Each year libraries in the HELIN Consortium trial databases requested by librarians within the member libraries. This year there are several very valuable business databases available for student and faculty use through the trial period (ending at the end of February). To view the databases, go to the library website and click on the HELIN TRIAL DATABASES link. The following databases might provide critical data and/or information for finishing a paper or project this semester:
Euromonitor Global Market Information (GMID) Euromonitor is a leading supplier of global consumer and service market data and reports. Select a consumer market (e.g., appliances) and a country (e.g., France), and run your search to find data (e.g., consumption, market growth or decline) and research reports (e.g., dishwashers in the Czech Republic). Research reports contain headlines, trends, competitive landscape, prospects, and sector data for the selected country. Users can also select a particular country and locate data such as disposable income, savings, and gross income. Data is displayed over a span of 5 years with a percentage growth or decline. The GMID is a “must see” for any student working on an international marketing project.
MarketResearch.com Web-based market intelligence with detailed market research reports of products within specific industries. These reports include industry interviews, competitive analysis, market trends, buyer behavior, and more. Users can select current and historical reports by topic, category, keyword, and/or date.
Plunkett Research Online A combination of industry research center and career source, Plunkett Research provides in-depth industry reports and informative company profiles. Browse or search 31 industries to view industry reports containing market research and trends, statistics, competitors, and trade association contacts. Job seekers can target companies within an industry by building a prospect list and exporting relevant information into Excel. To select a company universe, searchers can limit to a specific sales amount, employee count, or business activity.
Proquest Dow Jones Factiva Factiva provides premium business news from more than 25,000 sources covering content from 159 countries in 22 languages. Users can build searches using the simple search, the search builder or the search builder form. News sources include newswires, trade journals, websites, blogs, and multimedia. The database also provides tracking of global market activity and stock quotes.
Contact a reference librarian to receive instruction on a database or to resolve and problems linking into database content.
Several pieces of the Haitian Art Collection donated to the school in 1998 by alumna Gladys Kinoian Lujan (Class of 1956) are on display in one of the glass cases in the Bello Center lobby (opposite the Chinese Terracotta Warrior display). Obviously Haiti is on everyone’s mind lately, and these works are a unique window into the creative and constructive aspects of Haitian life.
Hard to believe break is over – and that it’s almost February! – but here we are. Nice to see everyone back, as well as meeting so many new students for the first time. Hopefully we got you all where you needed to go on Sunday.
I’d say “welcome back,” but John Sebastian (and, by extension I suppose, Gabe Kaplan) did it so much better.
Google has universal appeal among business students; however, many students fail to use Google to its full potential by overlooking the many tools and gadgets Google provides to make its user’s lives easier and more efficient. Try the following to save time and make your research more productive:
Alerts - (http://alerts.google.com) Get an email update of relevant Google results on a search for a competitor or industry. To get started, fill out a short form designating your search terms and the desired frequency of email updates. Built-in calculator - Enter the calculation you wish to have done into Google’s main search box and press enter to get a quick answer. (e.g., 988 x .20 to locate 20 percent of 988). Currency converter - Enter the conversion you wish to have done into Google’s main search box and press enter to retrieve your converted currency. (e.g., 150 GBP in USD to convert to $243.53). GOOG-411 - Dial 1-800-GOOG-411 from any phone and state a location and business type to connect to the business for free. Google Docs – (http://docs.google.com) Collaborate on a text or spreadsheet document to work on a class project. Use your Google account to get started and share with other selected users. Google Finance – (http://finance.google.com) Follow selected stocks using a stock screener, read current financial news, or get a market summary. Type in the ticker symbol for a particular stock and get real time quotes on stocks and mutual funds traded on the NASDAQ or NYSE (15 minute delay for stocks listed on other exchanges).Create a user name and password to develop and maintain a portfolio of stocks and mutual funds. Patent search – (http://patents.google.com) Search over 7 million patents. Use the advanced patent search feature to search by number, title, inventor or assignee. Public data – Check trends for population or unemployment rates of U.S. states and counties by typing “population” or “unemployment rate” into the main Google search box followed by a state or county. (e.g., population MA).
Go to http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html for more on Google tools and how to use them. Check out the Google Tip Gadget icon on this page to get a daily tip, trick, or helpful hint about a Google product.
Trying to locate company financials and finding yourself at a dead end? It could be your company of interest is a private company or a subsidiary of a larger, public company. With acquisitions and mergers occurring rapidly in this volatile corporate environment, uncovering corporate relationships is a task that requires using several sources to uncover timely and accurate information. The following sources subscribed to by the Douglas & Judith Krupp Library can help make this task a little easier.
ReferenceUSA is a database of directory information covering more than 14 million domestic companies. Type in a company name and if that company is part of a larger family of companies, ReferenceUSA will display a Corp. Tree icon that, when clicked, indicates the parent company (and whether the company is public or private), and its subsidiaries and/or branches. The Corp. Tree information includes each listed company’s industry, city and state location, the number of employees, and sales volume.
Hoover’s Academic, a subscription database of more than 30 million corporation and organizations, features a Location Type field that displays the corporate relationships (headquarters, single location, or branch) of a searched company. If a single location is a subsidiary or division of a larger public corporation, the name of the parent company displays in the Overview of the searched company.
LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations is an 8 volume print directory of domestic and international companies. The directory consists of 2 vols. containing U.S. private companies, 2 vols. containing U.S. public companies, and 2 vols. containing international public and private companies. The work also contains 2 vols. of indexing which can be searched by name, NAICS, or geographic location. Once you locate your company in the index, go to the indicated page within the directory to view the overall corporate family relationship.
LexisNexis Academic contains a Business library and a Company Profiles search page. Type in your company name at this search page and next select the directory you wish to search. LexisNexis Academic contains numerous business directories in the Company Profiles file, including Standard & Poor’s Register of Corporations and Standard & Poor’s Corporate Register DescriptionsPlus News, both of which display the relationship between a searched company and its larger corporate structure.
Mergent Online is an excellent database for determining what subsidiaries exist under a parent company, and also for locating the history of a particular corporate acquisition. Mergent is a database of public domestic and international companies, so the most productive way to search for a single company and find its relationship to a larger company, is to go to the Advanced Search feature, select your company universe (domestic or international) and select Textual Search as your search category. Run your search and you will retrieve the company’s larger public parent. Click on the parent company’s name to retrieve the full record; within this record will be a Company Details tab with subtabs containing subsidiaries,joint ventures, and history. The history will detail when particular companies were acquired by the parent.
