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ABI/Inform Complete
Full-text for over 2600 business periodicals and journals (plus detailed abstracts for 3500). Wall Street Journal full-text from 1984. Includes EIU Viewswire (select "Reference/Reports" tab on results...
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1971 -

Business and Company Resource Center
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications...
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1980 -

Business Source Complete
[note: upgrade from Business Source Premier] Full-text for over 2300 business journals. From right frame, can select company or industry profiles and SWOT analyses. For selected scholarly journals, coverage...
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1986 -

D&B Million Dollar Database
Standard directory of U.S. companies (more than 200,000). Provides brief information such as sales estimates. Also includes directory of executives.
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Current Edition

Factiva
Factiva covers global business information from 9,000 sources from 118 countries, including more than 120 continuously updated newswires. Same-day and archival coverage of the following newspapers is...
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LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic contains over 5,600 publications, virtually all include full text. Many types of publications are included: newspapers (in English and many other languages), legal news, general interest...
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Mergent Online
Financial information (with link to EDGAR) for all U.S. public corporations - 10-year historical data, ratios, as well as ability to create custom reports (downloadable into Excel spreadsheets). Also...
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Current Edition

Reference USA
Company directory of 12 million U.S. businesses. Create customized lists by combining geographical, size of business and line of business variables. Geographical search options are: zip code, MSA, county...
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Wilson Business Abstracts
Brief summaries to articles in 600 core business periodicals. Especially useful for searches on a major corporation or general business topic. Select "Find It" icon to link to full-text of article in...
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1913 -

Business and Industry
Contains important facts and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. Approximately...
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1994 -

China Data Online
China statistics from the Univ. of Michigan's China Data Center - categories include agriculture, transportation, education, and national accounts. Library has a free subscription to the national as well...
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Information Services Desk (on Consultation station #2); password required (librarian will log in user)

Corp Tech
Directory of 100,000 high-tech companies and their key executives. There are 17 primary industry groups (biotechnology, defense, energy, environmental, photonics, etc.), plus many detailed “product codes...
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Current

EconLit
EconLit contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from more than 400 economics journals. In addition, subject indexing and abstracts of books and subject indexing of dissertation titles are included...
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1969 -

Emerald Journals
Emerald - the Electronic Management Research Library Database is the complete online collection of over 100 key management journals with 25,000+ articles, providing a rich resource for academics, practitioners...
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1989 -

Executive Briefing
Executive Briefing from Economist Intelligence Unit is an online service offering industry and strategic intelligence for senior executives for the world's 60 leading markets, organised around eight key...
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Current Edition

Hoover's Company Records
Profiles for several thousand companies, plus brief descriptions ("capsules") for 40,000 more companies. Each profile includes brief history and overview of company operations, plus key executives (including...
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Current Edition

Hospitality & Tourism Index Complete
Covers both scholarly research and industry news in hospitality & tourism (coverage includes these industries: food, beverage, hotel, and travel). Full-text for almost 500 publications. Also includes...
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1965-

Investext Plus
The Library is not able to continue to fund access to this database. For alternate databases listed, please contact your Subject Librarian for additional assistance.
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Discontinued
1996 -
Access discontinued on 1/10/09.

LexisNexis Academic - Company Dossier
Search form within LexisNexis' "Business" tab for company information. A "snapshot" is the default, which includes recent news and executive names (and changes). From the "snapshot" pages, can select...
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Morningstar Investment Research Center
Analyst reports for 1500 stocks and 2000 funds. Includes analysis tools for portfolios as well as screening.
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1995- present

National Trade Data Bank (NTDB)
Primary database within STAT-USA/Internet. For more than 200 countries, includes profiles of industries (Industry Sector Analysis), economic & political conditions (Country Commercial Guides - CCG) and...
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Information Services Desk (on STAT-USA at documents workstation) ; password required (librarian will log in user)

Occupational Outlook Handbook (Web site)
(Current Edition) Job descriptions, working conditions, training needed, earnings, and job prospects for hundreds of occupations, compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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PAIS International / PAIS Archive
Covers the spectrum of public policy and public affairs information. The PAIS Archive contains more than 700,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976.
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1937 -

Social Sciences Abstracts
Covers some 550 core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations. The print edition counterpart to this...
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1983 -

STAT-USA/Internet
National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) is the primary database within this U.S. government source. For more than 200 countries, includes profiles of industries (Industry Sector Analysis), economic & political...
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Information Services Desk (on STAT-USA at documents workstation) ; password required (librarian will log in user)

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
A Guide to Sources of data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations. Statistical Abstracts contains statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States and...
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1878 -

Statistical Universe
Statistical Universe is the most comprehensive source of federal statistics. It provides detailed abstracts, indexing, and locator information for all statistical reports of general research value issued...
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1960 -

TableBase
Tables from articles indexed in the Galileo database Business and Industry. Allows searching by 100 concept terms for the tabular facts (such as: defense spending, forecasts, e-commerce) and more than...
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Value Line

Value Line is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 97 industries, the stock market and the econmy. Unique features include providing a beta figure re...
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ViewsWire
From Economist Intelligence Unit, ViewsWire pulls out relevant material from all of EIU's many publications and organizes it by country and region. Between 100-150 articles are added each day. The service...
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1996 -

ABI/INFORM Dateline
Topics include agriculture, company profiles, corporate strategies, executive profiles, financial services, high technology, manufacturing, marketing, regional business environments, retailing, and service...
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1985 -

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals and indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals...
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1865 -

Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan...
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