The new Morningstar Investment Research Center is based on Morningstar's investment website, Morningstar.com, and offers proprietary stock and mutual fund analysis and financial data, screening tools and portfolio-building features to public, academic, corporate and military libraries.

New enhancements include:

Industry Data — This entirely new area enables users to obtain return data on various indexes, sectors, industries and fund categories.
• Morningstar, Domestic, Bond, Municipal and Foreign indexes
• 12 sectors, from business services to utilities
• 59 fund categories
• 129 stock industries

Industry Reports — Investors will gain perspective with Morningstar's quarterly assessment of specific industries, broad sectors and the overall market.

Expanded Help & Education Area — This section now features material to help investors understand how they might use specialized investments such as options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and closed-end funds in their portfolios.

COUNTER-Compliant Usage Tracking Reports — Morningstar Investment Research Center now offers COUNTER (Counting Online Usages of Networked Electronic Resources), a standardized way for libraries to track the logins and searches of their users. Libraries now can easily compare Morningstar Investment Research Center usages with that of other databases. COUNTER provides 24 months of data, is updated monthly and is audited annually.

For additional information, including subscription details and pricing, visit the BCR website or contact BCR's Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).