Guest Databases for Business, Economics, Finance, and Marketing
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Databases by subject
Specific database services
Databases marked "IN LIBRARY USE ONLY"
can be searched exclusively
from the Public Access/Gov Docs computers in the Library.
indicates a TexShare database
| Database | Description | Full Text | Service |
| Academic Search Complete
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. |  |
EBSCOhost |
| BigCharts | An investment charting and research web site that provides access to stock quotes, industry analysis, market news and commentary. | |
Free |
| Business & Company Resource Center
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provides company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies. It includes periodical articles, news articles, and press releases; investment reports; corporate chronologies and company histories; brands and product information; industry and company rankings; financial overviews; industry overviews; and HR law case digests | |
Gale |
| Business Source Complete
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for more than 4,100 journals, in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more | |
EBSCOhost |
| Communications Abstracts
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field | CIOS | |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915) | |
EBSCOhost |
| Dallas Morning News Historical Archive
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A unique historical digital image collection accessible by keyword and date searching. It documents major events in Texas, the United States, and the world, providing valuable primary source information. Classified and display advertising, photos and graphics are also included. | |
NewsBank |
| Economia y Negocios
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
The result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administraciósn de Negocios para Graduados), this continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics in Spanish. | |
EBSCOhost |
| Emerald Fulltext
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Collection of over 42,000 articles from over 100 of the most prestigious management journals, complete with full text archives dating back to 1994 and abstracts back to 1989. Emerald Fulltext covers all major management disciplines from marketing, human resources management, library and information management and quality to operations management and more. | |
Emerald |
| Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS)
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
FAITS covers IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and World Wide Web, as well as technology vendors. FAITS also links to technology and business news resources such as Nando Net, The New York Times, Financial Times, NewsBytes, and the BBC. | |
Faulkner Information Services |
| FRASER | The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER™) is a unique project of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that currently consists of over 40 thousand pages of historical economic data. FRASER consists of an archive of economic statistical publications and an automated system to retrieve both images and data. Within the archive is an image library of economic statistical publications and the data extracted from those publications. The FRASER database is designed to retain information linking each data point to its source publication, including the date of publication. The automated data retrieval system has been developed to allow users to select any desired subset of FRASER’s images and data. | |
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis/Gov |
| GAO Reports | Contains all publicly released reports ("blue books"), testimonies, correspondence, and special publications on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of Federal programs conducted by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) from FY 1995 to the present, as well as approximately 85% of the publicly released reports for FY 1994 and 3% for FY 1993. | |
Gov |
| Global Road Warrior
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provides comprehensive data on society and culture, communications, media (details on thousands of media outlets worldwide), travel (with more of a business perspective, but equally usable for personal travel), trade, business, money and banking (scans of all banknotes and coinage in worldwide circulation), country maps (9 proprietary downloadable maps per country) and more than 20 other topics, for 175 countries. | |
World Trade Press |
| InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Full text coverage of selected articles from over 100 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including Austin American-Statesman (1/96- ), Christian Science Monitor (1/96- ), Financial Times (1/98- ), Houston Chronicle (1/96- ), Knight Ridder/Tribune Business news (1/96- ), Los Angeles Times (1/96- ), and New York Times (rolling 365-day file) . | |
Gale/InfoTrac |
| JSTOR
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Online archive of non-current issues of scholarly journals. For the most part, the time interval between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of these journals varies between 3 and 5 years. | |
JSTOR |
| Mergent Dividend Record | Updated every Tuesday, this online resource provides the latest information on common and preferred dividend-paying stocks and mutual funds, stock dividends, stock splits and rights issues for more than 30,000 domestic and Canadian issues, as well as significant global equities and American Depository Receipts | |
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| Mergent Online
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provides web-based access to detailed corporate financial histories (including capital changes) and operational histories. It also details property, subsidiaries, officers/directors, long-term debt, financial statements, capital stock, and financial statements and ratio analysis. Includes links to news headlines and annual reports | |
Mergent |
| Nation Master | A massive, yet easy to use, source of facts, statistics, charts, and maps on every country in the world, compiled from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OEC. | |
Free |
| O*Net | Database from the Labor Dept. gives information on job and worker characteristics and occupations. Includes career exploration and assessment tools | |
Gov |
| Regional Business News
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world. Included in this database are A&G Information, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, and Canadian Corporate News. | |
EBSCOhost |
| STAT-USA/Internet
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Accessible only from computers in the Library Reference Area. Ask at the Reference desk for login information.
A service of the Commerce Dept., this database is the authoritative source of information from the Federal government for the U.S. business, economic and trade community. Includes State of the Nation and GLOBUS & NTDB. State of the Nation concerns the United States' domestic economy and provides current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data GLOBUS (Global Business Opportunities) offers daily trade leads from the Trade Opportunities Program (TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture, and daily procurement activity from the Defense Logistics Agency, the United Nations, and the Commerce Business Daily leads. NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) provides access to Country Commercial Guides, Market Research reports, Best Market reports, the International Trade Library, and other programs. |
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Gov |
| ThomasNet | An industrial search engine that provides industrial buyers one source for finding the exact product, service, or supplier they need, as well as direct access to the detailed information they need to make a purchasing or specifying decision, including line-item product details, CAD drawings, and more. | |
Thomas Industrial Network |
| Thomas Register | Comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America. From this Web site users can place orders online, view and download millions of Computer Aided Design (CAD) drawings, and view thousands of online company catalogs and websites | |
Thomas Publishing Company |
| Value Line Investment Survey | Accessible online from computer terminals in the library. Ask at the Reference desk for more information. The "Ratings & Reports" section presents full-page, individual stock reports (encapsulating the company's past performance, current status, and outlook) and industry reviews. The "Summary & Index" provides a key to locating the latest quarterly and supplementary reports and cites the most recent data on each of the stocks followed. Finally, "Selection & Opinion," a feature section, gives Value Line's views on the economy and the stock market and on stocks of special interest. It also provides model portfolios for investors with various objectives and a number of economic and stock-market statistics. The Value Line Investment Survey, however, provides more than just descriptive information. For each stock in its universe it offers year-ahead and three- to five-year probable relative price performance, projections of key financial measures, and concise, objective commentary on current operations and future prospects. | |
Value Line |
| Vocational and Career Collection
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals. | |
EBSCOhost |
| Wiley InterScience®
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provide full-text access to journal articles in the fields of business; chemistry; computer science; earth and environmental science; education; engineering; law; life sciences; mathematics and statistics; medicine and healthcare; physics and astronomy; polymers and materials science; psychology; and social sciences. | |
Wiley |
