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Title

Coverage

Full Text?

Description

Academic Search Complete

1990 - present

Includes full text

Updated monthly. Provides full text for 5,256 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.

BBB: Better Business Bureau

Coverage varies

Some full text available

The Council of Better Business Bureaus, a nonprofit umbrella organization of US and Canadian Better Business Bureaus, works to foster "fair and honest relationships between businesses and consumers...through voluntary self-regulation." On this well-laid-out site, users can locate their local Better Business Bureau; check out companies, including length of time in business, BBB membership, and complaint history; users may also submit complaints online, get information on charities through the Council's affiliated site, http://give.org/ , and shop online from over 12,000 companies belonging to local Better Business Bureaus, as well as review general consumer information and news

Business Glossary - Washington Post

Coverage Varies

N/A

Commonly used financial and business terms.

Business Source Complete

1990 - present

Some full text available

Updated monthly. A scholarly business database providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included.

Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals. Contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database.

Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.

Computer Source

1985 - present

Includes full text

Updated regularly. Provides users with the latest information and current trends in high technology. Offers full text for nearly 300 publications, covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. Leading general magazines are also provided including: eWeek, Fast Company, MacWorld, PC Magazine, PC World, Red Herring, Software Magazine, etc. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Coverage Varies

Includes full text

The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. DOAJ aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are over 2796 journals in the directory. Over 800 journals are searchable at article level.

Economia y Negocios

Early 1980's - present

Includes full text

Updated regularly. This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 60,000 bibliographic records and includes over 200 periodicals published in Latin America and Spain. Produced in Peru by ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish-speaking world

EDGAR -U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

1933 to present

Includes full text

Through its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval site EDGAR, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) makes all submissions by U.S. public companies since 1993 available in full-text. Beginning in November 2002, all foreign companies listed on U.S. exchanges are also required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Filings include annual (10K) and quarterly (10Q) reports, annual reports to shareholders, and other filings that provide a comprehensive overview of a company's financial condition and business practices.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Varies

Includes full text

Dozens of reference sources in many subjects.

Hoovers Online

Coverage varies

Includes full text

Updated daily. Comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence. Offers a database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises.

JSTOR

Coverage varies

Includes full text

Updated periodically. Includes the complete backfiles for over 200 scholarly journals, including major titles from all subject disciplines.

Lexis-Nexis Academic

Coverage varies

Includes full text

Updated continually. Provides both full-text and abstracts for a wide range of general-interest wire services, newspapers and magazines from around the world, including full text of the New York Times. Also provides access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases.

MasterFILE Premiere

Coverage Varies

Some full text available

Updated daily. Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,780 periodicals and full text coverage for nearly 1,860 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.

Mergent (Formerly Moody's/FIS Online)

1990 - present

Includes full text

Updated weekly. Provides immediate access to data on more than 10,000 NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq and other select regional exchange companies. Coverage includes: history, business description, properties, subsidiaries, officers, directors, long-term debt, Moody's rating, capital stock, income statement, balance sheet, statements of cash flow, auditors, exchange and ticker symbol, number of employees, number of shareholders, address, telephone number, annual stock price ranges, trustee, registrar, transfer agent, stock splits, annual meeting date, Moody's news reports, and direct, real-time access to the EDGAR, the SEC website which includes are annual, quarterly, and special corporation records. The resource was formerly called FIS Online.

NetLibrary

Coverage varies

Includes full text

More than 40,000 e-Books are available for browsing, searching, and virtual check-out. The e-Book collection includes titles from the world's leading business, technology, trade, reference, academic, and scholarly publishers. Search by title, author, keyword, publisher, publication date, or ISBN number.

Newspaper Source

Coverage Varies

Includes full text

Updated daily. Provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.

Regional Business News

Coverage varies

Includes full text

Updated daily. Full text newswire database that incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Research Library (Formerly Periodical Abstracts II)

1971 - present

Includes full text

Coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

Tablebase

1996-present

Includes full text

Updated frequently. Provides access to tabular information on companies, industries, products, countries and markets. Data is drawn from privately published statistical annuals, trade associations, non-profit research groups, government agencies, international organizations, industry reports prepared by investment research groups, and more than 1,000 trade and business publications.

Tradeport

Coverage Varies

Some full text available

Comprehensive info on trade information, trade leads and company databases. International in scope

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Coverage varies

N/A

In line with its historic mission "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries ", the PTO now offers the ability to investigate patents and trademarks on its web site. The site also provides information about applying for patents, careers with USPTO and in patent law, and intellectual property. "Special Pages for First Time Visitors" are available to help users get started. Appropriate forms and fee structures are available for those interested in securing their own patent or trademark.