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Ebook of the Week: Socialnomics

Socialnomics : How Social Media Transforms The Way We Live and Do Business

We no longer have a choice on whether we do social media; the question is how well we do it.

Welcome to the world of socialnomics, where consumers and the societies they create online have profound effects on our economy and the businesses that operate within it. Online word of mouth, social search, social commerce, and the influence of peer groups are making traditional marketing strategies obsolete.



Get this ebook at Dal!

Note: Access is restricted to Dal users only.

Business Expert Press’s Digital Libraries

The Libraries are offering Business Expert Press’s Digital Libraries on a trial basis. These ebooks will be available until January 21, 2012 (trial has been extended as site was down temporarily).

Business Expert Press publishes concise, practical ebooks for students advancing towards degrees in business/management, or anyone, in fact, interested in entrepreneurship. For students seeking a BS or MBA, BE Press authors translate real-life business experiences into teaching tools in topics such as accounting, supply chain management, cultural issues, and sustainability. Editors from Georgetown University, the University of Southern California, Boston University, Georgia Tech and others are building curriculum-connected collections mapped to the programs taught in business and management schools, so they’re relevant for today’s students.

Explore this resource now, and let us know what you think!

Trial Access to Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage

The Libraries are now offering trial access to Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage, a comprehensive, professional source of proprietary analysis on industry trends, corporate activities, and investments. It is a core service used at many of the leading investment firms, corporations, government agencies, and law offices. For non-business students, the service includes a Financial Education section with tools for understanding personal finance.

S & P’s NetAdvantage will provide you with:

  • web-based access to each new Industry Survey as soon as it is released
  • downloadable company data on the companies that comprise a given industry
  • survey links to key industry websites (trade associations etc.)
  • an on-line archive of Surveys from 1999 onward

The service also enables you to:

  • gather company information (search by ticker or name from the site’s homepage, or by using the “Companies” tab)
  • understand the basics of personal finance by exploring the Financial Literacy Now module under the “Financial Education” tab

Trial access ends April 2011 and is available both on and off campus. Plenty of time to explore Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage and let us know what you think about it!

Eureka! Canadian and International News Sources

The Dal Libraries subscribe to Eureka.cc, a database that provides access to more than 3000 reliable sources covering current events and business on the local, regional, national and international scenes. Eureka offers:

  • newspapers
  • trade publications
  • news wires
  • radio and television program transcripts
  • selected blogs
  • indexed websites

Find Eureka.cc using the Databases option in the dropdown menu on our homepage search box. It’s available to you both on and off campus.

If you like Eureka, bookmark this permanent link to it!

SCI-TECHnetBASE (On trial until Jan. 17/09)

A database of 4555 online books published by CRC/Taylor & Francis in the areas of Engineering, Information Technology, Chemistry, Biomedical Science, Business Management and much more.

This database trial is available via campus access only. Please send your comments to Ian Colford

CBCA Complete

As of January 1, 2008, the Dalhousie Libraries have replaced the separate subscriptions to three CBCA databases (CBCA Business, CBCA Current Events, and CBCA Reference) with a single database: CBCA Complete.

CBCA Complete combines content from all four CBCA database subsets (the 4th is CBCA Education) and provides full-text coverage of current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus. Subject coverage is comprehensive and the information comes from the broadest range of Canadian sources available anywhere. With over 4.5 million records and indexing more than 1,600 periodical titles, CBCA Complete is the first stop for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.