Roubini Global Economics

Cornell has joined the Roubini Global Economics' University Program to provide faculty and students with access to what The Economist magazine dubbed "the world's most important economic website." This provides you with RGE's rich and timely research and analysis and unique understanding of the modern global economy.  RGE provides insight into macroeconomic developments along with citations and readings which act as pathways for scholars, policymakers and future business leaders who need to pursue their ideas to the next level.  Features include:

 

• Critical Issues: Identifies key questions essential to the research process, seeking out viewpoints beyond the consensus
• Economic Research/RGE Analysis: Deep-dive analysis into factors driving global finance developed internally by a team of 40+ economists
• EconoMonitors: Blog posts by Nouriel Roubini, RGE Analysts and an outside network of top independent contributors in global economics
• Daily Digest: Timely coverage of developments that are shaping global markets right now
• RGE Partner Content: Reports and white papers sourced from leading economic think tanks and world-recognized economic organizations.

At the Roubini website you will be invited to register for a personal account.  From off campus, access Roubini using the library catalog link - http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/7060771.  Hat tip to Donald Schnedeker, Librarian at Cornell School of Hotel Administration, for this information.

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu

 

 

FDsys, the new federal digital system

U.S. Code, Federal Register, Congressional hearings, House and Senate committee reports – the federal government is improving electronic access to these and many other materials.  The new system is FDsys, which provides much easier searching than the first generation of GPOAccess.   This news from the Government Printing Office:

“The sunset of GPO Access is planned for the end of 2010. At this time, FDsys will assume the role as GPO's electronic system of record. Migration of all content from GPO Access to FDsys will be complete by October 2010, and the two systems will run in parallel through the end of the year.

 

“FDsys is a system that allows Federal content creators to easily create and submit content that can be preserved, authenticated, managed, and delivered upon request. As opposed to just being a content repository, it is a system that will continually be updated with new Federal content collections, and these collections will need to be refreshed and migrated over time.”

 

You will notice that many of the documents have a blue banner at the top, showing that the document is official.  Try the “Advanced Search” link from the middle of the FDsys homepage for the most specific searching.  If you had bookmarked GPOAccess, it’s time now to revise that and link to FDsys.  Please contact me or your librarian liaison if you’d like to learn more about FDsys.

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pgc1@cornell.edu

 

BNA Password & Alerts

If you access BNA materials from home or on the road, you’ll need to know that the password has changed.  And if you are not accessing BNA materials, consider this your personal invitation to sign up for the BNA Alerts that will let you know when the latest information in your field is added to the BNA web.

 

First, for the password:  I will send an e-mail to the faculty today with the new password.  Since this blog posting is up on the web where anyone could find it, we don’t want to give away the store by including it here.

 

You remember BNA, the Bureau of National Affairs publisher of U.S. Law Week that you used in paper way back when.  It’s all on the web now.  You can link from the Law Library home page or bookmark the entry page for Cornell Law School.  From your office, you do not need a password to get in.

 

Sign up for e-mail summaries of any BNA news service or any BNA reference library.  Choose from over 100 products, including  Labor Relations Reporter,  Corporate Law Daily, ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct, Computer Technology Law Report, Criminal Law Reporter, Securities Regulation & Law Report, and International Trade Reporter.  Of course, you can read and research in all of these materials at any time.

 

Feel free to contact me or your librarian liaison to learn more about BNA resources and for assistance in setting up your Alerts.  It’s one of the best ways to stay up with the Supreme Court Today!

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pgc1@cornell.edu