New Databases: New Opportunities for Cross-curriculum Research:

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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