The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Finance and Investment. Answers here.

1. In finance, what does "VAT" stand for?
2. Which currency replaced the ECU (European Currency Unit) in 1999?
3. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase "per capita"?
4. Give the full name of the British economist who devised Keynesian economics.
5. In financial projections, where would you find a "hockey stick"?
6. Is a "bear market" a prolonged period of rising prices or falling prices?
7. In the USA, what is the nickname for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC)?
8. When talking about investments, what is a "boiler room"?
9. Is a "widow-and-orphan stock" a stock that pays high dividends and is very safe, or a stock that pays low dividends and is very risky?
10. By what name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) generally known?

InformaHealthcare.com now live

"InformaHealthcare.com combines the pharmaceutical, life science and medical journal titles published by Informa Healthcare onto one platform to simplify your experience, and deliver online content from more than 170 journals. Journals include Free Radical Research, Medical Mycology, Disability and Rehabilitation, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Leukemia & Lymphoma, International Journal of Radiation Biology, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Acta Radiologica, Journal of Dermatological Treatment, Clinical Toxicology, the Expert Opinion series, Current Medical Research and Opinion, Critical Reviews Series and Journal of Medical Economics"

Kitsis first recipient of Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship in New Media

The very first scholarship winner has been selected for the newest American Library Association scholarship, the Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship in New Media. Stacy Kitsis, English teacher at Arlington High School in Arlington, Mass., has been selected to receive the scholarship in memory of Peter Lyman, the former university librarian and professor emeritus of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Lyman was nationally known for his landmark study on information overload, 'How Much Information?' co-authored with Hal Valerian

Apply now for the 2010 Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week Grant

"All types of U.S. libraries are invited to apply for the Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week Grant. The $3,000 grant will be awarded to a single library for the best public awareness campaign incorporating the 2010 National Library Week theme, 'Communities thrive @ your library®.' The grant is sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing, a division of Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company. It is administered by the Public Awareness Committee of the American Library Association. This year's application deadline is October 16, 2009. National Library Week is April 11-17, 2010

12 SAGE journals migrating to an e-only format

The following 12 SAGE journals will be migrating to an electronic only format for the 2010 subscription year:

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society (ISSN: 0270-4676)
Clinical Case Studies (ISSN: 1534-6501)
Field Methods (ISSN: 1525-822X)
Journal of Adolescent Research (ISSN: 0743-5584)
Journal of Business and Technical Communication (ISSN: 1050-6519)
Journal of Environment & Development, The (ISSN:1070-4965)
Management Communication Quarterly (ISSN: 0893-3189)
Men and Masculinities (ISSN: 1097-184X)
Organization & Environment (ISSN: 1086-0266)
Simulation & Gaming (ISSN: 1046-8781)
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse (ISSN: 1524-8380)
Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (ISSN: 1541-2040)

Equinox Publishing 2010 prices

Equinox Publishing Ltd. has released journal subscription rates for 2010

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press has announced that the full text of Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology is now available online at http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org.
Many readers in Europe and Asia may find alternate access at the URL http://intl-cshperspectives.cshlp.org.

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology (ISSN: 1943-0264) is a new monthly online journal comprising reviews spanning the complete spectrum of the molecular life sciences. It provides the life sciences community with authoritative analyses of progress in emerging areas of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, genetics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cancer biology, and molecular pathology

Code4Lib Journal: Call for Papers, Issue 8, November 2009

The Code4Lib Journal is now accepting proposals for publication in its 8th issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 8th issue, which is scheduled for publication in mid November 2009, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals to c4lj-articles@googlegroups.com by Friday, August 14, 2009. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message

Free online access to Music and Medicine

SAGE has announced free online access to Music and Medicine, a new interdisciplinary journal that focuses on studies that integrate the science of medicine with the art of music, and the art of medicine with the science of music. The first issue features articles by notable authors such as Daniel J. Levitin, Cynthia Quiroga Murcia, Stephan Bongard, Gunter Kreutz, Ruth G. McCaffrey, Kristen Stewart, Clare O'Callaghan, Monika Jungblut, Matthias Suchanek, Horst Gerhard, and Fred J. Schwartz. Register here for your free online access

Documentation Magazine - call for articles

Documentation Magazine (an online publication of the Documentation Sciences Foundation, which is freely distributed across the Internet with an audience of more than 150,000) wants to hear from you. It is looking for contributors who can provide new content that appeals to Information and Knowledge Sciences. Topics can focus on any of the following categories: Library / Archive / Documentation / Information technology / Museum / Communications / Knowledge / Preservation / Social aspects of information / Digital divide / Semantic web / Epistemology / Digital assets

Naxos Music Library has reached 500,000 tracks of music

"Naxos Music Library has reached 500,000 tracks of music. Striving to offer the most well rounded musical experience, the Naxos Music Library now contains music from over 170 world renowned record labels"

AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials

AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with D'Arcy Masius McManus in 1985 to form DMB&B. Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others. Commercials will be added in phased batches over several months in 2009. The commercials are a part of the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Archives found at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

Emerald acquires the Journal of Advances in Management Research

Emerald Group Publishing has announced the recent acquisition of the Journal of Advances in Management Research. The journal will be published by Emerald from Volume 6, issue 1 and is published in association with the Indian Institute of Technology

Walter De Gruyter has published its 2010 price lists

Walter De Gruyter has published its 2010 price lists in USD and EUR

Sony plugs Google's library into e-readers

"Sony Corp said on Wednesday it has made available over 1 million public domain books on its electronic readers via Google Inc's Books project, which digitizes classic titles not protected by copyright" - Reuters

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Artemis

Orthopedic Reviews

Transactions on Data Privacy

Journal of Aerospace Science and Technology

Remote Sensing

Viruses

Videos on PLoS Medicine, Open Access and global burden of disease

A series of videos was commissioned to highlight the new editorial focus of PLoS Medicine - the decision to prioritise papers on the conditions and risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life worldwide

Video: 2009 ALA Annual Conference overview

Overview of the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, including sights and sounds from the ALSC Charlemae Rollins President's Program, Laurie Halse Anderson, the Bookcart Drill Team World Championships, the Exhibit Hall, the ALA Presidential Inauguration, Cokie Roberts, and more

Video and slides from the SPARC-ACRL forum in July 2009

Presentation materials from library and publishing innovators who offered concrete data and strategies for Rough waters: Navigating hard times in the scholarly communication marketplace, at the SPARC-ACRL forum at ALA in Chicago, July 2009

25 predictions for the University of the future

From Associate Degree: "Along with the rest of the world, the landscape of higher education is changing rapidly. Open source courses, new technology systems, digital collections in libraries, and social media are influencing how we receive and process our information. Students and faculty members communicate via different platforms than they used to, and an increasingly globalized society contributes to more competition and more access to valuable learning resources. Here are 25 predictions for how the university of the future will operate"