<Picture your Business Librarian doing a happy dance right about now...>

I noticed today that Industry Canada's SME Benchmarking Tool has been updated.  It now features 2010 data from a sample of Revenue Canada tax filings.

I'll paste below the description of this tool from Industry Canada, but first a few words to explain why I'm so excited:

SFU researchers now have online access to a couple new e-commerce reference sources:

Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce (2nd ed. - 2012)

comScore, Inc. announced today that the latest edition of their annual look at Canada's online activities and outlook is now available: 2013 Canada Future in Focus.

For those who have never tried our IBISWorld database, I thought I'd provide a brief list of some of its newest reports:

Is it just me, or do news headlines such as the one below from CBC make you want to drop everything and do some research into ExxonMobil and M&A trends within the natural gas industry?

ExxonMobil's $3B bid for Calgary firm OK’d by Ottawa: Approval clears way for Celtic Exploration's purchase by U.S. giant (CBC)

When we first highlighted the online Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 9 months ago (see p.

Our main marketing data source has recently gotten even better!

Passport GMID has always been a great source for data on consumers and producers of fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs), not to mention the economic and demographic data covering every country in the world. Now they've added...

1. Coverage of Automotive, Luxury, and Ingredients industries.

This means you can now find details such as...

This post is about a bunch of Taiwan industry reports, but -- before you click away saying that you aren't interested because you aren't researching Taiwan -- consider that Taiwan is 18th in the world when it comes to exports, but only 52nd if ranked by population.

This is clearly a country that is punching above its weight in world markets -- and a report on one of their industries can often be used to understand the global nature of the same industry, especially in cases where Taiwan is among the leaders for that industry (think: "high-tech stuff").

Calling all market-microstructure researchers!

We are very pleased to announce that SFU researchers now have access to Daily TAQ (Trade-and-Quote) data with time stamps at the millisecond level.  We've purchased the Daily TAQ data for 2012 (full calendar year) and made it available via our WRDS dataset interface.

Happy First Day of Classes, everyone!

This seems like an appropriate time to re-post something I wrote at the beginning of last semester on the most common question in the library in Week 1 :

Question: Does the library have a copy of my textbook?

Answer: Maybe...