Databases/Article Indexes for Business and Economics


Red Star indicates highly recommended databases for the subject area

 
Proquest journal collection that focuses on hard-to-find local and regional business and news coverage.
Recommended resource
ABI/INFORM Global
1971-current
Proquest collection with over 1800 worldwide business journals and company profiles.
 
Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus.
 
Ad*Access
1911-1955

Open Access
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines.
 
Brings together company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.
 
A multi-industry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information. Covers over 1000 leading trade and business sources.
 
Business Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Upon entering Wilson Omnifile, choose the Business subject area to limit results
Fulltext access to articles in all areas of business and business research.
 
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.
Recommended resource
This business database provides more than 7,800 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,125 peer-reviewed journals.
 
CCH Business and Finance NetWork
Current

After connecting to site, click ENTER to begin
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.
 
CCH Health and Human Resources NetWork
Current

After connecting to site, click ENTER to begin
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.
 
CCH Tax Research Network
Current

After connecting to site, click ENTER to begin
Provides full-text access to useful tax handbooks, federal and state tax codes and tables, regulations, rulings, cases, and current tax news.
 
CorpTech
Current
Search technology and information services companies to see their extended profiles, including financial information and business practices.
 
Political, economic, corporate, and environmental trends in 191 countries.
 
D&B Million Dollar Database
Current

5 concurrent users maximum
Provides information on approximately 1.6 million North American companies and industries, both private and public. Subjects include Company/industry research, Marketing.
 
Datastream Advance

Available only on one computer in Reference Computer Hub #3. Must be logged in using guest login. *1 concurrent user*
an historical financial numerical database, covering a number of financial instruments, equity and fixed-income securities and indicators for over 175 countries and 60 markets worldwide. Only available for use on computers in Room L19 of Hagerty Library. Please see the Datastream icon on the desktop.
Recommended resource
EconLit
1969-current
Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 620 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers.
 
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.
 
Emerald Insight is an electronic collection of journals published by MCB University Press and includes upwards of 50,000 articles from over 160 journals.
 
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.
 
Covers political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
 
Factiva

11 concurrent users
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.
 
Provides IT company and process information, and offers several different report types.
 
Gartner's research covers a range of global IT issues, presented in the form of reports, briefings, updates and related tools.
 
Statistical data for the 138 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System.
 
Database of business and industry journals, news articles, company information, industry overviews, rankings, and more.
 
Global Market Information Database (GMID)
Current

Users must accept the license agreement terms upon entering this resource. GMID is not available to Alumni
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 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
Current
Company, industry, and market intelligence covering small to large public and private companies worldwide. Subjects include Company/industry research.
 
Industry Reports on over 700 industries in the United States using the NAICS standard
 
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
Current + 3 years

After logging in, select Investext link at bottom of screen.
Part of General Business File ASAP, containing data contributed by brokerage, investment banking, and research firms worldwide.
 
LIVEDGAR
Dates vary

After connecting to site, select menu item from list on left, then click "Go".
A system for researching securities filings and company financial information, for public companies registered in the U.S. or Canada, and for researching international prospectuses and private offerings.
 
Collection of more than 61,000 full-text books and 466 periodicals on business and economics, published from 1450-1850.
 
Industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries.
 
Mergent BondViewer
Current

Click on Enter BondViewer on main page to access resource.
Mergent's BondViewer is a financial industry database for US taxable and municipal fixed income and evaluation data.
 
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 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
Current

Users must agree to the Mintel Academic Conditions of Use before entering the database. Mintel is not available to Alumni
Mintel offers a series of market research reports covering the US and European marketplace.
 
Reports initial findings of scientific papers presented by NBER researchers, aimed at other professional economists.
 
NTIS is the federal government source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information by or for the U.S. government and complementary materials from international sources.
 
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 incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
 
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

5 concurrent users maximum. Free personal registration is required for access.
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.
 
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.
 
STAT-USA
Dates vary
Provides over 18,000 market research reports on individual countries and markets compiled by the senior commercial officers at the U.S. Embassies.
 
TableBase
1997-current
Statistical/tabular data on companies, industries, products, countries and markets.
 
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.
 
Annual international trade statistics from 140 countries, detailed by commodity and partner country.
Recommended resource
Uniworld
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.
 
Notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information
 
ValueLine
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.
 
Includes Vault Career and Employer Guides, Career Profiles, Company Research, Diversity Profiles, Industry Research, and an Internship Database.
 
Statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2000 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.
 
Wilson Business Periodicals Index Retro (Trial)
1913 - 1982

This trial ends May 27, 2008
Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982 offers searchable indexing of the most important scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines, 1913 through 1982. Includes indexing of more than 1,000 periodicals, with citations to over 2.5 million articles, including book reviews.
 
Consists of World Development Indicators Online and Global Development Finance Online.

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