UW Libraries - Foster Business Library

January 2007 News

Thursday, January 11, 2007: Holiday weekend hours

The Foster Business Library will be open 1pm-5pm on Monday, January 15, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Library hours for the long weekend are:

Holiday hours for all University Libraries units are available at: http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/hours/

Many of our services including online renewals, e-journals, and databases are available from home via the Foster Library webpage, at http://www.lib.washington.edu/business/

See also the library's Business & Economics FAQ for the answers to over 730 frequently-asked questions.

Monday, January 8, 2007: WSJ Historical Database

The Foster Business Library has added another database: the Wall Street Journal Historical, covering the years 1889 through 1989. This ProQuest database stores each page in PDF format, fully searchable by keyword. Content includes news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, financial quotes, and advertisements. A link to the database may be found in the List of All Business Databases.

Friday, January 5, 2007: International Financial Statistics Online

The Foster Business Library has added another major database to its offerings: International Financial Statistics Online, produced by the International Monetary Fund. For many years, students and faculty have come to the library to obtain data from the International Financial Statistics Yearbooks and the monthly issues of International Financial Statistics. That information is now available online and in a form that allows downloading of data.

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