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Getting Started:
NSU
NSU John Vaughan Library Home Page : http://library.nsuok.edu/index.html
*Note: to search from your home
computer, you need to have your NSU NT Username and password) http://library.nsuok.edu/Resources/Indexes/proxy.html
Journal Indexes (search for articles in journals and magazines on your topic)
http://library.nsuok.edu/Resources/Indexes/index.html
1.) Ebscohost-"Family of databases"
Business Source Complete (Trial for a limited time only)
Provides full text for over 1,060 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and much more.
B.) Academic Search
Provides full text for nearly 1,560 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education,
and much more.
Provides full text for over 1,880 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.
2.) Proquest (ABI Inform)
Includes selected full text and images of a wide variety of business journals.
3.) Wilson OmniFile
Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases:
Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text
4.) OCLC FirstSearch
PerAbs (Periodical Abstracts)
Indexing to a broad array
of specialized databases -some fulltext available.
Newspapers (good for current events)
1.) Newsbank and Ebscohost Newspapers(on the newspapers page)-includes full text articles from several national newspapers. http://library.nsuok.edu/Refdesk/newspapers/index.html
2).Yahoo Newspapers by country:
http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/Countries/
Classification Codes
North
American Industry Classification (NAIC) http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
Schedule
B Export Codes: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/schedules/b/
International
trade codes: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/reference/codes/index.html#hts
SIC
Classification Codes for products and services: http://www.bizminer.com/SIC-industry-description.asp
Corporate Information
1.) Mergent online
Mergent provides
a fully searchable database of 15,000
Mergent
Online offers access to Wall Street consensus earnings estimates on all
companies in the database followed by at least
Rich textual descriptions offer a wealth of
detail on items including business description, history, property,
subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock.
Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in
native currencies, maintaining the full integrity of this critical information
2.) Thomson
Analytics Excellent tool for researching peer corporations within
predetermined or customizable peer groups.
3) Annual
reports from
Annualreports.com free online annual reports to shareholders for most
major
4.) Mission
Statements/ Values Statements, etc. These items are usually found on the
corporation’s web site. At
other times, these
Items are found in annual reports to
shareholders or other official documents.
International Trade Statistics
1.) Foreign Trade Statistics
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/country/index.html
2.)
Statistical Abstract of the
3.) STAT-USA
(Requires password-Must be used in the library only. See library staff for
login information) http://www.stat-usa.gov/
A.)GLOBUS & NTDB -- Access this area for
current and historical trade-related
4.) State Export Data: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/state/index.html
External Environment
1.) Trends
in demography, culture, technology and politics impact the business
environment in which business seek to operate.
The business literature is an excellent
source for locating and identifying various trends. Journal databases such as:
Proquest (ABI Inform)
Can be useful in searching
business literature. Within these database, publications such
as Brandweek,
and Advertising Age are
excellent
resources for locating various trends. Be sure to incorporate
into your search such terms as:
trend* (ie social trend*)
new development*
prediction*
forecast*
as well as related terms.
2.) Economic
Indicators concerning the
a.) Economic Indicators. gov Economic Indicators.gov is brought to
you by the Economics and
Statistics Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
It provides timely access to the daily
releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau.
b. ) Federal
Reserve Statistics
Beige Book Commonly known as the Beige Book,
this report is published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank
gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District
through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business
contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book
summarizes this information by District and sector. An overall summary of the
twelve district reports is prepared by a designated Federal Reserve Bank on a
rotating basis.
c.) Wachovia
Monthly Economic Forecasts
Wachovia
Economic
Indicator Analysis
d.) Survey of professional
forecasters The Survey of
Professional Forecasters is the oldest quarterly survey of macroeconomic
forecasts in the
e.) White House: Economic Statistics Briefing
Room
f.) Conference Board: Business
Cycle Indicators such as leading indicators for US and several foreign
countries
3.) Global
Economy Factors
a.) World Bank Prospects
for the global economy
Financial Ratio Analysis
Competitive Industry Analysis
Print Resources
Standard and Poor’s Industry Surveys : Call
Number: HC106.6 .S74 location:
Reference collection NSU BA Library
Standard
and Poor’s (NetAdvantage) Online version of the Standard and Poors Surveys and Corporate Records
Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys are the fastest way to
come up to speed on the players and events impacting over fifty (50) of the
largest North American and global industries. Ideal for management consultants,
strategic planners, money managers, public and academic librarians, students,
and business faculty; Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys enable readers to
think and act like industry insiders.
Each report is authored by a Standard & Poor's industry
research analyst and includes the following sections: Current Environment,
Industry Trends, How the Industry Operates, Key Industry Ratios and Statistics,
How to Analyze a Company, Glossary of Industry Terms, Additional Industry
Information References and Comparative Company Financial Analysis.
Manufacturing & Distribution
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios: (Also
know as the “
Annual Statement Studies/RMA Call
number: Ref HF
5681 .B2 R58 Location:
Reference collection NSU BA Library
Online
Resources
Industry Center : Yahoo Finance: http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ind_index.html
US Census Bureau Business and Economic Statistics
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