Master of Management in Operations Research

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Master of Management in Operations Research

• Library Resources
• Jan Wallace, Christina Sylka
• David Lam Library
• September, 2008

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Agenda

• Lam Library overview
• Demonstration of relevant UBC Library databases
• Examination of other statistical sources
• Datastream WRDS presentation

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Discussion 4 minutes

• What has been your past experience with research?
• What were some challenges?
• How did library resources factor into your
  research?
• What is 1 tip that you would pass onto a
  colleague?

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Google and Library Databases

• Google
• Visible Web
• Public material
• News
• Uncontrolled material
• (informal, no evaluation)
• Limited scholarly
• Google Scholar
• Single interface
• Imprecise searching

• Library Databases
• Invisible web
• Gated material (no free access)
• Journals, news, speciality data
• Controlled material (evaluation processes
  applied)
• Scholarly
• Multiple interfaces
• Precision Searching

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David Lam Library

• Location
• David Lam Management Research Library
• 2nd 3rd Floor, above 99 Chairs
• Web Address
• http//www.library.ubc.ca/lam/

SIDE HEADINGS AND NOTES CAN GO HERE
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Your Library Account

• From the UBC Library homepage (not the David Lam
  homepage)
• http//www.library.ubc.ca/
• Choose My Library Account
• Renew items, check fines, requests
• Change your PIN
• When does your account expire?
• Grad Student loans are 8 weeks!

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Learning Centre
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Ejournals Business Databases
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ABI/Inform CDN Newsstand

• Good starting point for background on an
  industry, topic, company
• Full text of 2000 business journals
• Wall Street Journal updated daily
• National Post, Vancouver Sun, Canadian Business,
  BC Business
• Indexes Harvard Business Review
• Economist

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Business Source Complete

• Journals covering business, management,
  economics, banking, finance, accounting and more
• Popular business publications such as Business
  Week, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review
• Hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals

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Emerald

• Covers article literature in management
  disciplines such as strategy, leadership, library
  and information management, marketing, and human
  resource management.

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Factiva

• Global content (9000 sources)
• Globe Mail
• Dow Jones and Reuters newswires
• The Wall Street Journal.
• Multilingual interface and content
• Company profiles

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ACM Digital Library

• Non-profit organization that publishes
  technology-related journals, Special Interest
  Group Newsletters and over 50 annual conference
  proceedings
• Access to all ACM journals and magazines online,
  as well as conference proceedings
• 750,000 pages of downloadable text

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IEEE Electronic Library

• Technical journals, standards, and conference
  proceedings
• Published by the Institute of Electrical and
  Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of
  Electrical Engineers
• Powerful search software

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Create your own citation database Refworks

• The David Lam Library is offering 2 workshops
  Thursday October 2 2.00-3.00 Friday
  October 17 2.00-3.00
• To attend please RSVP lindsay.ure_at_ubc.ca
• Maximum of 8 participants per session.
• Location HA 427

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Sources for Finding Market/Industry Reports
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Forrester

• Respected industry source
• Analyzes emerging trends in technology and their
  impact on business and the economy
• Covers many industry sectors, eg, healthcare,
  logistics, etc.
• UBC users need to set up (free) accounts

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eMarketer

• Market research and trend analysis on Internet,
  e-business, online marketing, media and emerging
  technologies

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Freedonia Focus

• International industry market research
• Over 2,000 industry reports providing market
  share, market size, demand history, and forecasts
  for a variety of manufacturing industries

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Global Market Information Database

• International
• economies,
• demographics,
• consumers,
• lifestyles,
• companies and
• industries.

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Investext

• Investment, company and industry reports from
  over 500 brokers in North America, Europe,
  Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the
  Middle East
• Financial forecasting a strength
• Proprietary information

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Standard Poors NetAdvantage

• North American research on companies, industries
  sub-industries.

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Other Sources

• Government Agencies (federal, provincial
  municipal)
• Statistical Agencies (Statistics Canada, BC
  Stats, Canadian Institute for Health Information
  (CIHI))
• Associations
• Companies (annual reports, 10-k)

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Sources for Finding Company Financials
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FP Advisor

• Corporate information and current and historical
  financial reports on Canada's leading 500
  companies
• Tools to retrieve, manipulate and analyze
  fundamental data for over 1400 Canadian companies
• IPO and New Issue information on Canadian
  companies

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Mergent Online

• U.S. International public company data with
  enhanced features that allow you to compare
  companies and export data into Excel, CSV, etc.
• Ability to compare financial items, ratios over
  an industry or portfolio
• Current and historical annual reports
• Includes inactive companies

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Sources for Finding Statistics
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BC Stats

• Current reports and statistics from British
  Columbia's central statistical agency
• Invaluable economic, socioeconomic and
  demographic data
• UBC has enhanced subscription

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Statistics Canada Census

• Best place to find demographics for specific
  geographic locations-
• Canada, Metropolitan Centres, regions, First 3
  digits of the postal code (Forward Sortation Area
  (FSA)), Dissemination Areas (DA), which can be
  limited to a 6 block area, or a highrise
• Kinds of information available income, marital
  status, family, age, educational attainment,
  ethnicity, occupation, dwellings (size, value,
  condition, owned or rented), religion
• The more specific geographically, the less
  demographic detail you will find

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Census FSA, cntd.
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E-Stat - CANSIM

• Easiest interface for searching Statistics Canada
• designed with the needs and interests of the
  education community in mind
• Using over 2,400 tables from CANSIM, track
  trends in the lives of Canadians. Updated once a
  year during the summer, CANSIM contains more
  than 26 million time series. A more frequently
  updated version of CANSIM is also available via
  the CHASS interface

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E-Stat - CANSIM
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Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
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Datastream

• Available on a standalone workstation in the
  library
• Image from http//library.nyu.edu/research/bus-i
  nt/datastream.html

• Current historical international financial
  economic data from IMF, OECD national
  government agencies
• - equities
• - market indices
• - company acounts
• - bonds
• - macroeconomics
• - foreign exchange
• - warrants
• - interest rates
• - exchange rates
• - commodities
• - derivatives

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Datastream Economics

• Determine your category, item name, preferred
  data, its frequency, and its output (time series,
  table or graph)

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Datastream - Commodities

• All series in Commodities which match the search
  criteria for Forestry Products US Dollar

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Datastream - Chart

• Percentage Changes Chart NBSK Pulp (CIF W.
  Europe) US/MT

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Datastream Company Accounts

• Datastream provides company accounts info for
  international companies in a pre-defined report

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What is WRDS?

• Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a
  web-based data management system used to retrieve
  information from a wide variety of financial,
  economic, and marketing data sources
• Our Vendors Kind of Data

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Navigating WRDS

• Follow Steps to get data

• Use Documentation Manuals to identify Data Items

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WRDS

• WRDS output

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WRDS

• Use your class ID mmor07
• Use your class Password Lib5157

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Connecting from Off-Campus

• Databases, eJournals, eBooks are licensed for
  the use of current UBC students, faculty and
  staff
• You will need Campus Wide Login
• (occasionally your UBCcard and PIN)
• To set up the VPN on your computer
• http//www.vpn.ubc.ca

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For project help

• Open 10-4, Monday to Friday
• Staffed by 3 friendly and helpful Librarians
  Christina, Lindsay Jan
• 604-822-9399 (Reference Desk)
• For group projects it is best to make an
  appointment with a Librarian

Christina Sylka christina.sylka_at_ubc.ca
822-9390 Jan Wallace jan.wallace_at_ubc.ca
822-9392 Lindsay Ure lindsay.ure_at_ubc.ca
827-5238