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Business and Economics Databases

Name Description
ABI/INFORM Global
Date range
1971-current

Proquest collection with over 1800 worldwide business journals and company profiles.

Business Source Premier
Date range
Dates vary

This business database provides more than 7,800 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,125 peer-reviewed journals.

EconLit
Date range
1969-current

EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application. Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 620 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers.

Uniworld
Date range
Current

Uniworld covers over 190 countries and contains contact information for headquarters, branches, subsidiaries, and affiliates of the multinational firm. Uniworld contains 2 directories: American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries or Foreign Firms Operating in the United States.

Name Description
ABI/Inform Complete
Date range
Dates Vary

This database is comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Archive, and contain over 3,000 full-text journals, 25,000 Dissertations and 14,000 SSRN working papers.

ABI/INFORM Dateline
Date range
Dates vary

Proquest journal collection that focuses on hard-to-find local and regional business and news coverage.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Date range
Dates vary

Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus.

Ad*Access
Date range
1911-1955

Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines.

Books24x7
Date range
Current

Search, browse and view fulltext of nearly 8000 books, covering both Information Technology (IT) and Finance.

Business & Company Resource Center
Date range
1980-current

Brings together company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.

Business & Industry
Date range
1982-current

A multi-industry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information. Covers over 1000 leading trade and business sources.

Business Insights (now Datamonitor 360)
Date range
Current

U.S. and international industry research and analysis from over 250 full text reports (most with tabular data and graphics) in the areas of Consumer Goods, Energy, Healthcare, and Technology.

Business Journals Digital Portal
Date range
Current year

Drexel University access to several popular business journals from around the United States, including Philadelphia Business Journal and the Book of Lists.

Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities

Cabell's Directories help professors, graduate students and researchers to publish their manuscripts in academic journals. To achieve this objective the company strives to maintain current contact information and websites for a large number of journals. Also, Cabell?s seeks to provide information on publication guidelines, type of review, number of external review, acceptance rate, ISSN, submission process, and more. Drexel currently has access to the Business directory.

CCH Business and Finance NetWork
Date range
Current

Current awareness tools (i.e., looseleaf services) and full text of primary law in the areas of U.S. advertising, antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, commercial law, computer law, consumer credit, energy law, franchising, government contracts, intellectual property, product distribution, products liability, securities, trade regulation, and transportation law. Also includes current awareness tools on transnational securities law, and full text of the securities laws of more than 30 non-U.S. nations. For assistance using the Intelliconnect CCH Portal, please see the User Guide

CCH Health and Human Resources NetWork
Date range
Current

Current awareness tools (i.e., looseleaf services) and full text of primary law in the areas of U.S. employee benefits, employment law, food and drug regulation, health care administration, health law, labor law, medical device regulation, occupational safety, payroll administration, pension administration, and unemployment insurance. Also includes downloadable interactive forms on OSHA compliance, U.S. federal pension and benefits administration, and U.S. federal and state employment, human resources, and payroll functions. For assistance using the Intelliconnect CCH Portal, please see the User Guide

CCH Tax Research Network
Date range
Current

Provides full-text access to useful tax handbooks, federal and state tax codes and tables, regulations, rulings, cases, and current tax news. For assistance using the Intelliconnect CCH Portal, please see the User Guide

Chronicle of Philanthropy Online
Date range
1997 - Current

The Chronicle of Philanthropy site license offers access to the complete publication from 1997 to present, as well as access to exclusive online content and to the Chronicle's Guide to Grants. The Chronicle provides annual surveys on giving, executive compensation, endowments, and other Chronicle research projects.

CountryWatch
Date range
Current

Political, economic, corporate, and environmental trends in 192 countries. Includes a key set of political, economic, and business information for its clients in the form of Country Review and the Country Wire. Country Review provides a political and economic survey for each of the 192 countries of the world, updated continuously online.

D & B Key Business Ratios
Date range
Current

Key Business Ratios help you understand the true performance of a company, by benchmarking it against its industry peers. Use this comprehensive tool to help you research risk, understand industry trends, and identify a company's strengths and weaknesses The 14 key business ratios cover solvency, efficiency and profitability of businesses. And, using an individual company's financial statements with Key Business Ratios, you can generate a comparison of a company's own business ratios with the industry.

D&B Million Dollar Database, Total U.S.
Date range
Current

Provides information on approximately 23 million North American companies and industries, both private and public. Subjects include Company/industry research, Marketing.

Direction of Trade Statistics
Date range
1998 - Current

DOTS Online service provides data on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners. The database includes: o total bilateral and multilateral exports and imports aggregated at national or regional group level o data for the most recent six quarters and the latest year for 169 countries, and ten quarters and five years for the world and area tables. The user interface includes four views for browsing the database: a table view corresponding to the tables contained within the Direction of Trade Statistics Yearbook; an economic concept view that provides access to similar concepts across countries, to the extent that they exist; a cross-country matrix view; and a search mechanism based on the structure of the time series key.

Economist Historical Archive
Date range
1843-2003

Contains full text of The Economist magazine from 1843 to five years before the present. It includes full color images and exportable financial tables, and allows searching of photographs, advertising, tables, maps, supplements, or commentary.

Encyclopedia of Associations Online
Date range
Current

Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.

Europa World Year Book

Covers political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Factiva

Global news and business information service that combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. ncludes The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times?, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, D&B?, and Bureau van Dijk company profiles. More than 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages, including more than 120 continuously updated newswires. And, more than 900 sources are available on or before the date of publication. Subjects include International Business, Taxation, Finance, Company/Industry Research.

Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS)
Date range
Dates vary

Provides IT company and process information, and offers several different report types.

Gartner Research Group
Date range
Current

Gartner is the leading portal for Information Technology (IT) industry research. For a limited time, through November 30, 2011, Drexel University subscribes to a portion of their content. Browse the website directly and email Tim Siftar with any report titles you desire.

General Business File
Date range
1980-current

Database of business and industry journals, news articles, company information, industry overviews, rankings, and more.

Glassdoor - Company Salary Details, Reviews, and Interview Questions
Date range
Current

gives you an inside look at company reviews, interview questions, & salary information for thousands of companies. A comprehensive career resource with information on 70,000+ companies. Glassdoor includes salary and bonuses and details for specific jobs at specific companies, as well as actual interview questions and hiring process details. Also included are reviews written by employees that highlight the pro?s and con?s of working for a particular employer.

Global Market Information Database (GMID)
Date range
Current

An online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. GMID offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.

Global Road Warrior
Date range
Current

Global Road Warrior is a comprehensive business travel, telecommunications and business culture reference.. The Global Road Warrior covers 175 countries. Each country listing includes: Key facts, Communications, Service support and Technical support contacts, Business culture insights, Language tips, top 150 travel web sites, regional maps, international dialing guide, mobile connectivity problems and solutions, currencies of the world and more.

Hoover's
Date range
Current

Hoover's Online is an Internet-based suite of information resources that enables in-depth company and industry research. Company, industry, and market intelligence covering small to large public and private companies worldwide. Subjects include Company/industry research.

IBISWorld

Industry Reports on over 700 industries in the United States using the NAICS standard

International Financial Statistics
Date range
1994-current

A standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation.

Investext
Date range
Current + 3 years

Part of General Business File ASAP, containing data contributed by brokerage, investment banking, and research firms worldwide.

Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature
Date range
1450-1850

Collection of more than 61,000 full-text books and 466 periodicals on business and economics, published from 1450-1850.

Materials Business File
Date range
1985-current

Industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries.

Mergent Archives
Date range
1909 - Current

Mergent Archives is an online database providing access to corporate and industry related documents. Includes: Full Collection of Digitized Manuals, Ford Equity Research Report (provides ratings, recommendations, sector analysis and company financial information.) More than 85 years of Annual Reports for companies across the globe through Mergent Archives' historical annual report collection dating back to as early as 1925, and Mergent's Industry Report Collection -- Mergent Archives offers you our entire collection of these semi-annually released Industry Reports.

Mergent BondViewer
Date range
Current

Mergent's BondViewer is a financial industry database for US taxable and municipal fixed income and evaluation data.

Mergent Online
Date range
Current

Mergent Online is an Internet-based suite of information resources that enables in-depth business and financial research. Includes EDGAR searching and Industry Reports.

Mergent WebReports Digital Corporate Manuals

Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents, including Moody's/Mergent Manuals from 1909 to the present

Mintel Reports
Date range
Current

Mintel offers a series of market research reports covering the US and European marketplace.

NBER Working Papers Series
Date range
1994-current

Reports initial findings of scientific papers presented by NBER researchers, aimed at other professional economists.

Proquest Digital Microfilm
Date range
2008

offers full-image Wall Street Journal and Barron's content in a digital format. Currently available for 2008 only.

RedBooks Online
Date range
Current

Detailed profiles of nearly 13,500 U.S. and international advertising agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, breakdown of gross billings by media, contact information on agency personnel and much more.

Regional Business News
Date range
1990-current

Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

RIA Checkpoint Tax Research System
Date range
Current

A federal tax research database featuring current awareness tools, full text of primary law, legislative history, treatises, periodicals, and reference tools. Primary sources include: full text of current Internal Revenue Code with historical and statutory notes; pending legislation; final, temporary, and proposed regulations; U.S. tax treaties in force; Internal Revenue Bulletin (1996-current issue); Revenue Rulings (1954-present); Private Letter Rulings (1950-present); American Federal Tax Reports (1860-present); Tax Court and Board of Tax Appeals Reported Decisions (1924-present); and Tax Court and Board of Tax Appeals Memorandum Decisions (1928-present). Secondary sources include: United States Tax Reporter; Bittker & Eustice, Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders (WG&L, 7th ed., 2000- ) (currently updated); McKee, Nelson & Whitmire, Federal Taxation of Partnerships and Partners (WG&L, 3d ed., 1997- ) (currently updated); Eustice & Kuntz, Federal Income Taxation of S Corporations (4th ed. 2001- ) (currently updated); Journal of Taxation (1991-current issue); Corporate Taxation (formerly Journal of Corporate Taxation) (1991-current issue); WG&L Tax Dictionary (current edition); and the RIA Citator 2d (currently updated).

SimplyMap

a web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using United States demographic, business, and marketing data. Data sources include the U.S. Census and Census projections.

Small Business Resource Center

Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes. Startup and established businesses alike can find the answers they're looking for from an easy-to-use interface that includes a "How To" menu that tackles the most-frequently asked new business questions.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

A searchable database of thousands of papers sent by the authors for submission, covering all areas of social science. Abstracts and some full text available.

TableBase
Date range
1997-current

Statistical/tabular data on companies, industries, products, countries and markets.

Tax Analysts Web Services
Date range
Current

Tax Analysts Web Services provides daily e-mail newsletters on federal taxation (Tax Notes Today), state taxation (State Tax Today), international taxation (Worldwide Tax Daily), and tax-related aspects of financial disclosure under accounting rules and securities laws (Financial Reporting Watch). This resource also includes Worldwide Tax Treaties, a database containing full text of all transnational tax treaties currently in force, plus pending, terminated, and unperfected treaties, each in the original language version and an English translation, from 1828 to present; articles on transnational tax planning and analysis, from 1992 to present; tables comparing dividends, interest, royalties, and withholding tax rates among 173 nations; and, for tax treaties to which the U.S. is a party, full text of U.S. legislative history and case law.

UN Comtrade

Annual international trade statistics from 140 countries, detailed by commodity and partner country.

US Commerce Business Daily
Date range
Current

Notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information

Value Line
Date range
Rolling 13-week period

Evaluation resource for 1,700 stocks, 90 industries, the stock market and the economy. Includes Stock indexes, Statistics, and Economic Forecasts.

Vault Career Insider
Date range
Current

Includes Vault Career and Employer Guides, Career Profiles, Company Research, Diversity Profiles, Industry Research, and an Internship Database. Also includes downloadable career guides, 3000 insider company snapshots, industry overviews, occupational profiles and career advice articles plus access to online forums. Formerly Vault Online Career Library

WDI (World Development Indicators) Online
Date range
1960-current

Statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2000 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.

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