Penn State University Libraries - Management Information Systems

Safari

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

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

• Investor information products
• Industry surveys
• Company profiles and corporation records
• Stock, bond, and fund research

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

ValueLine

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

ACM Digital Library

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

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

IEEE Xplore

• An engineering database containing full-text publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)
• Contains publications that concentrate on computer hardware and software
• Information Science Abstracts Plus
• Queries abstracts that are relevant to the management of information systems

ProQuest

• Search for newspaper, magazine, and journal articles. Many full-text
• Includes the ABI/Inform database, the premier database for business periodicals

Hoover's

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

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 reports

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

• Investor information products
• Industry Surveys
• Company profiles and Corporation Records
• Stock, bond, and fund research

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 10-K and 10-Q 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

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