Business & Economics
ABI/INFORM Dateline (ProQuest) -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.
ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) -Business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and internationally. Full text of 600+ journals, cumulative indexing/abstracting from 1970s onward of 1,500 total journals on business conditions, economics, trends, corporate strategies/tactics, management and marketing techniques, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, as well as information on 60,000+ companies.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (ProQuest) -Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters 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.
Accounting & Tax (ProQuest) -Indexing/abstracts and selected full text of key journals, newspapers and periodicals. Known as "the quintessential accountant's database." Includes policies, standards and interpretations, tax legislation, compensation, financial management, etc.
Accounting & Tax Newspapers (ProQuest) -Search newspapers for the latest accounting and tax news.
Accounting & Tax Periodicals (ProQuest) -Based on the Accountants' Index, this tool for professionals provides current accounting, taxation, and financial management information. 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.
ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) -Search and find bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985, including works published by affiliated organizations.
Business & Industry Database (RDS Business Reference Suite) -covers 900+ publications focusing on business, all industries, more than 60% full text, 50 % U.S. and 50% international content. Uses keyword or code searching, companies, lines of business, SIC codes, concepts such as market share.
Business & Management Practices (RDS Business Reference Suite) -focuses on processes, methods, strategies of managing a business. Emphasizes planning for change and growth, decision-making, new technologies, etc. 300 core publications, articles from 300+ other sources, 60% full text.
Cabells Directories Online (Cabells) -directories of publishing opportunities in business related areas. Each Directory helps you select those journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. The index in each Directory helps you match the characteristics of your manuscript to the topic areas the journal emphasizes, the type of review process, acceptance rate and number of external reviewers. Information on Guidelines, Style, format, etc.
CCH® Internet Tax Research NetWork (CCH Inc.) -Leading accounting, federal, state, international and financial content. Also includes the full-text Aspen-Miller GAAP Guide, the GAAP Practice Manual, GAAP Financial Statement DIsclosures and GAAP Update Service. You must register as a new user via the right hand menu the first time you use CCH.
Conference Board Research Collection, The (Conference Board) -research is a searchable Collection of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of F500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more. Full-text coverage from 1998 to date.Economics material includes topline US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
CorpTech "Explore" Database of U.S. Companies - 94,500 high-technology companies, listings for 287,000 key executives, Internet Pages and e-mail addresses, detailed product lines, import/export information, employment trends.
EconLit (EBSCO) -from the American Economic Association, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature with citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. Full text of many economics journals can be accessed in ABI/INFORM Global and J-STOR.
Emerald Fulltext -40,000+ searchable articles from over 100 Emerald journals. Subjects covered include management, HRM, marketing, librarianship, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering. Key journals include: European Journal of Marketing, Management Decision, International Journal of Operations & Production Management.
General BusinessFile ASAP (Gale/InfoTRAC) -contains 415+ general business magazine, 315+ full-text publications, focusing on company news, business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest) -Find up to date 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.
ISI Emerging Markets
(ISI)
-Internet Securities, Inc. 's Emerging Markets Information Service aggregates and produces unique content including financial, economic and political news and information . It includes full-text news articles, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from thousands of local and leading international information providers, in both English and the local language. Emerging markets covered by Internet Securities include
Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil , Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Central America;
Central & Eastern Europe:Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine; Southeast Europe: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia - Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey;
Asia:Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam; Central Asia - Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan; Australia; Africa & Middle East: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE, Sub-Saharan Africa.
MENA Other Countries covers Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan and Syria.
JSTOR -is a full-text online collection of core scholarly journals from their first issues (some date back to the 1800's) to between two and five years prior to the present. Subject coverage includes arts & sciences, education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, Asian studies, economics, population studies, sociology and botany and ecology. The journals can be browsed by journal issue or searched by keywords, topics, titles, authors and dates. The journals included in JSTOR are also listed in and linked from the Journals, Magazines & Newspapers in Our Library.
Massachusetts Newsstand (ProQuest) -Full-text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.
Mergent Online -a comprehensive global company database, both U.S. public and international public-equivalent companies, includes details on items from SEC filings such as business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies. Search by company name or ticker symbol, or search across all global boundaries to find companies that match specific financial and/or textual search criteria. Use Company Analysis feature to compile reports on selected companies.
Mintel -Mintel offers market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. When you first log on, you will create a user profile that will show you our subscription report areas. Click on a report range to view all reports available.
National Newspapers (ProQuest) -Coverage of 9 major US newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, USA TODAY, Boston Globe and the Atlanta Journal/Constitution.
NBER WORKING PAPERS (National Bureau of Economic Research) -The NBER is the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization. NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals. Full texts of Working Papers published from November 1994 to the present are available online.
NeighborhoodScout® -Includes nearly 200 characteristics in a searchable neighborhood research tool that covers every neighborhood (census tract) in America. NeighborhoodScout can be queried either by selecting lifestyle segmentations such as retirement living, vacation homes, family neighborhoods, and luxury communities, or by selecting combinations of criteria. Criteria include: school ratings, appreciation rates, house values, crime rates, income, ethnicity, and many more. This database requires a username and password and is for UMass Dartmouth students, faculty and staff use only.
ProQuest Direct -includes ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Accounting & Tax, Accounting & Tax Newspapers, Accounting & Tax Periodicals, Asian Wall Street Journal,CBCA Reference, Chicago Tribune, Hoover's Company Records, Los Angeles Times, National Newspapers, Massachusetts Newsstand, and the New York Times.
RDS Business Reference Suite -includes: Business & Industry Database , Business & Management Practices, and TableBase.
ReferenceUSA: Business -12 million US companies, compiled and verified from public information, with data on sales, number of employees, e-mail addresses, product and service information, and geographic area.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage (S&P) -a comprehensive financial information database with complete, full-text information from nine Standard and Poor's publications, including the Industry Surveys, Stock Reports,Monthly Investment Review, Register of Corporations: Public & Private, Register of Executives, and Stock Reports: Closed End Funds.
TableBase (RDS Business Reference Suite) -uses Business & Industry Database indexing to find database records with forecasts, market share, rankings, users, demographics by industry or country, displayed in full-text tables.
Textile Technology Complete (EBSCO) -from the Institute of Textile Technology provides international coverage of the literature of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production, processing and related subjects including journals, books, conferences, theses, technical reports, trade literature, and other material acquired by the Institute's library. Coverage includes the various aspects of textile science research, the production, processing, automation and management systems of these operations, as well as the major resources from the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries.
Thomson Research -see Mergent Online
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) -The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. (See Asian & Europe Wall Street Journal below)
Wall Street Journal (Asian) (ProQuest) -Daily business newspaper focusing on Asia and the Pacific Rim from The Wall Street Journal. Comprehensive coverage of Asian stock markets, companies, politics, and other major news.
Wall Street Journal Europe (ProQuest) -The business newspaper focusing on Europe from The Wall Street Journal. Comprehensive coverage of European stock markets, companies, politics and other major news.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA) -"The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy". (Builds on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI 1984-2000)
