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Mergent Online

data and corporate histories for over 35,000 publicly traded companies: 12,000 domestic, 24,000 international, 10,000 extinct (due to merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, etc); over 200,000 annual reports, 30 years of stock prices

    Mergent Horizon Use Mergent Horizon to acquire information on services, products, suppliers, mergers/acquisitions for a specific company.
Hoover's Online
Subscription canceled June 2008.
See Factiva and Reuters Financial News, or contact aclib@averett.edu
for assistance in locating company, industry, and market data
Moody's Manuals Weekly News Reports
Note: Call library for password

KBR Web
Subscription canceled June 2008.


See Factiva and Reuters Financial News, or contact aclib@averett.edu
for assistance in locating company, industry, and market data
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 Complete full text of over 2,900 U.S. and international business journals, indexing of over 4,000 from as early as 1923 - present

Business Source Complete

 alternate: "Business interface"

full text journals, many peer-reviewed, in accounting, business, management, marketing and economics, plus financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, 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
... Now Wiley InterScience
over 750 full text scholarly and professional journals in science, technology, medicine; also includes humanities and social sciences journals

The Economist (London)
Call library for password!

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
Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)

Canceled September 2008. Use Academic Search Complete.

Academic Search Complete

over 5,500 full-text periodicals, most peer-reviewed, in a broad range of academic areas; indexing and abstracts for thousands of additional journals and nearly 10,000 monographs, reports, conference proceedings. (Replaces InfoTrac at Averett.)

Legal Collection full text for more than 250 prominent law journals; covers criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and more; includes American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review, and more; indexing and abstracts for additional journals
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe full text news, business, legal, medical and general reference sources
Communication & Mass Media Complete

comprehensive index with abstracts and some full text for 600 journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields

Newspaper Source Plus cover-to-cover full text for 149 national & international newspapers, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Age, The Australian, The Toronto Star, The Irish Times and others. The database also contains selective full text for more than 410 U.S newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio (NPR)
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of computing and applied sciences disciplines: engineering, computer theory & systems, business and social implications of new technology; indexing and abstracts for 1,720 journals and publications; full text for more than 670 periodicals
Military & Government Collection cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals; indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles; publications include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defense Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces
Hospitality & Tourism Complete full text from 440 periodicals, company & country reports and books; covers Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia; topics include culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology
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-
Vente et Gestion full text coverage for French language business journals, both academic and professional; coverage of accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology
Economia y Negocios business and economics coverage for over 300 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere
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-

Business:  Statistics

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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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