Since 1984, Harvard Business School Press has been dedicated to publishing the most contemporary management thinking, written by authors and practitioners who are leading the way. Whether readers are seeking big-picture strategic thinking or tactical problem solving, advice in managing global corporations or for developing personal careers, HBS Press helps fuel the fire of innovative thought. HBS Press has earned a reputation as the springboard of thought for both established and emerging business leaders.

The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today’s managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.

Now you have access to over 80 titles within different topics such as strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, pricing, marketing…

See all titles in JULIA here.

WorldCat is the world’s largest network of library content and service. WorldCat offers 1.4 billion items from more than 10,000 participating libraries and has now expanded the public available part with OAIster and two conference databases.

23 million records from OAIster
In the end of October The University of Michigan and OCLC announced that they successfully had transitioned the OAIster database to OCLC to ensure continued public access to open-archive collections.

What is OAIster? OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources hosted at the University of Michigan since 2002. It was launched with grant support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and it was developed to test the feasibility of building a portal to open archive collections using the OAI-PMH protocol. OAIster has grown to become one of the world’s largest aggregations of records pointing to open archive collections with more than 23 million records contributed by over 1,100 organizations worldwide.

DiVA is one of the contributors from Sweden and all records harvested to SwePub are now available in WorldCat as well.

Check out some examples with researchers from Jönköping University:

* Anders Melander from JIBS in WorldCat
* Ingvar L Svensson from The School of Engineering in WorldCat

7,4 million conference records added
The conference databases PapersFirst and ProceedingsFirst, with records received from The British Library Document Supply Centre, with 7,4 million records have now also been added to WorldCat. These two indexes contain papers from conferences, symposiums and expositions worldwide and it has items in English, French, Spanish and Chinese.

This is a really great tool if you are tracking specific conferences, or are performing in-depth research on specific topics.

See a sample listing below for representative PapersFirst and ProceedingsFirst items:

* Fighting fire with fire: brain stimulation for the treatment of epilepsy (PapersFirst)
* Strategies towards sustainability of protected cultivation in mild winter climate (ProceedingsFirst)

Palgrave Connect (e-books)

From now on you have access to all Palgrave titles published between 2007-09 within Business & Management and Economics & Finance collections. During 2010 you will gradually have access to all new titles published within the two collections. In total it will give you the opportunity to access more than 600 titles from Palgrave.

Green padlock = access
Red padlock = no access

Palgrave Connect Search

The new SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection, a set of 80 of its highest rated handbooks digitized and hosted on the award-winning SAGE Reference Online platform, is now available from the University Library. The collection contains handbooks in fulltext within Business and Management, Economics, Urban Studies and Planning, Education, Psychology, Research Methods and Evaluation, Sociology…

Note!

On the left side of the page you can browse between the different subjects of the collection. This link leads you directly to the SAGE Handbooks “all titles” page.

The International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies is the premier reference tool for students, educators, scholars, and practitioners to gather knowledge about a range of important topics from the unique perspective of organization studies with extensive international representation. Four volumes now available online in fulltext.

Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources announces the launch of expanded Arts & Humanities (A&H) coverage as per mid-June. Scopus almost doubles its coverage of A&H titles by including 1,450 new titles.

Scopus users will now benefit from broader access to close to 3,500 A&H journals dating back to 2002 in a variety of subject areas including:

• Education
• History
• Developmental & Educational and Social Psychology
• Literature and Literature Theory
• Architecture
• Design

More than 1,000 publishers from around the world stand behind the expanded A&H content, including Project MUSE: a-not-for-profit full text platform of prestigious and current journals.

In a study of information seeking behaviour of physicists and astronomers, which included semi-structured interviews with 56 faculty members and PhD students at the University College London, they were asked about the way they obtain and access information resources, particularly about accessing articles.

All of the interviewees in the study stated that their preference was to obtain the articles online as PDF files. The reason of course was the convenience associated with accessing an article electronically compared to having to go to the library and reading or photocopying the print version. The participants wanted to be able to access the articles online and if necessary save or/and print them. Statements such as ‘if it is not online I am annoyed’ were the normal kind of expressions.

Surprisingly seven interviewees thought that if an article is not online then it is not worth the effort to obtain it. They said that if it is not available online they would not bother to look for it elsewhere and they would try to find an alternative source of information if possible. In order to see whether this was a common belief among physicists and astronomers, a question was included in a follow up survey with 114 respondents. The respondents in the survey were exposed to the following statement and asked to express their level of agreement or disagreement: ‘If an article is not available online, it’s probably not worth the effort to obtain it.’ The majority of respondents 62.3% a little or strongly disagreed with the statement. However, 27.2% of respondents agreed a little or strongly with the statement.

This approach of users to use of information resources also can be looked at from another perspective, which is perceived accessibility. Users have a perception of the accessibility of the resources they want to use. Past research has shown a strong positive relationship between perceived accessibility and the selection of a particular information source. If users think that they may not have access to a particular information resource they would be reluctant to try to use it and would attempt to satisfy their information needs by using another information resource. Ease of access and the principle of least effort play a part in the choice of information resources. 

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Providers of backfiles are the databases ScienceDirect, Blackwell, Wiley, Emerald, Sage and JSTOR. Journals, just to mention a few, are Family business review, Strategic management journal, Organization studies, Economic development quarterly, Journal of financial economics, Journal of economic theory and many more.

James S. Russell is trying to give us an answer in the article “Princeton’s Gehry  Library Banishes Stacks, Encourages Talking”, published at Bloomberg.com on October 14. Mr Russell is Bloomberg’s U.S. architecture critic.

Princeton University has embarked on a difficult task: to reinvent the library for an age when information largely takes on electronic rather than print form. The universities in Sweden spent about 71 % of all media budget on electronic media last year!

Lewis Science Library, just opened for the fall term, built with a $74 million budget on 8 083 square meters (we have 5 034 square meters at our dispoal here at Jönköping University Library), was designed by architects Frank Gehry and Craig Webb. Peter B. Lewis, now at the age of  74 and once a Princeton graduate, gave $60 million toward the building’s $74 million budget.

Lewis Library provides soaring, colorful spaces where students, scientists and faculty can interact and share ideas. Lewis Library can also offer impressive print and digital collections in the sciences but the stacks you’d expect to find have largely been banished to a surprisingly small high-density storage space in the basement. Just a few reference books and print journals can be found at the entrance and the library signals its new role. What about the new role?

Craig Webb, the library’s project designer: “Libraries are becoming more a space where people come to access data and also more of a study space, research space and to some extent, a social space”.

Take a tour of the Lewis Library and make up your own mind about the new library architecure! Don’t miss the photo gallery at the end of the blog post!

Some final words and a kind of conclusion from James S. Russell: “Then again, as a place to curl up with a laptop – maybe even a book – it’s pretty hard to beat.”

So, what about the collections at Princeton? Since its founding more than 240 years ago, the library system has grown from a collection of 474 volumes to over 6 million printed works, 5 million manuscripts and 2 million nonprint items. Lewis Library is one of more than 10 libraries on the Princeton campus.

…Scenarios and Strategies for 2020.
This have to be a must read for the staff at one of the schools here at Jönköping University.
I can reveal that in chapter 13 about management education and research in Sweden, JIBS is mentioned among the five leading schools of business studies (p. 262).
The book has just arrived to the library and will soon be available for lending…