Archive for March, 2009

Osiris

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Osiris

Osiris from the Bureau van Dijk contains financial information on 55,000 listed and major unlisted/delisted companies worldwide (43,000 are non-US companies).  The information includes: standardised and “as reported” financials (including restated reports), SEC filings, detailed earnings estimates including recommendations, ownership, stock data, news and ratings. – Publisher’s blurb.

American Economic Journal : Applied Economics

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

American Economic Journal : Applied Economics

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics publishes papers covering a range of topics in applied economics, with a focus on empirical microeconomic issues. In particular, we welcome papers on labor economics, development microeconomics, health, education, demography, empirical corporate finance, empirical studies of trade, and empirical behavioral economics. – Publisher’s blurb.

Access to this title is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics will focus on studies of aggregate fluctuations and growth, and the role of policy in that context. Such studies often borrow from and interact with research in other fields, such as monetary theory, industrial organization, finance, labor economics, political economy, public finance, international economics, and development economics. – Publisher’s blurb.

Access to this title is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

American Economic Journal : Microeconomics

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

American Economic Journal : Microeconomics

American Economic Journal : Microeconomics will publish papers focusing on microeconomic theory, industrial organization and the microeconomic aspects of international trade, political economy and finance. – Publisher’s blurb.

Access to this title is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

American Economic Journal : Economic Policy

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

American Economic Journal : Economic Policy

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy will publish papers covering a range of topics, the common theme being the role of economic policy in economic outcomes. Subject areas will include public economics; urban and regional economics; public policy aspects of health, education, welfare and political institutions; law and economics; economic regulation; and environmental and natural resource economics. – Publisher’s blurb.

Access to this title is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

Design and Culture

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Design and Culture

Design & Culture is the official journal of the Design Studies Forum.  Even as recognition of its social, economic and cultural force grows, however, the design field’s largely unseen ‘edges’ are increasingly becoming its driving forces.  Design & Culture examines these developments, looking for rigorous and innovative critical frameworks to explore ‘design’ as a cultural phenomenon today. – Publisher’s blurb.

People’s Liberation Army Daily – 解放军报

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

People’s Liberation Army Daily – 解放军报

The PLA Daily, which started its publication on January 1, 1956, is the authoritative media of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to release military news and comprehensive military-related information and is the official newspaper of the Central Military Commission. – Publisher’s blurb.

Coverage is from 1956 to the present.  Interface in English and Chinese.  Articles in Chinese only.

Archives for Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Archives for Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Northwestern University Library has purchased the archives for Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology.   The purchase covers content from volume 1 (1933) through volume 69 (2003).  Volumes 70 to the present are available online at the same site through NUL’s current subscription.   Many of the symposia have access through their individual titles in NUcat.  More will be added as feasible.

Access to this content is restricted by the publisher’s agreement to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974

Monday, March 9th, 2009

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974

This searchable database brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. The database currently has over 34,000 pages covering subjects in Arts, Music, and Leisure, Civil Rights, Counter-Culture, Law and Government, Mass Media, New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement, Student Activism, Vietnam War, Women’s Movement, etc.

Music Educators Journal

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Music Educators Journal

Music Educators Journal offers scholarly and practical articles on music teaching approaches and philosophies, instructional techniques, current trends and issues in music education in schools and communities and the latest in products and services. – Publisher’s blurb.