Introduction:
Use
databases (indexes)
to search
a range of resources
and publishers (i.e.:
journals articles, books,
conference papers, 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).
Econlit
Index to economics journals and working papers. Search
tip -
use quotation marks if you need to find a phrase eg: "interest rates" and when
results are displayed
use the subject headings
in the left hand panel
to refine your results.
Also search in Business
Source Complete
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). Summon is not recomended for finding reports/data related to industry profiles, consumers, countries, statistics and government etc.
Australian
Databases
Attorney
General's Information
Service (AGIS)
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.
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.
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.
Maddock,
Rodney & McLean,
Ian eds. (1987) The Australian
economy in the long run.Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge. BSL
339.994 M179a (The appendices
include statistics for 1901-1981)
Knibbs, G.H., Prices, price indexes and cost of living in Australia / Commonwealth Statistician. Published : Melbourne [Vic.] : Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, 1912 .... Includes tables of retail prices in metropolitan towns 1901 to 1912. Joint Store
Vamplew,
Wray. ed. (1987) The Australians
a Historical Library.
Broadway, N.S.W., Australia
: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon
Associates. [Vol. 10] BSL
*Reserve* 994 A9425
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INTERNATIONAL
CEIC -[subscription]
Macroeconomic, industry and financial time series database for global emerging and developed markets. product information
Eco5.com by McKinsey & Company An American site that has a historical data section for : Japan, Germany, UK; France; Americas; Europe; Asia; Africa
Economic Observer - a sub database within GMID see below Search data for (up to 5) countries or indicator comparisons then display and/ or export charts and data
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.
OECD iLibrary ( previously 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).
UNdata United Nations statistics page. includes agriculture; finance; health; education; industry; energy and more.
ViewsWire - Global - E I U. [ subscription ] (see the DATA tool function for exporting data to spreadshets)
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 Obtain country time
series (spreadsheets)
such as: consumption,
savings, education, employment,
banking, health, roads,
agriculture, stocks,
markets etc. (see
the online help). See the Data Analyser tool.
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.
Penn
World Table
The Penn World Table
provides purchasing power
parity and national income
accounts converted to
international prices
for 188 countries from
1950-2004
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
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 -
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
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 Has combined searching
of a number of databases
including Expanded
Academic ASAP. Specific
Business related databases
titles are, Business & Company
ASAP, General Business
File ASAP and Small Business
Collection.
Academic
search Premier(EbscoHost)
This multi-disciplinary
database covers virtually
every area of academic
study. 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
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 and working papers. Search
tip -
use quotation marks if you need to find a phrase eg: "interest rates" and 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.
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.
Jstor
Collection from volume
1 onwards of over 270
core journal titles in
many disciplines. currently
only has around 45 journals
directly relevant to
commerce students. Coverage does
not include the last
few years.
Kompass Australia [subscription]
Find companies by industry. Warning: some fields are blank, use broad search terms, without limits (eg staff numbers, turnover etc).
Law - CCH IntelliConnect (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 ] (see the DATA tool function for exporting data to spreadshets)
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)
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. See
also these links to
author details and how
to contribute papers.
Scopus
A very large multi-diciplinary abstract
and citation database
of research literature
with international coverage
and updated daily. It
includes indexing of
journal articles, conferences,
books and web pages. Unfortunately
it does not have a subject
index/ thesaurus for
Social Sciences records.
Web
of Knowledge (Institute
for Scientific Information)
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. Back
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Your university authentication (username/password) 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 that the year you need is 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.
Another interesting
site for journal information is Journal Info this site is provided by Lund University Libraries.
RestrictedDatabases
-
Access is only available
to staff and postgraduate
students in the
Business School 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.
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 that the year you need is available before clicking on a link.