Behind the scenes of The Story of City: The Financial Ledger

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One of the more challenging objects in City’s 125th anniversary exhibition was a mysterious ledger found in the archives. The leather-bound book, simply labelled ‘Private’, was fastened with a brass lock, for which the key has long been lost. Keen to discover the ledger’s secrets, we contacted several locksmiths and book conservators. They identified a number…Continue Reading Behind the scenes of The Story of City: The Financial Ledger

The Annual Register: a record of world events

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The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758. From 1758 to 1789, Edmund Burke was the editor and main contributor to this publication.  The Annual Register, as well as being a record of events, used to include reviews of important books, reproduction of state papers, historical sketches,…Continue Reading The Annual Register: a record of world events

CEPR Discussion Papers

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The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is an independent, non-profit organisation, that was founded in 1983 “to enhance the quality of economic policy-making within Europe and beyond, by fostering high quality, policy-relevant economic research, and disseminating it widely to decision-makers in the public and private sectors.” The CEPR’s network of Research Fellows and Affiliates…Continue Reading CEPR Discussion Papers

CRSP: Center for Research in Security Prices Survivor Bias Free US Mutual Database

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Do you want a large amount of historical time series data covering security prices, returns and volume data for stock exchanges in the US like the NYSE, AMEX, ARCA and NASDAQ? CRSP is the dataset for you. It is usually pronounced ‘crisp’ and is hosted on WRDS (pronounced like ‘words’), along with research datasets like Compustat,…Continue Reading CRSP: Center for Research in Security Prices Survivor Bias Free US Mutual Database

Changes to Literature Online

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Literature Online (LION) has moved to the Proquest platform and is now cross-searchable with ProQuest journals, newspapers, and other relevant content.  The new Literature Online site will be available in parallel with the legacy Literature Online site until August 1, 2019. The new site will be accessible via A-Z Database List and Subject Guides but…Continue Reading Changes to Literature Online

Counseling and Therapy in Video

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Counseling and Therapy in Video is an online database which may be of interest to students, researchers and academics from the health and social sciences. The database provides access to videos (in the form of instructions, lectures/presentations and documentaries) which demonstrate the realities and challenges of working with clients and the challenges of putting theoretical…Continue Reading Counseling and Therapy in Video

CityLibrary’s online resource access and use policy

Library Services has developed an Online Resource Access and Use Policy to ensure a clear relationship between the provision of online resources and City’s Education and Student Strategy and Research and Enterprise Strategy. By providing clarification around licence agreement requirements, user access level rights and the acceptable use of subscribed online resources, the policy aims…Continue Reading CityLibrary’s online resource access and use policy

Take a closer look at e-books

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You’ve probably noticed that many of the items on your reading lists come as e-books. E-books are great in several ways: They’re available 24/7 They can be accessed on and off campus They’re often great for readers using assistive software You won’t ever have to worry about forgetting to renew them on time You can…Continue Reading Take a closer look at e-books

S&P Global Market Intelligence

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a really useful database for getting in-depth information about financial institutions. Key features include: In-depth financial statements Credit ratings information from S&P, Moody’s and Fitch Market Intelligence Research Financial news and alerts. For those studying banking, finance or investment, S&P Global Market Intelligence is a gem. That’s because it provides…Continue Reading S&P Global Market Intelligence

ASTM (SEDL)

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Don’t forget when researching your engineering and computer science projects that City Library has a subscription to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) database. Content This database contains over 30,000 standards and the journals of the Society which cover  a wide range of subjects, including regulation of areas such as cyber crime. Active…Continue Reading ASTM (SEDL)