New Database: Special Issues

This database tracks trade and business magazines which publish special issues on various topics. Often the special issue will have either an industry or company focus. The content covers: industry outlooks, overviews, or surveys; statistical issues; company ranking lists; buyers guides; salary surveys; product/industry focus issues; membership directories; who’s who registers; tradeshow specials; etc. Also, the magazine’s website content includes: buyers guides, calendars of trade fairs and events, industry website link lists, statistical information, interactive databases, glossaries, encyclopedias, dictionaries, acronym lists, etc. Check out the database now.

New Database: SourceOECD

Source OECD is the online library of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. It includes books, periodicals, working papers and statistics, notably: Financial Market Trends, Monthly Statistics of International Trade, OECD Economic Outlook, and OECD Economic Surveys. Check out the database now.

New Database: International Abstracts of Human Resources (IAHR)

IAHR is the most comprehensive source for abstracts in human resource management. It contains abstract articles from 53 of the most prestigious journals, including the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management, Organization Studies, and Journal of Management Studies. The abstracts are organized into 80 different categories, making it easy to scan your topic of interest. Each issue also has a company index, so that you can easily find articles that mention particular companies (although those companies’ names may not appear in the abstracts.) Ask for assistance if you have any difficulty finding specific articles in this resource. Check out the database now.

New Database Available: Going Global

The Walker Management Library has subscribed to  Going Global, a database which contains career and employment resources include world-wide job openings, internship listings, industry profiles and country-specific career information. More than 30,000 pages of constantly-updated content is included on topics such as: work permit/visa regulations, resume writing guidelines and examples, employment trends, salary ranges, networking groups, cultural/interviewing advice, corporate profiles and worldwide job listings. Use the Global Forum to chat with others about living and working abroad. Check out the database now.

New Database Available: 10K Wizard

Real-time online access and full-text search of extensive financial information for publicly traded firms. Allows users to not only view the latest SEC filings of more than 68,000 companies, but search historical filings, from the start date of each company’s existence, by keyword, phrase and name. The database provides easy searching, downloading, printing of financial data, directors and executives, insider transactions, etc. The service includes real-time SEC EDGAR filings, EDGAR archives through 1994, PRE-EDGAR Historical Index (listing) of all SEC filings to 1966, regulatory documentation and more. The mass download feature allows you to obtain up to 700 filings at once.  Check out the database now.

MarketLine Database Upgraded

The Library has upgraded our subscription to MarketLine. Locate detailed US & global companies (public & private), industries & over 215 country profiles from Datamonitor Market Research. Company data includes: SWOT analyses & case studies, detailed business descriptions, locations and subsidiaries, competitors. Industry profiles include: industry scorecards, Five Forces industry analysis, market overview, value, segmentation, share, and forecasts, and the competitive landscape. Special features: M&A data which can be searched or tracked, and, the Interactive Consumer Database with market data and forecasts on values, volumes, growth, brand & company shares.

Global Market Information Database

The Walker Library has added a new data resource to our offerings. Euromonitor’s Global Market Information Database (GMID) contains 1M+ demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries. The historic and forecast data enable you to analyze trends from 1977-2016 with 6 years of historical data and 5 year forecasts. Unique country rankings help you to gauge one country’s position in the world relative to another. For each country, GMID covers economic data, and, lifestyle indicators such as disposable income, consumer trends, eating and drinking habits, home ownership statistics and health data. It also includes 4,500 market research reports on industries, consumer lifestyles and retailing for 71 countries.

Database Trial: Mintel Reports

We are conducting a trial of the database, Mintel Reports. We would love your feedback on the resource.

Database Summary

Mintel provides business to consumer market research for lifestyles, food, drink, finance, travel, clothing/fashion, health/medical, beauty/personal, household products, personal services, automotive, electronics, and more. Reports provide market size, drivers, and trends, segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and forecasts. The majority of reports cover US and UK, there are also some other western European nations represented. Simmons National Consumer Survey (NCS) data is incorporated into many reports.

Trial Dates

Wednesday August 1st - Wednesday August 8th

Access

To take a look at the database point your browser to: http://oxygenacademic.mintel.com/ (the trial is only available on campus). Next you will see “Academic Login Successful” followed by the standard terms and conditions. Click on “I Agree” to the standard academic terms and conditions.
During the trial period, we will not be able to download any information from the website. If we do decide to subscribe to Mintel Reports, we would have the ability to download reports, section by section, as well as the graphs and tables. We would also have remote/off-campus access. In addition, if we do purchase the product our subscription would stipulate that every user set up a “profile” and log into their profile each time they access the database.

Please provide feedback about the database.

Please also feel free to contact asklibrarians@owen.vanderbilt.edu if you have any questions or issues.

National Library Week and Free Access to Several Databases

Thomson Gale, a major provider of databases, is celebrating America’s libraries during National Library Week by providing FREE access to ALL their online resources from April 15th to April 21st.

Out of the hundreds of databases they offer, here are some that may be of interest. Please remember that these are free THIS WEEK ONLY!

• Biography Resource Center
• Business and Company Resource Center
• Business and Company Profile ASAP
• Business and Industry (WML currently subscribes to this!)
• Business and Management Practices
• Business ASAP International
• Business Reference Suite
• Small Business eCollection
• Small Business Resource Center
• Tablebase (WML currents subscribes to this!)

To gain one week access to these resources, visit http://access.gale.com/nlw2007/ and just fill out the info. Be sure to uncheck the box for for information about special offers and products and services. You’ll then be taken to all available Thomson Gale databases.

Also, Tuesday, April 17th is National Library Worker’s Day. Have you hugged a librarian lately?

Daylight Savings is Disruptive to Some Library Resources

The 2005 Energy Policy Act, which moves Daylight Saving Time forward by about three weeks to March 11, is unfortunately causing mayhem to many computer systems and Outlook calendars across the US.  The change in DST will not only be affecting your Outlook calendars, but it potentially will be affecting access to many of the library’s resources.

For example, ScienceDirect will be unavailable for a planned period of downtime on Sunday, March 11, 2007 for approximately 7 hours starting at midnight.  This is to adjust the system to take account the change to DST. There potentially will be other downtimes of many of our resources.
We hope that by providing this advance notice we can help minimize any inconvenience to you.  If you have any questions about this or are continuing to have difficulty accessing library databases, please let us know by emailing asklibrarians@owen.vanderbilt.edu.

Thank you for your continued patience.