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Business Databases by Function
Description: Use this option to see which resources are particularly useful for finding articles, case studies, company profiles, industry overviews, international markets, economic analysis, etc.
Restrictions: None
Business Source Complete
Description: Comprehensive coverage of journals and trade publications in all business-related disciplines; includes indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports and country reports.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Description: Summary of data on business, economic and social conditions from the Census Bureau. Printed volumes available in Reference at Lincoln Park, Loop, Naperville and O'Hare at R.317.3 U58S.
Restrictions: None
Search for this resource in the library catalog
1ABI/Inform
Description: Includes ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. This database covers business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1971-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
2BizMiner
Description: A statistical research database that allows for basic or highly granular trend analysis through the use of industry financials, ratios and market research (including: start up activity, sales growth, employment rates and business failures) at the national and local levels.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Company & Industry Profiles, Statistics & Data Sets
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
3Business & Company Resource Center
Description: Company and industry profiles with rankings, market share, investment reports and links to full-text articles.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1980-present
Use to locate: Analyst reports, Articles, Company & Industry Profiles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
4Business Source Complete
Description: Comprehensive coverage of journals and trade publications in all business-related disciplines; includes indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, and Harvard Faculty Seminar Videos.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1886-present
Use to locate: Articles, Company & Industry Profiles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
5CCH IntelliConnect
Description: Includes all content formerly found in CCH Business & Finance, CCH Human Resources, and CCH Tax Research Network. Provides access to law and expert analysis in state & federal taxes, banking, energy/utilities, government contracts, securities, trade regulation, computer law, and human resources management policies and practices. Note: Users are required to create an individual login account to access. Functional only in Internet Explorer; other browsers not supported.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles, Policy & regulatory analysis
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
6Conference Board Business Knowledge Research
Description: Research reports on the latest issues in business management, leadership, HR, annual overviews of executive compensation and corporate giving, corporate governance, productivity and CRM; US and global economic indicators, analysis and forecasts. For the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, see Dismal Scientist.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1998-present
Use to locate: Analyst reports
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
7Corporate Watch
Description: This site maintained by the AFL-CIO provides materials on corporate social responsibility issues from organized labor's perspective.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles, Web Sites
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
8EIU.com
Description: Economist Intelligence Unit provides continual updates of economic, financial and risk analysis and forecasts on more than 200 countries and eight key industries; includes trend tracking and operating environments.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Analyst reports
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
9HBS Working Knowledge
Description: Collection of cutting-edge articles on leadership, entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, finance, marketing, operations and e-commerce.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles
10ProceedingsFirst
Description: Indexes documents produced by congresses, symposia and conferences in many academic fields; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1993-present
Use to locate: Conference papers
11Regional Business News
Description: Complements Business Source Complete by covering the content of small-city newspapers and local business magazines.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles, Newspapers
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
12Social Science Research Network
Description: Indexes scholarly working papers; with abstracts and some full-image papers.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
13Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
Description: Public company profiles, investment analysis and comprehensive industry overviews of over 50 of the largest North American. Includes access to separate Global Industry Surveys.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Analyst reports, Company & Industry Profiles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
14StatUSA
Description: Domestic economic statistics, country commercial guides and marketing reports from federal government agencies. for import/export data, see the database USA Trade Online.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Analyst reports, Statistics & Data Sets
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
1BizMiner
Description: A statistical research database that allows for basic or highly granular trend analysis through the use of industry financials, ratios and market research (including: start up activity, sales growth, employment rates and business failures) at the national and local levels.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
2County Business Patterns
Description: Data on US businesses by county. Collected annually.
Restrictions: None
Dates Covered: 1993-present
3Credo Reference: Bilingual Business Dictionaries
Description: Offers business dictionaries in French, German and Spanish.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
4Credo Reference: Business
Description: Online access to the full text of several standard business dictionaries including Wall Street Words and Handbook of United States Economic and Financial Indicators. Also contains The Ultimate Business Library--summaries of those books which have had the most significant impact on management thinking during the 20th century grouped by decade.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
5Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
Description: Spans the relationships among business, ethics, and society including coverage of corporate social responsibility, the obligation of companies to various stakeholder groups, the contribution of business to society and culture, and the relationship between organizations and the quality of the environment.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
6Statistical Abstract of the United States
Description: Summary of data on economic and social conditions from the Census Bureau. Printed volumes available in Reference at Lincoln Park, Loop, Naperville and O'Hare at R.317.3 U58S.
Restrictions: None
Search for this resource in the library catalog
7StatUSA
Description: Domestic economic statistics, country commercial guides and marketing reports from federal government agencies. for import/export data, see the database USA Trade Online.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
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1ABI/Inform
Description: Includes ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. This database covers business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1971-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
2BizMiner
Description: A statistical research database that allows for basic or highly granular trend analysis through the use of industry financials, ratios and market research (including: start up activity, sales growth, employment rates and business failures) at the national and local levels.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Company & Industry Profiles, Statistics & Data Sets
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
3Books 24x7: BusinessPro
Description: Full text business books by publishers such as: AMACOM, ASTD Press, Berrett-Koehler, Harvard Business School Publishing, John Wiley, MIT Press, Oxford University Press and others.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: E-books
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
4Books 24x7: ExecSummaries
Description: Provides Soundview executive summaries of leading business books.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: E-books
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
5Business & Company Resource Center
Description: Company and industry profiles with rankings, market share, investment reports and links to full-text articles.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1980-present
Use to locate: Analyst reports, Articles, Company & Industry Profiles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
6Business Databases by Function
Description: Use this option to see which resources are particularly useful for finding articles, case studies, company profiles, industry overviews, international markets, economic analysis, etc.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Related resources
7Business Source Complete
Description: Comprehensive coverage of journals and trade publications in all business-related disciplines; includes indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, and Harvard Faculty Seminar Videos.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1886-present
Use to locate: Articles, Company & Industry Profiles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
8CCH IntelliConnect
Description: Includes all content formerly found in CCH Business & Finance, CCH Human Resources, and CCH Tax Research Network. Provides access to law and expert analysis in state & federal taxes, banking, energy/utilities, government contracts, securities, trade regulation, computer law, and human resources management policies and practices. Note: Users are required to create an individual login account to access. Functional only in Internet Explorer; other browsers not supported.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles, Policy & regulatory analysis
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
9Conference Board Business Knowledge Research
Description: Research reports on the latest issues in business management, leadership, HR, annual overviews of executive compensation and corporate giving, corporate governance, productivity and CRM; US and global economic indicators, analysis and forecasts. For the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, see Dismal Scientist.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1998-present
Use to locate: Analyst reports
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
10Corporate Governance
Description: News, links, commentary and advocacy on governance issues, geared for active investors.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Web Sites
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
11Corporate Watch
Description: This site maintained by the AFL-CIO provides materials on corporate social responsibility issues from organized labor's perspective.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles, Web Sites
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
12County Business Patterns
Description: Data on US businesses by county. Collected annually.
Restrictions: None
Dates Covered: 1993-present
Use to locate: Statistics & Data Sets
13Credo Reference: Bilingual Business Dictionaries
Description: Offers business dictionaries in French, German and Spanish.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Dictionaries
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
14Credo Reference: Business
Description: Online access to the full text of several standard business dictionaries including Wall Street Words and Handbook of United States Economic and Financial Indicators. Also contains The Ultimate Business Library--summaries of those books which have had the most significant impact on management thinking during the 20th century grouped by decade.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
15EIU.com
Description: Economist Intelligence Unit provides continual updates of economic, financial and risk analysis and forecasts on more than 200 countries and eight key industries; includes trend tracking and operating environments.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Analyst reports
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
16Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
Description: Spans the relationships among business, ethics, and society including coverage of corporate social responsibility, the obligation of companies to various stakeholder groups, the contribution of business to society and culture, and the relationship between organizations and the quality of the environment.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
17HBS Working Knowledge
Description: Collection of cutting-edge articles on leadership, entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, finance, marketing, operations and e-commerce.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles
18ProceedingsFirst
Description: Indexes documents produced by congresses, symposia and conferences in many academic fields; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1993-present
Use to locate: Conference papers
19Regional Business News
Description: Complements Business Source Complete by covering the content of small-city newspapers and local business magazines.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles, Newspapers
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
20Social Science Research Network
Description: Indexes scholarly working papers; with abstracts and some full-image papers.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
21Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
Description: Public company profiles, investment analysis and comprehensive industry overviews of over 50 of the largest North American. Includes access to separate Global Industry Surveys.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Analyst reports, Company & Industry Profiles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
22Statistical Abstract of the United States
Description: Summary of data on economic and social conditions from the Census Bureau. Printed volumes available in Reference at Lincoln Park, Loop, Naperville and O'Hare at R.317.3 U58S.
Restrictions: None
Search for this resource in the library catalog
Use to locate: E-books, Statistics & Data Sets
23StatUSA
Description: Domestic economic statistics, country commercial guides and marketing reports from federal government agencies. for import/export data, see the database USA Trade Online.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Analyst reports, Statistics & Data Sets
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
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