Google Finance

Another one for management students here. Last week I mentioned Yahoo Finance as a useful source of financial information. Well, some of you may have also come across Google Finance - another good source of stock market, share price, and company information.

NEW: Emerald Management Extra 150

The Library have subscribed to an online collection of Emerald journals (mostly business and management but also some engineering titles) for many years now. In that time, Emerald has launched or acquired many new journals but these have not been added to our subscribed collection.

Following a successful bid to the discretionary fund we have now paid for access to the Emerald Management Extra 150 (EMX 150) until the end of 2008. This means that we now have access to over 50 additional Emerald titles.

We will monitor usage of all Emerald journals for the remainder of this year so that we can decide which is the most suitable collection in future years.

Yahoo Finance - take a look!

Are you a management student looking for financial information? As you will know, the Library provides excellent, quality sources for your research and they are a real asset to your University of Liverpool programme. However, there are of course other resources out there that are also valuable to your research and these are also worth taking a look at. One excellent web site is Yahoo Finance. This site provides an array of financial resources, including news stories, financial reports and financial statistics.

There are more useful web sites listed on this Library page. If you have web sites that you have found helpful in your research, why not post a message to the blog and let everyone know :-)

Use FAME for UK & Irish company information

Management students may find the Library database, FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy), helpful for their research. FAME gives access to information on up to 1.8 million UK & Irish public & private companies. For the top 500,000 of these companies, up to 10 years information is available.

To access FAME, login to the University portal for online students & staff and select the search option 'Search for Library database titles' and type in FAME; or go to the Online Library home page and use the 'Search for Library database titles' search option. Add your MWS username and password when prompted to get access.

There is a short guide to getting started with FAME.

TRIAL: Business Monitor Online

The Library have a trial of Business Monitor Online until 28th Feb.

To access this trial go to http://www.businessmonitor.com/login/ and login with the trial username and password (add your MWS username and password to view this).

Business Monitor Online offers total and up-to-the-minute access to BMI's content: daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly services covering political risk, finance, macroeconomic performance, outlook and forecast, industry sectors and the business operating environment. It offers sophisticated search, download and navigation tools for all of BMI's analysis, data, forecasts, ratings and reports on more than 175 countries.

After trying Business Monitor Online please leave a comment.

TRIAL: Factiva

We have a trial of Factiva until 12th July 2007.

To access this trial go to Factiva (type in your Managed Windows Service (MWS) username and password when prompted).

Factiva, from Dow Jones, provides essential business news and information. Factiva’s unrivaled collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles.

After trying Factiva, please leave a comment.

TRIAL: WARC - World Advertising Research Center

The Library have a trial of WARC.com until 8th June 2007.

WARC.com is a source of intelligence for the marketing, advertising, media and research communities, drawn from more than 40 international sources, including WARC’s own publications such as Admap as well those of its partners, which include The Advertising Research Foundation, ESOMAR, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and many more.

WARC.com contains over 45,000 articles, case studies, research papers, news reports and summaries, augmented with best practice papers, practical guides and statistical data.

To access this trial go to WARC and login with the trial username and password (before you can access this you will be asked to add your Managed Windows Service username and password)

After trying WARC.com, please leave a comment.

ABI/INFORM Select no longer available through Library - use Business Source Premier

Please may I remind everyone that the database ABI/INFORM Select is no longer available from the Library and it has been replaced by the much larger management and business database, Business Source Premier.

This is an excellent source which provides access to the full text for more than 8,800 journals (including Harvard Business Review), as well as market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. It is available from the Management Collections page and there is a short guide to using it.

Don't forget to use the Library Login box to the left of the page to login to Athens using your Managed Windows Service (MWS) username and password before you connect to it.

Interested in TV commercials? Try DAVID Reviews

The Library now has access to DAVID reviews. This resource allows you to view/analyse over 10,000 TV commercials and find out who produced them etc. All comercials are presented in 16:9 widescreen at near broadcast quality.

To use this resource you must first register and you will be given a PIN number to use. When you register you MUST please use your University of Liverpool email address - @liverpool.ac.uk , @liv.ac.uk or @student.liverpool.ac..uk - NOT your embanet email address or any other email address.

Access is via the Management Collections page.