Introduction:
Use
databases (indexes)
to search
a range of resources
and publishers (i.e.:
journals articles, books,
conference papers, newspaper
articles, government
reports etc) for your
research topic.
The databases, recommended
here are just a few of
the hundreds subscribed
to by the Library. Some
are subject, or country,
specific; others are
interdisciplinary and
may have an international
focus. To maximize results look at the Library
Skills Tutorial section
on Search
Technique (including videos with sound).
Business
Source Complete (EBSCO
)
A very large database covering all aspects of business / commerce related subjects for over 1,200 journals some indexed back to 1886. contains a high percentage of active, peer-reviewed, business related journals Additional full text, non-journal content, includes financial data, books, conference proceedings, case
studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports,
country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. Search tip - type "" (quotation marks if you need to find a phrase eg: "interest rates"). Postgraduate students should investigate the Cited References function (More). See also help guide
Scopus
A very large, international, interdisciplinary
database indexing journals,
conferences, books and
web pages. Unfortunately
it does not have a subject
index/ thesaurus for
Social Sciences records.
Includes citation tracking to find who has cited articles you already know about. Note also the Web results.
Academic
OneFile Has combined searching
of a number of databases
including Expanded
Academic ASAP. Specific
Business related databases
titles are, Business & Company,
General Business File
and Small Business Collection.
Australian Databases
Attorney
General's Information
Service (AGIS) [Informit]
Indexes 400+ legal journals and includes documents from Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals, and selected articles from major law journals from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Subject coverage includes all aspects of law including administrative law, banking, companies and securities, constitutional law, international law, legal aid, and trade practices.
Australia/New Zealand Reference centre
Combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content. Does not index Fairfax newspapers
Business
Australia [Informit]
A collection of Australian databases including AIMMAT from the Australian Institute of Management, IREL and WORKLIT for industrial relations topics, AATD and VALISE for accounting and auditing, and TAXABS and TAXINDEX for taxation. Click on Databases to select an individual database.
ACCOUNT [Informit] NOTE: Select
the Business Australia
link above then
choose the Change Databases
and tick the box for
ACCOUNT then click Continue. ACCOUNT
covers accounting, auditing,
taxation, insolvency,
corporations law, superannuation,
retirement planning,
financial planning,
produced by the Institute
of Chartered Accountants
in Australia. 1982 -
present.
Products
and tradenames guide (B2NB) by Dun &
Bradstreet
Search for products & services
of Australian public
and private companies,
by company
name, brand or UNSPSC
code. Also details information
on Australian companies.
GMID (Global Marketing Information Database) [NEW! subscription]
GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts.
CEIC -[NEW! subscription]
Macroeconomic, industry and financial time series database for global emerging and developed markets. product information
SourceOECD
A
major source
of international statistics
and reports. Hint: click
on Advanced search (under
the Search
for box)
to add limits by date,
field name or format
(eg: statistics, working
papers etc).
ViewsWire
- Asia - E I
U.
Analyses (including
Excel spreadsheets) for
each country under
the following headings:-
Politics / News
analysis, Background,
Political structure,
Outlook. Economy / News
analysis, Background,
Economic structure, Latest
indicators, Outlook,
5-year forecast, 5-year
summary, Country risk
rating, Background Data. Finance/ News
analysis, Outlook, EIU
currency forecasts, Consensus
currency forecast, Interest
rate forecast, Equity
prices, Euro exchange
rate, Daily US dollar
exchange rates Business / News
analysis, Background,
Business environment,
Outlook, Corporate strategy,
Industry overview Regulations / News
analysis, Investment,
Competition and price,
Licensing and IP, Trade,
Foreign exchange, Tax Country forecasts
/ Country Risk Summary
/ Country briefing (see also: ViewsWire in Factiva)
World
development indicators
online (WDI)
World Bank
Obtain country time series
indicator (spreadsheets)
such as: consumption,
savings, education, employment,
banking, health, roads,
agriculture, stocks,
markets etc. (see
the online help).
WTO
(World Trade Organization)
Statistics database The Trade Profiles
section provides standard
information on the structural
trade situation and trade
policy measures of members,
observers and other selected
economies. The profiles
are complemented with
general macroeconomic
indicators. The Time
Series section provides
a searchable database
on international trade
in merchandise and commercial
services.
Factiva
An international, interdisciplinary database primarily indexing newspapers. Provides "facts and numbers from nearly 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and newswires." Search tip-
"headline and lead paragraph". enter your search terms with an AND between each keyword Introduction to Factiva.
NOTE: Click on the Companies/Markets link to investigate the stock market, stocks, funds, currencies etc over the last 5 years.
Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre
Full text. Search for your topic then on the results screen click the "Narrow results by" for Au/NZ Newspapers. Note - does not include the Fairfax titles (eg: AFR & BRW).
Elibrary -
try Factiva first. Elibrary
covers more than 2,000
full-text magazines,
newspapers, books, and
transcripts-delivering
full text on line. 150
newspapers, including
major, and local Australian
newspapers.
Academic
OneFile Has combined searching
of a number of databases
including Expanded
Academic ASAP. Specific
Business related databases
titles are, Business & Company,
General Business File
and Small Business Collection.
Academic
search Premier(EbscoHost)
This multi-disciplinary
database covers virtually
every area of academic
research. Full
text is available for
nearly 4,500 journals,
including full text for
more than 3,600 peer-reviewed
titles. PDF back files
to 1975 or further are
available for well over
one hundred journals. Search
tip -
type AND between
keywords.
Company
databases & resources available
on the Marketing web
page. This page also
has industry and country
resources.
Current Contents Connect
Current Contents Connect is a service by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) which provides access to the last 4 years of more than 8,000 science, social sciences, arts and humanities leading scholarly journals. If you are undertaking very comprehensive research, such as a thesis, you may want to use this database.
Econlit
Index to economics journals. Search
tip -
type AND between
keywords, also, when
results are displayed
use the subject headings
in the left hand panel
to refine your results.
Also search in Business
Source Complete
Economist Intelligence Unit - Asia
Provides independent, authoritative analysis and forecasts on country, industry and management analysis. Note: the Library provides access to other Economist Intelligence Unit titles via the Factiva database (click on Source and search for Economist Intelligence)
Emerald fulltext
This is a publishers index page to over 100 management journals subscribed to by the Library. The site offers full text archives back to 1994 and abstracts back to 1989. It covers major management, marketing, human resources, information management, quality control and operations management. About 80% of the journal titles are indexed in the Ebsco
Business Source Complete database.
Gartner Core Research [ subscription ] A database of reports and briefings for IT professionals, technology companies and investors.
Jstor
Collection from volume
1 onwards of over 270
core journal titles in
many disciplines. currently
only has around 45 journals
directly relevant to
Business students. Coverage
does not include
the last few years.
Law - CCH Online (Australia)
Includes:
Company Law;
Consumer Credit Law;
Corporations & Securities Law;
Family Law;
Securities & Investment Commission Releases;
Superannuation Law;
Tax ;
Torts;
Trade Practices Law
ViewsWire / Executive Briefings
- Asia - E I
U. (note: export data to spreadsheets using the Data Tool function)
Analyses (including
Excel spreadsheets) for
each country (ASIA) under
the following headings:-
Politics / News
analysis, Background,
Political structure,
Outlook. Economy / News
analysis, Background,
Economic structure, Latest
indicators, Outlook,
5-year forecast, 5-year
summary, Country risk
rating, Background Data. Finance/ News
analysis, Outlook, EIU
currency forecasts, Consensus
currency forecast, Interest
rate forecast, Equity
prices, Euro exchange
rate, Daily US dollar
exchange rates Business / News
analysis, Background,
Business environment,
Outlook, Corporate strategy,
Industry overview Regulations / News
analysis, Investment,
Competition and price,
Licensing and IP, Trade,
Foreign exchange, Tax Country forecasts
/ Country Risk Summary
/ Country briefing (see also: ViewsWire in Factiva)
Psycinfo (EbscoHost)
This psychology database,
is useful for behaviour
in organizations and
human resources courses.
RePec
A collaborative effort
of hundreds of volunteers
in 62
countries to
enhance the dissemination
of research papers in
economics.
All RePEc material is
freely available.
Scopus
A very large, international, interdisciplinary
database indexing journals,
conferences, books and
web pages. Unfortunately
it does not have a subject
index/ thesaurus for
Social Sciences records.
Includes citation tracking to find who has cited articles you already know about.
Web
of Knowledge (Institute
for Scientific Information
/ Web of Science )
Select "All Databases
tab to do a combined
search of several major
databases: Web of Science;
Current Contents; Cab
Abstracts; Inspec; Medline).
Has a small percentage
of business / commerce
related material. As
well as standard topic
searches, it allows searches
for articles that have
cited a given author,
article, book or other
item. If
you are undertaking very
comprehensive research,
such as a thesis, you
may want to use this
database.
Web of Science (see above) - Postgraduate students may investigate the cited references and citing references functions. Use this to find out which articles cite articles you already know about.
NEW - Feedback from Uni of Adelaide staff and students would be appreciated - Bernadine
Mint Global [Bureau van Dijk]
Mint Global is the ORBIS database of over 50 million companies from around the world. Includes listed and unlisted companies. The information is presented in five modules: companies, news, market research, directors and scanned reports. Export data to spreadsheets.
Osiris [Bureau van Dijk]
A fully integrated public company database ... Financial information [is included] on 57,000 listed and major unlisted/delisted companies worldwide (45,500 are non-US companies). The information includes: standardised and "as reported" financials (including restated reports), SEC filings, images of annual reports, corporate actions and dividends, detailed earnings estimates including recommendations, ownership, stock data, news and ratings
ZEPHYR [Bureau van Dijk]
containing M&A, IPO and venture capital deals with links to detailed financial company information. ZEPHYR now contains information on over 600,000 transactions (as of December 2008). Up to 100,000 new deals are added per year. ZEPHYR has nine years of global coverage and includes deals involving European companies going back to 1997.
Business Who's who of Australia (by Dunn & Bradstreet)
[subscription]
Search this database by product, employees, address, company name etc and download records to a spreadsheet.
GMID (Global Marketing Information Database) [Euromonitor]
GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts.
CEIC
Industry and financial timeseries database for global emerging and developed markets. product information
Journal titles may
be found by searching
the Catalogue and
an "electronic
resource" record
may link you to full
text articles on the
publishers website.
Where
a databases
does not provide links
from the article record
to the online full text;
the library's Article
Linker program enables
you to via
other sources available
through the library catalogue.
If
the journal title you want is
not in the Catalogue and you are either staff or a postgrad by research student,
see the Interlibrary
Request web page.
Some
references/citations
have abbreviated journal
titles, these are standardized
and may be found in print
resources in the library,
or on the internet by
using the Abbreviations.com web
site. If the citation
has an ISSN (International
Standard Serial Number)
you may be able to search
for the number. The
Ulrichs International
Periodicals database
may also help to locate
the correct journal. Guessing
the full title can waste
time as you may not find
the journal
even though we may have
a subscription. Please
contact your Research
Librarian Bernadine
Hardin or the
Library Research Help Desk
on 83035372
Another interesting
site for journal information is Journal Info this site is provided by Lund University Libraries.
If
access to any databases on
this web page have failed
try using the link in the Catalogue record.
Most of the university's
licence's for databases
include a limit on
the number of simultaneous
users, ranging from
1-8, if you do see a note about access limits try again in about
30 minutes.
Your university authentication is required in a similar
way when you are using
our system through your
own Internet Service
Provider (ISP) from
home, or from a workplace.
If you use the University
of Adelaide as your service
provider, your student
number and password are
requested to enter that
system too.
In all cases, you
will need always to approach
the (subscription) databases or journals
by using our website -
your access privilege
depends on coming through
the Library website.
RestrictedDatabases
-
Access is only available
to staff and postgraduate
students in
School of Business and
School of Economics
This list is for
information only - no
access is provided
from inside the Library
or from this web page. Business
and , Economics postgraduate
students must see their
supervisor
regarding these
resources.
Fin Analysis (Huntley).
Provides
a 12-year history of
detailed financial information
for all companies listed
on ASX. More than 400
data items are provided.
Innovative
web-based research functions
for
searching and interpreting
the data.
Thomson IBES analyst
forecast. Contains
detailed earnings forecast
by individual analyst
dating back to 1982 for
U.S. firms and 1987 for
Non U.S. firms.
S&P Compustat-
accounting data for all
NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ
firms in the U.S. over
the past 20 years.
S&P
Execucomp Information
on executive compensation
including executive stock
options, stock grants,
and other perks.
SDC Platinum (with access to mergers and acquisitions)
via
other sources available
through the library catalogue. 