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Title: Master of Management in Operations Research


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Master of Management in Operations Research
  • Library Resources
  • Jan Wallace, Christina Sylka
  • David Lam Library
  • September, 2008

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Agenda
  • Lam Library overview
  • Demonstration of relevant UBC Library databases
  • Examination of other statistical sources
  • Datastream WRDS presentation

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Discussion 4 minutes
  • What has been your past experience with research?
  • What were some challenges?
  • How did library resources factor into your
    research?
  • What is 1 tip that you would pass onto a
    colleague?

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Google and Library Databases
  • Google
  • Visible Web
  • Public material
  • News
  • Uncontrolled material
  • (informal, no evaluation)
  • Limited scholarly
  • Google Scholar
  • Single interface
  • Imprecise searching
  • Library Databases
  • Invisible web
  • Gated material (no free access)
  • Journals, news, speciality data
  • Controlled material (evaluation processes
    applied)
  • Scholarly
  • Multiple interfaces
  • Precision Searching

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David Lam Library
  • Location
  • David Lam Management Research Library
  • 2nd 3rd Floor, above 99 Chairs
  • Web Address
  • http//www.library.ubc.ca/lam/

SIDE HEADINGS AND NOTES CAN GO HERE
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Your Library Account
  • From the UBC Library homepage (not the David Lam
    homepage)
  • http//www.library.ubc.ca/
  • Choose My Library Account
  • Renew items, check fines, requests
  • Change your PIN
  • When does your account expire?
  • Grad Student loans are 8 weeks!

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Learning Centre
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Ejournals Business Databases
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ABI/Inform CDN Newsstand
  • Good starting point for background on an
    industry, topic, company
  • Full text of 2000 business journals
  • Wall Street Journal updated daily
  • National Post, Vancouver Sun, Canadian Business,
    BC Business
  • Indexes Harvard Business Review
  • Economist

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Business Source Complete
  • Journals covering business, management,
    economics, banking, finance, accounting and more
  • Popular business publications such as Business
    Week, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review
  • Hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals

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Emerald
  • Covers article literature in management
    disciplines such as strategy, leadership, library
    and information management, marketing, and human
    resource management.

12
Factiva
  • Global content (9000 sources)
  • Globe Mail
  • Dow Jones and Reuters newswires
  • The Wall Street Journal.
  • Multilingual interface and content
  • Company profiles

13
ACM Digital Library
  • Non-profit organization that publishes
    technology-related journals, Special Interest
    Group Newsletters and over 50 annual conference
    proceedings
  • Access to all ACM journals and magazines online,
    as well as conference proceedings
  • 750,000 pages of downloadable text

14
IEEE Electronic Library
  • Technical journals, standards, and conference
    proceedings
  • Published by the Institute of Electrical and
    Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of
    Electrical Engineers
  • Powerful search software

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Create your own citation database Refworks
  • The David Lam Library is offering 2 workshops
    Thursday October 2 2.00-3.00 Friday
    October 17 2.00-3.00
  • To attend please RSVP lindsay.ure_at_ubc.ca
  • Maximum of 8 participants per session.
  • Location HA 427

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Sources for Finding Market/Industry Reports
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Forrester
  • Respected industry source
  • Analyzes emerging trends in technology and their
    impact on business and the economy
  • Covers many industry sectors, eg, healthcare,
    logistics, etc.
  • UBC users need to set up (free) accounts

18
eMarketer
  • Market research and trend analysis on Internet,
    e-business, online marketing, media and emerging
    technologies

19
Freedonia Focus
  • International industry market research
  • Over 2,000 industry reports providing market
    share, market size, demand history, and forecasts
    for a variety of manufacturing industries

20
Global Market Information Database
  • International
  • economies,
  • demographics,
  • consumers,
  • lifestyles,
  • companies and
  • industries.

21
Investext
  • Investment, company and industry reports from
    over 500 brokers in North America, Europe,
    Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the
    Middle East
  • Financial forecasting a strength
  • Proprietary information

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Standard Poors NetAdvantage
  • North American research on companies, industries
    sub-industries.

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Other Sources
  • Government Agencies (federal, provincial
    municipal)
  • Statistical Agencies (Statistics Canada, BC
    Stats, Canadian Institute for Health Information
    (CIHI))
  • Associations
  • Companies (annual reports, 10-k)

24
Sources for Finding Company Financials
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FP Advisor
  • Corporate information and current and historical
    financial reports on Canada's leading 500
    companies
  • Tools to retrieve, manipulate and analyze
    fundamental data for over 1400 Canadian companies
  • IPO and New Issue information on Canadian
    companies

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Mergent Online
  • U.S. International public company data with
    enhanced features that allow you to compare
    companies and export data into Excel, CSV, etc.
  • Ability to compare financial items, ratios over
    an industry or portfolio
  • Current and historical annual reports
  • Includes inactive companies

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Sources for Finding Statistics
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BC Stats
  • Current reports and statistics from British
    Columbia's central statistical agency
  • Invaluable economic, socioeconomic and
    demographic data
  • UBC has enhanced subscription

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Statistics Canada Census
  • Best place to find demographics for specific
    geographic locations-
  • Canada, Metropolitan Centres, regions, First 3
    digits of the postal code (Forward Sortation Area
    (FSA)), Dissemination Areas (DA), which can be
    limited to a 6 block area, or a highrise
  • Kinds of information available income, marital
    status, family, age, educational attainment,
    ethnicity, occupation, dwellings (size, value,
    condition, owned or rented), religion
  • The more specific geographically, the less
    demographic detail you will find

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Census FSA, cntd.
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E-Stat - CANSIM
  • Easiest interface for searching Statistics Canada
  • designed with the needs and interests of the
    education community in mind
  • Using overĀ 2,400 tables from CANSIM, track
    trends in the lives of Canadians. Updated once a
    year during the summer, CANSIM contains more
    thanĀ 26 million time series. A more frequently
    updated version of CANSIM is also available via
    the CHASS interface

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E-Stat - CANSIM
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Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
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Datastream
  • Available on a standalone workstation in the
    library
  • Image from http//library.nyu.edu/research/bus-i
    nt/datastream.html
  • Current historical international financial
    economic data from IMF, OECD national
    government agencies
  • - equities
  • - market indices
  • - company acounts
  • - bonds
  • - macroeconomics
  • - foreign exchange
  • - warrants
  • - interest rates
  • - exchange rates
  • - commodities
  • - derivatives

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Datastream Economics
  • Determine your category, item name, preferred
    data, its frequency, and its output (time series,
    table or graph)

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Datastream - Commodities
  • All series in Commodities which match the search
    criteria for Forestry Products US Dollar

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Datastream - Chart
  • Percentage Changes Chart NBSK Pulp (CIF W.
    Europe) US/MT

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Datastream Company Accounts
  • Datastream provides company accounts info for
    international companies in a pre-defined report

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What is WRDS?
  • Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a
    web-based data management system used to retrieve
    information from a wide variety of financial,
    economic, and marketing data sources
  • Our Vendors Kind of Data

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Navigating WRDS
  • Follow Steps to get data
  • Use Documentation Manuals to identify Data Items

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WRDS
  • WRDS output

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WRDS
  • Use your class ID mmor07
  • Use your class Password Lib5157

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Connecting from Off-Campus
  • Databases, eJournals, eBooks are licensed for
    the use of current UBC students, faculty and
    staff
  • You will need Campus Wide Login
  • (occasionally your UBCcard and PIN)
  • To set up the VPN on your computer
  • http//www.vpn.ubc.ca

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For project help
  • Open 10-4, Monday to Friday
  • Staffed by 3 friendly and helpful Librarians
    Christina, Lindsay Jan
  • 604-822-9399 (Reference Desk)
  • For group projects it is best to make an
    appointment with a Librarian

Christina Sylka christina.sylka_at_ubc.ca
822-9390 Jan Wallace jan.wallace_at_ubc.ca
822-9392 Lindsay Ure lindsay.ure_at_ubc.ca
827-5238
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