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New Business Podcasts Guide

Do you like listening to podcasts? Are you trying to find podcasts on business topics? Check out our new guide — Listen to This: Podcasts — which lists a wide variety of sources for business podcasts, including topics like entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, women in business, and more!

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Is Your Research Country-Specific? We Have Some Great Resources for You!

Did you know that Horn Library subscribes to several research sources that provide in-depth analyses of the political and economic landscapes in various countries?  Check out these links: BMI Research — look for their country risk reports which are updated quarterly and provide political and economic SWOT analyses, plus data. Emerging Markets Information Service —…

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Looking for statistics? Try Statista!

Statista has lots of industry, market, and economic statistics from major countries around the world, plus “dossiers” of related data on a variety of topics.  It’s very easy to use, provides details about and links to the original sources of the data, provides proper citations, and allows for easy exporting of graphs and charts. Statista…

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Win a $1,000 Scholarship from Marketresearch.com!

If you’re interested in marketing, market research, or information sciences, you’re eligible to apply! One of the requirements is to submit an essay that addresses the following questions:  In your opinion, what are the biggest challenges that market researchers and data scientists will face in the future? What are some potential ways to confront these challenges?…

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Kanopy: Streaming Films Resource Now Available

Horn Library now provides access to a Netflix-like streaming video resource called Kanopy.  Kanopy is an on-demand streaming media service that offers award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, as well as foreign films and more.  It covers all disciplines and all films come with performance rights.  It’s easy to…

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New! Equity Analyst Reports from Capital IQ (Aftermarket Research)

Called Aftermarket Research, this new resource replaces the Investext collection we previously accessed through ThomsonOne’s research module.  Thousands of analyst reports from well known as well as smaller, local brokerage and market research providers across the globe are now available to us and provide in-depth company and industry analyses of equity markets. Find the link…

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Looking for free economic data?

While Horn Library subscribes to a variety of data aggregation resources, among them Euromonitor, IHS Global Insight’s Data-Insight, Statista, Data-Planet, and more, sometimes it’s helpful to get data directly from the source.  Here are some free data sites: World Bank 10 different ways to access their data; best are http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx (full databanks with 50-60 years…

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Web of Science iPhone App from Thomson Reuters

INTRODUCING REFSCAN for iPhone powered by Web of KnowledgeSM and EndNote® Scan, search, and save scholarly literature on the go!  RefScan lets you search for and capture your references.  Scan a DOI (digital object identifier), access the references’ bibliographic information and times cited counts from Web of Knowledge, and save them to an EndNote Web account —…

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