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    Business and Economics Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books in: Economics, 330-339; Accounting & Management, 650-659.

    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Full text of Business News from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires & transcripts; Companies financial data; find companies based on a variety of criteria; full text of SEC Filings, including annual reports; Industry News; Accounting journals & literature; and Directories.
      • Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.

    Full-text Business and Economics Articles

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
    • Business Source Premier (Ebsco)
      • Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text). Mainly 1990 to present, but dates vary with the journal.
      • Business Source Premier indexes and abstracts over 2,130 business journals and magazines, 1400 of which are in full text, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database with about 2000 titles indexed and 900 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Project Muse Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
      • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
      • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
    • Science Direct
      • Full-text articles from a variety of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals. Includes a section for Business, Management and Accounting.
    • Brookings Institution
      • Public policy books published by this think tank. Searchable.
    • National Academy Press
      • Search or browse over 1,500 books online in science, engineering, health, and technology, including industry and economics.
    • NBER Publications (National Bureau of Economic Research)
      • Some publications are available full text, others only the abstracts.
    • World Development Sources
      • Citations to over 6,000 World Bank reports, many of which are available in full text.

    Individual Business and Economic Journals with Full-text
    Note: Some of these journals may also be available from the databases above.

    • HighWire Press (Stanford University)
      • Full-text science archive. Develops and maintains Web versions of journals in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and social sciences. Cannot search for articles.
    • Serials Online (Internet Public Librarian)
      • Links to full-text business and economics journals, magazines, etc. Cannot search for articles.
    • WebEc: List of Economics Journals
      • Extensive list of links to journals' homepages, some with full-text articles, and a few can be searched.

    Economics and Management Indexes with Citations

    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • Social Sciences Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes 521 journals in anthropology, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, minority studies, public policy areas, psychiatry, psychology, social work, sociology, and urban studies.
      • 2/1983 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format: 4/1974 to 12/1991; (Call number: Index 300 S678).
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.
    • Wiley Interscience
      • Search all John Wiley & Sons' journals, 1996 to present.
      • Citations and abstracts.

    Banking

    Companies Information

    • Value Line Investment Survey Online
      • Only the Investment Survey Online is available.
      • Provides brief description and analysis of 1700 companies and their financial performance, including key financial measures. Also gives projections of future performance.
      • Can search by company or by industry.
      • Reports in PDF format.
    • Print version of the Value Line Investment Survey.
      • (Call number: R 332.6 V215)
    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Companies' SEC filings.
    • EDGAR Database
      • Documents filed by public companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from January 1994 to present. Annual reports, prospectuses, etc. Note: Only documents submitted to the EDGAR system in either plain text or HTML are official filings; PDF documents are unofficial copies of filings.
    • CompaniesOnline
      • Search for websites of over 100,000 private and public companies. Also gives basic contact information of these companies.
    • CorporateInformation
      • Companies and industries profiles and analysis. Good site.
    • Hoovers Online
      • Company and industry information. The Web site also includes information on money management, career development, news, and business travel.
      • Hoover's Handbook of American Business.
      Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies.
      Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies.
      Hoover's Handbook of World Business.
      (Call number: R 338.7 H789)
      Hoover's Masterlist of Major International Companies.
      (Call number: R 338.7 H7892)
    • Report Gallery (Cornerstone Investor Relations)
      • Links to annual reports of publicly-traded American and international companies.
    • Standard Corporation Descriptions. Standard and Poor's.
      • (Call number: R 332.6 S785A) Information about publicly-traded companies.
    • Stock Reports. Standard and Poor's.
      • (Call number: R 332.6 S785s) Information about publicly-traded companies.
    • Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
      • Contact information, very brief company description and list of products of American and Canadian industrial companies. Can search under the company name, product, service or brand. Requires a free sign up.
    • Yahoo! Finance

    Currencies

    Economics

    Financial Information

    • Dow Jones Averages
      • Explanations and latest readings of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, DJ Transportation Average, DJ Utility Average, and the DJ 20 Bond Average, as well as recent dividends and stock splits of companies in the averages. Can also find the high, low, close, and component listing at market close for Dow Jones Averages from May 26, 1896 to present. Historical charts from 1895 to present are also available.
    • New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance. Edited by Peter Newman, et. al. 3 vols. Macmillan Press, 1992.
      • (Call number: R 332.03 N532)
    • Print version of the Value Line Investment Survey.
      (Call number: R 332.6 V215)

    Financial Terms
    Dewey call number for Dictionaries of Finance: 332.03-332.4

    Industries

    • Print version of the Value Line Investment Survey.
      • (Call number: R 332.6 V215)
    • Industry Surveys. Standard and Poor's.
      • (Call number: R 332.6 S785i) Library keeps only the latest edition.
    • U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
      • Latest edition is kept in Refernce (call number: R 338.0973 U58);
        older editions are in the Government Documents section (SUDOCS number: C61.48).
      • An industry-by-industry overview of the U.S. economy. Formerly, the U.S. Industrial Outlook.
      • Hoover Library carries 1977, 1981 to 1994, 1998 to present.
      • Can download individual chapters for a fee from NTIS Products.

    Industry Classifications

    Maryland Business and Economics

    • Harris Maryland Manufacturers Directory. Twinsburg, OH: HarrisInfoSource.
      • (Call number: R 338.09752 H313) Library keeps latest edition only. Annual publication.
    • ChooseMaryland.org (Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development)
      • Designed for businesses or people interested in starting a business in Maryland. Information on business certifications, licensing, permits, tax, technology resources, workforce resources, financing resources, marketing, county demographics, and business assistance programs. Searchable.

    Business News

    Stock Exchanges