Question of the Week

Here is this weeks spotlighted reference question:

“How do I find an SIC code for a company?  And what is an SIC code anyway?”

 We are glad you asked.  SIC stands for Standard Industrial Classification.  This classification system was developed by the U.S. government to apply to industries in order to aid in the collection and organization of statistical information.  You can look up an industry code here:   U.S. Department of Labor

While the SIC codes are still widely used by many sources of business data, the U.S. government switched to a new set of codes called the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).  You can look up a NAICS code here:  U.S. Census Bureau

Toyota catches GM in global sales

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Motors Corp. is no longer the clear leader in global auto sales. It now officially shares a title it held by itself for 76 years with Japanese rival Toyota Motor Corp.

A 2007 report released Wednesday shows that sales for GM (GM, Fortune 500) came in at 9,369,524 vehicles compared to 9.37 million earlier reported by Toyota (TM).

http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/23/news/companies/gm_global_sales/index.htm

Request Delivery!

Need an article not in the Business/SPEA IC? Don’t have time to go to another library on campus to get it? Then, request delivery!

Request Article Delivery is a service that supplies electronic copies of journal articles from printed and microform materials, held on the Bloomington campus, to a web page for IUB faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students.  This service is free of charge.  Each patron is limited to a maximum of 25 requests per month through this service.  Electronic copies of journal articles are available from a web page using your PIN which will be emailed to you.

There are also delivery services for books as well as services to quickly obtain materials not owned by the IU Libraries. Check them out!

New Resource

Don’t know where to look to find the information you need?  Try our new resource, an information wiki called “BusSPEA Ref Wiki.”  You can search or browse through more than 100 topics of interest to researchers, answering questions like “Where can I find analyst reports?” and “Is there a directory of non-profit organizations?”  Let us know what you think!

Quick Link to Company/Corporate Histories

Here’s a fast and easy way to access company histories from Answers.com

http://www.answers.com/library/Company%20Histories

 Information is provided from the International Directory of Company Histories, by the Gale Group, Inc. 

Create Reading Lists in Oncourse

You can now create citation lists in Oncourse CL, allowing your students to link directly to suggested reading lists without having to leave the Oncourse environment.

 

Using this new feature, you can search and retrieve citations using OneSearch@IU from individual databases, such as ProQuest and JSTOR, as well as from groups of subject-specific databases, to create citation lists. You can also easily add citations from Google Scholar search results. Citations contain links to retrieve the full-text or physical location of the articles you identify.

 

We’ve also matched resources for every subject taught on campus. Use the Library Resources link within Oncourse to link to subject-specific resources for your class.

 

This new Citation Lists feature in Oncourse, which is also being made available to other universities, was created by IU in partnership with the University of Michigan and with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

For more information, see the Knowledge Base:  http://kb.iu.edu/data/avcd.html

 

New Toolbar

Wherever you go, we can be there! A new toolbar is available to download for Internet Explorer and Firefox users. The toolbar provides quick access to the IU Libraries’ catalog, IUCAT, to major subject databases to support teaching and research in KSB and SPEA, and to full text journals, facts, research guides, online help, and OneStart. After installing the toolbar, all of this will be right at your fingertips whenever you are using your browser. No more typing URLs or searching through bookmark directories. To download the toolbar, just click on the link above. Give it a try!

CorporateAffiliations.com

Looking for authoritative business intelligence on corporate families? The solution is CorporateAffiliations.com. Our database provides current, accurate corporate linkage information and company profiles on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent global public and private parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions—down to the seventh level of corporate linkage.

Not only does Corporate Affiliations publish corporate family trees, the database also contains over 700,000 corporate contacts, 110,000 board members, 150,000 brand names and 140,000 competitors.

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3110520

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