Business

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Business Databases and Web Resources

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ABI INFORM LIRN/ProQuest (full text)

U.S. and International articles on business and management from a variety of publications

Business Source Elite EBSCO (full text)

Provides full text for more than1,000 serials and journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting and more

Ebrary (full text)

Over 31,000 electronic books, including business related texts

Lexis Nexis (full text) provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

Regional Business News EBSCO (full text) coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States

General

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Academic Search Complete –EBSCO (full text)

General (multidisciplinary) subject database with full text for over 5,300 journals

Article First -OCLC (full text)

An OCLC index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals

Digital Dissertations -ProQuest (full text)

ProQuestDigital Dissertations with online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation database. Full text available for most dissertations published since 1997.

Newspaper Source EBSCO (full text)

Full text from 224 regional US newspapers, 18 international, six newswires and nine columns

World Cat -OCLC

Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Millions of bibliographic records

Barron’s, http://online.barrons.com/home-page
Business journal similar to the Wall Street Journal, but with a greater focus on earnings and investor information

BizStats, http://www.bizstats.com/
Free P&L, financial ratios, and balance sheet statistics for various industries, going back one year. Older data requires subscription

Business Week, http://www.businessweek.com/
Excellent general-interest business publication. Includes annual “Business Week 50,” the top-performing companies in the S&P Index

CAROL, http://www.carol.co.uk/
Provides direct links to financial pages of European and American companies. Access is free but requires registration.

Census – Current Industrial Reports, http://www.census.gov/cir/www/index.html
CIR provides monthly, quarterly, and annual measures of industrial activity in the United States

Directory of companies in the European Union. Searchable by industry classification.

Financial Times Global 500, http://www.ft.com/reports/ft5002008
Listing of the largest 500 companies globally, ranked by market capitalization. Includes separate lists for the US, Europe, UK and Japan.

Forrester Research, http://www.forrester.com/rb/research
Site for business research powerhouse. Many research reports are available for free, including valuable Topic Overviews of current business issues.

Industry Week, http://www.industryweek.com/
Magazine focussing on the manufacturing sector. Includes the IW 1000, an annual ranking of the world’s largest manufacturers.

Price’s List of Lists, http://www.specialissues.com/lol/
Online listing of rankings for just about every specialty imaginable. Great place to find the top performers in an industry or standout executives.