Tuesday, August 19, 2008

SEC Announces Successor to EDGAR Database

From the SEC Website:

“IDEA” Will Make Company and Fund Information Interactive

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Washington, D.C., Aug. 19, 2008 — Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today unveiled the successor to the agency’s 1980s-era EDGAR database, which will give investors far faster and easier access to key financial information about public companies and mutual funds.

The new system is called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications. Based on a completely new architecture being built from the ground up, it will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system. The decision to replace EDGAR marks the SEC’s transition from collecting forms and documents to making the information itself freely available to investors to give them better and more up-to-date financial disclosure in a form they can readily use.

Read the rest of the release here

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

LSU Libraries- New Historical Resources


Illustrated Civil War Newspaper and Magazines
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/civilwarnewspapers.html
“Important and Rare Periodicals from Confederate, Union, Abolitionist, and British Presses database contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of them illustrated 3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865.”

American Civil War Online
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/americancivilwar.html
“The collection presents 75,000 images drawn from archives around the country, documenting the camp and battle experiences of Union and Confederate soldiers of all ranks, time spent in hospitals and in prisons, civilian life in cities and towns close to and far from the front lines of war, and the demeanor of the politicians whose decisions could bring the nation together or tear it apart.”

Historical Chicago Defender
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/chicagodefender.html
“The Chicago Defender offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Covering the years 1909-1975, the Chicago Defender includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.”

British Periodicals I and II
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/britishperiodicals.html
“This digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.”

C19: Nineteenth Century Index
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/c19.html“The Nineteenth Century Index is a growing, all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level.”