Thursday, November 29, 2007

PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES database is now on the LSU Libraries indexes and databases title list, and accessible on and off campus.

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/psycarticles.html

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

National Endowment for the Arts announces new reading study

Among the key findings:

Americans are reading less - teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.

* Less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers, a 14 percent decline from 20 years earlier. Among 17-year-olds, the percentage of non-readers doubled over a 20-year period, from nine percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.1
* On average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes of their daily leisure time on reading.2

Read the story here:
http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html

Monday, November 19, 2007

bonus fun site!

Fortune 500 lists, 1955-2007

Fun site of the day!

What was the exchange rate then?
EH Net (economic history services) provides a resource to check the exchange rate of most international countries, with a dates ranging from 1913- present.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Electronic Resources for Business Students

This page is a starting point for students (and others)who would like to have a collection of easy to use resources. Note that most of the links on the page are LSU restricted. Electronic Resources for Business Students

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

New Databases

The library has recently subscribed to these two databases. They are available to current students, faculty, and staff.

IBISWorld: Industry Market Research Reports “contain key statistics and easy to digest analysis. Each report, of 25-30 pages in length, is updated regularly, ensuring that they reflect the current state of an industry.” (The description is from the IBISworld web site.) This database is easy to use, and is a very nice resource for undergraduate students (as well as the rest of us.)

SourceOECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) The OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals.