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 […]
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 […]
LibX for Columbia University Libraries
Have you used the Columbia University Edition of LibX? It’s a Firefox extension, providing direct access to Columbia’s resources and allowing you to conveniently search the Columbia University Libraries online catalog, CLIO, and follow embedded visual cues in Google Scholar, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and The New York Times Book Review. Just look for the […]
Economic Census at your fingertips
Looking for information from the Economic Census? Taken by the U.S. Census Bureau every five years, the Economic Census provides a detailed statistical profile of a large segment of the national economy, including quarterly financial reports for different industries, data on home ownership and sales, and much more. You can find information directly at the […]
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 […]
2010 Census – be counted!
The Census counts every resident in the United States, and is required by the Constitution to take place every 10 years. The 2010 Census will help communities receive more than $400 billion in federal funds for things like hospitals, schools, bridges, tunnels, senior centers, and much more! The data collected by the census also help […]
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 […]