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Selected Library Databases:
- Research
Database Locator
The University of Connecticut subscribes to over 240 Web-Based,
commercially-produced research and citation
databases.
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ABI/Inform with Fulltext
An abstracting and
fulltext business database with a management focus. Covers
1000+ business and economics journals and is international in
scope. Not all articles are full-text.
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Academic Search Premier
This full-text, multidisciplinary magazine & journal
database provides the full text of over 4,500 journals and
magazines, and indexes a total of more than 8,000 titles in all
disciplines.
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Business & Company Resource Center
Brings together a wide variety of global business information,
enabling users to efficiently research business case studies,
competitive intelligence, and career and investment
opportunities.
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CCH Internet Tax Research Network
The Securities file in the CCH Internet Research Network
contains the current Securities and Exchange Commission
Accounting Rules. This full text source details SEC rules and
regulations required for security transactions. The SEC
Accounting Rules file includes Accounting Rules Report Letters,
SEC Interactive Forms, Accounting Rules and a topical index to
SEC Accounting Rules.
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CCH Accounting Research Manager
The most timely and comprehensive database of
expert-written analytical accounting, auditing, governmental
and SEC information as well as primary source data. It includes
the accounting literature from ARM, AICPA, EITF, FASB, and
IASC
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D & B Million Dollar Database
Provides directory information on over 1,000,000 U.S. public
and private businesses with sales greater than $1 million or
employees total greater than 20.
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D & B Key Business Ratios
This database consists of aggregated financial statements of
U.S. corporations, partnerships, and proprietorships and
financial and operating ratios by SIC classification.
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Dissertation Abstracts
Provides citations and abstracts for doctoral dissertations and
master's theses completed at colleges and universities
worldwide from 1861 to the present. Lengthy abstracts are
included for dissertations beginning with July 1980 and for
master's theses since 1988.
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Global Insight
This database (previously called Citibase) contains many
leading macroeconomic indicators for the United States of
America. Some of the statistics provided are: Money Supply,
Interest Rates, Stocks; Construction & Ho; Industry
Production, Capacity, Labour; Population Counts and Estimates
and Foreign Trade and Interest Rates.
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Econlit
Produced by the American Economic
Association, this indexing service includes citations with
abstracts from the Journal of Economic Literature and
the Index of Economic Articles in Journals and Collective
Volumes.
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Factiva
This academic version of the commercial product provides full
text searching for 4600+ general and business publications.
Public company and securities information is also
included.
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Global Development Finance
provides financial data on 136 developing countries for
indicators including long-term debt, public and publicly
guaranteed debt, private nonguaranteed debt, official
creditors, and private creditors
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InfoTrac
An abstracting and fulltext service which provides indexing to
1550 general interest journals.
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Investext Plus
This database provides full-text access to the top brokerage
firm, investment bank, and trade association reports on
companies, industries and global markets.
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Lexis/Nexis Statistical
Statistical Universe provides the most comprehensive access to
statistical data from federal government sources, state and
private-sector publications, and international governmental and
non-governmental organizations on the Web.
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NBER Working Papers
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers
1994- are aimed at professional economists. The UConn Libraries
subscribe to the electronic papers only and others can be
ordered through the liaison librarian. The subject areas
covered are corporate finance, economic fluctuations and
growth, economics of the elderly, health and health care,
industrial organization, international finance and
macroeconomics, international trade and investment, labor
studies, monetary economics, productivity and technological
change, stocks, bonds, and foreign currency, and taxation.
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Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
Net Advantage brings together eleven of Standard & Poor's
investor information products: Bond guide, Corporation records,
Dividend record, Earnings guide, Industry surveys, Mutual fund
reports, The OUTLOOK, Register of corporations, directors and
executives, Security dealers of North America, Stock guide and
Stock reports.
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Stat-USA
From the U.S. Department of Commerce, this database includes
economic and trade data from the National Trade Data Bank
(NTDB), Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business Procurement
Opportunities (Globus), and Bureau of Economic Analysis
Economic Information.
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Tablebase
Table base provides text and tabular information such as:
market share, market size, capacity, production, imports,
exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts,
healthcare statistics and demographics
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Thomson Research
Description: Global Access includes both SEC and Worldscope
databases. Full text annual reports(1997+) and all the SEC
(10K, 8Q. Edgar documents, etc.) filings (1994+) for these
companies are included. Spreadsheet ready financials from the
10Ks(1996+), 10Qs (1996+) and ten year annual history files for
the 12,000+ stock exchange companies are also available.
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Valueline Investment Survey
Value Line tracks 1700 U.S. public companies and provides
investment information and analysis.
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Web of Science
This citation database 1994 to the present includes the Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index
(SSCI), and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI).
For older years in electronic form, the University of
Connecticut Libraries has CD-Roms which cover SCI 1986-1999
(Storrs), SCI 1989-1997 (Avery Point) and SSCI 1992-1999
(Storrs). To go further back with the print collections, use
the SCI 1964-1991 Ref. Q1 .S45,(Storrs), SCI 1985-1988, Z7401
.365 (Avery Point), SSCI 1966-1991 Ref. H1 .S63 (Storrs) and
A&HCI 1977-1992 Ref. Z5937 .A795 (Storrs).
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World Monitor Data and Statistics (WOMDAS)
It includes country-level data on demographic, economic, and
other marketing indicators.
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WRDS (Wharton Data Research Service)
WRDS is a data management service which enables users to access
databases via a web-based interface or via a Unix server. Data
on the Unix server is generally available both in binary format
and in SAS format. Includes 24/7 help. Sign up for an account
on the WRDS site.
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Library Guides and Help:
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Books and Journals:
- Citation Style
Guides
- Electronic
Journal Locator
The University of Connecticut Libraries purchases access to
over 10,000 journals, and in full text, through various
databases and commercial journal providers.
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Ingenta
A citation and table of contents database for 17,000
multidisciplinary journals. The REVEAL feature provides a user
with the ability to set up a search profile and receive the
citation results every week on email.
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WorldCat (FirstSearch)
This gateway provides
a number of database. WorldCat locates books and other
materials in libraries worldwide. Books in Print indexes
current books which are published or distributed in the United
States.
- UCONN Libraries
Catalog: HOMER
UCAT is the UConn Libraries electronic
catalog of books, periodicals and other material held by the
Libraries.
- Request for
Purchase Form
Use this form to suggest titles to be added to the Libraries'
collections.
- Document Delivery and
Interlibrary Loan Service
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