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What's new?

Mergent Market Atlas replaces Mergent Online as your first destination for public company information and research. The interface is updated and much easier to use, while still providing in-depth information about public companies, industries, countries, and more. 

Use Market Atlas to search for public companies based on name, location, industry, or fundamental data factors, then refine your report output and drill into companies for further research. Additional company search features allow you to explore sustainability, SEC filings, annual reports, independent research, and an extensive library of company reports.

What company content is available through Market Atlas?

• Reuters global fundamentals – deep and timely financial content including standardized and as reported financials, along with accompanying fundamental ratios.
• Refinitiv global equity end of day pricing and consensus estimate data, FTSE Russell Index returns and ICB classification data.
• Refinitiv reference data sets – business descriptions and contact information, executive biographies and compensation data.
• FTSE Russell ESG Reports, Mergent Independent research reports, Mergent fundamental reports, SEC filings, company annual reports, company sustainability reports, institutional and insider holdings data, company news.

What type of companies are included?

• Global, active public companies.

What additional non-company content is available through Market Atlas?

• FTSE Russell index total return data
• Mergent economic time series data
• Mergent industry reports
• Dunn & Bradstreet Country Risk Profile and Country RiskLine reports.

How do I get to it? 

Access Mergent Market Atlas now.
 

We've been asked if we could add Harvard's business cases to the Library's collections many times in the past, but at the time, Harvard didn't license them to online libraries like ours. That's changed! Available now, all faculty, students, and staff have access to Harvard Core Curriculum & Business Cases, also called the Harvard Student Success Package, hosted on the EBSCO platform. 

The content package is comprised of two components (description from EBSCO's website):

Core Curriculum

• 76 Readings cover the foundational concepts, theories, and frameworks essential for business studies
• The readings are authored by faculty at Harvard Business School and include a Teaching Note document to help instructors gain insight into the case, related course materials, and exhibit slides
• Teaching Notes are available at no cost to all educators with a free educator account at hbsp.harvard.edu
• 35-question test banks, practice questions, video clips, and interactive Illustrations enhance student comprehension of specific topics

HBS Select Case Study Collection

• More than 2,000 Harvard Business School case studies
• Curated by editors from Harvard Business Publishing
• Give students the perspective and context they need to navigate the current workplace and prepare for their careers
• Built around themes that are essential knowledge in today's business context but often not covered in course syllabi
• Provide immersive real-world scenarios and commentary to help students examine issues related to the dynamics of business and society, navigating changing workplaces, and managing teams, personal decisions, and career growth

Note that for Harvard Business Review (HBR) articles, find them in Business Source Ultimate (or when searching using the search box on our homepage). 

Interested? Find content in the new Harvard Core Curriculum & Business Cases at:

library.purdueglobal.edu/hbp 

Available to all students, faculty, and staff, Mergent Online is the most robust company research tool available in the PG Library today. It offers a wealth of textual detail on company descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt, and capital stock. Powerful intuitive search capabilities combined with an easy-to-use interface, access to risk, ratings, credit information, and recommendations under one platform, make Mergent Online a perfect resource for your financial and business information research needs.

Access Mergent Online anytime with this link:

library.purdueglobal.edu/mergent

For more on Mergent Online, including tips on conducting basic company searches and creating company lists, visit our Guide to Mergent Online.

Gain a quick and intelligent overview of thousands of industries with IBISWorld. Features include:

• Comprehensive data and analysis of industries that is easy to read and digest.
• Copy & paste charts, graphs and images for use in presentations and assignments.
• Individual reports are 30-40 pages and all follow the same table of contents.
• Can download reports as PDF or Word document, or output all data tables into an Excel file.
• Reports are updated frequently by over 100 in-house analysts. 

Access IBISWorld now at library.purdueglobal.edu/ibisworld

Want to know more about IBISWorld? Read our Guide to IBISWorld. 

What’s happening? 

Starting today, EBSCO’s Business Source Complete has been upgraded to Business Source Ultimate.  

How do I start using this resource?

Access to Business Source Ultimate is at the same link as before: 

library.purdueglobal.edu/businesssource

What does that mean?

The Ultimate edition of Business Source adds more active peer-reviewed full-text journals, more top business publications, more business videos, Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys, and ahead-of-print content from several publishers including Springs, Sage, and Wiley. This is all in addition to the company lists and profiles and current business research already previously available in the Complete edition.  

Isn’t the search box on the Library’s website EBSCO too?

Yes, it’s from the same vendor and all of the journal content in Business Source Ultimate and most other content is integrated into EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).  However, for business researchers specifically, you’ll benefit from going to the direct interface for Business Source Ultimate if you are looking for company and industry information, as there are additional tools there not available in EDS. 

Anything else I should know?

For faculty: Previously not allowed, you can now integrate Harvard Business Review articles into course reading lists and assignments. 

New book titles are added to Skillsoft Books each week.  Below are some recent highlights:

The 30 Day MBA: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success, 5th Edition by Colin Barrow Kogan Page © 2019 (352 pages) ISBN: 9780749482954 Containing insightful case studies from leading organizations, this practical book equips you with essential hard knowledge and provides the tools and techniques you need to seize business opportunities and implement strategies successfully.

Mastering the Supply Chain: Principles, Practice and Real-Life Applications by Ed Weenk Kogan Page © 2019 (304 pages) ISBN: 9780749484484 With an aim to create a cross-functional mindset in students and practitioners, this book provides a wide overview of relevant supply chain concepts and sets out the challenges that need to be overcome in order to find practical ways of implementing them in a real company situation.

Persuasive Copywriting: Cut Through the Noise and Communicate With Impact, Second Edition by Andy Maslen Kogan Page © 2019 (296 pages) ISBN: 9780749497736 With impressive interviews from leading ad agencies and copywriters across the globe, this book offers practical insight into human decision making and consumer engagement, and inspires the clear-cut confidence needed to create, quantify and sell stand out copy in a cluttered marketplace.

Superhuman Innovation: Transforming Business with Artificial Intelligence by Chris Duffey Kogan Page © 2019 (280 pages) ISBN: 9780749483838 Supported by varied and innovative case studies from a variety of industries, this book is a practical guide to how AI and Machine Learning are impacting not only how businesses, brands, and agencies innovate, but also what they innovate: products, services and content.

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up: Project Management Techniques from the Trenches by Dana Brownlee Berrett-Koehler Publishers © 2019 (184 pages) ISBN: 9781523098187 While managing up is an incredibly valuable skill for virtually any type of boss, this book provides refreshingly practical and candid insight into the best practices and techniques that project managers have successfully used for decades to manage a wide variety of senior-level stakeholders.

Web Coding & Development All-in-One for Dummies by Paul McFedries John Wiley & Sons © 2018 (768 pages) ISBN: 9781119473923 There’s a whole world of opportunity out there for developers—and this fast-track boot camp is here to help you acquire the skills you need to take your career to new heights!

Workplace Learning: How to Build a Culture of Continuous Employee Development by Nigel Paine Kogan Page © 2019 (248 pages) ISBN: 9780749482244 Packed with case studies from organizations who have effectively established outstanding workplace learning, this book is essential reading for L&D professionals looking to make a real difference to the development of their staff and the future success of their organizations.

To find more, visit Skillsoft Books.  For more on what it is and how to use it, visit the Library User Guide to Skillsoft Books.  

Books24x7 will soon update to a new platform and name, Skillsoft Books!

Skillsoft Books offers the same full text access to thousands of leading professional books from top industry authors and publishers in the business and IT fields. Additionally, you can find thousands of videos about business leadership, coding, desktop software (like Microsoft Office), and more.  The new Skillsoft Books platform (known as Skillport 8i) offers many great enhancements over the current Books24x7 web interface, including better search tools, navigation, and for the first time, downloadable chapters.  

On Wednesday, February 27, 2019, links to Books24x7 on the Library's website, Databases A-Z Hub, and in EBSCO Discovery Service results lists will change to Skillsoft Books.  Links to individual Books24x7 book titles within classrooms will change over in the weeks afterward.   

Check out Skillsoft Books today at:

library.purdueglobal.edu/skillsoft