Penn State University Libraries - Reference Paragraphs for Databases (used in RG's)

ABI/Inform (via ProQuest)

• Indexes over 1000 business periodicals
• Trade journals, business magazines, academic journals and other news sources
• Most articles are full-text

ACM Digital Library

• Computer science database containing the full-text of journals, articles, and conference proceedings distributed by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Business Cycle Indicators (BCI) - U.S. Indicators (The Conference Board)

• economic indicators that have proven to be most useful in determining current conditions and predicting the future direction of the United States economy
• spreadsheet-type format
• more than 250 economic series are in the U.S. BCI dataset, with many series beginning in 1945

Business Expert Press

• A fully-searchable collection of more than 100 current business-related e-books.

Business Source Premier

• Essential article database for business research providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals
• Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: accounting, economics, econometrics, finance, marketing, management, MIS, QMM and supply chain management

CAB Abstracts

• Plant sciences, animal sciences, entomology, soils, and fertilizers
• Forestry, agricultural economics, nutrition, and agricultural engineering
• Rural recreation and tourism

Cabell's Directories

• Helps identify journals that are most likely to publish a manuscript, by giving the topic areas emphasized, the type of review process, number of external reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers' comments, and if fees charged to review or publish the manuscript
• Directories are available for:
• Accounting
• Economics and Finance
• Management
• Marketing
• Educational Curriculum and Methods
• Educational Psychology and Administration
• Psychology

Capital Changes Reporter

• Provides the facts and figures to compute a security holder's gain or loss from capital changes
• Covers federal tax consequences of capital changes for more than 58,000 corporations and organizations resulting from stock dividends, stock splits, reorganizations, exchanges, rights, and other changes in capital structure in a database that spans over 100 years.

This service is available only to Penn State faculty and students for non-profit educational use. Qualified users should contact the Schreyer Business Library for access information. Phone 814-865-6369

CCH Tax Research Network

• Federal, state (all 50), and international tax research source materials
• Full-text statutes, regulations, administrative and judicial opinions, commentary, and citator services

CenStats

• Provides interactive search-and-display access to Annual Survey of Manufacturers, International Trade Data, ZIP Business Patterns, and more

China Data Online

• China’s economic development at national, provincial, city, county, and industrial levels
• Monthly, annual, and historical statistics
• Published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

• Working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences

Compendex

• Comprehensive engineering resource with just under seven million records referencing five thousand journals and engineering conference materials
• An exceptional tool to locate articles relating to information systems, process reverse-engineering, and Wi-Fi networks

Conference Board's Research Online Collection

• Full-text research reports (from 1998 on) on recent issues in business and economics
• Access to the electronic version of the Business Cycle Indicators Handbook, and the Board's economic working papers

Dissertations and Theses

• Penn State Dissertations and Theses
• Dissertations and Theses from Other Institutions
• Foreign Dissertations and Theses
• Dissertation and Thesis FAQ

EconLit

• Comprehensive index of journals, books, dissertations, articles in collective volumes, and working papers in economics
• Links are provided to most electronic full text materials. Provides links to some full-text articles

EDGAR / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

• Filings and Forms for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• All publicly-traded companies, foreign and domestic
• All reports required by the SEC: annual reports, 10-K financial reports, proxy statements, registration statements, other periodic reports, and other forms

Factiva (Dow Jones)

• Global information resource
• Top national and international newspapers, newswires, business journals, market research reports, analysts reports, and web sites
• Contains over 8,000 publications
• Content from 118 countries in 22 languages

Gale Directory Library

Electronic versions of the following resources:

• Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
• Market Share Reporter

Gale Virtual Reference Library

• General reference for business plans and small business topics
• General reference for law topics

Gartner Reports (Information Technology)

(Requires authentication with your Penn State access account)

• Comprehensive body of technology knowledge
• Resource to help organizational decision makers capitalize on information technologies and markets

GlobalEDGE

• Current information on the business climate, news, political structure, economic landscape, and relevant statistical data for 197 countries

Google for Business Research

• Access to unrestricted web sites
• News, stock values, company contacts, and other information
• Search by keyword
• Be aware that some unrestricted web information is incomplete, unreliable, and non-permanent

GPO Access

• Provides U.S. Government Printing Office index for Congressional Record, Public Laws, History of Bills and Resolutions, Federal Register, and United States Coade
• Updated continuously

GreenFILE

• Collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering topics such as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more
• Provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records going back more than 35 years

Hoover's

• Proprietary company and industry information
• SEC filings
• reports on money management, career development, news, and business travel

IBISWorld

• Over 700 full-text industry reports
• Over 700 U.S. industry risk rating reports
• Information on over 8,000 publicly-traded companies
• Hundreds of economic and demographic profiles

IEEE Xplore

• An engineering database containing full-text publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Contains publications that concentrate on computer hardware and software

International Financial Statistics

• Principal statistical publication of the International Monetary Fund
• Tables for each Fund member country include data on the country's exchange rates, Fund position, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts, and population
• Selected series are published in area and world tables
• Data may be downloaded as HTML, MS Excel, comma-delimited, or tab-delimited files
• Some series begin with 1945
• Updated monthly

LegalTrac

• Find articles relating to the legal aspects of recreation management
• Some articles are full-text

Lexis/Nexis Academic

• News: full-text regional, national and international newspapers, magazines and trade journals
• Business Resources: full-text business news, company and industry information, SEC filings, and accounting literature
• Legal Resources: full-text federal and state case opinions, law reviews, legal news, European Union legislation, tax law, and patents

Mergent Archives

• access to a collection of over 180,000 corporate and industry-related documents, including Annual Reports
• covers more than 100 countries and industries
• primarily useful for historical research

Mergent Online

• Information on 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies
• Detailed, standardized financial statements
• Searchable by company name, industry codes, revenue levels, and other characteristics
• Comparative analysis among companies
• Access to SEC report

Mergent WebReports

• Contains the complete archive of the Mergent/Moody's Corporation Manuals, including the Mergent/Moody's Industrial Manual
• Provides access to Mergent's Industry Reports

Mintel Reports

(Requires you to create a personal profile. Only your Penn State E-mail will be accepted)

• Market research reports for the U.S. and European consumer markets
• Analysis of market drivers, trends, market forecasts, market segmentations, demographics, and consumer attitudes and purchasing behaviors
• Over 600 reports published each year

NBER Working Papers

• Provides access to pre-publication reports of work in progress. Economists use working papers to report new findings and stimulate feedback

Passport GMID (Euromonitor)

• business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers
• international demographic, macro-economic, and marketing data
• industry statistics
• statistics on brand and company rankings
• comment on emerging industry, country, and consumer trends
• consumer lifestyle statistics

Philosopher's Index

• Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields

Plunkett Research Online (Industry Information)

• Industry sector analysis and research
• Industry trends and statistics
• Market research and trends
• Company profiles

PolicyFile

• Data from world renowned public policy think tanks, university research program, and publishers

Political Risk Yearbook

• Country Reports on 106 countries
• Political and economic risk analysis
• Business information

ProQuest

• Search for newspaper, magazine, and journal articles. Many are full-text

ProQuest National Newspapers

• Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources
• Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires

PsycINFO (via Silver Platter)

• Psychology and related aspects of:
• Organizational management
• Marketing
• Sociology

PubMed

• A service of the National Library of Medicine, it indexes more than 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s
• Use this database to locate articles relating to therapeutic recreation

Regional Integration Knowledge System

• Regional multi-national arrangements large and small such as ASEAN, NAFTA, and EU

Reuters Research On-Demand

• Real-time full-text investment research
• Reports cover companies and industries
• Over 750 contributing firms

RIA Checkpoint (Business: AICPA & FASB)

• Comprehensive accounting research service
• Includes AICPA and FASB Publications
• Segement on SEC Compliance
• Sarbanes-Oxley Reporter

RIA Checkpoint (Tax)

• Comprehensive tax research service
• Federal Tax information

Roubini Global Economics

• Daily analysis of the global economy
• Critical issues and briefings
• Monthly analysis and strategy outlooks

Safari

• Safari is an electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals
• It provides e-books in technology from major Information Technology publishers such as O'Reilly, Sams, and Que

SEC Filings and Forms (EDGAR / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)

• Securities and Exchange Commission maintains the EDGAR database that provides online access to corporate 10K and 10Q documents
• All publicly traded companies, foreign and domestic
• All reports required by the SEC: annual reports, 10-K financial reports, proxy statements, registration statements, other periodic reports, and other forms

Social Sciences Citation Index

• Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences, covering 1400 social science journals
• The index can be used to look up either a specific author or a particular publication to see how many articles in the database cited that author or publication
• The index can also be used to find related articles (articles that have at least one reference in common)

Sociological Abstracts

• Index for English language journals in Sociology, Social Work, and other Social Sciences.
• Provides abstracts for articles and is international in scope

SourceOECD

• Full-text publications (books, periodicals, working papers, etc.) from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• Includes many of the data sets available from the organization

Sports Business Resource Network (SBRnet)

• Sporting goods
• Sports marketing
• Market research reports
• Industry statistics
• Consumer expenditures

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

• Industry surveys
• Bond ratings
• Company profiles and corporation records
• Stock, bond, and fund research

Statistical Insight (ProQuest)

• Statistics from federal and state agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and private sources
• Full descriptive summaries; searchable by keyword
• Search by subject terms and categories (geographic, demographic, and economic)

ThomasNet

• Online catalog of manufacturers
• Catalogs representing more than 150,000 companies in the U.S. and Canada
• Thousands of suppliers, product categories, and brand names
• Free services, but users must register individually

Thomson ONE Banker (Investext)

• NOTE: Must use Internet Explorer to view.
• Investext Investment Research contains research reports written by top analysts at over 1,000 leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide
• Nearly 4,000 new reports are added each business day
• Replaces Reuters Research on Demand

TRIS Online

• Bibliographic database of the National Transportation Library

ValueLine

• Aggregate data and analysis on industries
• Reports, articles, and company highlights

Vault Online Career Library

• full-text career and industry guides
• company profiles
• occupation descriptions
• career-related articles

Web of Science

• Science Citation Index
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• Coverage from 1986 forward. Updated weekly

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

WRDS provides Web access to a number of financial research databases, including:

• Bank Regulatory Directory
• Compustat
• CRSP
• DMEF
• DOE - SEC
• Dow Jones Averages
• Eventus
• FDIC
• I/B/E/S
• IRRC
• ISSM (NASDAQ 1990-92, NYSE/AMEX 1983-1992)
• Penn World Tables
• Philadelphia Stock Exchange
• TAQ (1993-2003)

PLEASE NOTE: Users must open an account at the WRDS home page (click on link above). WRDS will create an account within 48 hours and email the Business Librarians, who act as Penn State's WRDS administrators. The Business Librarians will verify that the user is Penn State faculty, staff, or student and will forward the account information to that person.

World Development Indicators

Nearly 800 statistical indicators related to social and economic development

• World View
• People
• Environment
• Economy
• States
• Markets
• Global Links

World News Connection

• Full-text translated summaries from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
• Daily Reports for the following materials:
• newspaper articles
• conference proceedings
• radio and television broadcasts
• periodicals
• non-classified technical reports

Yahoo! Finance

• Current financial data on all types of securities
• Information about actively-traded companies
• Selected news feeds from Dow Jones, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times, Motley Fool, and others
• Editorials from Forbes, Inc., Smart Money, Fast Company, and Wall Street Journal plus original content
• Customized content

Zephyr

Zephyr is a comprehensive database of deal information. It contains information on

• Global Mergers and Acquisitions (M & A)
• Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
• private equity and venture capital deals
• news about pending M & A activity