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Electronic Resources (A-Z)

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Business Resources

Database Name

ABI/Inform
Articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal. Available through ProQuest. A new interface to this database can be found here.

AcademicOne (formerly Expanded Academic)
Articles from journals, magazines and newspapers on a wide range of subjects including business. Includes the General Business File ASAP database.

Bloomberg
Specialized workstation. See library staff or Center for Investment Studies for access information.

BoardEx
Detailed information on board members of publicly-listed firms. Available only to Marshall faculty, staff and PhD students. See library staff for access information.

Business and Company Resource Center
Company and industry profiles, rankings, market research, articles and Datamonitor industry reports. Information on professional associations is available using the Advanced Search feature.

CompactD / WorldScope (Available through Marshall network)
US and international financial data from company filings, last update July 2006.
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Conference Board
Management and economic research from the Conference Board.

Corporate Reference Library
Available through a long-term trial, this database provides information on corporate entity name changes, acquisitions, acronyms, corporate family connections and stockholder equity. Access is scheduled to end in October 2012.

Datastream
A financial database available for Faculty and PhD research provided through a virtual lab system. Please contact the Marshall Help Desk for access and review the instructions found here.

EBSCO Business Source Complete
Articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers including the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly and many others. Available only to Marshall users through the Crocker Library widget on your MyMarshall home page. Look for the dropdown list of databases.

EconLit
Journals, books and working papers in economics.

EIU Country Reports
Contains Country Reports, Country Profiles and Country Commerce Reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Electronic Journals
Browse ejournal subject headings in Business and Economics to find articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers.

eMarketer

Analysis, market data, and statistics on the Internet, e-commerce, online marketing, social media, and emerging digital/mobile technologies around the world.

Emerald Journals
Articles from key journals in the fields of management, information science and engineering.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Replaced by the larger AcademicOne database.

eStatement Studies
The online version of the Annual Statement Studies produced by the Risk Management Association (RMA), includes financial ratios on over 760 industries, industry default probabilities and cash flow measures.

Factiva
Articles and company information from journals, magazines and newspapers, plus company profile information. Only three concurrent users allowed

Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006
The complete searchable facsimile run of this authoritative daily business newspaper published in London.

Forrester
Market, industry and consumer research from the technology consulting firm

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Encyclopedias and reference works on a variety of subjects. Includes company histories and business plans handbooks.

Gartner (USC NetID/webmail password required for access)
Technology research and consulting reports. USC does not have full access to all reports.

General Business File ASAP
Articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers.

Global Financial Database
Historical financial data covering a wide range of markets, indices and statistics.

Global Market Information Database (Passport/GMID by Euromonitor)

International company, country, industry and market information.

Global Road Warrior
Business travel guide and country background information.

Google Scholar
Search multiple databases for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all areas of research. Looks for links to full-text articles held at USC. To set preferences, click on Scholar Preferences. Next enter USC into the search box, and click Find Library. Select University of Southern California, then click Save Preferences.

Historical Annual Reports
ProQuest's compilation of annual reports from over 800 companies dating back to 1844.

Hoover's
Company and industry profiles, business news, biographies and IPO information.

IBISWorld
Detailed market research and analysis on over 700 U.S. industries as well as Global Industry Reports, China Industry Reports and Business Environment Reports.

ISI Emerging Markets
Coverage of emerging economies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Investext (from Thomson Research)
REPLACED BY THOMSON ONE. Analyst reports from by brokerage firms, investment banks and other organizations. Includes historical reports back to the 1980's.

JSTOR
Historical archive of scholarly journals in all disciplines.

LexisNexis Academic
News articles as well as business, medical and legal information.

LexisNexis Statistical
Offers three major sources of statistical data tables, publications and links.

Los Angeles Times (Current)
Full text available through ProQuest from 1985.

Los Angeles Times Historical
Full text available through ProQuest from 1881 to 1984.

MarketResearch.com Academic
Selected market research reports for a wide range of industries, services and products. Publishers include Kalorama, Packaged Facts, SBI, Simba Information and Paul Budde Communication.

MedTrack
Company fundamentals, drug development news, and patent information on biomedical companies worldwide.

Mergent Horizon

Provides financial data and highlights the relationships between a company's major customers, suppliers, partners and competitors, details the hierarchies of company products and services, analyzes data for sector aggregates, generates M&A scenarios and much more.

Mergent Online
US and international company data, annual reports, and financial data.

Mergent WebReports
Online access to scanned images of the Moody's/Mergent manuals. These provide financials, corporate histories, business descriptions, and information on subsidiaries, officers, and municipal debt in some cases back to the early 1900's.

Mint Global
US and international company information from Bureau van Dijk including Datamonitor market research and company reports (same content as Orbis with a different interface).

Mint US
US company information from Bureau van Dijk including Freedonia and Datamonitor market research and company reports.

Morningstar Direct (Available through Marshall network)
Global investment database and analystics. See library staff or Center for Investment Studies for access information.

NBER Working Papers
Research from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

New York Times Historical
Full text available through ProQuest from 1851 to 2001.

NewsBank InfoWeb
Full-text news resource covering over 500 global news sources.

Orbis
US and international company information from Bureau van Dijk including Datamonitor market research and company reports (same content as Mint Global with a different interface).

OSIRIS (Web version)
Publicly listed company information from Bureau van Dijk.

OSIRIS Historical DVD's (Available through Marshall network)
Publicly listed company information with historical data from Bureau van Dijk.

ProQuest
Articles from the ProQuest databases including ABI/Inform and others. Includes the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angeles Times as well as scholarly articles and trade publications.

ProQuest Business
Business articles from the ProQuest databases including ABI/Inform and others. Includes the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angeles Times as well as scholarly articles and trade publications and is more targeted towards business than the general ProQuest database.

RAND California Statistics
Statistics and documents on California economic and public policy issues.

Redbooks
Detailed information on US and international advertising agencies and advertisers. Use Quick Search or Advanced Search to access the Agency database, the Advertiser database or both.

Reference USA
Directory database of over 14 million US businesses.

SDC Platinum
Find data on M&A's, IPO's, global new issues and venture capital funding. On-campus access on the USC Marshall network, see instructions. Off-campus access is available via Citrix on MyMarshall. SDC Platinum M&A Guide is here.

SEC EDGAR
Company filings with US Securities and Exchange Commission.

SimplyMap
Web-based mapping application enables non-technical users to quickly create thematic maps and reports/tables using extensive demographic, social, business and marketing data.

Source OECD
Online library of OECD statistical databases, books and periodicals.

SBRNet (Sports Business Research Network)
Market research and industry news for the sports industry.

SRDS
Advertising rates and profile information on media properties (print and broadcast), plus audience market analysis from Standard Rate and Data Service.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Access to scholarly articles, abstracts and working papers in the social sciences including many Marshall faculty. No registration is required to view and download most papers.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Business, investment and financial information including industry surveys.

STAT-USA/Globus
U.S. business, economic and trade information from US government sources. DISCONTINUED as of September 30, 2010.

TableBase (RDS)
Business statistics and tables extracted from a wide range of articles. Instructions on exporting to Excel available here.

Thomson ONE
Detailed company information including company research and analyst reports as well as financials, ratios news and filings. This database is the replacement for the Investext databae.

Trade Data & Analysis (from export.gov)
Describes the use of Trade Stats Express and USA Trade Online for official US government import and export statistics..

US Commercial Service Market Research Library
International market research available from the US government. Registration is required for academic users.

ValueLine
Access to Value Line's publications covering industries, stocks, mutual funds.

Vault
Information on careers, employers, job search advice, salary info, employee message boards and more. Available through the Marshall Career Resource Center and CONNECTSC at the Career Planning & Placement Center.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Collection of databases designed for standardized quantitative analysis. Available datasets include Audit Analytics, Bureau van Dijk, COMPUSTAT, CRSP, CUSIP Master File, Corporate Library, EVENTUS, I/B/E/S, IRI, MFLINKS, NYSE TAQ and Thomson Reuters and more.

Wilson Business Full Text (formerly OmniFile)
Articles from a wide range of business journals, magazines and newspapers.

Wilson Business Periodicals Index Retrospective 1913-1982
Provides indexing and citations to articles from a wide range of historic business journals. Full text of the articles may be available in print or electronic form through the Library collections or Interlibrary Loan.

World Development Indicators
Key national and regional development statistics from the World Bank.

Zephyr
International M&A, IPO and venture capital deals with links to company information from Bureau van Dijk.

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