I was just scanning a usage report on our Sustainable Organization Library. It's great to see that this valuable resource is being used so much!

For those who are new to the SOL, I thought I'd list a small sample of the online books, reports, and journals that were downloaded most often from it this spring -- just to give you a taste of the range of content available for your research enjoyment... <more>

Every now and then I like to run a quick search to see what articles our amazing Business and Economics researchers have been publishing lately. I'm always impressed by the wide range of topics being researched by our faculty members and PhD students.

I just heard that the Inter-Corporate Ownership dataset has been updated in ABACUS -- 2016 - First Quarter Data is now available.

This is an amazing chunk of data -- one that I hope is getting the use it deserves.

When you think of Statistics Canada, is the population census the first thing that comes to mind? I suspect that's pretty common -- the census is, after all, a huge undertaking that touches on (and measures) all of us.

But Statistics Canada is about so much more than just the quinquennial counting of citizens!  Here are just a few of the cool things they've published in the last few months (and yes, I'm aware that my definition of "cool" may need some work!):

Consider this... Research did not begin on the day the WWW was invented in 1989.  

Obvious? Sure. But most of us (myself included) are so addicted to the easy access, downloading, and manipulation of online data, that we have blinders on when it comes to older data -- we assume it doesn't exist, will be too hard to transcribe from print, or will be impossible to find.

Now available! ... A couple more of the Plunkett Industry Almanacs that we bought for you earlier this spring.  

Since these sorts of resources are at their very best when they are fresh and new, I thought I'd send out an alert...

Plunkett's Investment & Securities Industry Almanac 2016

I was just scanning a list of some of our newest books and ebooks and noticed several of the most recent batch touch on finance topics.  I thought that mini-trend merited a short post...

As many of you may know, we're in the midst of an amazing speaker series here at SFU on Big Data: the President's Dream Colloquium on Engaging Big Data has already brought us three speakers since January, with another event at our Surrey campus this  afternoon (In

As some of you may recall, last year we started a subscription to CARMA: an annual program established to provide university faculty, graduate students, and other researchers with advanced training in research methods and data analysis.

As I write this, there are just 8 days and 5 hours left until the 2016 Oscars begin.  (Well, the red carpet portion, anyhow, which I'm told is just as important as the suspense, satire, and speeches of the actual ceremony.)  Although, technically I guess they've already begun if you consider the fact that a quartet of V