The Ford Library at Fuqua : Web Database List & Descriptions

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ABI-INFORM Complete (aka "ProQuest"): ABI/INFORM Complete contains: historical business journals; local and regional business news and articles; scholarly, comprehensive business research from periodicals worldwide; up to date industry news, marketing trends, and product information and market competition.
America's Newspapers: America's Newspapers is a large collection of titles arranged by state and region. This full-text service excludes advertisements but includes national, regional, state, and local news items which were written by the local newspaper staff. Letters to the editor and editorials are included.
Associations Unlimited: Provides information on associations, organizations, and professional societies. Now contains 154,000 detailed listings for organizations all over the world, with a scope that covers everything from a local chamber of commerce to the American Medical Association.

Corresponds to the current editions and supplements to the Encyclopedia of Associations series: National Organizations of the U.S., International Organizations, and Regional, State, and Local Organizations.
Bank Regulatory Database via WRDS: The 5 Bank Regulatory Databases provide accounting data for Bank Holding Companies, Commercial Banks, Savings Banks, and Savings and Loans Institutions. The source of the data comes from the required regulatory forms filled for supervising purposes.
Best Practice Database: Contains a wide array of research reports and benchmarking data on business "best practices" in a numerous areas of business practice including: business operations, customer service, human resources, Internet and e-business, knowledge management and sales & marketing.
Bloomberg Professional: Bloomberg Professional is an extensive financial information system and databank with global coverage of companies, industries, and markets.

Fuqua students and faculty click here for more information. Bloomberg Professional is locally installed (at Ford Library) client-server software and is not available via the Internet
BigDough.com: Use this site to network with professionals and begin building relationships within the Capital Markets industry. BigDough.com is an extensive contact database and client relationship management platform that contains over 60,000 buy-side, sell-side and financial media staff profiles from 9,000 institutions. Each profile contains a professional's direct contact information, investment style, and industry or regional coverage.
Business Monitor Online: BMO contains a 4-year international research report archive of BMI research on 175 countries expanding at over 7,600 economic/political country reports and 2,120 industry sector reports each year. Quarterly industry reports on up to 55 countries are provided for the following sectors: Automotives " Chemicals " Banking " Defence and Security " Retail Food and Drink " Transport " IT " Infrastructure " Insurance " Energy " Petrochemicals " Pharmaceuticals " Telecommunications and Media " Tourism " Reports are kept up to date with alerts to events on a daily basis and access is provided to a companies database.
Business Source Complete: A comprehensive database providing full text access to articles on management, finance, economics, industry, accounting, and international business from popular business magazines, scholarly journals, and trade publications. Also contains other full text sources of information such as financial data, book reviews, case studies, conference proceedings, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses. Many journals have full text back to their first publication issue. Also available are searchable cited references and author profiles for most-cited authors. This database replaces Business Source Premier.

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CCH Business & Finance Library: The CCH Business & Finance Library contains detailed research data and publications related to the following subjects:

Securities law, regulations, cases, acts, rulings, and SEC filings
Stock, Options, and Futures Exchanges and Specialized Regulatory Organizations
Global securities and capital markets publications, laws, regulations and rules
Federal and State banking news, laws and regulations and a credit union library
Trade regulations, report letters, guides, U.S. Supreme Court case archive (1932-1976)
Consumer Product Safety Guide and Products Liability Report Letters and cases
Government Contracts report Letters, laws, regulations, policy, cases, and GC Reporter
Computer Law Report Letter, computer laws and cases
Federal Energy Guidelines, FERC statutes, regulations, and reports
Aviation Law Reporter, reports, cases archive (1822-1997), and Motor Carrier Liability
CCH Tax Research Network: The CCH Tax Research Network contains detailed research data and publications related to the following subjects:

Complete Internal Revenue Code
Federal taxation
State taxation
State sales taxation
Financial and Estate Planning
Special Entities
Tax Treaties Reporter
Federal and state tax forms and practice aids
Lookup tables, and calculators
CCH Medicare & Medicaid Guide: The CCH Medicare and Medicaid Guide contains detailed research data and publications related to the following subjects:

2007 Master Medicare Guide
Administrative Decisions
Archive Cases (1969 - 1996)
Archive Rulings and Other Documents (1969 - 1996)
Cases
CMS Forms
DRG and APC Tables
Durable Medical Equipment
Federal Register Issuances
Interactive Charts
Laws and Regulations
Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs)
Medicaid Topical Index
Medicare Billing and Forms Instructions
Medicare Topical Index
Medicare/Medicaid Case Tables
Program Memoranda and CMS Transmittals
Report Letter Summary
CDA Spectrum - 13F Filings via WRDS: CDA Spectrum 13-F Filings - provides long term data on securities holdings by institutional investment managers.

Choose 'Thomson Financial' from the dataset dropdown after connecting, and click 'Institutional (13f)' at the left of the page.
CDA Spectrum - Mutual Fund Holdings via WRDS: CDA Spectrum Mutual Fund Holdings - provides long term data on securities holdings by mutual funds.

Choose 'Thomson Financial' from the dataset dropdown after connecting, and click 'Mutual Funds' at the left of the page.
Compustat (North America) via WRDS: Compustat - provides the annual and quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on most publicly held companies.

COMPUSTAT files also contain information on aggregates, industry segments, banks, market prices, dividends, and earnings.
Compustat Global/EMDB via WRDS: Compustat Global Vantage provides data covering publicly traded companies in more than 80 countries, representing over 90% of the world's market capitalization, including coverage of over 96% of European market capitalization and 88% of Asian market capitalization.

S&P's EMDB provides daily and monthly coverage of 53 markets and more than 2,200 stocks in developing countries.
Compustat Preliminary History via WRDS: Compustat Preliminary covers cases where a company reported preliminary figures (usually covering a period that has just ended), along with the corresponding release dates and the subsequently released figures, in both Annual and Quarterly formats.

The preliminary data items generally are based on company reports that precede official SEC filings of 10Q (Quarterly) and 10K (Annual) reports. This set also includes the most recent, restated or final values for each preliminary report item.
Compustat Unrestated Quarterly via WRDS: Compustat Unrestated provides official, originally-reported quarterly financial statement data. These item values are typically the same as the company's first 10Q filing for a quarter and they are effectively the same financials that markets use when making their investing, credit and pricing decisions.

Compared to restated data, they provide a better basis for performing research that requires information on 'what markets knew when' and calculating surprise announcements. This set also includes the most recent, restated or final values for each unrestated item.
Conference Board, The (aka Business Knowledge Research): Produces research reports on general topics related to business, economics and markets including: Boards of Directors, Branding, Compensation, Executives, Supply Chain Management and more ...
CRSP Mutual Funds: CRSP Mutual Funds provides historical and current mutual fund NAVs, profiles, monthly asset data, and data on "dead" funds.
CRSP via WRDS (+Merged File): The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) maintains a time series collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq stock markets.

The Merged file includes detailed income statement and balance sheet data from Compustat.
DataStream: DataStream includes equity prices, bonds, market indices, futures and options, and interest and exchange rate data.

DataStream is available only on the Library Database Room workstations. 1st time users should consult a reference librarian for a tutorial, or use our online user guide.
Direct Marketing Educational Foundation Data via WRDS: Four individual data sets, each containing customer buying history for about 100,000 customers of nationally known catalog and non-profit database marketing businesses are available through DMEF to academic researchers for use within academic situations.

The data sets included are: Non-Profit Organization, Multi-Division Catalog, Specialty Catalog, and Reproduction Catalog. These are research datasets and are not currently updated.
Dow Jones Averages - Total Return Indexes via WRDS: Covers the Dow Jones Averages and the Dow Jones Total Return Indexes. The Dow Jones Averages are comprised of The Daily and Monthly Dow Jones Composite, as well as The Dow Jones Industrial, The Dow Jones Transportation, The Dow Jones Utility, the The Dow 10, and The Dow 5.

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Indexes articles in economics, including economic history, economic theory, microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, production, welfare, inflation, accounting, international trade, consumer finance, political economy, and business credit.

EconoMagic

Contains economic time series data with a focus on economic forecasting. Provides Excel files for all series, with GIF and PDF options also available for some. Predominantly US macroeconomic data with the bulk being employment data by local area (state, country, city, etc). Advanced features allow users to work with series online.

Economist Intelligence Unit Publications

A full-text database that provides (in PDF and HTML) an overview of economic, political, market, investment, and trading conditions for more than 180 countries in all regions of the world.

The Economist.com, The Economist Magazine, Country Reports, and Country Profiles

Euromonitor GMID

A source of demographic, economic, and marketing statistics and research reports for over 200 countries. Provides volume and value market size data for 330 consumer products across 49 countries. Provides demographic, economic and background marketing statistics for 209 countries.

factiva.com

Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides world class global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires and The Wall Street Journal - unduplicated in a single service elsewhere. Factiva offers the only single content solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources.

Fama-French Factors and Liquidity via WRDS

The Fama-French Factors, constructed by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French capture a statistically significant fraction of the variation in stock returns between two portfolios formed on size, as measured by market equity (ME), and three portfolios using the ratio of book equity to market equity (BE/ME) as a proxy for value.

This data set also includes the Pastor-Stambaugh Liquidity series and the Sadka Liquidity measures. These are research datasets and are not currently updated.

FDIC Research Information System via WRDS

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Research Information System contains historical financial data for all entities filing the Report of Condition and Income (Call Report) and some savings institutions filing the OTS Thrift Financial Report (TFR). These entities include commercial banks, savings banks, or savings and loans.

FDIC files include details on structure and merger history, financial time series and ratios, plus complex derived integers data.

Federal Reserve Bank Reports via WRDS

The Federal Reserve Bank Reports database contains three datasets collected from Federal Reserve Banks. Two of them (Foreign Exchange Rates and Interest Rates) come from reports published for the Federal Reserve Board (H.10 and H.15 reports).

The third dataset contains the Coincident State Indexes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

First Call Historical Database via WRDS

The First Call Historical Database, or FCHD, is a history of First Call's Real Time Earnings Estimates.

Choose 'First Call' from the dataset drop-down after connecting.

Forrester Research [ New Fuqua Users | Registered Users | MEM Program Students ]

Contains market research reports and data for the online economy with a focus on the impact of IT developments on business and consumers. Limited by vendor license to students faculty and staff of the Fuqua School of Business.

Frost & Sullivan [ New Fuqua Users | Registered Users | MEM Program Students ]

Provides market research reports and data on a wide variety of industries and technologies. Limited by vendor license to students faculty and staff of the Fuqua School of Business.

Gartner Intraweb

Full text analysis of issues focused on business, technology, industry, and markets. Duke subscribed material is located in the "research" tab on the left, and the search link under the "news" tab.

Global Financial Data™

This database provides easily downloadable (.csv and .xls format) time series data on over 40 categories of US and international financial and economic data from more than 200 countries. Data provided includes:

Bond Indices
Central Bank Interest Rates
Commercial Paper Yields
Commodity Indices
Commodity Prices
Consumer Price Indices
Corporate Bond Yields
Deposit Rates
Exchange Rates
Futures Contracts
Government Bond Yields

Gross Domestic Product
Historical Stocks
Interbank Interest Rates
Interest Rate Swaps
Intraday Data
Lending Rates
Overnight and Call Money Rates
Population
Sector Indices-Consumer Discretionary
Sector Indices-Consumer Staples
and more ....

Global Insight

Global Insight - World Markets Research Center presents market and finance data arranged by country. It can be used to determine: country's financial profile, current news about the economic state of a country; political, economic, legal, operations, tax, and security risks; and long term (5 year) financial predictions.

In addition, this database also features special reports on important international finance issues, a globalization index and assorted news articles about current events affecting the global finance.

Duke users only have access to the Country Access and Analysis portion of World Markets Research Center.

Health Source - Consumer

A rich collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.

Health Source Academic

Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals, including the USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

Hoover's Company Records

Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

Hoover's Online Pro

Provides excellent company information plus extensive company officer lists, annual and quarterly financials, with a comprehensive overview of more than 50,000 companies. IPO filings, prices, and statistics under IPO Central section.

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I/B/E/S Forecasts, Recommendations & Actuals via WRDS: Provides consensus and detail forecasts from security analysts, including earnings per share, revenue, cash flow, long-term growth projections and stock recommendations.

Choose 'I/B/E/S' from the dataset drop-down after connecting.
IMF International Financial Statistics: International statistics on all aspects of international domestic finance. Time series summarizing covering over 200 countries and areas. Includes all the series appearing on the IFS country pages, exchange rate series for all Fund member countries (plus Aruba and the Netherland Antilles), major Fund account series, and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS world tables. The Country, World, and Commodity Prices Tables, as presented in the monthly printed copy of IFS, are available as selection options. The Economic Concept View provides a cross-country view of the concepts in the IFS by individual or groups of countries. Files may be downloaded in Excel (.xls), HTML, and ASCII (csv and tab delimited) formats.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA): Provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health-related literature. Topics include drug therapy, toxicity, pharmaceutical chemistry, and pharmacy practice. The database also covers legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.
Investext Plus: Investext Plus contains company and industry research from more than 500 investment banks and 190 trade associations -- plus more than 700,000 reports with 5,000 new reports added every week.
IRI Marketing Factbook via WRDS: IRI Marketing Factbook via WRDS provides point of sale information from 11,300 grocery stores and 7500 drug stores.

Contains only historical data from 1983 to 1997.
IRRC Directors Data via WRDS: The Investor Responsibility Research Center provides independent research and data covering corporate governance, proxy voting, and corporate responsibility issues. IRRC's Directors Dataset details the structure and practices of boards of directors for around 1,500 of the largest companies publicly traded in the U.S.
ISI Emerging Markets: Provides company directory information, financial data, and news from the world's emerging markets. For each country, forecasts for GDP (gross domestic product), growth, and inflation are indicated as well as news from both English and non-English language sources, company and industry information, financial markets reports, macroeconomic statistics and analysis, and legal and current affairs. Provides real-time Investext reports in PDF format (the two most recent reports per company, and the most recent industry report per emerging market country).
ISSM via WRDS: The Institute for the Study of Security Markets (ISSM) database contains tick-by-tick data covering the NYSE and AMEX between 1983 and 1992. Each year of data is divided into two files, one for trades and one for quotes.
Ivy DB (OptionMetrics) via WRDS: OptionMetrics's IvyDB is a comprehensive source of historical price and implied volatility data for the US equity and index options markets.
Jupiter Research: Jupiter Research provides strategic analysis and insight on digital commerce, including marketing, advertising, infrastructure, and technology. Covers e-commerce strategies; online demographics; web, wireless, broadband, and digital television services and technologies; and more. The "JupData" section provides full text statistics, data, surveys, and forecasts.
Leadership Library: The Leadership Library collects the fulltext of all of the print Leadership Directories or "Yellow Books" into a single, searchable web product.

Access to The Leadership Library is limited to students, faculty, & staff of the Fuqua School.
Lexis/Nexis Academic: Provides full text access to a wide range of U.S. and international newspapers, radio and television transcripts. Covers general, business, and legal information sources.

LexisNexis Academic is particularly strong in legislative, government, company, financial and demographic information, market research, and industry reports.

LexisNexis Academic provides online access to continuously updated archives of state and federal statutes, regulations, and case law. It also covers reference directories, medical and health resources, biographical information, and polls and public opinion surveys.

Provides the full text of over 6,000 sources including newspapers, journals, news wire services, newsletters, campus publications, company reports, case law, government documents, trade publications, broadcast transcripts, and selected reference works.

To find patent information, go to "Legal Research" (on the left), scroll down to the "Patent Research" section. Each section within patents can be searched through the basic or guided search tabs. Full text patents, with images, going as far back as 1790 for some types.
LexisNexis Statistical: Indexes statistics on population and demographics, business and financial activities, domestic and international trade, government programs, health, and politics. Provides indexing and abstracts of statistical information published by the U.S. government (American Statistics Index), international intergovernmental organizations (Index to International Statistics), and some publications by private organizations and state government agencies (Statistical Reference Index). Full text or links to the full text are available for some of the indexed sources. Duke does not subscribe to the "Power Tables" section of this database; the only information that is available here is what LexisNexis provides free -- use Search Abstract instead.

A list of full-text sources in the database is available online. See staff in the Reference or Public Documents and Maps departments in Perkins Library for sources not available in full text.

Coverage Information:

American Statistics Index: January 1973 to date; Statistical Reference Index: January 1980 to date; Index to International Statistics: January 1983 to date.
MarketLine: MarketLine is a one-stop resource for industry research containing data on over 2,000 industries including the automotive, food, beverage and tobacco, consumer products, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, leisure, energy and utilities, financial services and technology.

Industry profiles are also available with information on market share, market segmentation, the competitive environment, and market forecasts. Company profiles contain one to two page summaries that can be viewed on the web or downloaded in pdf format.

Over 10,000 companies can be searched and country browsing is also possible with the most popular countries listed prominently on the homepage. The news and comment tab leads to a two year archive of relevant news and stories on industries.
MEDLine Plus: Medical information for health consumers including popular information from the National Institutes of Health and other sources on over 600 topics on medical conditions, diseases, and wellness. Also includes information on prescription and nonprescription drugs; generic and brand name drugs; a medical encyclopedia with pictures and diagrams; a medical dictionary; health news from the last 30 days; directories of doctors, dentists, and hospitals; and other resources (local libraries, health organizations, publications, news sources, databases, international sites, links to thousands of clinical trials, and more).
Mergent Online: Mergent Online contains corporate descriptions and histories, including property, subsidiaries, capital stock and officers/directors. It also features financial statements and ratio analysis, as well as links to news headlines. Equity, plus bond "portraits" provide a complete analysis of the firm's financial health and industry peer comparison. Covers 25,000 companies worldwide, and is produced by Mergent, formerly Moody's.
Mintel Market Intelligence: Mintel produces some 600 market research reports into European, UK-specific and US consumer markets every year.

Industries covered include: Automotive, Beauty and Personal, Clothing and Fashion, Drink, Electronics, Food and Foodservice, Health and Medical, Health and Wellness, Household, International Reports, Internet and Retailing, Leisure, Lifestyles, Snacking/On the Go, and Travel
Morningstar Library Edition: Provides analysis and descriptions of mutual funds and stocks. Users can create lists of stocks and mutual funds based upon chosen criteria, and obtain portfolio analyses with asset allocation and diversification information. Morningstar issues reports twice a month on a five-month schedule. Each fund is rated once every five months. All pricing is current information, and ratings and risk information are updated daily.Intended for the individual investor. Data and portfolios cannot be exported, only printed.
Morningstar Principia (CD-ROM): Use this Morningstar product for detailed, in-depth analysis and screening of mutual funds and fund peformance. You may also print off the "Morningstar Page" for individual funds using this product. Principia is only available on Ford Library Reading Room Workstation #2. All data from the latest available quarterly CD is installed. No CD disc is required to access the data.
Noticias Financieras: NoticiasFinancieras (NF) is a news service of the IMS Group, produced in conjunction with 34 of the largest publishing organizations in Latin America. NF provides full-text, real-time financial and business news from Latin America. The NF database tracks over 11,200 corporations and organizations.
OneSource: A comprehensive database that provides worldwide company and industry profiles, financials and analysts reports, as well as business related articles, executive biographies, links to company home pages, and trade press articles. -- Most data is downloadable in Excel format.

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Plunkett Research Online: Plunkett Research, Ltd. produces industry sector analysis and research, industry trends data and industry statistics. Their research reports and online subscription service provide competitive intelligence, market research, vertical industry marketing data, or industry trends analysis. Industry sectors covered include: health care, financial services, retailing, entertainment, energy and information technology.
"ProQuest": ProQuest is a provider of database products in the same way that Ford Motor is a provider of different models of cars. ABI-INFORM Complete is the prinicipal ProQuest database for business articles in scholarly journals, newspapers, and trade journals.
ProQuest Asian Business: Find the latest business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere. Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more. Coverage: 1971 - present.
ProQuest Newspapers: ProQuest Newspapers provides access to the full text of the following newspapers: Christian Science Monitor (1988-current); Financial Times (5/31/1996-current); Los Angeles Times (1985-current); New York Times (1980-current); Wall Street Journal (1984-current); Washington Post (1987-current).
PsycINFO (via OVID): The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, medicine, nursing, the behavioral sciences, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, neuroscience, and neuropsychology.

Coverage is worldwide and includes references and abstracts to journals, dissertations, and book chapters and books in the English language. Popular literature is excluded.

Prior to 1921, coverage is limited to the American Journal of Psychology and journals published by the American Psychological Association.

Indexes major English language psychology books from 1987 to the present.
ReferenceUSA: Searchable database with detailed information, including addresses and phone numbers, on more than 12 million U.S. businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. health care providers, and 95,000 Technology Companies and 280,000 Executives
Reuters Business Insight: Full text market research reports focusing on five broad industry sectors: consumer goods, energy, finance, healthcare, and technology. Market analysis and forecasting looks at major issues and threats for each sector with analytical commentary and data.
Reuters Research on Demand: Provides real-time and full-text investment, corporate, and industry reports supplied by over 560 of the world's leading brokerage firms, investment banks, and independent research providers.

Contains more than 1.5 million full-text research reports on more than 26,000 companies in more than 99 countries. More than 15,000 new reports are added each week.

Use the advanced search to limit a search by country, industry, contributor, etc. Reports are available in HTML or PDF. Audio and video content is included with some reports.
S&P ExecuComp via WRDS: ExecuComp is part of the Compustat suite and contains executive compensation data from 1992 - 2004.

Choose 'Compustat' from the dataset drop-down after connecting, and select 'Executive Compensation' at the left of the page.
SDC Platinum: M&A, VC, Global New Issues: Contains detailed data on mergers, acquisitions, and venture capital deals, as well as new stock issues.

SDC Platinum is available only on Library Database Room workstations #6 & #7.

1st time users should consult a reference librarian for a tutorial.
SEC Order Execution Statistics via WRDS: This historical dataset (July 2001 - July 2005) was created to study compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 11Ac1-5 which requires that market centers trading national market system securities make monthly, electronic disclosures of basic information concerning their quality of executions on a stock-by-stock basis.

These disclosures include how market orders of various sizes are executed relative to the public quotes and information about effective spreads, and the extent to which they provide executions at prices better than the public quotes to investors using limit orders.
Sociological Abstracts: Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
SourceOECD: Provides the full text (in PDF format) of all journals and books published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1998. Provides in-depth international coverage of public policy, socio-economics, trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation, and more. Statistics are provided for many topics.
Special Issues.com: Specialissues.com is a solution for tracking and finding industrial and trade magazine special issues. Specialissues.com is an online database of editorial calendars, special issues and content "mined" from trade and industrial magazine websites.
SRDS Media Solutions: The SRDS Media Solutions Database provides advertising media rates and advertiser data through its coverage of traditional media - such as magazines, newspapers, television, direct marketing and radio - as well as online sources. This database delivers the full data contents of the following print publications of the Standard Rate Data Service (SRDS):

Business Publication Advertising Source
Consumer Magazine Advertising Source
Direct Marketing List Source
Newspaper Advertising Source
Radio Advertising Source
Interactive Advertising Source
TV and Cable Source
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage: A comprehensive database of financial information, covering corporate research, competitive analysis, investment information, and industry analysis.

Provides the full text of the following S&P publications: Bond Guide; Corporation Records; Dividend Record; Earnings Guide; Industry Surveys; Mutual Fund Reports; The Outlook; Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives; Security Dealers of North America; Stock Guide; and Stock Reports. Descriptions of these publications are available through NetAdvantage's help pages. Print back issues of most of the publications are available in Duke Libraries.
Statistical Abstract of The U.S.: The "Stat Abstract" contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations.

After connecting, click the current edition link and scroll down to the Index PDF to locate the data you need by its table (not page) number.
STAT-USA: 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 US Government. STAT-USA/Internet consists of two main databases:

State of the Union (SOTN) gauges the direction of the U.S. economy and contains a repository of economic indicators on topics such as employment, wholesale and retail prices, monetary and housing trends, gross domestic product, etc.

Global Business Opportunities (GLOBUS) & the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) provide access to over 200,000 current and historical documents on export opportunities by industry, country, and product; political and socio-economic conditions in hundreds of countries and more.
TAQ via WRDS: he Trade and Quote (TAQ) database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and Small Cap issues.
Thomson Financial Network (TFN) Insider Filings via WRDS: This data set provides long term data on company insider stock and derivative transactions.

Choose 'Thomson Financial' from the dataset dropdown after connecting, and click 'Insiders' at the left of the page.
Thomson ONE Banker: Includes comprehensive financial data on U.S. and international public companies. Offers business profiles, officer information, subsidiaries, annual and quarterly financials, earnings estimates, 15 minute-delayed stock quotes and graphs, real-time SEC filings from EDGAR, and annual reports.

Thomson One expands the capabilities and content of Thomson Research with new data including analyst research, earnings estimates, deal information, and institutional ownership.
TRACE Bond Data via WRDS: TRACE consolidates transaction data for all eligible corporate bonds - investment grade, high yield and convertible debt, providing access to information on 100 percent of OTC activity representing over 99 percent of total U.S. corporate bond market activity in over 30,000 securities.

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