Great news for current students, graduating students, alumni, and faculty! The World Bank has recently made their data products freely available without subscription through their new open data site (http://data.worldbank.org), with more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic, and human development statistics. Most of these products were previously only available through subscription. What kinds of […]
Category: Electronic Resources
News On-the-Go
Own a mobile device? Check out the following mobile editions of your favorite broadcast news sources to watch your news on-the-go: ABC – http://abc.go.com/mobile CBS – http://www.cbsinteractive.com CNN – http://www.cnn.com/mobile Fox – http://www.fox.com/369 MSNBC – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16192026/ NPR – http://www.npr.org/services/mobile/ Reuters – http://www.reuters.com/tools/mobile […]
American FactFinder
Need a place to start when looking for Census data? American FactFinder (http://factfinder.census.gov) is an online data source for population, housing, economy and geography from the following data programs: Decennial Census American Community Survey Current Population Estimates Economic Census Annual Economic Surveys American FactFinder is your source for population, housing, economic and geographic data for […]
Columbia on iTunes U and YouTube EDU
Columbia University has audio and video content available on iTunes U and YouTube EDU! Course lectures, workshops, events, Library Essentials videos, and much more – click above or bookmark the following links: http://itunes.columbia.edu http://youtube.com/columbia Grab your earbuds and join us! […]
Bloomberg Basics
This session will teach the basic navigation and searching skills necessary to begin using Bloomberg. Instruction sessions are offered both in the Business & Economics Library and in Lehman Library, and be sure to check out the Bloomberg Help Guide for navigation commands and tips.: Bloomberg at the Business & Economics Library: January 29, 11am […]
New Database: African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce a new e-resource, African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998, is now available in our database collection. You can access African-American Newspapers at the following link: https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio7464682 This collection continues to update on a monthly basis until its completion in late 2010. […]
AP Daybook Mnemonic Change in Factiva!
Are you one of the many that rely on Factiva to get the Associated Press New York City daily schedule? Then please note this important change! The mnemonic search string used in the search box in Factiva has changed from: ny day schedule to: nyc daybook As always, do not insert punctuation, quotation marks, search […]
Stay Connected – eNYPL
Stay connected with your local library’s e-holdings! NYPL has a number of audio and ebooks available for download with a library card. Go to eNYPL – http://ebooks.nypl.org/ – 24/7. Don’t have a library card? Click here for details on how to get one or head to our neighborhood branch – Morningside Heights – to sign […]