Jul
28
Database Freedonia adds country reports
Posted by: Jan Wallace | July 28, 2011 | Comments Off on Database Freedonia adds country reports
Freedonia Focus, a market research database subscribed to by the UBC Library, is adding considerable international content over the next year. Freedonia content has traditionally been US-focused. New country reports will cover 14 countries including Canada, China, India and Brazil. Access Freedonia Focus here.
May
26
Two new entrepreneurial database trials
Posted by: Jan Wallace | May 26, 2011 | Comments Off on Two new entrepreneurial database trials
We currently have two trials running of databases with market research content for business planning: EBSCO’s Entrepreneurial Studies Source http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1736/ offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles Proquest Entrepreneur http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1742/ includes scholarly journals, […]
May
9
Entrepreneurial Studies Source – Trial access
Posted by: Lindsay Ure | May 9, 2011 | Comments Off on Entrepreneurial Studies Source – Trial access
UBC users have trial access to Entrepreneurial Studies Source, an EBSCO database, until May 31. This database offers full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of […]
Jan
12
Trial access to Capital IQ
Posted by: Christina Sylka | January 12, 2011 | Comments Off on Trial access to Capital IQ
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 […]
May
18
Access to Datastream Now Available
Posted by: Christina Sylka | May 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Access to Datastream Now Available
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.
May
17
Bloomberg
Posted by: Christina Sylka | May 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Bloomberg
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 […]
Apr
27
April – New Database – IBISWorld Industry Reports
Posted by: Christina Sylka | April 27, 2010 | Comments Off on April – New Database – IBISWorld Industry Reports
UBC Library users now have access to over 700 full text U.S. industry level market research reports through the Library’s newest database, IBISWorld Industry Reports. IBISWorld research is recognized as being unbiased, independent professional research. Its specialty is in-depth analysis of the underlying structure and the external forces that drive an industry and the interrelationships […]
Apr
21
April – Trial Access to Sage Reference Online
Posted by: Christina Sylka | April 21, 2010 | Comments Off on April – Trial Access to Sage Reference Online
UBC Library users have trial access to Sage Reference Online, a resource featuring the electronic versions of two hundred encyclopedias and handbooks in the social sciences. Material in the business and management collection includes coverage in the areas of advertising, marketing, business ethics, career development, global supply chain management, human resource management, leadership, leadership, organization […]
Mar
23
March: Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
Posted by: Christina Sylka | March 23, 2010 | Comments Off on March: Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
The Foundation Center, a U.S. nonprofit service organization, has developed the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature, a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. Updated daily, this bibliography of works in the field of philanthropy contains citations to materials collected by the Center’s five libraries as well as selected literature from other sources. It covers the foundation […]
Mar
15
March: Trial access to valuable databases
Posted by: Christina Sylka | March 15, 2010 | Comments Off on March: Trial access to valuable databases
During March 2010, UBC Library is managing trials to three databases of specific interest to business researchers: Conference Board of Canada’s e-library contains all of the Conference Board’s periodical publications, research reports and economic studies, as well as access to economic data sets. Subjects covered include risk management, governance, human resources management, organizational excellence, Canadian, provincial and international […]