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ABI/INFORM Dateline - ProQuest   1985-current
Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. Search Guide

ABI/INFORM Global - ProQuest    1971 - current
Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Includes The Wall Street Journal. Search Guide

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - ProQuest    1971 - current
Search more than 1200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. Search Guide

General BusinessFile ASAP - Gale                  1980-                  Updated Daily
An index of over 5,200 general business and finance magazines, trade journals, and local business journals, with full-text of 3,629 titles. Includes Company Profiles of 200,000 public and private companies, and over 50,000 investment reports. WWW Search Guide

Business Insights: Essentials Gale Updated Monthly
A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Business Economics and Theory
Access to 450 full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index.

Business Source® Premier - Ebsco               1965-                    Updated Daily
Provides full text for 3,298 business periodicals including scholarly journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Periodical coverage ranges from Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, and American Banker to journals such as Harvard  Business Review, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Review. Full text coverage begins in 1965 for many journals and includes PDF images and embedded images for many of these journals. In addition, the database provides company information for over 200,000 companies from such sources as Dun & Bradstreet, Thomas Register and Disclosure. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Accounting & Tax Newspapers - ProQuest    1971 - current
Search newspapers for the latest accounting and tax news. Search Guide

Accounting & Tax Periodicals - ProQuest    1905 - current
Comprehensive coverage of key scholarly and industry publications and newspapers. National and international in scope, key publications focus on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management, as well as profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting firms. Search Guide

Banking Information Source - ProQuest    1971 - current
Search essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends. Search Guide

Hoover's Company Records  - ProQuest    Varies
Provides current proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Search Guide

Snapshot Series - ProQuest   2001 - current
Worldwide market data for a broad range of industries and regions Snapdata International Group is the only market research company to specialize in top-line international market research overviews. The Snapshot International Group Series of 4,600 reports is designed to provide an instant overview of a market, and the data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis. All data is compiled in house by the Snapdata Research Department, an international team of research experts. Search Guide

NBER Working Papers   - National Bureau of Economic Research   Current File    Updated Monthly
Searchable database of papers on economics in numerous fields.

NBER Working Papers on Corporate Finance - National Bureau of Economic Research   Current File    Updated Monthly
Concentrates on the causes and effects of financing arrangements used by corporations. The group also studies corporate governance, relations between banks and corporations in different countries, and the effects of leveraged buyouts on profits, spending on research and development, and employment.

NBER Working Papers on Industrial Organization  - National Bureau of Economic Research   Current File    Updated Monthly
Conducts empirical studies of firm behavior and government regulation. Members of the program also examine competition and pricing behavior in specific industries.

NBER Working Papers on International Trade and Investment  - National Bureau of Economic Research   Current File    Updated Monthly
The International Trade and Investment (ITI) Program does research on patterns of international trade and foreign direct investment; policies designed to influence the level of trade and investment; and their consequences on importing and exporting countries, such as for their wages, growth, the environment, and so on.

LexisNexis Academic                                                       Updated Daily
Provides the full text of current and back issues for 7,000+ titles including journals, major newspapers, newsletters, reference materials, and legal materials, both state and federal.  WWW. 
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Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete - ProQuest    Varies
Includes all the content present in the Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) databases. Subject coverage is comprehensive with full-text information from all areas including: current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, academia, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus. Search Guide

ProQuest Asian Business and Reference - ProQuest  1971 - present
Find the latest business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere. Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more. Search Guide

ProQuest European Business - ProQuest  1971 - present
Find the latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many more. Search Guide

OxResearch – Oxford Analytica – Current File
Provides more than 30,000 articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance. Using a multi-disciplinary team approach, economists, international relations specialists, and political/social analysts offer timely and authoritative judgment on events proving information on over 180 countries including the United States, Germany, China, Iraq, and Iran. Includes: OxResearch Country Profiles 16-May-2008 to present; OxResearch Daily Brief Service. 27-Sep-1984 to present OxResearch Individual Profiles. 6-Mar-2009 to present; and OxResearch Research Studies 30-May-2008 to 1-Apr-2009

Ad*Access - Duke University Library            1911-1955                Closed File
A searchable and browseable database with access to digitized versions of more than 7,300 advertisements printed between 1911 and 1955. The advertisements are divided into 5 major categories: Beauty and Hygiene, Transportation, Radio, Television, and World War II.

JSTOR-  Jstor Inc.                Coverage Varies                         Updated Daily
A full-text collection in PDF format of retrospective issues from 162 scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage includes African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies,  Ecology and Botany,  Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science,  Population  / Demography, Sociology, and Statistics.  Dates of coverage: Varies depending on journal title; most have a moving wall that excludes the most recent 2-5 years of coverage. Search Guide

RePEc: Research Papers In Economics - University of Connecticut                        Current file                Updated Weekly
The largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 325,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 225,000 can be downloaded in full text - some subcriptions required. This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc.  Includes working papers, articles, and software components.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals    -    Lund University Libraries, Sweden            Current File            Updated Weekly
This service covers 1642 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Currently 413 journals are searchable at article level. More than 75,000 articles are included in the DOAJ service. Subject areas covered include: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works,  Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political Science,  Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General,  Social Sciences, and Technology and Engineering.

Other Periodical Indexes and Databases
ProQuest Central ProQuest CSA    Coverage Varies    Updated Daily
The largest aggregated full-text database with more than 8,400 full-text titles among the 11,500 titles covered. Over 160 subject areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences, sciences, etc. Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW.  Search Guide

Regional Business News   Ebsco               1990-                    Updated Daily
Provides the most recent 30 days of full text information from an international collection of newswires.  Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International,  South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business Newswire, Canadian Corporate News, News  Bytes News Network, and Phillips Business Information Highlights. Information provided by these sources covers business,  political, economic and other diverse, international news events.  The database uses the same search engine as our other Ebsco databases. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

International Regulation Database - Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development     Current
Provides comprhensive quantitative and qualitative information about the state of regulation and market structures in OECD countries.  Areas covered include: economy-wide regulations concerning product markets; sector-specific regulations, regulatory settings, and industry or market structures. WWW



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