This autumn Library Services will host a series of drop-in sessions and workshops at the Northampton Square and Cass Libraries. These sessions form our Library Services Autumn Specials. They will be an excellent opportunity to meet the people behind these resources and learn about how to get more out of library resources. See the table below for dates and times of each session. Select the links to find out more information and book your place. Autumn Specials at Northampton Square Event Date Time Location Successful Employability with the Financial Times Tuesday 24th September 12-12:30pm A110 College Building Financial Times…
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New and updated Library Guides for Health Sciences
Posted in Library Guides, and School of Health Sciences
We are excited to announce Governmental, news and statistical resources, a new Library Guide for School of Health Sciences students, researchers and academics. It provides access to: Governmental websites from the Department of Health & Social Care and its associated agencies such as the Care Quality Commission and Public Health England Websites covering health issues from local authorities in North East London. Key health ‘think tanks’ including The King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust Links to current awareness services such as NHS England Bulletins UK and global health statistics Health indicator resources such as the National Indicator Library. The guide formally known…
Attention Bloomberg users: Bloomberg has delivered a new API that you can use to download and save data from Bloomberg through the Bloomberg Excel Add-in. Introducing: Bloomberg Query Language (BQL). It works by: Consolidating fields Reducing the number of tickers you have to list Aggregating data Why use it? You can do more in Bloomberg without hitting Bloomberg’s download limit. This is because BQL uses much less data than the traditional way of using data in Bloomberg. Rather than taking the raw data and doing the calculations in Excel or another application, Bloomberg does the calculations for you…
Access the Times Higher Education (THE) online
Posted in Cass Business School, City Law School, Online Resources, School of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Health Sciences, and SMCSE
All City staff and students have access to the Times Higher Education (THE) online via Library Services’s subscription. THE contains global higher education coverage including world university rankings, news, opinions and features. You can read online articles, digital editions and download the app to your own personal device. To set up your THE account, go to www.timeshighereducation.com, select the person icon in the top right corner and register using your City email address. The THE app is available to download from your app store provider on iOS, Android and Kindle Fire. THE is just one of a number of publications…
New database: Activistmonitor
Posted in Cass Business School, New Resource, New Resources, and Online Resources
We’re excited to introduce a new database Activistmonitor to our collection at Cass. Shareholder activism has become a growing concern for publicly traded companies after many businesses have had to change their strategies in response to the demands of shareholder activists, rather than the usual demands of the market. Recent reports of shareholder activism in the media make it a hot topic for further study. Activistmonitor covers activist campaigns including past campaigns, strategies and potential targets. It aims to give users an idea of how a given shareholder campaign might play out based on the behaviour of past targets and…