The Balance of Payments database summarizes, for a specific period, the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world. It reports total goods, services, factor income, and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the world as well as capital transfers and changes in each economy's external financial claims and liabilities. This database contains time series data from 1948.

The Direction of Trade Statistics provides critical data on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners. It reports total bilateral and multilateral exports and imports aggregated at national or regional group level. This database contains time series data from 1980.

The Kresge Library will reopen on Sunday May 18th at noon. The Ross Complex will reopen 11am.

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Use this database to find information on materials used in cardiovascular or orthopedic medical devices and the device manufacturers.

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:

• Online Ad Spend Share by Industry


• Top 10 Auto Manufacturer Websites


• Top 10 Print Media Websites

The site also includes articles about newly released marketing research in the major media categories of television, print, radio, direct, interactive, and outdoor.

Access Health Devices International Sourcebase, along with other Kresge Library Databases on our A-Z Database page.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

For more information on how to contact the library via IM, visit the Ask Us Live! page.

Don't have an RSS reader? Outlook 2007 has a built-in RSS Reader (instructions for setting up the Outlook RSS Reader) which will deliver news right to your inbox, or you can chose from a variety of web based readers, such as Bloglines or Internet Explorer 7.

Have questions? Send us an email at kresge_library@umich.edu.

The Ask Us Live! IM reference service is available:

Sunday-Thursday: 11am-1am
Friday-Saturday: 11am-7pm

For more information and a full list of IM clients you can use, visit the Ask Us Live! page.

On-Call Librarian Schedule:
Mon. 12/17 - Fri. 12/21: 9am-12pm and 1pm-5pm
Mon. 12/24: 9am-2pm.
Tue. 12/25 - Tue. 1/2: Library Closed
Wed. 1/2: 9am-12pm and 1pm-5pm
Thu. 1/3: Normal services and hour resume

Question can be sent via email to kresge_library@umich.edu. Enjoy the break!