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Upcoming Bloomberg Friday Topics

Workshops are held in the Cutler Center/Horn Library at 2 p.m. 11/1    Bond Basics in Bloomberg 11/8    Bloomberg apps for use in Babson classes 11/15  Creating and analyzing your portfolio in Bloomberg 11/22  Data downloading and Excel templates in Bloomberg

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Frost & Sullivan Market Research Trial Access

Need market research in healthcare, energy, technology, and more?  One of our current sources for this is BCC Research but till Nov. 25th we have trial access to Frost & Sullivan’s reports and analysis. Give it a try and let us know what you think.  Also try your search in BCC Research to compare the…

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New Company & Healthcare Professionals Database: AtoZ Databases

AtoZ Databases is a new resource you can use for business planning and job searches.  Similar to ReferenceUSA, you can either look up individual companies or screen by industry, location, size, and other factors such as whether the company is minority- or female-owned or whether it’s an importer or exporter. AtoZ Databases also includes a…

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Need statistics? Try Statista, our new database!

Statista is a statistical portal covering over 60,000 topics on a global scale. It includes data on over 600 international industries. Sources include market research firms, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases. Topical “dossiers” pull together relevant data into presentations. Access Statista from the Library’s Databases A-Z page or give it a try right…

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New Database: ImportGenius

ImportGenius is a great tool for identifying buyers and suppliers, tracking shipments of goods across the globe, tracking product supply chains, viewing supply networks, and more. The information is based on shipping manifests and customs data from the US, various Latin American countries, and India, with global coverage of shipping ports of origin. Find ImportGenius…

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New: Campus-wide access to Economist.com

Horn Library has purchased a site license to Economist.com, providing online access to current as well as back issues of The Economist.  This is available directly from the Library’s website.  The Economist joins the Financial Times and Boston Business Journal for easy access to global and local business news. 

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Netlibrary books and e-audiobooks now on EBSCOhost!

EBSCO acquired Netlibrary, and these collections are now called eBook Collection and Audiobook Collection and reside on the EBSCOhost platform just like other EBSCOhost databases.  Details about how to search, view, and download e-books and e-audiobooks from EBSCO are in this database guide.  

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SimplyMap enhancements make it easy to use!

Check out SimplyMap 2.0: New wizards take you through the process of creating maps, tables, and rankings, so that this complex tool is much easier to use than before.  What is SimplyMap?  It’s a mapping tool for demographic and consumer data (but you don’t have to create a map — you can see your results in…