Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center

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Note: Subdivisions are separated by double-dashes (--). For example, International Business Enterprises -- Finance and International Business Enterprises -- Management are two subcategories that fall under the general subject heading of International Business Enterprises.

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Demographics Now

Available online.

Key Business Ratios

Available online.

LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations

Available online.

Market Share Reporter

Available online through Novacat.

NetAdvantage- Standard & Poor’s

 Available online.

Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies

Available online.

NBER Working Papers  (National Bureau of Economic Research)
The NBER is a nonprofit economic research organization with representatives from the leading U.S. research universities and major national economics organizations. This database contains full text NBER working papers covering all aspects of economic research including all working papers since 1975.

GLOBUS & NTDB (Stat-USA)
A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, includes current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities and country analysis. Key components include U.S. domestic data such as GDP, CPI and international data such as U.S. Import and Export Price Index and United Nations Trade Leads.

SourceOECD  (Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development)
Provides access to all OECD published monographs, annual reports, and periodicals from 1998 to the present in PDF-format searchable full text. Statistical databases can go back to 1960. Key titles are OECD Economic Outlook and Economic Policy Reforms.

CompuStat via WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services
Wharton Research Data Services provides access to historical financial data from CRSP and CompuStat. ComputStat covers over 30,000 companies and includes security prices and trading volume, income statement and balance sheet items.

Hoover’s Company Records (ProQuest)
Hoovers by D&B provides detailed company information on more than 40,000 public and private companies. It also includes industry analyses, company headquarters addresses and contacts, financials summary, top competitors, and key executives information.

LexisNexis Academic  
Business section includes SEC stock reports, bankruptcy reports, industry and market news, company profiles for U.S. public and private companies and international company reports.

NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's)
Provides full text investor/business information from several S&P’s popular publications: Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, Register, Stock Reports, Earning Guide, The Outlook and Dividend Record.

Value Line
Provides access to Value Line's leading publications on stocks, mutual funds and convertible securities as well as detailed investment information on companies and industries.

ABI/Inform Complete (ProQuest)
Indexes and abstracts thousands of business publications including full text of Hoovers and Wall Street Journal.

The main collections consist of the following.

ABI/Inform Global  
Indexes 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals providing information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Key publications include Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)(1984 – current), EIU ViewsWire (2003 – current).

ABI/Inform Dateline
Indexes local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, private companies, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Key publications from South Florida such as Florida Trend, Smart Business Broward/Palm Beach. Coverage: 1985 to current.

ABI/Inform Trade & Industry
Provides searching of more than 700 publications for trade and industry information. This database contains publications on major industries including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. Coverage: 1971 – current.

Emerald Management Xtra  (Emerald Group)
Full-text articles from selected Emerald journals covering human resources, marketing, management and business operations. Key titles include European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Operations & Production Management.

General Business File ASAP    (Gale Group)
Provides major company performance analysis and industry events and trends.

Business Full Text     (WilsonWeb)
Provides citations, abstracts and selected full-text articles from business-related periodicals. Key publications include The New York Times, Business Section (1993-current), The Wall Street Journal (1993-current).

LexisNexis Academic
Business section includes SEC stock report, bankruptcy reports, industry and market news, company profiles for U.S. public and private companies and international company reports.

Tax Research Network (CCH)
Provides tax code interpretation by legal and accounting experts, and current news related to specific tax and accounting subjects. Coverage: Federal Tax Archives (1978 – current); State Tax Archives (1999- current): International Tax Information (1999 – current).

ABI/Inform Archive     (ProQuest)
Full images of articles from historical business journals. Covers corporate strategies, accounting, management techniques, marketing, ethics, case studies and more. Coverage: 1950 – 1985.

JSTOR
JSTOR Business Collection offers full text searching of more than 50 journals, many of which were published in the 1950’s. Coverage: 1954 – 2001.

Businessweek Online

http://www.businessweek.com/

Provides users with daily perspective, unique insights, breaking news and in-depth analysis of the latest trends in the business world.

Eurostat

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/

The European commission ‘key to European statistics’. Provides information on publications, country profiles and a business cycle clock.

Food and Agriculture Organizations of the U.N.                                                                         

http://www.fao.org/

FAO leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information about developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all.

HBS Working Knowledge

http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/

Articles from the Harvard Business School covering leadership, entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, finance, marketing, operations and e-commerce.

Hoover's Online

http://www.hoovers.com/

Information on more than 50,000 of the largest or fastest-growing public and private U.S. companies.

World Trade Organization                                                                                                       

http://www.wto.org/

The World Trade Organization (WTO) deals with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near-global level.  It is a place where member governments go to try to sort out the trade problems they face with each other.