News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
In the past week, we’ve been seeing different issues with S&P NetAdvantage. At the moment, if you click the link on our databases page for that database, you get instead S&P Capital IQ.
We’re working with S&P technical support to solve this problem ASAP.
We just switched over this morning to the new S&P NetAdvantage interface. There’s a new URL for the database, too (I updated the URL in the databases list, which should push out to any mapped links you’ve added to your research guides).
One very confusing thing about the new interface is that by default it doesn’t say “NetAdvantage” on it. To get around that, we used the admin options in the database to add a navigation button to the interface that says “NetAdvantage.” Clicking that button just takes you back to the home page for the database interface.
If you have any tips about navigating the new interface or about content and functionality that we didn’t have in the old interface, please add them as comments to this blog post.
I have updated the LibGuide for Accounting 4100 Summer. There are two sections being taught by Prof. Jian Xiao. This is a communications intensive course. The students are doing research on one of 12 companies that are listed in the guide. All of the companies, except Facebook, are non-U.S.-based public companies that trade their shares on U.S. exchanges as ADRs. The company websites, Edgar Online I-Metrix, Mergent Online, Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage, Audit Analytics, Factiva and Value Line, are among the suggested resources to help the students prepare their presentations. The students need to discuss the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards on the company’s bottom line, and whether to invest in the company. (Facebook, uses the FASB Accounting Standards Codification, rather than IFRS, and being newly publicly traded hasn’t filed a 10-K.)
The course runs through July. I made a presentation to the two sections yesterday but I also said that they could get help at the reference desk if I were not available.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Mergent Online will be introducing a new interface before September and before year end expects to have its Municipal and Government Manuals in an online format. This will complete the historical archive of the former Moody’s Manuals that we subscribe to in Mergent WebReports.
RefWorks will be at CUNY sometime in August or September to offer training sessions for librarians. The location has not yet been decided but it could be Baruch.
The Copyright Clearance Center now offers an annual licensing service specifically for academic libraries.
Euromonitor has added a new print title Emerging Consumer Markets which covers the BRIC economies –Brazil, Russia, China and India- along with Mexico and South Africa. A table of contents for this title is here.
Business Monitor has added coverage of several more industries including freight transport, water, power, mining and shipping.Reports in these sectors focus on emerging market countries rather than North America.
S&P NetAdvantage is featuring links to its Compustat data more prominently.