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Business Databases

ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest : 1971- )
Covers a wide range of popular and scholarly publications in accounting, finance, marketing, management, international business, real estate, and taxation. It provides abstracting and indexing from 1971 forward for over 1,300 titles, including 200 English-language foreign publications. Also included is full text for over 600 journals from 1992 forward.

Business Full Text (WilsonWeb : 1982- )
Included in the OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition database. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 345 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plus the full text of over 160 of those periodicals. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Business & Industry (FirstSearch : 1994- )
Contains important facts, figures and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. B & I focuses on a body of literature that includes leading trade magazines, newsletters, the general business press and international business dailies. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.

Business Dateline (FirstSearch : 1985- )
Regional business activities and trends are covered in this file with particular emphasis on economic conditions in selected cities, states, or regions, as well as mergers, acquisitions, company executives, new products, and competitive intelligence. Contains fully searchable Full Text articles from more than 450 North American business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, and news wire services.

Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
Provides comprehensive access to abstracts and indexing for over 1500 titles, plus searchable full text for more than 750 business periodicals.

Corporate ResourceNet (EBSCOhost)
This database contains full text articles from nearly 1,350 quality magazines and journals. The database includes full text sources ranging from general publications such as Fortune and Money to trade publications such as American Demographics, Chemical Week, Electronic Business and Restaurant Hospitality. The collection of titles includes top management journals such as Academy of Management Executive, California Management Review, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. In addition, this database also includes detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

EconLit (FirstSearch: 1969- )
Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers. Produced by the Journal of Economic Literature.

Emerald Library (MCB University Press)
The Electronic Management Research Library Database provides access to over 130 journals by MCB University Press. Journals such as the European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Personnel Review, The TQM Magazine and Library Management, are included. Articles from 1994 on are readily available online.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II & III Collection
JSTOR is an electronic journal archival project which provides full-text access to complete runs of back issues of over 550 scholarly journal titles in the following disciplines: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Business, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology.

LexisNexis Academic
Access to a wide range of full-text news, company information, business news, legal research and reference information. Business section includes Disclosure® and Hoover's Company Profiles.

Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
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 and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Sage Premier Journals Online
SAGE Premier provides electronic access to 408 peer-reviewed, full-text journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. (94,000+ articles).

ScienceDirect College Edition
Extensive Full Text access to the Elsevier journal collections relevant to business: Social Sciences & Humanities (350 peer reviewed journals).

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Business Reference Sources

Advertising Redbooks
Restricted to 1 user at a time
Comprehensive information on the advertising industry including directories of 20,000 U.S.and 10,000 international corporate advertisers, 9,700 U.S. and 3,700 international advertising agencies and detailed information on each advertising firm, including annual billings, clients and specialities.

American Manufacturers Disc
CD-ROM
Directory of over 600,000 U.S. manufacturers with a variety of ways to search including zip code and business size. Available on workstation S8 across from the Reference Desk.

CCH Health and Human Resources
Covers human resource management, personnel practices, compensation, Equal Employment Opportunity, employment relations and OSHA compliance.

CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork
Conduct tax research on federal, state or international tax law.

Compact D
CD-ROM
Database is available on workstation S4 in the Reference Alcove. A fully searchable compilation of business and financial information for over 12,000 companies trading on major U.S. stock exchanges. Each CD-ROM covers the previous ten years. Disclosure reports also available online via LexisNexis, which provide three years of data.

Corporate Affiliations Plus
Contains listings on approximately 50,000 private companies, 21,000 private companies, and 52,000 international companies. All domestic and foreign subsidiaries are included.

Global Market Information Database (includes Market Research Monitor)
Global Market Information Database provides access to over three million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for over two hundred countries back from 1977, as well as country profiles and consumer market sizes for many products across over fifty countries. This database also includes Market Research Monitor, which offers over 2,200 top-line market research reports on international consumer, industrial and service markets. Reports offer up to date market size data, company shares, brand shares and forecasts.

Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest)
Hoover's Company Records provides information about companies, industries, and the people who lead them. Content in Hoover's Company Records covers more than 40,000 companies, 225,000 key executives, and more than 600 industries, delivering up-to-date business information.

Morningstar Library Edition
Restricted to 2 user at a time
Morningstar contains reports on more than 8,000 stocks and 12,000 mutual funds, Analyst Reports on 1,000 stocks and 2,000 mutual funds and Morningstar ratings for stocks and funds. Morningstar contains both stock and fund screeners and a portfolio X-ray tool that helps you look for strengths and weaknesses in a portfolio.

SRDS Media Solutions
The SRDS database of media rates and information is the largest and most comprehensive in the world—cataloging more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties delivering accurate, up-to-date media information -including detailed ad rates, dates and contact data for Direct Marketing, Business Publication, Consumer Magazine, Newspaper Advertising, Radio and TV and Cable Advertising.

Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering access to Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys and Stock and Bond Reports.

STAT-USA
Comprehensive library of international trade resources from 40 U.S. government agencies compiled by the Department of Commerce includes: Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information (news releases and data files from BEA's national regional, and international product accounts); the Electronic Bulletin Board (news releases and analyses of markets, products, and economic trends); and National Trade Data Bank (country commercial guides, market research reports, and extensive import and export statistics.

Tablebase (RDS)
Restricted to 2 users at a time
TableBase is a database comprised of tabular information of a strategic nature. The tables provide information suchas: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics. Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade association reports, and governmental reports.

Value Line Investment Survey
An independent investment information resource, Value Line Investment Survey provides overall views on the economy and stock market as well as descriptive information and performance projections for 1,700 stocks.

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