Do you use the Proquest database? New content has been added to ABI Inform

The largest dataset ever loaded to ABI/INFORM, the Experian Commercial Risk Database provides brief company profiles for over 40M U.S. companies, updated monthly. With over 30 years’ experience in business credit, Experian collects data on both private and public companies, with special expertise in small and medium-sized businesses.

These new reports allow students and researchers to see details such as contact information, size, industry, MSA, sales range, business type, bankruptcy information, credit risk, and more. This information is extremely useful for helping students research industries, market size and companies - for assignments or job prospecting.

Here are a few examples of the searches available for Experian:

•    Pub(Experian)
•    Document type:  Company Profile
•    pub(Experian) AND naics("5111*" ) AND loc(Chicago)
•    Pub(Experian) and "Employee Size Range: 1-4"
•    Pub(Experian) and Bankruptcy filed?: No
•    Pub(Experian) and “year business started: 2005” and county near dupage

To find out what else has been added to ABI Inform please view the Proquest LibGuide

New Law Journals available on LexisLibrary

 (Access via the Law LibGuide)


Lexis Library is one of our key databases for Law.  Recently, the database has uploaded content from new journal titles including:
 
Uniform Law Review
Published by Oxford University Press, this quarterly journal has an archive commencing from 1996.  The journal provides information on the political and technical problems of the harmonisation of private and commercial law the world-over. A large part is being reserved for the work carried out in UNIDROIT. It comprises a collection of material on the continuing progress achieved in the field of the unification of law, in particular:

• Periodical reports on the progress realised in this field by international and regional organisations
• Studies carried out with a view to the unification of law
• Texts of uniform laws, conventions and other instruments adopted at international level
• An updated bibliography on the subject
• A regular selection of case law of various countries illustrating their application of uniform law texts

Emerald Insight journals
Lexis Library has recently added another five journals from Emerald Insight:

• The Journal of Money Laundering Control – The world’s only quarterly, peer-reviewed journal designed to give quality insight into the latest law, regulation, techniques and best practice in the prevention, identification and prosecution of money laundering.

• The Journal of Financial Crime – The leading journal in its field publishes authoritative and detailed insight on the latest law, regulation and best practice in the prevention, detection and prosecution of financial crime, and tracing and recovering missing assets.

• The Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance – Publishes high quality applied research in regulation and compliance through expert analyses, reviews, case studies and authoritative research articles.

• The International Journal of Law in the Built Environment – Provides a vehicle for the publication of high quality legal scholarship in the context of the design, construction, management and use of the built environment.

• The Journal of International Trade Law and Policy – Provides a forum for current issues in all aspects of international trade, including legal, economic, management and policy issues.