Ashridge is an independent business school with 300 employees that offers Masters programs and executive education. The main users of OneSource Business Browser at Ashridge are MBA students, library specialists assisting faculty and staff, and some executive education participants. OneSource provides company and executive profiles from over 17 million records globally and industry reports from various content providers. Ashridge has subscribed to the Global OneSource edition since 2000 which can be accessed on and off-site and is licensed for use by students and executive participants.

1. OneSource Business Browser BLA company information event Lorraine Oliver lorraine.oliver@ashridge.org.uk Ashridge Library 19 May 2011

3. Qualification programmes: Masters level only, including full-time and part-time executive MBA.

4. No specialist finance Masters programmes

5. Executive education programmes

7. Global Business Browser: coverage Company data over 17 million company records, including financial and ownership data Executive data over 25 million executive records, including bionotes Industry market research reports Other some newspaper and journal content; broker reports (limited number); annual reports; SEC filings, etc.

9. What we like… Easy to use (homepage is uncluttered and user-friendly) Suits our executive education participants (ie one-time users with limited time) Good for top-line company information Data presentation and download - straightforward One-stop report Peer analysis tools (adequate for MBAs’ first finance assignment) Customer support is good, and on occasions, impressive (egLiveSupport) Online tutorials.

10. What we dislike… Recent loss of Investext broker reports Rolling token authentication - no meaningful usage statistics by user group American bias in its coverage particularly industry data Some search options are a little hidden, including market research and broker report searching. Navigation on the peer analysis tool – can be a little cumbersome.

11. OneSource demo http://www.ashridge.org.uk/vlrc

12. Any questions? Lorraine Oliver lorraine.oliver@ashridge.org.uk Ashridge Library