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company, industry, and market data
Moody's Manuals Weekly News Reports
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calculates 14 key business ratios covering solvency, efficiency and profitability, for comparison of selected companies or all in an industry; click "Help" at KBR for more information
market and trade data from all sectors including agriculture, energy, machinery, textiles and apparel, consumer goods, and tourism. In addition, the site provides information about treaties, trade agreements, and regulations and customs issues. Coverage is international and covers imports and exports between countries
Mergent Online [cancelled Fall 2006]
Database subscription cancelled. Please use EDGAR and/or Factiva.
official web site of the SEC including 10-K's, Annual Reports, and Prospectuses for 3,500 U.S public corporations
stock quotes, markets, investments, banking and finance, stock market snapshot
directory of trade and not-for-profit organizations
official web site of U.S. Small Business Administration
reference collection eBook with articles and overviews on financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues for small businesses
full-text biographies of prominent Americans who are now deceased. Continues and updates the Dictionary of American Biography, 1928-1985.
Reference Collection: E 176 .D56
index to consumer information from over 170 sources, 1986-present

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Averett Library Catalog books and media
Worldcat comprehensive catalog of books, film, internet resources selected by libraries. Includes option to limit to Internet sources

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Note: Use the Journal Locator to find journals or "sources" cited in an index.

ABI/Inform Global full text of articles from nearly 1800 U.S. and international business journals
Business Source Premier

   (Business interface)

expands and globalizes Business Source Elite content with full text of 8,200 accounting, business, management, marketing and economics journals (1,100 peer reviewed), company and industry profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies, country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch, market research reports, and SWOT analyses; updated daily
Factiva full text of over 8,000 business, news, and professional sources, plus investment analysis, company, and industry information. Full text of the Wall Street Journal, 1984 to present. Read front pages and link to web sites of daily newspapers from 23 countries. These papers include Le Figaro, Le Monde, Die Welt, The Jerusalem Post, An-Nahar (Lebanon), El Mundo, The Guardian. (See Factiva Tour for a guide to searching the database.)
Blackwell-Synergy Collection over 750 full text scholarly and professional journals in science, technology, medicine; also includes humanities and social sciences journals

The Economist (London)
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link to premium content (recent articles); retrospective full text also available through Averett's Journal Locator
Regional Business News full text of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from U.S. metropolitan and rural areas
Mergent Online company data for 10,000 U.S. public corporations, their SEC filings and annual reports (current and historical), plus data and annual reports for many international companies; includes EDGAR and non-EDGAR filings
Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)

9,000 academic journals in all subject areas, 5,500 of them full text, and 2,300 of those refereed (more than twice the number in the Expanded Academic ASAP)

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe full text news, business, legal, medical and general reference sources
Sociological Abstracts comprehensive index to international literature in sociology and related disciplines, 1963 to present, abstracts 1974 to present; covers over 1700 journals, plus book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers
EconLit index to journals, working papers, books in economics from 620 sources, 1969-
Dissertation Abstracts index to dissertations on all academic topics, 1861-
PapersFirst index to papers presented at conferences worldwide, 1993-
ProceedingsFirst index to worldwide conference proceedings, 1993-

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Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe statistics from federal, state, private, and international sources
Polling the Nations "a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time" ... more information
World Fact Book CIA maps and demographic information on countries and regions (published annually)

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