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RUL Economics Newsletter, Fall 2009

Posted by rutgersdata on September 14, 2009

The Fall newsletter is here.

Read all about new library resources (Science Direct Backfiles, Westlaw) and services (Data Snapshots, copyright).

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Data Services PCs in Alexander Library Unavailable until August

Posted by rutgersdata on June 24, 2009

Due to the recarpeting of Alexander Library, the Data Services PCs in the Alexander Library Reference Room will be unavailable from Monday, June 29, until the completion of the recarpeting in early August.  The entire Reference Room will be closed for most of this time.

Although general public workstations will be available throughout the recarpeting project, there will be no access to the statistical software on the Data Services PCs (SAS, SPSS/PASW, R, ArcGIS, CensusCD, etc.) during this time.

A full schedule of recarpeting activities is available.

Of course, this has no impact on any of our web databases.  If you need to request data CDs, please contact me directly.

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RUL Economics Newsletter, Spring 2009

Posted by rutgersdata on April 6, 2009

I am correcting my oversight in failing to post this information to the blog earlier.  The newsletter was actually released in January.  But for the record …

The Spring 2009 RUL Economics Newsletter is available here:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rwomack/newsletter/newsletter.html

Some highlights:

—New Databases – OneSource and Marquis’ Who’s Who on the Web

—Data Snapshots video introductions to resources.  See this link:
http://rutgersdata.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/data-snapshots-inaugurated-world-development-indicators/

—Expanded online office hours (Tuesdays 1-3 pm, Wednesday 3-5 pm) at http://rutgersdata.wordpress.com

For complete links and more information, please consult the RUL Economics
Newsletter at:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rwomack/newsletter/newsletter.html

Please feel free to contact me with any comments or suggestions.

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Data Snapshots inaugurated- World Development Indicators

Posted by rutgersdata on November 6, 2008

While it will be a couple of months before Obama is inaugurated, it’s not too soon for change.  I’m starting a series of introductory videos on some of data resources at Rutgers.  Some of these will be on important subscription databases, others on tricky or hard-to-find data.  I’ll be calling these Data Snapshots. You can find other Data Snapshots here.

Click the link to see a high resolution

Quick video tour of World Development Indicators

Or click below to see the YouTube version.

World Development Indicators is the World Bank’s official database of major development indicators.  To go directly to the database, click here.

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RUL Economics Newsletter, Fall 2008

Posted by rutgersdata on September 2, 2008

The Fall newsletter is here.

Read all about new library resources (Elsevier handbooks, International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences) and services (Datastream, LibX).

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