USF Polytechnic Library

The American Psychological Association released last week dozens of corrections to the brand new 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The first printing of the Manual was published in July. A very popular citation style, the Manual is used in psychology, as well as in education, sociology, economics, business, nursing and justice administration, among other fields.

The USF Poly Library has the first printing of the 6th edition. Waiting to see how and when we will obtain a copy of the second printing, a printout of the corrections are with the copy we own presently (Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010) (as you can imagine, some are calling to the APA to send free replacements). The link to the corrections is also listed below. We are also listing four new sample papers (not printed out):

• Corrections to the Manual (style rules, examples, clarifications and typos)
• Sample paper: One-Experiment Paper
• Sample Paper: Two-Experiment Paper
• Sample Meta Analysis Paper
• Traditions and Alcohol Use: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. The collection is made accessible online by the Duke University Special Collections Library.

These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with D’Arcy Masius McManus in 1985 to form DMB&B. Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others. They are available on iTunes U or via the Library’s AdViews website.

Over the next month, the USF Libraries has been given trial access to the following database: Mergent InvestorEdge.

Mergent InvestorEdge provides access to the financial documents and information you need for each individual company for comprehensive investment research. Key features include:

Over 4,000 equity research reports, updated weekly, providing expert analysis and buy, sell, hold recommendations from Ford Equity Research.
Industry reports with sector level analysis covering current environment, industry profiles, performance, market trends, outlook and more.
Annual reports covering the past 10 years with over 300,000 company and financial documents in the database.

To access InvestorEdge, click here. If you are off campus, make sure you log on to the Library’s web site first. This database will be available through September 30, 2009. Your feedback is welcome.

The USF Libraries have recently acquired LexisNexis’ Congressional Record.

Congressional Universe gives users access to indexed current and archived issues of the Congressional Record as well as content from predecessor publications. The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress and contains an account of the various dialogues and debates conducted upon of the floors of the House and Senate. Coverage extends from 1985 to the present and is updated daily when Congress is in session.

Content from earlier issues of the Congressional Record ranging from 1873 to 1997 is released periodically as it is made available by the publisher. Content from predecessor publications such as the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and the Annals of Congress (1789-1824) is also being released periodically by the publisher in an ongoing process of preparing printed materials for electronic access.

Other content in the Congressional Record includes: a record of votes, committee reports and a digest of daily floor actions. The digest describes activities such as: the number of bills introduced, the floor actions taken that day, and a summary of committee meetings activities including their agendas and schedules. Content search options include: keyword, subject, full-text, Member of Congress, Bills, Laws, Resolutions and Roll Call Votes. Search results are displayed in full text format.

For these resources and other library databases, visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Electronic Resources” or “Search the Databases” to begin.

Requested by the USF History Department, the USF Libraries have acquired a database that focuses on current economic affairs within the global community.

RGE Monitor, named one of the world’s best economic resources by Business Week, The Economist, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, delivers global economic insights to the business and academic community. Founded in 2004 by a prestigious team of economic and political experts, RGE Monitor defines key economic and strategic debates and presents arguments on all sides. Content and analysis is delivered through a variety of channels. “Spotlight Issues” are identified and set in priority order, searchable by either importance or date. “Global Daily Digests” are available on the website, through email, or by a continuously updated RSS feeds. “Working Paper Series” highlights the most relevant publications from the economic experts from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

Note: Requires the creation of an account. Once established, your user name is your email address.

For these resources and other library databases, visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Electronic Resources” or “Search the Databases” to begin.

The USF Libraries currently subscribe to three of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) statistical databases: Balance of Payments Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, and International Financial Statistics. A fourth, Government Finance Statistics (GFS), is currently available to us as a trial until July 2nd.

GFS is a specialized statistics system, with balancing components designed to facilitate analysis of the government and public sectors. Here are some quick facts about this database:

Time series: 135,000+
Countries covered: 133
Historical data: 1990
Data frequency: Annual
Publication Updates: Quarterly
Export formats: Excel, .csv, Access, tabbed text, html

Please try it and let me know what you think. In order to access this database at the below link, you must either be on campus or logged onto the library’s web page. It may be helpful to try the tutorials available on this web page first.

http://www.imfstatistics.org/gfs/

USF Libraries currently has trial access to two resources from Mergent: Private Company Database and WebReports.

First, we have access to Mergent’s Private Company Database. Dun & Bradstreet provides key information on U.S. and Canadian companies with annual sales greater than $3 million and global companies with annual sales greater than $10 million. You can go into Mergent through our databases, as usual and you will notice that on the basic search screen, toward the bottom, you can select a box that says “include private companies.” Also with this trial, in the Advanced Search, you can make it so only “Private Company DB” is selected or leave all selected. You can also access this database by going to the following URL: http://www.MergentOnline.com. Just remember to log into the library’s web site if you are off campus.

Facts and Figures

Total number of records over 1 million
Contains companies with total sales ranging from 5.7 million to 68.5 billion Total employees for these companies range from 1 to 807,600 Companies operating in the U.S. and Canada over 525,000 records Companies outside the U.S. and Canada over 500,000 records

We also have trial access to Digital Corporate Manuals. Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy to navigate and reliable system. To access Mergent WebReports, please go to the following web site: http://webreports.mergent.com . Make sure you are logged in to the library’s web site if off campus. I would also like to mention that we do have these documents in our Reference Annex and in microfilm.

Both of these trials will last until July 10th. Please let me know your thoughts on these resources.

Announcing the recent acquisition of a suite of International Monetary Fund databases.

International Financial Statistics Online is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. This database contains time series data from 1948 and contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries. One can browse the database, select series of interest, and display and save the selected series in a spreadsheet format, such as Microsoft Excel.

The Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) present, for most member countries of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), current figures on the value of exports and imports with the most important trading partners, providing current figures for about 158 countries. Smaller countries appear in the area and world tables. The information on exports and imports by trading partners that countries report to the IMF varies in terms of frequency and currency. Reported data, including total imports and exports reported for publication in the IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS), are the basis of all estimates in DOTS. The entire DOTS database is continuously supplemented with estimates.

Balance of Payments Statistics summarizes, for a specific period, the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world. It reports total goods, services, factor income, and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the world. The database contains time series data from 1948 and approximately 100,000 time series covering more than 170 countries and areas.

For these databases and other library resources visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on Databases by “Search the databases” to begin.

Doing Business (http://www.doingbusiness.org/) is a publication by the World Bank. It provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 181 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. Reports can downloaded for free. The four key areas are Starting a Business, Dealing with Licenses, Registering Property, and Enforcing Contracts.

Announcing the recent acquisition of an online resource, Global Road Warrior, that supports international business, travel and more.

Global Road Warrior is a resource from World Trade Press, a publisher that focuses on international trade, business relations, and business travel. The intent of Global Road Warrior is to foster international commerce and understanding by serving as practical and comprehensive reference tool. Taking a country by country approach, researchers can drill down to an array of content that ranges from content that can be easily found elsewhere such as facts about the country, climate, and geography to content that is uniquely contained within this resource. This unique content includes business etiquette in a country; stereotypes of the country as accepted by foreigners and stereotypes as accepted by the country; information specific to women on the “global road”; information on street crime, organized crime, and social unrest; typical food within the country; religious practices; language; lifecycles; and much more. While an invaluable tool for international business and marketing, this resource could prove useful in sociology, anthropology, women’s studies and more.

To access this database and other library resources, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on “Search the databases” to begin.