The Enhanced Business Searching Interface used to be really useful for searching for company and industry information, but changes have been made and now there seems to be no real benefit in using it. I have found that the best way to find information about a company is to go into BSC in the usual way and click on the 'Company Information' tab at the top. You can search by company name or keyword to find companies in a sector. The search will give you anything related to that company including reports, journal articles etc.
In addition if you click on the 'more' tab you can search for company profiles which will give you a datamonitor report on a company. These are the detailed reports about a company and also include a SWOT analysis. Under the 'more' tab you will also see a link to business videos which are very useful.
You can also limit your search in BSC either in document type to company report or industry overview or by publication type to industry profile. Country reports are also very useful to get economic,industrial, political information about a country.
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
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OpenDOAR
Open DOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ is the Directory of Open Access Repositories. As well as a list of open access respositories it provides access to the contents of these repositories. These consist of the research outputs of universities and other research institutes from all over the world, including theses (doctoral, postgraduate and undergraduate), journal articles, discussion papers and book chapters. It covers all academic areas including business and economics. So, if you are looking to see what research has been done in your area or you just want to see what a thesis looks like, this is a good site to search. It is free and the contents are available in full text.
The searching is done using Google custom search and is a bit limited. Unless your search is very specific you do get a large number of hits, which can be a bit tricky to narrow down. There are no abstracts and the results are shown in relevance, rather than date order. You can't change them to date order either.
However, it is worth a look because of the academic content, it's global coverage and being freely available. It will also continue to grow and hopefully the search functions will be improved.
The searching is done using Google custom search and is a bit limited. Unless your search is very specific you do get a large number of hits, which can be a bit tricky to narrow down. There are no abstracts and the results are shown in relevance, rather than date order. You can't change them to date order either.
However, it is worth a look because of the academic content, it's global coverage and being freely available. It will also continue to grow and hopefully the search functions will be improved.
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