Electronic resources A-Z List

Digital library of the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).

The Library provides access to the complete collection, which includes:

• periodical publications: complete full text of journals (Journals, Statistical Periodicals, Reference Works) and Working Papers, in addition to the 2 At a glance publications "OECD factbook" and "STI Scoreboard";
• monographs: all books and reports published by the OECD;
• statistics: statistical data can be downloaded as interactive datasets in csv or xls. The data concern the main economic and social indicators for OECD member countries but many indicators are also retrievable for important countries that are not part of the Organization. An alternative access to this data is the OECD.Stat.

The database links global patent data to the companies and groups that hold them:

• Patent filing entities (currently 140 million) are linked to a global database of over 420 million companies. This allows an in-depth view of the entire patent portfolios of a company or an entire corporate group.
• The historical data allow to trace the owners of all valid patents and to analyze all the transactions and changes of ownership concerning each specific patent and to evaluate any anomalies.
• M&A information for monitoring patents that have been sold as intangible assets in an M&A deal, or seeing when a patent or patent portfolio is sold independently.
• A proprietary analysis algorithm provides an economic market evaluation of active patents, both quantitative and qualitative, also tracing their temporal variations.
• Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) to identify technology standards and innovation across portfolios and corporate groups.

The database consists of three different integrated modules:

• PATENTS Archive: database of over 140 million patents linked to a corporate database.
• Intellectual Patents Value (IPV): scoring index to assess the "propensity for innovation", calculated through the proprietary Bureau van Dijk algorithm on the basis of patent activity. The index combines over 25 indicators (including number of citations, geographical coverage of the corporate patent portfolio and legal status) for the evaluation of technical innovation, legal protection of the patent portfolio, geographical coverage, competitiveness with respect to competing companies, expenditure on research and development, the distribution of value among the various patents, the value of the portfolio over time and its relevance for the company's activities.
• Single patent evaluation: access to the estimate of the economic value of the single patent with historical data from 2014. Indication of the range for maximum and minimum value, evaluation based on technical evaluation, geographical coverage by filing authority, market attractiveness and legal protection.

To login see the guide How to access Bureau van Dijk databases.

The database contains information on M&A, IPO, Private Equity and Venture Capital operations and related rumors from around the world, with historical series and without limits for the deal size.

Orbis M&A is constantly updated and provides direct links to the financial statements of the companies involved in the deals.

The resource allows you to:

• view the overview of the companies involved in the deal (personal information, type of activity, identification codes, main financial data);
• access the financial statements of the individual companies involved thanks to the connection with the other Bureau van Dijk databases (Aida, Bankscope, Orbis) subscribed by the Luiss Library;
• fulfill searches by company name, identification codes, type of deal (acquisition, merger, demerger, IPO, joint venture, etc.), geographical area, business sector, rumors, multiples, etc .;
• fulfill research on companies that have divested;
• obtain all information on company or bank deals in historical series;
• obtain information on the deal, indicating the target company, acquiror and vendor;
• sort the deals by date (ascending/descending), by value (ascending/descending) or by status (rumors/completed);
• obtain financial information of the target company before the deal: turnover, EBITDA, EBIT, profit before/after taxes, total assets, shareholders' equity, shareholder funds and market capitalization;
• obtain data on multiples: Deal Value/EBITDA, Deal Value/Total Asset, Deal Value/Turnover, etc .;
• obtain data on deal value, deal equity value, deal enterprise value, modeled enterprise value and total target value;
• obtain information on Stock Price by target, acquiror and vendor before and after the closing of the deal.

To login see the guide How to access Bureau van Dijk databases.

At the end of 2022 Orbis M&A has replaced Zephyr.

Orbis is the data resource on private companies for financial analysis relating to approximately 180 million entities, individuals, banks and insurance companies from all over the world (the Library subscribes to the All Companies version which is the largest).

For each company Orbis contains:

• financial information in historical series up to 10 years;
• information on groups and relationships between companies (shareholding and shareholdings up to the tenth level);
• historical shareholder data;
• complete company details (name, address, telephone number, e-mail, business description, year of incorporation, number of employees);
• information on corporate ownership (position currently held, positions held in the past, relationship analysis up to the third level).

Main features of the platform:

• searching for companies by name, tax code, business sector, geographical area, number of employees, balance sheet items, economic-financial indicators, status and legal form;
• creating lists and samples of companies and carry out customized benchmark analyzes;
• consulting, for each entity, complete reports with company details, headquarters, economic-financial data, information on ownership;
• exporting all available information in various formats (Excel, Word, etc.) elaborate comparisons and calculate sector averages. 

It also includes:

• financial statements in the original pdf version for Italian companies (integration of Aida optical financial statements module);
• share value of listed companies;
• ESG reputational risk ratings and metrics;
• field studies;
• economic news;
• M&A deals and rumors (link to Zephyr)

The database also absorbed the contents of the Osiris database which was deactivated.

To login see the guide How to access Bureau van Dijk databases.