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ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) [Details]: Search worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resou ... more information
Academic OneFile (Gale) [Details]: A premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, ... more information
Accounting & Tax Periodicals (ProQuest) [Details]: Based on the Accountants' Index, this quintessential tool for professionals provides current accounting, taxation, and financial management information. National and international in scope, key public ... more information
Advertising Red Books [Details]: Search by brand, product catagory or company to discover advertising expenditures.
Alibaba.com [Details]: A database of suppliers, Alibaba.com is one of the world's largest marketplace for global trade and is the leading provider of online marketing services for importers and exporters and a destination f ... more information
Alternative Press Index (OCLC) [Details]: Indexes over 200 journals from the alternative, radical and left presses, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Includes selected abstracts from research j ... more information
Better Business Bureau (BBB) Information System [Details]: This free database provides reliability reports for North American companies.
Bloomberg Professional [Details]: The Bloomberg workstations are funded by Falvey Memorial Library, but housed in the Applied Finance Lab in Bartley Hall. To schedule a Bloomberg session contact Applied Finance Lab Coordinator James ... more information
Business & Industry (RDS) [Details]: Contains facts, figures, trends, forecasts and overviews, dealing with public and private industries, markets, and products for all manufacturing service industries at an international level from over ... more information
Business + Management Practices (OCLC) [Details]: Business + Management Practices (BaMP) offers online articles about the practical aspects of business management...real-world know-how that focuses on how organizations make and implement decisions, d ... more information
Business Full Text (WilsonWeb) [Details]: To Search Only Business Full Text select in the Subject Area drop down menu BUSINESS (BUS). This a full text database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals publi ... more information
Business Insight [Details]: This database contains full-text reports on a variety of industries. Coverage includes both United States and international coverage with special emphasis on European business. The reports are availab ... more information
Business Organizations, Agencies and Publications Directory (OCLC) [Details]: Directory of more than 26,000 new and established ##organizations, agencies, and publications worldwide.
Business Regional News (Ebscohost) [Details]: This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metr ... more information
Business Source Premier (EBSCO) [Details]: Business Source Premier is a full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.
Cabell’s Directories of Publishing Opportunities [Details]: Provides the publishing guidelines of journals in the following areas: accounting, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, educational psychology and administration, and psychology. ... more information
Catholic Encyclopedia, New [Details]: "A standard in public, academic, and high school libraries worldwide, and prized for its scholarly presentation of persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities, this book is the firs ... more information
CIS Congressional Universe [Details]: Access a wealth of congressional publications and the legislative histories. View the hottest resources on key American public policy issues.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) [Details]: The database combines two earlier databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA), and Mass Media Articles ... more information
Computer Science Index [Details]: Covers computer science at the highest scholarly and technical levels. Subjects areas include artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems ... more information
CQ Researcher [Details]: CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and th ... more information
Datamonitor (now Marketline) [Details]: Contains : 10,000+ Company Profiles both US and International containing : company overviews, business descriptions, company history, executive listings, product listings, locations, news and commenta ... more information
E-Journals List [Details]: This is a link to an A-Z list of journals that are subscribed to by Villanova. Not all dates or issues are available in fulltext. Interlibrary Loan can be used to obtain articles that Villanova does n ... more information
EconLibrary [Details]: This database provides over 300,000 bibliographic references from 500 leading journals of business and economics; articles are indexed only. Many of these journals, however, will be available in full ... more information
EconLit (OCLC) [Details]: Indexes and abstracts articles in journals, over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers copyrighted by the American Economic Association.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) [Details]: Country Reports, Country Profiles and Market Indicators and Forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit offer monthly and annual in depth analysis, data and ratings for the infrastructure, d ... more information
EDGAR [Details]: Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval is the database of legal filings from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC).
Electronic Collections Online [Details]: Indexes a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas. Provides some fulltext coverage of business journals.
Emerald Journal Database (Emerald) [Details]: Full-text journal articles on management and economics. This database can also be searched. Villanova subscribes to a portion of the journals offered full-text in Emerald.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) [Details]: A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
European Patent Office (from EI Village) [Details]: This database provides a fulltext patent and mosaic image search of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office, and Patent Abstracts of Japan.
Executive Compensation Database [Details]: This is freely available website. One may search for executive compensation amounts by company name or ticker symbol.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale) [Details]: Features citations, abstracts and/or full-text for articles from more than 2500 scholarly and general interest publications. Covered subject areas include current events, the arts, history, literature ... more information
Federal Rules Database [Details]: GAO provides indexing to Federal rules affecting business and industry. Fulltext of rules is not provided.
Gartner Group Intraweb [Details]: An Information Technology (IT) advisory service that provides timely, widely-quoted, critical reports on the broad IT and computer industry.
GenderWatch (ProQuest) [Details]: A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
GEOBASE (OCLC) [Details]: Indexes the worldwide literature on geology, geography and ecology.
Global Financial Data [Details]: Global Financial Data features historical data on worldwide stock exchanges, bond indices,intraday data, futures data,interest rates, population data, and much more, there are currently 20,000 data se ... more information
Global Insight [Details]: Provides historical economic and financial data time series and includes access to U.S., regional and global macroeconomic indicators, industrial markets, foods, crops, metals, financials, housing, Fe ... more information
Global New Issues Database [Details]: Available at the Falvey Library information desk, the Global New Issues Database includes public offerings and private placements data for U.S. and international issues (IPO's).
Global New Product Development (GNPD) [Details]
GMID (Global Market Information Database) by Euromonitor [Details]: Global Market Information Database (Euromonitor) This resource is a database of demographic, economic, lifestyle, and consumer market information for over 350 markets and 207 countries. Statistics cov ... more information
HeinOnline [Details]: This legal database provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports, Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the ... more information
ICPSR [Details]: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, cens ... more information
IEEE Xplore [Details]: IEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
IngentaConnect [Details]: A comprehensive multi-disciplinary document delivery service. Table of contents to more than 28,000 publications (6000 are full-text). Years of coverage vary with the journal. Includes publications in ... more information
Journal Citation Reports [2004- ] (Web of Science) [Details]: Provides access to journal publication information for science and social science jourals, including information such as No. of Citations, Half-life,ic information and cited references from the
JSTOR [Details]: A searchable and browsable archive of full-text core journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Lexis Nexis Academic [Details]: Link to the Business Tab and search Company Dossier for key information on public and private companies.
Market Insight (S&P) [Details]: Provides full-text access to the S&P Industry Surveys, the Executive Compensation database, Global Reports Library which contains full-color, online, international company source documents including a ... more information
MarketLine [Details]: This database contains 10,000+ Company Profiles both US and International containing : company overviews, business descriptions, company history, executive listings, product listings, locations, news ... more information
MarketResearch [Details]: Provides marketing reports for many industries and demographic reports on a variety of age groups. Documents are formatted as Adobe Acrobat or PowerPoint files.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web [Details]: Searchable online database features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals in all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the a ... more information
Medical & Healthcare Market Guide (MHMG) [Details]: MHMG is a searchable directory of medical and health companies both public and private. Also included are extensive reports on healthcare demographics, healthcare economics, medical devices, pharmaceu ... more information
Mergent Online [Details]: Provides research to 15 years of detailed financial statements for international and U.S. companies included in the Moody's (now Mergent) Manuals; enables customized viewing and output to retrieve com ... more information
Mergent WebReports [Details]: Features the full text of all of Mergent / Moody's Corporate Manuals from 1909 to the present. Once you enter the database select the option for "Corporate Manuals" and begin your search ... more information
Mintel Reports [Details]: Mintel's published market research has been helping leading businesses achieve their goals for over 30 years. ##As a globally recognised market analyst, Mintel produces hundreds of reports into Europe ... more information
Morningstar Principia Plus [Details]: Provides performance and financial data on over 6,000 mutual funds.
My Research (Metalib Advanced Business Search Tool) [Details]: Note: Metalib uses a seamless form of Proxy Access and does not require configuration to the Villanova Proxy Server.
Metalib allows users to search for articles from more than one database at a time ... more information
National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) [Details]: Contains data related to international trade, particularly exports and is part of STAT_USA. The Export Connection is available as CD-ROM at the research & consultation desk.
New York Times Historical [Fulltext from 1851-1999] [Details]: New York Times reporters often covered news and happenenings between the CIA and various African governements, especially during the Cold War era.
Oxford Business Reference (Oxford Reference Online) [Details]: Part of the Oxford Reference Online,this database brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. Use ... more information
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online [Details]: A reference work providing 50,000 specially-written signed biographies people who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. State-of-the-art search o ... more information
Oxford English Dictionary [Details]: The world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150. Based on the 1989 2nd edition, a 20-volume set, with additions from 1993-1997 and the 3rd edition (in p ... more information
PAISArchive [1915-1976] [Details]: Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Provides selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government p ... more information
Philadelphia Inquirer [Details]: Contains the complete text of articles covered beginning with 1981. It DOES NOT include advertising, calendar listings, horoscopes, sports statistics, stock tables, weather, weddings, engagements and ... more information
Polling the Nation [Details]: The database includes 12,000 surveys and 250,000 questions on more than 3,500 topics. Scope is international, from the United States, to more than 60 other countries.
PsycARTICLES (OVID) [Details]: TO SEARCH ONLY PsycARTICLES PLEASE CHECK OFF BOX NEXT TO DATABASE NAME. Access from the American Psychological Association database 58 top full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of ... more information
Research Insight / Compustat PC Plus --North America and Global Databases [Details]: Find financial information on thousands of public companies. Detailed income statements and balance sheets are included. ## ##RESTRICTED TO Villanova staff, faculty and student use. ## ##Available at ... more information
RIA Federal Tax Database [Details]: Contains commentary and primary resources in the United States Federal Tax Code. All users must obtain a user name and password from Thomson by accessing this database while physically on our campus. ... more information
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Details]: First-time users have to register. The Roper Center has a large archive of public opinion information. It contains nearly 500,000 questions and responses from national public opinion surveys go ... more information
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) [Details]: ScienceDirect is a journal aggregator that features the full text or abstracts of many journals relevant in the Business world. The holdings in ScienceDirect do not always show up in E-Journal Finder ... more information
SDC Platinum [Details]: Our subscription to SDC Platinum includes only the Mergers and Acquisitions Database.

To access SDC Platinum, please visit the Applied Finance Lab in Bartley Hall or goto Falvey Memorial Library ... more information
Social Expenditure Database (OECD) [Details]: OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable, up-to-date and internationally comparable statistics ... more information
Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Scientific / ISI Web Services) [Details]: The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
Sports Business Research Network [Details]: Sports Business Research Network provides sports marketing information: market size, and demographics; sports participation, licensing, financial and retail trends; international marketing and profess ... more information
Sports Team Directory [Details]: An online directory of contact information for most college and professional sports teams. This is part of our subscription the Sports Business Research Network Database.
SRDS Media Solutions [Details]: The majority of SRDS titles are now available online. The one exception is the lifestyle market analyst title which is still only available in print at the Falvey Memorial Library's Information Desk.
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Search [Details]: An official source, OSHA.gov, contains information on the United States Commerce Department Industry Classification.
STAT-USA [Details]: Economic, business and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government.
State of the Nation (STAT-USA) [Details]: Contains information on United States Economic releases including GDP, Housing Starts, and Productivity.
The Times Archives 1785-1985 [Details]: The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, ... more information
ThomasNet Register of American Manufacturers [Details]: Contains directory information on United States Companies, Services, and Products. Falvey owns the print version of the Register. Ask for it at the Reference Desk.
United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademark database [Details]: The US Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Database contains the full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks.
US Patent Full-text and Image Database [Details]: The database consists includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week ... more information
Value Line [Details]: A standard resource for investment analysis. This resource Includes the Value Line Investment Survey (analysis on over 1700 U.S. stocks) and the Value Line Investment Survey/Small & Mid-Cap (coverage ... more information
Who's Who (Marquis) [Details]: Searchable online database features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals in all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the a ... more information
World Database of Happiness [Details]: The World Database of Happiness is a continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life. This site contains the Bibliography of Happiness, a collection of over 3,000 scienti ... more information
WorldCat (OCLC) [Details]: A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holdings and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
WRDS [Details]: Covers over 30,000 companies and includes security prices and trading volume, income and balance sheet items. Provides access to IBES' analyst projections for earnings and sales. WRDS also contains st ... more information