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- Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new window This database provides company profiles, SWOT reports, financial data, industry statistics, as well as news coverage of major business events and trends from 1980 to present. It also contains a glossary of business terms.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window Business Source Complete provides indexing for over 5,000 business journals, trade publications, and magazines, including full text for over 3,800 titles, of which nearly 2,000 are peer-reviewed journals. This database offers information in management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. It contains market research reports, industry reports, country economic reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
- EconLit This link opens in a new window EconLit provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. It is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969.
- Emerald eJournal Collection This link opens in a new window Full-text access to nearly 150 journals. The majority of journal titles are in the social sciences and business, covering such fields as management, marketing, accounting, finance, industrial management, public administration, criminal justice, and library and information science.
- Mergent Online (10 user limit) This link opens in a new window Provides financial information on over 10,000 U.S. companies and 20,000 non-U.S. companies, as well as industry information for world-wide industries.
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Reference Databases
- APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology This link opens in a new window The American Psychological Association handbook covers current changes and implications for the practice of industrial and organizational psychology.
- Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics (1 user only) This link opens in a new window Provides nearly 4,000 definitions on all aspects of statistics, including theoretical, survey, applied, and medical. Also includes short biographies of over 100 important statisticians
- CCH Tax Research Network This link opens in a new window An online tax research service from Commerce Clearing House which includes federal and state tax reporters, as well as IRS publications. Coverage is current and updates vary according to the publication.
- Cost of Living Index This link opens in a new window Provides up-to-date income and cost comparisons for over 300 urban areas in the U.S., including housing, utilities, transportation, health care, groceries, and other goods and services.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new window This is the most current and authoritative summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
- USA Trade Online This link opens in a new window Contains specific U.S. export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities worldwide, with at least ten years of annual files available.
