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Business and Economics Databases
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ABI Inform [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-text.- Academic
Search Premier [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Need help? Read the Academic Search Premier Visual Guide. -
American City Journals [help]
Collection of 40 city specific business publications featuring Baltimore Business Journal. - Business
and Company Resource Center [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1979 - present. Profiles 400,000 companies. Provides company histories, business articles, industry rankings and analyses for selected public companies. Business Plans Handbook [on-campus] [help]
Actual business plans from a variety of small businesses.- Business
Source Premier [on-campus]
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Coverage: Varies– present. Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Includes company profiles, many of which contain SWOT analyses. - County
Business Patterns
Coverage: 1993 - present. Census online publication that provides economic data by industry for areas down to the zipcode level. -
EconLit
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Coverage: 1969 - present. Subject indexing and abstracts of journals, books, collective volumes, dissertations, and working papers in Economics. - FARS (Financial Accounting Research System) CD-ROM in Langsdale only. Coverage: Current; updated quarterly. Contains the full text of official FASB and AICPA literature including FASB Statements, Interpretations, Technical Bulletins, and Concepts Statements; ARBs 43-51; APB Opinions and Statements; and AICPA Accounting Interpretations and Terminology Bulletins.
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BusinessFile ASAP [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1979 - present. Indexes more than 2600 business and trade publications with substantial full text. Includes SIC Descriptions with links to industry articles and Investext with full-text investment reports. -
Hoover's
Company Records[on-campus]
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Coverage: 2002-current. Find in-depth company information on over 5,000 companies with Hoover's Company Records. Each profile provides an overview and history, as well as as information on key people, products, subsidiaries and competitors. -
Key Business Ratios
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Description: D&B's Key Business Ratios help you understand the true performance of a company, by benchmarking it against its industry peers. The 14 key business ratios cover all critical areas of business performance—solvency, efficiency and profitability. And, using an individual company's financial statements with Key Business Ratios, you can generate a comparison of a company's own business ratios with the industry.
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Lexis-Nexis
Academic [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals. Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals. -
Mergent
Online [on-campus]
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Coverage: Current. Mergent Online contains the electronic versions of the Mergent (formerly Moody's) Manuals (Industrial, OTC, Banking and Finance, and International), covering over 10,000 U.S. companies and thousands for foreign companies. The financial data for most companies covers 15 years. Industry reports are included. -
Mintel
Market Reports [on-campus]
Mintel provides access to hundreds of reports on a variety of European, UK-specific and US consumer markets. Each report that Mintel publishes provides a unique overview of a market including its dynamics and prospects. Visitors to the website can search by keyword or browse for relevant publications by 'category'.
Note that academic users of this site must first agree to the academic conditions of use. Then you must create and sign in using a profile consisting of an email address and a password before you can see the reports that are available. - Morningstar.com Library Edition [on-campus]
Description: Find a stock or fund to meet your needs, research current or prospective holdings or see how your investments work together. Morningstar's data reports cover more than 20,000 securities. Coverage: Historical data back to 1996. -
ReferenceUSA
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Coverage: Current. Provides directory, sales and employee size information for more than 12 million businesses in the U.S. -
Regional
Business News [on-campus]
Coverage: Varies. Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc. - STAT-USA [on campus] [help]
Coverage: current. Stat-USA is a gateway to databases that assemble current information on business, economics, and trade from diverse government sources. It is divided into two parts: the State of the Nation section covers domestic statistics and Globus/NTDB cover information relating to US foreign trade. Most of the information deals with marketing and investing opportunities in foreign countries. Stat-USA is a subscription service available to the Langsdale Library as part of the government depository program. -
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Street Journal [on-campus]
Coverage: 1984 - present. Includes full text of Eastern edition of Wall Street Journal newspaper.