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.
Business Insights Trial (username: bi2007us password: library) provides complete text reports published by Datamonitor, a leading international market research company renowned for providing independent market analysis. Business Insights appreciates the importance of accurate, up-to-date, and incisive market and company analysis. Their aim is to provide a single, off-the-shelf, objective source of data analysis and market insight.
Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,600 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,050 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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.
Compendex & Inspec allows for searching on a broad range of topics within the scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines. Coverage is from 1969 to present. The database is updated weekly.
Country Analysis streamlines your research by providing quick and easy access to global business content on 190 countries and 157 industries.
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.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990.
Factiva ®, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides world-class global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal - unduplicated in a single service elsewhere. Factiva offers the only single content solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 9,000 sources.
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 Constitutional Law 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.
Global Market Information Database (Getting Started) offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources.
GPO 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.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.
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.
Market Insight provides full text searching across the entire archive of Standard & Poor's research and EDGAR documents. It is an online source to the world of Standard & Poor's research, Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, DRI Economics, COMPUSTAT Financials, and much more.
Marketline Trial (password from May 12-May 18 is 7f28e0bc, password from May 19 – May 25 is 3f51d0, and password from May 26 – June 1 is bf6d97d9a) offers a comprehensive and unique collection of company, industry, financial, product and country information, research and data extending across every major marketplace and industry.
Mergent Online provides Internet-based access to the most detailed, accurate and comprehensive global company database available, with the latest in features and functions.
NetAdvantage - Standard & Poor's is the world’s foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data and valuations.
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.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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.
Reference USA provides librarians and library patrons a research tool for the nation's largest business database. Users can find detailed information such as executive names, number of employees, addresses, phone numbers and much more.
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.
Snapshots North America is the only market research company to specialize in top-line international market research overviews. The Snapshots International Series - North America of 630+ reports is designed to provide an instant overview of this geographic region, and the data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis. All data is compiled in house by the Snapdata Research Department, an international team of research experts.
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.
Thomson Research provides access to U.S. Securities Exchange Commission documents, current and historical, and to comprehensive business and financial records for more than 50,000 US and international companies. Real-time access to EDGAR is also provided.
Wall Street Journal (1889-1985) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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.