New information specialist Economics and Business

Since December 2023, Valentina Maccatrozzo is the new Information Specialist for the Faculty of Economics and Business and Amsterdam Business School. She replaces Bjorn Witlox and can be reached by students and employees of this faculty for questions about literature, databases, etc.

Risk.net

Recently we acquired access to Risk.net. Risk.net, designed to complement Risk magazine, is a resource dedicated to anyone who needs to manage risk. Risk.net now allows members to access the full content from Risk magazine, including all special reports and topical supplements, as well as a searchable archive of past issues of Risk. Also includes access to the following journals: Risk, Operational Risk & Regulation, Structured Products, Custody Risk, Energy Risk, Insurance Risk, Asia Risk, Hedge Funds Review, Journal of Computational Finance, Journal of Credit Risk, Journal of Energy Markets, Journal of Financial Market Infrastructure, Journal of Investment Strategies, Journal of Operational Risk, Journal of Risk, Journal of Risk Model Validation. You can also find the journal content via CataloguePlus and Google Scholar when signed in to the UvA network.

Preqin ends 31 May

On 31 May 2023 our subscription to Preqin expires. This data can no longer be consulted via its own interface and via WRDS. We would like to ask everyone who has downloaded data from Preqin in the past year to delete this data. With the expiry of the subscription, the data may no longer be used.

Database Zephyr closed

The deals (M&A, IPO, etc.) database Zephyr, published by Bureau van Dijk Moody's, has been replaced by the database Orbis M&A. This database is the new Bureau van Dijk version of Zephyr. Zephyr has therefore been removed from CataloguePlus and the database lists.

Zephyr gets successor: Orbis M&A

In April 2023, Bureau van Dijk's deals database Zephyr will go down. Instead, we now offer the new version: Orbis M&A. Zephyr will stay available until the end of March.

Trial Orbis Intellectual Property converted into subscription

As of 22 December 2022, the UvA has a subscription to Orbis Intellectual Property from Bureau van Dijk. This database is a nice addition to the many already running Bureau van Dijk subscriptions. Moreover, this database offers a wonderful alternative to the free online patent databases.

CRSP Mutual Funds closed

As of 20 november 2022 UvA users no longer have access to CRSP Mutual Funds in Wharton WRDS.

Trial Bureau van Dijk Orbis Intellectual Property

Starting 7 November and running until 21 November 2022, employees of the University of Amsterdam will have access to a trial period in the database Bureau van Dijk Orbis Intellectual Property. Provider of intellectual property data in this database is Lighthouse IP. You can contact b.witlox@uva.nl for access to this trial database. Note that no data can be downloaded during this trial period. It is purely for evaluating purposes.

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) scores Robeco

On 23 August 2022 Robeco issued a press release that they are making their database of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) scores available to researchers as part of their Sustainable Investing Open Access Initiative. Researchers who are interested in accessing this data can send an email to the information specialist Economics and Business, Bjorn Witlox b.witlox@uva.nl

OptionMetrics closed

As of 1 September 2022 UvA students and staff no longer have access to OptionMetrics in Wharton WRDS.

New in Wharton WRDS: Trucost Environmental

As of 23 August 2022 UvA students and staff can access Trucost Environmental data in Wharton WRDS. Measure environmental impact across key dimensions for over 15.000 companies to assess environmental costs, identify, and manage environmental and climate risk as well as conduct peer and portfolio analysis from a climate and environmental perspective. Data starts 2002.

Preqin

Since 1 June 2022 the UvA has subscribed to the Preqin database. This subscription will last one year. All UvA students and staff can use this database via CataloguePlus on lib.uva.nl > Databases. The Preqin data has also been added to the subscriptions within Wharton WRDS. Preqin is a database with data on investment funds, private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, etc.

Improved version of CataloguePlus adds database search functionality

As of Tuesday, 31 May, it will be possible to use CataloguePlus to search databases. On that day, the Library will integrate the databases from the database selector into CataloguePlus. Users will not experience any disruption, as the change will be implemented behind the scenes. However, the interface will become different. Read more.

Subject specific databases Economics and Business. 

The Economics and Business collection is located at the Library Learning Centre Roeterseilandcampus, the library for the Faculty of Economics and Business and the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. 

Collection formation is aimed at supporting education and research of the Economics and Business department at the University of Amsterdam aswell as at the Amsterdam Business School. A large part of the collection can be found online. The part that is not available online and recently acquired or frequently used, can be found on the second floor in the Library Learning Centre Roeterseilandcampus. Another large part of the collection is located in our depot.

The location of all materials can be found in CataloguePlus.

Acquisitions (print books and e-books) for Economics and Business. 

You can also request materials from other libraries through interlibrary loan.

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The information specialist Valentina Maccatrozzo provides support to students and staff of the faculty of Economics and Business and the Amsterdam Business School. Students and staff can contact her for individual assistance in finding literature and data. Please contact the information specialist for (among others things):

• Advice in finding literature and data
• Information literacy teaching (short to the point workshops, Canvas courses)
• citation software;
• Open Access and copyright;
• research data management;

Valentina Maccatrozzo, v.maccatrozzo@uva.nl, tel. 020 525 5350