Library Bulletin    

Issue N 9                      February 15, 2007 

 

 

A biweekly e-bulletin for the latest print and electronic  resources. Access is only via university net.

 

Content:

 

Valentine's Day                              

New Books 

Databases News

Trials

Search  Engines 

e-Books

E-journals

E-Dictionary

Selected Online Resources

 

 
 

Valentine's Day

 

Love Poetry

Database -  Columbia Grangers Word of Poetry - www.aubg.bg/library

Read about 8000 poetry texts on love - Conjugal love, Divine love, Erotic love, Ex-lovers, First love, Forbidden love, Ideal love, Interracial love and marriage, Love triangles, Lovers, Marital love, Nature of love, Parental love, Platonic love, Romantic love , Unconditional love, Unrequited love, Unspoken love etc.

   

Valentine's Day Fun Facts 

From Read; 2/11/2005, Vol. 54 Issue 12, p.4 - 5.

 

Databases News

         JSTOR Web Tutorials

JSTOR now offers two web tutorials using screen-capture video with voice-over  instructions in English. These short tutorials guide users through the process of searching and browsing the JSTOR archive. Each tutorial is available in several formats: Flash, Windows Media Player, and QuickTime. The tutorials may be downloaded by visiting http://www.jstor.org/about/tutorials/.

Basic Search Tutorial

Learn how to search the JSTOR archive using our Basic Search page. (2 minutes)

English – Flash [2.6 MB]  |  Windows Media [3.0 MB]  |  Quicktime [15.3 MB]

 

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Trials

 

SAGE Journals Online

Free Online Access to SAGE journals 

including newly digitized deep backfile until February 28, 2007!

SAGE has scanned and digitized over 300,000 articles from  print journal backfiles and uploaded them to the SAGE Journals Online platform. This means over 3.5 million additional pages are now online across the fields of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine, and even more are on the way soon. 


Free online access to ALL SAGE journals, including the newly digitized backfile, is available  until February 28, 2007. No registration is required. Just visit SAGE Journals Online to start accessing articles in your discipline - http://online.sagepub.com

  e-Books

Developing science, technology and innovation indicators: what we can learn from the past 

Working Paper 

Authors: C. Freeman & L Soete,  UNU-MERIT

 

  e-Books

European Business - Facts and figures

The new edition of European Business - Facts and figures - 2006  edition - Data 1995 - 2005, published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, gives a comprehensive picture of the structure, development and characteristics of European business and its different activities: from energy and the extractive industries to communications, information services and media. It presents the latest available statistics from a wide selection of statistical sources describing, for each activity, production and employment, country specialization and regional distribution, cost structures, productivity and profitability, the importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), external trade etc.

 

E-Book

 

2007 Financial Services Fact Book

Each year the Financial Services Fact Book, a partnership between the Insurance Information Institute and The Financial Services Roundtable, expands to reflect developments shaping the financial services sectors. This year’s book highlights a host of new trends, from baby boomer demographics to the general mobility of the U.S. population.
Among the new charts in this our sixth edition:
   State migration flows
   Top baby boomer destination states
   Income by region and age group
   Investments in separately managed accounts
   (401)k rollover rates
   Health care financing
   Health savings accounts, characteristics of owners
   Top global asset managers
   Asset manager mergers and acquisitions
   Online auto insurance purchases
   Insurance direct marketing

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 E-journals 

 

LOGOS

The Journal of the World Book Community, a forum for book and publishing professionals worldwide, announced the availability of its entire archive online.

The LOGOS archive (www.atypon-link.com/LOG/loi/logo), spanning seventeen years, consisting so far of 650 articles, constitutes a substantial work of reference.  All visitors can view the first page of each article for free.

 

E-Dictionary


Small Business Terms Glossary

Browse by word or search. Search by:
- Definitions
- Complete Phrase
- Any Word in Phrase
- Starts With
- Ends With

Author: Small Business Administration. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise. 

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Selected Internet Resources     

German sources

 

[vascoda] Logo

 

German Vascoda Portal
It allows users to find not only print materials, databases, online guides, newsletters and other central tools for the various disciplines, but also digital projects in full-text, sound or image. On this English-language version, click on “More Information” under “Subject Gateways.” 

Savifa
The information gateway for South Asia Studies that offers users a comprehensive access to professionally selected and annotated internet resources as well as other scientific information.

ZVDD
The portal offers access to thousand of digitized imprints, searchable at title level. The search via full text is in preparation. Like single-title searches, searches can also be made for complete collections, such as collections of historical children's’ books, emblem books, Siberia or of civil and criminal law books of the 19th century. Users can search by title or author keywords or subject headings. Browsing options facilitate finding persons, locations and  books of particular centuries or media types. From the portal the user is guided to the digital local collections. The provenance of a record is marked in display.

 

 Selected Internet Resources                                              


Legal Online Music Sources
Visit these sites for legal music on the web. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry.

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