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- ABI/INFORM Global -- SEE Business Source Premier
- Academic Search Premier -- Replaces Periodical Abstracts
- The world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This resource indexes over 4300 periodicals and contains full text for over 3400 scholarly publications. Academic Search Premier includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
- ArticleFirst
- ArticleFirst is an index of the items listed on table of contents pages of over 12,000 journals. This index covers articles, news stories, letters and other items on topics as diverse as business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, sciences, social sciences, and technology. For most items, the database also provides a list of libraries that hold the journal.
- Books24x7 --SEE Safari Tech Books Online
- Business & Industry
- Access to articles dealing with private and public companies, markets, and
products for all manufacturing and service industries.
1994 - present. - Business Source Premier
- Business Source Premier indexes over 3200 periodicals and contains
full text for over 2700 scholarly journals and business periodicals
covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international
business, etc. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's
top management and marketing journals and also includes many leading
journals in the areas of economics, finance, and accounting, as well as
country economic reports.
1984 - present. Updated daily. - Business Wire News -- SEE Regional Business News
- CCH Internet Tax Research Network
- Federal, state, and international tax research source materials. Full-text statutes, regulations, administrative, and judicial opinions, commentary, and citator services.
- CCH Internet Research Network -- Business and Finance
- Full-text laws and regulations, cases, industry news, explanations and analysis.
- CCH Internet Research Network -- Human Resources
- Full-text laws and regulations, cases, industry news, explanations and analysis.
- CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a database for theory
and research in international affairs. CIAO provides access to the full-text
of a wide variety of materials, including: conference proceedings, working
papers, occasional papers, books and policy briefs. CIAO also indexes a
selected group of journals in the area of international relations.
1991- present. Updated monthly. - Disclosure Global Access -- SEE Thomson Research
- A source for real-time and historical financial and business information.
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- Econlit (1969-present)
- EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application. Virtually all records include abstracts. Also included are fulltext of book reviews published in the Journal of Economic Literature since 1993.
- Encyclopędia Britannica Online
- Full text of the Encyclopędia Britannica.
- Encyclopędia Britannica School Edition
- to the Encyclopędia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia.
- Hein Online
- Database of pre-1980 legal periodical scholarship. Provides each journal from its inception and continues to the most current volume allowed under contract between Hein and the journal. A list of journals included in Hein Online is available online.
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- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
- The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals indexes articles as well as book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports from 1985 to the present. The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals covers international law (public and private), comparative law, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, British Isles, and British Commonwealth.
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
- Covers more than 630 journals and other publications
in law. Corresponds to the printed Index to Legal Periodicals.
1981- present. - Infotrac Full-Text Articles (1,000 Journals)
- Index to citations in 1,000 journals with full-text access to almost 900 journals. Covers many subject areas at the undergraduate level.
- Legal Trac
- LexisNexis Academic
- Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and medical and health information. Includes full-text of newspaper and periodical articles.
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- Mergent Online (formerly FIS Online)
- The electronic equivalent of the Moody's manuals. Allows customers Internet access to an index of real-time EDGAR (SEC) filings, providing the ability to select a needed document, view it and print it. Provides fully searchable data on more than 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17.000 non-U.S. public companies, as well and information on the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchanges. All financials "as reported," provide reviews of balance sheets, income statements, expenditures, assets, liabilities, cash flow, performance trends, business descriptions, corporate histories and financial statements since 1900.
- NewsBank Newspapers
- NewsBank Newspapers is a collection of full-text newspapers available online. The database includes 17 Ohio newspapers, plus other major newspapers from other states. Content includes local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
- Ohio Capital Connection
- Ohio Capitol Connection provides information on the actions and activities of the Ohio legislature and state government.
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- Reference USA
- Directory of over 11 million entries for U.S. businesses and professionals.
- Regional Business News
- A collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources.
- Safari Tech Books Online
- Provides access to electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related fields from O'Reilly and Associates and Pearson Technology Associates, whose imprints include such well-known names as Addison-Wesley, Alpha, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams.
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
- Searchable database to Standard & Poor's publications: Industry surveys; Stock reports; Corporation records; Outlook; and Register of corporations, directors and executives.
- STAT-USA
- U.S. Department of Commerce website for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the federal government.
- Thomson Research
- A comprehensive collection of company information and analyst reports. Thomson Research provides forecasts and analysis based on research reports from leading firms and companies worldwide.
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- ValueLine
- Value Line provides investment research on stocks, mutual funds, special situations, options and convertibles.