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ABI/Inform searches periodicals and news sources covering different aspects of business information, including: scholarly research, businesses traditions and trends, corporate strategies, management techniques, and competitive and product information. Some full-text articles. (ProQuest)

Compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA is a comprehensive source of bibliographic citations in agriculture and life sciences. (EBSCOhost)

American Business Disc
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Directory database of over 12,000,000 U.S. businesses and organizations.
Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker)
Full-text and abstracted articles on companies and industries
appearing in U.S. and international publications with a strong global
focus on products. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 6. (RDS, Gale)
Business & Management Practices
"Business & Management Practices emphasizes the practical side of business and management ... how organizations make decisions, adopt and implement new technologies and techniques, and plan for change and expansion." Covers 300 core and professional business journals. Some full-text. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 6. (RDS, Gale)
Comprehensive business periodicals database offering full-text for nearly 1300 general business and academic journals on management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. (EBSCOhost)

Full-text database of federal and state tax, business entity, financial and estate products that form the CCH Omni Tax School Library. (Available
only in Ekstrom Library.)
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
An index to Federal Reserve economic research.
Financial Accounting Research System (FARS)
An annual CD-ROM providing access to all necessary accounting literature, including Original Pronouncements, Current Text, EITF Abstracts, Implementation Guides, and a Comprehensive Topical Index. (CD-ROM available at Ekstrom Ref. computer stations 37-45 and 48)
Current information on companies, financials, industries, news, key officers, and top competitors for over 40,000 public and private companies.
Index to Current Urban Documents
Includes full-text reports and research by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada. (Greenwood Electronic Media)
"Includes the top 250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work."
"Journal Citation Reports is an essential, comprehensive, and unique resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Coverage is both multidisciplinary and international, and incorporates journals from over 3000 publishers in 60 nations."
Full-text articles from journals in a variety of disciplines, from the journals' first issues through the late 1990's. (Acrobat Reader needed to print.)
Access to a wide range of full-text material in News (General, U.S., World, News wires & transcripts, Non-english language, Business, Legal, University, Medical, Arts & Sports);
Business (Business News, Industry & Market News, Accounting Literature, Company Information [financial reports, profiles, SEC & EDGAR filings & reports], Business Directories); and
Legal (Legal News & Reviews, Case Law, Codes & Regulations [U.S. federal and state], Canadian Legislative Materials, European Union Law, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations, Patent Research Tools, and Legal Career Resources)
Provides statistics on the Louisville metro area in the following categories: population, employment and unemployment, earnings and income, prices, and housing.
Research on the Greater Louisville economy provided by the University of Louisville and National City. 
Current and historical global business and financial database
of 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. companies from Mergent. Compare a company's financial criteria with others in the same industry,
retrieve annual reports, and run EDGAR text searches on history, business
and property. Annual reports in PDF format since 2002. (Mergent, formerly Moody's, formerly FIS Online)
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition
This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world's most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists.
(Palgrave) 
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.

Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)

PsycARTICLES
Database of full-text journals from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. PsycARTICLES is only searchable within the OVID version of PsycINFO.
PsycINFO
Provides indexing and abstracting for the professional and
academic literature (books, book chapters, dissertations and 1300
journals) in psychology and related disciplines.
Regional Business News incorporates 75 selected business journals, newspapers and newswires in metropolitan and rural areas
within the U.S. Some titles are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina,
Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions),
Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County
Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc. It does
not include Business First of Louisville. (EBSCOhost)


Encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. The broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk-related concerns ranges from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects. Professionals involved in risk research studies, environmental science, engineering and design, or any type of industry will find in Risk Abstracts essential information that can help them identify, measure, evaluate, and manage risks of all kinds.
(CSA)


Indexing to journal articles in over 1,100 key scientific, technical, medical and social science journals published by Elsevier. Full-text access to articles in journals to which U of L subscribes to the print version. 
Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)

Contains statistical data produced by the U.S. government; important international intergovernmental organizations; professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. (Lexis-Nexis) 
Provides access to financial and economic statistics through State of the Nation, Global Business Opportunities, National Trade Data Bank, and The International Trade Library. (US Dept of Commerce) 
Provides "...tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics." 90% full-text. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 6. (RDS, Gale) 
Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a major newspaper for business and economic news. It is indexed in the following sources:
- ProQuest Direct: 1981-present (less extensive coverage in earlier years); full-text back to June 1988

- PQ Historic News: Full-text 1889-1985, in progress. Some years not yet available. (ProQuest)
- Newspaper Source: 1995-present (selective coverage)
- Print Index (EKSTROM Ref. HG 1 . W26): 1958-1998
