Please be advised that scheduled maintenance will take place beginning on Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 2200 GMT and ending by Monday, 29 April 2013 at 0100 GMT. Web of Knowledge (including EndNote Web and ResearcherID) may not be available during that period. Thomson Reuters would like to apologise for any interruption this may cause.

We have arranged a trial of Mergent Online which is an Internet-based suite of information resources that enables in-depth business and financial research.

The trial allows access to the following information:

U.S. Company Data

A fully searchable database with financial details of over 60,000 active and inactive public companies listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges.

International Company Data

A fully searchable database of over 35,000 non-U.S. active and inactive companies. Mergent Online subscribers gain immediate access to companies representing over 95% of the non-global market capitalization.

Global Company Financials

Provides standardized company financials based on globally accepted XBRL taxonomies for active companies with transparency from standardized to source documents. Also included are over 20 years of global as reported financial statements.

 D&B Private Company Database

Over 34 million private company records are available for both domestic and international companies.

Annual Reports

Over 400,000 annual reports from globally listed companies, with archived reports for over 10 years.

Executive Profiles

Daily updates on confirmed executives from all U.S. traded companies featuring over 200,000 profiles on current and former executives included executive biographies and compensation information.

Mergent Equity Research Reports

Provides comprehensive equity research from our subsidiary Ford Equity Research. Each report contains buy, hold, sell recommendations and more for over 4,000 large and mid-cap U.S. companies.

Industry Reports

Provides in-depth analysis of key industries covering North America, Asia/Pacific, Europe and Latin America by country and region. Each report describes market environment, industry landscape and key market trends.

Global Equity Pricing Data

Up to 35 years of adjusted and unadjusted equity pricing including daily high and low closing prices. Also included is data on listed market pricing for U.S. and non U.S. companies from over 100 stock exchanges

You can access the trial at http://www.MergentOnline.com

If you have any interest in this resource or have further questions, please contact Jean Blanquet j.blanquet@lancaster.ac.uk or Andy Holgate a.holgate@lancaster.ac.uk

This trial will run until the 15th March.

You will need to access the database using the link below, and by entering the username and password given below too.

Link: http://www.globalcompanyintelligence.com/

Username: library@lancaster.ac.uk

Password:  Lancaster

Global Company Intelligence gives access to detailed company reports across a broad range of industries, supporting a large number of subject areas such as business, travel and tourism, media and geography. Our high-level analysis, combined with in-depth financials, SWOT profiles and innovative benchmarking tools, offers students and academics alike complete control over their own research and unparalleled insight into the business strategies of companies on a worldwide scale

Update 18.2.13: This issue has been fixed.

Library Room B17

Wednesday 13th February 3.00 pm

All welcome, but please let us know if you are coming on ext. 92535.

The Premium Collection is MUSE’s foremost collection of high quality, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journals from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers and prestigious scholarly societies. The Premium Collection is designed for institutions acquiring comprehensively in the humanities and social sciences and offers internationally respected scholarly journals that support the collection development and research needs of major research institutions. The Premium Collection will grow annually as all new titles added each year to MUSE become part of the Premium Collection, making it the most comprehensive collection offered by MUSE.

A full alphabetical list of journal titles in the Premium Collection can be seen at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/collection_comparison.html#2013 and all 544 journal titles can be accessed via OneSearch.

What do you need from your Library?

Meet the architects – have your say!

11.30-12.30 Thursday 24th January in the Library Room B17

In 2014, the University Library will begin an exciting remodelling project .
The architects want to talk to YOU the students, to find out what you need from the Library and to listen to your ideas of what future students will need – what works for you now, what doesn’t, what would you like to see in your Library?
Please come along to this initial consultation – just drop in, or let us know you’re coming on ext. 92522
For more information please contact Lynne Pickles ext. 92522

Our suppliers will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Aspire resource list service on Tuesday 18th December between the hours of 00:01 – 23:59.

How will this impact you?

During this maintenance period, users will NOT be able to make any of the following amendments to your Aspire lists:

• Editing resources
• Adding new bookmarks/bookmarking
• Removing bookmarks from My Bookmarks
• Editing user profiles
• Accepting permission invites
• Sending permission invites
• Creation/editing of student notes

Students will still be able to view their lists without issue.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this work.

If you request it after this date or if other people have already requested it, you will probably not be able to borrow it until next term.

You will need to check your email for library notices until Friday 14th December

Need some help or more information? Please ask at the information point or contact us – details here:   http://libweb.lancs.ac.uk/contact.htm