Associations Unlimited UW restricted
Contains information for approximately 23,000 U.S. national nonprofit membership
associations in all fields. Features full contact information, description, SIC codes,
meetings and publications information, and more. Searchable by name, subject, keyword,
location, SIC codes or SIC descriptions.
Bowker's Books in
print - UW restricted
An index of books, audios, and videos available from U.S. publishers; database
on publishers, distributors, wholesalers, and book agents; full-text reviews;
and inventory data from wholesalers
Business Source Complete UW restricted
Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting,
finance, international business, econometrics and economics. Contains full text
of the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and other important
journals. Also contains Datamonitor company profiles with SWOT analysis for thousands of companies.
(To access
Datamonitor Company Profiles: from "Document Type" drop down menu, select
"Company Report" or hoover your mouse over the"More" tab at top of screen and select "Company Profile".
To access Datamonitor Industry Profiles: from "Publication Type" drop down menu, select "Industry Profile").
China Data
Online - UW restricted
Comprehensive database focusing on economic statistics of China,
arranged by regions and categories. Includes monthly and yearly reports on
China's macroeconomic development, statistical databases on China's population
and economy at the county and city level, and financial indicators of more than
568 industrial branches.
Conference Board
Business Knowledge Research UW restricted
This is a searchable database of full-text research reports on some of the
latest issues in business and economics. Economics material includes U.S.
and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national,
and international economic conditions.
Corporate Affiliations (On Campus Access Only) UW Bothell and
UW Tacoma
restricted
A corporate affiliations directory that provides insight into
174,000 parent companies, affiliates and divisions--U.S. public, U.S. private,
and international. Includes M&A activity from 1976 where available. Searchable
by multiple criteria such as company, parent company, subsidiary, personnel
(i.e., executive name or job title), responsibility, city, state, zip code,
country, product/brand name, outside service firm name or type, area code,
number of employees, sales, stock exchange, SIC code and SIC keyword, year
founded, ticker symbol, keyword.. Advanced
searches can be limited by public, private or international companies, as well
as parent, subsidiaries or both.
Current Index to Statistics
UW restricted
Contains cumulative bibliographic citations to statistical books and articles in
more than 1,000 journals, with coverage generally extending back to 1974,
earlier in some instances.
Datamonitor Reports are available through Business Source Complete. (To access Datamonitor Company Profiles: From "Document Type" Drop Down Menu, select "Company Report" or hoover your mouse over the"More" tab at top of screen and select "Company Profile").
Dissertation Abstracts UW restricted
Provides indexing and abstracts for doctoral
dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 Universities and Colleges in
the U.S. from 1861 to the present. The citations to dissertations include
24-page previews of the dissertations online for free.
EconLit
UW restricted
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.
Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU) UW restricted
Provide up-to-date analysis on worldwide market trends and business
strategies. Assess and forecast political, economic and business
conditions in almost 200 countries. Coverage includes Country Reports, Country
Profiles, Viewswire (daily analysis service), Country Commerce, and
eBusinessForum.
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netLibrary UW restricted
ebook collection available for use by University of Washington faculty, staff and students. Public Domain books, which include many classic books and other ebooks, are also available. Browse online or check out the ebooks for 12 hours and either download to your hard drive or browse online. Entire text is searchable. -
ebrary UW restricted
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Safari Tech Books Online UW restricted
Full-text technical reference books on topics such as networking, Java, Linux/Unix, Perl, .NET, desktop productivity, web development and more from O'Reilly and other publishers of IT books. Click here to see the list of titles in the catalog -
Gale Reference Virtual Library UW restricted
E-book topics include - Business, Management, IT, Arts, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science. -
Oxford Reference Online UW restricted
Online Encyclopedias include Computing, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Politics, Social Science and more.
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More E-Book Packages UW restricted
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Electronic Journals UW restricted
A-Z List of Electronic Journals. Some searchable.
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Ingenta UW restricted
Categories include Computer and Information Science, Engineering and Technology.
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JSTOR UW restricted
A subject searchable index of journals online with JSTOR. Retrieves full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's.
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Science Direct UW restricted
Web database for scientific research that contains abstracts, articles and full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Includes business, management and accounting journals with archives to 1984.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) contains information from about 350 open access journals (i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web). The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. The directory aims to comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system. Journals in all languages and subject areas will be included in the DOAJ.
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Wiley Interscience UW restricted
Topics include a sutie of business, computer science and engineering journals.
Ethnic Newswatch UW restricted
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and
minority press in America.
EuropaWorld Year Book
Online
UW restricted
Presents political and economic information on countries and territories as well
as international organizations. Features statistical data and directories
Expanded Academic Index UW restricted
Abstracts and some full text for over 1,500 scholarly and general interest
journals and magazines from major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences,
science and technology.
Factiva(Formerly Dow-Jones) UW
restricted
Factiva provides access to over 8,000 sources including newswires,
newspapers, magazines and trade publications, including sources from 118
countries in 22 languages. Also provides company and industry comparison
reports, company profiles, SEC filings and stock prices for U.S. public
companies.
Facts.com (Facts on
File World News Digest) (On Campus Access Only)
UW
restricted
Provides full access to Facts on File World News Digest (1980 to present), and
selected access to the World Almanac, The World Almanac Encyclopedia, Reuters
News Service, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science on File and
Editorials on File.
Forrester UW restricted
Forrester is an independent research firm that analyzes the future of technology change
and its impact on businesses, consumers, and society and analyzes such
technology areas as new media, computing, software, networking,
telecommunications, and the Internet. Access is provided to some reports in this
database.
Gale Virtual Reference Library UW
restricted
(Select: Business)
Contains several business- and IT-related e-reference sources such as
Business Plans Handbook, Encyclopedia of Business and Finance,
Encyclopedia of Small Business, International Directory of Company
Histories, etc.
Gartner UW restricted
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research
and advisory company. Gartner analysts and consultants are known to provide the
most comprehensive collection of analysis and advice to the global IT industry.
Global
Financial Data UW
restricted
Global Financial Data is a collection of
financial and economic data, which includes: long-term historical indices on
stock markets; Total Return data on stocks, bonds, and bills; interest rates;
exchange rates; inflation rates; bond indices; commodity indices and prices;
consumer price indices; gross domestic product; individual stocks; sector
indices; treasury bill yields; wholesale price indices; and unemployment rates
covering over 200 countries.
Hoover's UW restricted
Provides access to company profiles for about 14,000 worldwide public and
private companies, as well as to financial information, news and industry profiles.
Our subscription also allows access to Pro Tools for Targeting IPO Companies,
Building Company and Executive Lists, and Screening Stocks.
IMD World
Competitiveness Online
The World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) analyzes and ranks the ability of
nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness
of enterprises. World Competitiveness Online provides access to the entire WCY
database including a 5-year time series. The IMD World Competitiveness
Yearbook measures 55 countries on the basis of 331 criteria.
InfoTech Trends UW
restricted
Provides market data on the
information technology industry from over 65 industry journals. Includes
peripherals, software, storage, Internet, communications, etc. Covers revenue,
shipment forecasts, market share, usage, etc. Data is up to the most recent
quarter, comes in table format, and can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets.
International Financial Statistics Online UW restricted
http://www.imfstatistics.org
The International Monetary fund's International Financial Statistics is a
standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and
domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data
needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation
and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and
banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions,
government accounts, and national accounts. Information is presented in country
tables and in tables of area and world aggregates.
iPoll Databank @ The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research UW restricted
A full-text retrieval system, the iPoll online database is
organized at the question level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a
half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys, 1935 to
present. Surveys archived in the Roper Catalog were originally gathered by
academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization,
Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and many more.
ISI
Web of Science: Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities Citation Index
UW restricted
Search for articles that cite an author or article you specify.
Kompass UW
restricted
A searchable international directory containiing information
about companies, products, executives' names, and trade and brand names in over
60 countries.
Lexis-Nexis
UW restricted
Full text database of news from newspapers
(national, regional and world), newswires, transcripts, newsletters, magazines
and trade journals. Provides company profiles, SEC filings, accounting
literature, Country Profiles, Gallup Poll News Service, biographical information and access to other reference, legal and medical sources.
MarketResearch.com
UW restricted
The database MarketResearch.com provides in depth
market research reports for U.S. and global industries which are over 100 pages
long each. Written and published in the U.S. by various market research firms,
the reports provide quantitative and qualitative focus and analysis on leading
manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and marketers. Information included are
executive summaries, industry interviews, competitive analysis, market trends,
product innovation, buyer behavior, market share, and market forecasts.
Mergent
Online
UW restricted
Mergent Online provides access to 15 years of financial data for U.S. and
international public companies. Other information provided includes business
profiles, histories, lists of subsidiaries, company officers and directors. An
archive section provides U.S. and international public companies that were
acquired, went bankrupt, liquidated or merged out of existence from 1996. Full
Annual Reports for several years are integrated within the BASIC SEARCH Module
and Company SEC filings are available through the EDGAR SEARCH module.
Mint Global
UW restricted
Mint global, also known as Orbis (which is the earlier interface), contains
information on companies worldwide, including banks and
insurance companies, providing descriptive information, company financials,
news, market research, ownership, M&A data and more.
- Access World News
UW
restricted
The electronic editions for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources.
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Newspaper Source (Ebsco)
UW
restricted
Provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national (U.S.) & international newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
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Lexis-Nexis
Extensive array of full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters, magazines), including world news.
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Factiva UW restricted
Provides access to global news and business information, including newswires, newspapers, magazines, and trade publications; including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times; sources are from 118 countries in 22 languages
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NewsDirectory.Com
UW
restricted
This directory provides links to the web sites of national daily newspapers, TV stations, magazines and international newspapers. National newspapers and TV stations are listed by state. Coverage varies. Newspapers have archives of 14 days to 3 years and allow Advanced Searching by keywords in title, author or story. The latest edition of magazines can usually either be searched or browsed.
- World News Connection UW restricted
Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. The content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events
- More Electronic Newspapers
Oxford Reference Online:
Business & Management UW restricted
Online searching for Oxford University Press's Dictionaries of Accounting,
Business, Economics, Finance and Banking, Human Resource Management, and the
Handbook of International Financial Terms.
Plunkett
Research Online (On Campus Access Only)
UW Bothell and
UW Tacoma
restricted
An industry center providing market research, trends and analysis, industry
stats, profiles of industry-leading companies (both public and private),
industry associations, and company contact export features. Industries
include, Airlines, Hotel and Travel, Automobile, Computers & Internet,
Consulting, Energy, Engineering and Research,
Entertainment and Media, Finance and Investments, Food and Beverage, Health
Care, Biotech and Genetics, Retail, and
Telecommunications. In addition, Job Seeking/Careers information is given.
Public Affairs
Information
Service (P.A.I.S.)
UW restricted
Contains citations and abstracts from articles, books, government documents,
pamphlets, conference proceedings and U.S. Congress reports. Focuses on social, economic
and political issues and the making and evaluating of public policy, including government
regulation of industry.
Reference USA
UW
restricted
Also available from the UW Libraries Gateway. Select Reference Tools.
Then select: Directories.
Directory of Public and private companies and manufacturers for U.S. and Canada.
Searchable by company, SIC/NAIC codes, Yellow Pages subjects, and
industry. Can be limited by type and size of business (employee size or
sales volume), location (state, MSA, city, county, area code, zip code),
executive title, headquarters, branch or subsidiary, stock exchange or all
public companies. Provides address, phone, fax, number of employees, sales,
credit rating, ticker symbol, toll free number, SIC code, line of business and
if public company. Can also be searched for companies that meet specific
criteria such as all biotech companies in Bothell.
Sports Business Research Network
/ SBRnet UW restricted
Market research and industry news covering all aspects of the sporting goods
industry including: sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports
broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing.
SimplyMap
UW restricted
This Internet-based mapping application enables users to develop interactive
thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and
marketing data variables. Users can select, sort and compare data across
multiple geographic locations and build custom reports that can be exported to a
spreadsheet. Data is provided by Easy Analytic Software, Inc. (EASI), Applied
Geographic Solutions. Inc. (AGS), and Mediamark Research Inc. (MRI). Includes
2000, current estimates, and 5 year forecast census data for all
geographies: Census Block-Groups, Census Tracts, ZIP Codes, Cities, Counties,
States, and the entire United States; business and marketing variables; Survey
of the American Consumer using MRI survey data producing local estimates of
usage and consumption for thousands of products and services. (Note: Users will be asked to create
a personal workspace the first time they log-in to SimplyMap).
Link to:
SimplyMap
Tutorials
Social
Sciences Citation Index SSCI (Web of Science) UW
restricted
Web of Science includes
Science Citation Index Expanded, 1965-present; Social Sciences
Citation Index (SSCI), 1975-present; and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI),
1975-present.
Source OECD UW
restricted
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Online Library, which includes
monographs and annual reports by theme; periodicals; and statistics. Do a
quick search or use drop down menus.
Standard &
Poor's NetAdvantage UW
restricted
Provides global industry reports; in depth company profiles with Compustat excel
analytics; as well as stock, bond and mutual fund reports, economic insight, and
more. Exportable to Excel spreadsheets.
Statistical
UW restricted
Provides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from over 100,000 U.S.
government publications since 1973, state and private sources since 1980, and about 2,000
documents from international organizations since 1983. Available in
Lexis-Nexis.
TableBase(On Campus Access Only) UW Bothell and
UW Tacoma
restricted
TableBase specializes in tabular data on companies, industries, products and
demographics. It is international in scope, covers over 90 industries and
provides links to tables and articles from which the tables were
derived. Searchable by company name, country and region, SIC code, product
codes, industry, concept term (market share, ranking, forecasts, users, costs, etc.),
marketing term (ad volume, sales, distribution channels, etc.).
Testing and
Education Reference Center
UW restricted
Note: Off campus access currently unavailable for practice tests
Offers databases of colleges, vocational schools and graduate programs, as well
as the latest preparatory tests and financial aid sources and requirements.
Users can prepare for specialized tests for college, graduate school, military
or trade schools
Thomson Research (Investext)
UW
restricted
Investment research
featuring research reports written by top analysts at over 1,000 leading
investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide. Nearly 4,000
new reports are added each business day
Ulrich's
periodicals directory UW
restricted
Directory of over 240,000 serials, including consumer
and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, monographic series,
newsletters and newspapers, and other types of serial publications.
UN Comtrade
UW restricted
The Comtrade database is a product of the UN
Statistics Division and is the most comprehensive source for world trade data.
Contains annual international trade statistics, provided by over 130 countries,
detailed by commodity and partner country to the United Nations; all values are
converted in US dollars and metric units, the coverage dates back as far as
1962.
Vault Online Career Guide UW restricted
Includes downloadable career guides, over 3,000 company snapshots, industry
overviews, occupational profiles, over 1,100 career advice articles, and open
forums for networking and discussing career issues and related concerns.
WorldCat
UW restricted
Over 1 billion records of any type of material
cataloged by more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
World News Connection
UW restricted
A successor to the Daily reports from the Foreign Broadcasting Information
Service and the JPRS reports from the Joint Publications Research Service
provided through the National Technical Information Service. The material is
obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs,
radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. The content
focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical,
and socioeconomic issues and events. Full text is available on-line, or relevant
articles may be sent to a subscriber's e-mail address.
CD-ROMs available in the UWB/CCC Campus Library:
If you're on a computer workstation in the Campus Library Information Commons, link here to connect to the following databases: http://www.uwb.edu/library/cdroms.html
Simmons
Choices III National Consumer Study for 2000 and 2002
(Choices 3
link works with I.E. only)
To Access, you must use a Library computer
workstation in the Information Commons.
Select: Start/Programs/Library CD-ROMS/Simmons/Choices3.
The 2002 National Consumer Survey gathered
information on lifestyles, media habits, and product/brand preferences of
American families from over 20,000 U.S. households: what they eat, what they read and
watch, the sports they play, the products they buy, and how they feel about
consumer decisions they make.
Here are some Simmons database guides to help you become familiar with the
database:
- Beginner's Guide for Simmons Choices III is available here. Try walking through the example in the guide first.
- Using Simmons Choices III: From the University of Tennessee is this guide to using Simmons Choices III database
- Simmons Choices II Tutorial From the Foster Business Library, this tutorial explains how to use Simmons Choices II (similar interface)
- For more complex searches, ask at the reference desk for the Simmons Choices 3 User Manual (Public Work Station Computer Manuals HC110 C6 C47 1999-2000, 2002).
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