Explore this trial database until February 25.

14 key business ratios covering all critical areas of business performance — solvency, efficiency and profitability; generate a comparison of a company’s own business ratios with the industry, using an individual company’s financial statements.

Explore this trial database until February 12.

Business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. Market volume and value sizes for hundreds of consumer products; Company and brand shares; Product sector briefings; Industry performance analysis and Company profiles; Operating environments and economic outlook ; Consumer lifestyles and future demographics ; Articles on emerging industry, country and consumer trends.

Explore this trial database until February 28.

APA PsycNET Interface Trial for PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycCRITIQUES, PsycINFO, PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY: an OCUL-wide trial on the APA PsycNET interface to give interested schools the opportunity to evaluate this interface compared to the ProQuest interface.

Explore this trial database until 19 February.

The San Francisco Chronicle offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

Explore this trial database until February 10, 2012.

Discover popular culture during the period from 1950 to 1975 through collections of original archival material – printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera, and video clips – from key libraries in Britain and America. The collection includes the Social Protest Collection from University of California, Berkeley, a wide range of Underground magazines including OZ and IT, photographs, posters, artefacts, and more.

Explore this trial database until February 6, 2012.

IBISWorld is a comprehensive collection of industry market research reports with downloadable PDF reports. It provides research and analysis of economic, demographic and government statistics.

Explore this trial database until 31 January, 2012.

The Irish Newspaper Archives is an online digitized database of Irish newspapers dating from 1763 to the present. It includes a mix of out of print titles and current titles, and provides word searchable access. Titles include the Irish Independent (1905-current), Sunday Independent (1906-current), The Freeman’s Journal (1763-1924), the Nation (1842-1897) and many of Ireland’s leading regional newspapers.

Queen’s subscribes to hundreds of databases that include millions of journal articles, newspaper articles and ebooks. For each of these databases, Queen’s signs a license that allows students, faculty and staff to use the materials in these databases for different purposes. Most databases allow you to link to material, but some also allow you to include material in coursepacks and/or post materials in Learning Management Systems like Moodle.

In the past, it has been very difficult to find out what rights were included in each license, but we have now put in place a database that allows you to find out exactly what is permitted under the terms of the licensing agreements that we have with each database provider. This information is now integrated into services like Summon and the Get It! @ Queen’s links that appear when searching in Google Scholar – meaning that you will not need to search a stand-alone database to find out what you can do with specific articles.

Watch a quick video of how this new service works here:
Licensing Database 2-Minute Demo.

If you have any questions about the terms of use for these databases, please send an email to Mark Swartz at copy.right@queensu.ca.

Note: This menu will only appear for some of the databases in our collection. This is just a start – over the coming months, we will be adding Terms of Use information for all of the databases in the library electronic collection.

In the Globe & Mail Canadian University Report 2012 (available in today’s paper and online at www.globeandmail.com/education), undergraduates have given Queen’s Library an A grade — the only library in the large, medium and small categories to receive such a high mark. University Librarian Martha Whitehead attributes this undergraduate student satisfaction to the people engaged in library services. “Librarians and staff work very closely with faculty and students to ensure we’re enhancing learning and research and supporting a spirit of inquiry,” says Whitehead, “Libraries are often referred to as the soul of the university, and we’re fortunate that ours is highly valued by students, faculty and administrators across Queen’s.”  With its strong role in the Queen’s community, the library has ranked top in its category in the Globe & Mail Canadian University Report survey for several years.

The Library views the Globe & Mail survey as one important measure of its services and resources. A variety of assessment methodologies have been used in past years, and the library administration is in the process of reviewing those and building upon them.”Academic programs and the information realm are continually evolving, so we’re continually checking and evolving as well,” says Whitehead.

Queen’s received the most A grades, and the only one for most satisfied students, in the large, medium or small universities, and an A+ for reputation with employers. For further information, see the the Queen’s News Centre.

The Library now subscribes to Thomson ONE Research database.

Overview/Company Overview provides a comprehensive overview of a company. It includes key fundamentals, the latest transactions, the latest five deals, research reports, news and significant developments, and the top five shareholders. There is a Public Profile tab and a Private Profile tab. Data is global and continuously updated.

Research/Company Research provides in-depth research reports developed by expert analysts at nearly 1600 of the world’s top investment banks, brokerage houses, and research firms. Research reports are global in coverage and become available as soon as their release terms allow – from 3 days to a few weeks after release. Historical research reports are available back to 1982.

Also known as: Investext