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Databases & Indexes: Business & Economics


Indexes & Abstracts  Directories  Company and Industry  Statistical  Information


Periodical Indexes & Selected Full-text Articles and Books
  • ABI/INFORM GLOBAL (Proquest Direct)
  • Covers a wide spectrum of publications on business, finance, economics.  Provides references to, and abstracts of articles, many in full-text from over 1,800 publications. Now includes the Wall Street Journal.
  • EconLit with Full Text Index to world-wide economics literature with full text for over 400 publications including backfiles of journals.
  • Books24/7
  • Full text of new books in business, finance, strategic management, marketing, sales, etc.
  • General Business File ASAP
  • Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for business and trade publications focusing on finance, acquisitions & mergers, new technologies & products, international trade, and investments & banking.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • Full text of magazine and newspaper articles on general news, business, medical, and legal topics.
  • Gartner.com
  • Gartner.com provides access to research on the business of Information Technology.
  • Regional Business News
  • Full-text database of business journals, newspapers and newswires from all over the U.S..


Directories
  • Corporate Affiliations
  • Information on nearly 200,000 international parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions.
  • RedBooks.com
  • Advertisers & Agencies Online. Profiles of 18,000 U.S. and international advertising agencies.
  • Reference USA
  • A comprehensive directory of US and Canadian Businesses--from the largest to Mom & Pop operations--searchable by company name, industry (SIC) or keyword, size and location.
  • ThomasNet
  • A comprehensive directory of industrial products and services, permitting brand name searching.



Company  & Industry Information
  • Mergent Online
  • A source of in-depth financial information on currently traded U.S. and international companies. The database includes multi-year balance sheet and income statements as well as company histories. Indispensable for business students especially in the areas of financial analysis and mergers and acquisitions.
  • Mergent Manuals Online
  • Mergent/Moody's Manuals from 1909 to the present, a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents.
  • Hoover's Company Records
  • Database of corporate information and industry analyses. Search by company name, location, industry, sales, or type.
  • Investext Plus
  • Investment research and industry analysis produced by investment banks and trade associations as well as fundamental financial information from Moody's.  Most documents are in pdf format and can be either printed or downloaded (recommended).
  • Standard & Poor's "NetAdvantage"
  • Includes a broad spectrum of company and business information includung "Corporation Records", S & P "Industry Surveys", the bond guide & stock report, "The Register of Corporation" as well as other S & P financial information.
  • Wall Street Research Net (WSRN)
  • Everything about publicly traded companies one dreams of having:  quotes & various charting formats, financial, research and analytical tools, and links to a broad swath of Web products and services.  Most links are free; a few are not.
  • TheStreet.com
  • Up to the minute news and analysis of the U.S. Stock Markets.



Statistical Information
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis
  • The BEA is a division of the Department of Commerce. This Web site provides regional, national, and international statistics on economic activity.
  • OECD Economic Surveys
  • In depth reviews of member countries and selected non-member countries providing analysis of developments, reports on topics of current interests, and statistical information.
     
  • OECD Employment and Labor markets  Labor statistics covering a broad range indicators including employment, compensation, vacancies and labor disputes.

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  • OECD Revenue statistics of member countries  Data on government sector receipts, taxes in particular. Detailed and internationally comparable tax data for all OECD countries.
     
  • STAT-USA
  •  "The Export Connection" is a Web accessed database consisting of a compilation of U.S. export & import statistics and related trade data and country studies taken from such U.S. government agencies as the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of the Census, as well as various trade agencies.  Contains information published under the rubric of the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).

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