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

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

Econlit, compiled by the American Economic Assn. from the Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles, is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the worldwide literature on economics from over 300 major economic journals, books, and collective volumes. (Updated monthly)

Concurrent user limit: 4

Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, a well respected 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.

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

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

Over 37,000 data series covering the vast scope of U.S history. In addition to updating and expanding the highly regarded 1975 print edition, HSUS also allows you to download data in Excel or CSV format as well build your own custom data sets. Additional features include:

* Save your search criteria
* Search within a chapter or volume
* Bookmark tables or essays
* Searchable term and contributor indexes
* View tables in PDF or HTML format
* Tables online include full documentation, sources, and footnotes
* Select certain years or series of years to view, download, print, or graph
* Download unrounded table data, for more detailed statistical analyses.
* Enhanced table display features: jump to a certain table column (series), skip over blank data cells, highlight table rows and columns for readability
* Toggle table sorting by ascending or decending year
* Create and download colorful charts, graphs, and plots
* Email a table or essay to a colleague

IFS Online, from the International Monetary Fund, provides approximately 32,000 financial time series covering most countries in the world. The data available for each country includes data on exchange rates, international liquidity, interest rates, prices, production, national accounts and population. In many cases the data extend back to 1948.

Also known as: IFS Online

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists. Labor economics, human capital, industrial relations, and industrial organization are some of the broader topics of relevance with hundreds of related and narrower topics.

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

PAIS indexes national and international public policy information from journal articles, books, conference research reports, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS contains some foreign language material but all index entries and abstracts are in English. Since PAIS tends to cover topics that are, have been or may become the focus of legislation it is particularly germane for students in the departments or schools of business administration, history, economics, law, political science, social administration, criminal justice, sociology and geography and urban studies, American studies and, African American studies. PAIS is a good choice if peer reviewed journals and or primary sources are needed to fulfill research requirements. (Updated monthly)

Also known as: PAIS

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

The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. SSCI: Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward. Averages 2,700 new articles per week. Includes approximately 50,500 new cited references per week. Includes approximately 138 new cited references to patents each year. Contains a current total of over 3.15 million articles. Contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60of the articles in the database. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Web of Science

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.

Provides direct access to more than 600 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 onward.

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.