Here’s another useful feature in TCU’s database, MorningStar (I’m quoting from their email):
“If you go to the Help and Education page of Morningstar Investment Research Center, you will find our Investing Classroom. There are courses on stocks, mutual funds, and portfolio analysis. The nice thing about Investing Classroom is that it can help anyone–from the [...]
If one of the EBSCOhost databases has a journal in it that you read on a regular basis, and you want to be informed when a new publication is available (and see the Table of Contents), below are instructions on how to either set-up an email alert or an RSS feed. See my earlier post on [...]
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Only of use to TCU folks- to access the Wall Street Journal (full text): I am giving you instructions on how to only search through the Wall Street Journal publication.
Go to the TCU database, Factiva (note: this database only allows 5 users at a time, so if a nonTCU password screen pops up, that means that [...]
Our census bureau has kindly created a page of links (listed alphabetically by country) into the statistical agencies of other countries. A great resource if you are researching another country! Nuf said.
Sorry guys & gals for the somewhat misleading title. I am not connecting entrepreneurship and expenditure patterns. However, I am providing a link to a report called the Monthly Labor Review which contains several reports (including one on entrepreneurship and one on expenditure patterns).
The pdf is lengthy, but it contains several reports (I am paraphrasing [...]
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Morningstar Rocks! They keep sending free investment reports and giving permission for those reports to get posted onto blogs. SO- here a Morningstar report on how to invest in “green” and “socially responsible” companies. Reports within the pdf include: 1) Socially Responsible Investing, 2) Going Beyond the Hype of Green Investing, 3) Carbon Regulation, 4) [...]
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To find out whether TCU has the full text to a particular article, you have to start with the name of the journal, magazine, or newspaper. Take the following steps (double click on images to see larger view):
1. In the TCU catalog, type the name of the journal/mag./newspaper into the search box and select “Journal/Serial name begins [...]
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I had a question in a class about this and didn’t really have an answer. Now I have an answer.
Here’s the short version for those in a hurry (click on the hyperlinked text to get the complete answer directly from the census bureau with a cherry on top!):
Census tracts are subdivisions of a [...]
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Another librarian shared this with me, and it is just too funny not to post. It takes me back to my product development days in the corporate world…
http://www.mikekujawski.ca/2008/12/17/what-would-happen-if-the-stop-sign-was-invented-in-2008/
