One of the special resources which the Frank Lowy Library provides to MBA, Executive MBA and PhD students at the Australian School of Business (this is the new name of the AGSM since its merger with the UNSW Faculty and Commerce and Economics) is access to IBISWorld Industry Reports.
IBISWorld Industry reports are popular because they're viewed as authoritative, comprehensive and time-saving. IBISWorld Industry reports are a premium resource (if you were wanting buy one of these reports for yourself or your company, the whole thing would set you back upwards of $A 700), and so the Library has needed to limit access. This is the reason why a librarian needs to approve requests to open IBISWorld reports. It is always difficult for Library staff to say no to students, but we believe our practices to be as fair as possible, ensuring that the greatest number of students have the opportunity to benefit from IBISWorld Industry reports when needed.
- Only IBISWorld Australian industry market research reports are opened. Yes, IBISWorld offers many products, including US industry market research reports, and company research reports, but the Library has access to other resources which serve these areas at least as well as the IBISWorld reports.
- There will be instances when alternative resources answer the question better than the IBISWorld industry report. When this happens, the IBISWorld industry report will not be opened, but Library will help you locate these other resources.
- Generally no more than one IBISWorld industry report can be opened per student in a financial year.
One thing worth noting is that once an IBISWorld report has been opened for one student, it can be viewed an unlimited number of times during that financial year. Because we're approaching the end of the 2006-2007 financial year, there is a large number of reports which are already opened and can be viewed easily by Frank Lowy Library users. But come July 1, all of these opened reports will be closed again - except for the ten most popular reports.
Watch this blog for more hints and tips about using IBISWorld reports effectively.
3 comments:
Great to see the rationale on how the Library's manages their IBISWorld subscription up where everyone can see it! We can refer students to this blog entry whenever they have questions about IBISWorld reports. Well done!
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