Category: Business & management

What’s new at the Libraries this fall

Welcome back! The MIT Libraries have been busy over your summer vacation. We’ve made improvements, added new resources, expanded our services, and lined up...

Humanities

OA research in the news: The cost of patent trolls

A new study by a Sloan researcher suggests that the recent increase of so-called “patent trolls”—companies that do little more than sue others over...

Business & management

New! Access to the complete New Yorker

         The current issue and all past issues of The New Yorker—going all the way back to very first in 1925—are now available to...

Social sciences

New! IBISWorld Specialized Industry Reports

Ever found market research information via the IBISWorld database?  You now have even more!  The Libraries have just expanded our IBISWorld subscription to include...

Business & management

Share your research data with openICPSR—free for a limited time!

Need to share research data you have collected in the social or behavioral sciences?  Have a funding agency that requires you to make your...

Business & management

Cite your data sources!

    You’re familiar with the importance of citing the literature that you use in your paper.  But did you know that it’s equally important...

Social sciences

Discovering the Libraries: Enriching and simplifying research

By MIT Libraries’ student blogger, Pri Tembhekar Hello everyone! It is research season! Well at least many of us have design projects, theses, or final...

All news

Learn more about Mendeley–with pizza!

Meet Mendeley Representatives–Refreshments served! When: Friday April 25th 3:30-5pm Where: 14N-132 Come eat pizza and learn more about Mendeley, a tool that helps you...

Science

Find business case studies

Need business case studies for a course? There’s no shortage of sources — a Google search turns up hundreds of distributors of business cases. Here...

Business & management