Business and Economics Library

The Library is pleased to announce that through a partnership with BYU’s Technology Transfer Office we are able to make research from Frost & Sullivan available university-wide.

Frost & Sullivan’s 1800 analysts and consultants cover more than 300 markets and 250,000 companies from 35+ global offices. Frost & Sullivan is a key addition to our collection of market research providers, providing in-depth coverage of technology, chemicals, materials, energy, healthcare, biotechnology, and communications. Whether you need to research the market for mobile video transcoders or whether you want to read technical alerts on new alloys for dental implants, Frost & Sullivan is the place to look. Try it out here.

Through an arrangement with the Utah Academic Library Consortium we now have access to Mergent’s Investor Edge. This tool allows users to screen for stocks based on Beta, industry, and analyst recommendations. It includes price data, ten years of annual statements, SEC filings, and industry reports.

Mergent’s Investor Edge takes its place in our suite of financial databases, alongside our existing access to Morningstar, S&P NetAdvantage, and Value Line. While less sophisticated than our existing resources, it is very easy to use and provides unique content like Ford Equity Research Reports, Moody’s Bond Reports, ratings, and Corporate Bond Yield Averages.

We work with a lot of sophisticated databases, each with its own interface. Even if you’ve been to one of our clinics it can be hard to remember how to use them. To make things easier we’re working on short video tutorials that demonstrate specific tasks using certain databases. Here’s an example, for the Mint Global database:

On many of our subject guides you can find a link to these tutorials just above the Live Chat box. We’ll be adding more links as we work on this project. If there’s a tutorial you’d like to see, let us know. You can see the ones we’ve done so far here.

We’ve completed the first step in remaking our old subject guides. Rather than wait for the Library’s official switchover date we thought Business and Economics could lead the way, so we’ve replaced the Subject Guide links on the right side of this website with links to the new guides.

We think they’re a huge improvement, but we’d like to know what you think. Also, some bits are still getting sorted out, like the “Recent Articles” section on some guides including a few not-so-recent articles. Please point out any other problems to us, either by commenting on the guides themselves or by contacting us directly. And stay tuned for new additions, including embedded video tutorials.

If you miss the old Subject Pages, you can still find them here for now.

We’re transitioning to a new content management system. The old Subject Guides (linked on the right side of this page) will soon be replaced. We’ll have greater control over content and format with the new guides, they’ll have some Web 2.0 features, and we’ll be able to embed some media, all with the hopes of making your research easier.

You can take a look at the new guides that we’re building now (links below). The switch will happen with the start of Fall Semester.

• Business Management
• Bloomberg Guide
• Career Research
• Company & Industry Research
• Economics
• Finance
• Global Business
• Marketing

We are putting together a LibGuide for an easy reference and source for all your Bloomberg questions. Whether it be how to create your own account, become certified, or create and maintain your stock profile.

You can check it out here: http://guides.lib.byu.edu/bloomberg

The library has upgraded its subscription to the EconLit database to include the full text of more than 480 journals, including American Economic Association journals with no embargo.

Coverage of key journals includes:

• American Economic Review
• Journal of Economic Literature
• Journal of Economic Perspectives
• Economic Geography
• Economy and Society
• Energy Journal
• Journal of Economic Growth
• Journal of Political Economy
• Quarterly Journal of Economics
• Review of Economic Studies
• Review of Economics and Statistics

EconLit does not replace JSTOR, but it is probably the best place to begin your search. Try it here.

This database is a collection of marketing research case studies of local companies prepared by BYU graduate students. Click here to access.

Dr. Richard J. Buczynski, IBIS World’s Chief Economist, believes the economy won’t fully recover until 2011.  How is the recession affecting your industry?  To address the impact of the rapidly changing economy IBIS World has published a special report on the recession and added a special Recession Update to each of its over 700 industry reports.

We have acquired electronic versions of several key reference titles on the Gale Directory Library platform, which allows for some useful features, such as exporting lists of companies or associations to MS Excel.  These include current editions of:

• American Wholesalers and Distributors Directory
• Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory
• Encyclopedia of Associations
• National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations
• Brands and Their Companies
• Market Share Reporter

Click on advanced search and you can select a specific title and search to find a consultancy in Utah, or to see what the market share is for Honda’s Civic Hybrid.