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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