Has this ever happened to you? 

You get an assignment to write a term paper,

... then you spend lots of time coming up with a good topic (not too hard, not too boring...),

With a fuel spill in English Bay in the news this morning, the following BCG article caught my eye as I scanned one of my many email alerts over lunch:

This is one of those odd little search tricks that needs to be written down for that one time you might need it: You can search for news photos from sources such as the Associated Press and the South China Morning Post within Factiva (via the SFU Library).

The Wall Street Journal is pretty much standard reading for business people, including business faculty and students, so of course the SFU Library provides access to it!  In fact, we have many different editions available for your online enjoyment.

Finance is a world of numbers -- both very large and very small -- so I'll lead off this post about a finance resource with some key numbers:  0.001 and 362,664,000,000.

NVivo Symposium

I'm very pleased to announce that SFU researchers now have online access to The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management!

As we approach that magic time of year when people scramble to file their taxes and round out their RRSP investments, our minds naturally turn to the joys of mutual funds, tax guides, and personal finance in general.  We thought we'd highlight a few SFU Library resources that touch on such areas. Let's start with Fund Profiler, where you can get...

It's been <ahem> nine years since I last wrote about KPMG's Competitive Alternatives report.  It was a great resource back then, and has only gotten better over the years.  The biggest change that jumps out at me is that the report now covers some smaller, local cities -- places like Nanaimo, Kelowna, and Lethbridge. From the publisher:

Our already-popular IBISWorld database recently added another useful feature: iExpert Summaries.