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BA 399 Business for Transfer Students

OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS

To access the library's online databases or ejournals, please check the following page for instruction. Off-Campus Access to Electronic Resources


FINDING BOOKS


FINDING ARTICLES

  • Academic Search Premier
      Covers current news, business and company information, government and legal information.
  • Business Source Premier
      ull text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting, etc.
  • JSTOR: Electronic Journal Archives
      A fully searchable electronic database that contains the scanned images of over 100 major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines including business and economics, some of which began publication as early as the 1870s.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
      Provides comprehensive coverage of current news, business and company information, government and legal information, and more. Users can access Hoover's Company Reports via Lexis-Nexis academic.
  • Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)
      The Wall Street Journal, the financial newspaper of record, is an indispensable source for business professionals, providing business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns. The database provides the full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal going back to at least 1986, with some material from earlier years. It includes the entire text of written articles, but no graphs or data, such as stock prices.

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BUSINESS INFORMATION RESOURCES


Company Directories

  • Directory of Corporate Affiliations
      The Directory of Corporate Affiliations covers U.S. and non-U.S. public and private companies, their parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions. Data includes leadership, financial and ownership information for each company.
  • ReferenceUSA
      Contains directory data for over 12 million US firms and business establishments of all sizes.

Comprehensive Databases

Comprehensive databases include both company and industry information.

  • IBISworld
      IBISWorld covers thousands of industries in the United States economy at the 5-digit NAICS code level. Reports include market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, industry performance, key competitors, key success factors, and outlook. IBISWorld also has extensive coverage of industries in the Asia/Pacific region with reports covering China, Australia and Indonesia.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
      Provides comprehensive coverage of current news, business and company information, government and legal information, and more.
  • Mint Global
      Mint Global from Bureau van Dijk contains information on over 35 million public and private companies and financial institutions from the U.S., Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It provides descriptive information, company financials, news, market research, ratings and country reports, scanned reports, ownership and M&A data.
  • ORBIS
      ORBIS from Bureau van Dijk is another interface for Mint Global. Coverage of database is the same as Mint Global.
  • Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
      Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage brings together a dozen financial and investment publications that provide information for corporate research and for industry, competitive, and investment analysis. Among the publications included are such familiar titles as S&P's Corporation Records, Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Mutual Fund Reports, and the Outlook. Also included are S&P's Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives and the Security Dealers Directory.

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Demographics, Markets, Consumers

  • Mintel Reports
      Mintel provides research reports covering European, UK, and US consumer markets. The reports analyze market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports include categories ranging from beauty, personal goods and toiletries to technology/telecom. Users will need to create a profile with their uoregon.edu email address to use the database.
  • Sports Business Research Network
      This is a market research database which includes demographic information on consumers.
  • Tablebase
      Tablebase is a database comprised of tabular information. The tables provide information such as market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics.
  • University Internet Reporter (Formerly Mediamark Reporter)
      Offers comprehensive data on the uses of various consumer products. The studies include demographic information on the persons surveyed, their use of consumer products, and their use of various forms of advertising, including television, radio, and print media.

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Investment

International Business

  • Global Insight: Country
      Country Intelligence provides information on 203 countries worldwide with analysis of breaking events and trends. Country Reports present detailed analysis and commentary on each country's business environment with focus on six key areas: political, economic, legal, tax, operational, and security. Special Reports provide deeper analysis of trends on country, regional or global basis.
  • Global Insight: Data Access
      Data Access (also called "DataInsight-WEB\") provides comprehensive coverage of historical regional, national, and global economic, financial, and commodity information. Includes historical data on macroeconomic variables such as national income accounts, balance of payments, foreign debt, exchange rates, money supply and employment, among other categories. It also provides access to the basic U.S. Economic Indicators and International Economic Indicators data banks, and data on the IMF series and the OECD series.
  • IBISworld
  • Mintel Reports
  • SourceOECD
      Provides access to information produced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Information includes a variety of statistical databases and the full texts of many OECD books and periodicals, in the fields of economics, labor, energy, social issues, and international trade and development.

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Statistics

  • Lexis-Nexis Statistical
      Access to all statistics issued by the Federal and State governments, non-governmental organizations, trade associations and international organizations.

Advertising

  • Ad$pender Requires Internet Explorer.
      Ad$pender provides advertising expenditure data for millions of product brands across television, radio, magazine, newspaper, internet and outdoor channels. Data can be retrieved by brand, product class/category, company name, brand and more. Use the link below in Database Guide to get the username and password.
    Username/Password
  • SRDS Media Solutions
      "The SRDS database of media rates and information is the largest and most comprehensive in the world-cataloging more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties." The library has online access to Business Publication Advertising Source®, Consumer Magazine Advertising Source, Newspaper Advertising Source®, and Radio Advertising Source, and TV and Cable Source®.

WEB RESOURCES

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Maintained by: Kaiping Zhang, kzhang@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 01/02/2008