL content until February 14th.
The portfolio includes new journals such as British Politics and the Journal of Simulation and established leaders in the field such as the Journal of international business studies and the Journal of the Operational Research Society. 

Access ALL Areas. Go to: www.palgrave-journals.com  Click on the iPASS banner. 
For more info - send a message to libmail@aubg.bg

Search Engines

Ask.com

http://www.ask.com/?ax=5    

A beta interface to Ask.com; it has the same information as Ask.com's search results page, but it looks and feels much more functional. Check out this cool Ask.com demo. It is fun to watch, and they really do have useful features the other search engines do not have. http://searchtools.ask.com. May be it  can replace Google?      

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e-Books from the World Bank e-Library

Aid that Works. Successful Development in Fragile States 

Research in recent years on aid effectiveness shows that significant obstacles in fragile states - insecurity, poor governance and weak implementation capacity - usually prevent aid from achieving the desired results in these environments. This study investigates the attributes and effectiveness of donor-supported programs and projects that worked well under difficult conditions in fragile states. Presented in this study are nine development initiatives in six less developed countries - Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Timor Leste and Uganda. The cases show that development initiatives, which engage local communities and local level governments, are often able to have significant impact. However, for more substantial improvements to take places, localized gains need to be scaled up either horizontally (other localities) or vertically (to higher levels). Given the advantages of working at the local level and the difficulty of working through mainstream bureaucratic agencies at higher levels in these countries, donors often prefer to create 'parallel-agencies' to reach out to larger numbers of beneficiaries. However, this may in the long run weaken the legitimacy of mainstream government institutions, and donor agencies may therefore choose to work as closely as possible with government officials from the beginning to build trust and demonstrating that new initiatives are non-threatening and help prepare the eventual mainstreaming of 'parallel agencies'. 

A Reader in International Corporate Finance

A Reader in International Corporate Finance offers an overview of current thinking on six topics: law and finance, corporate governance, banking, capital markets, capital structure and financing constraints, and the political economy of finance.

International Financial Reporting Standards (Fourth Edition): A Practical Guide 
Now in its fourth edition, and with translations into 13 languages, this publication gives readers a broad and basic understanding of the key issues for each International Financial Reporting Standard. It summarizes each standard, providing a quick reference for managers and executives in the private and public sectors who may not have a strong background in accounting. All of the standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) through 31 May 2006 are included in this book. 

E-Book

History of the European Union

New Version: ‘History of the European Union’ Now Online in 19 Languages  1945-today.

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Scout Report 
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. However, everyone is welcome to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML). 

Transitions Online

The leading news magazine covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. 

Readers can find it in Central and Eastern European Online Library - in electronic collection section on the library page.

New at Transitions Online - 23 January 2007

Bulgaria: Spooked. A move to open Bulgaria's secret police files runs into some shadowy resistance and ends in a disheartening compromise by Kamelia Dimitrova  19 January 2007

OECD.Stat 

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

OECD.Stat is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s statistical data warehouse. It provides a single access point for statistical data and metadata across the organization. The data warehouse provides: a single, common mechanism for rapid data location and extraction; a centralized system for access rights management. 
A full-text User Guide (PDF; 4.4 MB) is available.
Note: Registration may be necessary.