The Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship is a refereed journal covering the business information needs of special libraries, academic libraries, and public libraries, as well as information services and centers outside of the traditional library setting. You'll find that the journal is international in scope, reflecting the multinational and international scope of the business community today.

The immediate focus of the journal is practice-oriented articles, but it also provides an outlet for new empirical studies on business librarianship and business information. Aside from articles, this journal offers valuable statistical and meeting reports, literature and media reviews, Web site reviews, and interviews.

Recent issues of the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship have covered topics such as:

• Political risk and country risk, some of the factors and methods used in foreign country risk analysis, and a variety of political risk sources
• The structure of the National Trade Data Bank, a comparison of the three versions of it currently on the market, and detailed descriptions of many of the database's most useful programs
• How and why intranets developed and how they can be used as strategic business tools that empower an organization to meet its corporate vision
• An analysis of the public rankings of in Canadian business periodicals and a retrieval tool for such information
• An effective and practical way to get business students familiar with various library resources
• A selective review of some of the business dictionaries in print

Special thematic issues of the journal have covered:

• Marketing Information
• The Core Business Web
• Distance Learning Librarianship