Attentive BUEC Buzz readers may have noticed the brief reference to Private Equity data in our announcement a couple weeks ago about Thomson Reuters Eikon + Datastream. 

If your research touches on private equity and venture capital firms, funds, and portfolio companies around the world, then you will definitely want to learn more about the PE module in our new database! ... <more>

Breaking news!  Ipsos Canada, one of Canada's major public opinion research firms, has donated the detailed data files from many of their studies to Wilfred Laurier University... and they are now freely available to the whole world!  

We've set up a link to this valuable resource from from our list of databases, which means that it will be picked up by the Library Search feature on our homepage. It's listed as... <more>

We've recently added several new titles to our Plunkett Research Online collection of industry almanacs!  

The new titles cover such industries as: 

• Renewable, Alternative & Hydrogen Energy‌
• Biotech & Genetics
• Games, Apps & Social Media
• Green Technology
• ... <and more>

I just came across a great tip sheet from the Journalists' Resource: Free tools for visualizing economic data.

The title is pretty much self explanatory. I thought I'd mention it here because doing so gives me a chance to talk about the hot topic of data visualization and the indispensable Journalists' Resource...

I mentioned in yesterday's post about Thomson Reuters Eikon + Datastream that I'd be writing some follow-up posts to highlight specific aspects of these powerful databases. Today's focus: Economics!  In particular, point-in-time economic data... <more>

I'm very pleased to announce that SFU researchers now have access to two Thomson Reuters databases: Eikon and Datastream! 

These databases will be most useful to many accounting, finance, and economics researchers, but it's possible that other areas (international business, strategy, entrepreneurship, statistics...?) will find them valuable as well.

CONTENT: [...] comprehensive fundamentals for publicly traded companies from around the world and data and charts on equities, commodities, markets, and funds, as well as massive amounts of global deal (M&A, bond, etc.), debt, and economic data, plus such data as...  <more>