Joost Depuydt will explain the use of databases of the library on Thursday February 15 (13:30). Staff and doctoral students of the Human Sciences are invited. The sessions are being held in auditorium G. Eyskens, lokaal 00.10, Dekenstraat 2.
More info here.
Archive for January, 2007
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January 31, 2007iPod Index
January 31, 2007An Australian bank has developed a new indicator for foreign exchange movements based on Apple’s iPod music player, and as an alternative to the long-standing Big Mac Index.
In 1986, The Economist magazine launched an index based on the McDonalds hamburger as a way of assessing whether a particular currency was under- or overvalued against other currencies. The Economist’s Big Mac Index is as a way of looking at purchasing powers, and has a good track record in predicting the direction of currencies.
A writer on the website Eco.nomie.nl criticizes the iPod Index. iPods are manufactured in China. They don’t reflect the local production costs as the Big Mac Index does, says the author of the article.
(Source: ZDNET.be, Sidney Morning Herald)
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January 26, 2007Econbiz in your browser
January 24, 2007Econbiz developed a plugin for the latest generation of Mozilla browsers (Firefox, Netscape 7). More info here @ Econbiz.
Scopus adds seven million records
January 23, 2007The scientific database Scopus will be updated with with seven million abstracts. Scopus has an agreement with Springer, Nature Publishing Group, American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics. Scopus wants to upgrade the quality of the database
Scopus: www.scopus.com
Source: Informatie Professional
Free copies of the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal Europe
January 23, 2007In our library you find some copies of the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal Europe. Please take a free copy.
New blog in FETEW
January 22, 2007The research department Marketing & Organisation also has a blog:
www.consumerscience.org
