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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
ABI/INFORM
ABI/INFORM is a premier source of English language business, accounting and
economics information from around the world. Over 1 million citations
from 1971 to the present provide complete bibliographic information,
indexing, informative abstracts, and selected full-text articles from
more than 1,000 business journals.
ABI/INFORM contains information on
more than 60,000 companies as well as executive profiles, reports on
market conditions, and in-depth case studies of global business trends.
More than 350 of the database's sources are English-language titles
published outside the U.S.
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American FactFinder
Created by the United States Census Bureau, American FactFinder contains U.S. Census information since 1990.
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County and City Data Books at the Geostat Center, University of Virginia
"This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000)." While the Federal Government offers this data online in pdf format and on CD in other data format, this site allows you to create customized reports for download into excel spreadsheets.
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EconLit
The research database of choice for economics majors. Provides citations and selected abstracts and covers topics including regional and international economics, urban economics, economic development, fiscal and monetary theory, business and public finance.
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Emerald E-Journals
Emerald E-journals includes full-text access to over 100
international peer-reviewed journals pertaining to: business and
management aspects of accounting, architecture, education, engineering,
environmental management, food and nutrition, healthcare, hospitality,
human resources, information and library, logistics and supply chains,
operations and production, public sector, quality, and training.
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General Business File ASAP
General Business File ASAP provides complete bibliographic information, abstracts or contents to over 20 million English language articles from approximately 3500 trade and academic publications from around the world. Includes analysis of company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic is an extensive set of full-text electronic databases of news, business, company, and legal information. It contains major archives of federal and state case law, media transcripts, and other full-text material. For more information consult the LexisNexis Academic help documents and/or search tutorial.
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National Bureau of Economic Research - NBER Working Papers
The NBER Web site offers full-text downloads of nearly all NBER Working in full text format to authorized users.
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STAT-USA
Contains vital economic, business, and international trade information produced by hundreds of separate offices and divisions of the U.S. Government.
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Wilson Business Abstracts
Wilson Business Abstracts provides abstracts and some full-text articles from 866 international English-language business sources, covering accounting, finance, management, and small business since 1986.
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Reference Materials
Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia - HB3711 .B936 1997
"Includes 327 original articles on every major aspect of business cycles, fluctuations, financial crises, recessions, and depressions."
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Dictionary of Econometrics - HB139 .D358 1994
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Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics - HB99.7 .E528 1997
Contains biographies, brief articles on theoretical issues, and longer articles on the scholarship of Keynes.
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Foundations of Business Economics - HD30.22 .T68 2002
This EBook "provides a readable explanation of microeconomic analysis in terms of real business practice."
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New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics - K487 .E3 N48 1998
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History - HC15 .O94 2003
"International in scope and spanning all time periods of human history, . . . includes 900 original articles by noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries."
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RMA (Risk Management Associates) Annual Statement Studies - HF5681 .B2 R58
Contains composite financial data and key ratios on manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, service, and contracting lines of business.
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Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics - HB61 .R68 1999
Eleven in-depth essays are followed by an extensive dictionary on international economics.
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Schaum's Quick Guide to Business Formulas: 201 Decision-making Tools for Business, Finance, and Accounting Students
Intended for students with at least some familiarity with financial analysis concepts, this Ebook supplies an alphatetic reference guide to practical computation for problem solving and decision making.
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Value Line Investment Survey - HG4501 .V26
Provides current information on over 1,700 stocks and full-page company reports.
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Web Sources
AnnualReports.com
A free financial report service that offers PDF versions of company annual reports and HTML versions of their Form 10Ks, both of which are primary sources of financial information about a company.
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ArgMax: Economics News, Data, and Analysis
Updated daily and contains economics news, data, and analysis from around the world.
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BEOnline Plus
The Library of Congress's catalog of business, economic, and related Web resources.
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Congressional Budget Office
An excellent source of national and U. S. budget economic information, including forecasts.
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Economagic
" . . .meant to be a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting." There are more than 200,000 time series for which data (in Excel format) and custom charts can be retrieved.
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Economic Report of the President
"The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices."
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EH.Net
"EH.Net operates the Economic History Services web site and several electronic mailing lists to provide resources and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields."
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FRED II
FRED II (Federal Reserve Economic Data) , is a database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series.
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McMaster University Archives for the History of Economic Thought
Classic economic texts by over 100 authors are available full text.
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Created by economics scholars around the world, contains thousands of working papers and articles, full-text, free.
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