Research

ABI/INFORM Complete (via ProQuest) 1971+
Contains over 1600 business-related journals, many in full-text. Also includes ABI Dateline and Trade & Industry.

Business Source Elite (via Ebscohost) 1985+
Mainly full-text coverage of over 1700 journals in the fields of business, management, and economics. Also includes thousands of Datamonitor company profiles.

Business & Company Resource Center (via Infotrac) 1977+
Abstracts and full-text from thousands of business related publications. Information on more than 400,000 companies including profiles, industry rankings, products and brands, investment reports, marketing data, and more.

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Online directories of scholarly publishing opportunities in Business and Education subject areas including Accounting, Economics and Finance, Management, Marketing, Educational Curriculum and Methods, Educational Psychology and Administration, and Educational Technology and Library Science.

CountryWatch
Political, economic, business, demographic, cultural, and environmental information and statistics; daily news coverage by country; comparable country data sets; maps.

Gallup Brain
The Gallup Brain features answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.

Human Resources Law Cases
HR Law Cases is a database of U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Court decisions involving such topics as discrimination, disabilities, employee benefits, family and medical leave, hiring, independent contractors, labor relations, privacy, religious accommodation, race and gender, whistle blowing, and wrongful discharge.

Key Business Ratios Temporarily on campus only
From Dun & Bradstreet’s Financial Information Database, Key Business Ratios can be used to identify relationships between financial data and assess a firm's strengths and weaknesses relative to competing firms or an entire industry.

Lexis-Nexis Academic 1985+ (some earlier)
Provides access to full-text publications in 5 categories: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical, and Reference. Thousands of varied sources including 350 newspapers, thousands of magazines, journals, newsletters, and transcripts from major television and radio broadcasts. [more information . . .]

Mergent Online
Financial information on thousands of companies worldwide; also includes industry reports. Company information includes annual reports, company histories, SEC financial statements, stock information, directories, and more.

Regional Business News (via Ebscohost) 1984+
Full-text coverage of approximately 70 regional business news journals.

RePEC: EconPapers
A free resource from Research Papers in Economics containing working papers, article abstracts, and more, in all areas related to economics.

RIA Checkpoint
Provides tools for accounting and tax research including complete tax law, expert analysis, treatises, IRS and court rulings, tax-related news, and more.

Sage E-Reference
Encyclopedia of Career Development and other e-book reference titles from Sage Publications.

SEC EDGAR
Provides public access to the full-text of documents filed by companies with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These include annual reports on form 10-K, quarterly reports on form 10-Q, and many more. Also search Lexis and Mergent for more SEC filings and company information.

Simmons Study of Media and Markets -- Choices 3
A program on Ryan Library, Arrigoni Libray, and LaPenta computers. In Windows, Start Simmons...Choices3. Simmons allows you to analyze consumer and product data from 5000 questions asked of more than 30,000 adults.

SRDS
Provides current information including advertising rates and data, dates, and contact information for all types of media.

ValueLine Investment Survey Limited to 3 users at a time; No password required, click log-in link.
Reports for 1700 U.S. stocks including projections; company and industry commentary. Issued weekly.

Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest) 1984+
Abstracts begin in 1982, full-text in 1984.

Westlaw Campus Research
Legal research, news, and business related information provided through several connected databases. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Go".

General and Interdisciplinary Content Databases
These multidisciplinary databases cover a range of subjects and may be helpful to your research in this area.

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