Yale School of Management http://somlibraryblog.wordpress.com Library News and Updates Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:35:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/693e42858d9899dc544ae1fe14d46d71?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Yale School of Management http://somlibraryblog.wordpress.com Important! New URL’s for Library Research Guides http://somlibraryblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/important-new-urls-for-library-research-guides/ http://somlibraryblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/important-new-urls-for-library-research-guides/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:44:35 +0000 judycarnes http://judycarnes.wordpress.com/?p=82 ]]>

Over the summer I’ve updated the SOM/SSL Research Guides using Libguides, proprietary software the the Yale Libraries subscribe to.  The new guides are designed to be more friendly for both the creator and the reader.  Unfortunately, the URL’s are a bit awkward, a list follows:

International Experience   Companies  Industries 
More Research Guides   Accounting Finance 
Operations  Organizational Behavior  Market Share 
 Healthcare  Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital

Please contact me if you would like a resources guide prepared for your class, interest group, conference etc.

Happy searching,

Judy Carnes  SOM Librarian  432-3306

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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 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
]]> http://somlibraryblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/old-databases-new-tricks/feed/ 0 Judy New features, call outs and sliding date selection. New Databases: New Opportunities for Cross-curriculum Research: http://somlibraryblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/new-databases-new-opportunities-for-cross-curriculum-research/ http://somlibraryblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/new-databases-new-opportunities-for-cross-curriculum-research/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:11:36 +0000 judycarnes http://judycarnes.wordpress.com/?p=37 ]]>

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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