Business Databases

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Indexes, sometimes with abstracts (no full text).

ABI/Inform Archive Complete: A great way to search for historical business information, this archive allows you to search some of the leading publications for topics such as marketing, management, accounting, case studies, and much more. Coverage ranges from 1905 to 1985.
ABI/Inform Dateline: A unique resource focused on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.
ABI/Inform Global: Search worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies.
ABI/Inform Trade & Industry: This database contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction and many more.
Access World News: The most comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers globally, Access World News provides extensive coverage at any level—local, state, regional, national and international. This fully searchable Web-based resource features the vast majority of U.S. newspapers by circulation, along with almost one thousand hard-to-find local and regional titles, the majority of which are unavailable elsewhere. Additionally, Access World News offers over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
Accounting Research Manager: Provides access to expert-written analytical accounting, auditing, governmental and SEC information as well as primary source data.
Applied Science and Business Periodicals Retrospective: This index provides a single resource for seven decades of articles on the most important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry (including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), plus the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field for the 20th Century.
ArticleFirst: Contains bibliographic citations with some full text from over 16,000 journals in business, science, technology, medicine, social science, the humanities, and popular culture.
Berkeley Electronic Press: Go to the Journal Collection and search economics, business, and marketing journals.
BNA Tax Management Portfolios Plus: The ideal starting point for practitioners in search of authoritative answers to day-to-day tax questions. The service features in-depth analysis of specific tax topics written by leading experts and supported by an array of easily searchable primary source documents.
Business and Company Resource Center: Contains company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Also search for company and industry news.
Business Full Text: Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text from over 1300 periodicals from H. W. Wilson General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts, and many other Wilson databases. Some topics covered include accounting, advertising, auditing, banking, broadcasting, computers, economics, engineering, environment, general science, health care, human resources, international trends, investment analysis, management, and marketing. Full text coverage begins in January, 1995.
Business Source Premier: Provides full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Business Week Online: Online version of the popular business weekly. This journal is available in paper form at the MacArthur campus as well!
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Business Directories: Cabell's Directory helps authors determine which journal will most likely accept their manuscript by comparing the characteristics of the manuscript and the needs of each journal. The following Business directories are included in this subscription: Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, and Marketing.
CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork: This resource is available on-campus only. Provides immediate access to CCH's comprehensive library of federal and state tax publications and coverage of financial and estate planning issues.
CountryWatch: CountryWatch provides political, economic, business information, and daily news for countries from around the world. An useful tool for International Business students.
EconLit: The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world. Compiled and abstracted in an easily searchable format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations.
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information: The US Securities and Exchange Commission's official database of required filings from US public companies, including 10K reports, annual reports to shareholders, and all other required filings. All of this information can be found at Lexis-Nexis Academic.
Elsevier Science Journals through ScienceDirect: ScienceDirect offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online. Over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals,hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works.
Emerald: The database contains over 190 journal titles in the field of business management and information science.
General BusinessFile ASAP via Gale Group: Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
Global Market Information Database (GMID): Provides information on countries, companies, markets and consumers. Historic and forecast statistics are available as well as lifestyle indicators, company profiles, market analysis, and in-depth information resources.
Historical Wall Street Journal: The paper is considered the preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researchers can access not only top news stories but also detailed information from all the paper's sections. For each article cited in the database, an abstract of up to 75 words helps the researcher know if the complete text will meet his or her needs. This resource offers the complete pages images from the entire run of the paper, dating back to the first 1889 issue.
Hoovers Company Information: HOOVERS COMPANY CAPSULES -- Search for brief information on 15,000 companies covered by Hoover's. Company Capsules deliver information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Use the title or company field to search company names. HOOVERS COMPANY PROFILES -- Find in-depth company information on over 5,000 companies with Hoover's Company Profiles. Each profile provides an overview and history, as well as as information on key people, products, subsidiaries and competitors.
Investext Plus: Investext Plus contains analyst reports on companies and industries as well as the annual statistical reports of many industry trade associations. Use Investext Plus when you need full-text analyst reports in their original published formats, complete with charts, photographs and graphics. Investext Plus also gives users the same research and analysis used at top investment banks, consulting firms and law firms to monitor industry trends, track company financials, and research merger and acquisition opportunities.
Lexis-Nexis Academic: A world-class database with a plethora of business resources. Provides up-to-date news on Companies and Industries; Company Financials; Auditing and Tax information, Federal Case Law; the U.S. Code; Constitutional and Court Laws; and State Legal research. To begin, click on the Business link at the left.
MarketLine Business Information Centre: Provides profiles on 10,000 companies, 2,000 industries and 50 countries.
Mergent Online: No one serves business and financial information like Mergent. And for those who prefer a buffet of appetizing choices, we now offer Mergent Online™. This state-of-the-art product provides Internet-based access to the most detailed, accurate and comprehensive global company database available, with the latest in features and functions.
Mergent WebReports Corporate Manuals: Expanded, in-depth, and detailed descriptions of public companies as they appear in the Mergent Manuals (formerly known as Moody's Manuals).
NewsBank: Menu of NewsBank databases and major newspapers. This includes the Palm Beach Post, the Sun-Sentinel, and the Miami Herald. To search all newspapers, go to NewsBank Full-text-Newspapers and select which papers to search.
Plunkett Research: This resource provides industry sector analysis and research, industry trends and industry statistics. Subjects include competitive intelligence, account plan or sales guide data, market research, vertical industry marketing data, product strategy data, trends analysis, statistics, job search data, company profiles and executive lists.
Political Risk Yearbook Online: Offers Country Reports on 106 countries providing political and economic risk analysis.
Regional Business News: This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications including business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
RIA Checkpoint: CHECKPOINT provides a full library of federal tax information including RIAs renowned editorial analysis, archival and daily updates of primary source materials, and Warren Gorham & Lamont Treatises on business entities. It also provides state, local, and international tax information. You will be prompted to register for access this site. Passwords reset August 1 and January 1.
SRDS (Standard Rate and Data Service) Online: "SRDS continues to be the leading provider of media rates and data to the advertising industry as it has been for over 80 years." This database allows access to the advertising rates in business publications, consumer magazines, for radio, and in newspapers.
Sports Business Research Network (SBRnet): "SBRnet focuses on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry . . . featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry . . . sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing."
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage: Net Advantage supplies S&P's Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, Register, Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Earnings Guide, Outlook, and Dividend Record. The Industry Surveys supplies industry overviews and a survey of the current environment and trends. It also explains how an industry operates, how to analyze it, the key ratios, and how to interpret deviations from the averages.
STAT-USA/Internet: STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is a great site for U.S. business, economic and trade communities. It provides authoritative information from the Federal government and is an excellent source for information on international markets.
TableBase: International in scope and covering more than 90 industries, this database provides tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics.
Value Line: The Value Line Investment Survey is one of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. For each stock in its universe it offers year-ahead and three- to five-year probable relative price performance, projections of key financial measures, and concise, objective commentary on current operations and future prospects. The Value Line Investment Survey's main section, "Ratings & Reports," presents full-page, individual stock reports (encapsulating the company's past performance, current status, and outlook) and industry reviews. The "Summary & Index" provides a key to locating the latest quarterly and supplementary reports and cites the most recent data on each of the stocks followed. Finally, "Selection & Opinion," a feature section, gives Value Line's views on the economy and the stock market and on stocks of special interest. It also provides model portfolios for investors with various objectives and a number of economic and stock-market statistics.
Value Line Research Center: This resource includes "The Valueline Investment Survey," "The Valueline Investment Survey -- Small and Mid-Cap," "The Valueline Mutual Fund Survey," "The Valueline Daily Options Survey," "The Valueline Special Situations Service," "The Valueline Convertibles Survey," and "Exchange Traded Funds."
Wall Street Journal: The leading business newspaper. Recent past issues are in paper located in the library.
For a complete list of all available databases, visit our Electronic Collection.


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