Since April 4th MarketLine Advantage includes a new City Statistics database. The tool analyzes and compares the world’s most important cities. It features comprehensive data and forecasts of key socio and macroeconomic indicators for more than 1950 cities spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa, North America, and South & Central America. Later in the year Datamonitor will be looking to add additional city profiles. Go to MarketLine> Databases…
#65 April 2016
Meditation Room
Looking for a website to reduce stress and bring a little more peace and spirituality into your life? Meditation Room exists as a portable, free resource for personal growth and wellbeing. It is a stepping-stone toward a happier, more fulfilling life. It includes free nature sounds, relaxing music and images, guided meditations, binaural beats and more. It is now possible to find your own little sacred space of tranquillity online…
Looking for Spanish Companies in China?
If you are interested in finding a list of Spanish companies with a presence in China, ORBIS is the right database for you. You will be able to retrieve both quickly and easily a list of foreign subsidiaries. Go to ORBIS and limit your search to “Active companies.” Click on “Status” from the Search menu and select “Active companies” and “OK”. Then click on “Ownership data”> “Companies owning a subsidiary”>…
Measuring Economic Uncertainty
Since January 2011 IESE’s International Center for Decision Making has published the IESE Index of Economic Uncertainty (I3E) on a monthly basis. Prof. Miguel Angel Ariño has developed I3E to provide a quantifiable measure of uncertainty to help people make smart decisions based on data that are inherently imperfect or biased. The indicator provides objective data and enables the measurement and comparison of variables with other periods and economic contexts….
Maximizing your Research Impact
Measuring and describing the impact of research is becoming increasingly important in academia. For both their career development and grant funding researchers need an indication of the quality and impact of their research, as well as be able to show its return on investment. Furthermore, as research becomes more international, the use of metrics to measure researchers’ output from different institutions and countries has gained importance. The Library has selected…