ABI/INFORM has been a premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains abstracting and indexing from over 4,000 publications that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. Almost 3,000 titles are available full-text, including the Wall Street Journal.

Also known as: ABI / INFORM

Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 3,460 scholarly publications, including full-page images as well as color embedded images. Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.

Online access to BNA's portfolio of publications covering developments in health care, business, labor relations, law, economics, taxation, environmental protection, safety, and other public policy and regulatory issues.

Also known as: Bureau of National Affairs Online

Business & Company Resource Center brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. Covers 1980 - Sep 2000. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Business Index ASAP

Business & Industry covers more than 900 major U.S. and international trade journals, general business publications, and national, regional and international newspapers and newsletters, from 1994 to the present, updated daily. Coverage is 50U.S. content and 50international and includes all industries and companies with over 340,000 records added each year. Approximately 60of the database is full-text. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Business and Industry

Business & Management Practices (BaMP) is a full-text resource with a focus on the practical aspects and approaches of business management. Updated weekly and providing coverage back to 1995, Business & Management Practices offers highly-focused coverage of more than 300 core management journals and trade publications. Also included are specific management-related articles from over 300 additional respected business sources. (Updated weekly)

Also known as: Business and Management Practices

Also known as: Gale Virtual Reference Shelf

Contains 2,804 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc. The database also includes many leading journals in the areas of economics, finance, and accounting, as well as country economic reports from the EIU, DRI-WEFA, ICON Group and CountryWatch. More than 200 of the journals have PDF full text back to 1965 or the first issue published, with more than 2,200 PDF�s. Business Source Premier contains PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. (Updated daily)

Includes a broad range of news, research publications and research tools for business and legal research. Coverage includes:

--Antitrust and Trade Regulation
--Banking
--Corporate Governance
--Exchanges and SROs
--Federal Energy Guidelines
--Government Contracts
--Intellectual Property / Computer and Internet Law
--International Business
--Mergers and Acquisitions
--Products Liability and Safety
--Securities
--Transportation Law


From Commerce Clearing House. (Updated daily)

Concurrent user limit: 35

Also known as: Internet Research Network, IntelliConnect

Searchable database of full-text publications from the Conference Board including:
--Research Reports on key business topics. (approx. 15/year)
Includes the following annual surveys with previous years under Annual Reports:
>Top Executive Compensation
>Corporate Contributions
>Directorship Compensation and Board Practices
>CEO Challenge*
-- Executive Action series of concise, topical reports on issues of current concern. (approx. 48/year)
-- StraightTalk, our chief economist, Gail Fosler's in-depth analysis of critical economic topics. Includes regular forecasts of the U.S. economy, interest rates, and foreign exchange rates. (10 issues/yr.)
-- Topline data on business executives expectations (a measure of business confidence) consumer confidence, consumer internet barometer, country indicators, and help-wanted index.***
-- Backfiles of data from 1998 and selected earlier reports considered still relevant.

*Part of the regular research database.

***The database does not include business cycle indicator data, consumer confidence survey data or leading indicators data. These and historic and time series data are separate subscriptions.

Diamond is the catalog of books, movies, music, and other materials held by the Temple University Libraries.

Produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit, this is a compilation of news analysis, market research, best practices and descriptions of doing business for e-commerce in 45 countries. Does not include the U.S. It covers the current year. (Updated daily)

The Securities and Exchange Commission database of electronic filings, self-described as follows: "EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors, corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the agency." Searchable by company name. (Updated daily)

Global Market Information Database (GMID) is a marketing tool provided by Euromonitor that contains data for many countries on consumer market sizes, market data & forecasts, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands. Use Global Market Information Database to retrieve international market research data, including reports on specific products and industries.

Also known as: Global Market Information Database,GMID

Films on Demand is a library of thousands of streaming videos across all disciplines from Films Media Group. All Temple users can search and view films or specific segments of films. If you establish a user account from within Films on Demand you can also create playlists from the various films/segments for your own use or for sharing with other Temple users.

Also known as: FMG,Films Media Group

Search, sort, and download text records from online versions of well-known directories from Gale, such as Ward's Business Directory and the Encyclopedia of Associations.

Also known as: Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies,Encyclopedia of Associations

Global Insight provides comprehensive economic, financial, and political coverage of countries, regions, and industries -- covering over 200 countries and spanning more than approximately 170 industries.

Advanced Country Analysis and Forecast provides the following key benefits:
--Issues and trends tracked daily for 203 countries through Global Insight's Same-Day Analysis service
--Country reports featuring in-depth political, economic, legal, tax, operational, and security analysis
--Daily updates for over 200 country and sovereign risk ratings, with interactive reports
--Economic Data and Forecasts, which include:
*Key monthly, quarterly, and annual economic indicators for 203 countries on up to 150 economic indicators
*Twenty-year forecast horizon
*All aspects of economic developments, sectors, and trade profiles
*Historical data going back to 1970
*Flexible download, comparison and graphing capabilities though the DataInsight-Web tool.

Global Insight also includes the following industry-specific services providing market and risk analysis, industry trends, and company data:

--World Markets Automotive
--World Markets Energy
--World Markets Healthcare
--World Markets Telecoms


Note: the DataInsight-Web tool requires Internet Explorer

Global Market Information Database (GMID) is a marketing tool provided by Euromonitor that contains data for many countries on consumer market sizes, market data & forecasts, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands. Use Global Market Information Database to retrieve international market research data, including reports on specific products and industries.

Tax, business, and legal research materials from CCH (Commerce Clearing House)

Also known as: CCH Internet Research Network, CCH Tax Research Network

Provides investment, company and industry reports from hundreds of brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image format. (Updated daily)

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Thomson Research

JSTOR, originally funded by the Mellon Foundation, began as an effort to ease the increasing space problems faced by libraries by converting back issues of paper journals into electronic formats that would allow savings in space, improved access to journal content and offer a possible solution to preservation problems associated with storing paper volumes. Current content includes periodicals in the areas of Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Political Science and Population Studies.

LexisNexis Academic is a very large database covering thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text. It is especially useful for legal research. Coverage of current news and business information is also extensive.

Use this link to limit your search to up-to-date company-based information. This research tool provides a complete picture of a company's structure, financial health, brands, and competitors.

MarketResearch.com Academic provides over 1000 full-text market research reports, many with global coverage, from these industry-leading publishers:

* Packaged Facts: A trusted provider of authoritative consumer market research. For more than 30 years, their in-depth research, expert analysis and personalized client support have helped business professionals make the right strategic decisions. Reports cover consumer goods, food and beverage, and demographic topics.
* Kalorama Information: A leader in worldwide business intelligence and syndicated market research in the life sciences. For more than 30 years, Kalorama Information has been providing timely, high-quality research to decision makers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics sectors.
* MarketLooks: Concise, 15-30 page summaries of popular full-length market research reports published by Packaged Facts and Kalorama Information. Each MarketLooks report includes top-level findings from the respective parent report in a rich, easy to read format accompanied by select charts and graphs.
* Specialists in Business Information: Produces concise, comprehensive profiles on a wide range of industrial and consumer markets. The profiles are made up primarily of tabular data, making them useful for reference purposes. The profiles, summaries and analyses make them equally important as strategic assessments of the industries they cover.

Mergent offers the following databases:

* Company Data Direct/U.S. -- In-depth reports on over 10,000 U.S. companies
* Company Data Direct/International -- In-depth reports on over 15,000 non-U.S. companies
* Equity Research Reports
* FIS Annuals/U.S. -- Over 35,000 U.S. annual report images
* FIS Annuals/International -- Over 50,000 non-U.S. annual report images
* EDGAR -- Real-time feeds of SEC documents with archives dating back to 1993
* FactSheets -- Presentation-quality summary reports
* Institutional Holdings -- Top holders, purchasers and sellers
* Insider Trading -- Investing activities of officers and directors
* Broker Research -- Over 1 million fully graphical research reports from over 700 brokerage firms
(Updated daily)

Concurrent user limit: 6

Also known as: FISonline, Moody's

Full-text of Moody/Mergent Corporate Manuals back to 1909.

Mintel offers market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis, and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports typically cover market drivers, market size and trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumers, the future and forecasts, and new product trends. The average length of a report is 100 pages. Areas of research for U.S. markets are: Beauty and Personal Care Products, Clothing & Fashion, Drink, Electronics, Food and Foodservice, Health and Medical, Health and Wellness, Household Products, Lifestyles, Retailing, Travel.
Note: First-time users will need to create a personal profile using your Temple email address.

MRI consolidates many of the databases used to evaluate magazines in seeking directory and editorial information. It has a powerful search and access capability, plus a cost-planning module. Much of the data generated by MRI can be exported to spreadsheets or printed in the form of flowcharts and reports. MRI includes:

* Syndicated audience research
* General industry research about magazines and magazine advertising effectiveness
* Special research from publishers
* Subscriber studies
* Competitive analyses
* Publisher presentations
* Mediamark audience data
* Syndicated research summaries such as Mendelsohn Media Research
* A cost planner and flowcharting package
* Basic rate, contact, editorial, circulation (ABC/BPA) and mechanical data on more than 6,000 consumer and business magazines

Also known as: Mediamark Reporter

OAIster is a union catalog of digital records that began at the University of Michigan, built by harvesting records using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster is one of the world's largest aggregators of records, boasting more than 19 million items from more than 1,000 contributors. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.

Digital resources in OAister include:

--Digitized (scanned) books and articles
--Digital text
--Audio fles (WAV, MP3)
--Video fles (MP4, Quicktime)
--Photographic images (JPEG, TIFF, GIF)
--Data sets (downloadable statistical information

Online access to Business, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion titles in the Oxford Handbooks Series.

Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. As of early 2009, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 550 journals, providing access to over 13.2 million article pages - representing over 2 million articles.

Also known as: PAO

Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 300 years. As of early 2007, over 16 million articles going as far back as 1665 are currently indexed. Every article in each journal covered is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times.

Also known as: PIO

Previously known as Digital Dissertations, this is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Proquest Disseretations & Theses helps you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from as far back as the 1950's are included along with 24-page previews of thousands of other dissertations.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University is a subset of the larger database, including only dissertations and theses from Temple University.

Also known as: Digital Dissertations

Comprised of Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase

Published in association with the Institute for Risk Research at the University of Waterloo, Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. (Updated quarterly)

SBRnet is focused on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. It provides a continuously updated resource featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry -- sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing. Some full-text articles are included. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Sports Business Research Network

SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application with a user-friendly interface that permits users to quickly and easily create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing variables. Maps can be exported as high-resolution images to word processing or presentation software; data can be selected, sorted, and compared across multiple locations to build custom reports that can be exported to a spreadsheet. Available data include:

Demographic Variables: population, age, race, income, ancestry, marital status, housing, employment, transportation, families, and more

Business Variables: detailed consumer expenditure, business & employee counts by industry (by NAICS Code), Consumer Price Index, quality of life & consumer profiles, and market segments. Simplymap also utilizes current Mediamark Research (MRI) estimates of usage and consumption (propensity) for thousands of specific consumer products, including brand data, details of frequency of usage, and more.

Census data back to the year 1980 is available along with current year estimates and 5 year projections. Data is available by census block-groups, census tracts, ZIP codes, cities, counties, states, and the entire United States.

Note: SimplyMap requires users to create a personal workspace using an email address

Concurrent user limit: 10

From the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Covers Agriculture & Food, Development, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance and Investment, Social Issues, Transport and more. SourceOECD comprises three sections: Studies (books and reports) by Theme, Periodicals and Statistics. Studies by Theme is where you will find the OECD's monographs and annual reports. There are 19 Themes; you'll find the list in the left hand column of the homepage. All printed periodicals are moving online to this channel. The Statistics channel delivers access to the OECD's statistical databases allowing users real-time access to the latest data. (Updated daily)

SRDS provides media rates and data for more than 100,000 U.S and international media properties, including both traditional and alternative marketing media. Advertising rates, personnel contact information, as well as circulation figures for radio, TV, cable, business publications, consumer magazines, and newspapers are included. Demographic information is also provided.

Also known as: SRDS

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products including:

--Bond Reports
--Company Profiles
--Compustat Excel Analytics and Compustat International Fundamental Reports with five (5) years of extensive data and charts that can be downloaded directly into Excel
--Corporation Records
--Fund Reports (more than 14,000 mutual funds are included)
--Industry Surveys (back to 1998) with Trends and Projections (back to April 1999)
--Global Industry Surveys (back to 2004)
--The Outlook (back to 1996)
--Register - Executives and Directors
--Register - Private Companies
--Register - Public Companies
--Security Dealers of North America
--Stock Reports

STAT-USA includes three major sections. 1) State of the Nation provides various financial and economic data from throughout the federal government and other related entities. 2) Global Business Opportunities offers daily trade leads from the Trade opportunities Program (TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture. Global Business Opportunities also offers daily procurement activity from the Defense Logistics Agency and the Commerce Business Daily. Beginning October 1, 1997, United Nations trade leads will also be posted. Historical trade leads are available for up to three months. Historical TOPS leads are provided for up to two years. 3) International Trade Resources provide access to the information available from the National Trade Data Bank. Country Commercial Guides, Market Research reports, and International Marketing Insight (IMI) reports are just a few of the topic areas covered. Imports and exports by commodity and/or country are provided, as well as international and domestic contacts. The International Trade library is a comprehensive collection of over 40,000 documents related to international trade. All are full text searchable, as well as key word searchable by country or product. (Updated daily)

Only available within Temple Libraries. See librarian for logon information. Alternatively, use LexisNexis Statistical for off-campus access to the same or similar data

As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also your guide to sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations.

Contains tables drawn from over 900 titles in the Business & Industry database and privately-published statistical annuals. Coverage includes:

* Company and brand rankings
* Imports and exports
* Industry and product forecasts
* Market share
* Number of users/outlets
* Production and consumption statistics
* Trends and demographics
* Usage and capacity

Includes the following components:

Tax Notes Today
Tax Notes Today (TTN) provides practitioners with daily federal news and tax-related documents dating back to 1993. The news stories encompass events in Congress, the IRS, the courts, bar associations, and any other tax development at the U.S. federal level; supporting documents include legislation, court opinions, IRS rulings, press releases, regulations, and more.

TNT also includes a federal Commentary & Analysis feature that contains news analysis and expert commentary from private practitioners, government officials, academics, and tax and economic experts on the Tax Analysts staff.

Federal Research Library
Comprehensive federal tax resource that includes the Basic Federal Research, Chief Counsel Advice, and Court Opinions libraries.

The Basic Federal Research Library provides essential source materials from the IRS and Treasury, including the Internal Revenue Code, regulations, publications, Circular 230, and much more. The library also includes Tax Analysts' popular Federal Tax Baedeker, a plain-English explanation of federal tax law.

You can gain insight into the IRS's practices and procedures through the Chief Counsel Advice Library, which offers letter rulings, technical advice and assistance, field service advice, legal memorandums, and other forms of guidance the IRS provides to taxpayers, practitioners, and its own employees.

Refer to the Court Opinions Library for more than 35,000 full texts and summaries of tax cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Tax Court, federal appellate courts, and federal district courts.

State Tax Today
State Tax Today (STT) provides practitioners with daily news and tax-related documents that affect the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Coverage includes events from state governments, revenue departments, courts, and legislative bodies, as well as activities by multistate organizations and tax conferences and any federal or international news and documents that affect state tax policy.

STT also includes a state Commentary & Analysis feature that contains news analysis and expert commentary from private practitioners, government officials, academics, and tax and economic experts on the Tax Analysts staff.

STT news coverage and supporting documents date back to 1993.

Worldwide Tax Daily Worldwide Tax Daily (WTD) provides practitioners with daily news and tax-related documents from over 180 countries and multinational organizations, including U.S. federal information concerning international tax issues.

WTD also includes an international Commentary & Analysis feature, which contains news analysis and expert commentary from private practitioners, government officials, academics, and tax and economic experts on the Tax Analysts staff.

Worldwide Tax Treaties
Includes over 3,500 tax treaties, amending protocols, and similar documents from over 181 jurisdictions. In addition to comprehensive treaties concerning taxes on income and capital, the collection also includes estate and gift tax treaties, limited agreements, model tax treaties, and more.

Also known as: Wall Street Journal,Historical Wall Street Journal

Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), 1900-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), 1956-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A & HCI), 1975-present.

More than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. Coverage/update frequency: from about 1000 A.D. to the present; adds new records daily. Includes holdings of 6,700 OCLC Member Libraries & Institutions.