Business

Global Socrates is now ESG Manager on Campus

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The database once known as Global Socrates is now a new platform called ESG Manager on Campus. This resource provides a number of tools for measuring corporate ecological impact and analysis of environmental, social and governance factors. You can search by country, ticker symbol or industry and limit abortion, cluster bombs, tobacco, nuclear power and other screens.

If you have questions, contact Mike Davis, Business Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-6822.

Hoover’s Company Profiles Now With Mergent

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Hoover’s Company Profiles is now part of the Mergent suite of business and industry information sources. You can search by company name, people, industries, SIC or NAICS code and apply multiple filter criteria such as sales, number of employees, location, etc. Each company profile includes description, key people, number of employees, financials, news, industry comparisons and more.

If you’d like assistance using this resource, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6822.

Career Insider Database Now Available

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The Libraries now have a subscription to Career Insider, a collection of tools for those researching and managing career information. You can search for companies and industries, and review profession overviews, sample cover letters and resumes, internship profiles and career advice.

If you have questions or would like assistance using this resource, contact a reference librarian.

New Online Computer Technology and Business E-Book Collections

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The Libraries now have a subscription to ProQuest SAFARI Books Online. Safari Books Online provides access to more than 20,000 digital books on Computer Technology and Business topics, ranging from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, and much more. Users can search thousands of books simultaneously online.

If you would like assistance using this resource, contact a reference librarian.

Business Insights: Essentials Replaces Business and Company Resource Center

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The Libraries are now providing access to Business Insights: Essentials, a Gale database available via the Massachusetts Library System subscription. This source incorporates the database formerly known as Business and Company Resource Center and provides a company directory, industry profiles, investment research reports, trade journal articles, market share data and more.  You can browse or search by company, industry, topic, NAICs code, etc.

If you would have questions about Business Insights, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian at 413-545-6822.

New Oxford Handbooks for Business and Management

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The Libraries have added the Oxford Handbooks Online for Business and Management. This collection includes the following 28 titles:

  • Oxford Handbook of Business and Government, David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Business History, Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, Glenn Morgan, John L. Campbell, Colin Crouch, Ove Kaj Pedersen, and Richard Whitley (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, Andrew Crane, Abagail McWilliams, Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon, and Donald S. Siegel (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies, Mats Alvesson, Todd Bridgman, and Hugh Willmott (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship, Mark Casson, Bernard Yeung, Anuradha Basu, and Nigel S. Wadeson (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, Alan Burton-Jones and J.-C. Spender (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management, Peter Boxall, John Purcell, and Patrick Wright (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, Robin Mansell, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Danny Quah, and Roger Silverstone (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Jan Fagerberg, David C. Mowery, and Richard R. Nelson (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations, Steve Cropper, Mark Ebers, Chris Huxham, and Peter Smith Ring (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of International Business, Alan M. Rugman (ed.)
  • Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems, Robert D. Galliers and Wendy L. Currie (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory, Haridimos Tsoukas and Christian Knudsen (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making, Gerard P. Hodgkinson and William H. Starbuck (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-Being, Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations, Adrian Wilkinson, Paul J. Gollan, Mick Marchington, and David Lewin (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income, Gordon L. Clark, Alicia H. Munnell, and J. Michael Orszag (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology, Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Project Management, Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, and Jonas Söderlund (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Public Management, Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., and Christopher Pollitt (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Regulation, Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, and Martin Lodge (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies, Paul S. Adler (ed.)
  • Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management, David W. Cravens, Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh, and Nigel F. Piercy (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Strategy, David O. Faulkner and Andrew Campbell (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization, Stephen Ackroyd, Rosemary Batt, Paul Thompson, and Pamela S. Tolbert (eds)

If you would like assistance using these sources, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6822.

New Business Sources Available from Mergent Online

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The Libraries have added the following sources to our Mergent Online subscription:

  • Mergent Global Industry Reports.  Current forty-page industry reports, by region, by country (click the Report Tab to view the collection).
  • Mergent Equity Pricing. Thirty years of daily equity prices for all public companies worldwide. Define any time period, visualize with charts. Compare two or more companies or compare a company’s performance to index performance.
  • D&B Private Company Reports. D&B profiles of 1.1 million private companies worldwide.
  • D&B Private Company Directory. Directory of 20 million private companies worldwide.

If you have questions about these resources, contact Mike Davis, Business Librarian, at 413-545-6822.

Social Explorer Now Available

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The Libraries now have a subscription for Social Explorer, a database with historical census data and demographic information from the 1790-2000 U.S. Censuses, American Community Survey, the Religious Congregations and Membership Study, and the 2002 Carbon Emissions Data from the Vulcan Project. You can select data and generate maps to display it, or read the information in report form.

For assistance using this resource, contact a librarian.