Season's greetings!

 

Enjoy the break, we look forward to seeing you next term.  Opening hours over the vacation for all Westminster University Libraries can be found here.

FAQ: where can I find top blogs for Business?

If you are interested in finding blogs relating to Business Wikio may be a good place to start.  You can view and subscribe to the top blogs for Business, as ranked by Wikio, here:

http://www.wikio.com/blogs/top/business

If you write your own blog you can also submit it to be indexed by Wikio here.

You might also want to look at the top business blogs as ranked by Technorati: http://technorati.com/business/

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New platform- Datamonitor360

Business Insights, Access Asia and Verdict Reports have merged to form Datamonitor 360. You can access market research reports on consumer goods, energy, fashion retailing, finance, healthcare and technology via a new single interface.

You can access all the reports previously available via Business Insights plus over a 100 new reports from Verdict, a leading authority on UK and European retail, including UK sector reports, location reports, strategic reports & consumer reports.  

To access them you need to go to Library Search, search for Datamonitor 360 in the 'books, journals & more' search box, open the "Datamonitor 360" link. In Datamonitor360 you can either search on your topic to find reports from Verdict, Access Asia and Business Insights or you can type "Verdict reports" into the search box to see just the reports from Verdict. 

Studying developing countries? Looking for Mergers & Acquisitions information?

We have trial access to Dealwatch – the M&A arm of ISI Emerging Markets. Updated daily, it has details on over 48,000 M&A, ECM and DCM transactions. Coverage includes Central Europe, Southeast Europe, Russia & the CIS Region, Greater China, Latin America and India.

Search for Emerging Markets on Library Search

Under DealWatch, select User Login to enter the resource.

[You will need your University password to login if you are off-campus]

The foods that make billions: new BBC series

A new three-part BBC series starts tonight on BBC2 21.00 entitled, The Foods That Make Billions.  

"This major new series tells the untold story of how big business feeds us by transforming simple commodities into everyday necessities and highly profitable brands."

The first episode, Liquid Gold, looks at the huge growth of the bottled water industry.  View a preview clip and see more information about the series here.

Mediatel access

Accessing Mediatel is now much easier.  To get access on and off campus: go to Library Search, in the "books, journals & more" tab search for Mediatel, click on the online access button and follow the link.  

Mediatel is an excellent resource for UK media intelligence. It includes daily news as well as an in-depth data archive from major research sources.  Use it to find media information such as press circulation figures and advert rates, demographic reports, TV viewing figures and sponsorship information, online traffic data and revenue reports, radio audience figures, box office figures, and media trends and consumer behaviour.

Library Search tutorials

There are a set of online tutorials now available to help you navigate Library Search, the service that combines searching the library’s print collection and e-resources. Using Library Search you can save your searches and references, check your library account and renew items online.

View the tutorials here.  When viewed in slideshow mode the guides include an audio commentary, but can still be followed if you do not have sound.  They are between forty seconds and two mintues long.

We are aware that Library Search is quite different to our previous systems with a range of features you may not be familiar with so we provide training for staff and students.  Our contact details are available via our webpage: www.wmin.ac.uk/academicliaison

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