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ABI/Inform - Business, Trade & Industry News | Usage Help
Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.

ABI/Inform Dateline - Business News | Usage Help
Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.

ABI/Inform Global - Business Research | Usage Help
Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal.

Books 24x7: Business Pro | Usage Help
This database contains books which cover all aspects of corporate performance support, professional development and key business topics with content from the industry's leading business publishers, such as Project Management Institute, Jossey-Bass, Harvard Business School Publishing, Oxford University Press and many more.

Business - ProQuest Research Library | Usage Help
Search periodicals on business subjects such as economics, personal finance, marketing, and more in this ProQuest Research Library module.

Business Abstracts - Wilson | Usage Help
A full text database that provides convenient access to a multitude of outstanding sources from The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal to magazines and scholarly journals. With Quality abstracting and indexing of more than 850 publications, users will find feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more. Over 600,000 corporate names with cross-references to specific industries and countries are included, as well.

Business Insight Unlimited | Usage Help
Made available via Reuters. Includes strategic analysis reports authored by independent experts on the following key market sectors: Consumer Markets, Healthcare, Energy, Financial Services, and Technology.

Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) | Usage Help
program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services. Click here for Archived CPI News releases (1994 to the present)

Euromonitor: GMID | Usage Help
Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.

Faulkners Advisory on IT Studies (FAITS) | Usage Help
A comprehensive resource focusing on information technology. Features management tutorials, marketplace reports, product profiles, company directories, and product selection guides that present in-depth analyses of key trends and technologies shaping the rapidly evolving information management sector. Includes issues of Information Advisor and The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research.

First Research | Usage Help - NEW
Provides industry profiles on Construction and Real Estate; Public Services; Education; Recreation; Finance and Insurance; Retail; Food and Agriculture; Services; Healthcare; Manufacturing; Technology and Communications; Transportation; Energy; Storage; and Wholesale. Each topic features reports on specific industry sectors and occupational areas, reviewing the competitive landscape, products, operations & technology, sales & marketing approaches, employment projections and more. First Research State & Province Profiles deliver quarterly employment, real estate and business trends in each of the 50 U.S. States, Washington, D.C. and 10 Canadian Provinces. Reports are updated quarterly.

GuideStar | Usage Help
Grant Writing 101: Resources for Grant Writers. This database include the titles of several recommended books, web resources, and tutorials focused on writing grants.

IEEE | Usage Help
The IEEE Computer Society Library Subscription Plan -- Electronic (CSLSP-e) includes online access to 22 research journals and technical magazines, plus more than 1,400 conference publications.

Investment Research | Usage Help
Made available via Zacks. Includes Stock and Mutual Fund investment information. A comprehensive source of highly detailed and very timely information for over 6,000 companies including company profiles, consensus estimates, annual income statements, annual balance sheets, and charts.

LEXIS/NEXIS | Usage Help
(coverage varies) Includes current company, industry and market, government, legal, medical, biographical, etc. information. Look here for SEC reports and filing, Hoover's company reports, stock reports and more. 4,500+ titles.

Los Angeles Times | Usage Help
Made available via ProQuest Newspapers. Includes the major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news.

Los Angeles Times: Historical Issues | Usage Help
Made available via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. The Los Angeles Times (1881-1984) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

MarketLine Business Information Centre (Reuter's) | Usage Help
Includes company profiles on leading global companies, containing Company & Business Description, History, Key Employees, Products & Services, Top competitors listing, Company View, Locations & Subsidiaries, SWOT analysis and Products & Services analysis. Also contains Industry Profiles, presenting the most important facts on key global vertical industries including: Overview & Size, Segmentation, Competitive Landscape, Leading Companies, Definitions & Key Terms and Forecasts. Country Profiles give you quick access to country data points, trends and analysis, including: A description of the country's economic performance and GDP, an assessment of the potential for development , detailed market and industry analysis of the country's business environment.

Mergent Online | Usage Help
TUTORIAL | Mergent Online offers a suite of information resources that enables in-depth business and financial research. Features U.S. and international company data and annual reports; financial ratios data, industry reports covering North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe and more.

Morningstar.com Library Edition | Usage Help
Morningstar is a premier investment database providing insight on stocks, mutual funds, variable annuities, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, separate accounts, and 529 college savings plans. The database features the independent opinions of Morningstar analysts on 1,000 stocks and 2,000 funds. Morningstar currently tracks more than 100,000 investment offerings worldwide.

Oxford Scholarship Online | Usage Help
Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,350 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level, and up to 200 new and recently-published books are added each year.

PAIS International | Usage Help
(1972-present; updated monthly) Contains abstracts from articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. 2,100+ titles

Rand California | Usage Help
RAND California is a subscription-based service on California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics. RAND California is sponsored by RAND, the nation's leading think tank.

ResearchNow | Usage Help - NEW
ResearchNow is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals and all working papers, preprints and other “grey literature” content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that have opted for inclusion, as well as subject-matter repository materials from the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive. ResearchNow also includes an XML gateway (see below) to expose indexed content to federated search engines. Readers can browse ResearchNow by subject area, or set up tailored email notifications of newly posted content.

Wall Street Journal | Usage Help
Made available via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. The Wall Street Journal (1889-1987) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Westlaw Campus Research | Usage Help - NEW
Campus Research is an online research service that provides a comprehensive collection of news, business, and law related information for students.

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