Business Databases

ABI/INFORM Global--Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal. 

Census Data: An online database offered by the U.S. Bureau of Census, the database provides statistical information about census data.

CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating Census 2000 data and U.S. demographic trends.

CentradeX.com:  The Center for World Trade and Company Information. 

Checkpoint provides web-based comprehensive tax research information. Resources  include Federal editorial materials, state and local tax information, estate planning materials, IRS rulings and releases, federal court decisions, and pending and enacted tax legislation.  Includes three (3) libraries (Federal, State, and Local), plus the Journal of Taxation, Practical Tax Strategies, Journal of Corporate Taxation, and All States Tax Guide.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. The database provides access to a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutions, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

Commerce Business Daily (CBD NET) lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information.

EconLit is the American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economics literature throughout the world. EconLit contains abstracts, indexing, and links to full-text articles in economics journals. It abstracts books and indexes articles in books, working papers series, and dissertations. EconLit also provides the full-text of Journal of Economic Literature book reviews.

EDGAR performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Emerald  provides comprehensive coverage of over 100 management journals--complete with full text archives back to 1994 and abstracts to 1989.  Click here for journals available.

FACTS offers users the depth of a 20-year news backfile and the timeliness of weekly updates (with hourly newswire feeds).

Federal Business Opportunities (replaces the Commerce Business Daily) is the single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000.

FindLaw: Focused on law and government, FindLaw provides access to a comprehensive and fast growing online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers and small businesses.

FindLaw U.S. Supreme Court Center features an easy-to-read guide that leads visitors through historical documents, biographies, and Supreme Court decisions.  Users can browse through the Federalist Papers, read the Constitution, or research the lives of the Founding Fathers or past and present Supreme Court Justices.

GPO (U.S. Government Printing Office) provides free electronic access to vast information products produced by the Federal Government, included Federal databases (Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations), Congressional Records and Congressional Bills, Commerce Business Daily (CBD Net), Catalog of US Government Publications (MOCAT), The Sales Product Catalog (SPC) and Government Information Locator Service (GILS). Federal Bulletin Board provides access to Federal information in electronic form.

InfoPlease  (The world's largest free reference site):  Here you can find facts on thousands of subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, and health. 

General OneFile  (Help Guide) is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. 

Glassdoor is a FREE career resource for your library that's helping job seekers and students get an inside look at over 26,000 companies – including company salaries, reviews, and interview questions posted anonymously by employees and job seekers. 

International Index to Black Periodicals: International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text brings together 150 of the most respected scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies. 

JSTOR  provides back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Printing from the JSTOR database requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  For a current list of journals available, see Journals Currently Available.

Lexis-Nexis provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.

Mergent Online provides Internet-based access to the most detailed, accurate and comprehensive global company database available, with the latest in features and functions.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition - is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. 

Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.

Statistical Abstract of the United States contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States.  Selected international data are also included.

Tax Research (RIA Checkpoint) provides web-based comprehensive tax research information. Resources  include Federal editorial materials, state and local tax information, estate planning materials, IRS rulings and releases, federal court decisions, and pending and enacted tax legislation.  Includes three (3) libraries (Federal, State, and Local), plus the Journal of Taxation, Practical Tax Strategies, Journal of Corporate Taxation, and All States Tax Guide.

Westlaw Campus provides online access to  cases from all state and federal courts; statutes from all  state and federal statutes published in the United States Code Annotated; federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; American Law Reports, a publication containing attorney-written articles that summarize and analyze case law on a particular legal issue; and American Jurisprudence 2d, a comprehensive encyclopedia of state and federal law.

Wiley InterScience provides full text information of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and even the full text of select Wiley print books online.