Periodical Indexes
The following databases are periodical
indexes, offering citations and/or abstracts to articles and, in some cases, the articles
themselves. Information may be printed or downloaded to a floppy disk, or in most cases a USB drive (check with a
librarian for details).
Location, format, and holdings information follow each title.
ABI/INFORM CD-ROM/updated
monthly/1971-Feb. 2003
Provides citations, with abstracts, to articles in 900 U.S. and foreign business and
management periodicals.
Boston Globe
remote use/online/updated daily
Full text of the Boston Globe's staff-written news stories, features,
columns, and editorials. Articles can be printed, downloaded, or
e-mailed.
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Business & Industry
remote use/ online/updated daily/
Abstracts and some full-text, to articles from more than 1700
industry trade journals, business magazines, and newspapers. Worldwide coverage of a
variety of industries. Includes trends and forecasts, market share, merger and acquisition
details, demographics, and advertising campaigns.
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Business and Management Practices
remote use/ online/updated daily/
Full text articles from more than 1000 management sources. Includes information on how
companies and managers make decisions, implement new technology, plan for the future, and
expand.
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Business Dateline CD-ROM/updated monthly/1989-April 2005
Offers full-text of articles from 400 U.S. and Canadian local, state, and regional
business publications, including Boston Business Journal. Also covers the business pages
of daily newspapers, including the Boston Globe.
General Business File ASAP
remote use/online/updated daily/ 1980-Present Citations and abstracts to articles in more than
2500 business, management and trade journals. Approximately half of these journals have
full text coverage. Also included are more than 50,000 investment reports and indexing of
The Wall Street Journal.
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General Reference Center Gold
remote use/online/updated daily/1980-present
Citations and abstracts to more than 2,000 general interest magazines and newspapers,
1,200 of these in full text.
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RDS Business Reference Suite see:
Business & Industry, Business and Management Practices, Tablebase.
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Descriptive/Financial Information
The following databases offer descriptive and financial information on companies.
Information may be printed out and, in most cases, downloaded to a floppy disk or a USB drive (check with
a librarian for details).
CCH Capital Changes Reporter In
Library use only/Online/updated daily
A chronological history of a stock's changes in corporate capital structure, including
name changes, mergers, spin-offs, bankruptcy filings, stock splits, etc.
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Compact D/SEC CD-ROM/no longer published/1991-Oct. 2002
Includes corporate information filed with the SEC on over 14,000 companies traded on the
NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ, and Over-the Counter exchanges. Furnishes data culled from 10-K's,
10-Q's, proxies, Spectrum Ownership Files, and Zacks Earnings Estimates.
D&B Million Dollar Database remote use/online/updated daily
Marketing information provided for more than 14 million U.S. companies. Offers up to 35 searchable
fields such as D-U-N-S® number, SIC and NAICS codes, company size and sales, business type and age,
and contact criteria. Includes specialty information such as executive name lists and president
biographies.
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Disclosure Select: Top Companies Collection CD-ROM/no longer
updated/
This document retrieval system provides CD-ROM access to public company annual reports,
proxy statements, and SEC filings (10-K's & 20-F's) dated between 1996 and 1999. Over
7,000 companies from the NYSE, ASE, and NASDAQ are covered, including all "Fortune
1000" companies. Later Annual Reports can be found in the Mergent Online database.
Gale Virtual Reference Library remote use/online/
Electronic versions of popular business reference titles such as: Business Plans Handbook,
Encyclopedia of American Industries and International Directory of Company Histories.
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ISI Emerging Markets In Library
use only/online/updated daily
This is a web-based resource for information about emerging markets in Latin America,
Central & Eastern Europe, and Asia. It contains current news, company & industry
information, and market & economic analyses.
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Mergent Online remote use/Online/updated daily
Indepth reports on over 27,000 Public companies, both U.S. and Global. Information
includes financials from company SEC filings, annual reports (current and archived),
institutional holdings and insider trading. This database provides a wealth of information
in one stop.
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S & P Corporations CD-ROM/last published Nov. 2008
Three databases with information about the leading 55,000 U.S. corporations:
1. Business and financial information
on over 12,000 public companies.
2. Basic information on approximately
45,000 private companies.
3. Biographical profiles of 70,000 key
executives.
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Industry/Statistics/Economic
Databases that give statistical or
other information on industries and economies rather than specific company information.
Sports Business Research Network
In
Library use only/online/updated daily
Market research from the National Sporting Goods Association and others. Coverage includes
all aspects of sports related industries.
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Tablebase
remote use/
online/updated daily/
Tabular data from 90 industries, with information drawn from trade association data,
statistical annuals, investment and research, independent research sources and statistics
from international agencies, and governments.
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