July 23, 2008 by judycarnes
Ebsco’s Business Source Complete and Factiva are the databases that many of us turn to first. Recent enhancements make both sources even more valuable.
New for Business Source Complete: (click to enlarge)

New features, call outs and sliding date selection.
New for Factiva: Factiva 2.0 (click to enlarge)
The new search results inclue blogs and other enhancements: (click to enlarge)
The right-hand column includes visual indicators of the level of news coverage by date, popular search terms and the extent to which companies and publications are represented in the results. (click to enlarge)
I hope that you will take advantage of these new features and share your comments.
Many thanks for reading this far and happy searching,
Judy
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June 27, 2008 by judycarnes
SSL recently has added the following databases and/or upgrades to existing resources:
e-Marketer
SimplyMap (with Mediamark add in)
Standard & Poor’s Global NetAdvantage (an upgrade to the domestic version)
Thomson One Banker (an upgrade from Thomson Research)
Value Line Research Center
Value Line Historical
I had an opportunity recently to use these new tools to help a student researching online education, a topic that crosses many sectors and disciplines. Examples of what we discovered in each of the new/improved resources follow:
e-Marketer retrieved the following article and chart


SimplyMap (with Media-mark add on): Tracked internet access at home for Hartford census tracts.

Value Line Historical has reports on the companies going back to 2000:
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Standard& Poor’s Global NetAdvantage has information on a European company engaged in online learning:
Thomson One Banker contains information private equity investments data for privately backed firms in the online learning industry:
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Need to know more about these or other SOM-related databases? Please contact: Judy.Carnes@yale.edu
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