Jul

28

Database Freedonia adds country reports

Posted by: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 […]

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