Accounting & Tax Database. (COMPANIES & SUBJECTS)
Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers. The Accounting and Tax Index database features cover-to- cover indexing and abstracts for approximately 400 key publications from the U.S. and internationally in accounting, auditing, and financial management. About 150 of the indexed titles also appear in searchable full-text format. Citations are also included for relevant articles from 800 newspapers, business journals, dissertations and news magazines. Selective archive information is included for AICPA and FASB publications as well as various accounting handbooks and proceedings and specialized Investment in (country) reports. There are past annual accumulations in paper format at the call number Z7164C81A42 on the Index table.

Associations Unlimited. (ORGANIZATIONS)
This database contains information on approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local associations, professional societies, and nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. It includes contact information, as well as details on membership, publications, conferences and other activities. The database also provides summary data from the IRS on more than 300,000 U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. It can be searched by organization name, acronym, location, subject, and other criteria.

Business and Company Resource Center. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
The Business and Company Resource Center contains listings for 465,000 U.S. and international companies, extensive essays for 1,000 industrial categories, industry statistics, market share reports and company rankings. In addition, 3,000 company histories and 1,500 company chronologies are available for the most prominent businesses in the world. Some of the resources are Service Industries USA, Wholesale and Retail Trade USA, American Wholesalers and Distributors Directory and Market Share Reporter. This is the new version of Gale Business Resources.

Business & Industry. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
The Business & Industry Database is a unique database designed for the online searcher who needs a basic source for quick response and better results. It contains important facts and figures including tables, and key events such as forecasts, trends and overviews that deal with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. Approximately 65% of the records are full text. B&I coverage focuses on a body of literature that includes leading trade journals, newsletters, general business press and newspapers and international business dailies. It has designed a natural language indexing system. Unique to this database are concept terms, marketing terms, industry names, document types and geographic codes. It provides the ability to search by a six digit SIC or product code as well as product names. This is a high quality database. For additional statistical sources see Lexis/Nexis Statistical with its Power Tables and StatUSA available at the library homepage http://library.osu.edu and by clicking on Research Databases.

Business Insight. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
This database contains global analyst research reports in the areas of consumer goods, energy, finance, healthcare, commerce, and technology with in-depth forecasts. There are over one thousand journalists and photographers working in over 100 bureaus worldwide. Reuters is known for its primary research, breaking news, interviews with key industry players, and industry forecasts. The reports are global or regional in scope with the latest news and market commentaries as well as fast follow-up analyses.

Business Monitor Online. (COUNTRIES)
A service dedicated to professionals and business persons involved in international trade and investment. Note that this Web site provides worldwide coverage of legislation and regulations, corporate finance, offshore finance, market analysis, economic analysis, risk management, property, consultancy, and worldwide business news. Includes professional directories, conference information, Internet issues, a list of contributors, and other items. Requires free registration in order to access some of the Web pages. Contains a Web site search engine Public Note.

Business Source Complete. (EBSCO) (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
Indexes and abstracts more than 3,200 business periodicals. Full text is available for more than 2,800 titles. This collection includes publications covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc. It contains full text from the top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and many others. It also includes many leading journals in the areas of economics, finance and accounting as well as country economic reports from CountryWatch, DRI-WEFA, the EIU and some industry reports from Plunkett's. More than 200 of the journals have PDF full text back to 1965 or the first issue published.

CCH Internet Research Network. (ACCOUNTING & TAX)
The CCH Internet Research Network provides access to Federal Securities Law Reports, Federal Banking Information and Consumer Credit information. The securities tab has information on FASB Publications and accounting rules. The Capital Changes Report is available under the capital changes tab. Searching and browsing is available in different areas such as Capital Changes Report Summary or Corporate Capital Histories. Histories are provided that give a chronology of events such as incorporation, mergers and stock dividends. Also consult Directory Of Obsolete Securities, (HG4927F5-Reference Shelves) which includes lists of banks and companies that have lost their identities because of name change, merger, acquisition, dissolution, reorganization, bankruptcy, etc.

CCH Internet Tax Research Network. (ACCOUNTING & TAX)
This resource provides access to information on federal taxes, state taxes and financial and estate planning. Primary sources material is provided on federal taxes such as federal tax regulations, the internal revenue code and IRS publications. The state information includes access to the State Tax Review, State Tax Reporters and topical indexes for each of the states and multi-state publications. The topical indexes provide information on property, sales and use, and severance taxes.

CountryWatch. (COUNTRIES)
CountryWatch is an information provider for schools, universities, libraries, and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests. The management of CountryWatch has extensive international business and academic experience and, using this experience, has created, in concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information, daily news and data.

EconLit. Quarterly-1969-Present (ECONOMICS)
Econlit includes coverage of over 400 major professional and scholarly journals in the field of economics worldwide. It also covers books, book reviews, collective volume articles (essays, proceedings, etc.), dissertations and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press, Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. It is an electronic version of the JEI (Journal of Economic Literature). It has an index and thesaurus to help the searcher refine the search. Examples of areas it covers are economic, fiscal, and monetary theory, public finance, and international economics. The NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Research is conducted by more than 600 university professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields. NBER Working Papers is available from the library homepage http://library.osu.edu and by clicking on Research Databases where it will be listed alphabetically.

Factiva. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
Factiva (formerly Dow Jones) contains a wealth of information but beware of hidden pricing. In the Business Newsstand one has access to the full text same day headlines for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. The Publications Library provides information from nearly 8,000 sources from 118 countries and 22 languages, many of which are available full text. One can search a single journal title or several titles simultaneously. The Web Center searches 2000 web sites, which the editors have chosen on the basis of content, speed, navigation and design. The Center indexes sites up to four times daily. The Custom Clips database allows one to create an SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) and create a personal or group folder, which can be sent to e-mail. There is a Company & Industry database, which provides quick company overviews and company/industry comparison reports. The Historical Market Data Center provides 25 years worth of pricing on stocks, bonds, mutual funds and market indexes. Capital Changes Reporter is also available in this database.

Hoovers Online. (COMPANIES)
Hoover's delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. Hoover's provides sales, marketing business development and recruiting professionals with the global business intelligence they need to prospect and prepare for client meetings, sales presentations, vendor and partner negotiations, and other business opportunities.

ICON Group International. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
ICON is the world's single largest publisher of global market research and business intelligence. They achieve this with the heavy use of econometric models and techniques which produce high value international research and reports. These high-end reports and exportable spreadsheets cover 2,000 product categories across some 200 countries, 2,000 cities and over 16,000 companies. The categories covered are Industry/Product Reports, Company Specific Reports, Geographic Reports, Global Managerial Reports, World Tables, Culture Statistics, and Specialized Research. The reports include, but are not limited to, Global Industry Outlooks, Global Trade, Regional Industry Outlooks, Labor Productivity Benchmarks, Long Run Growth Reports over the next thirty years, World City Segmentation Reports, forecasting latent demand for each major city of the world, and Culture Statistics containing thousands of statistics on the world's religious, ethnic, and linguistic cultures.

Investext Plus. (RESEARCH REPORTS)(COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
This database is a large collection of investment research reports on companies, industries and investment in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The reports are generated by 13 of the top US firms, 11 of the top European firms, and 18 of the top Wall Street Journal 1998 all stars as well as 500 investment banks and 190 trade associations. These reports are full text in their original published formats, complete with charts, photographs, and graphics. The documents are organized into three categories: company, industry, and geographic and topical subjects. Here one can monitor industry trends, track company financials, or research merger and acquisition activity. They are downloadable. It is wise to read several reports from different sources in order to do a thorough analysis. Ten thousand of the 400,000 reports contain peer group comparisons, credit ratings, and key ratios.

Lexis/Nexis Academic. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
Lexis/Nexis provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information. News is segmented into top, general, company, government, political, and legal. There is company financial information such as 10Ks, proxies, annual reports to shareholders, EDGAR filings, etc., country and state profiles, biographical information, general medical and health topics, medical abstracts, accounting, auditing and tax. For statistics see Lexis/Nexis Statistical and STAT-USA.

LIBRARY HOME PAGE & OSCAR
The Ohio State Catalog for Automated Retrieval is the electronic catalog at The Ohio State University Libraries. It contains titles of the journals and books contained in the library system. Your email address and password should get you into the system through HomeNet, OfficeNet, ResNet, Roadrunner, or IBMs ICE. Click on OSU Library Catalog for the catalog. Click on Research Databases to get to the 170 research databases such as Business Source Premier or Business & Industry. For instructions on connecting Off Campus click on "Off Campus Access" under the Help button. This is available only to current faculty, students, and staff. For instructions on printing, downloading or e-mailing search results, click "How Do I?" under Help and choose "Printing and Copying." Electronic journals are also available from the home page. Click on E-Journals and then on OhioLink Electronic Journal Center. If you are not a current faculty, staff or student you need to go to the library in order to gain access to these databases.

Market Insight. (Full Text) (COUNTRIES & INDUSTRIES)
Includes Standard & Poor's Stock Reports, Corporate Action information, Real Time pricing data, Business Descriptions, Private Company data, Executive Compensation data, EDGAR, Recent news stories, Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys, DRI-WEFA Country Overviews, CIA World Factbook Statistics, European MarketScope, Standard & Poor's Trends & Projections newsletters, Index Alert Data, COMPUSTAT Financials for both U.S. and Global companies. Includes links between industry peers for fast comparisons, and links to country-level economic data. Users can screen for companies that meet key financial and market criteria

MarketLine Business Information Center. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
(Formerly Datamonitor.) This database's primary focus is on market research. It includes information on 10,000 companies, 2,000 industries, and 50 countries. The three key attributes are quality data, expert analysis, and future focus. The information includes a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis on major companies, financial performances, industry competitive landscapes, and trends. Some of the major industries covered are Aerospace & Defense, Automotive & Logistics, Consumer Markets, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial Goods, Manufacturing, Media, Retail, and Technology. Some areas tracked are new products, M&A, re-structuring, investing or overall market awareness. Each industry report contains information on Market Size, Market Segmentation, Market Share, Competitive Landscape, and Market Forecasts. It is updated on a continuous basis.

Mergent Online. (Moody's) (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
This service is a suite of global business and financial information products including U.S and international company data and U.S. and international annual reports. It provides access to more than 10,000 U.S. companies, including real time access to SEC (EDGAR) filings dating back to 1993 as well as real-time news headlines and complete text. The Mergent financial statements are as reported, providing balance sheet and income statement details. All of the information, including text descriptions, are daily. Additional coverage includes company history, business, property, subsidiaries, officers, directors, exchange and ticker symbol, address, telephone number, annual stock price ranges, transfer agent, stock splits, dividend payment history, number of employee, etc.

Mintel Reports. (Full Text) (INDUSTRIES)
Analyzes the driving forces, market share, competitors, and customer profiles that shape a consumer market's size and characteristics. Covers US and international consumer markets. Users must create a Mintel Reports Personal Profile and sign-in each time they use Mintel.

Morningstar.com Library Edition. (COMPANIES)
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This research service covers stocks, funds, ETFs and closed-end funds. There are reports on 13,000 funds, 7,000 stocks, 150 exchange-traded funds, and 500 closed-end funds. All stocks and mutual fund reports include Data Interpreter--computer-generated text that puts the main data points of a given security in context. Patrons can choose from 470 data points in the Stock Screener and 220 data points in the Fund Screener. Also provided are data definitions on most pages via the Data Definitions link. Its unique Portfolio X-Rays enables users to put their choices in a multi-asset portfolio and then analyze it. There are 200 classes with quizzes at the end in the Investing Classroom. Topics range from what is a mutual fund, when to sell a stock, and how to examine an investment risk. The paper version can be located at (HG4530M67 2005-Closed Reserve).

netLibrary. (E-BOOKS)
Netlibrary is the electronic book database containing more than 72,000 titles. It contains some of the Plunkett Industry Almanacs as well as some of the ICON industry reports. It is a division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. There are a couple of important things you need to know about this database. Only one person can access an e-book at a time. That means one person per title. Many different people can access many different titles. There are no renewals of e-books so you want to browse instead of checking out a title. If you choose to check out a title you have access for only two hours. However, you can read online for an unlimited length of time, but it will close after 15 minutes of no use.

OHIOLINK
OhioLINK provides integrated local and central catalogs for 80 institutions in the state of Ohio, including universities, community/technical colleges, private colleges and the State Library of Ohio. It offers user-initiated online borrowing through its statewide central catalog. It serves over 500,000 faculty, staff, and students with access to more than 31 million library items. Specific library collections of the members can be searched. The system also offers access to over 90 research databases, many of which are citation indexes. They can be searched by words, author, title of the article, title of the journal, and company. The full text resources include online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and literature and journal articles. Access to the research databases is restricted to OhioLINK member users (valid patrons at OhioLINK member institutions). OhioLINKs membership includes 17 public universities, 23 community/technical colleges, 39 private colleges and the State Library of Ohio.

Political Risk Yearbook. (COUNTRIES)
This eight-volume resource contains political, financial, and economic risk information on 106 countries. Each study contains an expert assessment of the power structure, 18 month and five-year forecasts, history and geography of the country, social conditions, international relationships, ten-year history fact sheet, and a two-page summary with key economic forecasts, regional economic comparisons and a recent chronology. There are graphical comparisons of the country's economic performance over time and in relation to other countries in the region. It focuses on business needs - finding developing markets, currency movements, making judgments about capital investment or corporate security. The five year political and economic forecasts project the most likely five-year scenario: center-left (40% probability), the second most likely five-year regime scenario: center right (35% probability), and the third most likely five-year regime scenario: shifting coalitions (25% probability). There are forecasts of turmoil, investment restrictions, and trade restrictions, domestic and international economic problems. It is also available in paper format (HC10P66 2000-Reference Shelves).

Regional Business News. (EBSCO) (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
This news service is a collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world. Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press service, Resource News International, PR Newswire, Business Newswire, South American Business, M2 Communications, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network, Phillips Business Information Highlights and many others. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic, and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains only the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. Several hundred articles are added each day.

Tablebase. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
This is an international database that specializes in tabular data dealing with companies, products, industries, and demographics. It provides current market share and rankings with the same detailed indexing as in Business and Industry. Table data is obtained worldwide from privately-published statistical annuals, trade associations, trade and business publications, international organizations, primary research, non-profit research groups, government agencies, investment research and all the publications covered in B&I. Subjects cover market share, company and brand rankings, imports and exports, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, number of users or outlets, usage and capacity, and trends and demographics. For tables from the trade and business press and reports, full text is in most cases included. The license for this database is for one simultaneous user. If you are prompted for a user name and password it means someone is searching the database. Please wait 10 to 15 minutes and try again.

Thomson Research. (COMPANIES)
Thomson Research (formerly Disclosure) covers approximately ninety percent of the world's stock market value and includes records for more than 17,000 active companies representing over 50 countries. This is a good source for 10 year historical financials. A record covers fundamental financial data, all filings with the SEC, auditor's report and opinion, accounting practices, product and geographic segment data when given, ratios, and foreign business statistics. Also included are records on some U.S. private companies, UK private companies, and Canadian companies. Formerly the Worldscope database, it contains records on approximately 5,000 U.S. companies, and the rest are from around the world.

Wall Street Journal. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
The Journal is the authoritative source for business news in America. It is published coast to coast and has the largest daily circulation of any newspaper in the country. This database goes back to 1986 containing abstracts and full text of most articles. The Journal is also available through Factiva and is available in microfilm. Current issues of the newpaper (2-3 months) are in Closed Reserve.

Wall Street Transcript. (COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES)
The purpose of the Wall Street Transcript is to help investors make better investment decisions when choosing stocks and sectors. It interviews Wall Street professionals and corporate leaders, which helps to bring the views of stock market insiders to the reader. For over 38 years the question and answer format has allowed the reader to undertand and interpret the meaning of an analyst's or CEO's comments for themselves. It reproduces the text of selected brokerage house reports on companies and industries, speeches, interviews, management reports, corporate financial data, news, mergers, and promotions. The paper copy resides at the call number HG4501W3 and is on Closed Reserve.