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Databases & Indexes: Business & Economics

• 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.

• Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost)
   Full text for thousands of journals and other sources. Covers business, economics, management, accounting, etc.

• EconLit with Full Text Index to world-wide economics literature with full text for over 400 publications including backfiles of journals.

• Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of science)
Indexes over 1,725 journals in the social sciences.

• Oxford Scholarship Online: Business and Management
Full text of recently published books on business and management.

• Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics and Finance
Full text of recently published books on economics and finance.

• Books24/7
Full text of new books in business, finance, strategic management, marketing, sales, etc.

• Credo Reference - Business
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of business.

• Research Papers in Economics:
Journal articles and research papers, many in full text. The largest bibliographic database in economics.

• The Conference Board Research Online Collection
Full text of management and economic research reports.

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Index of books, chapters and articles from over 2,600 international journals in economics as well as sociology and political science.

• 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..

• New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Over 1,800 articles.

• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Center for International Development at Harvard University
Policy papers, working papers and the Journal of Policy Reform.

• Fed In Print
Federal Reserve Bank Publications.

• Sports Business Research Network
Market research and industry news about professional and collegiate sports and sporting goods. Full text.

• 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.

• Cabell's Directory of publishing opportunities
List of journals and publishers with information on how to submit manuscripts.

• 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.

• Business and Company Resource Center
Detailed information on foreign and domestic companies drawn from periodical articles, newspapers, press releases, etc.

• 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.

• Value Line Investment Survey
Investment information and analysis.

• Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Search
Permits searching by keyword to find 4 digit SIC code or by SIC classification to find industry or product.

• 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.

• Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)
Full text of historical economic statistical publications.

• TheStreet.com
Up to the minute news and analysis of the U.S. Stock Markets.

• International Financial Statistics
Economic statistics for all countries compiled by the International Monetary Fund.

• 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 National Accounts Database
Economic information and statistics for member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

• 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.

 
• 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).