New Round-Up

Quite a quick round up again this week as there has been lots of teaching and I have promoted a couple of particular events during the week. First up a series of free videos from the Financial Times on markets and investing. The RBS becomes the world's first bank to sign up to Facebook at Work to connect people across the company more quickly and efficiently. Fracking bans and lack of results have slowed the Eastern European shale boom.

The effects of VW's emissions scandals continue to reverberate as they slump to first net loss in 15 years, and are dethroned by Toyota as the biggest car group. Meanwhile Toyota believes the future will be hydrogen cars. What do you think? I hope everyone is getting on well with term and remember to book appointments or email your librarians if you need any help.

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The Business Show, Olympia 3rd & 4th December - Good for all you Entrepreneurs

 

City Business Library will be exhibiting at the Business Show at Olympia, London, 3rd & 4th December. We will be at stand 114 - we hope to see you there!

The Business Show will give you access to more industry experts, business solutions and networking opportunities than ever before.

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There is an incredible speaker line-up on offer which includes Dragon's Den star Touker Suleyman, England Cricket Captain Alastair Cook and West Ham and Ann Summers Owner David Gold. There will be 250 seminars by leading business experts, 350 exhibitors, 170 masterclass sessions, 5 networking areas and 2 funding features. The organisers are even attempting to break the world record for the largest speed networking session ever!

For more information on everything that will be happening and to register for your free ticket click here.

Come and say hello to the City Business Library at stand 114. 

Mintel & Keynote Help. New round-up

There are some really useful helpguides for Mintel and Keynote available this week. Firstly a student guide to using Mintel to get students started using it (those of you I haven't seen in teaching sessions this week) and a pdf on perfecting your Business  Plan - especially good for you students on modules where you produce a Business Plan as part of your coursework. This link will take you to videos to get you getting the most out of Keynote so check that out too if you are researching British companies. This has been an incredibly busy week and I have really enjoyed meeting so many of you and helping you get started with your library resources,

Some quick bits of news for this week; Mark Carney makes an intervention in the EU Referendum debate and laid out an explanation of the likely financial impact of withdrawal. EU is stepping up their crackdown on the tax avoidance of multinationals with Fiat and Starbucks being the first to face their wrath. Uber has won its court case, with the court ruling their app doesn't not break UK laws on taximeters. Apple gives the clearest indication that they are moving into a tech led car industy. Finally the Steel Industry crisis deepens with over 4,000 jobs lost at two companies in the UK and more job losses expected.

Oil & MBA students

Lot;s of oil news caught my eye this week  - Schlumberger believes the oil outlook is increasingly challenging while Qatar believed there are signs of recovery for 2016. The Financial Times looks at how Oil finances Isis and have put together a special Oil section as they begin a four week focus on Energy which is well worth checking out. Rounding out a rather short news catch up (though check out last week's resource recommendations post), are some good articles on students and entrepreneurs. Students are increasingly favouring food industry courses, looking ta farming, the environmnet and many other aspects. And this student took inspiration from his own frustrations as a traveller to improve the travel industry for people with disabilities.

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How to assess and evaluate the effect of changing commodity prices

How to assess and evaluate the effect of changing commodity prices

An interactive tutorial from The Economist Intelligence Unit

Please join us on Thursday, October 29th, 2015 at 3-4pm British Summer Time (11am-12pm Eastern Daylight Time), when Sebastien Marlier, Senior Commodities Editor, will guide you through the capabilities of a service which helps you to assess and evaluate the outlook for the consumption, production and price of major global commodities. After the plunge so far in 2015 there is still a degree of uncertainty around commodities, the content covered in this session will provide you with guidance on how The EIU can help your business to effectively gauge the opportunities and the risks from commodity prices in the near future, by answering the following questions: Why did commodity prices collapse this year?  Should we brace ourselves for a protracted period of low oil prices? How will the recent changes impact the economic fortunes of commodity exporting countries? Please visit our registration page to join this discussion. We look forward to greeting you online. Kind regards, Robert Ward Editorial Director

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Some News Round-up this week.

It;s been another very busy week but I hope you are all settling in and enjoying Middlesex. I will promote some more resources as this month wear on but today is going to be a shorter news based post. Firstly the IMF warns of threats to global financial stability and Volkswagen continues to suffer the fall out from their massive act of corporate deception over diesel emissions. Continuing this week's focus on Corporations in difficult circumstances , the BBC piece focuses on the mining corporation Glencore and what exactly is going on with their current difficulties. But look on the bright side, you are not these mistreated Air France Bosses. Finally a shout out to the FInancial Times section on Women in Business. Well worth a look

Welcome to Middlesex!

I hope you all are enjoying the start of term. I know I have seen lots of you this week - I've been to lots of inductions this week and I will hopefully meet the rest of you soon. But here are some top tips to get you off to a flying start,


Firstly, check out your library subject guide! You can find the link from the 'My Study' tab in My Unihub and here is the link for the Business, Management & Marketing one - http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/business
This highlights the best business resources and will help you find the best books, articles and journals.

Secondly, don't forget to go to your Module pages in My Learning and check out your online reading lists and download your free personal etextbook - Kortext are still in the Quad today so go see them for all the help you need. They are also here next week.  

I am also going to highlight some useful resources. Firstly another reminder to sign up to  FT.com. There's information on registering here and also my blog post on how to install the app on your smartphone or tablet

Bloomberg provides a free newsletter the Bloomberg London Brief!  It is an excellent way to keep  yourself informed about what's going on in the city and financial world.

Please use this link below to subscribe:

http://bit.ly/b-brief

(And if you want a bit more Bloomberg, why not do Bloomberg Certification here at Middlesex? The course is free and supported by Sarah, our Economics Librarian. One MDX student did so well on the course they got a job offer!)

Don;t for get to Check out MIntel, COBRA and SCOPUS our new databases.

And here is a list of interesting twitter accounts to follow to keep up to date and find interesting ideas.
Reuters Business & Financial News.
https://twitter.com/ReutersBiz

BBC Business News - you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed
https://twitter.com/BBCBusiness

Harvard Business Review - you should have access to this via Summon and the Library's subscriptions
https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz

The Guardian Business & Sustainable Business feeds.
https://twitter.com/GuardianSustBiz
https://twitter.com/BusinessDesk

Forbes
 https://twitter.com/Forbes

And if you get stuck with any of this? DON'T PANIC! :). It's only the first week, you have your library inductions still to come and we are here to help you, both in the Sheppard library and on email - businesslibrarian@mdx.ac.uk. We can't wait to meet you all.