Business / Management Databases

Search all three mostly full-text ABI/INFORM business, finance, and management databases.
Coverage: 1971 - current

ABI/INFORM Dateline delivers over 175 journals, with more than 165 available in full text. Research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies, and other topics from a local and regional perspective. Dateline includes major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, and wire services along with hard-to-find local and regional business publications.
Coverage: 1985 - current

ABI/INFORM Global includes over 2,830 publications, with more than 1,850 available in full text, covering business conditions and trends; management techniques, practice and theory; and corporate strategy and tactics. Included is the Archive that contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective on hundreds of topics, including corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, product development, and industry conditions worldwide.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry includes in-depth more than 1,240 publications, with over 1,150 in full-text, covering companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics.

Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, covering all aspects of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Coverage: 1922 - current

Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals as well as more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country economic reports from the EIU, company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies and SWOT analyses.

Editorial content and analysis covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Icludes information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

Hoover's Company Records provides up-to-date and comprehensive business information including Company overviews, histories, officers and board members, competitors, products, rankings, and historical financials. Plus, With IntelliDocs™ technology, users can put company information in context by linking directly from articles in other ProQuest databases to Hoover's Company Records. It identifies and hyperlinks all mentioned company names. When you click on a company link, Hoover's data for that company is immediately displayed.

Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers.
Coverage: 1971-current

ProQuest Accounting & Tax includes nearly 2,200 titles, as well as IASB, AICPA, and FASB accounting standards. It’s national and international in scope, providing information on accounting policies and standards, state and national legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management. This database is the exclusive source for the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). IASB consists of 31 active standards ranging from accounting policies, revenue, assets, financial statements, joint ventures, cash flow, and more.

Offers up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies.

Business & Company Resource Center provides business, company, and industry content in the following areas:
* Periodical articles, news articles, and press releases
* Detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures
* Company financials and earning estimates
* Investment reports
* Corporate chronologies and company histories
* Brands and product information
* Industry and company rankings
* Market Share data
* Industry Overviews
* HR Law Case Digests

Provides enhanced searching and browsing capabilities for Companies Profiles, Country Reports, Industry Profiles, and Market Research.
Coverage: 1922 - current

Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals as well as more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country economic reports from the EIU, company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies and SWOT analyses.

Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, covering all aspects of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Coverage: 1969 - current

the American Economic Association’s electronic database, EconLit, provides links to full text 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. It also includes abstracts of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge University Press. These sources bring the total records available in the database to more than 785,000.

Full-text access to over 100 journals covering a variety of disciplines, mostly in the areas of Management and Marketing.
Coverage: varies.

Some full text that covers the latest in management, economics and politics from newspapers, journals, brokerage reports and company directory listings.
Coverage: 1980 - current

General Business File ASAP is a subset of the Gale OneFile database. It contains abstracts and some full text from business newspapers, magazines, and journals covering topics such as finance, acquisitions & mergers, trade, money management, and investments & banking. Use it to analyze company performance and activity, research industry events and trends, broker research reports, and over 150,000 company directory listings.

Provides U.S. and international company financial information, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. Search features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income and number of employees.

LexisNexis Academic offers full-text access to hundreds of major business and legal journals, magazines, and major U.S. and international newspapers such as the New York Times. Country, tax, medical, federal and state legal information can also be accessed. Besides Business, the database also contains three other categories that can be searched separately or in combination:
"News" provides full-text access to more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including the Financial Times (dating back to 1982), The New York Times (dating back to 1980) and The Washington Post (dating back to 1977); over 300 major magazines and journals; and broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks.
"Legal" includes primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations along with legal news and law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic.
"People" offers biographies and obituaries of people in the news, government, and industry.

Financial information and research from Standard & Poor's about companies, industries and countries.

Marketsight includes fundamental data on approximately 10,000 active U.S. companies and 14,000 inactive companies plus over 14,000 global companies from 80 countries that can all be accessed directly within Excel spreadsheets using Excel Analytics. Also included are company business descriptions, financial snapshots and historical corporate actions covering items such as mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, and name and ticker changes. S&P's Industry Surveys, written by S&P's equity analysts, reveal industry trends, key ratios, statistics and more on over 90 industry segments.
COMPUSTAT Peer Group reports identifies a company's 10 closest peers, based on sales, within the S&P industry group. And EDGAR offers a comprehensive collection of filings that companies file with the SEC.

Full-text complete access to hundreds of Oxford Companion reference books and dictionaries covering all subjects world wide with an emphasis on English-speaking countries.

Oxford Reference Online Premium is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 170 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Search either the entire site or any of the 19 subject-specific collections. Also included are collections of quotation reference books, map images, and timelines broken down by theme or country.

A single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government.

STAT-USA/Internet consists of two main databases:

State of the Nation (SOTN) is a repository of economic indicators on topics such as employment, wholesale and retail prices, monetary and housing trends, gross domestic product, etc.

Global Business Opportunities (GLOBUS) & the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) offer access to over 200,000 current and historical documents on export opportunities by industry, country, and product; political and socio-economic conditions in hundreds of countries; and much more!

STAT-USA/Internet also includes information from non-federal sources such as the Institute for Supply Management and Cantor/Fitzgerald, among others.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Offers full-text coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
Coverage: 1984 - current

Comprehensive, high-quality indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas, so researchers can easily access not only top news stories but also detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and popular culture. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, and letters to the editor from well-known people are indexed. For each article cited in the database, an abstract of up to 75 words helps the researcher know if the complete text will meet his or her needs.

Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: July 8, 1889 - Dec 31, 1989

The database covers The Wall Street Journal from its first issue in 1889 through 2003. Coverage includes not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.

A searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image. Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc.

Contains 600 detailed articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners, including financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.
Coverage: 2nd edition 2002

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Full-text complete access 5 dictionaries covering accounting, economics, finance, and management plus a handbook on international financial terms.
Coverage: Publication dates 1997 - 2006

Oxford Reference Online Premium is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 170 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Search either the entire site or any of the 19 subject-specific collections. Also included are collections of quotation reference books, map images, and timelines broken down by theme or country.

Complete full-text access to over 1,600 fully searchable books, articles, and videos from premier industry publishers.
Coverage: 2005 - current

Safari Tech Books Online publishers include O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Adobe Press, Macromedia Press, Cisco Press, Que, Sams, Sun Microsystems Press, Microsoft Press, IBM Press, MySQL Press, and more.

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Guidance on best resources for Business and Management research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.