Before franklly was a blog, it was the name of the Library's newsletter. There's a new issue of the newsletter available right now (pdf file). This issue is mainly about doing industry research. Using the Australian wine industry as an example, the newsletter has useful information about using Australian Bureau of Statistics data and subscription library databases (Business Source Premier, Factiva and Global Market Information Database) and other web resources to find industry information. Previous issues of the newsletter are available on the Library's website.
Showing posts with label Business Source Premier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business Source Premier. Show all posts
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Business Source Premier
The database covers reputable international business publications including the world’s top management and marketing journals, as well as magazines in the fields of management, economics, banking, finance, accounting, international business, and other related disciplines.
Full-text access has steadily increased the number of titles indexed and abstracted, with over 8,000 journal titles now accessible. Additional non-journal full-text content includes: market research reports, industry profiles, country economic reports & surveys, detailed company profiles for the world’s 5,000 largest companies, and SWOT analyses.
The database is easy to use and the content is being updated constantly.
Searching
If you stay in the Basic default search (using subject terms, random keywords), BSP provides a useful display that allows you to filter your results quickly and easily by type.
For example, a keyword search on, will bring up results listed in date order, which you can scroll through. If you have more than 50 hits on your search, you can refine your search with more keywords, or use the hyperlinks that appear on the left-hand side of the screen. The screen shot below shows the associated subjects that were returned for the ‘transport’ query
The database also clusters results into categories for you. The search on sorted the results into the following categories, all hyperlinked to a treasure-trove of content.
Academic Journals Trade Publications Magazines Company Profiles SWOT Analyses Country Reports
Industry Profiles Market Research Reports Product Reviews
Personalise feature
To save searches and results for future sessions, it’s worth taking a few minutes to create a personalised sign-in, which gives you access to a personal area you can use to collect your search strategies and search results into your own personal folder, called My Folder.
Once you’ve done this, saving your search results is easy. Just click on the button appearing just to the right of your search results, and the items are automatically added to your personalised folder only you can access.
[This post was adapted from issue 3 of Franklly: Newsletter of the Frank Lowy Library]
Full-text access has steadily increased the number of titles indexed and abstracted, with over 8,000 journal titles now accessible. Additional non-journal full-text content includes: market research reports, industry profiles, country economic reports & surveys, detailed company profiles for the world’s 5,000 largest companies, and SWOT analyses.
The database is easy to use and the content is being updated constantly.
Searching
If you stay in the Basic default search (using subject terms, random keywords), BSP provides a useful display that allows you to filter your results quickly and easily by type.
For example, a keyword search on
The database also clusters results into categories for you. The search on
Academic Journals Trade Publications Magazines Company Profiles SWOT Analyses Country Reports
Industry Profiles Market Research Reports Product Reviews
Personalise feature
To save searches and results for future sessions, it’s worth taking a few minutes to create a personalised sign-in, which gives you access to a personal area you can use to collect your search strategies and search results into your own personal folder, called My Folder.
Once you’ve done this, saving your search results is easy. Just click on the button appearing just to the right of your search results, and the items are automatically added to your personalised folder only you can access.
[This post was adapted from issue 3 of Franklly: Newsletter of the Frank Lowy Library]
Monday, August 07, 2006
Career research - finding company and industry information
Do your homework before you contact a company.
Gather as much information as you can. The online databases provide a wealth of detail on companies and industries.
Proquest
Start here by checking the thesaurus for industry terms to search as a subject term combined with a geographical area or other relevant terms.
Business Source Premier
Great for industry profiles. Search the industry as a subject term, then click on Industry profiles. Also contains Datamonitor company profiles.
Mergent and Reuters Business Insight
Contains industry reports on technology, energy, finance,
health care and consumer goods.
GMID Euromonitor
Look here for statistical information and market reports.
Gather as much information as you can. The online databases provide a wealth of detail on companies and industries.
Proquest
Start here by checking the thesaurus for industry terms to search as a subject term combined with a geographical area or other relevant terms.
Business Source Premier
Great for industry profiles. Search the industry as a subject term, then click on Industry profiles. Also contains Datamonitor company profiles.
Mergent and Reuters Business Insight
Contains industry reports on technology, energy, finance,
health care and consumer goods.
GMID Euromonitor
Look here for statistical information and market reports.
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