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Business & Economics Resources
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An * indicates a paid subscription by Falvey Library and is available only
to Villanova campus network users through
Villanova's Proxy Server.
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Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides more than 3,600 full-text scholarly publications,
including more than 1,050 peer-reviewed journals with titles such as the Harvard Business Review and the OECD Economic Surveys. More than 200 of the journals have PDF
full text back to 1965 or the first issue published. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,400 journals.
This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Another
segment of this database provides domestic and international company reports (including detailed SWOT reports), a business citation search, and an image
database
- Provides abstracts, full-text, and/or full-text with images
of records of articles taken from over 1,000 business journals. Also features 27 national newspapers.
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Features citations, abstracts and/or full-text for articles from more than 2500 scholarly and general interest publications.
Covered subject areas include current events, the arts, history, literature, psychology, political science, sociology,
communications, engineering, health and medicine, and the general sciences.
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Provides full-text access to the S&P Industry Surveys, the
Executive Compensation database, Global Reports Library which contains
full-color, online, international company source documents including annual
reports, annual report summaries, financials, interims, and IPO prospectuses for
13,000 companies around the world, and the GICS Sub-Industry Financial
Highlights Report which provides recent industry-level valuation, profitability,
performance and financial risk data.
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Provides marketing reports for many industries and demographic reports on a variety of age groups. Documents are formatted as Adobe Acrobat or PowerPoint files.
Requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.
- Features 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books,
plus an encyclopedia, and provides a single cross-searchable web database.
Covers a broad range of subjects including general reference, language,
humanities and social sciences, science and medicine, and business.
- TO SEARCH ONLY PsycARTICLES PLEASE CHECK OFF BOX
NEXT TO DATABASE NAME. Access from the American Psychological
Association database 58 top full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of
human physiology, personality psychology, social psychology, educational psychology and more.
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Designed to help investors analyze and select stocks by performing a broad
range of functions including sorting, filtering (screening), graphing and
reporting on individual stocks and groups of stocks.
Other Helpful Databases
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Consists of articles from the print Encyclopaedia Britannica,
plus hundreds of additional articles not found in the print version. Also features the
Britannica Book of the Year (1995-) and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
Bloomberg Professional *
(Only available to Villanova students, faculty, and non-administrative staff)
Bloomberg Professional assists users in finding a wide variety of financial information,
provides in-depth financial data and gives students the ability to perform in-depth analysis
such as correlation analysis, theoretical pricing models, and potential arbitrage pricing
discrepancies on various financial products. Bloomberg facilitates the monitoring global
financial market data and news and provides current and historical financial statement data.
Detailed information on risk analysis and financial solvency can also be found for most securities.
Note: The Bloomberg workstations are funded by Falvey Memorial Library, but
housed in the Applied Finance Lab in Bartley Hall. To schedule a Bloomberg
session contact the Applied Finance Lab Coordinator, James Jablonski at
610-519-5857 or visit to lab to check their hours of operation.
- Contains facts, figures, trends, forecasts and overviews, dealing with public and private industries, markets, and products for all manufacturing service industries at an international level from over 600 leading trade and business publications.
- This database contains full-text reports on a variety of industries. Coverage includes both United States and
international coverage with special emphasis on European business. The reports are available in both
HTML and pdf formats.
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Focuses on the practical aspects and approaches of business management, covering over 300 core management journals and trade publications.
- Directory of new and established organizations, agencies and publications worldwide.
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Click on Member Area button. Provides the publishing guidelines of journals in the following areas: accounting, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, educational psychology and administration, and psychology. Includes address for submission, review information ( such as type of review, acceptance rate) and type of articles (current issues, literature reviews, etc.)
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Find financial information on thousands of public companies. Detailed Income Statements and Balance Sheets are included. Restricted to Villanova staff, faculty and student use.
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Provides access to every facet of U.S. Legislative
activity: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws,
congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional
documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations,
and the U.S. Code.
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Contains the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.
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This database provides over 300,000 bibliographic references from 500 leading journals of business and economics;
articles are indexed only. Many of these journals, however, will be available in full text format from the
E-Journals List.
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The American Economic Association's electronic bibliography. Indexes journals, books, dissertations, working papers and collective volumes.
- Full-text journal articles on management and economics. This database
can also be searched. Villanova subscribes to a portion of the journals
offered full-text in Emerald.
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Indexes essays published in book collections covering philosophy, religion, social and political science, economics, law,
education, linguistics, science, the various arts, literature and history.
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This database provides a fulltext patent and mosaic image search of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office, and Patent Abstracts of Japan.
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A guide to facts and statistics on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues.
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An Information Technology (IT) advisory service that provides timely,
widely-quoted, critical reports on the broad IT and computer industry.
- Global Market Information Database (Euromonitor)*
This resource is a database of demographic, economic, lifestyle, and consumer
market information for over 350 markets and 207 countries. Statistics cover
consumer lifestyles, retailing, and consumer market sizes and forecasts. The
data includes 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer
products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. Lifestyle indicators for 71
countries, lifestyle reports for 65 countries, and country profiles for 250
countries are also included.
Off-campus access may not be available. Please send an email if you are unable to access with your Villanova user name and password.
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The New York Times Historical is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of
The New
York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851-to
the present with the exception of the most current two years.
Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics,
etc., editorials and commentary.
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Access to abstracts and full-text articles in general interest magazines, academic journals, and
business and technological publications as well as newspapers and newswire services. Covers subject areas such as
current events, the general sciences, communication, engineering, health and medicine.
- Table of contents to more than 28,000 publications (6000 are full-text). Years of coverage vary with the journal, from 1988 to date. Includes publications in all major disciplines; especially strong in the sciences and social sciences. Online access to the journals to which Falvey Library subscribes is free. Register only if you want to set up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert or to save your searches.
International Directory of Company Histories * [2004 - ]
Provides detailed histories of many of the largest and most influential companies worldwide. Intended for reference use by students, business
persons, librarians, historians, economists, investors, job candidates, and others who seek to learn more about the historical development of
the world's most important companies. The latest 2 volumes are in Reference
[HD2721.I63]. Earlier volumes are shelved in the main stacks.
- A searchable and browsable archive of full-text core journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
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Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international,
regional, business,
legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information,
accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and
legal (law reviews, federal case law,
state legal research) sources.
It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and
country profiles, medical
abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
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The database contains 10,000+ Company Profiles both US and International containing : company overviews, business descriptions, company history, executive listings, product listings, locations, news and commentary; 2,000+ Industry Reports with market forecasts; 50+ Country Reports.
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Searchable online database features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals in all fields
of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. The database accesses current biographies that appeared in any one of the many
Marquis print titles searching by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
- MHMG is a searchable directory of medical and health companies both public and private. Also included are extensive reports on healthcare demographics, healthcare economics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and healthcare services.
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Provides research to 15 years of detailed financial
statements for international and U.S. companies included in the Moody's (now
Mergent) Manuals; enables customized viewing and output to retrieve company
reports and financials into software applications such as Word, Excel or Adobe,
and enables accurate cross-border searches using a variety of financial and text
variables.
- Provides performance and financial data on over 6,000 mutual funds.
- Contains data related to international trade, particularly exports and is part of STAT_USA. The Export Connection is available as CD-ROM at reference desk.
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The New York Times Historical is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of
The New
York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851
to the present with the exception of the most current two years.
Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc., editorials and commentary.
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Access information on social issues through viewpoint articles, topic
overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites and
full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
- This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Research Insight / Compustat PC Plus -- North America and Global Databases (Ask at Reference Desk)
Find financial information on thousands of public companies. Detailed income statements and
balance sheets are included. Restricted to Villanova staff, faculty and student use.
Available at <http://citrixweb.villanova.edu>
under Academic Applications in the Library folder. First time user of
Citrix click here
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Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from the journal literature in the social sciences. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution).
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Sports Business Research Network provides sports marketing information: market size, and demographics; sports participation, licensing, financial and retail trends; international marketing and professional sports trends. It includes buyTRACK which tracks the sales of sporting goods purchases on the Internet. Some international coverage.
- Economic, business and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government.
- Provides the index and abstracts to American Statistics Index (U.S. government statistical sources). Contains over 100,000
statistical publications and is searchable by subject, category, title and author.
- The US Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Database contains the full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks. Pending trademark applications are entered in the database several months after filing.
Requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.
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The University's Career Services provides access Vault.com for career information on industry guides, career guides, occupational profiles, employer profiles,
company profiles, company Q&As, company videos, industry overviews and a Career Resource Center for Students.
Note: This Online Career Library is for the sole use of Villanova University undergraduate students, faculty and staff.
World Consumer Markets (CD-ROM; Ask at Reference
Consultation Desk
) This extensive database includes information on 52 countries and 376
product sectors ranging from 1994 to 1999. This data is of interest to
demographers, economists and marketers. Charting, currency conversion and per
capita data are all available.
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WRDS is available in the Applied Finance Lab during regular lab hours. Graduate students may request their
own user name and password by clicking the WRDS link above. Undergraduates, or those needing immediate (faster) assistance should
contact Dan Overfield at (610) 519-8129 for help.
Covers over 30,000 companies and includes security prices and trading
volume, income and balance sheet items. Provides access to IBES' analyst
projections for earnings and sales. WRDS also contains stock market indices,
bond prices and interest rates, mutual fund and stock ownership information,
options data, and a wide array of macroeconomic time series. International data,
marketing and industry reports, and web usage data are also available on WRDS.
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