The Library Research Award for Undergraduates, initiated last year, is back this year. All undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Washington are encouraged to submit research projects for the competition. Competition awards are $1,000, with six winners last year. The deadline for applications this academic year is Monday, May 16, 2005, so you have plenty of time.
Flyers about this award are available near the Foster Business Library circulation desk today.
For eligibility, background, and application information, go to Library Research Award for Undergraduates. See also Last Year's Six Award Winners (but none from the Business School).
A new summary of what's new in the Foster Business Library was sent out to the Business School community yesterday via e-mail by the head of the library, Gordon Aamot. For the text his remarks, about databases, electronic journals, and finding full text articles online, click here.
The Business School has announced an article on developing new products, written by three professors, two of whom are at the Business School, John Narver and Douglas MacLachlan. The article says that the "most successful way to develop new products is to emphasize satisfying needs consumers aren't even aware they have, according to new research conducted by the University of Washington and Colorado State University. That is, if in developing new products a business relies solely on what customers say they want in a new product, the business is economically very vulnerable to strong competition."
This article appears in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, volume 21, issue 5, page 334 (September 2004). While the UW Libraries' subscription to this journal ended in 2001, there is full text available online to UW faculty, students, and staff, here.
The Foster Business Library database, Dissertation Abstracts, has changed its name to Digital Dissertations. Database content, with an index to hundreds of thousands of dissertations, with online access to citations, abstracts, and (since 1997) 24-page previews, remains unchanged.
The ProQuest family of databases -- ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, National Newspapers, Washington Newsstand, etc. -- will be down, due to scheduled maintenance, from Friday, October 8th, 2004, 7PM PDT to Saturday, October 9th, 2004, 7AM, PDT.
The Library Research Award for Undergraduates, initiated last year, is back this year. All undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Washington are encouraged to submit research projects for the competition. Competition awards are $1,000 and the deadline for applications is Monday, May 16, 2005. For eligibility, background, and application information, go to Library Research Award for Undergraduates. See also Last Year's Six Award Winners (none from the Business School).
The new "Find A Copy" feature, which was down part of yesterday, is now back up and working again. For more about this service, click here.
The new "Find A Copy" feature, profiled earlier today at this site, is now down. It responds to any request with a "400 Bad Request" error message. There is no estimate as to a repair date and time.
The six Access+ computers, located near the Copy Center in the Foster Business Library, are again available for use.
The Investext database, which was down for a number of hours earlier today, is now available again.
The six Access+ computers, located near the Copy Center in the Foster Business Library, are unavailable, due to a leak from an overflow in a sink in the Balmer Cafe one floor up. The problem should be fixed later today.
The Investext database, with analysts' reports on companies and industries, is down this morning (along with all other Thomson databases in the UW Libraries). The vendor has been notified.
One of the Foster Business Library's best full text article databases is actually a family of databases: ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, National Newspapers, Washington Newsstand, etc. Most of the articles in this family of databases are in full text, in various forms. In some cases, however, no full text is available; only abstracts or citations are offered (particularly for some scholarly journals and for older articles).
Starting this week, you will see, in such cases, Find A Copy where the link to full text is usually located. If you click on the title of the article, you will find a purple UW Holdings, and Check for UW Holdings.
If you click on Check for UW Holdings, you will be directed to other alternatives than the current database for full text, such as Direct Links to Article (via one or more other full-text databases) or Online Journals. Or, if no full text options are found, you may be offered the opportunity to Search for the title which generally retrieves a large number of records; instead, chose Search for the ISSN, the international standard serial number for the title, which usually produces just one or a few records for you to examine. In these cases, you may need to consult the hard copy of the journal for full text.
The Foster Business Library instruction room is booked for a class this morning, from 9:30AM to 11:30AM. Except during this period, the instruction room is open to anyone needing a public computer (in other words, a computer without Microsoft Office). There are no other bookings for this month for the room so, when not being used for instruction, the eighteen computers in this room provide additional computer access in the library.
A new database was added to the List of All Business Databases yesterday: the Comtrade database, a product of the United Nations Statistics Division and the most comprehensive source for world trade data. "Every year between 120 to 140 countries or areas report their merchandise trade statistics to the United Nations...[covering] as much as 95% of World trade. Each of these countries report the trade by commodity and trading partner." Our site license allows multiple users access. Access to Comtrade is IP controlled to the UW only, so be sure to click on Off-Campus Access (upper right corner of the Foster Business Library homepage, to authenticate your UW status from off-campus). Downloads may consist of an unlimited number of records. There are two technical restrictions: first, a maximum of six queries per minute, and, second, no more than 150,000 records downloaded per query. Please logoff after using, to enable other UW users to access this database. For an index to all Foster Business Library databases, click here.