Ford Library Blog

Ford Library’s calendar of hours for November – December 2009 is now available.

The Library will be open for abbreviated hours during the Thanksgiving and Winter Holiday Breaks.

Note especially that the Library will be closed from December 24, 2009 through January 3, 2010 — reopening on January 4, 2010.

View the Calendars and Library Hours.

The lecture, “Building a Sustainable Energy Future: Market Approaches to Choices and Trade-offs” will be held today; Thursday, November 5th from 4–6 p.m. in Geneen Auditorium.

This is the first of a four-part series and represents a joint collaboration between the Fuqua School of Business and McKinsey Quarterly.  The series will consist of forums on the following areas:  energy, the financial system, globalization and business education.

Check out some of these new titles from the Ford Library on sustainability (click on a link to place a hold or check availability). Or come browse our Sustainability display at the front of the library:

• Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability by Katie Kross
• Investing in a Sustainable World: Why GREEN is the New Color of Money on Wall Street by Mathew J. Kiernan
• Sustainability Strategies: When Does it Pay to be Green? by Renato J. Orsato
• Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts by Marc J. Epstein
• Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term Performance edited by Cary Krosinsky and Nick Robins
• Sustainable Development Handbook by Stephen A. Roosa
• Global Warming is Good for Business: How Savvy Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations, and Others are Making Money While Saving the Planet by K. B. Keilbach
• The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands by Richard Seireeni

The library’s database room will be closed Wednesday morning, November 4, from 8 am to 9 am and from 10 am to 11 am for training classes.  Please use the main computer lab to print your documents during these times.

Two component publications in the SRDS Media Solutions database platform will be unavailable this weekend during scheduled upgrade maintenance.

From 5:00 PM EST, Friday October 16th, until 1:00 AM EST, Monday, October 19th, the Business Publication Advertising Source, and the Consumer Magazine Advertising Source will be offline and unavailable.

SRDS is upgrading and re-naming these component publications during this downtime.  Please email us if you experience any difficulty accessing other publications within the SRDS Media Solutions database.

The library staff has a training session in the database room Friday October 9 from 9 am to 10 am.

The WRDS web site will be unavailable during scheduled maintenance from 12:00 noon – 8:00pm EST on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.

However, access should continue for for faculty and PhD users accessing WRDS through UNIX and PC SAS Connect. Interactive queries during this period should also continue to run unaffected.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this peak use time outage. The services of a non-WRDS IT contractor, who was available only during business hours, were required to complete the upgrade.

View a list of the affected databases.

If you experience difficulty connecting to the WRDS web site after 8pm tomorrow, please send an email to reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.

Duke University Libraries is running a pilot of a new feature in Article Search. When you use Article Search from our home page, clicking the GetIt@Duke button in the results list should take you directly to the full text.

This pilot program is intended to test a new feature of our article linking software that will reduce the number of clicks you have to make to actually view the text of a desired article. Once Article Search has created a results list, clicking the GetIt@Duke button at the bottom of an article citation should take you to the actual article.

A sample search result is HERE.

Since this is a pilot project, this feature may not work perfectly. Please help us improve the new feature, and determine if it’s worth long-term deployment by contacting us when it doesn’t work the way you expect it to.

Thanks for sharing your feedback with us!

Access to all online journals provided by Wiley Interscience will be temporarily unavailable during the following dates and times while systems maintenance is performed:

Saturday, 18th July from 5am to 7am EST.
Monday 20th July from 4am to 5am EST.

Some of the electronic journals that will be unavailable from Wiley Interscience during the above times are:

• Current Directions in Psychological Science
• Human Resource Management
• Journal of Applied Econometrics
• Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
• Journal of Futures Markets
• Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
• Psychological Science in the Public Interest
• Psychology & Marketing
• Strategic Management Journal
• System Dynamics Review
• Systems Research and Behavioral Science
• and all other Wiley Interscience e-journals …

Please note that electronic full text from these titles and other Wiley Interscience titles, may be available from other sources.

The Ford Library welcomes you to Fuqua! We can help you reach your peak performance at Fuqua by connecting you with key information resources.

We’ve prepared a special web page to answer some questions we’ve received from incoming students regarding access to the Library’s print collection and online databases.

Topics covered include:

• Book & DVD Check-out for new students
• Activating your Fuqua Network and VPN access
• Accessing Databases from on- and off-campus

Please feel free to contact us if you have any other questions about the Library.

Congratulations, and the best of luck as you begin your MBA!

All ProQuest databases (including ABI-INFORM Complete) will be temporarily unavailable this weekend while the vendor performs necessary system maintenance.

This twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place from Saturday, June 27, 2009, at 10:00pm Eastern Standard Time to Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 10:00am Eastern Standard Time.

Fuqua & Duke users may select alternative databases for article searches during the maintenance window by visiting our Databases By Subject page.

Thanks for your patience during this essential maintenance.