LSE Library Collections

Patent Information in Orbis

2012-01-20T12:04:00.000Z

In addition to covering nearly 100 million companies, ORBIS will soon be enhanced with patent information for over 6.5 million patents, linked to 585,000 companies.

Patents can be searched for using:

Word(s) in the title
Publication date
Number of patents per company
All companies with patents

Patent information is provided by the European Patent Office from their Patstat database, which covers over 80% of the world's patents.
For further information and basic assistance with using ORBIS, please contact our Data Library team

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Mergent Webreports

2011-10-03T06:24:00.017+01:00

The Library recently gained access to Mergent WebReports. This is an archive of corporate reports from the Moodys and Mergent Corporate Manuals and include key events and histories as well as the financials. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents dating back to the early 1900s. The collection is in PDF format and can be searched by company name, year, or manual type. Access is available to the following manuals:

Bank and finance

Industrial

International

OTC industrial

Public utility

Transportation

OTC unlisted

and the Archives supplement.

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HESA - Staff in Higher Education Institutions 2009/10

2011-05-10T18:56:00.001+01:00

The Library now takes statistics from HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Authority, in electronic format.

The Library holds the following for 2009/10:

Staff in Higher Education Institutions
Students in Higher Education Institutions
Finances of Higher Education Institutions
Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Institutions

LSE staff and students should email Datalibrary@lse.ac.uk for access.

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Annual Survey of Industries India (ASI)

2011-04-12T17:30:00.000+01:00

The Library has recently acquired the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) for India. ASI is the principal source of industrial statistics in India. The ASI surveys registered firms (more than 10 employees plus electric power or more than 20 employees) in India's manufacturing sector.

It provides detailed information on each firm including number of factories, fixed & working capital, outstanding loans, number of workers, wages, inputs, outputs, rent paid, interest paid and profits. LSE staff and students should email Datalibrary@lse.ac.uk for access.

UK Data Archive events, May 2011

2011-04-08T11:07:00.000+01:00

On Wednesday 4 May at the Royal Statistical Society in London, the UK Data Archive is hosting a seminar on Data management planning and practices for Research Centres and Programmes.

Research Centres and Programmes need to plan and implement effective data management and sharing. The aim of the seminar is to share knowledge and good practice and to discuss the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders.

More details and how to book are available here.

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On Friday 8 April the UK Data Archive and the Social Research Association (SRA) are hosting a workshop on managing and sharing research data for quantitative and qualitative social science research.

The workshop is aimed at social researchers at all stages of their career - from new to experienced - and will cover key legal and ethical issues surrounding the managing and sharing of data in research with people (surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations and ethnography).

More details and how to book are available here.

Historical Annual Reports

2011-01-24T10:08:00.000Z

We've purchased the complete Historical Annual Reports database from Proquest.

Coverage:

An unequalled collection of Annual Reports covering 800+ US companies
160+ years of continuous coverage for some of the most notable companies in America's history
Reports date from the 1800s to current; oldest report dating back to 1844
Strong industry coverage of the most influential companies in their industry
Company overview, history, products and operations
Historical financials

LSE staff and students can access this via the Library Catalogue.

Orbis

2011-01-18T10:18:00.000Z

Orbis, the global company information database, has launched a new version of their interface. This is a big improvement over the old interface, and makes searching and finding data much easier.

The new version is now live, via the Library catalogue at https://catalogue.lse.ac.uk/Record/1152106.

Please note that if you've saved search strategies in the old Orbis, then you need to log-in to the old version, download them, then upload them once logged into the new version. If you need any help doing this please contact us at datalibrary@lse.ac.uk.

Business Insights - new interface: Datamonitor 360

2011-01-12T17:32:00.000Z

Business Insights have introduced a new easy to use interface, Datamonitor 360. This gives LSE students and staff access to 350 strategic management reports, covering a number of different industry sectors such as Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Technology, Financial Services and Energy. These reports provide you with in-depth analysis, comprising of a variety of sources including primary research with case studies and trade interviews.

https://catalogue.lse.ac.uk/Record/1130957.

ShareGeo - now openly available

2010-09-23T13:16:00.000+01:00

ShareGeo Open is a spatial data repository that promotes data sharing
between creators and users of spatial data. It as recently been made publicly available.

It is a place where researchers, students and lecturers at UK HEFE institutions can deposit data for anyone to download and use.

Data held in ShareGeo Open can also be discovered through aggregating search portals such as Go-
Geo!.

New microdata on personal savings in Bangladesh

2010-09-10T11:04:00.000+01:00

The Library was recently able to acquire data on local personal savings of users of the SafeSave scheme in Bangladesh.

The LTS product is a regular monthly saver product of SafeSave in Dhaka, Bangladesh (www.safesave.org). Clients living in local slums can commit to deposit 50,100, 200, 300...1000 Taka per month. The data contains both general account and LTS savings balances from 2006 to 2010 of clients who opened an LTS account between June 2009 and February 2010 at a particular bank branch, called Bauniaband branch.

This unique dataset is available for use of staff and students at LSE only. For access please contact datalibrary@lse.ac.uk.
https://catalogue.lse.ac.uk/Record/1247929

Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection data update

2010-09-08T09:37:00.000+01:00

Digimap have announced a number of updates to their service, which are as follows (quoted from a Digimap email):

Updated licensed data
On Tuesday 31 August 2010 EDINA released all available updates for data provided through Digimap's Ordnance Survey Collection. Details of the versions of all the data offered can be found on the EDINA website.

OS OpenData - NEW
In addition to the licensed data products, all the OS OpenData is also now available through Digimap. You can find most of the OS OpenData products through the Data Download facility. BoundaryLine is available through the Boundary Download facility. Digimap continues to offer full flexibility in identifying and downloading the data you want for all products. Although the OS OpenData products are available from Ordnance Survey's website directly, search and select options are limited.

Other Digimap Collections
Other Digimap Collections have also undergone some improvements recently. Historic Digimap now has a new data download facility called Historic Download, offering the ability to download larger quantities of data in a single request. The new mapping facility called Ancient Roam is alsobecoming well established, offering an updated and much easier to use mapping interface. The previous facility (also known as Historic Digimap) will be withdrawn at the end of 2010. Ancient Roam and the new Historic Download facility will remain beyond this date. Geology Digimap also has a new Geology Roam mapping interface offering easier map browsing functions and the ability to fade between the geology overlay and the backdrop mapping.

Cross national time series data updated: 1815-2009

2010-08-18T13:50:00.000+01:00

The Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive is a longitudinal data series. The Archive was launched in the fall of 1968 by Arthur S. Banks under the aegis of the Center for Comparative Political Research (subsequently the Center for Social Analysis) and includes national and international statistics from 1815 to present. In establishing the archive, it was decided to assemble materials, insofar as possible, dating from 1815 (immediately after the Congress of Vienna and formation of the modern international system). It was also decided that all commonly recognized members of the international community should be represented, excluding a handful of quasi-states such as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and Vatican City. In 1977, data for the latter were also introduced, with coverage extending from 1975.

The Library holds the complete dataset, now including 2009. LSE staff and students can access by emailing datalibrary@lse.ac.uk.

Thomson ONE Banker Excel extension

2010-07-29T16:50:00.000+01:00

Hello, my name is Neil Stewart, and I'm a member of the Library's Information Services team. Amongst other things, I do some work on the Data Library, so I am joining Dave to blog here about data resources.

On to business- Dave and I have just installed what should be a useful new piece of functionality on the two Data PCs here in the Library. This is an extension which allows you to download and work with data from Thomson ONE Banker within Excel. Simply open Excel on either of these PCs, and select the Thomson ONE Banker tab from the top menu ribbon.

To use either of the Data PCs, please ask for access to them at the Help Desk, Library 1st floor.