Information Services and Library: Service Alerts and News

Bloomberg – remote access ending

• Bloomberg have confirmed they are withdrawing remote access to Bloomberg from all universities on 30th June 2022. This was only ever a temporary model, in response to Covid.  
• Bloomberg do not offer alternative access models to universities, so we will be reverting to our pre-pandemic on-campus model after that date. Friday the 24^th June is the last day that we will authorise remote access requests for Bloomberg.
• Bloomberg IDs will begin to be transferred back to the terminals in the Finance Suite SO.W2.01/02 from the 27-28th June and we also aim to install at least one terminal in B101 during w/b 4th July. This will result in 15 available terminals in total.  (During the change-over period you may struggle to login to Bloomberg remotely due to the shrinking number of IDs.) Your current logins should work on all Bloomberg terminals once the licenses have been reinstated there. 
• The Sammy Offer Centre is currently closed at weekends but will be reopening at weekends from 1^st August.

Bloomberg Market Concepts will remain available to those who registered prior to 1 July. After that date, new users will need to either go to the physical PCs in the Finance Suite or ask for a code from library@london.edu which will allow you to use the web version of BMC.

Don’t forget -  students,  staff and faculty have remote access to: Capital IQ (with Excel Add-In), Factset, Workspace, Mergent and WRDS.

Information about the Finance Suite including Bloomberg can be found on page on Physical Library Spaces

Library book loans and catalogue unavailable Tues 5^th July 0600 – 1000 BST

Message:
Due to essential IT maintenance on Tuesday 5^th July, the Library’s online book catalogue and self-service loans, returns and renewals in SOC Likierman Library, will be unavailable to all customers between 0600 and 1000 hours BST approximately.

If you need to return a book during this time, please place it in the drop box in front of the Likierman Library Desk (SOC W05).

The staffed service at the Library Desk will open from 10am as usual.

Important: W/B 20th June

Planned strike action on the rail network and London Underground this week means that the Library service will be affected.

On Tuesday 21st we will aim to run an in-person service from 10:00-15:00hrs (although this may prove to be impossible).Outside of these hours  (and if the staff member is unable to get in) we will cover email, phone and live chat remotely. Book loans and returns will be available through the self-service kiosks, but we will not be able to process click and collect requests if there are no staff on campus.

Wednesday - Friday we aim to run an in-person service during our normal hours (10:00-19:00), but it may be that we are forced to make some slight alterations as train services will be running a reduced timetable.

Reminder:

Thursday 2nd June and Friday 3rd June are public holidays in the UK. The Library will be staffed on those date from 11:00-17:00hrs.

Our access to the Economist has changed!  Register from the A-Z list of databases  with your LBS email address for an Economist.com Digital Subscription, giving you full access to the Economist.com website, mobile app and email newsletter alerts. (Academic Community members only.) Please make sure you  read the disclaimer before signing up.

The following dates are public holidays. On these dates the library desk will be open in the Sammy Ofer Centre from 11:00 - 17:00hrs

Friday 15th April

Monday 18th April

Monday 2nd May

Thursday 2nd June

Friday 3rd June

ThomsonOne access has now ended.

We would recommend you consult our Company Research Guide for advice on where to find different types of content, but if you are looking for analysts' research we would now recommend you use the Investext module in Mergent Online.

Workspace has now been launched for students!

Workspace licenses can be requested from the A-Z list.  We are currently issuing them for two weeks at a time, but we will be monitoring this and it may change it in the future.

Use Workspace for company data (financials, deals, ownership data etc.) and financial market and economic data and analytical tools.
If you wish to download long time series of data please request the Datastream add-on when completing the form. Please be aware that Datastream works through an Excel add-in and is currently only available for Windows users.

MergentOnline is now our primary source of analysts' research (use the Investext tab once in the database), but Bloomberg, Factiva and Proquest also have limited numbers of reports.  

Capital IQ has changed to Single Sign on (SSO).  

Capital IQ no longer requires pre-registration, instead follow the SSO link from our A-Z list of databases.  For those who have previously registered your existing access method will continue to work, but if you prefer to use the new SSO link any preferences you had saved will still be available to you.

For those who would like to use the Capital IQ Excel plug-in or who have previously accessed it, please see the following document

Datastream as a standalone platform will end on 31st December 2021.

This will mainly  impact those Faculty and PhD students who had it installed on their pc. If you fall into this group please see the page on Eikon and Workspace IDs to ensure you can still access the content you need.

For students on our degree programmes Datastream will continue to be accessible from the two Eikon terminals in SO.W2.02.  Announcements about increasing access will follow in the Spring term.

ThomsonOne

Our access to T1 will end in the next few weeks as the platform is being retired. We will communicate details of the replacement(s) and remove ThomsonOne from the A-Z list once we have finished testing access to the new platform.

IBISWorld

We now have access to IBISWorld's European reports on a 1 year trial basis. The following reports are available:

France spotlight reports

Italy spotlight reports

Spain spotlight reports

Pan-European spotlight reports

Bloomberg

We are currently able to offer remote access to Bloomberg. Please see the Covid contingencies page for further information about signing up for access.