Business Library News

Books Recently Returned 10/28/2009

Todd Degraff — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:09:52 +0000

These books from the Business Library’s general collection have been loaned and recently returned. Books appear in order by call number. Readers can use the list to see which subjects are popular or used for research.

Click on a title for more information.

Updated October 28, 2009

Title	Author	Call No.
The strategy of conflict.	Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-	BUS LIB BF637.N4 S3
Data analysis using regression and multilevel/hierarchical models	Gelman, Andrew.	BUS LIB HA31.3 .G45 2007
Stata getting started with Stata for Windows : release 10.		BUS LIB HA32 .S69853 2007
Stata user’s guide : release 10.		BUS LIB HA32 .S69865 2007
Stochastic modeling and optimization : with applications in queues, finance, and supply chains.		BUS LIB HB135 .S736 2003
The best I can do.	Pomerantz, Marvin, 1930-	BUS LIB HC102.5.P66 B3 2006
Knowledge and innovation : a comparative study of the USA, the UK, and Japan.	Brown, Helen, 1955 Mar. 31-	BUS LIB HC110.H53 B765 2008
Investing in international real estate.	Hines, Mary Alice.	BUS LIB HD1382.5 .H556 2001
Modern industrial organization / Dennis W. Ca rlton, Jeffrey M. Perloff.	Carlton, Dennis W.	BUS LIB HD2326 .C376 1994
Intercorporate relations : the structural analysis of business.		BUS LIB HD2741 .I585 1987
Personal information management.		BUS LIB HD30.2 .P472 2007
Enterprise 2.0 : how social software will change the future of work.	Cook, Niall.	BUS LIB HD30.335 .C67 2008
Applied impression management : how image-making affects managerial decisions.		BUS LIB HD38 .A664 1991
Global productions : labor in the making of the “information society”.		BUS LIB HD5718.H54 G58 1998
Research in organizational behavior.		BUS LIB HD58.7 .R45
The change handbook : the definitive resource on today’s best methods for engaging whole systems.		BUS LIB HD58.8 .C4537 2007
The change resisters : how they prevent progress and what managers can do about them.	Odiorne, George S.	BUS LIB HD58.8 .O34
Social entrepreneurship : new models of sustainable social change.		BUS LIB HD60 .S594 2006
Fourth generation management : the new business conscious ness.	Joiner, Brian L.	BUS LIB HD62.15 .J65 1994
Entrepreneurial marketing : lessons from wharton’s pioneer ing MBA course.	Lodish, Leonard M.	BUS LIB HD62.5 .L63 2001
Pro logo : brands as a factor of progress.	Chevalier, Michel, 1943-	BUS LIB HD69.B7 C536 2004
Tom Peters : two complete books.	Peters, Thomas J.	BUS LIB HD70.U5 P425 1995
State of the Union : a century of American labor.	Lichtenstein, Nelson.	BUS LIB HD8066 .L53 2002
Statistics for business and economics.	Anderson, David Ray, 1941-	BUS LIB HF1017 .A6 1984
Geometry : math prepar ation guide.	Manhattan GMAT Prep.	BUS LIB HF1118 .M3545 2005
On competition.	Porter, Michael E., 1947-	BUS LIB HF1414 .P67 1998
The new silk road : how a rising Arab world is turning away from the West and rediscovering China.	Simpfendorfer, Ben.	BUS LIB HF3762.Z7 C675 2009
Free : the future of a radical price.	Anderson, Chris, 1961-	BUS LIB HF5415 .A6197 2009
The rise of brands.	Moor, Liz.	BUS LIB HF5415.1255 .M66 2007
Blog, schmog! : the truth about what blogs can (and can’t) do for your business.	Bly, Robert W.	BUS LIB HF5415.1265 .B578 2006
Putting your small business on the Web.	Langer, Maria.	BUS LIB HF5415.1265 .L357 2000
The long tail : why the future of business is selling less of more.	Anderson, Chris, 1961-	BUS LIB HF5415.127 .A54 2008
Great American brands : the success formulas that made them famous.	Cleary, David Powers.	BUS LIB HF5415.15 .C54
The malling of America : an inside look at the great cons umer paradise.	Kowinski, William Severini.	BUS LIB HF5430.3 .K68 1985
Counter cultures : saleswomen, managers, and customers in American department stores, 1890-1940.	Benson, Susan Porter, 1943-	BUS LIB HF5465.U5 B45 1986
Impression management in the organization.		BUS LIB HF5548.8 .I48 1989
Managing human resources in the 21st century : from core concepts to strategic choices.	Kossek, Ellen Ernst.	BUS LIB HF5549 .K663 2000
New approaches to employee management.		BUS LIB HF5549.A2 N49
Internal audit.	Venables, J. S. R.	BUS LIB HF5668.25 .V46 1985
Audits of investment companies.	American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Investment Companies Guide T ask Force.	BUS LIB HF5686.I58 A46
Quantitative finance and risk management : a physicist’s approach.	Dash, Jan W.	BUS LIB HG106 .D37 2004
Pro PayPal E-Commerce.	Williams, Damon.	BUS LIB HG1710 .W55 2007
Capital ideas : the improbable origins of modern Wall Street.	Bernstein, Peter L.	BUS LIB HG173 .B47 1992
Restoring financial stability : how to repair a failed system.		BUS LIB HG181 .R37 2009
The psychology of money.	Furnham, Adrian.	BUS LIB HG222.3 .F87 1998
Offshore finance.	McCann, Hilton.	BUS LIB HG3881 .M393 2006
Fooled by randomness : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets.	Taleb, Nassim.	BUS LIB HG4521 .T285 2005
International capital markets : systems in transition.		BUS LIB HG4523 .I5836 2002
Fixed in come securities : tools for today’s markets.	Tuckman, Bruce.	BUS LIB HG4650 .T83 2002
Trading and investing in bond options : risk management, arbitrage, and value investing.	Wong, M. Anthony.	BUS LIB HG6024.A3 W66 1991
Embracing risk : the changing culture of insurance and responsibility.		BUS LIB HM1101 .E43 2002
Making capital from culture : the corporate form of capitalist cultural production.	Ryan, Bill, 1946-	BUS LIB HM258 .R93 1991
The structure of corporate political action : interfirm relations and their consequences.	Mizruchi, Mark S.	BUS LIB JK467 .M59 1992
Remix : making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy.	Lessig, Lawrence.	BUS LIB KF3020 .L47 2008
Invisible hands, invisible objectives : bringing workplace law and public policy into focus.	Befort, Stephen F., 1948-	BUS LIB KF3319 .B44 2009
Human capital : a theoretical and empirical analysis, with special reference to education .	Becker, Gary Stanley, 1930-	BUS LIB LC66 .B4 1993
Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference.	Shadish, William R.	BUS LIB Q175 .S523 2002
Software engineering : a practitioner’s approach.	Pressman, Roger S.	BUS LIB QA76.6 .P73 1992
Inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.		BUS LIB T39 .N37
The clean tech revolution : the next big growth and investment opportunity.	Pernick, Ron.	BUS LIB TD195.E25 P473 2007
Industry norms and key business ratios.		BUS REF HG4027 .I55
Determinants of industrial pricing decisions.	Noble, Peter Murray.	BUS THES T1994 .N698
Making their own luck : a qualitative study of foreign entrepreneurs in Poland.	Johnson, Erin C.	BUS THES T2006 .J675

DOE Scientific and Technical Documents

Todd Degraff — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:40:31 +0000

The UI Libraries have just loaded 202,000 records from the Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information. OSTI provides free public access to full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Material dates primarily from 1991 forward.

This record set contains links to literature in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, computer/information science, and other topics of interest related to the DOE’s mission. Each record provides links to the full text of most documents listed.

To access records, go to the Business Library’s home page (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/biz). In the Smart Search box, type “ostigov”. Over 202,000 records will appear. You can refine your search with the list of subject headings on the left. In addition, focus an inquiry in Smart Search by using “ostigov” with keywords.

Open Access Week: Oct. 19-23

Todd Degraff — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:10:55 +0000

Keep up-to-date as the University of Iowa Libraries celebrates Open Access Week:

Open Access as Utility
[posted: Oct 23, 2009] Editor’s note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. by Peter Likarish, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Bridget Draxler, Ph.d Candidate, Department of English Nicholas Carr’s “The Big Switch” argues that the internet, and computing in general, will behave [...]

Open Access and Global Information Divide
[posted: Oct 22, 2009]
Editor’s note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. by Edward Miner, Ph.D., International Studies Bibliographer Although Open Access movements are unfolding within the legal frameworks of individual countries, their most dramatic potential benefits are really global in scale. One [...]

“The Abuses of Literacy” – Oct 22
[posted: Oct 21, 2009]
Professor Ted Striphas (University of Indiana, Department of Communication and Culture) will be visiting the UI campus next week. He will present a public lecture titled “The Abuses of Literacy: Amazon Kindle and the Right to Read” at 4 pm on October 22nd in Adler E105. Professor Striphas will also meet with a graduate seminar to [...]

Who Should Pay? Does Open Access Mean Free Access
[posted: Oct 21, 2009]
Editor’s note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. by Dr. Christopher Squier, Professor, College of Dentistry and Christine White, Librarian, College of Dentistry Traditionally, the cost of publishing articles in print journals has been borne (apart from page charges [...]

Open Access Publishing in the Health Sciences
[posted: Oct 21, 2009]
Editor’s Note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. by Dr. William Sivitz, Professor of Internal Medicine I recently published an article in PlosOne (Mitochondrial Targeted Coenzyme Q, Superoxide, and Fuel Selectivity in Endothelial Cells – by Brian D. Fink, Yunxia O’Malley, [...]

UI Author’s Addendum
[posted: Oct 20, 2009]
Today in Molly Kleinman’s talk about Open Access, she discussed the importance of scholars/authors keeping some of their rights to their own work. The UI Author’s Addendum (pdf) enables authors to continue using their publications in their academic work and to deposit them into any discipline-based research repository (including PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s [...]

Open Access and Publication Immediacy
[posted: Oct 20, 2009]
Editor’s Note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access – by Raymond Riezman, Ph.D., Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics The Economics Bulletin is an open-access letters journal founded in 2001 with the mission of providing free and extremely [...]

SPARC Welcomes You to Open Access Week
[posted: Oct 19, 2009]
Welcome to Open Access Week 2009, from SPARC from Jennifer McLennan on Vimeo. SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition of the Association of Research Library, of which the University of Iowa Libraries is a member) is a proud co-organizer of Open Access Week 2009 and is pleased to offer this welcome to the global celebrations, to be held [...]

Open Access and the Creative Commons
[posted: Oct 19, 2009]
Editor’s Note: Throughout Open Access Week (Oct 19-23), the UI Libraries will be sharing the views of our UI colleagues on the topic of open access. In November 2005 Creative Commons published the following conversation with UI Associate Professor, Kembrew McLeod. At the time he had recently published his book Freedom of Expression under a Creative [...]

A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
[posted: Oct 16, 2009]
By Peter Suber Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on [...]

Open Access or: How I learned to stop worrying . . . ” – Oct 20
[posted: Oct 14, 2009]
Did you know that access to some scholarly journals can cost as much as buying a new car . . . every year? That is a price that UI Libraries cannot afford, but it is a research tool that YOU can’t afford to work without. So what do we do? Open Access: it means more [...]

Banned Books Week: Sept. 26-Oct. 3

Todd Degraff — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:41:11 +0000

Banned Books Week (BBW): Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Looking for a Public Company's Customer List? Check out Mergent Horizon

Kimberly Bloedel — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:00:39 +0000

The library now subscribes to Mergent Horizon. This research site covers 6200 companies that are traded on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ.

Mergent Horizon enables the researcher to:

Identify companies simply by entering a product or trade name
Highlight the relationships between a company’s major customers, suppliers and partners
Analyze data for sector aggregates or averages, as well as for individual companies
Screen companies with hundreds of quantitative and qualitative fields and custom formulas
One-Click reports including Company Profiles, Competitors by Product, and Drug/Medical Device
Events Calendar including earnings reports and FDA meetings
Comprehensive Data on all actively traded U.S. public companies and ADRs

A link to our subscription can be found on our A-Z page and here.�
Click here to view a demo of Mergent Horizon.

Which books are popular?

Todd Degraff — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:26:18 +0000

Find out which books are popular … or are being used for research. The Business Library now has a list of recently returned books. These titles were loaned from the Business Library and recently brought back. Books are in order by title. Library staff will provide regular updates, and the list can be accessed from the New Books page or Sources A-Z, both on the Business Library’s home page.

Please note: the University of Iowa Libraries respect readers’ privacy! No loan details are associated with these titles – just book information.

Change in Class Reserve Loans

Todd Degraff — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:42:57 +0000

The Business Library has in the past allowed renewals of 2-hour items; these have been mostly class materials. Because of increased usage – and fair access to these items – there will no longer be renewals of 2-hour material.

Library users can return to the Library after one hour and borrow an item again. Continuous renewals, however, cannot be done.

If you have any questions, please contact Business Library staff.

Service Point Changes at the Main Library: FAQ

Todd Degraff — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:08:29 +0000

Service points are being consolidated at the Main Library. Read about the changes taking place.

Transitions: Scholarly Communications News, July 2009

Todd Degraff — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:45:56 +0000

The purpose of Transitions, this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models.
- Library News

UI Libraries Book Collection Reaches Five Million

Kimberly Bloedel — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:16:51 +0000

The UI Libraries selected The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, edited by David Hudson, Marvin Bergman and Loren Horton as the five millionth book for the collection. More information about this milestone can be found on the UI Main Library blog here.