Bartley Business Information Center

Welcome back!

I have posted the new office hours for the Bartley Research Office (#2008). The appointment scheduler is also open at this time.

Please email me directly if you need off campus access to the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Enjoy your break! Librarians are available via email from Oct. 15-19 and we will also be at work in Falvey. The Bartley office will be closed.

Also, there is a fresh version of the Management 1102 Research Guide now available.

Office hours at Bartley Hall begin on Tuesday, August 28 and will be in full swing by Sept. 4th. Check the appointment scheduler for available times. Walk-ins are welcome as well. If the door is open, we are available.

The Economist, Harvard Business Online, and others are available for free and can be found using the web or iTunes.

I have found industry reports in Business Source Premier, Marketline, and Market Insight. MarketResearch.com Academic (via the library page) has some material as well. Also, the US Government offers this link on the Auto Industry.

Euromonitor has some statistical data, as does Mergent, Valueline, and Morningstar. The last 3 are best searched by ticker symbol.

An 1102 student has made the following suggestions for using AliBaba for getting manufacturing costs, I will summarize below:

• AliBaba is probably the most useful tool we as a group have come across as of yet.  There are so many more companies there than on Thomas Register.

• I would suggest not using your cellphone _*number like I have because I have probably received 15-20 phone calls from Vietnam / China / Los Angeles in the past 36 hours.

These were not made by companies I contacted but by others trying to sell their services to me.

• *_TradeManager, AliBaba’s instant messaging service works great_*.  If you leave it open, you will find that as long as you describe what you are looking for in your profile and correctly select an appropriate industry, even people that you have not contacted will message you and try to offer their services.

• It worked best to use the Contact Now option on AliBaba and send an email first,_ then the people working for those companies will promptly respond.  The only downside is that this primarily happens around 8-12 at night because of the time difference since these are primarily Chinese companies.  Try not to be too specific because a lot of things you say get lost in translation, and regardless of whether or not the company can offer you exactly what you are looking for, they will respond.

• Once you get them on TradeManager though, you will be able to find out specifically.

I found a marketing report in Business Insight that many business students may find useful:

“Identifying the Health Conscious Consumer: Targeting strategies for image-conscious, ethical workaholics”.

Let me know if you can’t this same report and I can have it sent to you.

You may have noticed the Meebo Chat service on many of my subject pages. With Meebo you do not need to download any software and there are no advertisements. The only difficult feature is that you can leave a question when I am not online. In this instance, I will see the question when I log in, but I will not be able to get back to you unless you leave a Villanova email address with your question.

Thank you.

The Country Research Guide, compiled by Linda Hauck, is a great summary of some of the most relevant resources available to students and faculty at Falvey Memorial Library.