Database Finder

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 library of thousands of titles covering information technology and finance. Users can annotate books and create personal bookshelves of favorite titles. Temple subscribes to the ITPro and FinancePro collections.

Includes a broad range of news, research publications and research tools for tax related research. From Commerce Clearing House. (Updated daily)

Concurrent user limit: 35

The Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) uses the Freedom of Information Act to collect government documents on US national security issues. These documents, primary research material on public policy, are digitally scanned and searchable. Some of the scanned documents have sensitive information blacked out. DNSA also provides good background material, explaining the context of the documents, along with bibliographies, chronologies, and glossaries.

Documents are organized in collections, ranging from "Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990" to "The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977." Also notable are collections on "The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962," "Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002," and "Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush."

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. 1

Broad coverage of general interest periodicals, including newspapers.

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

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.

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.