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Accounting Research Manager
A timely and comprehensive online database of expert-written analytical accounting, auditing, governmental, internal controls and SEC information as well as primary source data. Two users at a time so please log out when finished.

Business Source Premier (Full Text)
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Provides full text for over 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

Business and Company Resource Center(Full Text)
Comprehensive periodical and reference resource for business, management and investment topics, with Newsletters ASAP and Predicast’s PROMT databases. Articles from academic and general business, industry & management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4000+ indexed titles; 2900+ full-text). Investment and broker research reports. Company & association directory listings from a number of sources. Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company histories, associations, brands, market share, and more.

InfoTrac General Business File ASAP (Full Text)
Information on companies, markets and industries. Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

Campus Research (WestLaw)
Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

Mergent Online(Full Text)
Electronic access to Mergent's (formerly Moody's/FISOnline) Manuals. These include Mergent Banking and Finance Manual, Mergent International Manual, Mergent Public Utilities Manual, Mergent Transportation Manual, Mergent OTC Manual and all the News Reports that go with each of these products. Information includes corporate history, Business Properties and subsidiaries, Officers and directors, Long-term debt, Income statement, Balance sheets, and more.

Wall Street Journal (Full Text)
Full-text of the financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance. Covers from 1982 to the present.

Small Business Resource Center (Full Text)  Discus
Resources for prospective and current entrepreneurs and business students. Contains full-text periodicals, news sources, reference books and Web site links.

Business Wire News (Full Text)
A collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world. 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. This database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources.

Disclosure Corporate Snapshots
Contains information about all public company filings including annual reports, company summary information, and shareholder reports.

Regional Business News (Full Text)
The Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

JSTOR (Full Text)
Check "Business" in order to search the full text of 46 "scholarly" business periodicals. This is a great source for historical/archival information and a terrible source for current information.

Emerald Fulltext (Full Text)
Fulltext access to current journal articles covering numerous aspects of management including accounting, business management, environmental management, library science, marketing, professional development, and more.

EconLit
Comprehensive, international, partially annotated bibliography of economics literature. Indexes over 300 journals as well as books, dissertations, working papers, and collective volumes. Covers 1969 to the present.

Value Line Investment Survey (Full Text)
Comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, 90+ industries, the stock market, and the economy.

CCH Internet Tax Research Network (Full Text)
Electronic access to Commerce Clearing House publications in such areas as securities, banking, trade regulation, information technology and product safety/liability. This source covers over 58,000 companies, listing stock dividends, splits, reorganizations and other capital structure changes over the last 100+ years.

WorldScope
Derived from corporate annual and 10K reports, disclosure statements, newspapers, and wire services. Each record includes a description of the business, selected financials, key ratios, and officers.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (Full Text)
Provides information on 155,000 companies, 60,000 product & service classification headings, and 124,000 brand names. Access is free but requires individual registration to search. Updated annually.

STAT-USA (Full Text)
Vital economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Dept.of Commerce.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.

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Print and Electronic Resources

Encyclopedia of Small Business (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Designed to provide entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to their own business. Contains 600 detailed articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners, including financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.

Business Leader Profiles for Students (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Covers 350 prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry. Profiles range from 1,250 to 2,500 words in length.

Vital Statistics of the United States
REF HA 203 A22

Encyclopedia of Small Business
REF HD 62.7 .H553

International Directory of Company Histories
REF HD 2721 I63

Knowledge Exchange Business Encyclopedia: Illustrated
REF HF 1001 .K52

Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook
REF HF 1014 B32

D & B Million Dollar Directory
REF HF 5035 D8

Accounting Standards. Original Pronouncements 
REF HF 5616 U5 A364

Accountant's Index
REF HF 5635 A5

RMA Annual Statement Studies
REF HF 5681 B2 R6

Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
REF HF 5681 R25 I525

Wall Street Journal Index
REF HG 1 W26

Directory of Corporate Affiliations
REF HG 4057 A217

Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private & Public Companies
REF HG 4057 A575

Moody's Manuals
REF HG 4961, HD 2766, HE 1, HG 4009

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 
REF K 487.E3 N49

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Internet Resources

Web Resources for Business and Economics
A collection of useful links to business and legal information.

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