December 2008

Muddled History? Clio Notes to the Rescue

by Susan Tschabrun on December 16, 2008

EBSCO’s America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts article databases have added Clio Notes to their interfaces. Clio Notes allows researchers to navigate detailed historical chronologies and subject themes, and launch searches into one of the two EBSCO history databases. It is a great way to quickly get oriented to an historical topic or era, such as [...]

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Title Change for Global Market Information Database (GMID)

by Heather Tunender on December 16, 2008

The Global Market Information Database (GMID) is now called Passport Reference.  Passport Reference contains the same information you’re used to locating in GMID:  in-depth industry profiles, market reports, and statistics for over 200 countries. Company profiles, product sector informaion, industry performance analysis, operating environments and economic outlook, consumer demographics, global and national perspectives. Includes 17,000 [...]

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Government Documents in the News

by The Pollak Library on December 15, 2008

The Greening of U.S. Corporations Economic incentives for U.S. corporations to develop green technologies are examined. Initiatives undertaken by major companies–General Electric, Wal-Mart, Apple, Dupont–illustrate efforts to reduce impact on the environment through environmentally friendly ways of doing business. This report is from the U.S. Department of State and the Bureau of International Information Programs.

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