Databases A-Z 

CD-ROM db that indexes articles from business magazines, trade publications & journals. Used with CD collection of fulltext articles/abstracts and may be the only source for finding electronic versions of older articles. Available at public computer #9.

Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax information found in scholarly and peer-reviewed journals as well as accounting or tax news in newspapers and magazines.

Includes analytical accounting, auditing, and SEC information with links to FASB, AICPA, SEC, EITF, IASB, PCAOB, OMB, and Sarbanes-Oxley. Provides proposal-stage literature, plus comment and advice from financial reporting experts.

The online catalog of materials owned by all the libraries at Vanderbilt. Search for books, journals and electronic materials by title, author, keyword or subject.

Access to the largest collection of the fulltext glossy annual reports companies prepare for current and prospective stock holders. Search for reports by company name, ticker symbol, exchange, industry, and industry sector.

Provides thousands of full-text reports on 53 countries. Covers all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and the Pacific islands. Includes information relating to business, government, economic, and social issues.

Catalog of Nashville Area Library Consortium. Patrons at any participating library can simultaneously search the library catalogs of a number of area institutions.

A premier trade publication for the industry. To access reports: click on the DATA section, then chose SUPPLEMENTS. Access to online global industry details such as: production, sales, & incentives by country or region and type of vehicle and model.

Real-time and historical information on economic conditions, market data and public companies worldwide along with governments, mortgages, money markets, bonds, commodities, stocks, and currencies.

Broad business information database that focuses on facts, figures, events and market information about companies, industries, products and markets. Use ADVANCED SEARCH for more precise search options.

Contains information dealing with the processes, methods, and strategies of managing a business. The coverage focuses on those source publications that deal with management issues or business methodology from a practical approach.

Provides market studies on 5 broad industry sectors: Consumer Goods, Energy, Finance, Healthcare, and Technology. Reports are compiled by in-house market analysts and provide forecasting to explore all major issues, threats and opportunities.

Covers most subject areas related to business: management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, & international business. Includes company reports, SWOT analyses, working papers, country reports, industry reports, case studies, etc.

Covers U.S. (public and private), Canadian, & international companies, universities, & non-profit organizations. Search criteria includes location, industry, SIC codes, and other elements. Can also be used to identify competitors by industry and SIC code.

World-class tax and accounting information.

Provides data on more than 35 million private & public companies in U.S. & worldwide. Company profiles, contacts, executives, products, competitors, financial, legal information, including intellectual property & recent company news.

The Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt (FMRC) provides access. Contains about 340 annual and 120 quarterly income statement, balance sheet, flow of funds and supplemental data items on a large number of companies.

Includes computer-related product introductions, plus news & reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications & the application of technology.

Research on business management and trends. Contains annual reports on top-executive compensation and corporate giving. Includes the monthly Consumer Confidence Index, a widely quoted economic indicator.

The Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt (FMRC) provides access. Produced by the University of Chicago Center for Research in Securities Prices, this database contains daily & monthly price, volume, & return data for NYSE, ASE, & NASDAQ stocks.

Provides historical data for financial markets worldwide along with an extensive collection of historical country economic and time series data. Available on WML Public Workstations #1-8.

D&B Million Dollar Database provides brief information on 15 million private and public U.S. companies and 8 million international companies. The directory information includes: address, sales, number of employees, industry classification (SIC and NAICS), type of ownership, and names of chief executives. You can generate lists of companies meeting specific criteria (geography, sales size, employee size, industry) and download the results.

Offers a variety of ready-made demographic data reports, which can be customized by geography. Identify patterns and trends regarding household expenditures, market penetration and location of goods and services.

Contains abstracts for more than 1.5 million doctoral dissertations & master's theses. Vanderbilt users may purchase dissertations from UMI through this database; they may also borrow dissertations without charge through the Heard Library ILL office.

Contains broad coverage of citations for economic, finance and business journals. Identifies articles published in 500 scholarly journals in the economics field.

A comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association. Includes working papers which have been licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Pape

Free database of public company filings collected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Full-text of company annual 10-K reports, quarterly 10-Q reports, proxy statements, prospectus, etc. from 1994-Present. See LIVEDGAR for more options.

In-depth reports that include political and economic data and policies.

Specialized data & forecasts on over 200 countries & global economic indicators & forecasts including data series on economic structure, foreign payments, external debt stock, external debt service & trade, trends in foreign trade, & quarterly indicators.

Contains market research reports that focus on how e-commerce and the Internet affect business and industry. eStat section has statistics and graphs on Internet-related topics.

Full-text searchable database of 110 scholarly, peer-reviewed management journals from all different areas of business.

Provides access and cross searching for the Gale online directories including the Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations, National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations, and Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S

An online encyclopedia that contains information in the fields of business, economics, education, psychology, and statistics.

Includes 550,000 companies in 35 European countries. Search by company name, product, or business sector to get the address, phone number, line of business, and general workforce size of a company.

Product of the Statistical Office of the European Communities. Updated daily & provides direct access to the latest & most complete statistical information available on the European Union, the EU Member States, the Euro-zone and other countries.

General subject database, provided by the Heard Libraries. Use it to identify articles on a broad range of subject areas, including some business.

Full-text of business magazines, trade publications, & newspapers including the Wall Street Journal. Use the submenus to refine your search by source, company, subject, industry, region and/or language.

A virtual library of clearly-written reports covering such key technology areas as IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet & World Wide Web, as well as technology vendors.

Multilingual database that is the world's largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food & agriculture. Includes production, trade, food balance sheets, food aid shipments, etc.

Provides online access to FASB & AICPA original pronouncements: FASB Statements, Interpretations, Technical Bulletins, & Concepts Statements; ARBs 43-51; APB Opinions & Statements; & AICPA Accounting Interpretations & Terminology Bulletins. Public Workstation #1-8.

Three main sections of key business intelligence interest: Industry Profiles, Industry Prospector, and States/Provinces.

Forrester is an independent research firm that analyzes the future of technology change and its impact on businesses, consumers and society. It provides a picture of the Internet economy through its research in Internet commerce, corporate technology, and consumer behavior. Jupiter media research and analysis is now incorporated in the Forrester database. Our license does not include direct access to Forrester analysts for research inquiries, please do not phone, write, or send e-mail inquiries.

The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research features historical material from seven banking publications.

Database of U.S. economic time series from a multitude of government agencies. It includes charts of data series & data on banking & finance, statistics on labor, consumer price index, GDP, imports/exports, etc. Data can be downloaded into Excel.

Provides access to international, regional and country specific market research reports with a focus on markets, companies, consumers, technologies, research and development, and industry trends.

A resource guide to to all products traded on 90 international exchanges data.

Provides access and cross searching for the Gale online directories including: Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations; National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations; and Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.

An authoritative source on IT data, analysis & opinion. Includes executive summaries, perspectives/research briefs, research notes, & special reports on IT-related issues. Spotlights key technologies, products, trends, opportunities, vendors & products.

Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and business trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.

Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and business trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics but with an international focus. Includes the full-text of the Financial Times.

External debt and financial flow data for the 136 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System.

Using the combination of DRI & WEFA data, find economic & financial forecasting for 200+ countries. Download data, perform comparisons, and use the database's graphing capabilities.

Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database (GMID) contains 1M+ demographic, economic & marketing statistics for 205 countries. Unique country rankings help you to gauge one country's position in the world relative to another.

World-wide job & internship listings, industry, country & city profiles, country-specific career information, work permit/visa regulations, cultural/interviewing advice, corporate profiles, and a global chat feature.

Basic information on 12 million worldwide companies & in-depth profiles of more than 40,000 public & private companies. Profile may include company description, historical profile, competitors, financials, products/operations, industry information, etc.

Provides Wall Street earnings per share forecasts by analysts & the consensus data derived from these forecasts for more than 3,500 publicly traded companies in the U.S. Coverage period includes 1990-2000. The FMRC at Vanderbilt provides access.

A vast archive of social science data for research and instruction along with access to special topic archives sponsored by agencies outside ICPSR, including the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data & the International Archive of Education Data.

Standard source of international statistics related to finance - both domestic and international. International payments, rates of inflation & deflation, exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, monetary policy, interest rates, etc.

IIBP Full Text includes current & retrospective citations & abstracts from scholarly journals & newsletters from the U.S., Africa & the Caribbean & full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. International and multidisciplinary in scope.

Offers full-text, question-level summary data from public opinion polls from major survey research organizations in the United States.

Contains complete bibliographic data as well as author abstracts for approximately 70% of the articles in the sciences and 65% of the articles in the social sciences since 1992. Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article.

A digital archive for major scholarly journals. The most recent five years of published issues are not available in this database. Search the entire database, selected journals, or browse the journal table of contents.

Consortium catalog of Vanderbilt and 15 other southeastern academic libraries. Enables users to search the holdings of all the member libraries (plus the Center for Research Libraries) simultaneously.

Provides access to legal articles from magazines, journals, & law reviews; all US Federal case law & the states' high court & appellate court decisions; US federal and state codes & regulations; and U.S. Tax Law.

Statistical information from over 130,000 publications. Search to include economic, demographic, & geographic information, or by data published on daily, weekly, monthly, or annual basis.

International abstracting & indexing tool designed for library professionals & other information specialists. Abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries & in more than 20 different languages.

Indexes articles & book reviews in more than 200 library & information science periodicals.

Comprehensive & up-to-date database containing securities data as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Keyword searchable; advanced features allow access to SEC filings, M&A data, annual reports, company news, quotes & financials.

Contains daily observations of variables measuring trade & quote properties for securities. Filters are applied to the Trade & Quote data (TAQ) before the MMS variables are calculated. A Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt (FMRC) database.

Locate detailed company, industry, & country profiles published by Datamonitor. Business description, history, major products & services, locations & subsidiaries, top competitors, SWOT analysis, market overview, value, share & forecasts included.

Provides access to the fulltext of marketing studies produced by a variety of research firms. Information on demographics & markets.

Biographical information for over 1,000,000 newsworthy American & international figures in the areas of business, education, entertainment, government, health care, law, religion, & science.

Detailed corporate financial histories (including capital changes) & operational histories for international public companies. Customized reports on a company or multiple companies can be created & data can be downloaded into Excel. Quick user guide.

Market research reports focused on consumers in the U.S., U.K., European, & some Asian markets. Include market drivers, size & trends and segmentation; supply structure, advertising & promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics & forecasts.

Includes Industry Analysis module; SBBI Valuation essentials; Company Betas module; and International Cost of Capital Report.

Real-time online access and full-text search of extensive financial information for publicly traded firms. The latest SEC filings plus historical filings, from the start date of each company's existence, by keyword, phrase and name.

Provides access and cross searching for the Gale online directories that have been purchased by the Library. Choose ADVANCED SEARCH option and select "National Directory of Non-Profit Organizations" to limit your search before entering a keyword.

Article references or abstracts from The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor , The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.

The National Bureau of Economic Research working papers series offers access to the latest economic research.

Collection of thousands of full text electronic books. Conduct a combined search of the entire text of all ebooks or search the collection by keyword, author, title, or Library of Congress subject heading.

In depth details on 80,000+ international companies & their executives as well as 350,000+ U.S. and Canadian public & private companies & their executives. Includes financials, subsidiaries, trade and business news, and research reports.

Poll questions and responses from more than 14,000 national, state, local and special public opinion polls and surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and 80 other countries.

A multi-disciplinary database with full text availability for nearly 2,000 journals in all academic fields. It includes same-day, full-text coverage of the Wall Street Journal.

Direct link to the newspaper database of ProQuest.

Subject coverage includes basic and applied psychology which covers marketing, advertising, organizational analysis, and human relations, as well as other psychology areas.

Provides access and cross searching for the Gale online directories that have been purchased by the Library. Choose ADVANCED SEARCH option and select "Research Centers Directory" to limit your search to that publication before entering a keyword.

Provides fulltext access to a variety of S&P publications including the electronic full text versions of the Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys. Surveys contain information about current trends, how the industry operates, key ratios & statistics.

Full-text articles with news & market research information from sports industry sources. Includes market reports on international sporting goods equipment for 35 countries, export and import statistics, etc.

Access to more than 2,000 scientific, business, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals. The backfile of the Business collection is an invaluable archival source for business research.

Comprehensive data available on mergers & acquisitions, global new issues (IPO & private placement), & venture capital. Requires precise queries but provides a large range of data points. Information can be downloaded to a spreadsheet format.

Provides access to contract specifications on 650 equity-based products, single-stock, ETF & narrow-based index futures & options on 17 global exchanges & broad-based index futures & options on 44 worldwide exchanges.

Details the behaviors of American consumers based on Simmons' national survey data. Search the usage and preferences of consumers using detailed lifestyle categories and demographics. Available at Public Workstations #1-8.

Create maps & reports from decennial Census of Population & Housing data from 1790 to date for states, counties, MSA's and zip codes: urban/rural, sex, race, age, nativity, literacy, school attendance, families, own/rent, unemployment, farms, wages, etc.

The SSRN eLibrary consists of an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 128,100 scholarly working papers & forthcoming papers; and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 99,100 downloadable full text documents in PDF.

The online library of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Includes: Financial Market Trends, Monthly Statistics of International Trade, OECD Economic Outlook, and OECD Economic Surveys.

This database tracks trade and business magazines which publish special issues on various topics. Often the special issue will have either an industry or company focus.

Contains over 400 fulltext multi-disciplinary journals and books published by Springer-Verlag and other publishers including the Online Library in Business and Economics, which contains over 100 business journals.

Contains tables & text excerpted from numerous publications. Using the ADVANCED SEARCH option, users can limit searches by choosing from lists of concept terms, marketing terms, countries, industries, & document types.

New York Stock Exchange database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ National Market System and SmallCap Issues from 1993 to present.

Enhanced web site for Thomas Register, the world's most comprehensive directory of US & Canadian manufacturers, listing over 168,000 industrial product & services companies. This is a free service but you must register.

Provides company financials, profiles, financial market data, & forecasts. Research portion includes analyst reports. Deals portion provides current Mergers & Acquisitions information including league tables, Equity, Bonds & Loans.

Find U.S. corporations with operations in other countries & firms based in other countries with locations in the U.S. Searchable by: region, country, state, keyword, industry type, revenue, # of employees & zip code which can be exported into MS Excel.

Industry and career guides, including employer profiles; books & reports that offer advice on consulting case interviews, financial interviews, & career trends. Access to message boards. NOTE: In order to download Vault e-books, you will need to submit yo

Provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960, where data are available. Produced by the World Bank.

Legal research tool. Contains the complete laws & statutes of the federal government & all 50 states. Offers "Legal Guides," "Famous Documents," and "Pre-Law" resources.

Independently-researched reports on leading companies, industries and career advice topics that are known for providing "inside information" that is hard to obtain from other sources.

Provides access to publications from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Features journals, online books & more. Identify, retrieve, download or print full text documents in the business, scientific, medical, technical & professional specialties.

Full-text information resource for social & economic development. Provides access to more than 14,000 World Bank documents including Country Economic & Sector Work, Project Documents & Research & Working Papers.

The most comprehensive biographical database available, providing short biographical information on 5.49 Million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present. Central Library holds some of the accompanying microfiche sets.

The OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing more than 35 million records describing items owned by U.S. libraries & libraries around the world; each record contains library holdings.

Provides national-level information on countries, territories, & dependencies, but not on subnational administrative units within a country or supranational entities like the European Union. Published by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Contains interactive access to the most up-to-date WTO trade statistics, & annual publication including detailed analysis & tables (leading traders, trade by sector & product, regional trade, LDCs, etc.). It includes time-series data.