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The Comparing Companies with LexisNexis Company Dossier screencast (3.7 MB) demonstrates the Dossier Compare Companies tool. This feature in LexisNexis is especially useful if you want to compare companies that are not in the same industry, as users can select up to five companies to compare. Dossier will allow you to compare assets, liabilities, ratios, and income statements for the companies of your choice. Please note that the quantity of data available will often depend on whether the company is public or private. Created with Wink.

For more screencasts, please visit the Business Database Screencasts page in the Biz Wiki.

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From an email from our Plunkett rep:

Dear Valued Subscriber,

I hope you have been enjoying the improvements to Plunkett Research Online. We have greatly appreciated the many positive comments you have sent us this summer. Now, we are ready to make our usage statistics even better!

We are getting ready to upgrade our site usage stats, to bring them more into conformity with the majority of databases, so that they will register page views as well as users and industries viewed. To do this, we need to take the entire system offline this Saturday, from 11am to 4pm Central time. I apologize for any inconvenience this will cause; the improvement to our usage stats will be worth the trouble.

Also, I am happy to report that our Build-A-Report feature now has customizable, selectable, industry statistics. Just as our industry trends have been always been individually selectable, our industry statistics are too now. Take a look! This is just one more way we are working to improve the value of Plunkett Research Online, at no additional cost to you.

Have a nice weekend, and find something fun to do this Saturday other than using Plunkett’s research!

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A new screencast is available to assist researchers with using Thomson ONE Banker.

The Screening Companies in Thomson ONE Baker screencast (5 MB) demonstrates how to use the database to screen for companies with user-specified criteria. This example shows how to screen for companies that are in the S&P 500, while also showing various data options for comparing the companies. This screencast lasts approximately 5 minutes, and does contain audio.

For more screencasts, please visit the Business Database Screencasts page in the Biz Wiki.

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A new screencast is now available to assist researchers with using the new features of LexisNexis.

This screencast demonstrates an effective way to find industry news on your topic. This demonstration lasts approximately 3 minutes and does contain voice explanations. You can find the screencast here.
For more database screencasts, please visit the Business Database Screencasts page.

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What follows is a list of links that might prove useful to Business Cluster students working on the Second Life project.

Websites:

1. InfoIsland.org
2. Educause ( May require registration to view certain articles)
3. SLLC Wiki
4. SimTeach.com
5. Technorati Blog Search (do a search there for blogs)
6. Google Blog Search (make sure you put phrases such as “Second Life” in quotes)
7. Pew Internet and American Life
8. Annotated Bibliography of Virtual Worlds in Education by Sharon Stoerger

Suggested databases:

1. Business Source Complete
2. Computer and Applied Sciences Complete
3. Academic Search Complete
4. Education Research Complete

Possible search terms:

The above image contains search terms that we discovered in class. My apologies for my left-handed penmanship.

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