The separate VentureXpert web site has been withdrawn by Thomson Reuters and added to Thomson Analytics. Follow the VentureXpert web link in the usual way and then use the Thomson Analytics button (top RH corner of the Investext service page) to access Thomson Analytics. Then open the Private Equity link in the bottom left-hand content menu, to access VentureXpert Web content.
Clock on Profiles to see the options to search by companies, funds, firms etc.
Who's Who, is among the world's most recognised and respected works of reference and has been
published annually since 1849.
It contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide.
The 2009 edition includes 845 new entries including a number in the fields of business and finance, manufacturing and industry, technology, scholarship, and the media.
Who's Who is now listed in the A-Z list of Databases in Portal - available to staff, students and faculty of the London Business School.
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Hybrid cars - market and industry data
Asked about the best resources for researching the hybrid car market provides an opportunity to share information on some key research databases . The resources are avaiable to current students (Staff and Faculty) at the London Business School.
Frost & Sullivan - A great database when it covers the area you are interested in and for this topic it does! Use the Advance Search option - limit to the automarket area and search for hybrid.
Global Insight – I usually come to this database for country research but our subscription includes several specialised areas and one is auto! Start with hybrid and use their filters to refine you search ie to the auto industry and market trends and data.
Business Monitor International – This is another country database but is also has special sections on auto. Us the advance search option – top right (small print) and search for hybrid within the auto area.
360 Search - To search the full text of newspapers, trade and profession press, and academic journals you would need to try Factiva and Business Source Complete. 360 Search is a meta search engine that covers these databases and several more, simultaneously through one simplified interface.
Investext - Analysts Reports - by city analysts and others - always worth a look. Change the date (or it defaults to the last 90 days) look up the industry - here is it automobile and search for hybrid free text. If you only wantt industry reports not individual company reports alter the Report Type accordingly.
All these products are availabe to current students (Staff and Faculty) at the London Business School through the Portal.
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Business Monitor Online is a service new to London Business School students, staff, faculty and alumni.
It provides; country risk, Industry analysis and company intelligence.
It offers intra-daily news and analysis; country risk assessment; financial markets analysis and macroeconomic data and forecasts. Statistical time series can be downloaded separately.
The industry research covers: autos, chemicals, commercial banking, defence & security, food & drink, freight transport, information technology, infrastructure, insurance, oil & gas, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and tourism.
The London Business School community can find the database in the Library Services section of Portal in the A-Z list of databases.
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"Investing without research is like playing poker and never looking at the cards."
Read the full text of recent company, market and sector analysis and commentary. Written by analysts at more than 1000 investment banking and independent research firms. Searchable by industry, region, contributor and now keywords in title or full-text.
Thomson Reuters Investext is accessible through Portal to staff, students and faculty of the London Business School.
Quotation: Peter Lynch
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EarlyCite is Emerald’s online, pre-publication service that enables customers to access journal articles prior to official publication.
Papers will be made available at least three months and, in some cases, as much as one year before they appear in the hard copy and final online journal issue. A phenomenon of academic journal publishing is that articles can often be held in a queue, awaiting publication for many months until an issue becomes available.
Benefits for authors and users
Through EarlyCite, authors’ research will be disseminated, read and potentially cited earlier. Similarly, users have earlier access to the up-to-date research.
EarlyCite articles are fully peer-reviewed and are made available online before they undergo the full sub-editing and page-proofing stages. Once the final copy of the article is ready for publication, it replaces the EarlyCite version. Every EarlyCite paper is assigned to an issue, which enables correct referencing.
Currently, 55 journals are expected to publish articles from forthcoming issues through EarlyCite. The rest of the 200-strong Emerald journal collection will be rolled out over the coming months. Articles will be added as they are assigned to an issue.
Click here for further information
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RGE Monitor - Insightful commentary on recent economic and financial events.
Roubini Global Economics (RGE Monitor) provides a global perspective on economic issues, policies, and debates, covering over 130 different topics and 50 countries. The web site combines macroeconomic research, commentary, analysis, news, internet blogs and data. It offers a simple way to keep up to date plus with the advantage of meaningful commentary.
Staff, students and faculty can access this service if they register first by going to the link in the library A-Z list of Databases
Recent coverage:
TIC Data and the U.S. Deficit: Foreigners Fleeing Agencies
The Fallout Continues: Money Market Rates Double
Asian Central Banks Step into Money Markets to Contain Liquidity Shocks From U.S. Credit Turmoil
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Be environmentally informed - useGreenFILE
GreenFILE focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.
Find it in Portal>Library>A-Z List of Databases
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Keep up to date with an industry, topic, company or a specific journal's coverage using the alerting options in Business SOurce Complete.
Business Source Complete is our key database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. But did you know that it can provide a tailored alerting service?
Just run a search in the usual way and then click on the RSS : Create alert for this search
If you want to know when the latest issue of a journal is available enter the name of the journal and click on the publications radio button.If you wish to receive RSS feeds click on the RSS icon and you will see the syndication feed link.
Business Source Complete is available to all faculty, current students and staff of the London Business School.
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Database of the month: Foundations and Trends
Foundations and Trends offers state-of-the-art review articles by opinion/research leaders in their field. Each article is intended to put primary research into context, improving researchers' and students' understanding of the original literature.
Use this source to:Identify the most important work in a field; put published work into context; find a trusted starting point to a subject; get references hyperlinked to the original work.
We have access to the following business areas:
- Accounting
- Econometrics
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Microeconomics
- Marketing
- Technology, Information and Operations Management
Plus a number of technical areas including:
- Communications and Information Theory
- Information Retrieval
- Web Science
- Networking and more...
Recently added articles include:
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Get closer - use proximity operators!
Although databases usually offer sophisticated indexing to help accurate searching, you often need to use free text terms too.
Two of our most popular and useful databses: Factiva and Business Source Complete allow you to search for words as phrases (you can put them in double quotes to be sure.) But did you realise that you can search for words that are close to one another although they can be separated by several words. Alter the number to indicate how many words apart you think might apply.
If you want to find:
Use -Business Source Complete: market n5 share . The words can be up to five words apart and in any order. To keep the words in the given order use: w5 instead
In Factiva use: market near5 share to operate in the same way and w/5 to keep the order entered.
You may also know that the truncation device is an asterisk. So invest* will get investment, investments, investing, investor etc.
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Copernic - cover more of the web!
Despite the range of databases made available to students at the London Business School there are still many occasions when you have to search the Web. Most of us will just "Google it!" but have you tried Copernic?
Copernic makes it easier and faster for people to find information by gathering the most relevant results from the best search engines on the Internet.
There are different levels of product available and I only have access to the free Copernic Agent basic which:
..gives you the ability to cover more of the Web and to get relevant, high quality results from more than 90 search engines grouped into categories. From a single query, Copernic Agent Basic gives you better search engine results by consulting multiple search engines at once, combining their results, removing duplicates and keeping only the very best of the information gathered from queried search engines.
Highly recommeded - when you need to search the web thoroughly.
PI Filings
PI filings is a global financial database containing indexed and tagged corporate financial documents including:
Annual reports; bond prospectuses: IPO and M& A documents; news announcements; shareholder filings; regulatory accounts and SEC Filings.
You can search by type of document or by classification in order to locate documents (or news announcements) dealing with board changes, incorporate, new issues, results and much more.
We do not subscribe to the private company data but for further detail about the coverage go to:
It available to all current students, staff and faculty via portal.
Capital IQ provides useful data to help with an event study.
Do a simple company name search and pick Annotated Stock Chart from the list of options on the right hand menu. You can alter the date range and pick which events you want to see displayed on the graph.
If you then click on the Excel icon it downloads the graph and also the underlying price data and volume for the period covered, plus a corporate timeline with a list of the key developments and their dates.
Using CIQ you can also search for key events/transations - for example to find the dates of announced mergers in the banking industry in Europe in the last year. Use the Screening tab and pick key developments option.
If you want to learn more come to a training session. They are advertised in Portal and on the Help and Advice section of the Library section in Portal.
Please note - Capital IQ requires prior registration.
Find Capital IQ in the A-Z list of databases and you will see the application link.
Also it can only be used on campus - but it's worth it!
At Easter our thoughts turn to chocolate..but which countries spend the most on sugar and confectionary?
If you want to see if yoour guess is correct - and maybe look up the obesity rates and life expectancy at the same time try Euromonitor's GMID (Global Market Information)Database.
GMID Covers:
4 million+ statistics on industries, countries and consumers
15,000 industry, company, country and consumer reports
Daily articles offering topical reaction to news events
25,000 sources of further research information
Market share and brand share rankings
205 countries
It is available on and off campus through Portal.
Top tip - if you want to find a report on an industry and are having trouble click on the search button top left. Choose text search - enter the word or phrase and then click on the button that says Body in order to search the full text of the reports.
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Article Finder - locate journal articles
Enter the name of a known journal and the sytem checks if you are able to access the full text electronically. It also checks our print collect.
There is an option to browse by subject/category or you can try looking for any journal titles containing a given word.
Students, staff and faculty - don't give up if we do not have the journal - we can obtain a specific article for you on inter-library loan. To place an order using the request items option on the Library catalogue home page.
Portal>Library>Top search Tools>Article Finder
...Leap year is that it is the only time that a woman may propose marriage to a man, rather than what was considered to be the natural order of things: the other way round. This was often called ‘The Ladies' Privilege’.
At the time of writing, it is probably true to say that younger English people would not be aware of the belief if the media did not run features on the subject every fourth February. In previous times, when relationships between the sexes were more rigid and formal, there were a number of subsidiary beliefs surrounding the Ladies’ Privilege. Some said that it was only on Leap Year day, that is 29 February, that it was valid, while others believed that a man proposed to in this way could not refuse, except on substantial payment—a silk gown, or £ 100, and so on. Indeed, it was widely reported (erroneously) that there had been a Scottish Act of Parliament in the 13th century making this legally binding...
Extract from Oxford Reference.
The Library databases in Portal include a number of reference colletions providing electronic full text dictionaries and encyclopaedias. The include dictionaries of English and foreign languages, encyclopaedias on countries and antiques as well as general topics, Also dictionaries on science, technology, finance, food, law, quotations, politics and more!
Take a look at Credo Reference and Oxford Reference.
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Taking a look at love on Valentine's Day.
The Library has a large collection of E-Journals. These not only cover business, management, finance and economics but also a huge number of journals in the sciences and social sciences - especially sociology, and psychology.
To find out if we have a named journal - use Article Finder: Portal>Library>Top Research Tools
Speed-dating as an invaluable tool for studying romantic attraction: A methodological primer. Personal Relationships, Mar2007, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p149-166, 18p,
To Know You Is to Love You: The Implications of Global Adoration and Specific Accuracy for Marital Relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 88(3), Mar 2005. pp. 480-497.
And many many more....
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Researching China's economy - a few pointers
For current students, staff and faculty.
Portal >Library>Databases by subject >countries also
Portal >Library>Help and Advice>Research Resource Guides>country profiles (and also the economics guide)
Databases I would try first:
If you are a member of the school community and need help with your research you can email us for help: libresearch@london.edu
Financial Advisors - League Tables from Thomson Deals
If you need to know where a financial advisor ranks in completed M&A deals over the last year, or the top ten advisors for global high yield bonds in the last quarter you can find the answer easily using Thomson Deals. Go to Portal>Library>A-Z List of databases>Thomson Deals. (Do not forget you can add it to your favourites in Portal for quick access later.) It is available on and off campus.
Top Tip
You will see two tabs (top left) click on the Deals tab. There are three categores: M&A, Equity and Bonds. Changing these options will take you initially to the overview page This includes a range of useful tables with clickable links for more detail. Scroll down the page for the ranked advisors.
If you need further ranking data you will see a list of options below the menu tab - click on the one called League Tables.
For a quick guide on how to use Thomson deals go to: Portal>Library>Help and Advice>Helpsheets for databases.
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The University of Manchester's national data centre Mimas is set to launch an Internet search engine rivalling Google at the end of January. The free service will add thousands of documents to the 'Intute' service which already allows academics, teachers, researchers and students to search for information relating specifically to their subject area.
The launch follows high profile criticism by a senior academic at Brighton University, who argued that students need to be taught to challenge the facts taken from Google or Wikipedia. At the end of January, researchers will be able to automatically access papers from research databases within universities and other institutions.
The £1.5 million per year collaboration between seven UK universities and partners enlists a team of full-time specialists who are scouring the Internet. They are backed by an army of PhD students and a range of organisations, including the Wellcome Trust, who have added their own information to the Intute database.
Intute also provides free Internet tutorials in a 'Virtual Training Suite' to help students learn how to get the best from the web. It is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and The Arts and Humanities Research Council. Intute's new content will be harvested automatically using purposely designed software from trustworthy sources, primarily UK university research databases and repositories.
Press Release:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=130085
Intute:
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Also from the Intute Blog: Google Scholar not scholarly enough?
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RGE Monitor has been called the "best economic website in the world" but it does consider the issues that financial professionals need to know to stay ahead of the game.
This recent Hedge Fund round up brings together the research,commentary, analysis and news that RGE Monitor specialises in. It includes:
RGE Monitor is available to current students, staff and faculty but prior registration is required.
It can be found in Portal>Library>A-Z list of Databases
What is Wassailing?
Find out about the origin of the word, the traditions involved, and the food and drink associated with this old English custom which: "... involves lively and noisy festivities involving the drinking of plentiful amounts of alcohol; revelry."
(From The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)
Wassail! wassail! all over the town,
Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown;
Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree;
Oxford Reference is available as one of our databases in Portal. It provides a reference library covering a huge range of topics: art, languages, science, technical and medical dictionaries, quotations, religion, finance, statistics, folklore, religion and much more...
A periodic table of visualization methods
This brings together a wide range of visualisation tools which have been divided into six categories:
Here you can look at examples in each category - so if you want to know what: an Ishikawa or fishbone map looks like or a Toulin map, or a dilemma diagramme or a parameter ruler or....many more.
It is both potentially useful and great fun. Take a look at it at: visual literacy.org
Global economic outlook for 2008 - will the world economy withstand the U.S Subprime fallout?
Although global GDP growth in Q3 was the best in a year and a half, we are now entering a phase of significant weakness as the subprime crisis ripples through the global economy (IIF)
Real world GDP growth:
If you are a current student (or staff or faculty) and are interested in keeping up to date with global economics then you should check out Roubini Global Economics which offers up to date news and informed commentary. You can visit the website, read their own commentaries, link to reports by major institutions and request email alerts to important content or their Daily Digest.
RGE Monitor has been named one of the world's best economics websites by BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
Registration is required. Go to: Portal>Library>A-Z list of databases>RGE Monitor Registration
Investment Property Databank (IPD) time series
Time series data from the Investment Property Databank (IPD) can be downloaded from Datastream. This service is available to current staff and students only - and must be accessed in the Library. It can be tricky to locate. Go to Datastream AFO and then:
Forrester have just released an IT Trends report on desktop virtualisation.
Ask your desktop operations pros whether or not their job is getting easier and they'll be the first to tell you that they have their hands full. Despite concerted efforts to standardize and simplify, today's corporate computing environment is still too complex and difficult to maintain. Vendors like Altiris (acquired by Symantec) and LANDesk tried to solve the problem with a variety of tools to help you keep all the distributed PC ducks in a row, while Citrix and Wyse offered a path to centralization and uniformity through server-based computing. In the end, neither was the perfect fit for every user scenario. Now, VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft are creating alternative solutions built with the same virtualization technology that is redefining the server environment, but with a very different design point. In the end, Forrester's data shows that the larger the enterprise, the more complex and costly the PC environment. And it is these companies that are leading the way in deploying the latest generation of client virtualization technologies.
Forrest is an independent technology and market research company that focuses on the business implications of technology change. Forrester Research is available to current staff and students via Portal. N.B. Pre-Registration is required.
Go to Portal>Library>A-Z list of Databases>Forrester Registration
VentureXpert is available through Portal to current staff and students both on and off campus.
It is the only database application officially endorsed by the Nationall Venture Capital Association and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Moneytree Survey.
You can use it to identify prospective investors and look at their investment histories
To find out about other venture capital and private equity resources go to:
Portal>Library Help and Advice>Research Resource Guides>
Risk.net
Risk.net, designed to complement Risk magazine, is a unique resource dedicated to anyone who needs to manage risk. Risk.net now allows members to access the full content from Risk magazine, including all special reports and topical supplements, as well as a searchable archive of past issues of Risk.
Compliance Week
Compliance Week is a newsletter and monthly print magazine on corporate governance, risk and compliance that reaches over 20,000 financial and legal executives at public companies.
Scroll right down to the bottom of the page to find the option to search back issues.
Science
Science, published by the AAAS - the American Association for the Advancement of Science - is the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research. It is international in scope with some 35 to 40 percent of the corresponding authors on its papers based outside the United States and its articles consistently rank among world's most cited research
