New database trials – tell us what you think

This is a reminder of the three database trials which we have running at the moment:-

• Marketline Advantage (until 26^th February, which is this Friday!)
• WARC (World Advertising Research Centre) (until 6^th March)
• IBIS World (until 14^th March)

All three trials are available on campus only. You can find out more about each database and how to access it by clicking on the title above. Please take some time to explore these resources – you may find some useful material for your assignments!

If you’d like to offer your thoughts on these databases, please complete our short online survey. As a thank you, we have USB memory sticks to give away to 10 students via a raffle on the 6th March. Just include your student number on the survey to be entered int he draw. Your opinions count and will help us to make a decision on whether or not we will take up a subscription. We are also happy to hear your thoughts via email at buslib@swansea.ac.uk.

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Trial access to Marketline Advantage this week only

Swansea University has trial access to Marketline Advantage for four days only from Tuesday 23rd to Friday 26th February.

You may recognise Marketline as an important publisher of business information. Marketline Advantage offers access to:-

• global industry profiles
• company profiles
• country reports
• case studies
• news
• financial deals

from the UK and major marketplaces around the world.

You can access Marketline Advantage by going to http://advantage.marketline.com/ from a campus PC (the trial is not available off campus).

Please take some time to explore Marketline Advantage, but be quick as the trial ends on Friday! We’d love to hear your feedback at buslib@swansea.ac.uk.

Trial access to The Sustainable Organization Library

The sustainable Organization Library (SOL) is a collection of almost 10,000 journal articles, book chapters, case studies and research reports on sustainability.

Subjects covered include

• Sustainability
• Social responsibility/ business in society
• Responsible leadership
• Ethics
• Innovation, entrepreneurism and social enterprise
• Environmental management
• Corporate governance
• Government and policy
• Reporting and standards
• Sustainability in Higher Education
• Poverty
• Gender and diversity
• Responsible investment and finance, including microfinance

Please check out the information available and let us know what you think.

You can access SOL whilst on campus for the next 60 days.

Videos for learning and teaching

Trial access to Alexander Street Press – video content

Use the link above to access video content for business and economics.

The library has trial access until 30th June 2014 to Alexander Street Press, where video content in many formats has been brought together for reference, learning and teaching.  You can search for content by topic, theme, organisation, country, content type etc.

Have a look and let us know if you found it useful by emailing us using the link on the right.