- This free database provides reliability reports for North American companies.
Bloomberg Professional**
- Bloomberg Professional, an interactive information network that allows users to find
virtually any financial information that they desire; it provides extremely in-depth
financial data for all types of securities. For instance, students can delve into products
like mortgage backed securities and find information regarding their composition.
Furthermore, it 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 easily facilitates the monitoring
of different global financial market data and news and provides a vast array of current
and historical financial statement data. Detailed information on risk analysis and
financial solvency can also be found for most securities. Bloomberg is
installed on a laptop computer which students and faculty can borrow: one hour for
students, and an extended three hours for faculty in order to facilitate classroom
instruction.
This brief Bloomberg
user guide is designed to help novice or intermediate Bloomberg users.
Bloomberg is only available to Villanova students, faculty, and non-administrative
staff; to schedule a Bloomberg session stop by Bartley Hall #2008 or telephone:
610.519.8129. You can also use the appointment scheduler to book a Bloomberg appointment. The Bartley #2008
office
hours are posted here. A second Bloomberg station is available in the IRAFT Finance lab located in
Bartley Hall.
To check the IRAFT hours online, subscribe to the AFL calendar by clicking here.
- Contains facts, figures, trends, forecasts and overviews dealing with public and private
industries, markets, and products for all manufacturing and service industries at an
international level from over 600 leading trade and business publications. Articles are
available in full text.
- Business & Management Practices is an abstracted article resource with a focus on
the practical aspects and approaches of business management. Updated weekly and providing
coverage back to 1995, Business & Management Practices offers highly-focused coverage
of more than 300 core management journals and trade publications. Also included are
specific management-related articles from over 300 additional respected business sources.
- This database contains full text reports on a variety of industries. Coverage includes
both The United States and international markets with special emphasis on European
business. The reports are available in both html and pdf formats. Requires Internet
Explorer Version 5.5 or higher. Call the library if any problems are experienced with
this resource. Villanova students and faculty should have free access to all reports.
- Directory of more than 26,000 new and established organizations, agencies, and
publications worldwide.
- 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.
- 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 fulltext, 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.
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- This is a link to an A-Z list of journals that are subscribed to by Villanova. Not all
dates or issues are available in fulltext. Interlibrary Loan can be used to obtain
articles that Villanova does not have in full text or print. ILL can often email an
article in .pdf format in only a few business days.
- Ebscohost and Business Source Premier are the same resource.
- 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 fulltext from the E-Journals
List **.
- Indexes and abstracts articles in journals, over 500 collective volumes per year, plus
books, dissertations, and working papers copyrighted by the American Economic Association.
- Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval is the database of legal filings from
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC).
- Indexes a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas. Provides some
fulltext coverage of business journals.
- Fulltext journal articles on Management and Economics. This database can also be
searched. Villanova only subscribes to some of the journals offered fulltext in Emerald.
- A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority
and native press. Contains articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. Searchable in
English or Spanish.
- 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.
- 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.
- Citations, abstracts or full text for articles from more than 960 scholarly and general
interest publications. Covered subject areas include current events, the arts, literature,
religion and philosophy, political sciences, engineering, and health and medicine.
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- GAO provides indexing to Federal rules affecting business and industry. Fulltext of
rules is not provided.
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- Gartner Group Interweb allows for full text searching of market research reports with a
topical focus on information technology (IT) industry and on other technology related
disciplines.
- Searchable collection of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad
spectrum such as the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. There is in-depth
coverage of subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives including family, the
workplace and societal roles. Publications include academic and scholarly journals,
magazines, newspapers, books, conference proceedings and more.
- Indexes the worldwide literature on geology, geography, ecology, poverty, welfare, and
global economics.
- Global Finacial Data features historical data on worldwide stock exchanges, bond indices,intraday data, futures data,interest rates, population data, and much more, there are currently 20,000 data sets available. All data is clearly defined, easy to read, and is readily downloadable into Excel.
This resource is relevant to the following subject areas:
* Finance
* Business Databases
* Economics
Global New Issues Database**
- Available at the Falvey Library information desk, the Global New Issues Database
includes public offerings and private placements data for U.S. and international issues
(IPO's). This database is only available after 5:00 P.M.
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- Provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court
Reports, Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and
the Federal Register (1936-1994).
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- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several
time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data
derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some
6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as
population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and
political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click
for searching tips.
- Tables of contents of IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings,
published since 1988. Includes full-text from 1998 to present of journals to which Falvey
Library subscribes.
- 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.
- This Current Awareness service contains brief descriptive information of articles taken
from over 17,000 journals in several disciplines. Email Table-of-Contents service is also
available.
International Directory of Company Histories ** [2004 - ]
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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.
IRIS Industrial Research
and Development Information System
- Provides a searchable resource which contains all tables produced from published
Research and Development surveys from 1953-1998 including statistics for selected periods
on such measures as industry R and D funding and industry R and D personnel. These
statistics are broken out by such dimensions as source, industrial sector, character of
work, and company size.
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- Provides access to journal publication information for science and social science
jourals, including information such as No. of Citations, Half-life,ic information and
cited references from the
- Full text cover-to-cover access to complete print runs of scholarly journals. JSTOR
contains only older volumes; a "moving wall" of 3 to 5 years separates JSTOR
coverage from current issues. JSTOR contains the complete runs of the 100 important
journal titles in 10 - 15 disciplines including Business.
Browse just the JSTOR
** Business Journal Collection (46 scholarly Business titles from v.1 till moving wall).
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- Lexis-Nexis gives searchers world wide web access to the latest business, news, and
legal information. Top news stories, company and industry reports, and medical
abstracts are at the searchers fingertips. Lexis-Nexis also contains an easy to use patent
search tool that provides an alternative to the USPTO search engine. Searchers who receive
few or unexpected results should contact a Business Information Specialist at E-MAIL, or Voice
(610)519-8129/4374.
LNPS Online Literature of the
nonprofit sector
- LNPS Online is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. It incorporates
the unique contents of the Foundation Center's five libraries and contains more than
22,615 full bibliographic citations, of which more than 15,140 have descriptive abstracts.
It is updated daily.
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- S&P's Market Insight provides fulltext access to the S&P Industry Surveys,
the Executive Compensation database, the 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. There are also company reports searchable by name or ticker symbol.
- Marketline (Datamonitor) contains 10,000+ company profiles for both public and private
US and international companies. Company reports feature company overviews, business
descriptions, company history, executive listings, product listings, locations, news and
commentary including a S.W.O.T analysis. There are over 2,000 industry reports with market
forcasts, and over 50 country reports.
- Provides marketing reports for many industries and demographic reports on a variety of
age groups. Documents are formatted as Adobe Acrobat or .ppt files.
- Who's Who is a searchable database featuring comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of
the most accomplished individuals in all fields of endeavor including government,
business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. The database
accesses current biographies that appeared in any one of the many earlier Marquis print
titles searching by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion
and much more.
- (MHMG) username: villa787; password: villa787. MHMG is a searchable directory of
medical and public and private health companies MHMG also includes extensive reports on
healthcare demographics, healthcare economics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and
healthcare services.
- Provides research to 15 years of detailed financial statements for American and
international companies. Searchable by ticker, country, index, industry code, or a
combination of the above, Mergent also allows users to create customized data sheets using
Excel. This is an excellent way to company financial variables from business to business.
There are also very brief country reports available from Mergent as well. A Mergent User Guide is available now.
- Contains both mutual fund and stock reports featuring insight from top market analysts.
- Note: Metalib uses a seamless form of Proxy Access and does not require configuration to
the Villanova Proxy Server.
Metalib allows users to search for articles from more than
one database at a time. This technology is currently being improved upon and the version
included here is not absolutely perfect. My Research will provide a good initial starting
point for research but it is currently recommended that more indepth research be conducted
by directly using applicable databases. A new version of Metalib will be available later
this year (2005).
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- Contains data related to international trade, particularly exports.
- The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical
run of The New York Times, the definitive voice of American journalism since 1851. It
offers complete coverage from 1851-2000. Including:
- Display and classified ads
- Comics and cartoons
- Photos, maps, graphics, etc.
- Editorials and commentary
- Unmatched journalistic breadth and depth
- Fair, objective reporting
- First-class literary criticism
- In-depth coverage of science and politics
- Contains information on the United States Commerce Department New Industry
Classification System. Many other databases allow for industry research based upon NAICS
or SIC codes. Companies may have a variety of codes depending on their lines of business.
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- Part of the Oxford Reference Online**,this database brings together language and subject
reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single
cross-searchable resource. Use this resource for credible, accurate, and pop-up free
business information.
- A reference work providing 50,000 specially-written signed biographies people who shaped
all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000.
State-of-the-art search options, extensive internal cross-referencing, access to articles
from the original Dictionary of National Biography, and navigation by "themes"
combine with rigorous research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most
innovative and important reference sites available online.
- The world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language
since 1150. Why limit your potential by living your life with an insufficient lexicon?
Visit the OED daily and gain wisdom.
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- Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Provides
selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports,
gray literature, government publications, and other English-language materials published
around the world. Contains more than 700,000 records, originally published in the PAIS
Bulletin, 1915-1976.
- Contains the complete text of articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer beginning with
1987. It doesn't include advertising, calendar listings, horoscopes, sports statistics,
stock tables, weather, weddings, engagements, and puzzles. Call the library or visit the
reference desk if you are looking for articles from before 1987 or for such information as
is omitted from this database. Many newspapers are available on microfilm from their
inception forward.
- The database includes 12,000 surveys and 250,000 questions on more than 3,500 topics.
Scope is international, from the United States, to more than 60 other countries. While the
variety of data is incredible one should take note also of the fact that the surveys are
each cited and dated.
- PsycARTICLES is the premier database from the American Psychological Association and
includes access to nearly 50 top full-text psychology publications covering the
disciplines of human physiology, personality psychology, social psychology, educational
psychology, and more.
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- Click here for first time users. This database is
also available to the Villanova community through the VUTREE, for more information ask at
the Falvey Library Information Desk.
Find financial information on thousands of public
companies. Detailed income statements and balance sheets are included. Available at under
Academic Applications in the Library folder.
- Contains commentary and primary resources in the United States Federal Tax Code.
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- ScienceDirect is a journal aggregator that features the full text or abstracts of many
journals relevant in the Business world. The holdings in ScienceDirect do not always show
up in E-Journal Finder or when using the Find it key from other databases, so be
sure to check here if are not able to locate a title elsewhere.
- Indexes 14,000 peer-reviewed journals in the sciences from 1966 to present. Subject
coverage includes the chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering, health sciences,
biological, agricultural and environmental sciences and the social sciences. Cited
reference searching for the past five years is available as well as full text linking.
Scopus
will also make you aware of additional resources that may be relevant to your research.
- This is a free specialized search engine that searches for and indexes academic business
documents that are in either PDF or PostScript (PS) formats.
- 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).
- OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing
need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable, up-to-date and internationally
comparable statistics on public and private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX
provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing
changes in its composition. Data in SOCX ranges in time from 1980 to 1999.
NOTE:
Database requires use of at least I.E. 5.5.02 or Netcape 7.0. A User Guide (PDF)is available here.
- Sports Business Research Network provides sports marketing information including market
size, demographics, sports participation, licensing, financial, and retail trends.
International marketing and professional sports trends are also featured. It includes
BuyTRACK which tracks the sales of sporting goods purchases on the Internet. There is a
degree of international coverage as well.
- The majority of SRDS titles are now available online. The one exception is the lifestyle market analyst title which is
still only available in print at the Falvey Memorial Library's Information Desk.
- An official source, OSHA.gov, contains information on the United States Commerce
Department Industry Classification.
- STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is a single point of
access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal
Government. Contains the State of the Nation database and the National Trade Data Bank
(NTDB).
- Contains information on United States Economic releases including GDP, Housing Starts,
and Productivity.
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- The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major
international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War.
The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and
illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. It is a
digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files.
- Contains directory information on United States Companies, Services, and Products.
Falvey owns the print version of the Register. Ask for it at the Reference Desk.
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- The US Patent and Trademark Office database contains the full bibliographic text of
pending and registered patents. Images for all patents are available. Visit the "how to search" page
of the USPTO for searching hints and pointers. Requires Internet Explorer Version 5.5 or
higher.
- The US Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Database contains the full bibliographic
text of pending and registered trademarks.
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- A standard resource for investment analysis. This resource Includes the Value Line
Investment Survey (analysis on over 1700 U.S. stocks) and the Value Line Investment
Survey/Small & Mid-Cap (coverage for over 1800 smaller stocks) There is also in depth
information on over 90 industries, the stock market and the economy.
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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.
- A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library
holdings and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
- The World Database of Happiness is a continuous register of scientific research on
subjective appreciation of life. This site contains the Bibliography of Happiness, a
collection of over 3,000 scientific publications accessible by author or subject; the
Catalog of Happiness in Nations, providing responses from over 1,500 national happiness
surveys taken in 93 different countries between 1946 and 1996; the Catalog of Happiness
Correlates, which presents the abstracts of correlational research findings from 662
studies worldwide; and finally, the Directory of Happiness Investigators, an international
listing of more than 3,300 happiness researchers.
WRDS**
Wharton Research Data Services
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.
Using IE (Internet Explorer) Click here if you have trouble logging into WRDS. Save that start page as a favorite
and then right click on the WRDS research and data services and "Send To" the desktop. Then, right click on the desktop icon and check
the properties. The URL link there should be http://www.wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/connect, so change it if that is not the URL.
Click apply and try to access WRDS again. Please call with difficulties, this has been an ongoing issue (610) 519-8129.
- What else is there?
- Consider visiting the Falvey Memorial Library
page to see a list of other library catalogs. Call the information desk for help.
Site last updated on 11/7/06. Please contact Dan Overfield with any comments.
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