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This profile serves as a basic indicator of the type of material that may be of use in building up information on the country to be investigated. There will exist numerous other sources of information to be exploited. Research is not easy. Anything a student collects will add to the resource base for the future.
To this end, it is recommended students keep a detailed diary of efforts made at securing data. This diary will become an integral part of the final assessment. The diary should include the following information:
. Date of contact:
. Person contacted:
. Institution:
. Position of Contact:
. Phone Number:
. Fax Number (Ask):
. Brief description of information provided:
THE VICTORIAN STATE LIBRARY HAS VERY COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCES FOR ALL AREAS OF THE WORLD.
<D> means in Burwood Library.
<B> means available at Burwood or inner city/city newsagencies.
<C> means available at city newsagencies.
<MULD> means available at an "original" University library.
As a Deakin student, you are entitled to a CAVAL card which enables you to use many library facilities at other universities. Enquire at the Library.
All libraries maintain various versions of CD-ROM information indexing systems. Burwood has several of these and they are extremely useful for obtaining international and company data up to a period some three to four months in arrears. Some systems at other libraries may be even more up to date. On enquiry, the library staff will help you "tap into" these systems.
The Economist D B
Far Eastern Economic Review D B
Asia Week D B
New Internationalist B
Guardian Weekly B
South Magazine B
Asian Wall Street Journal D B
Middle East Economic Review C
International Herald Tribune C
The European
The Banker D
Euromoney D
UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics MULD
OECD Economic Indicators D MULD
IMF International Financial Statistics D MULD
Research Profiles of Australian Tertiary Institutions D MULD
United Nations
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
"The World Bank"
UN Council for Trade and Development
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Asian Development Bank
Food and Agricultural Organisation
International Development Association
International Finance Corporation
International Labour Organisation
United Nations Development Program
UN Education Scientific & Cultural Organisation
UN Industrial Development Organisation
World Health Organisation
African Development Bank
European Economic Community
Inter-American Development Bank
UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific
UN Economic Commission for Africa
UN Economic Commission for Latin America
UN Economic Commission for The Middle East
SBS World Book C
Economist Intelligence Unit MURD
Brittanica
Travel Books
Etc
. PC Globe - Software Package
. DA Bookshop, Whitehorse Rd Mitcham can do print out of Journals Bibliography on countries of choice
. EIU country reports also at State Library
. Save the Children Fund has material
. Could also check - Care Australia
- Aust Volunteers Abroad
. SBS Book of the World
. Wheatboard Library, Wool Corporation
. Hunters Publications Fitzroy for UN stuff
. Price Waterhouse does a lot of country reports
. Europa Book of the world
. Other Gazetteers
. Facts on File is held in Library here
. UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics - Any major library
. International Monetary Fund - Many publications, but especially their Occasional Papers
THE FOLLOWING LISTINGS FOR RADIO ARE ORGANISED IN THIS FORMAT:
Day Time Station PROGRAM Comment
Mon-Fri 6.00 RN am 621 PETER THOMPSON Local/World News
" " 6.00 CR am 855 BBC NEWS Local/World News
" " 8.00 L0 am 774 AM Local/Overseas News
" " 12.00 PNN am 1026 ASIA NETWORK* Asia News
" " 12 .10 L0 WORLD TODAY Local/Overseas News
" " 1.10 RN WORLD TODAY (Repeat) Local/Overseas News
" " 1.30 RN COUNTRYWIDE Local/World Acriculture
" " 2 .00 PNN WORLD TODAY (Repeat)* Local/Overseas News
" " 3.00 PNN BBC WORLD REPORT* World News
" " ? PNN INTERNATIONAL REPORT World Current Affairs
" " 6.10 RN & LO PM Local/World News
Mon-Sun 11. PM PNN BBC WORLD REPORT* World News
" " 11.PM BM am 1116 BBC WORLD SERVICE overnight World News
" " 11.45PM RPH fm 1179 BBC WORLD SERVICE overnight World News
" " 12.00PM ZZZ fm 92.3 BBC WORLD SERVICE overnight World News
" " 12.00 AM PNN RADIO AUSTRALIA World News
" " 1.00 AM RN RADIO AUSTRALIA World News
Mo-Thur 10.05 RN LATE NIGHT LIVE World Current Affairs
Tues-Fri 5.05 RN LATE NIGHT LIVE (Repeat) Often Covers World Subjects
Mon 9.30PM RN INDIAN PACIFIC Asian/Middle East News
Sat & Sun 6.00AM BM BBC WORLD SERVICE World News
Sat 8.05AM RN INDIAN PACIFIC Repeat
Sun 8.05 AM RN CORRESPONDENTS' REPORT World Regions
Sun 9.10 AM RN BACKGROUND BRIEFING Local/World
Sun 12.05 PM RN THE NATIONAL INTEREST Local/World
Sun 1.05 RN THE EUROPEANS European News
* PNN MAY NOT COVER NORMAL PROGRAMS WHEN PARLIAMENT IS SITTING
Note: If you have the language, there are numerous native tongue programs on the three community stations, AM Radio: 3CR, 3EA and FM Radio ZZZ. Check the Age Green Guide for session details. Some of the 3CR programs may be in English. Also watch for early morning OPEN UNIVERSITY on radio RN and television ABC on selected subjects. All day every day, radio PNN (News Radio in Age guide) (am band 1026) covers news and, when it's sitting, the Australian Parliament.
THE FOLLOWING LISTINGS FOR TELEVISION ARE ORGANISED IN THIS FORMAT:
Day Time Station PROGRAM Comment
Mon-Fri 6 AM Ch 7 SUNRISE News
Mon-Fri 6.00AM Ch9 CNN WORLD NEWS From US
Mon-Fri 6.00 AM SBS WORLD WATCH English/Foreign Cover
Mon-Fri 10.30 AM Ch9 WORLD NEWS From US
Mon-Fri 11.00 AM SBS THE JOURNAL EuropeanForeign Cover
Most Days 11.30 SBS BUSINESS REPORT US Business
Mo-Fri 12.00 noon ABC WORLD AT NOON Local/World
Mo-Fri 2.00PM ABC PARLIAMENT QUESTION TIME When Parl't Sitting
Tue-Fri 5.05PM SBS LEHRER REPORT US News
Mo-Sun 6.30PM SBS WORLD NEWS World
Tue-Thu 10.30PM ABC LATELINE Local and World Affairs
Mo-Thu ~ MIDNITE ABC ATV NEWS Asian News
Thu 7.30 PM SBS INSIGHT World Current Affairs
Keep an eye on Ch2, Mondays 8.30PM, Four Corners for special reports.
Also the Ch9 Sunday 9AM program, SUNDAY, has a review of the weeks news from around the world.
Prepared by David Neath
This section records the procedure employed by the writer in "surfing" the internet in search of material relevant to international trade and markets analysis. The computer used is a 486 with 8 Mb of RAM, 800 Mb of disk space and a 14.4 modem. It works efficiently, though the speed would be greatly enhanced with a Pentium and 28.8 or 32.2 modem.
Software
The university’s Interchange network manager is, for the most, part extremely efficient. It can be purchased for a nominal fee and is well worth the cost.
To date, Netscape Explorer is available on Interchange and this has been used. Microsoft’s explorer is available free, but I have no experience of it. I have downloaded the Microsoft Internet Assistant for Word 3.x, and this is a very effective addition to Word’s capability. It takes a while to download, but worth the wait when it comes to reading and editing the HTML files on the internet.
With either the Netscape or the Microsoft explorers, a crucial gain in surfing speed is to be had by turning off the image loader. Many sites have wonderful graphics, but these take ages to load and waste time, especially once a site is loaded and is found to be empty of anything useful for your purposes. Netscape’s image loader is located in the Options menu list on the top bar. Turn it off. Once you load a page, you can then decide whether you want to look at the images and, if so, simply press the load images button on the toolbar.
Surfing procedure with Netscape
This is a very simple search strategy that has proven extremely effective in turning up relevant sites. All the sites in the accompanying list have been detected in this manner, as have many of the readings in the Study Guide for the unit.
1. On entry to the net, access the Net Search button on the tool bar and select the Yahoo search vehicle. In Yahoo, type your search topic in the search box and press return. Explore any Yahoo sites that are returned.
2. If no sites or they are not useful, press the Alta Vista Pages button at the bottom of the page and search 3 or 4 of these pages of sites.
3. If no luck with Alta Vista, then press the Infoseek button amongst the search vehicles listed at the bottom of the page.
Use of bookmarks
In the menu bar in Netscape there is an item called Bookmarks. This facility allows you to grab the address of a site while you are looking at it. Simply press on Bookmarks, then press on Add Bookmark. A file is automatically generated to start listing your bookmarks. After adding a site, re-open Bookmarks and press Go to Bookmarks. Your list will appear. Check that the description of the item added matches what you would expect. If not, press Item on the menu bar and then Properties which will open up a box where you can edit the description of the site.
You can use also use the item menu to allocate subject folders etc to organise the sites as you acquire them. The list will grow very quickly if you are at all active on the net.
Using the accompanying site list
The sites in the following pages represent a sample of the full site list available at:
http://www2.deakin.edu.au/dneath/home.htm
These sites have not been chosen lightly. There is a lot of useless material on the net, but each of these sites has something, in some cases an enormous amount of use to the aspiring international trader. See for yourself by sampling some of the sites.
When you open Netscape, you will find yourself loaded up at the Home
page of the University or your own carrier. The address of this site
will be in the box at the top of the page. Type the address of any
site you wish to explore into this box, eliminating what is there already.
Press return and Netscape will take you to the chosen site. Note:
You can also use this box to explore a site by dropping sections of the
address. Experiment!
Contact me on dneath@deakin.edu.aufor any other assistance.
Prepared by David Neath
Unless otherwise stated, material on this site may be freely distributed
electronically, provided it is distributed in its entirety and includes
this notice, but may not be reprinted without the express written permission
of David Neath. Write to dneath@deakin.edu.aufor
additional details.
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