BUEC Buzz: Archive (1999-2005) Simon Fraser University Library SFU.CA Burnaby | Surrey | Vancouver SFU Online | A-Z Links | SFU Search Home My Library Help Find Library Search Home › Help › Subject Guides › Business Administration › BUEC Buzz › BUEC BUZZ Issue -= BUEC BUZZ: Information Resources in Business and Economics (#993-1) =- **Announcing the first issue of BUEC BUZZ: Information Resources in Business and Economics.** Details about this newsletter follow, but the summary version is that I have created it as a means of informing the faculty and graduate students in Business and Economics of the many relevant information resources that I use as I help people with their research every day. I will generally send new issues out on a weekly basis, although this schedule may stretch to bi-weekly depending on how much I have to say and how busy I am. No action is required of you. Just delete or archive these messages as you see fit. On the other hand, suggestions about resources to mention for the benefit of your colleagues are always welcome. And now the details: 1. WHY is this newsletter necessary? 2. WHAT will be in this newsletter? 3. WHEN will each issue come out? 4. WHERE can I find old issues of the newsletter? 5. WHO will receive it? 6. SUGGESTIONS? ********************************************************************** **1. WHY is this newsletter necessary? As the Business/Economics Liaison Librarian, my job is to be the "library's face" for the Business Faculty and the Economics Department. That is, I am a personal contact for people in those areas who have a question about a library resource, policy, or procedure. In addition, I try to pass on information about the library that is specifically relevant to Business and Economics. Thus far, communication from faculty and grads to me has been going very well. I rarely go a day without fielding questions. Communication in the other direction, from the library to you, has also been, I think, quite effective. The departmental representatives, Gary Mauser [update: later changed to Jennifer Chang] and Richard Schwindt, have received and forwarded some of my notes, and I've sent others directly to all faculty and/or grads. On the other hand, one can only read so much email, so I've generally refrained from sending out broadcast notices about interesting resources that I've come across. BUEC BUZZ is intended as a means of getting information about these resources out to you without filling your inboxes with daily (or hourly) notes from me. As you'll read below, it will come out weekly at most, and it will focus on non-urgent, yet interesting and perhaps valuable, information. **2. WHAT will be in this newsletter? Addresses of interesting Internet resources with abstracts of each site's content. Titles of some new books, reports, or journals in the library (or of old and often overlooked ones). Summaries of any Library News reports that I might have sent out recently. I will continue to send out emails with the subject header of "LIBRARY NEWS" whenever something time-sensitive comes up. This newsletter will summarize, but not replace, such alerts. Each issue of BUEC BUZZ will have the same format as this one: a brief introduction, followed by a table of contents with expanded details below. All issues will be in plain text to ensure that they can be read by all email programs. **3. WHEN will each issue come out? I'm aiming to put out one issue per week, with new issues coming out toward the end of each week. When things get busy, or when I have little of note to say, I will skip a week. I will never put out more than one issue per week -- we all get enough email as it is. If something really urgent comes up, I will send a "LIBRARY NEWS" note about it rather than making a special issue of this newsletter. **4. WHERE can I find old issues of the newsletter? For the time being, you will have to contact me if you deleted an issue that you think you might like to see again. Eventually, I intend to set up some sort of an electronic archive for old issues. Ideally, such an archive would be keyword searchable and in a prominent place in the Business and Economics Research Guides on the library's home page. **** UPDATE: there is now a searchable archive at http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/subjectguides/bus/bb/bbarchive.html. **** [Summer 2000] See http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/subject/business/buec-buzz-blog for current blog posts and the 2005-2012 archive. BUEC Buzz: Archive (1999-2005) Simon Fraser University Library **5. WHO will receive it? All Business and Economics faculty and grad students will get this newsletter. If it becomes necessary, I may try to set it up as a regular mailing list to which you can subscribe (or unsubscribe!). For now, however, I'd like to keep the distribution system as simple as I can. If you really don't want to see these notes, please just delete them. If you think someone else might want to see them, just forward them on. 6. SUGGESTIONS? Suggestions or comments about the format or content of these newsletters are certainly welcome. Phone or email me anytime. ** That's it for this issue. Watch for the first real issue of BUEC BUZZ next week. -= BUEC BUZZ: Information Resources in Business and Economics (#993-1) =- ====================================================================== Mark Bodnar Business/Economics Liaison Librarian W.A.C. Bennett Library Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, British Columbia Canada V5A 1S6 Email: [email protected] / Phone: 778.782.3044 / Fax: 778.782.3023 Top of page Library Home Page Owned by: Mark Bodnar del.icio.us Last Modified: 2009-09-09 Digg Email this page Facebook Twitter 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 | Terms and Conditions | Contact Us | SiteMap | Library Mobile Site | Staff Login | Road Conditions | © Simon Fraser University See http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/subject/business/buec-buzz-blog for current blog posts and the 2005-2012 archive. BUEC Buzz: Archive (1999-2005) Simon Fraser University Library SFU.CA Burnaby | Surrey | Vancouver SFU Online | A-Z Links | SFU Search Home My Library Help Find Library Search Home › Help › Subject Guides › Business Administration › BUEC Buzz › BUEC BUZZ Issue -= BUEC BUZZ (#001-9): Information Resources in Business and Economics =- 1. Biz/ed * Business and economics learning resources for students and teachers. 2. Breakeven Calculator * Clear analysis, glossary, and online calculator of breakeven points. 3. Journal of Cultural Economics * Now available online via the library catalogue. 4. Trillion Dollar Bet -- NOVA * About the discovery of the Black-Scholes Formula. 5. Asia Recovery Information Center (ARIC) * Data and news about the recovering economies of Asia. ********************************************************************* 1. Biz/ed http://www.bized.ac.uk/ "Biz/ed is a unique business and economics service for students, teachers and lecturers." It features the following sections: a. Internet Catalogue: "Over 1500 Internet resources selected and described by subject experts."). b. Learning Materials: Worksheets, glossaries, tutor guidelines, and more to help both students and teachers of business and economics from secondary to graduate levels. c. Data: "Biz/ed hosts both original and mirrored data sets for economics, business and finance for the UK and overseas. In this section of Biz/ed you will find data provided by the Office of National Statistics, Extel, Penn World and the US Census Bureau." d. Company Facts: "Leading organisations (largely British) have provided answers to typical student questions, basic data and case studies especially prepared for Biz/ed." e. Virtual Worlds: "This section currently contains the Virtual Factory, a model of Cameron Balloons, which aims to provide an opportunity for applying business studies theory to a real world business situation. The Virtual Factory looks at all the major business functions, including production, accounts and marketing. Biz/ed will [also] host the Virtual Economy from February 1999, a set of educational materials to support the new macroeconomic model of the economy." 2. Breakeven Calculator http://www.cba.uiuc.edu/~jrosa/BreakEven/BreakEven.html Professor Jose Antonio Rosa of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduces his Breakeven Calculator. Breakeven analysis, Professor Rosa explains, is "a means to calculate the volume of sales at which variable and fixed costs are recovered -- the point at which a product starts producing profits." Users enter variable unit cost, fixed cost, expected unit sales, and price per unit into the appropriate fields, and the calculator figures out general calculations and generates a full report. A helpful glossary is provided as is easy-to-understand analysis. [EM] From The Scout Report for Business & Economics, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ See http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/subject/business/buec-buzz-blog for current blog posts and the 2005-2012 archive. BUEC Buzz: Archive (1999-2005) Simon Fraser University Library 3. Journal of Cultural Economics Via the library catalogue at: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/search/s?SEARCH=Journal+of+Cultural+Economics The Journal of Cultural Economics is now available online. Only subscribers to the print version of the journal may read it online, so you need to link to it through the library's catalogue. For those of you whose research doesn't usually touch on such matters, "Cultural economics is the application of economic analysis to all of the creative and performing arts, the heritage and cultural industries, whether publicly or privately owned. It is concerned with the economic organization of the cultural sector and with the behavior of producers, consumers and governments in that sector.