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Accounting and Tax
Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers. The quintessential accountant's database. Coverage: varies
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Accounting Research Manager
Accounting Research Manager (ARM) is a comprehensive financial reporting knowledgebase that provides materials designed to help solve your most pressing issues. Updated daily, it is the most timely, complete, interpretive and objective resource for your financial reporting needs.

Danforth Campus access
Business Plans Handbook
Business Plans Handbook is a collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. These are ebooks and are fully searchable.

Danforth Campus access
Business Source Premier
As the world's largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.


Danforth Campus access
Cabell's Directories
Each Directory helps you select those journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. The subject areas are Accounting, Finance and Economics, Marketing and Management.

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Business School access only
Conference Board
The Conference Board's database of premier Business and Economic Information and analysis.
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Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign countries
Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries is the authoritative source of information on American firms, which have branches, subsidiaries, or affiliates outside the United States.
To access this database:
At the top of the screen you'll see the menu option "Search Uniworld Online." Click on this and it will take you to the database.
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Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States
Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States is the source for global contact information of Foreign-owned businesses (non-American) with a presense in the United States.
To access this database:
At the top of the screen you'll see the menu option "Search Uniworld Online." Click on this and it will take you to the database.

Danforth Campus access
*Doing Business(World Bank)
The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 155 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth.
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Business School access only
Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database
This provides information on over 1,000,000 leading public and private businesses including SIC's, annual sales, types of ownership, principal executives, and biographies.

Danforth Campus access
EconLit with Full Text
EconLit with Full Text contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 400 journals. It provides indexing and full text for articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

Danforth Campus access
Economagic
A comprehensive site of economic time series data. There are more than 100,000 series for which data and custom charts can be retrieved. The majority are for US macroeconomic data, but there is also some foreign economic statistics.

Danforth Campus access
EIU.COM Country Reports
The Economist produces EIU country reports which analyze the current political, policy, and economic trends in countries worldwide. Olin Library subscribes to this analysis for 40 countries.
Factiva
Business School access only
Factiva
One of the premier resources produced by the publisher of The Wall Street Journal. It provides access to the full text of thousands of popular business and general publications. Also has the full text of all Dow Jones publications including The Wall Street Journal, hundreds of newspapers and also financial information on public companies.

Danforth Campus access
Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies
More than 1200 reports covering many important technology areas: data networking, broadband, information security, electronic government, electronic business, the internet, business intelligence/content management, IT management, application development, mobile business, wireless communications and more.

Danforth Campus access
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data
This site is maintained by the Federal Reserve of St. Louis. About a thousand U.S. time series are available and downloadable into Excel. Also has a listing of currently available jobs , working papers, speeches made the president of the Federal Reserve and more.

Danforth Campus access

*globalEDGE
Created by the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University MSU-CIBER , GlobalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information on global business activities. GlobalEDGE™ offers:

  • Global Resources - more than 5,000 online resurces
  • Country Insights a wealth of information on all countries
  • Community - an interactive forum for business professionals
  • Knowledge Room - latest issues in international business
  • Academy - extensive research and teaching resources
  • Diagnostic tools - decision-support tools

MSUGlobal Access A portal is searchable by topic and geographic area or country. Country pages offer basic facts, news sources and background information.

Danforth Campus access
Global Market Information Database
Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an award-winning online information resource providing business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comment from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information. See this guide for help on using this database.   GMID Guide
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Business School access only
Hoover's Online Business Network
(Click on Company Profiles and Financial)
This site contains in-depth company information including profiles, financials, Officers, products, competitors and much more.
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Danforth Campus wide access

Infotrac
An indexing service to several hundred business and general interest publications. Contains the full text of the majority of sources that are indexed. Updated daily. Infotrac includes:

General Business File ASAP
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.

Business and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Investext Plus
Search Investext Plus to find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image.

International Directory of Company Histories
Provides detailed histories of many of the largest and most influential companies worldwide. These multi volume sets of ebooks are fully searchable.

Business Plans Handbook
Business Plans Handbook is a collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. These are ebooks and are fully searchable.

Danforth Campus access
International Directory of Company Histories
Provides detailed histories of many of the largest and most influential companies worldwide. These multi volume sets of ebooks are fully searchable.


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International Financial Statistics
Approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries starting in 1948. Includes exchange rates, Fund accounts and the main global and country economic indicators.
globalaccess
Business School access only
ISI Emerging Markets
ISI Emerging Markets delivers news, company and financial data direct from emerging markets.
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Danforth Campus access
ISI Web of Science
(Science Citation, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities Index)
ISI Web of Science Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references in approximately 5,600 of the world's leading scholarly journals, in more than 150 disciplines from 1988 to present.

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Danforth Campus access
LexisNexis Academic
A full text resource to hundreds of business and general interest magazines and newspapers. Excellent source for company, industry and product information. Also good for general and political news. Legal and medical information can also be obtained. Updated daily.

LexisNexis Statistical
Abstracts and index to U.S. &state governments and privately published & international and intergovernmental statistical sources (ASI, SRI & IIS).
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Danforth Campus access
Macroeconomic Advisers
A St. Louis based company that provides economic forecasts for the United States. Some international data is available. Larry Myers, former Federal Reserve Governor, is affiliated with this organization.
DATAMONITOR
Danforth Campus access
Marketline
Marketline provides profiles of 10,000 companies in 50 countries in the industries of Automotive & Logistics, Consumer Markets, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technology sectors.
To enter the site click on "if you already have an account, log in". This is located in the top right corner.

Danforth Campus access
Mediamark Reporter
Use this resource to locate comprehensive demographic and media information related to purchasers of consumer products.

There is a one time registration process in order to obtain a password. You must be affiliated with Washington University and have a .wustl account in order to receive a password.

To register, click the above link.

For a detailed guide on how to use and interpret Mediamark data, go here: Guides
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Business School access only
Mergent (FIS Online)
Comprehensive financial information on public companies worldwide. Also contains annual reports and SEC filings.

Danforth Campus access
Mintel Markets
Use this resource to find market research reports for a number of industries. The information in the reports is a mix of primary data collected by Mintel together with secondary source information.

Danforth Campus access

NBER-National Bureau of Economic Research
A cornucopia of links to statistical information from a wide variety of sources prepared by the NBER. Emphasis is on U.S. but some other country data is also available.
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Danforth Campus access
New York Times, Historical (1851 - 2003)
Full-text. Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Plunkett Plunkett Research
Plunkett Research offers business intelligence, industry trends, statistics, market research, sales leads & corporate profiles in your choice of formats and access plans.

RDS Business Reference Suite
A combination of three separate services:

1. Business & Industry - a major resource for marketing students. Contains abstracts and full text articles from hundreds of trade publications. Excellent source for market share information(also see Market Share Reporter in the reference section of the library:REF HG4636 M37) plus product, company and industry information;

2. TableBase - another important source for marketing students. Contains thousands of tables on such subjects as market share, company and brand rankings, demographics, etc.;

3. Business and Management Practices - a good starting point for students doing research in management and organizational issues

Danforth Campus access
Regional Business News
This database provides 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. This database is updated on a daily basis.
ria
Password required.
See Reference Librarian
RIA
Complete libraries of Federal, State, Local and International tax research materials. PLEASE NOTE: This site requires a password at this time. Please see the Reference Librarian for help.

Danforth Campus access
Science Direct
Science Direct offers access to over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals, as well as hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works. While this database is best known for its collections in Science, Technology and Medicine, there is also strong coverage of journals in Business, Management and Accounting, Decision Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance.
Sorkins
Business School access only
Sorkins
Company profiles and Business lists including multiple levels of executives and managers from all industries and professions throughout the Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City regions.

Danforth Campus access
Sourceoecd
SourceOECD is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's online library of statistical databases, books and periodicals. For country specific information, use the search box at the top of the page and choose 'Country Reports and Tables' from the dropdown menu. One of the most useful features of this service is the option of clicking on a chart or graph in a PDF file and downloading an Excel table with the background data from which the chart or graph was made.

Danforth Campus access
Special Issues
Specialissues.com is a solution for tracking and finding industrial and trade magazine special issues. Specialissues.com is an online database of editorial calendars, special issues and content "mined" from trade and industrial magazine websites.

SBRnet


Danforth Campus access
Sports Business Research Network
SBRnet is a service focusing on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. It's mission is to provide a continuously updated resource featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry…sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing.
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Standard & Poors NetAdvantage
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage includes all of the popular S&P publications. Among them are their Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, The Outlook, Mutual Funds and more.

Danforth Campus access
Survey of Current Business
A U.S. Department of Commerce monthly publication that provides data on U.S. business on the regional, national, and international levels. Among statistical series covered are personal income, inventories and sales, national income and product accounts, foreign direct investment in the United States, U.S. direct investment abroad, international transactions, and gross state product.


Business School access only
Thomson Research
This site contains comprehensive corporate filings(annual reports, 10-Ks, proxies, prospectuses and more) as well as 10-year downloadable financial data for virtually all public companies traded on U.S. exchanges and many companies traded on foreign exchanges. The Compact D and Worldscope databases are located on this site as are the Extel reports and earning forecasts from I/B/E/S.
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Business School access only
ValueLine
This includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
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Danforth Campus access
Wall Street Journal, Historical (1889 - 1989)
Full-text. Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Danforth Campus access
World Competitiveness Online
This database includes all the information from the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations, published since 1989. NOTE: not available from off-campus; publisher recommends using Internet Explorer.
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