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Business Resources Periodical
Indexes Business and Company Resource Center (UMW/VIVA only) An InfoTrac database that indexes periodical articles of which many are full-text, on business-related topics. Also includes Investext Reports, a database that provides abstracts and full text of reports and forecasts for more than 50,000 U.S. and foreign companies in 53 countries. In addition to the above, includes Company ProFiles, a database that provides current financial data and directory listings for more than 150,000 public and private companies in the U.S. Covers from 1982 to the present; updated weekly. Factiva (UMW/VIVA only) Contains full-text periodical articles and other documents, and provides access to news and investment information.Emerald (UMW/VIVA only) Emerald is a searchable database providing more than 130 full-text journals. Subjects covered are: leadership; marketing and human resource management; library and information management; engineering; plus applied science and technology. Archives go back to 1994 for most titles, with abstracts provided back to 1989. LexisNexis Academic (UMW/VIVA only) Hundreds of full-text sources are covered, including newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, company and industry reports, broadcast transcripts, selected reference databases, and legal opinions for most jurisdictions of the law.Wilson Business Abstracts (UMW/VIVA only) Indexes
close to 350 leading business periodicals. Full-text journals are
not included. Most of the indexed titles are owned by the UMW libraries,
however. Covers 1986 to the present; abstracts included since 1990;
updated monthly. Business
Journals in Stafford Library
Associations Unlimited (UMW/VIVA only)
American Society of Association Executives
Provides
hyperlinks to over 1000 association web pages. CorporateInformation: What You Need to Know This site strives to be a one-stop shop for both U.S. and international company and industry information. Look here for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) financial statements submitted by all publicly traded companies in the United States. You can retrieve 10-K, 10Q, and 8K reports here. Mergent Online formerly FIS Online (UMW/VIVA only) Included here are current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U.S. public companies, equity portraits and more. Financial data may be downloaded into spreadsheet software, and company/industry comparisons are easily obtained. This is a proprietary database for UMW students, staff, and faculty use only. Thomas Register of American Manufacturers Primarily
used for locating information about manufacturers of industrial
products and services, this site requires free registration.
Approximately 170,000 companies in the U.S. and Canada are included. The
Dismal Scientist: Economic Analysis and Data for the World Economagic.com:
Economic Time Series Page Maintained by the Economics and Statistics Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Indicators.gov provides access to the daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) NAICS
is the new "production-oriented" system for classifying
business establishments based on a single economic concept that
economic units that use like processes to produce goods or services
are grouped together. This system enables statistical agencies in
the United States to produce data that can be used for measuring
productivity, unit labor costs, and the capital intensity of production;
constructing input-output relationships; and estimating employment-output
relationships and other such statistics that require that inputs
and outputs be used together. This
excellent site, published by Oklahoma State University, brings together
hyperlinks for industry data, industry home pages, the North
American Industry Classification System (NAICS), and more.
The section "Researching an Industry or Company" takes
you through the process of company or industry research step-by-step. Investment & Financial Information From the editors of CNN and Money magazine. Mergent Online (UMW/VIVA only) Included here are current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U.S. public companies, equity portraits and more. Financial data may be downloaded into spreadsheet software, and company/industry comparisons are easily obtained. This is a proprietary database for UMW students, staff, and faculty use only. A directory of the most relevant and useful business sites on finance, stocks, economic trends, demographics, and industry information. Information Technology & Knowledge Management @Brint.com: The BizTech Network @Brint.com, the World Wide Web Virtual Library's "center of excellence" for knowledge management, is a collection of links that focuses on IT, management information systems (MIS), knowledge management (KM), and electronic commerce. Knowledge Management Resource Center This
comprehensive website was created by the IKM Corp. and provides
a comprehensive collection of knowledge management resources that
can be searched by keyword or review topics by department. Featured in Fortune, Bloomberg, Business Week, Fast Company, Wired and Forbes, where it was named among the "Best of the Web," CEO Express is designed as the "executive’s interface to the Internet" with peer-selected content executives need. Provided by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and updated bi-weekly, this site contains articles, papers, interviews, lectures, book reviews. and Web site hyperlinks covering several different areas of business, from finance and investment to human resources to operations management. Published jointly by Human Resource Executive magazine and the School of Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University, this annotated guide to Internet resources in "human resources, labor relations, benefits, training, technology, staffing, leadership, motivation,... and more" is searchable and browsable by subject.back to top^ |