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Two component publications in the SRDS Media Solutions database platform will be unavailable this weekend during scheduled upgrade maintenance.

From 5:00 PM EST, Friday October 16th, until 1:00 AM EST, Monday, October 19th, the Business Publication Advertising Source, and the Consumer Magazine Advertising Source will be offline and unavailable.

SRDS is upgrading and re-naming these component publications during this downtime.  Please email us if you experience any difficulty accessing other publications within the SRDS Media Solutions database.

UPDATED: 10/15/09 – Access has been restored! The London office that manages Economist.com made some web site updates overnight that “broke” authenticated access to many Economist.com site pages and to the Economist Magazine for their academic customers. Thanks for your patience during the outage.

Duke University Libraries access to text + graphics issues of the Economist Magazine via Economist.com is temporarily unavailable.

Duke users who attempt to access the Economist Magazine via Economist.com from our Economist Publications home page, and from the Library catalog are being erroneously prompted to login by Economist.com.

We have contacted EIU concerning this issue and are awaiting their response. In the meantime, the current, full text (no graphics) of The Economist Magazine is still available from our Economist Publications home page, and in the ABI-Inform Complete database.

Thanks for your patience while we work with EIU to resolve this issue.

The WRDS web site will be unavailable during scheduled maintenance from 12:00 noon – 8:00pm EST on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.

However, access should continue for for faculty and PhD users accessing WRDS through UNIX and PC SAS Connect. Interactive queries during this period should also continue to run unaffected.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this peak use time outage. The services of a non-WRDS IT contractor, who was available only during business hours, were required to complete the upgrade.

View a list of the affected databases.

If you experience difficulty connecting to the WRDS web site after 8pm tomorrow, please send an email to reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.

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UPDATED: The popular Vault.com Online Career Library web site will be rolling out a major redesign on Tuesday, October 6th. Monday, September 28th

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In addition to a re-branding of the site, here is a quick summary of the changes and how they will affect your use of the site.

• Fuqua School of Business students, faculty, & staff only will continue to access the new Vault Career Insider site from Ford Library’s secure web page link at: http://library.fuqua.duke.edu/internal/vaultlib.htm
• The new site is designed to be personalized, so you will need to create an individual user account after connecting. Although, this may add an extra step to your access, there are several benefits: (more…)

Effective in early September 2009, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is changing the way Library users of the WRDS web site access their site.

This change in access method does not affect Duke or Fuqua Faculty and Phd students who hold their own WRDS usernames and passwords.

If you connect to any WRDS data set from the Ford Library database page, or from the Duke Libraries database finder, you will need to enter your Duke email address at the WRDS web site, after you have entered your Duke NetID and password and been sent to the WRDS site.

Here are the new steps for accessing WRDS:

1. User follows a link from a Library web site to a WRDS data set.
2. User enters their Duke NetID and password when prompted by Duke.
3. User enters their Duke eMail address at the WRDS web site.
4. WRDS sends a “WRDS Day Pass” email to the user’s Duke eMail account that contains a “connection string” URL.
5. All off-campus users, and non-Fuqua MBA Duke users (both on- and off-campus) must now enable a Duke or Fuqua VPN connection.
6. The user follows the Day Pass URL and is connected directly to the WRDS site, and may begin their research.

The Day Pass URL is effective for 24 hours. After 24 hours, you must return to the WRDS web site via a Library site link, and re-submit your email address to receive a new Day Pass URL.

Remember that non-Fuqua Duke users, and ALL off-campus users must have an active Duke, or Fuqua VPN connection to successfully connect to WRDS via a Day Pass URL.

We will begin re-directing links to the new site for some WRDS data sets effective today (8/27/09), so that users can begin trying the new site access method above. These data sets are:

• Compustat Preliminary History
• Philadelphia Stock Exchange-Currency Options and Volatility
• Direct Marketing Educational Foundation Data
• CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Volatility Index

We encourage users to test their access on the new WRDS site by following links to the above products.

Please comment on this post, or contact us at reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu if you have questions or difficulty accessing WRDS.

UPDATED (8/28/09): Euromonitor GMID has removed their mandatory registration requirement at the request of their academic customers.

Here are the steps now needed to access Euromonitor GMID:

1. Follow a link to GMID from our web database page.
2. Authenticate to the Duke University ID management system.
3. Acknowledge the Euromonitor Terms & Conditions after connecting to the Euromonitor GMID site.
4. Begin your research!

Our thanks to Euromonitor for listening, and responding positively to the feedback of their academic customers.

Please comment on this post, or email us if you have any questions or concerns.

We offer our alumni a selection of databases for remote use.  You will need your NetID and password for access.  If your password doesn’t work, please see our help page. Our databases include:

• Business Monitor Online–daily macroeconomic, financial and company news and analysis on emerging and key global markets.
• Business Source: Alumni Edition–More than 1,350 full text business magazines and journals, of which more than 350 are peer-reviewed. Includes publications in nearly every area of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics and more.
• Reference USA–database of directory information for 12 million US businesses that is searchable by SIC code, geographic location, Yellow Page heading, company, etc. It includes some names of corporate officers as well as contact information.
• GoingGlobal–an excellent resource for information on international job searches, life and study abroad, international internships, and much more.

We also provide links to free or low cost databases in our alumni e-library.

Ford Library is pleased to announce the addition of Guidestar Premium to its suite of database resources available to all current Duke University students, faculty, & staff.

GuideStar is a leading source of financial, contact, and leadership information for U.S. nonprofit organizations. The database covers 1.8 million IRS-recognized organizations and enables users to find a charity, benchmark a nonprofit’s performance, research a particular nonprofit sector, and more.

Duke users can connect to Guidestar Premium directly, or via its link on our database page.

NOTE: After connecting to the site using one of the links above, you can start using the Guidestar site search box right away. You do not need to register or login after you connect to the Guidestar site.

Your comments and questions are welcome!

Investment company analysts’ research reports for companies and industries have been added to our Thomson ONE Banker subscription.

Ford Library has replaced the research report content lost when our subscription to Reuters Research On Demand expired by adding the Investext collection to Thomson ONE.

Duke users can now access these reports by taking the following steps:

1. Connect to Thomson ONE Banker.
2. Enter a company ticker in the top left search box, and click Go.
3. Click the “Research” link in the left-hand menu to view the most recent reports.
4. Click the “Conduct a search ..” link for more detailed searches.

Click the image at the top of this post or HERE for screenshot of this search strategy.

All rising Second Year Daytime MBAs (MBA 2010) who have been accepted for a summer internship are encouraged to check their email for an important message regarding the use of Library databases.

The message concerns the use of Library databases while you are employed in an internship this summer.

If you did not receive this email from us, please contact us to request a copy.

Thanks for your attention, and have a great summer!