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This video shows how to use Hoover’s Online to screen for a foreign company in a specific industry.  This example assumes you want to find a company in Japan that would buy logs for use in their products.

This video offers a quick introduction to some resources for researching the music industry. This video is not intended to be comprehensive, but to merely point researchers in the right direction.  The demonstration shows licensed databases.  If you are not a member of the Ohio University academic community, please inquire with your local library for information about these resources. 

In this episode, I demonstrate several cool technology tools including Skype Group IMs, the EyeJot video email service, and the Twitter search feature in TweetDeck.

After a three-week hiatus, the Monday Night Update is back.  Topics this week include free publications for economic and business research, a case of mistaken identity, and the Twitter client TweetDeck.

This 3-minute video highlights five very useful resources for researching the newspaper and media industries.  Books covered include:

• Bacon's Newspaper Directory
• Editor & Publisher International Yearbook
• Household Spending
• Kagan's Mediacast 2010
• Kagan's Advertising Forecast 

All books can be found by asking a librarian at the desk on the 2nd floor of Alden Library.