• 
  
  This blog is compiled by the Librarians at the David Lam Library.
  
  
  
  

  ---

  Send your feedback or questions to the Lam Library.
  
  Suggest a Book
  

• Search for:

  Search for:

• Recent Posts

  • GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award
  • What Students Don’t know
  • Teaching in August
  • Database Freedonia adds country reports
  • New Healthcare Administration Research Guide Published

UBC students, faculty and staff have trial access to Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ database from January 11 until February 11, 2011. Capital IQ provides detailed coverage of public and private companies,  private investment firms, and executives. It also provides data on capital transactions.  Capital IQ’s software functionality includes sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools which enable users to screen the database […]

Bloomberg is hosting a seminar on Tuesday November 9th  in Vancouver. This is a free event and a great opportunity to learn more about Bloomberg’s solutions. The seminar takes place from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Shangri-La Hotel on 1128 West Georgia.  Registration opens at 7:30am. There will be a Lunch and Learn at […]

Mergers and Acquisitions Financial advisors have now been added to FPinfomart’s Canadian Mergers and Acquisitions reports. This can be searched via the drop-down menu in Simple Search within the M&A database. Use Financial Post Crosbie Mergers and Acquisitions in Canada to quickly drill down into specific transactions in the areas that are of interest. You […]

Thanks to the hard work of the Sauder School’s Learning and Technology Services Technician, Anthony Yam, the Bloomberg terminal has been moved to the new Sauder computer lab in Henry Angus 119. Bloomberg, which is only available for use by current UBC students, faculty and staff, has a specialized terminal and cannot be accessed remotely. […]

Datastream is a valuable research tool, providing access to international financial and economic time series data.  When the David Lam Library closed its facilities at the end of May, 2010,  access to Datastream was made available in Koerner Library, Level 2.  Now, Datastream has also been downloaded to all 12 computers in the PhD lab (Rix 202).  Thank you […]

Datastream, a database of international economic, financial and stock price data, formerly housed in the David Lam Library, is now available in Koerner Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Division (Level 2) on a standalone workstation.  This computer (Humanities 87) is located near the Reference Desk and the Current Journals.

The Bloomberg terminal is now located in HA 191C, a bookable room in the Bruce R. Birmingham Centre for Undergraduate Education. The terminal will be housed in the room until mid-June, when it will be moved into the new computer lab being developed in Henry Angus 119. Bloomberg is a financial and investment analysis resource […]

• New Books

  • The tyranny of merit : what's become of the common good? / Michael J. Sandel.
  • Designing the best work-from-home you : how to work remotely (but not all the time) / Vennessa McConkey.
  • How to work from home and actually get sh*t done : 50 tips for leaders and professionals to work remotely and outperform the office / Cynthia D. Spraggs.
  • Subprime attention crisis : advertising and the time bomb at the heart of the Internet / Tim Hwang.
  • Effortless : make it easier to do what matters most / Greg McKeown.

• Categories

  • Books
  • Canaccord Learning Commons
  • Company research
  • Copyright
  • Databases
  • David Lam Library
  • EBooks
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Faculty research
  • FAQs
  • Finance
  • Management Information Systems
  • Marketing and market research
  • OBHR
  • RefWorks
  • Research help
  • Sustainable business
  • Teaching
  • Uncategorized
  • Video

• Tags

  Bloomberg books business Schools Capital IQ career centres Closure Corporate governance Corporate social responsibility databases Datastream dvds e-books ebooks Electronic books Electronic resources Entrepreneurship FAQs finance financial advisors group study internships librarians libraries management information systems market research MBA mergers MIS noise Nonprofit sector OBHR Palgrave Palgrave Connect RefWorks Renovation research help rss silent study Social neworking statistics Streaming Videos students sustainability Trial databases videos

• Archives

  Archives Select Month September 2015 August 2011 July 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 March 2009 February 2009 December 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006

• UBC Library Government Publications Blog

  • Looking of US Census Data?
  • World Bank launches open access Digital Collection
  • US foreign-born population closes in on 37 million