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Economics and Business Subject Guide Newsletter
GEE no. 16 
May 2008

"New classroom at the UPF" by tgr The Main Library would like to inform you on new acquisitions from Economics and Business Subject Guide. To unsubscribe this newsletter please email: teresa.grau@upf.edu

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  Metacercador: a new way to search UPF electronic resources

Metacercador: una cerca, molts recursos


The Library offers at students, faculty and staff a new tool to easily search information in databases and electronic journals. It permits:

  • Looking simultaneously at different resources (databases, web pages, electronic magazines, etc.) through an unique screen of search.
  • Locating the documents with the full text if it is available.
  • Personalizing your searches and creating alerts.

More information about this tool it's at the web page BibTIC of the Library and IT Services, in the section Our services > Metacercador

If you are interested in attending a training session about this new service, or if you have any doubt or comment, please ask us!  

New resources

Anuari ACICSADatabase that contains information about more than 20.000 companies of Catalonia. It allows you to know different information on the companies like its activity, its area of business and the commercial relationships with the foreign markets. You can search for trade name, brands, anagram, CIF and subjects. You can also elaborate listings that facilitate information about the invoicing, the export and the number of employees; these listings go accompanied of a card and a graph of each company that you can consult online or print. Adress to the desk for consult it.

You can find it at: Economics and BusinessDatabases of economics and business > Business and also in the catalog

New palgrave dictionary of economics online2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists, like Xavier Freixas, Teresa Garcia-Milà or Joachim Voth from the UPF Department of Economics and Business. 

 You can find it at: Translation and PhilologySpecialized dictionaires by subject > Economics and Finance and in the catalog

Updated page

How evaluating the scientific production: tools and indicators The page "How to find the impact factor" has been remade. First, you will find some indicators for measuring the scientific production, with examples; and in the last section, several tools or methods to calculate the impact of the journals has been added.

You will find it at Economics and Business and also at Electronic journals & ToC

New Students' guide

Guide: The EHEA, the UPF & YouThe new guide: The EHEA, the UPF & You, offers you a series of techniques, tools and a piece of advices that will help you to overcome the subjects with success; tools to make a project, to prepare an oral exposure, for memorizing, for teamworking... Click here!

More information on: Guides and HelpLearning: the EHEA, the UPF and you 

New working papers at RECERCAT

Recercat New working papers have been added to Recercat (a cooperative repository of digital documents and its includes the research literature from universities and researching centers of Catalonia, like preprints, comunications in congress, research reports, working papers, university final projects, technical reports, etc.).  On the right to the screen, look at  Recent submissions:

The UPF Department of Economics and Business  [912]

The main objective of RECERCAT is to increase the visibility of research carried out in Catalonia and to contribute to the world movement for a free archive of academic output and research on the Internet.

Thesis

tdX (Online Doctoral Thesis Server)The Theses and Dissertations Online Repository provides electronic access to fulltext of the Ph. D. theses submitted to the universities of Catalonia and other autonomous ones.

To obtain more information about TDX and how to publish your doctoral thesis, you can consult the page Theses and Dissertations at the BibTIC web site.

New thesis at TDX from the UPF Department of Economics and Business

If you have presented your doctoral thesis at the UPF and you are interested in publishing it at TDX, please contact: Montserrat Fernández

New acquisitions

Arrow Social sciences (last month)
Arrow Science, computer science, mathematics (last month)
Arrow Medicine, health economics (last month)

If you have any doubts or suggestions, please contact:
Teresa Grau: tel. 93 542 16 88, teresa.grau@upf.edu
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