We've written before about the useful "Doing Business In" country guides available for free from many of the major management/accounting consulting firms.  Those same firms are often also good sources for industry insights and surveys.  Which brings me to the short list below...

Deloitte provides landing pages for several broad sectors, each of which will lead you to current analysis and "perspective" reports:

Welcome to Ania Dymarz!  

We're just winding down from a very busy summer here in the library. On a quick look at the journal articles published in the last few months, it's clear that the summer has been a successful one for SFU's Business and Economics researchers as well! Check out the list below for the bus/econ articles authored or co-authored by SFU people between May and August and listed in our Business Source Complete database.

We're always happy to point out a cool new study from Statistics Canada...

The Labour Market in Canada and the United States since the Last Recession
by André Bernard, Analytical Studies Branch and Jeannine Usalcas, Labour Statistics Division.

Congratulations to SFU Economics Prof. Ramazan Gençay and his former PhD student, Stephen Fagan, on their new article in the August 2014 issue of Quantitative Finance!

Great news!  SFU researchers now have online access to the APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology.

This handbook...

Hey SFU researchers!

Have you ever used the Library Search box on our library's home page?  It searches our site, a few of our more unique collections (e.g., our institutional repository), and a vast collection of  all our books and ebooks and the majority of the online journals that we carry.

Since 2010, a major component of that feature has been our Fast Search search engine -- that's the part that covers all our books and most of our journals.

I see that the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive hit the 400 billion mark earlier this month.  For those of you who aren't familiar with the Wayback Machine, that means they have indexed/archived 400 billion web pages.

It's been a while since we last highlighted the treasures within our Passport GMID database. We usually describe this resource as being the place to go for...

a) demographic and economic statistics (with forecasts) on every country in the world;

b) data on the sales by volume and value for a wide range of "fast moving consumer goods" in many countries;

Those of you who have had a business librarian visit your class may remember some discussion of the "likely publisher" categories for marketing information.  Even if you've never seen an image like the one below, you probably know that government agencies, industry associations, academics, companies, and news sources are all great places to look when you need some marketing information.