Library & Technology

Core Resources

Aggregate Databases
The following databases are composed of collections of periodical articles, ranging from full image, full text to abstracts. To search across databases, use Article & Database Finder.

• Factiva.com Full text of hundreds of newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Baron's, and the Financial Times. Many publications are updated the same day. Also includes current quotes, market data, and company and industry reports from over 3500 publications.
• ABI/Inform (Proquest Direct: Provides index and some full text/image coverage of 1000 business journals and magazines from 1970 to the present. Searchable by keywords, author, journal, subject, and company.
• Business Source Complete: Includes over 3,000 full text journals in the fields of marketing, management, accounting, finance, MIS, and international business.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe:LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
• EconLit: Subject indexing and abstracts of over 400 journals, over 500 collective volumes per year plus books, dissertations, and working papers. January 1969 to the present. Updated monthly. This is the electronic version of the Journal of Economic Literature.
• JSTOR: A collection of full-text, academic journals, including several in economics. All material is copyrighted, and the normal restrictions apply.
• PsychInfo:Index and abstracts of psychology journal articles, as well as book chapters. This will include many journals that publish in the area of organizational behavior.

General Company and Industry Information databases

• Standard and Poor's Net Advantage
  Includes industry surveys, stock and mutual fund reports, corporation reports, dividends, and earnings
• Thomson One Banker
  Financial information and analysis on domestic & international companies. SEC historical filings which export into Excel.
• ValueLine
  Company snapshots and ratings. Includes the traditional Value Line reports in .pdf format.
• Business & Company Resource Center
  Company and industry information, including industry and market share analysis.
• Plunkett Research Online
  Industry reports & statistics, trends, and in-depth analysis of top companies.

Financial databases

• Thomson One Banker
  Financial information and analysis on domestic & international companies. SEC historical filings which export into Excel.
• ISI Emerging Markets
  News, company and financial data direct from emerging markets
• EdgarScan
  PriceWaterhouseCoopers Interface to SEC filings including 10K's, 10Q's, and proxy statements.
• Annual Statement Studies: Financial Ratio Benchmark Data
  Composite industry financial ratios, taken from annual statements.
• Compario
  Platform for accounting and auditing technical research and reference from PricewaterhouseCoopers, including FASB & AICPA publications

Marketing Databases

• Business Insights
  Market research reports from an international and European perspective.
• Sports Business Research Network (SBRnet)
  Marketing information and research regarding the business of sports & fitness.

Career Databases

• Vault.com
  Career advice, along with industry and company guides. User ID and password mailed directly to user from Vault.
• WetFeet
  Career, company, and industry information, along with career guides.
• Going Global
  Includes job and intership postings, updated daily, for all countries, as well as country guides and an employer directory.

Statistics

• Statistical Universe
  Index to government and private statistical sources, combining selections from the American Statistical Index andStatistical Reference Index. 
• Census Statistics
  Statistics from the Census Bureau, including Annual Survey of Manufacturers and County Business Patterns.

Other Web Databases

• E-Journal List
  Listing of Tulane's online, full-text journals.
• Article & Database Finder
  Searches across multiple databases for articles
• National Trade Data Bank (NTDB)
  The NTDB contains a number of databases produced by the U.S. Commerce Department, and is available through STAT-USA. Heavily researched topics include import/export statistics, international market research reports, and country business plans. The Country Commercial Guides are valuable sources of information of doing business abroad.
• Reference USA
  Directory of US companies, with affiliates, searchable by business type, city &/or state, and size.
• Faulkner's Information Technology Library
  Studies and news on IT and MIS topics

 Online Databases

• Bloomberg:
  Bloomberg provides information on financial market and commodity news. Major subject areas include equity valuation and derivatives, portfolio analysis, cross currency analysis, technical analysis, bond valuation, bond swaps and switches, and futures and options. There is online help available within the equity sector, as well as an expert help file.Use of the Bloomberg computer is restricted to Freeman students, alumni, faculty, and staff. A terminalis located within the library.

 Voyager

• Voyager:
  Voyager is Tulane's Web-based catalog of books, electronic resources, microforms, government documents, and periodical titles owned by all of the Tulane libraries, except for the Law Library. Also included are links to all licensed digital resources, as well as to full text, electronic journals.