![]() ![]() (If a company has had to restate their earnings, it’s usually a news making event.) Then, select an industry from choices available in the Industry box. ![]() Select restatements in the right column and a text search. To quickly identify three companies in the same industry with some revenue recognition problems (which would likely provide something to write about), I would suggest: ![]() The SEC has a topical index of revenue recognition issues at: Revenue recognition is a very broad topic. Apparently they need to locate three companies in the same industry and make some comparisons.īased on this limited information, and a student’s comment that he had an hour to locate the information, I would make the following suggestions: I’ve learned that there have been several inquiries at the reference desk relating to a revenue recognition assignment (2 pages) for an accounting class. The window will take place from Saturday, March 9, 2012, at 22:00 ET to Sunday, Maat 4:00 ET.Īuthor Stephen Francoeur Posted on MaNovemTags ABI/INFORM Global, Alt-Press Watch, American Periodicals, Databases, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, PAIS, ProQuest, Technical Problems, Wall Street Journal Chat Widget Now in ProQuest Databases Athens authentication software upgrade to the Shibboleth® based OpenAthens FederationĪ six (6) hour maintenance window is needed to install these enhancements.Thesaurus search & discover enhancements.Publication search & discover enhancements.On Saturday, MaProQuest will install new enhancements, features, and databases, to improve the research experience. I just got an email from ProQuest alerting customers that all ProQuest databases will be down for six hours, beginning at 10 pm this Saturday night: …even though the article is really findable in ABI/INFORM Global if you search for it:Īuthor Stephen Francoeur Posted on NovemTags ABI/INFORM Global, Business Source Complete, SFX, Technical Problems ProQuest Databases Down This Saturday Night …clicking the “Full Text Online” link in the SFX menu window takes you into ABI/INFORM Global but fails to find the article… …clicking the “Find it” button opens up a SFX menu window that looks like this… Here are some screenshots to illustrate the problem we are currently seeing:Ī Wall Street Journal article record in Business Source Complete… It’s not clear how long it may be before it is fixed. That difference makes the Find It service from SFX fail, as the metadata that EBSCO has doesn’t match up with what ProQuest has.ĮBSCO support told me that they are aware of this problem and are working to resolve it. The full text of the Wall Street Journal is actually there in ABI/INFORM Global and can still be found by searching within the ABI/INFORM Global interface for the article the problem is that EBSCO and ProQuest have different ways of indexing articles from the WSJ. That link, though, will fail once you are taken into ABI/INFORM Global. If you find a record for a Wall Street Journal article in Business Source Complete and try to click the “Find it” button to get to the full text, the link on the SFX menu that opens up will offer a link to the full text in ABI/INFORM Global. We’ve contacted ProQuest to complain about this stretching of the concept of “full text” and have added a note to the A-Z journals lookup in Serials Solutions for the journal that indicate the the ABI/INFORM Global option is not the preferred one.Īuthor Stephen Francoeur Posted on MaFebruTags ABI/INFORM Global, Harvard Business Review Planned Downtime for ProQuest Databases on 28 February This is all needlessly confusing given that we’ve got full text coverage within another database (albeit, that coverage from Business Source Complete has its own set of headaches regarding download restrictions and direct linking/course reserves restrictions). You can view four articles for free if you try to view a fifth one, you get a web page on the HBR website blocking you and suggesting that you register on the site (a free proess that gives you access to eight free articles a month). Like other periodicals on the open web, Harvard Business Review has set up a monthly limit of free articles that you can access. Here’s a sample record in ABI/INFORM Global: The articles that ABI/INFORM Global claims it has full text access to are in reality just records that link out to the subset of articles that are freely available from Harvard Business Review on the magazine’s website. It’s best to just ignore this claim from ABI/INFORM Global. Now, ABI/INFORM Global indicates that it too has full text access to this publication from November 2015 to the present. For years, the only access to current issues of Harvard Business Review was in Business Source Complete, which offers articles from 1922 to the present. ![]()
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