News from the Rohatyn Electronic Information Center at SIBL:

Try out these new resources!

All of the databases listed here are available on-site at SIBL. Staff provide hands-on assistance with database selection, searches, downloading, and printing.

Applied Science & Technology Retrospective. 1913-1983. Provides content from the acclaimed Applied Science & Technology Index. This is the perfect reference for tracking down important studies, exploring historical controversies, finding papers by innovators, researching the development of a particular technology, and more.(Wilson) Download, print or email citations.

Butler Group CIO Knowledge Centre. (Select the Tab labeled: CIO knowledge center). Information Technology market research database includes IT research, analysis, and advice. Track IT news and trends, view analysis of major vendor technologies, find Independent Software Vendors (ISV database), and find information about IT service contracts.

Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

Espicom Pharmaceutical Market Research databases. The following resources can be access through the Espicom link at the Science, Industry and Business Library:

Medical Device Companies Analysis - Version 2.0 Comprehensive reports on over 75 leading medical device and equipment manufacturers covering all aspects of their operation including corporate structure, M&A, agreements, financial performance, product portfolio, international activities and R&D.
Medistat- Database of World Medical Markets Analysis. Provides for each county, background information on economics, population, morbidity, healthcare system overview, statistics on hospital services, medical personnel, also information about the Medical Device Market in each country, including distributors, imports, production, trade statistics, and healthcare organizations and hospitals.
Medistat News - for news on all aspects of the global market for medical devices and equipment including: demography, morbidity and mortality data, health sector reforms, regulatory developments, health network expansion, healthcare funding, international aid programmes, manufacturing data and headline corporate news.
Medical Industry Week: A daily updated news service, evolved from Espicom's well-established weekly newsletter in a paper format. Unrivalled comprehensive access to the latest corporate, product and research news on all sectors of the medical device industry.
World Pharmaceutical Markets: includes WPM Outlooks, which provide a highly detailed evaluation and analysis of over 60 markets, and incorporate Espicom's proprietary market projections and forecasts. The Outlooks are reviewed and updated every quarter ensuring that the very latest market developments are factored into the analysis and the forecasts. A separate PDF is provided for each Outlook.

Mergent Horizon - Mergent Horizon captures companies' relationship exposure to their suppliers, partners, customers and competitors. Mergent Horizon lets you: find and filter information on companies, perform exact industry comparisons and peer-group analysis, analyze a company's business based on its products and services, find competitors by product or trade name, highlight major customers, suppliers and partners, generate investment ideas, screen companies with hundreds of quantitative and qualitative fields, custom formulas and more. Covers all companies actively traded on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges, over 6,200 US companies and ADR's. Enhanced product level detail is included on 3,700 companies in Healthcare, Technology, Media and Finance.

Nelson's Marketplace- (Includes Nelson's Directory of Investment Managers) Profiles of 2,000 institutional money managers and their 8,000 investment products. Company profiles may be saved individually in PDF format, printed, or saved to disk or USB flash drive. This database also includes Nelson's Directory of Plan Sponsors and Nelson's Directory of Pension Fund Consultants- This database is not on all networked computers. Please see a staff person in the EIC to access this resource.

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. Print and e-mail.

Simply Map
SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Accessible in the Research Libraries. Enter your NYPL card number to save your work on the Simply Map site, for ongoing research.

Small Business Resource Center (Gale-Thomson database) Covers major areas of starting and operating a business. Search and browse topics including sample business plans, how-to articles, overviews, and directories, including the Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Consultant's and Consulting Organizations directory and more. . Includes business books from John Wiley and over 200 business journals.

Vault Career Library
Find career guides, industry guides, company and employer profiles, topics guides and more. Industry overviews bring you inside 40 top industries, from investment management to manufacturing. Find out details on career path, salary ranges, industry outlook and more.

Zephyr
Mergers and Acquisitions database from Bureau van Dijk. Provides detailed information about mergers and acquisitions, IPO's, joint ventures and private equity deals. Find deals "sub deals" by types such as hostile bids, and search by financing type such as leveraged buyouts, mezzaine, venture capital and private equity deals. Available onsite at SIBL only.