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Jan 9 2009

Minneapolis Fed Offers Recession-Tracking Tool

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has developed a Web page that compares the current recession with the previous 10 post-World War II recessions.

Charts on the page allow users to track the length and the depth of the current recession in terms of employment and output versus changes in employment in output over past recessions.

The page will be updated as new data are released.

– Corridor Business Journal update for Jan.9, 2009

Dec 2 2008

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

Make use of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, a comprehensive reference source:

“International in scope and spanning all time periods of human history, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History includes 900 original articles by noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries. Articles range from 500-word entries on inventors, theoreticians, and industry leaders to overarching, 8,000-word essays on markets, industries, and labor. With coverage ranging from accounting and advertising to zoning and zoos, this landmark works stands at the busy intersection of history and the social sciences.”

– Joel Mokyr, Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Nov 24 2008

Transitions: Scholarly Communication News

Read the fall issue of the publication Transitions.

“The purpose of 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. Scholarly communication refers to the full range of formal and informal means by which scholars and researchers communicate, from email discussion lists to peer-reviewed publication. In general authors are seeking to document and share new discoveries with their colleagues, while readers–researchers, students, librarians and others–want access to all the literature relevant to their work.”

– Library News

Oct 23 2008

Demographic Information with SimplyMap

The University Libraries provide access to SimplyMap, a Web-based tool that creates maps based on used-supplied criteria.  Data comes from government and industry sources.  Users can output to Powerpoint slides, Word documents, etc.  Find out more you can do with SimplyMap.

To use this resource from the Business Library homepage, click on Sources A-Z.  Then select “SimplyMap” from the list.

Sep 29 2008

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

From the UI Libraries Federal Documents Coordinator and Reference Librarian:

If you would like to see the text of the H.R. 3997 (“Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008”) soon to be voted upon, go to GPOAccess http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ and click on the “Featured Item” in the upper right corner.  It is the Congressional Report that includes the text of the bill with a brief explanatory introduction regarding the $700 billion for the Secretary of the Treasury to buy mortgages and other assets of troubled financial institutions.