We have trial access through November to First Research, a Dun & Bradstreet company.  First Research delivers information and insight on over 700 business industry segments.  Each industry profile contains:

Comprehensive Overviews and Recent News
Trends, Opportunities and Competition
Human Resources and Labor Statistics
Products, Operations and Technology

 
Let us know what you think about this research!  Here’s the access [...]

Gale’s LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER:   http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mlin_m_babson?db=LitRC
Password: pantaray
Active through 6/13/2009
 
ProQuest’s Literature Online (LION): http://lion.chadwyck.com
Active through June
 
We are comparing these databases to our existing literature databases:
EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center
Contemporary Literary Criticism – Select.

Let us know which you think is the best! 

SRDS has numerous products that report on advertising rates and data.  We currently have trial access, through the end of March, to the following services:
Link for accessing these products:  http://ezproxy.babson.edu/login?url=http://www.srds.com/library/  
·         Newspaper Advertising Source
·         Consumer Magazine Advertising Source
·         Business Publication Advertising Source
·         Out of Home Advertising Source
·         Print Media Production Source
·         Radio Advertising Source
·         TV & [...]

Through the end of March, we have trial access to the following titles:

Directory of Venture Capital Firms
Business Information Resources
Environmental Resource Directory
Food & Beverage Marketplace
Sports Marketplace
Business to Business Catalogs
Directory of Mail Order Catalogs

Check it out:   http://gold.greyhouse.com/
Client Id: babson
Username: trial
Password: welcome
 
Users Guide Link:  http://gold.greyhouse.com/page/help
Let us know what you think!

The trial runs through Feb 28th, 2009.
Access Global Economic Monitor.
Global Economic Monitor is a one-stop portal for analysis of current economic trends and economic and financial indicators. It features up-to-date analysis on global economic conditions, including a daily brief and event-driven focus reports, direct access to high-frequency datasets via Quick Query, forecasts for commodity [...]

Our current trial to iPoll runs through FEb. 8th.
Access iPoll.
“iPOLL is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion available today. A full-text retrieval system, iPOLL is organized at the question-level providing the tools to sift through half a million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935. iPOLL’s online [...]

Babson’s trial access to Global Issues in Context runs through Feb. 13th.
Access Global Issues in Context.
“Global Issues in Context is a new e-resource that offers global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance and provides background information on them, placing them in context. It offers students the ability to develop the framework [...]

Babson’s trial access to CQ Global Researcher runs through February 13th.
Access CQ Global Researcher.
“CQ Global Researcher authoritatively delivers the world as it is: multi-dimensional and nuanced.   Like the CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher presents single-topic reports that hone in on current crises and events—this time on an international level—in a way at once digestible and [...]

We have trials to three more EBSCOhost databases this month:

Econlit with Full-Text: EconLit with Full Text contains all of the content available in EconLit, plus full text for many journals including titles from the American Economic Association, including: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. This database also includes many [...]