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Business Research Guides by Topic  

ABI/INFORM Global
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index with abstracts & some full-text of scholarly journal articles in business, marketing and management, 1971 - present.

Associations Unlimited
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Directory of over 400,000 U.S. and international membership associations.
BELL: The Business Ethics Links Library
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) The database provides access to codes of ethics for U.S. companies and trade and professional associations, ethics sites at college and university business programs, industry information resources, and company promotion of social responsibility covering such topics as arts assistance, environmental clean up, charitable giving and community programming.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures worldwide.
Biography Index
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index to individual and collective biographies (2000/yr) and biographical information in about 3000 English-language periodicals, 7/1984 to present.
BNA Tax Management Library
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Provides primary and secondary sources on taxes, including the Internal Revenue Code, tax regulations, federal tax cases and court decisions, current legislation, tax treaties, federal and state tax forms, and expert analysis from tax professionals.  
Business & Company Resource Center
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index w/ abstracts and some full-text of articles in 1300 trade and business magazines, 1980 to present; investment reports on industries and companies;  rankings; directory of profiles of 100,000+ public and private U.S. companies. REPLACES General BusinessFile ASAP.
Business & Industry (RDS)
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index of full-text articles in trade & business magazines, newsletters, newspapers, 1995 to present.
Business & Management Practices
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index of full-text journal and trade publication articles that focus on practical aspects and approaches in business management, 1995 to date.
Business Index ASAP
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Academic and business journals with full text and images, covering finance, acquisitions & mergers, international trade, money management, new technologies & products, local & regional business trends, investments and banking, and in-depth research on management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices, as well as on the activities of companies and industries worldwide. 1980 - present.  
Business Knowledge Research
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Database of Conference Board research reports in business management and on US and global economic issues.

Business Plans Handbook

(Campus-wide/Remote Access) This twelve volume set provides access to a collection of 24 actual business plans per volume compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses in North America. Plans are from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries, with company names and addresses changed. Also includes a business plan template, two fictional business plans, a listing of organizations, agencies, and consultants; a glossary; and an updated bibliography. To search all volumes use the search box in the upper left corner.

Please select the volume you wish to search: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Business Reference Suite
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Access to Business and Industry, Business and Management Practice, and Tablebase.  
Business Source Complete
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Business periodical database that includes full text and abstracts fromover 1200 scholarly journals and business periodicals covering topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. 1990 - present. (indexing and abstracts back as far as 1886 are also included). Also includes SWOT analyses.
CCH  Internet Research NetWork
(Business Library only) Full-text U.S. & state statute/regulatory information on securities, banking, trade, government contracts, telecommunications, information technology, federal energy guidelines, transportation (aviation) and products liability & safety.
CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Current full-text tax news; U.S. Federal and State tax publications; U.S. business entity planning information; international tax information.

Chemical Market Reporter (ICIS)

ICIS, part of Reed Business Information (RBI), provides access to the full text of a series of publications that focus on the chemical and oil industry, including the Chemical Market Reporter. Use restricted to current CU Boulder campus students and faculty. Password on reserve under "Library." NOTE: This subscription does NOT include chemical pricing or pricing history.

CHINOOK Online Catalog
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Search the electronic catalog for materials owned by the campus libraries.
Choices III / Simmons Market Research Bureau
(Business Library Only) See Simmons Market Research Bureau for database description. 
Conference Board's research reports
See Business Knowledge Research
CorpTech
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Directory of 50,000+ U.S. public and private high-tech companies.
E-Journal Finder
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Locate electronic version of journals through University Libraries' subscriptions, including full-text databases.
EconLit
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index w/ abstracts of articles in journals, books, dissertations and working papers in economics and finance, 1969 - present.
E-Marketer
(Campus Access Only) Access to approximately 80 reports published every year on e-commerce and Internet demographics (and all the reports published over the past 10 years), as well as some 60,000 articles and charts.
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database (GMID)
(Access fo CU Staff, Faculty and Students only) Extensive statistical marketing, business and economic information for over 200 countries.

EIU Viewswire

This publication os now available in Factiva ; The subscription to EIU Riskwire has been cancelled, however you can find EIU

Risk Briefing in Factiva.

FACTIVA
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) A Dow Jones & Reuters Company, Factiva provides global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires.  Factiva offers a single content solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages, including more than 120 continuously updated newswires.  More than 900 of these sources are available on or before the date of publication.

FASB Accounting Statemements
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Full Text, Summaries, and Status (Including Concepts Statements—Full Text and Status) 1973 - Present.
Frost and Sullivan
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Database of market research reports and forecasts. Strong in medical and information & communication technology (ICT) research. NOTE:Frost and Sullivan may require user sign-in. If the 'Sign In' menu option in the top right corner is activated, you will be prompted to enter your first and last name, as well as a valid University of Colorado email address.
Global Market Information Database (GMID) see Euromonitor

Google Scholar

Access Google Scholar.

Global Development Finance Online (World Bank)
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) 219 indicators that cover external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections for 138 countries. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Data can be exported in Excel or ASCII format.
Hoover's Online
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Provides company profiles, corporate directory (searchable by company name, industry, ticker symbol, sales, location), market quotes, and business news. Includes Hoover's company profile database. Additional information includes lists of officers, short biographies, and corporate financial data.
InfoTrac Small Business Collection
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) For business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find 250 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
International Monetary Fund - International Financial Statistics
(Campus-wide /Remote access) IMF publications includes IMF Country Staff Reports, beginning with 97/101, IMF Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment, beginning with PPAA/97/01- , and IMF Working Papers, 1997- .
Investext Plus
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Full text analyst reports on both companies and industries.

JSTOR Business Collection

The forty-seven online titles in the Business Collection are drawn from Arts & Sciences I, II, and IV. The collection brings together core titles in economics and finance, including many publications from the leading scholarly societies, with a range of critical research journals in accounting, labor relations, marketing, management, operations research, and risk assessment. Coverage Varies. Access from Vol. 1 to approximately 3-5 years ago when applicable.

KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. EMS Database
(Campus-wide/Remote Access - only on computers with full Microsoft Access installed) Microsoft Access database of corporate envivornmental policy that includes information about EMS policies and auditing and internal practices searchable by company name. To access the database, users must agree to the user license, open the data file, and also agree to the "WinZip License" when it appears on the screen. Users with Microsoft Access 2003 will get error messages unless security is disabled. NOTE: Data was last updated by KLD in 2002. For the most recent data, please access Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS).
KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. Corporate Ratings Spreadsheet
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Excel spreadsheet of KLD corporate Ratings. To access the spreadsheet, users must agree to the user license, open the data file, and also agree to the "WinZip License" when it appears on the screen. (NOTE: If file is locked, click "Read Only" to open.)
KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. Socrates
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Covers issues related to community, diversity, employee relations, environment, non-US operations, products, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, nuclear power and military contracting on over 1,600 companies. The profiles also have social ratings evaluating each company's strengths and concerns.
LexisNexis (Classic)
(Business Library Dedicated Terminals) Searchable full-text news, directory and other information for business and law. 20,000+ sources, most 1980s - present. Difficult search interface.
LexisNexis Academic
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Searchable full-text newspapers, directory and other information for business and law.   5000+ sources, 1985 - present. Provides access to corporate 10K and Annual reports (1994 - present), national and international business news, and legal research.
LexisNexis Statistical
(Campus-wide/RemoteAccess) Index w/ detailed descriptions of 100,000+ U. S. federal and state government and private statistical publications.
Mergent Online
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Current Mergent (Moody's) U.S. (10,000+) and foreign (12,000+) company information, annual reports to shareholders (1997 to date), searchable SEC EDGAR filings (1993 to date) and Country Profiles.
Mergent Webreports
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) An online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries.

Mintel Market Reports
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) The Mintel Reports database provides market research containing information on consumer trends, demographic profiles, brand share dynamics and market drivers. There are over 800 individual reports now available in 13 categories, with data covering US and select International Markets. Users can conduct keyword searching by company, topic, industry, product and more.

National Trade Data Bank (NTDB)
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Statistical country and international market information from U.S. federal agencies.
New York Times (Current)
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) News coverage from the New York Times. Coverage: January 1, 1999-Present.
New York Times Archive
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) News coverage from the New York Times. Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2001.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Provides information about prospective changes in the world of work and the qualifications that will be needed by future employees. Summarizes approximately 250 occupations and includes information on the nature of the work, work conditions, employment statistics, training, education, advancement, job outlook for the next 10 years, earnings, related occupations, and addresses of organizations to contact for more information.
PROMT
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology database. Provides data on companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports. Coverage: 2000 - Present.
ProQuest Historical Annual Reports
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Over 800 companies' annual reports (1844-current) available through searchable pdf images. The collection includes digital reporductions of over 1.3 million pages found in more than 43,000 reports. Key data (financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, and related companies) are indexed in the citation and can be searched. Reports can be browsed by company name, industry or date. Cross-searchable to other historical periodical databases.
ProQuest Newsstand
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index w/ full-text of articles in Wall Street Journal and 500+ other major U.S. and international newspapers, news wires and other news sources. Date coverage varies.
PsycINFO
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index w/ citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, covering psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, anthropology, business, and law.
The Red Books
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Directories of 24,000 advertisers and 13,500 advertising agencies, U.S. and international.
ReferenceUSA
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Directory of about 11 million U.S. public and private companies; Directory of 120 million+ U.S. households.

RefWorks

(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Personal Database and Bibliography Creator.

Regional business news

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.

Simmons Market Research Bureau (using Choices III software)
(Business Library Only) Contains media audience and market survey data collected through interviews and questionnaires covering consumer product, media, and lifestyle preferences.Utilized to determine the probable audience for certain products or services. Access to Simmons is available from the START button on the library computers in room 200 and 100. PLEASE NOTE: there is a restriction of three users at a time in library room 200, and only one user at a time in library room 100.
Social Sciences Citation Index: Web of Science
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index of articles and their bibliographic citations from 1700 U.S. and foreign journals; author abstracts for 60% of entries. 1974 - date.
Socrates
See KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. Socrates
Sports Business Research Network
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Database of full text and statistical market research and industry news on all aspects of sporting goods, sports equipment, participation, broadcasting, and marketing from U.S. and international journals, newsletters, government reports, trade association reports. 1996 - present.
SRDS Online
(Business Library only) Directories with advertising rates, contact info and circulation/audience audit data for magazines, newspapers, radio stations, Internet sites and marketing list vendors. Use restricted to current UCB students and faculty. Password on reserve under "Library."
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Database of U.S. and some foreign corporations, U.S. stocks, mutual funds, bonds and industries from ten S&P's publications. Latest year.
Standard & Poor's Research Insight
(Business Library Only) Working directly through an Excel Add-in, Research Insight on the Web allows you to create custom financial models including charts, reports and templates. The web-based database is updated daily for key financial data such as company fundamentals, market prices and corporate actions. The analytical engine provides ratios, expression language for reporting and flexible screening items for S&P Index membership, industry, valuations, profitability and geographic areas. PLEASE NOTE: Access is through Excel using dedicated computers in the library and Learning Commons.
Statistical Absracts of the United States
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) 1878 - present. Statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the U.S.
Stat-USA
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Economic and trade data from U.S. government agencies.
TableBase
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index with full data of tables/graphs/charts from U.S. and international business magazine articles and other statistical sources, mid-1990s to present.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Directory of products/services of 173,000 U.S. and Canadian companies.

UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)

(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Annual international trade statistics, provided by over 130 countries, detailed by commodity and partner country to the United Nations; all values are converted in US dollars and metric units, the coverage dates as far back as 1962.

ValueLine Investment Survey Online and Research Center

(Business building only)

Provides financial information about large and mid-cap U.S. public companies, including historical financials and forecasted projections, market performance, analyst consensus, beta, key ratios, business description, and commentary on current operations and future prospects. Also includes one page reports for each industry group.

Wall Street Journal [current/Eastern edition]
Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index with full-text of articles in The Wall Street Journal, 1984 to present, and in 300+ other major U.S. and international newspapers, news wires and other news sources.
Wall Street Journal Archive
(via ProQuest Direct)
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Index w/ full-page article images from The Wall Street Journal, 1889 to 1987.
Wall Street Transcript
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Full-text interviews with investment analysts, CEOs of public companies and investment money managers. Each issue covers an industry in depth. (2000 to the present).
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
(Business Library only) Historical financial information for major companies, banks, government bonds & stock exchanges; economic data, 1929-  & business cycle indicators, 1959-  . Use restricted to current CU Boulder campus students and faculty.
Who's Who
(Campus-wide/RemoteAccess) Current biographies of all individuals who appeared in Marquis print titles since 1985, including Who’s Who in Finance & Business. One of the most comprehensive source for brief biographical information.

World Bank e-Library
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) World Bank E-Library allows users to access The World Bank Publication's entire output since the beginning of April 2000 plus all new documents. While there isn't an exact date range for the content, the oldest documents are circa the late 1980s. As of January 2004, over 1200 titles of reports, books and documents are included in the E-Library. Statistical documents like the World Development Indicators and Global Development finance are available as PDF files as well.

World Development Indicators Online (World Bank)
(Campus-wide/Remote Access) Contains statistical data for 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2000 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Data export available in Excel and ASCII format.

     
 
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