Databases

Business Market Research Collection

Are you wondering whether we still have access to Hoover’s Company Profiles? Yes, we still have Hoover’s but, as part of ProQuest’s simplification process, Hoover’s Company Profiles are now part of the Business Market Research Collection (BMRC), which brings four sources together to help students more easily conduct the research they need to produce business […]

Bloomberg terminals and data limits at Sauder

David Lam Library at UBC Sauder provides access to Bloomberg terminals in Wayne Deans Investment Analysis Centre (WDIAC) and Leith Wheeler lab (Room 222 in the Canaccord Learning Commons). The terminals in WDIAC are for Sauder student use only. The terminals can be booked online (select Book Lab Terminals under Canaccord Learning Commons). Please note […]

Database spotlight: Vividata

Have you discovered that our library subscribes to Vividata (formerly “Print Measurement Bureau” or PMB)? This database includes information on Canadians’ usage of over 3500 products and services. Information includes their demographics, attitudes, media consumption, retail outlets, frequency of usage and (when sponsored) the brands they use. This database has a newly redesigned interface. Once […]

SimplyMap : A cool interactive map tool

Have you discovered that our library subscribes to SimplyMap, an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables? This tool is incredibly valuable for market research in both Canada and the United States. It allows you to generate both maps and […]

Trial Access to New Databases: Genderwatch and Nikkei Telecom 21

UBC Library is currently providing trial access to the following databases: Genderwatch: covers over 300 titles from an array of academic, radical, community and independent presses on issues related to gender and women’s studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) research. Researchers may access more than 219,000 full articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, […]

Worldscope added to Datastream

Thomson’s Worldscope database has been added to our corporate financial subscriptions. Worldscope offers fundamental data on the world’s leading public and private companies, including annual and interim/quarterly data, detailed historical financial statement content, per share data, calculated ratios, pricing and textual information. Components include: Full constituent coverage of the major benchmark indexes worldwide; as reported […]

Unique method of searching SSRN.com

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN.com) disseminates scholarly papers in the social sciences and provides an abstracting service which sends out announcements of new papers, typically long before they are published. SSRN.com is a premier venue for business faculty research, and contains many working papers published at the Sauder School of Business. One database subscribed to […]

Enhance your classwork with streaming videos

Two streaming video databases are available to Sauder School instructors for use in preparing courses. Films on Demand is a multidisciplinary database of videos on various topics including business. Instructors can create playlists, easily clip segments from longer videos, embed those segments in Connect, show segments in class, create persistent links, etc. VAST is Alexander […]

New database trial

A trial has been arranged by a Sauder faculty member to the WRDS SEC Analytics Suite via WRDS. WRDS SEC Analytics Suite simplifies research by allowing researchers to quickly and easily develop tailored datasets from all SEC filings, parsing millions of regulatory reports based on custom criteria. WRDS SEC Analytics Suite is positioned for broad business […]

Statistical Support for Grad Students

This fall, graduate students will be able to receive one-on-one consultations and workshops related to statistical software support. The UBC Library has equipped Koerner 217 with Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) software on all workstations, which allows the new services to be rolled out beginning in the fall term. Details of workshops and one-on-one […]