The Libraries have added the Oxford Handbooks Online for Business and Management. This collection includes the following 28 titles:

• Oxford Handbook of Business and Government, David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Business History, Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, Glenn Morgan, John L. Campbell, Colin Crouch, Ove Kaj Pedersen, and Richard Whitley (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, Andrew Crane, Abagail McWilliams, Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon, and Donald S. Siegel (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies, Mats Alvesson, Todd Bridgman, and Hugh Willmott (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship, Mark Casson, Bernard Yeung, Anuradha Basu, and Nigel S. Wadeson (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, Alan Burton-Jones and J.-C. Spender (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management, Peter Boxall, John Purcell, and Patrick Wright (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, Robin Mansell, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Danny Quah, and Roger Silverstone (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Jan Fagerberg, David C. Mowery, and Richard R. Nelson (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations, Steve Cropper, Mark Ebers, Chris Huxham, and Peter Smith Ring (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of International Business, Alan M. Rugman (ed.)
• Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems, Robert D. Galliers and Wendy L. Currie (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory, Haridimos Tsoukas and Christian Knudsen (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making, Gerard P. Hodgkinson and William H. Starbuck (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-Being, Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations, Adrian Wilkinson, Paul J. Gollan, Mick Marchington, and David Lewin (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income, Gordon L. Clark, Alicia H. Munnell, and J. Michael Orszag (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology, Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Project Management, Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, and Jonas Söderlund (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Public Management, Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., and Christopher Pollitt (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Regulation, Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, and Martin Lodge (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies, Paul S. Adler (ed.)
• Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management, David W. Cravens, Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh, and Nigel F. Piercy (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Strategy, David O. Faulkner and Andrew Campbell (eds)
• Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization, Stephen Ackroyd, Rosemary Batt, Paul Thompson, and Pamela S. Tolbert (eds)

If you would like assistance using these sources, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6822.

The Libraries have added the following sources to our Mergent Online subscription:

• Mergent Global Industry Reports.  Current forty-page industry reports, by region, by country (click the Report Tab to view the collection).
• Mergent Equity Pricing. Thirty years of daily equity prices for all public companies worldwide. Define any time period, visualize with charts. Compare two or more companies or compare a company’s performance to index performance.
• D&B Private Company Reports. D&B profiles of 1.1 million private companies worldwide.
• D&B Private Company Directory. Directory of 20 million private companies worldwide.

If you have questions about these resources, contact Mike Davis, Business Librarian, at 413-545-6822.

The Libraries now have a subscription for Social Explorer, a database with historical census data and demographic information from the 1790-2000 U.S. Censuses, American Community Survey, the Religious Congregations and Membership Study, and the 2002 Carbon Emissions Data from the Vulcan Project. You can select data and generate maps to display it, or read the information in report form.

For assistance using this resource, contact a librarian.

Product Launch Analytics provides manufacturer, product information and market details for food and beverage, household, personal care, pet and animal feed, tobacco and other consumer products introduced in countries around the world. You can search by keyword, brand and product name, or browse by tag, category, distribution countries, ingredients, packaging, and much more. The database includes products released in the past 5 years.

For assistance or more information about this database, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6822.

The Libraries has upgraded its subscription to the Global Market Information Database. Now Passport GMID, the database provides industry and company analysis, consumer and household trend reporting with 18,000 full-text market, company and country reports  and 8 million comparable market statistics.

Contact Mike Davis, Business Library Liaison, at 413-545-6822 for assistance.

The Libraries has upgraded its subscription to the ProQuest Business Complete package which includes:

• ABI/INFORM Complete (this combines the former three regional, trade and scholarly ABI/INFORM databases into one)
• Accounting & Tax
• Banking Information Source
• ProQuest Asian Business & Reference
• ProQuest Entrepreneurship
• Wall Street Journal (1889-1991)

Contact Mike Davis, Business Liaison Librarian for assistance at 413-545-6822.

The Libraries has canceled our subscription to the business database, First Research.

SimplyMap allows you to create maps which illustrate economic and demographic variables using data from the 1980, 1990 and 2000 census as well as business and marketing reports. You can look at data on  state, county or city level maps, and export both the image and the data.

You must create a personal account to use this resource. For assistance with this resource, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413.545.6822.

The Libraries have added Historical Annual Reports, 1844 - to our online collections. You can find annual reports for 800 U.S. companies, some going back as far as 1844. Data provided includes financials, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, etc. and these are indexed for search. You can also browse by company name, industry or date.

If you have questions or would like assistance using this resource, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6822.

Plunkett Research Online provides industry sector analysis and research, as well as information on industry trends, industry statistics, top companies in the industry, export companies and trade and export associations. You can run and save a search, build a prospect list or run a report comparing companies.

If you have questions or comments about Plunkett Research Online, contact Business Reference Librarian Mike Davis at 413-545-6822.