Electronic Resources Gateway

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1971-

Description: Article citations and abstracts (some full text and image) for 1600+ U.S. and international business publications, covering business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, etc. Includes access to the Wall Street Journal.

Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.

* User information

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1980-

Description: Provides access to a wide variety of global business information, including company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and industry news and periodicals.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1965-

Description: Comprehensive business database of scholarly journals and business periodicals. Indexes and abstracts more than 4,500 business titles with coverage from 1965; of these, 3,600+ with full text.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: Comtrade provides commodity trade data for all available countries and areas since 1962.

Type: Reference, Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: 1988-Dec. 2001

Mode of access: Available at the BIC (Business Information Center).

Description: Provides business and financial information on public companies in the U.S. (domestic and foreign companies listed on national, regional and over-the-counter U.S. stock exchanges). Up to 15 years of annual and quarterly financial statement data from SEC filings as well as company-supplied Annual Reports to Shareholders and other publicly available reports.

Users: Discs for 1988-1999 licensed for one simultaneous user for the set; 2000-2001 licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

* Guide to Database Elements, SEC Database (52 p.)

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1974-

Description: Contains bibliographic citations to statistical books and articles in more than 1,000 journals.

Type: Reference

Mode of access: Available only in the Business Information Center (BIC) on its XP workstations. Path: Start/Library and information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Datastream.

Description: Provides international financial, economic, stock market and company data, including coverage of equities, stock market and bond indices, economic statistics, foreign exchange rates, interest rates, fixed income instruments and derivatives. DSWindows software allows data to be downloaded and exported and can be used to create graphics, reports and spreadsheets.

Type: Reference

Mode of access: Available only from public access computers in Hesburgh Library or any ND branch library. Path: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z//Directory of Incentives for Business.

Description: Contains state-by-state information on business incentive programs, providing data on eligible firms, permissible activities, terms and conditions, parameters on size of incentive, and contact information.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

* Restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs.

Coverage: Data series are available at daily, weekly, and monthly frequencies with history from 1946-2001.

Description: This database contains series data from four of the DRI-WEFA economics databases (basic, basic/d, basic/fx, basic/w) covering United States economic, financial, and demographic statistics. Concepts available are United States trade, population, production, income, housing, employment, and finance. Data series are available at daily, weekly, and monthly frequencies with history from 1946.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Description: A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1969-

Description: Comprehensive indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature (over 300 major economic journals and collected volumes) compiled from the American Economic Association's Journal of economic literature and the Index of economic articles in journals and collective volumes.

Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1996-

Description: Includes full text access to 1) Business Operations Report (Concise fortnightly business briefing), 2) Country Commerce (Guide to business environment, regulatory framework, trading risks, key economic indicators, including level of foreign direct investment), 3) Country Finance (In-depth analysis of national financial conditions and instruments, comprehensive guide on how to maximize return on overseas investments, case studies of foreign and domestic companies), 4) Country Monitor (Weekly briefings which highlight key developments from around the world affecting global business). Also: Business Africa, Business Asia, Business Eastern Europe, Business Europe, Business Latin America.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1940s-

Description: Provides article citations from several hundred journals in economics, finance, accounting, real estate, insurance and related subjects.

Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1990-1996

Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstations 30 and 31. Select the All Titles folder, then Ethics Index.

Description: Indexes journal article and essay literature in the field of ethics from 1990 to 1996.

User Guides: Accompanied by user's manual and a quick reference guide.

Type: Indexes & Articles

* Factiva can only be used with IE 5.01 or greater on the PC and with IE 5.1 or greater on the Mac (does NOT work with Netscape).

Description: Successor to Dow Jones News Service, Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs.

* Classroom instruction

Type: Reference

Coverage: July 1996-

Description: AICPA and FASB reports, general industry standards.

Users: Licensed for 12 users.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: GDF online includes a comprehensive set of tables with statistical data for 136 countries that report debt under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. It contains data on total external debt stocks and flows, aggregates, and key debt ratios, and provides a detailed, country-by-country picture of debt.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1980-

Description: Access to business research information (finance, acquisitions and mergers, international trade, new technologies and products, trends, investments and banking) from national magazines, trade journals, full-text investment reports, business directory listings, company profiles, and Wall Street Journal (citations only).

Type: Reference

Coverage: 1999

Description: Contains data on external debt and financial flows to developing countries. Data can be exported to Excel, Access, SAS, dbase, ascii; can map and graph data sets.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Description: Provides access to over 60,000 economics and business primary source microform titles searchable by subject, year, author, title, reel number, and book number.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: The IFS database contains time series data from 1948. The browser software provides a familiar and easy-to-use Windows interface for browsing the database, selecting series of interest, displaying the selected series in a spreadsheet format, and saving the selected series for transfer to other software systems, such as Microsoft Excel®.

Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

Type: Reference

Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Description: Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.

Type: Reference

* You must be using a PC and Internet Explorer or Netscape 6 or greater to use FIS/Mergent Online.

Description: Successor to FIS online, provides access to fully searchable data on more than 10,000 companies on the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchanges, including SEC filings and annual reports. Replaces print products from Moody's (Mergent): Bank and Finance Manual, Transportation Manual, International Manual, Public Utility Manual, OTC Unlisted Manual, OTC manual.

* Quick Reference Guide for Mergent Online (2 p.)

Type: Reference

Description: Contains information about NBER, contact addresses, and order and subscription information for its publications, with an option for online ordering. Many of its publications are available online and for downloading via FTP, including its working papers, NBER reporter, and NBER digest. Also provides information on forthcoming publications, and links to other economics sites.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: Collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.

Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.

* NetLibrary user guide
* ND titles

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: release 04-2

Description: Contains AICPA products: Professional standards; Technical practice aids; Audit and accounting guides; Audit risk alerts.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: Includes 3 sections: studies by theme, periodicals, and statistics. Studies by theme, containing monographs and annual reports, include 19 topics: agriculture & food; education & skills; emerging economics; employment; energy; enterprise, industry & trade; environment & sustainable development; finance & investment; general economics & future studies; governance; international development; nuclear energy; science & information technology; social issues & migration; statistics sources & methods; taxation; territorial economy; transition economics; transport.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Description: Contains full text articles on news and market research information from sports industry sources, including trade magazines and newsletters dealing with finance, licensing, sponsorship, sports broadcasting, ratings and more.

Type: Reference

* Password required -- available at the BIC (Business Information Center) and Hesburgh Reference

Description: Provides access to approximately 3,000 statistical publications including economic and trade related records.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: "... results of some initial research into the impact of globalization and trade liberalization on women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the challenges it presents, and the strategies women are using to meet those challenges."--p. v.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: 1999-

Description: Contains over 1,200 World Bank titles, searchable by keywords, title, and author.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)

Description: The World Bank's comprehensive database on development data (social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators) including more than 500 indicators, more than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups; with coverage from 1960 onward, where data are available.

Type: Reference

Coverage: 1993-2002 (May disc only for each year; content date may vary)

Description: Critical financial and business information on top publicly traded companies worldwide. A companion publication to Compact D/SEC which covers companies in the U.S. and Canada.

Users: Licensed for five simultaneous users.

* Data Definitions Guide (530 p.)