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Full-Text Resources Business Source Premier - Searchable database of articles from scholarly business journals and other sources. Subjects include management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Covers: 1965 - current, though a few select journals are available from the 1940's and 1950's. Expanded Academic ASAP - full-text articles and citations to popular and scholarly sources in many subject areas. Lexis-Nexis Academic - Full-text business news, company and industry reports, accounting; coverage varies by source. STAT-USA - Business, trade, and economic statistics from the US Department of Commerce. Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Profiles and Reports - searchable database of profiles and reports in HTML and PDF formats. Provides analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, social, and business environment for more than 180 countries. Country profiles are typically around 70 pages of textual analysis and data on a specific country, while the updating reports areabout 30 pages in length. Covers: 1996 - present. International Encyclopedia of Business & Management (2d ed.) - Ref HF1001 .I53 2002 (8 vols.) Indexes & Abstracts EconLit - database of citations with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature; includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers. Catalog of U.S. Government Publications - bibliographic records of U.S. Government information products, with links to Federal agency online resources; coverage begins with January 1994, new records are added daily. PAIS - citations and short abstracts for journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories. Subjects include government, international relations, legislation, political science, statistics, and related areas. Covers: 1972 - present, abstracts start at 1985. PAIS Archive Provides historical perspective on many public policy, political, economic, and social issues worldwide. Covers: 1937-1976 Sociological Abstracts- citations for articles from journals, books, conference papers, and dissertations in sociology and other social and behavioral sciences; citations after 1974 contain abstracts; covers: 1963 - present. Indexes By Subject Business Reference Guides - Library of Congress BPubs (Business Publications): free articles grouped by subject. CIBER: Michigan State U.'s Center for International Business Education & Research - international business resources. Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES) (U. of North Carolina, Charlotte) - over 3000 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information. GlobalEdge (formerly
International Business Resources Index)
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| Company Research
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Ten Steps in a Company Analysis : A ten step guide provided by Lexis-Nexis is available by selecting "Help" at the top of the Lexis-Nexis main page typing "research 101" into the search box and scrolling down the list until you see, "Ten Steps in a Company Analysis." SEC Filings:
Securities and Exchange Commission - Search EDGAR Company Directories Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Company Financial Reports - Select "Business" from the "Academic Search Forms" list and then select "Company Financial Reports" to conduct the search. (Includes Disclosure(R) Online Database-US Public Company Profiles, Annual Reports - Corporate (AICPA), 1984-1995, Annual Reports - Corporate (AICPA); 1972-1984, Archived, Nelson's Company Research Reports, Nelson's Consensus Earnings Estimates, Vickers Institutional Holdings, Vickers Securities Report, Zacks Investment Research, Inc. Consensus Earnings Projections .) Hoover's Online: Companies A-Z - the free portion of Hoover's Hoover's Handbook of American Business
- Ref HG4057 .A28617 Lexis-Nexis Compare Companies - Select "Business" from the "Academic Search Forms" list and then select, "Compare Companies" to conduct the search. This search will allow comparisons by sales, net income, employees, location (but not companies by name; for that, use Hoover's or Wright Research Center). MSN MoneyCentral: Find Ticker Symbol Thomas Global Register - 700,000 manufacturers and distributors from 28 countries, classified by 11,000 products and services categories. Free, but registration required. System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) - the EDGAR of Canada; public company filings, annual reports, press releases, mutual fund filings. Wright Research Center, aka Corporateinformation.com - Company Profiles - now requires registration, but it's free. Detailed analysis of over 20,000 companies. Registration now required, but it's free. See "Research Reports" to match a company with its competitors. Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives - Ref Desk HG4057.A43; annual directory of 75,000 companies, including 10,000 foreign companies, and 437,500 executives. Sales, number of employees, and SIC codes are provided. Biographical sketches are included for 72,000 executives. Principal International Businesses (D & B) - Ref HF54.U5P74; world marketing directory listing approximately 50,000 leading enterprises in 140 countries that are the largest employers worldwide. It includes mining, manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, fishing, power generation and distribution, construction, communications, transportation, financial institutions, insurance, real estate, films and other service businesses, and autonomous government entities. This publication is divided into three sections listing businesses by geographic location, by product class, and alphabetically. Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the
U.S. - Ref HG4057.D155 2002 Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign
Countries - Ref HG4538.A1D5
Dun's Regional Business Directory -San Francisco - Ref HG4058.S4D86; public and private companies included; ranked by sales, number of employees; includes company record info; listed by SIC number and geographically. Value Line Investment Survey - Ref HG4501.V26 (Current edition of parts 1 and 3 at Reference Desk, current year of part 2 in Reference Stacks.) Company and industry profiles for the investor. Also available online (check with McHenry Reference Desk; select "log in," then select "Print Subscriber Services" at left side, then enter username/password, then select the first choice, "Value Line Investment Survey®Online."). Million Dollar Directory (D & B) - Ref HF5035.D82; directory of America's leading corporations, public and private; provides the ame, address and phone number for headquarters and single locations; public/private ownership designations; D-U-N-S number; SIC Codes; founding/ownership dates; and, where available, information on annual sales volume, total number of employees; names, titles and functions of officers; names of directors; import/export designations; principal banking and accounting relationships; sticker symbol and stock exchange; state of incorporation; and parent company. Annual Reports Top of Page The Public Register's Annual Reports Service - links to thousands of reports; links to corporate homepages are also provided, and you can order print versions of annual reports for free. Registration required. Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Select "Business" from the list of search options, select "SEC Filings and Reports" from the next set of search options, finally, change "Source" to "SEC Annual Report to Shareholders." Reports are in ASCII format, no graphics. U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) - a good place to find additional information, especially about private company holdings. Company Rankings Hoover's Lists (see tables at the front of Hoover's Handbooks) Price's List of Lists - a legendary vast compendium of links to lists of top ranked industries, organizations, schools, products, and people. Fortune 500 and 1000 - click on Fortune 500 for both. IndustryWeek IW 1000 - world's 1,000 largest publicly held manufacturing companies based on revenue. Advertising Age 100 Leading National Advertisers STORES Magazine - top 100 retailers, specialty stores, internet retailers, global retailers. AsiaWeek 1000 Biggest Companies D & B Business Rankings - Ref
HG4057 .A237
Looksmart - Rankings by Industries and US Business & Economic Rankings The Inc. 500 - Inc.'s Annual List of America's fastest-growing private companies. Employee Ownership 100 - America's largest companies that are over 50% employee-owned through an ESOP, stock purchase plan, or other broad-based ownership plan. Washington Post's Top Private Companies
Company History Top of Page Mergent Manuals (formerly Moody's) - Ref HG4961 .M (etc.). The Manuals contain basic information on a company's history, products, property, divisions, subsidiaries, address, directors and officers, financial position, corporate debt, and stock price range. The material presented is factual rather than advisory. It is possible to get historical information on companies by searching older versions in Stacks, or see Mergent Company Data (McH Ref CD-ROM Disk 2205) or International Company Data (Ref CD-ROM Disk 2170). International Directory of Company Histories - Ref HD2721.I63 (5 vols.; our set is incomplete. Approx. 40 vols. have been issued; check other area libraries.) Profiles of the historical development of the world’s leading companies. Who Owns Whom (D&B)
- Ref HG4009 .W468 (North & South America);
Ref HG4009 W466 (international)
America's Corporate Families and International
Affiliates -Ref HG338.74 A512 (3 vols.)
Directory of Corporate Affiliations
- Ref Desk HG4057.A22
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Industry Research
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Ten Steps in an Industry Analysis - A ten step guide provided by Lexis-Nexis is available by selecting "Help" at the top of the Lexis-Nexis main page typing "research 101" into the search box and scrolling down the list until you see, "Ten Steps in an Industry Analysis." Standard Industrial Classification Search (SIC) - many company directories use SIC codes to classify types of industry; search the 1987 version SIC manual by keyword to access descriptive information for 4-digit SIC codes. In print: see SIC Manual - Ref HF1042 .A55. North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) and SIC Compared - the new version of the SIC, but many sources continue to use SIC codes instead. Search for the 1997 NAICS code for an industry, or use the site's correspondence tables to find an SIC code's equivalent in NAICS. Print version: NAICS - Ref HF1042 .N6. Fortune.com: Industry Rankings Industry Reports from Hoover's Online U.S. Census Bureau Economy Overview - by industry Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries
Ref HC102 .E54 1999
Fuld & Company, Inc. - Internet Intelligence Index - links to over 600 intelligence-related internet sites, covering everything from macro-economic data to individual patent and stock quote information. NewsDirectory: Industry Trade Publications Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
- Ref HF5681.R25I525 (Desktop ed.; 1 year coverage)
U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook
- Gov Pubs Ref HC106.5 .A17
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Industry & Market News: select "Business" from the "Academic Search Forms" list, select "Industry & Market News" from the next set of search options. Fed Statistics U.S. Census Bureau - Current Industrial Reports (CIR) by Subject U.S. Census Bureau - Manufacturing & Construction Division (MCD) - current industrial reports, manufacturing profiles, instruction manuals. Trade Associations Associations Unlimited - UCSC users only Market Share Top of Page Market Share Reporter - Ref HF5410 .M35 2001 World Market Share Reporter - RefHF5410 .W67 2001 Standard & Poor's Quarterly Dividend Record - Ref HG4908 .S76a Handbook of Common Stocks (Mergent/FIS) - Ref Desk HG4501 .M59 Big Charts Historical Quotes - see tab at top of page SiliconInvestor - also includes historical quotes (need to search current prices by company first). Zacks.com - coverage of 6,000+ publicly traded companies, compiled from over 3,000 analysts at more than 240 different brokerage houses. Historical Quotes - Yahoo - access to historical quote data in tabular format in several timeframes: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Dividends. Historical Quotes feature includes notations for all splits and dividend distributions during the date range covered. Open, high, low and close quotes are not adjusted for splits or dividends; an Adjusted Close column is provided which is the close price adjusted for all splits and dividends. Historical quotes typically do not go back further than 1970. Displays maximum 200 rows at a time. Wright Research Center, aka Corporateinformation.com - now requires registration, but it's free. Company analyses, investment commentary, recent economic news, investment committee presentations. S & P's Security Owner's Stock Guide - Ref HG4915.S67 - the little note tablet-type books. S & P's Bond Guide - Ref HG4661.S78 2001 American Stock Exchange
Stanford Securities Class Actions Clearinghouse - detailed information relating to federal class action securities fraud litigation; identifies 1044 issuers that have been named in federal class action securities fraud lawsuits since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Also contains full text searchable copies of more than 2000 complaints, briefs, filings, and other litigation-related materials filed in these cases. Market Research/Demographics Top of Page County Business Patterns - data at the two digit SIC code level for all counties, states, and national totals Library of Congress Country Studies - description and analysis of historical setting and social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. Country Briefings from Economist.com - organized by country; includes articles from The Economist, background profiles, forecast and statistics from The Economist Intelligence Unit, market and currency updates, news headlines and links. Consumer Expenditure Surveys (Bureau of Labor Statistics) NRF/Forrester Online Retail Index - measures the growth of online shopping based on data collected from online shoppers. The monthly Index is based on 5,000 responses to an online survey fielded by Greenfield Online. U.S. State Dept. Country Commercial Guides - Along with an assortment of other market research material. Annual reports by U.S. embassies presenting a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis, from 1999-2004. International Trade Administration: State Exports to Countries & Regions Watson Library International Resources for International Business (Columbia U.) - international links, by region, on developing economies and emerging markets U.S. Census Bureau - Data Access Tools - links to Census 2000 datasets. IPUMS-USA (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) - national census database spanning 1850 to 1990. SRI - Statistical Reference Index Annual - a guide to U.S. statistical publications (both private organizations and state government) located in the Government Publications Reference Area, HA214.S73 |
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Online Popular Publications Top of Page Barron's Online
News & Press Releases
Standard & Poor's Corporation Records - Ref HG4501 .S7664 (daily news) S & P's Outlook - Ref HG4905.S732 - investment advisory newsletter for individual investors (new material, old binder). S & P's Creditweek - Ref HG4905.S7312 (current year only) - provides industry analysis and market commentary on the key developments and issues affecting global credit quality. Feature articles, ratings news, trends. Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Productivity Futures
- see Tools, Tips and Techniques for brief introductions
to productivity improvement tools.
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Other Top of Page Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Accounting Literature : select "Business" under the header, "Academic Search Forms," select "Accounting" under the header, "Accounting." U.S. Patent Office Full-Text and Bibliographic Database Occupational Outlook Handbook (U.S. Dept. of Labor) JobStar California - salary surveys, general and profession-specific. National Debt Clock- updated daily U. of Michigan
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