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Business Data in Primo

ALA | June 2013

Gilad Gal, Director of Product Management

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Users’ expectations

Where do I find this type of material?What is the optimal search tool in a specific context?

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Types of business data

• Academic journal articles

• Country/industry/market reports

• Datasets

• Company directories

• Real time data/historical data including analytics

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Appropriateness for ‘search it all’ search box

1. Academic journal articles

2. Country/industry/market reports

3. Datasets

4. Company directories

5. Real time data/historical data including analytics

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Q: “What types of general resources do you use most for your work (books, journals, reports, data sets, experts, webpages, blogs, etc.)?”

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Journal articles: The most heavily used resource type

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Journal articles collections • JSTOR

• Business I• Business II• Business III

• Gale • Business Insights: Essentials• One File

• INFORMS• Informit Business Collection• Now Publishers - Foundations & Trends• National Bureau of Economics Research Papers• RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)• Emerald - Management eJournals

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Academic Journals

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Magazines

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Raw data for research

• Types• Country/industry/market reports• Data sets

• Sources• Key Note – Market research & company

information• Mintel Oxygen – Market reports• Plunkett – Almanacs & videos• OECD iLibrary – Journals, books, statistical

tables, datasets, factbooks• IMF eLibrary – Journals, books, reports,

databases

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Referral to external DB• Company directories

• Real time data/historical data including analytics

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Database search application

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Link to resource

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Personalized ranking

Providing context

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THANK YOU!

gilad.gal@exlibrisgroup.com