BU Libraries Business Blog

December 01, 2007

CQ Researcher

December's featured database is CQ Researcher. This is a weekly publication providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day. Recent, business/economic related entries include The Mortgage Crisis in America, Consumer Safety, Aging Infrastructure, and Aging Baby Boomers. Reports provide a look at the current situation and background, the outlook, and list pros and cons of the issue. All reports include charts, graphs, or tables, and contain extensive bibliographies. If you are looking for an overview of a current economic issue, this is a good place to start.

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August 31, 2007

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe has updated its website and now has a new, clean look. The new version of the database is searched differently than the previous edition. If you have used the database before, you may need to take some time to explore the new interface. The Lexis Nexis database now features online tutorials to help you with your searching questions. Lexis contains newspaper and newswire articles, SEC filings and financial information, company directories, professional accounting publications, legal resources, and more.

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April 03, 2007

Database of the Month-Safari Tech Books Online

April's database of the month is Safari Tech Books Online. Safari Tech Books Online has the full text of Information technology (IT) books from O’Reilly, Sams and other publishers. We subscribe to 91 books. To browse a list of these books, select My Bookshelf as a search selection. The full text of the each book including code fragments is searchable.

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December 13, 2006

Database of the Month--Social Science Research Network

This month's database is the Social Science Research Network. This database helps to provide "rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences". There are specialized subject networks for Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Financial Economics, Information Systems, Legal Scholarship, Management, Marketing, Negotiations, Social & Environment Impact, and Social Insurance. According to their website, "each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 137,300 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 107,400 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format."

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November 06, 2006

Database of the Month--PsychINFO

The featured database for November is PsychINFO. Why a psychology database in a business blog? PsychINFO is an excellent source for articles on organizational behavior, creativity in business, consumer behavior, decision making, behavioral economics, game theory, and much more. PsychINFO indexes journals, books, book chapters, conferences, book reviews and dissertations. A similar database, all full-text but covering fewer journal titles, is PsychArticles.

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September 04, 2006

Database of the month--Factiva

This month's featured database is Factiva. Factiva features global news and business from 8000 sources and 118 countries. In addition to newspaper and newswire coverage, including the Wall St. Journal, Factiva also contains company information, such as competitors, officers and directors, key ratios, etc. Historical data for mutual funds, currencies, market indices is also available. Click on the Companies/Markets button at the top of the screen to get access to company data.

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July 07, 2006

Database of the Month--IngentaConnect

July's highlighted database is IngentaConnect. This is an multidisciplinary full-text database which covers many topics and disciplines.

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June 01, 2006

Database of the Month--Investext Plus

This month's featured database, Investext Plus, includes investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image. The reports are updated daily and can range in length from 1 to 35 pages.

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May 03, 2006

New Marketing Database is the Database for May

The Libraries have subscribed to a new Marketing database, MRI Plus. It is useful for students taking classes in advertising and marketing. This database requires registration using your BU e-mail address. Mediamark Reporter, part of MRI+, provides information on demographics, lifestyles, product and brand usage and advertising media preferences. MRI+ also allows users to create magazine lists with audience and circulation rates. Data is always several years old.

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April 03, 2006

Database of the Month--Web of Science

This month's highlighted database is Web of Science. Despite the "Science" in the title, Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database covering the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities. This is not a full-text database (use the Get it at BU button), but it does provide citation searching.

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March 01, 2006

Database of the Month--Emerald

Emerald is the featured database for March. Emerald publishes a wide range of management and library & information services journals, as well as a strong specialist range of engineering, applied science and technology journals.

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February 01, 2006

Database of the Month

I'm starting a new feature for the blog, highlighting one of the Libraries' business databases each month. This month's database is Business and Company Resource Center. It contains company profiles, histories, investment reports, financials, rankings; SIC and NAICS industry descriptions; newspaper and periodical articles. There is limited coverage of market research reports contained in some company records as well. The SIC and NAICS codes are the government's way of classifying industries. If you don't know the code for your industry (and who does?), try looking up a major company in that industry and look at the codes listed in the company profile. The articles contained in this database are, for the most part, from trade magazines and not scholarly. B&CRC is of particular use to students in the MGMT 411 strategy classes.

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