News & Events

LexisNexis online products (including LexisNexis Academic) will be unavailable starting October 31 at 9:00 p.m. until November 01, 2009 at 5:00 a.m. due to scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The BNA Tax and Accounting Center used to be available only on the selected resource computers in the Business Library. It is now available remotely. See http://ezproxy.msu.edu:2047/login?url=http://taxandaccounting.bna.com/btac/.

The Tax and Accounting Center offers practitioners a comprehensive array of analysis, news, primary sources, and practice tools covering federal and international tax issues. We have access to the U.S. Income portfolios, Foreign Income portfolios, and Estates, Gifts and Trusts portfolios. The U.S. Income portfolios covers federal income tax planning and compliance issues for individuals and businesses, from alternative minimum tax to mergers and acquisitions to uniform capitalization rules, plus special planning areas such as divorce, bankruptcy, intellectual property, and financial instruments. The International Tax has information on tax issues of both individuals and entities, including U.S. companies doing business abroad and foreign enterprises with U.S. operations. The Estates, Gifts and Trusts portfolios contains information on planning for estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes, business succession, estate administration, charitable giving, fiduciary income tax, and tax-exempt organizations.

The Business Library has acquired a new database called Mergent EventsData. (See http://ezproxy.msu.edu:2047/login?url=http://www.eventsdata.com.) It replaces a number of our print titles including Mergent Dividend Record, Mergent Unit Investment Trusts, Mergent Bond Record. Mergent EventsData provides information on stock-splits, mergers, tender offers, partial/full calls, name changes, etc. EventsData message feeds enable users to capture and analyze breaking business developments as they occur. EventsData consists of five modules: corporate actions, corporate dividends, fixed income, municipal called bonds, and unit investment trusts. We hope to have training sometime in the near future. Keep an eye out for future posts. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Breezy Silver.

WRDS Scheduled Downtime — Tuesday, September 29, 2009.

The WRDS server will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from 12:00pm-8:00pm ET on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

During this period, the WRDS website will be unavailable. However, access will remain for those users accessing WRDS through UNIX and PC SAS Connect. Interactive queries during this period should continue to run unaffected.

WRDS will be adding additional network hardware to expand capacity.

As a result of this upgrade to the new WRDS website (http://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu), users will experience the following:
· Improved execution time for queries when WRDS is under heavy load.
· New users will have the ability to apply for WRDS accounts from the new website home page:
http://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds/index.cfm
· WRDS Reps will be able to review and approve new account requests through the enhanced Rep Tools under MyWRDS>Rep Tools>Pending Approval.

Thank you for your patience as we continue to enhance your WRDS service and performance.
Information will be posted on the WRDS site once this downtime has been completed.

As we look forward to another busy and exciting fall semester, here are important updates to keep in mind from the Business Library:

We Have New Doors!
Thanks to collaborative efforts from the College of Business, Libraries, and Physical Plant, the Business Library now has doors with secure keycard access. This will help prevent theft of materials and safety issues.

Fall Hours
Regular hours begin Friday, September 11. See http://www2.lib.msu.edu/branches/bus/hours.jsp for more details.

Collaborative Technology Lab Now Open!
The Business Library now has a collaborative technology lab open for use. This room is equipped with an interactive SmartBoard, videoconferencing capabilities, DVD player, two plasma screens, and a projector. A laptop is available for check-out when using the room. Priority use of this room will be given to faculty, students, and staff in the Broad College of Business and School of Labor & Industrial Relations. Priority will also be given to those groups requiring use of the room’s technology (plasma screens, SmartBoard, videoconferencing, etc.). To reserve this room, please contact Kara Rawlins at gustk@msu.edu or 432.4182.

Library Instruction Available for Your Classes
Business librarians are available to provide library instruction to your classes on a wide variety of resources and topics. To request, please fill out this form: http://www2.lib.msu.edu/branches/bus/sessreq.jsp.

New Databases
Several new databases have been acquired by the Business Library over the past few months. All are available off-campus (except where noted) from the Business Library databases page at http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/busdatabases.

Thomson Research Investext
Provides analyst research reports on companies and industries from top investment banks including J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank Securities Ltd., brokerage firms, and consulting firms worldwide. Coverage is global, and dates from 1980 to the present.

ProQuest Entrepreneurship (one-year trial)
ProQuest Entrepreneurship is now available as a one-year trial. Provides a wide variety of resources for the entrepreneur--journal articles, video clips, business cases, blog entries, start-up plans, templates, market research, company reports, and statistics. Please send comments to gastbus@bus.msu.edu.

SRDS
Provides advertising rates for business publications, consumer magazines, newspapers, radio, TV and cable, print media, and the Internet. Includes the Local Market Audience Analyst with demographic profiles for over 210 designated market areas.

New Research Guides
The MSU Libraries is converting its research guides to LibGuides, providing more interactive content—chat, videos, polls, and more! Check them out at http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/busguides.

Fall Seminars
The Business Library offers several free seminars on several library databases and research topics. All sessions are FREE. Enrollment is limited, "first come, first served." Classes offered this fall are:

EndNote
Monday, September 21, 9:30am-11:00am
Monday, October 19, 9:30am – 11:00am
Monday, November 16, 9:30am – 11:00am

Landing Your Dream Job
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 6:30pm—8:00pm
Tuesday, November 3, 6:30pm—8:00pm
LexisNexis Academic: Searching for News and Business Sources
Friday, September 25, 9:30am-11:00am

Mergent: Finding Public Company Information (NEW!)
Thursday, October 1, 1:30-3:00pm
Friday, October 23, 10:30am-Noon

SimplyMap
Friday, October 9, 9:30am-11:00am

To register, see http://www2.lib.msu.edu/general/events/workshops.jsp. Location for all classes is Room 22 of the Business Library.

Keep Up to Date!
Watch the Business Library blog at http://www2.lib.msu.edu/branches/bus/ for more news and updates.

Questions?
We’re here to help! Please contact us if you should have any questions or need research assistance.

Nancy Lucas
Head, Gast Business Library
Selector: General Business, Hospitality, and International Business
517.432.4180
lucasn@msu.edu

Kara Rawlins
Assistant Head, Gast Business Library
Selector: Advertising, Management, Marketing, Supply Chain Management, MBA Programs
517.432.4182
gustk@msu.edu

Breezy Silver
Librarian, Gast Business Library
Selector: Accounting and Finance
517.432.4181
silverbr@msu.edu

Laura Leavitt
Librarian, Labor and Industrial Relations Library
Selector: Labor and Industrial Relations, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship
517.355.4647
leavitt9@msu.edu
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