Selected Databases by Subject: Business
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Legends: ft means 50%+ any type of full-image; 49% or less all other formats ft image means 90%+ full-image files; 9% or less all other formats FirstSearchFS in the Other Information column indicates a FirstSearch database.
index or ascii Indicates a resource which has less than 50% full-text (usually ascii) materials and/or is primarily an indexing or abstracting tool; be aware that an abstract is also a citeable source.

Title Vendor Other Information
    Databases of special interest to business majors.
ABI/Inform Global ProQuest Business Information; Full image and indexing for The Wall Street Journal - Eastern edition; Full image (PDF) files for more than 2,000 journals; ascii full-text for an additional 100 journals; and indexing for nearly 3,000 titles.
Business Dateline index or ascii ProQuest FirstSearchFS; Focuses on regional business; provides access to selected full text of regional business publications, Business Wire press releases, and selected stories from major newspapers.
Business & Industry index or ascii RDS Responsive Database Services, Inc. FirstSearchFS; Business and industry facts, events, key figures
Business & Management Practices index or ascii RDS Responsive Database Services, Inc. FirstSearchFS; updated weekly; contains online information & articles about the practical aspects of business management; includes case studies and how-to articles; the user may search using business concepts--e.g. long range planning, best practices. To see examples of the many indexes and searching options select "Help" in the top left corner just under the Basic Search button, then select Indexes and examples (BusManagement).
Business Organizations Gale Directories FirstSearchFS; Directory of organizations that serve business & industry; includes abstracts in most records describing the organization giving contact information and/or urls.
Disclosure Corporate Snapshot ft ascii disclosure FirstSearchFS; financial reports on publicly owned companies in the US
EbscoHost > Business Source Complete ft ascii Ebsco/TexShare texshare EbscoHost: Business Source Complete contains full-image academic journals as well as trade (i.e. non-academic) journals relating to business, economics, trade, and so on.
EbscoHost > Economia y Negocios index Ebsco/TexShare texshare This database is produced in Peru by ESAN Escuela de Admnistracion de Negocios para Graduados the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish speaking world. This Spanish language database consists of more than 60,000 citations to articles, books, chapters in books and so on.
EconLIT index or ascii American Economic Association FirstSearchFS; Index of economic literature
GPO: Government Publishing Office index or ascii U.S. Government FirstSearchFS; Index of U.S. government publications
Hoover's Company Records ProQuest Provides information on 40,000 public and non-public companies, including more than 225,000 key executives. Corporate data includes in-depth industry analysis, information on company location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and so on. To select searching for Hoover's only click on databases selected in the left corner; you will be taken to a complete list of databases which allows you to deselect irrelevant titles.
Index to Legal Periodicals index or ascii
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
JSTOR JSTOR Archives & provides full-text for more than 100 scholarly journals from their beginnings to the most recent 4 to 7 years (varies with vendor contracts). For example, JSTOR contains the full-text of all numbers of American Economic Review from volume 1, 1911-volume 84, 1994; Journal of Finance, volume 1, 1946-volume 52, 1997.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Lexis-Nexis Provides full-text and full-image materials for news, business, legal, medical information; updated hourly
Mergent Online ft Mergent The electronic equivalent of Moody's full-text company data; January 2003 became Mergent Online; access to enhanced capabilities requires IE 5.5 or higher or Netscape 6.2 or higher
netLibrary ft image netLibrary Provides access to full-text ebooks. For "checkout" you must register, however you may read and peruse any amount of text online. Because both UT System and TexShare have joined in the purchase of netLibrary titles, you need to be aware that quality and relevance to academic research vary. For example, the site provides access to many "pop business" books (e.g. The Complete Idiot's....)as well as to scholarly material such as Globalilzation, Competition, and Growth in China published by Routledge in 2006.
Newspaper Abstracts index or ascii ProQuest FirstSearchFS; Indexes more than 25 national newspapers, 1989-present
Newspapers: InfoTrac Custom Newspapers Gale/TexShare Indexing and full-text for more than 100 newspapers; including cover to cover full text for the Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Morning-News, Houston Chronicle, and The New York Times [365-day rolling coverage for NYT].
New York Times Index index or ascii NYT FirstSearchFS; Index as stated
The New York Times (1851-2003) aka Historical Newspapers Proquest In order to search this newspaper you must use the pull-down database menu on the default search screen; select multiple databases and you will be directed to a page where you may select this database. Note: In ProQuest historical databases cannot be searched in combination with non-historical databases.
PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service index or ascii CSA In July of 2005 OCLC sold this database to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, the interface and indexing methods are entirely new.
The Population Profile of the United States GPO The first Internet-only versions of this report from the US Census Bureau. It is based on the 2000 census. It has both a PDF version and a Powerpoint presentation version, as well as an HTML slide show with images.
Project Muse (coverage 1996+) ft image Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) This database contains the full-text of 250 highly regarded scholarly and university press journals. Of particular interest to students in interested in business and economics are: Advertising & Society Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Brookings Trade Forum, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, e-Service Journal, Economia, Enterprise & Society, History of Political Economy, Journal of Developing Areas, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Labor Studies Journal, and Technology & Culture
ScienceDirect ft image Elsevier Full-text of more than 700 science journals. Elsevier has acquired a number of journals in other subject areas, including approximately 120 business journals; click on journalsin the top navigation menu to access title lists by subject.
Wilson Business Abstracts index or ascii
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index; indexes both trade and academic; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
Worldscope Globalindex or ascii disclosure FirstSearchFS; Financial reports on companies worldwide; brief records available in FT


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