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database guides: entrepreneurship

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ABI/Inform Research (1971-present; much full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) is a scholarly business periodicals database. It covers nearly 1,400 North American sources, providing information on advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing, computers and more. It includes access to the Wall Street Journal and information on over 60,000 companies. The user intereface is provided by ProQuest.

Business and Company Resource Center (1980-present; XLinks) contains detailed company and industry news and information. It is a fully integrated resource that brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. It includes Market Share Reporter, Ward's Business Directory and numerous other directories and encyclopedias. It is produced by Thomson/Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac. This subscription permits only two simultaneous users.

Business Source Complete (some from 1886-present; updated daily; much full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals. It contains far more peer-reviewed, business-related journals than any other database currently available. It contains searchable cited references for 1,200 journals and 20,000 detailed author profiles. It covers all subject areas related to business, including management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, product reviews, industry profiles (Datamonitor reports), market research reports, country reports, company profiles (including Life Science Analytics (LSA) company profiles from the MedTRACK database),and SWOT analyses. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.

Demographics Now (all full-text; data) allows users to analyze the demographic and market potential of any geographic area in the U.S. It creates summary, comparison, ranking and radius-based reports by geographic area. Summary reports contain multiple user-defined variables for a single geographic area; comparison reports offer side-by-side comparisons of up to 16 geographic areas; ranking reports rank multiple geographic areas by the performance of specific user-defined variables such as gender, income, employment, housing value or household composition; radius reports makes it possible to summarize the entire area of a given radius or to compare multiple radii. Reports can be emailed or printed as an HTML page or PDF file. It also generates interactive and radius-based maps. It is produced by Thomson Gale and the user interface by SRC. To begin searching click the Get Started button.

Mergent Online (all full-text), formerly FIS Online, includes EDGAR documents, financial reports, industry reports by country, country profiles, company news and Moody's securities data. Industry reports include Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin American countries as well as those in North America. Each country's industry report includes a sector overview, leading companies, market outlook, sector performance, and mergers and acquisitions. Advanced searching permits users to target US, international, or private companies. It provides the ability to export company reports and financial data into Microsoft Excel, to search across multiple databases on different variables, and to compare reports of multiple companies. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Mergent.

Hoovers (updated daily; all full-text) provides comprehensive up-to-date information, data and news for 12 million companies and 40,000 industries. Users can search companies by name, ticker, stock quote, industry keyword, or executive name. Users can also browse companies by name, geographic location, or stock index. The business boneyard provides information about defunct companies. Advanced searching permits users to build company and executive lists, target IPO companies, screen stocks, build reports and customize news searches. Industry entries include most viewed companies, full company list, related industries, news, glossary, associations/organizations, web resources and SIC/NAICS codes. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Hoovers.

InfoTrac General BusinessFile ASAP (1980-present; much full-text; XLinks) indexes and abstracts over 900 journals and covers business and management topics as well as finance, trade, trends and new business technologies. It includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies and their INVESTEXT investment reports. It is produced by Thomson-Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac.

Investext Plus cancelled, see Business & Company Resource Center for company investment reports.

LexisNexis Academic (all full-text; RefWorks help) covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events, business and medicine. Legal research provides federal and state cases, Shepard's citations, federal and state codes, tax law, Canadian court cases and legislation, law reviews, and patents. Business research allows users to create company profiles, lists, and comparisons, as well as SEC filings, account and country profiles. Company reports can be created and data can be downloaded into spreadsheets. The People tab allows users to find obituaries, elected officials, and industry contacts. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by LexisNexis. (Interfaces: News; Power Search; Easy Search)

LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations cancelled, see the Business Research section of LexisNexis Academic.

Standard & Poors NetAdvantage (all full-text) is a resource for investment research and commentary. It includes Industry Surveys , Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, and The Outlook (1996-present). It contains news, credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data and valuations. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Standard & Poors.

Thomson ONE Banker (updated monthly; all full-text), formerly Thomson Research, Global Access, Disclosure and Compact Disclosure, this database provides research reports from over 980 leading firms and covers over 30,000 companies worldwide. It includes company profiles and spreadsheet-ready financials designed to your specifications. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Thomson Financial. This database does not work with the Firefox browser - use Internet Explorer. Upon loading this database may ask you to enable cookies and restart. You may be able to ignore this message.

Value Line Research Center (updated weekly; all full-text) includes access to leading investment publications covering stocks, mutual funds, daily options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. It contains ratings and reports on 1,700 companies and more than 90 industries, including stock rankings, screens, statistics, and the latest economic and market forecasts. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Value Line. To begin click the link in the sentence, To continue and log in, please click here. This subscription is limited to 6 simultaneous users.

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Business and Industry (1994-July 2006; much full-text; RefWorks help; video tutorial) covers company, product, and industry information, including manufacturing and service industries. It is produced by Thompson/Gale and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See Business Source Complete for more up-to-date information.

Cabell's Directories provides full-text directory information for business, education and psychology journal publications. Each journal entry includes submission information (editor’s name, address, phone, fax, email, web address); publication guidelines (manuscript length, copies required, format, fees, style, computer submission); circulation data (reader type, frequency, number of subscribers, publisher, price); review information (type of reveiws, number of in-house and external reviewers, acceptance rate, time it takes to review, percent of invited articles, reviewers coments, publishing fees); manuscript topics included; and manuscript guidelines. To begin searching click Members in the menubar. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Cabell Publishing, Inc.

CCH Tax Research Network covers tax news, research, preparation, accounting, audit, planning and practice management. To begin searching click the "Enter" button and then provide your Xavier email address.

Economia Negocios (1980s-present; updated continuously; some full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides coverage for more than 200 Spanish and Portuguese language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere. This bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics. Search functionality is enhanced through the incorporation of author keywords supplied in Spanish and English. It is produced by the ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados)and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.

LexisNexis Advertising Redbooks (all full-text) contains information on nearly 18,000 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. Each listing includes advertising expenditures by media, current agency, fiscal year-end and annual sales, contact information, brand names, S.I.C. classifications and other key data. It also contains profiles of nearly 14,000 U.S. and international advertising agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, breakdown of gross billings by media, and contact information on agency personnel. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by LexisNexis. This subscription is limited to 1 simultaneous user.

LexisNexis Statistical Publications & DataSets (exportable data; users guide) includes datasets from many sources, including the US government, international organizations, and the private sector. It covers all subject areas, including banking and finance, criminal justice and law, education, energy resources and demand, food and agriculture, government and politics, health and vital statistics, housing and construction, industry and commerce, international; labor and employment, natural resources and environment, population and income, prices and cost of living, stocks and commodities, and transportation and travel. Users can search datasets by keyword; browse datasets by subject or source; display datasets by trend, map or ranking; and output datasets in print, PDF, delimited, Excel or SAS formats. Datasets can be limited by date and geographic area (country, state, county). Years available varies by dataset; for example, births 1999-present and breast cancer 1973-present. It also features datasets currently in the news, such as crude oil price, 30-year fixed mortgage rate, airline on-time arrival rate, campaign contributions for both Obama and McCain, gasoline prices, the prime rate and the unemployment rate. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by LexisNexis. Click Customize Data to access the datasets. Users will need to run the Java installation.

Mintel Reports offers international market research reports covering US, EU & UK marketplaces. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Each report includes an introduction, abbreviations, executive summary, market drivers, market size & trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising & promotion, retail distribution, the consumer and future & forecast. There are three types of reports: consumer, life style and travel. Each report provides news updates and related reports. To access, click I Agree to Academic Conditions of Use and then users need to register and create a profile using their Xavier email account.

Oxford Reference Online, Economics and Business (all full-text; XLinks) is a cross-searchable database of 6 encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference works covering accounting, banking, business, economics, finance, human resource management and international financial terms. It is published by and the user interface is provided by Oxford University Press. This subscription is limited to 5 simultaneous users.

Regional Business News (last 30 days; updated daily; much full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks), formerly Business wire News, contains newswire information from all over the world. It indexes over 65 publications and provides full-text for over 50. It includes A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business Newswire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights. It covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.

Research Insight (campus only database; all full-text; tutorials for industry ratios & company reports), formerly Compustat, provides financial, statistical, and market data for U.S. and Canadian companies, business segments, geographic areas, and industry composites. It only includes information for publicly traded companies, both current and historical. It porvides 10 years of daily stock price data. Data can be exported and imported into MS Excel and is compatible with MS Vista & Office 2007. Produced by and the user interface provided by Standard & Poors. Users can access from any computer workstation (except laptops) in the library or in academic computing labs by clicking START | All Programs | Library Campus Databases.

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (1980-present; updated weekly; some full-text; RefWorks Help; tutorial; citation alerts; saving searches & creating alerts; journal titles) provides bibliographic information and cited references for over 1,700 social sciences journals. It covers anthropology, business, communication, demography, economics, education, ethnic studies, family studies, health policy, history, information & library science, international relations, law, management, nursing, political science, psychology, public administration, rehabilitation, social work, sociology, substance abuse, transportation, urban studies, women's studies. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Click Change Limits and Settings to search only this database. Click Register or Sign In to save searches and receive search history and citation alerts. Evidence-Based Practice Tip: To limit search results to articles with some level of evidence: Type your topic in the textboxes provided. Type your academic discipline (e.g., occupational therapy, social work, nursing) in the next available textbox. Type research in the next available textbox. Click the down arrow adjacent to the last two textboxes and select Topic. Having problems? Try accessing this database directly through OhioLINK.

Vente et Gestion (much full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides full-text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and the professional researcher. It covers topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, and technology. Formerly French Business Source, the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.

World Development Indicators (WDI) Online (1960-2005; all full-text) provides direct access to over 600 development indicators with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960-2005. Generated data can be imported into spreadsheets. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the World Bank Group.

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