A new database, Materials for Medical Devices, is now available to the entire UM community. This database brings to your desktop a comprehensive and authoritative set of mechanical, physical, biological response, and drug compatibility properties for the materials and coatings used in medical devices.
Use this database to find information on materials used in cardiovascular or orthopedic medical devices and the device manufacturers.
| Comments (0)MarketingCharts.com,is a great free web site that provides all kinds of charts related to marketing, advertising and publishing. Data is gathered from a variety of sources, such as Neilsen, Forrester, eMarketer and Hitwise, and turned into easy to read charts focused primarily on the online advertising world.
A core set of 'Top 10' charts, most of which are updated monthly, cover online retailing, advertising spending by medium and industry. The data for these charts is available for download into Excel. Some of these core charts include:
The site also includes articles about newly released marketing research in the major media categories of television, print, radio, direct, interactive, and outdoor.
| Comments (0)Health Devices International Sourcebase provides information about medical products, contact suppliers, and mergers and acquisitions in the medical device industry. Use this directory to find out which companies produce specific types of products, locate suppliers, research a purchasing decision, learn what other products are available, and learn more about device manufacturers.
Access Health Devices International Sourcebase, along with other Kresge Library Databases on our A-Z Database page.
| Comments (0)OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has launched a new search interface to OECD Statistics called OECD.Stat. Click on the 'Statistics' tab to access OECD.Stat link to the new interface.
OECD.Stat enables users to search for and extract data from across all 50 OECD databases and replaces the OECD Statistical Compendium on SourceOECD. New functions allow users create their own customizable tables from the data.
OECD collects statistics from the 30 member countries and occasionally for non-member countries, on a variety of topics including Globalisation, Health, Labour, Social Welfare, Monthly Economic Indicators, National Accounts, and Prices and Purchasing Power.
| Comments (0)Course materials for Winter B classes are now available for purchase. Check the Announcements area of your Ctools course site for information on how to order.
| Comments (0)What arguments did Congress hear before authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq? What caused Apollo 13 to abort its trip to the moon? How did the Soviet Union hassle Latvia in the 1980s?
The University Library recently purchased access to the full text of Congressional committee hearings in pdf format, 1965-2003, with 1824-1964 available by December 2008.
Committee hearings provide expert testimony on social science, science, and health topics - anything that Congress funds or regulates or that piques its curiosity.
You can access the hearings on or off campus through LEXIS Congressional. Use the "Congressional Publications" section and do an "Advanced Search" by keyword, subject, title, witness, and/or witness affiliation combined with a date range. You will retrieve published hearings and a separate section for those in the full text digital collection.
| Comments (0)There are a number of resources that you can use to view advertisements. One of the resources that is definitely worth checking out is YouTube (it is not just for stupid stunts anymore)!
From the New York Times
For Marketing, the Most Valuable Player Might Be YouTube
By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: February 5, 2008
The Internet, digital video recorders, mobile devices and other technologies are giving a strong postgame presence to the annual roster of Super Bowl commercials.
Follow this link for the full article.
With more and more advertising available via YouTube and other resources, it is easier than ever to find and use advertising in your research.
The trick is getting the file so you can use it on your desktop when you are not connected to the Internet. Getting a file from YouTube has been tricky. But there is a great web application that you can use to grab YouTube videos and convert them to MP4 files.
Called YouTube to iPod and PSP Converter, this small program will download and convert YouTube videos into an MP4 file format among others. Good for your iPod, your PowerPoint Presentation or for working offline. This is from DVDVIDEOSOFT.COM and is free.
For students and faculty at the Ross School of Business, there is also Adforum. This database provides access to over 35,000 advertisements in all media. The focus is international. The database has audio and video capability. The source also provides access to news and other information relating to the advertising industry, including agency information. Be sure to log off as directed on the password sign on screen.
Some of the major brokers, such as J.P. Morgan, have pulled their content from the Investext Plus database. During this transition time, you may see an error, "The Document requested could not be retrieved at this time.", instead of the PDF when you click on the full text link. Investext will be clearing their database over the next few weeks to remove the links to these reports which are no longer available.
| Comments (0)The Library has added two new databases to our suite of resources, Life Sciences Analytics and ValueLine. These databases can be accessed on the Library's A-Z Database page.
Life Sciences Analytics is a collection of competitor, deal, financial, and drug pipeline reports for over 2,500 pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and biomedical companies worldwide. It also includes reports of drug pipelines organized by therapy.
ValueLine, the well known stock research company, collects data and analyzes performance of approximately 8,000 stocks, 13,000 mutual funds, 80,000 options and other securities. The subscription to the Research Center includes access to the suite of investment surveys, including Stocks, Mutual Funds, Convertables, Daily Options and Special Situations.
If you have questions about these databases or any other Kresge Library resource, send us an email at kresge_library@umich.edu .
| Comments (0)The Friday hours for the library's Ask Us Live! IM reference service have been extended. Starting this Friday, February 1, 2008 the IM service will be available until 9pm.
For more information on how to contact the library via IM, visit the Ask Us Live! page.
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