The Robert E. Gross Collection of Rare Books in Business & Economics has
been digitized and added to the Internet Archives (Rosenfeld Library, UCLA).
This collection is comprised of pre-1800 imprints and manuscripts on
trade and commerce from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
Books Recently Returned 12/15/2009
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 December 15, 2009
125 Years as a Federal Depository
The University of Iowa Libraries in 2009 celebrates 125 years in the Federal Depository Library Program. Read about the history of U.S. government information.
In addition, Richard Davis of the Government Printing Office has sent the Libraries a congratulatory letter.
Books Recently Returned 12/1/2009
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 December 1, 2009
Test Page
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 December 1, 2009
Harvard Business School Faculty Videos
Business Source Complete now includes a collection of 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.
“The series features engaging video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Harvard Business School. All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues. The videos contain a table of content[s] allowing the selection of a specific topic. Most lectures provide a transcript in PDF format.” – Content description
Business Source Complete appears under the “Popular” tab on the Business Library home page. At the search box in Business Source Complete, type “Harvard fss”; a list of the 55 videos will appear. Select the video icon in a record to view.
If you have questions, please contact Library staff.
Books Recently Returned 11/17/2009
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 November 17, 2009
New Loan Policy
The University Libraries have changed the circulation policy for graduate and undergraduate honors students to a one-year checkout period due the last Wednesday in June.
The Libraries have changed the circulation record for regularly circulating books currently on loan. They are now due in June. You will receive a reminder e-mail in May before finals.
This policy change applies to regularly circulating books — not reserves or other short-term loans.
For questions, please contact the Pomerantz Business Library:
319-335-3077
Books Recently Returned 10/28/2009
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
DOE Scientific and Technical Documents
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
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 […]