Introduction:
Use
databases (indexes)
to search
a range of resources
and publishers (i.e.:
journals articles, books,
industry reports, company records, newspaper
articles, government
reports etc). 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 (includes videos with sound).
Business
Source Complete (EbscoHost
)
A very large database covering all aspects of business / commerce and economics related subjects for over 1,200 journals some indexed back to 1886. Also 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").
Summon
The search box on the Library home page is a "Google" type search of many of our journal and newspaper subscriptions, as well as the Library Catalogue. Search tip: use several of the "Refine Search" (left hand frame) options. e.g.:- click Subject/More and select 2 or 3 of the essential subjects in your topic. Also, boolean comands must be capitalized (e.g. AND; OR). Not recomended for finding reports/data related to industry profiles, consumers, countries, statistics and government etc.
Australian Databases
The Library has a subscription access to all of the following 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 [Ebscohost]
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
Informit - Business
Australia AND Informit e-Library : Business [& Economics] Business Australia = 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. E-library Business - has access to journals, books, and reference materials published by small Australasian academic and professional associations and research centres. Login then click
on "Databases" to select several databases.
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.
IntelliConnect (CCH Australia)[ subscription ]
Australian law, legislation, news, analysis etc. Comprehensive coverage.Either enter a keyword in the search box or use the Browse function.
GMID (Global Marketing Information Database) [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 -[ subscription]
Macroeconomic, industry and financial time series database for global emerging and developed markets. product information
OECD iLibrary ( previously SourceOECD) [ subscription ]
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).
UN
Comtrade [ subscription ]
Delivers international
trade statistics.
See also the Statistics
database of the World
Trade Organization.
UNdata United Nations statistics page. includes finance; industry; tourism energy and more.
ViewsWire
- Global - E I
U. [ subscription ]
Analyses (including
Excel spreadsheets) for
each country under
the following headings:-
Politics / News
analysis, Background,
Political structure,
Outlook. Economy / News
analysis,
Economic structure, Latest
indicators,
5-year forecast, Country risk
rating, Background Data. Finance/ News
analysis, Outlook, Consensus
currency forecast, Interest
rate forecast, Equity
prices, Euro exchange
rate Business / News
analysis,
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 [ subscription ]
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.
A "Summon" search on the Library Home page is also a good place to find newspaper articles. Tip: use the filters in the left hand frame.
Factiva [ subscription ]
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 [ subscription ]
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 -[ subscription ]
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.
PressDisplayNEW [ subscription ]
Online access to over 1200 newspapers from more than 82 countries, displayed in their original format and accessible by country, language, or title. Titles are archived for 60 days.
Academic
OneFile [ subscription] 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) [ subscription ]
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.
CEIC [ subscription ]
Industry and financial timeseries database for global emerging and developed markets. product information
Company
databases & resources available
on the Marketing web
page. This page also
has industry and country
resources.
Current Contents Connect [ subscription ]
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 [ subscription ]
Index to economics journals.As well as journal articles this databases has a high percentage of workingpapers.
Economist Intelligence Unit - Asia [ subscription ]
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. 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.
Fin Analysis (Aspect Huntly / Morningstar ) [subscription]. 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. [A Business School subscription]
Gartner Core Research [ subscription ] A database of reports and briefings for IT professionals, technology companies and investors.
GMID (Global Marketing Information Database) [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.
IBIS World [subscription] NEW! Over 500 Australian up-to-date industry reports. Each report consists of 30 to 40 pages of statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and historical performance, and a five-year forecast. A two-page summary of the industry report is also available.
JSTOR [ subscription ]
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.
Australian Exporters & Manufacturers [previously Kompass Australia] [ subscription ]
Find companies by industry. Warning: some fields are blank, use broad search terms, without limits (eg staff numbers, turnover etc).
Law IntelliConnect (CCH Australia)[ subscription ]
Comprehensive coverage. Find information either by entering a keyword in the search box or use the Browse function
Mint Global [Bureau van Dijk] [ subscription ] Help 1 page PDF
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] [ subscription ]Help 1 page PDF
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.
ViewsWire
- Global - E I
U. [ subscription ]
Analyses (including
Excel spreadsheets) for
each country under
the following headings:-
Politics / News
analysis, Background,
Political structure,
Outlook. Economy / News
analysis,
Economic structure, Latest
indicators,
5-year forecast, 5-year
summary, Country risk
rating, Background Data. Finance/ News
analysis, Outlook, Consensus
currency forecast, Interest
rate forecast, Equity
prices, Euro exchange
rate Business / News
analysis,
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) [ subscription ]
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 [ subscription ]
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 ) [ subscription ]
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.
ZEPHYR [Bureau van Dijk][ subscription ] Containing mergers & acquisitions, IPO and venture capital deals with links to detailed financial company information. It has nine years of global coverage and includes deals involving European companies going back to 1997.
Your university authentication is required when you access the Library online subscription resources. Always access these resources by clicking on the links on the Library web pages which will then ask you for your university authentication. This also applies if you access resources
through your
own Internet Service
Provider (ISP) from
home, or from a workplace.
Some 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.
Journal article full text may
be located by searching for the journal title (not the article title) in the Library Catalogue so that an "electronic
resource" record
may link you to full
text articles on the
publishers website.
Where
a database
does not provide links to full text
from an article record
the library's Article
Linker program enables
you to check for Library online subscriptions when you click on this may take you direct to a suppliers website or, in some instances, you may see Library access to several other suppliers. Check the years available before clicking on a link.
If
the journal title you want is
not in the Catalogue and you are either staff or a postgrad student,
see the Interlibrary
Request web page where you can make upt 50 free requests.
Databases - If
access to any databases on
this web page has failed
try using the link in the Catalogue record.
If you have an abbreviated journal title guessing
the full title could be a problem. Abbreviated journal
titles, are standardized
and may be found in print
resources in the library,
or on the internet by
using sites such as Abbreviations.com web
site. If the citation
has an ISSN (International
Standard Serial Number)
you may be able to search
by that number. The
Ulrichs International
Periodicals database
may also help to locate
the correct journal. When you have the correct full journal title, search the Library catalogue. Please
contact your Research
Librarian Bernadine
Hardin or the
Library Research Help Desk
on 83035372 for further assistance.
Journal Info this site is provided by Lund University Libraries.
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)
The 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.
This dataset contains standardized data for blockholders of 1,913 companies. The data was cleaned from biases and mistakes usually observed in the standard source for this particular type of data. Blockholders' data is reported by firm for the period 1996-2001.
The CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Volatility Index(VIX) is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices. The VIX measures the market's expectation of 30-day volatility. The VIX is based on S&P 500 index option prices and incorporates information from the volatility skew by using a wider range of strike prices rather than just at-the-money series.
COMPUSTAT (from Standard & Poor's) provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 24,000 publicly held companies.
Company Financials Backdata (Base Product: Industrial, Segments +)
Bank
Executive Compensation
Company Financials (Base Product: Industrial, Segments +)Price, Dividends, Earnings-- Active Equities (Active, Inactive Equities)Segments -- Inactive Companies (research file)
The Center for Research in Security Prices maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolio, treasury bond and risk-free rates, and mutual fund databases.
S&P - uniquely identifying issuers and issues of financial instruments within a standard framework, provide CUSIP numbers, standardized descriptions and additional data attributes for over 5 million corporate, municipal and government securities offered in North America.
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 approved academic researchers for use within academic situations.
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. The Total Return Indexes account for reinvested dividends, and, like all Dow Jones Total Market Indexes, cover 95% of the underlying market.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation dataset contains financial data and history of 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.
The Federal Reserve Bank Reports contains three databases collected from Federal Reserve Banks. Two of them (Foreign Exchanges and Interest Rates) come from reports published for the Federal Reserve Board (H.10 and H.15 reports). The other one contains the Coincident State Indexes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
The Penn World Tables provides national income accounts-type of variables converted to international prices. The homogenization of national accounts to a common numeraire allows valid comparisons of income among countries. Data comes from Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 6.1, Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania, October 2002.
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange's United Currency Options Market (UCOM) offers choice of expiration date, strike (exercise) price, premium payment and any combination of 10 currencies currently available for a total of 100 possible currency pairs.
As a result of Rule 11Ac1-5, market centers that trade national market system securities must make monthly, electronic disclosures of basic information concerning their quality of executions on a stock-by-stock basis
TRACE consolidates transaction data for all eligible corporate bonds - investment grade, high yield and convertible debt. As a result, individual investors and market professionals can access information on 100 percent of OTC activity representing over 99 percent of total U.S. corporate bond market activity in over 30,000 securities.
this may take you direct to a suppliers website or, in some instances, you may see Library access to several other suppliers. Check the years available before clicking on a link.