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Business Databases

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Business & Industry Databases
  • Business Source Premier Authentication Required
    This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
    Business Source Premier database includes both scholarly journals and periodicals for practitioners. Locate full-text coverage to more than 2,800 journals in business, economics, political science and public administration. Coverage dates vary by title. Selected Datamonitor company reports and EIU country documents are also available. Results can be downloaded or emailed.
  • Conference Board Business Knowledge Research Collection Authentication Required
    The Conference Board Business Knowledge Research Collection is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Topics include: business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, customer relationship management and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of US and international economic conditions.
  • EconLit Authentication Required
    Contains bibliographic citations and selected abstracts to the professional and scholarly literature in the field of economics and allied disciplines, including journals, books, chapters in books, conference proceedings and dissertations.
  • Elsevier ScienceDirect Authentication Required
    Resource Temporarily Unavailable
    A large publisher of journals in the sciences and social sciences, including business. Search for articles, include words in the full text. Coverage 1998-present for most titles
  • Hein Online Authentication Required
    Full-text legal periodicals database with browse and full-text search features. Includes coverage of many older legal periodicals not available in electronic format elsewhere.
    Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty
  • JSTOR Authentication Required
    Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR.
    Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty
  • Key Business Ratios Authentication Required
    Key Business Ratios, from Dun and Bradstreet, help you to assess how a business is doing compared to an industry or a competitor. The 14 key business ratios cover the critical areas of business performance --solvency, efficiency and profitability. They are broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles. Ratios are arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes -a four-digit number that classifies business establishments by defining the industries in which they do business.
  • LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
    LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
  • Periodicals Index Online Authentication Required
    PIO is an electronic index to the tables of contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed. PIO currently indexes over twelve million journal articles in over 3,500 journals.
  • ProQuest Newsstand Authentication Required
    This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
    ProQuest Newsstand provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources. Full-text titles include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Christian, Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other newspapers of record.
  • PsycINFO Authentication Required
    Covers all areas of psychology. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields. In addition, PsycINFO covers books, book chapters, and dissertations. PsycINFO supports searching cited references.
  • Regional Business News Authentication Required
    This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
    Full text coverage for regional business publications; Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis
  • SpecialIssues.com Authentication Required
    SpecialIssues.com indexes industrial and trade magazine special issues. Examples of special issues include: industry outlooks, overviews, or surveys; statistical issues; company ranking lists; buyers guides; salary surveys; product/industry focus issues; membership directories; who's who registers; tradeshow specials; etc. Many special issues are available on the Internet and are designed to be interactive/searchable and provide greater content than the printed versions. When possible, Special Issues.com tracks the special issue, how long has the special issue has been produced and content of the issue.
  • Star Tribune (archives via ProQuest Newsstand) Authentication Required
    This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
    Full text available from 1986 - Current.
  • St. Paul Pioneer Press Authentication Required
    Full text coverage from 1988 to the present of the daily newspaper for the City of St Paul. Besides articles about the Twin Cities, coverage includes western Wisconsin and the state of Minnesota. Due to recent legal restrictions, free lance authors may not be included in the online version.
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (included in Web of Science) Authentication Required
    Covers the social sciences, including anthropology, history, industrial relations, information science and library science, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, political science, public health, social issues, social work, sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women's studies.
    Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 60% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work.
    Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals."
  • Wall Street Journal Authentication Required
    Contains the full-text Wall Street Journal newspaper which has extensive coverage of stock markets, finance, investments and business-oriented news. Database version from Proquest includes business and financial news and analysis, company news, regular columns, special reports, articles on the national and world economy, editorials and opinion, interviews, and Reuters news stories. Excludes charts and free standing tabular data, such as stock tables and other exchange listings.
  • Wiley Interscience Authentication Required
    Full text collection to 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books from John Wiley, a publisher of scientific and social science literature.
    Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty
Financial Markets and Security Analyst Reports
  • Investext Authentication Required
    Investext contains research/analyst reports on companies and industries as well as annual statistical reports of industry trade associations. It delivers full-text reports in their original published formats, complete with charts, photographs and graphics. Investext Plus contains full-text analyst reports from 700 of the world's top investment banks, brokerage firms and trade associations. It contains over 700,000 reports, with thousands of new reports added each week. Historical reports are available back to 1996. Investext also gives users the same research and analysis used at top investment banks, consulting firms and law firms to monitor industry trends, track company financials, and research merger and acquisition opportunities.
  • Datamonitor Company Profiles Authentication Required
    Use Business Source Premier to find profiles of 5000 of the world's leading companies that includes major products and services, competitors, and analysis.
  • LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
    LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
  • Value line investment survey.
    Provides one page summaries on approximately 1,700 publicly traded companies preceded by an industry evaluation.
    • Location(s): WILSON Business Reference HG4501 .V26
  • Global Financial Data Authentication Required
    The Global Financial Database is a collection of financial and economic data provided in ASCII or Excel format. There are 20,000 historical or current data series which may be downloaded directly from the web site. Global coverage includes stocks, bonds, treasury bills, interest rates, commodity prices, CPI, GDP, exchange rates, indexes, population and more.
    Looking for historical stock prices? Look at this short tutorial on using GFD to find historical stock prices.
Marketing Information Databases
  • Advertising Red Books Authentication Required
    Competitive intelligence and prospecting data on advertising agencies and on advertisers. The database contains information on nearly 18,000 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. The Advertising Agency database contains detailed profiles of nearly 14,000 U.S. and international agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, and more. Previously known as Standard Directory of Advertising Agencies and Standard Directory of Advertisers. Currently licensed for single user access.
  • Global Market Information Database (Student and Staff) Authentication Required
    The Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an integrated on-line information system providing key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets, and consumers. Statistics and profiles on 205 countries worldwide, lifestyle reports for 52 countries, market size for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, 3,500 market reports offering strategic analysis for consumer, industrial and service sectors, and profiles of 3,000 leading fast-moving consumer goods companies.

    Note that this database is contractually restricted by the publisher to University of Minnesota-Twin Cities students and staff only; the public is authorized to use the version of the database called Countries and Consumers.
  • Mintel Market Research Database Authentication Required
    Mintel publishes over 45 reports each month, covering a wide range of sectors and focusing on topical marketing issues. Divided between UK-specific, European and USA reports, Mintel reports analyse market sizes and trends, market segmentation, and consumer attitudes and purchasing habits, as well as assessing the future of the market. By providing a comprehensive picture of the consumer, Mintel's reports provide thorough analyses of specialist sectors.
  • Mediamark reporter (on CD ROM)
    The MediaMark CD-ROM is no longer available in the Business Reference area in Wilson Library. Please use the SMRB/Simmons Choices 3 instead, which is available in the Wilson Library Business Reference area. For questions, please contact the Business Reference Desk at phone 612-624-5073 or email busref@umn.edu.
    • Location(s): The MediaMark CD-ROM is no longer available in the Business Reference area in Wilson Library.
  • Sports Business Research Network Authentication Required
    Contains research data on the entire sports market including, consumer expenditures, brand share, participation, attendance and statistics about sport facilities, TV viewership, directories and full text articles from specialized sports industry magazines. See the Company Financial Information
    • Mergent Online Authentication Required
      Profiles of public corporations around the world that includes summaries, company histories, property, financials, subsdiaries, joint ventures, long term, press release and annual reports. Pdf images of corporate annual reports for publicly traded US and foreign corporations are available going back to 1996. Access to SEC filings via EDGAR database are also included in Mergent Online. The University of Minnesota license allows 6 simultaneous users.
      Guide: Find Annual Reports to Shareholders
    • EDGAR: Corporate filings from the US Securities and Exchange Commission
      The SEC requires all public companies (except foreign companies and companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders) to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. Here you'll find links to a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database.
    • EdgarScan
      EdgarScan is an interface to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (SEC EDGAR) Filings. It is available on the free open web. EdgarScan pulls filings from the SEC's servers and parses them automatically to find key financial tables and normalize financials to a common format that is comparable across companies.
    • Factiva Authentication Required
      Full text source of global news and business information, major daily newspapers, newswires, academic and trade journals, magazines, transcripts of media programs, web sites, images. Covers multiple-language content of 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. Background and financial information is also available on 25,000 publically traded companies and along with market data on equities, funds, and indices. Search the full-text of the Wall Street Journal and other general, business and trade magazines and newspapers. Limited to 7 simultaneous users.
      Inside-Out: Complete Reference For Factiva.Com
      Factiva.Com How To Get Results
      To find corporate financial information and snapshots, choose the Companies/Markets tab on the green bar at top of screen. Then, choose Companies from the bar at the top of the next screen. This will give you a search box for company research.
    • LexisNexis Company Directories and Profiles Authentication Required
      Profiles of companies worldwide with additional reports and articles. To search for companies that outsource products and services in other countries, select Dossier Create a Company List
    • Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage Authentication Required
      This Standard and Poors database includes overviews from the Industry Surveys tracking trends and leading companies in 52 industries. Company profiles in the Stock Reports with key financial data on public companies including peer group analysis and performance ratings from Standard Poors. Directory listings from the Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives listing sales, products, other brief information for 55,000 public and private companies along with names of top executives.
      Watch this short guide for information on finding the Industry Surveys in this database.
    • Key Business Ratios Authentication Required
      Key Business Ratios, from Dun and Bradstreet, help you to assess how a business is doing compared to an industry or a competitor. The 14 key business ratios cover the critical areas of business performance --solvency, efficiency and profitability. They are broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles. Ratios are arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes -a four-digit number that classifies business establishments by defining the industries in which they do business.
    Technology, Engineering, Computers, & Logistics
    • ACM Digital Library Authentication Required
      Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985 are available in the library together with works published by affiliated organizations.
    • Compendex and Engineering Index Authentication Required
      Provides extensive indexing of scholarly and technical periodicals, conference proceedings, and report literature in all engineering disciplines including applied physics, electronics, materials science, and related fields in science and management. Indexes nearly 3000 sources worldwide.
    • Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies Authentication Required
      Reports and tutorials on the information technology industry covering IT infrastructure, telecommunications, wireless communications, data networking, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and technology vendors. Includes directories for products and company profiles along with marketplace selection guides.
    • Gartner IntraWeb
      Gartner is one of the leading providers of research and analysis about the global information technology industry. Areas of focus include customer relationship management, business-to-business e-commerce, supply chain management, wireless, emerging technologies, security, IT services and vendors, IT spending and strategies. Remote access restricted to students and staff at the Carlson School of Management students
    • InfoTech Trends Authentication Required
      Provides market research statistics on shipments and industry forecasts for electronics, telecommunications, computer hardware, software, and other information technology products and services.
    • NTIS National Technical Information Service Authentication Required
      NTIS indexes government-sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related publications with over 2.0 million bibliographic records since 1964. Contents include research reports, computer products, software, video and audio. See the NTIS Website for an overview of subject coverage and document delivery services.
    • Safari Tech Books Online Authentication Required
      A collection of IT-related electronic books from several publishers, most notably O'Reilly. The Libraries has licensed 320 titles from among Safari's offering. This content covers Database, Java, Linux/Unix, Networking, Perl, Programming, and Web technologies generally. The titles we have licensed are all listed in MnCat.
      • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
    • Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) Authentication Required
      Covers the most of the sciences, including veterinary medicine and zoology. Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 70% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. Impact factors for many journals is also available. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
    • TRANSPORT Database Authentication Required
      Produced by the 25-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), headquartered in Paris, together with the United States' Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the 31 nations of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT), Transport indexes journal articles, technical reports and conference papers on surface transportation systems including marine transportation and their components including highway, traffic, transport, road safety, and economic and social aspects of transportation systems.

      The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 4 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again.
    • Transportation Article File
      This database, produced at Northwestern University, contains citation and location information for journal articles, conference papers, and other materials on all modes of transportation (air, rail, highway, water, pipeline) and law enforcement. Some materials may be held in the collections of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Check MNCAT for those holdings.
    Business & Economic Statistics
    • American FactFinder
      This is a data distribution system from the Bureau of the Census that will be the primary distribution locale for 2000 Census data. American FactFinder offers the capability to browse, search, and map data from many Census Bureau sources: the 1990 Census, the 1997 Economic Census, the American Community Survey, and other sources.
    • Stat-USA Internet Authentication Required
      STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the US Department of Commerce, is a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government.
    • LexisNexis Statistical Authentication Required
      Index to statistical publications from US and state government agencies, international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities. Comprised of three indexes--the American Statistics Index (ASI)--Index to International Statistics (IIS)-- and Statistical Resources Index (SRI) that give bibliographic citations, abstracts, and links to selected full-text tables and web sites when available. The Government Publications Library has the companion microfiche collections which include copies of almost all the publications indexed in this database.
    Taxation Databases
    • Hein Online Authentication Required
      Full-text legal periodicals database with browse and full-text search features. Includes coverage of many older legal periodicals not available in electronic format elsewhere.
      Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty
    • LegalTrac
      An index to articles in law reviews, law journals and legal newspapers (1980-Present). Includes U.S., British Commonwealth and E.U. law-related topics.
    • LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
      LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
    Directories of US & Foreign Public/Private Companies
    • ReferenceUSA Authentication Required
      Includes access to major directories for residential listings, businesses, and nonprofits. Includes U.S. Businesses a database of 14 million locations and the Canadian Businesses of 1.5 million companies. ReferenceUSA business directories are good for locating smaller businesses and franchise locations. Both business databases include search criteria for locating private and public companies using criteria such as location, size, industry, headquarters, etc. Other directories available include the U.S. Residential database of 210 million households and the Canadian Residential database of 12 million households. The HealthCare database lists 675,000 doctors and 180,000 dentists in the United States.
    • Million Dollar Database (Dun & Bradstreet) Authentication Required
      A Dun and Bradstreet directory of 1.5 million private and public companies in the United States. Also includes international firms with more than 100 employees (select Advanced--> States/Region) U.S company listings have 20+ employees or sales above one million dollars. This directory provides contact information, executives, sales, employees, industry codes, business descriptions subsidiaries and locations. Find companies that match different criteria such as location, size, product line, headquarters and many other variables.

      View the tutorial on Finding Companies In Million Dollar Database
    • Corporate Affiliations Authentication Required
      The best directory to learn if a company owns other firms or is owned by a parent company. Corporate ownership information on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent international companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions. The database includes major public and private businesses in the United States and throughout the world. Includes historical data for the last 10 years (use "Historical Search"). Records include products, brands, and competitors along with the service agencies such as advertising and accounting.
      • Location(s):
    • CorpTech Online Authentication Required
      CorpTech profiles over 95,000+ private and public companies and their business units, as well as units of foreign companies, government labs, and non-profits. CorptTech covers a broad range of industries, including pharmaceutical, medical, biotech or software companies The types of companies included are private, public, partnerships, non-profits, and government laboratories. Beside contact information, the records include sales, number of employees, executives, ownership information, summary descriptions, product codes, SIC and NAIC industry codes, corporate family and history, and executive history. Records can be downloaded into Excel or pdf formats.
    • LexisNexis Company Directories and Profiles Authentication Required
      Profiles of companies worldwide with additional reports and articles. To search for companies that outsource products and services in other countries, select Dossier Create a Company List
    • Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives Authentication Required
      Part of the NetAdvantage e-resource from Standard& Poors NetAdvantage choose the Company tab. Directories listings for over 50,000 private and public companies limited to those with more than $1 million in sales or over 100 employees. Advanced criteria available for private company searching. Each entry lists sales, products, directory info, officers, and bank information.
    Dissertations
    • Digital Dissertations Authentication Required
      Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities.
      • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
    Government & Society
    • AccessUN Authentication Required
      AccessUN provides access to bibliographic citations of current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications including:
      • the UN collections of the Government Publications Library
      • articles appearing in UN periodicals
      • the bilateral and multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series
      • full text documents from the:
        • General Assembly - resolutions from 1981-
        • Security Council - resolutions from 1974-
        • Economic and Social Council - resolutions from 1982-
    • CIAO Authentication Required
      Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
    • CQ Public Affairs Collection Authentication Required
      This database includes historic documents and primary source materials, CQ reports and analyses of public policy issues, bibliographies, chronologies, statistical information, and directory listings for government, nonprofit, and private organizations in major policy areas such as agriculture, business, education, environment, health, international relations, justice, media, national security, and social welfare.
    • CQ Researcher Authentication Required
      Designed as a starting place for research, 48 reports per year provide background on current topics of widespread interest. The reports define the issues and include a chronology and extensive bibliographies.
    • Europa World Online
      Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
      --The print version of the Europa World Handbook is available at: TC Wilson Lib Quarto JN1 .E85 --Latest edition is in Wilson Reference
    • Index to Current Urban Documents Authentication Required
      Index to selective reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada. State documents that deal specifically with an eligible city or county may be included.
    • Congressional Research Digital Collection - Prospective Service Authentication Required
      The LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) provides full-text access to more than 5,000 Congressional committee prints published from 2004 to present and more than 23,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 2004-present. The bibliographic records provide controlled-vocabulary indexing, including citations for bills, public laws, and Statutes at Large, and analytical abstracts of the documents. Also includes links to political parties and organizations, news sources, etc. See Overview/Help for useful information on the legislative process.
    • PolicyFile Authentication Required
      PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts.
    Global Data Sources
    • Global Financial Data Authentication Required
      The Global Financial Database is a collection of financial and economic data provided in ASCII or Excel format. There are 20,000 historical or current data series which may be downloaded directly from the web site. Global coverage includes stocks, bonds, treasury bills, interest rates, commodity prices, CPI, GDP, exchange rates, indexes, population and more.
      Looking for historical stock prices? Look at this short tutorial on using GFD to find historical stock prices.
    • Global Market Information Database (Student and Staff) Authentication Required
      The Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an integrated on-line information system providing key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets, and consumers. Statistics and profiles on 205 countries worldwide, lifestyle reports for 52 countries, market size for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, 3,500 market reports offering strategic analysis for consumer, industrial and service sectors, and profiles of 3,000 leading fast-moving consumer goods companies.

      Note that this database is contractually restricted by the publisher to University of Minnesota-Twin Cities students and staff only; the public is authorized to use the version of the database called Countries and Consumers.
    • International Financial Statistics Authentication Required
      International Financial Statistics (IFS) is the electronic version of the International Monetary Fund's standard source of statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance from more than 200 IMF countries. It contains approximately 32,000 time series of financial and economic data. Topics covered include exchange rates, IMF postion, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts, and population. The database contains annual, monthly, and quarterly data going back as far as 1945. Data output formats include CSV, Excel. HTML, and TAB delimited.
      • Location(s): Current Year: TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (Ref Periodicals) Quarto HT3881 .I626 Non-Circulating
      Prior Years: TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (LC) Quarto HT3881 .I626 Regular Loan

      • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
    • International Data Base (IDB) - Census Bureau
      The International Data Base (IDB) is a source of demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries and areas of the world. The IDB combines data from individual countries with U.S. Census Bureau estimates and projections to provide information from 1950 to 2050.
    • ISI Emerging Markets Authentication Required
      Full-text business news, and company and financial information from emerging markets in Latin America, Asia and Europe. Includes corporate profiles, financial statements and earnings estimates, industry and analyst reports, capital market quotes and indices, macroeconomic statistics and forecasts, legal and regulatory information, and opinion polls from the following emerging markets: Baltic States (including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (including Slovakia), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia (including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Turkey, Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, China, India, South Korea and Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand). While many documents are in English, some are in their native language. Much of the financial and economic data is downloadable in a spreadsheet-ready format. Dates of coverage vary. News coverage extends back 5 years. Other documents are most recent only.
    • SourceOECD Authentication Required
      SourceOECD is the online publications portal of the 30-country Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It contains the full text of all OECD publications and statistical databases. Statistics generally cover 1960 - present; some earlier years may be available. Statistics also focus primarily on member countries. See Getting Started With SourceOECD for help using SourceOECD.
    • UNdata
      This database provides international statistics on all major social and economic subjects. It replaces the older database "UN Common Database" which will be discontinued in mid-2008.
    • World Development Indicators
      The Web, book, and CD-ROM from the World Bank provides 500 time-series indicators for 210 economies plus regional and income groups. It provides definitions, source information, and all text from current and previous print editions. The CD-ROM lets you retrieve data in spreadsheet format, display maps and graphs, and export data into many popular formats. Off-site access is available through the web version --which is called WDI Online-- for students, staff, faculty at the University of Minnesota.
      • Location(s): TC Wilson Library Gov Pub CD-ROM HC59.69 .W675 GPL Workstation Lincoln
      Magrath Reference CD ROM Station
      Current Year: TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (Reference) Quarto HC59.15 .W656 Non-Circulating
      Prior Years: TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (LC) Quarto HC59.15 .W656 Regular Loan
      See MNCAT for more locations in the University Libraries.
      • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
    Health & Medical Databases
    • MedlinePlus
      MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 590 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
    • PubMed - U of M Students, Staff & Faculty Authentication Required
      Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries.
    • Health Economic Evaluations Database Authentication Required
      The Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED) covers worldwide bibliographic citations and economic evaluations of medicines, medical interventions and other treatments as well as studies on the cost of illness. It also contains over 700 non-English language economic evaluations and assesses all the major European Languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian. The database contains more than 33,500 evaluations that have been selected by health economists for use by health economists.
    Multidisciplinary Databases
    • Academic Search Premier Authentication Required
      This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
      The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
    • Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required
      Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
    • LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
      LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
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