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SULAIR NEWS – November 21, 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Need Articles for SULAIR News
- ***Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Need Articles for SULAIR News
Just a reminder that SULAIR News is a useful communication tool only if SULAIR staff contribute articles. If you have work-related items that would be of interest to all staff, please submit them via the online submission system at:
http://sulairnews.stanford.edu/issues/submit/submissions.jsp
Example topics include new projects or project updates, new SULAIR staff, significant acquisitions, and all-staff announcements.
More information about submitting a SULAIR News article is on the Web at:
http://library.stanford.edu/about_sulair/for_sul_staff/subm.html
--submitted by Eleanor Brown
2. ***Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: I am looking for historical data on
levels of foreign direct investment, particularly investments made by
the various colonial powers in their colonies. I am told the post 1947
data exists on some Department of Commerce web site, but don't know the
URL, and have no idea about any of the earlier stuff. Do you have any
ideas about how to proceed?
Answer: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is
collected in many places and by many government agencies, primarily the
US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the World Bank and the UN
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). For the historical data,
you'll want to use Direction of trade statistics historical (1948-1980) available on CDROM in Data Services, Velma Denning Room, first floor of Green Library.
Here are some other routes to explore:
- The World Bank's "World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators" has net FDI data for over 180 countries from 1950-1992. A Socrates search will lead you to it here in the library. It's also available via the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a data repository to which Stanford belongs.
- UNCTAD's World Investment Reports and its FDI database also has data and statistics that include FDI. Country Factsheets for 188 economies are also available for current data.
For the complete answer, visit the Information Center Web site at:
https://www.stanford.edu/group/ic/cgi-bin/drupal/node/297
To contribute to the Reference Question of the Week feature of SULAIR News, submit your question and answer through the SULAIR News online submission form at: http://sulairnews.stanford.edu/issues/submit/submit.jsp.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
3. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new position this week:
Storage Facility Worker
(# 28166)
For a complete description of open positions within SULAIR, go to the Stanford Jobs page and type University Libraries in the Job Search box at the bottom of the page.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
SULAIR News is an electronic publication of Stanford University
Libraries and Academic Information Resources issued weekly. Copy deadline is
12:00 NOON Friday for publication on the following Wednesday. Submit items for
publication via the online submission system.
Editor: Eleanor Brown, Eleanor.Brown@stanford.edu
