Business-related databases

Title: Academic ASAP, Expanded
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1980 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Database for research in all academic disciplines, including education.

Title: Academic OneFile
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies by publication
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Premiere source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Title: Academic Search Premier
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1965 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Designed specifically for academic institutions, it is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,172 journals in the collection.

Title: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Current
Description: Provides statistical information on employment & unemployment; wages, earnings & benefits; inflation & consumer spending; occupations; demographics; productivity; business costs; safety & health; publications; and more.

Title: Business & Company Resource Center
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1980 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Comprehensive periodical and reference resource for business, management and investment topics. Includes 4000+ indexed titles of which 2,900+ are full-text. Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company histories, associations, brands, market share, and more.

Title: Business File ASAP, General
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1980 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Business and management topics including information on finance, trade, new technologies and trends. Also includes a directory for over 150,000 companies.

Title: Business Full-Text
Via: HW Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text (from 1994), abstracts (from 1984), and indexing (from 1982) to journal articles in accounting, advertising, banking, communications, economics, finance, hospitality & tourism, human resources, industrial relations, international business, management, marketing, occupational health & safety, public utilities, retail trade, small business, technology, transportation, and more.

Title: Business Source Premier
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1965 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,125 peer-reviewed business publications.

Title: Communication Abstracts
Via: CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Access:North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1977 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources, including not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers, such as film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.

Title: eBizSearch
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Searches academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports that address any branch of business.

Title: Economic Census Data Profile
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: 1997 - present
Description: Provides economic census data gathered from business interests around the country; from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Title: Economic Statistics Briefing Room
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Current
Description: Serves as a single resource for recent data on basic federal economic indicators. Links to eight subject area indicators: employment, income, international, money, output, prices, production, and transportation.

Title: FedBusOpps / Commerce Business Daily
Via: Community of Science
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: June 1995 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other government procurement information over $25,000 - all updated daily; issued by the GPO.

Title: Federal Register
Via: Community of Science
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Lists U.S. federal agency announcements and information, such as presidential documents, agency meetings, grant opportunities, and proposed federal regulations; updated daily.

Title: IRS TaxStats
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Current
Description: Provides tax information from the U.S. Treasurer's Office for individuals, businesses, charities & non-profits, government entities, tax professionals, and retirement plans.

Title: JSTOR
Via: JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, IV, Arts & Sciences Complement, Biological Sciences and General Science Collections
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies with publication
Full-Text: Yes
Description: An archive for full-text journal backfiles in the following fields: African American, African, and American Indian Studies, Anthropology, Art, Business, Classical Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Film Studies, Folklore, Geography, History, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Law, Middle East Studies, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, Statistics, and more ...

Title: Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Via: Reed Elsevier Inc. (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID ard may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text documents from 6,000 news, business, legal, medical, and general reference publications. Included in the service are several national newspapers including the New York Times (1977 - present) and Washington Post (1977 - present) and the Chronicle of Higher Education (1997 - present, with no embargo on current issues).

Title: National Transportation Library
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Contains information and documents on aviation, waterways, freight, rail, highway, public, pedestrian, and other modes of transportation.

Title: Opposing Viewpoints
Via: Gale Group
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Database that analyzes current issues, from health insurance to illegal aliens and working women, with opposing viewpoints.

Title: Population and Household Economic Topics
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides information on economic topics affecting populations and households.

Title: PsycARTICLES
Via: EBSCO
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1987 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Full-text access to articles, books and book chapters in applied, behavioral, developmental, educational, and experimental psychology.

Title: Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1965 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Offers more than 550 full text publications, including over 500 peer-reviewed journals. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO.

Title: PsycInfo
Via: EBSCOhost
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1887 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Indexed access to articles, books and book chapters in applied, behavioral, developmental, educational, and experimental psychology.

Title: Regional Business News
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Title: ScienceDirect
Via: Elsevier Science
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1995 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: A database offering comprehensive coverage (over 1.7 million full-text articles and 3 million abstracts and indexed records) of scientific, technical and medical literature, including business & management science, economics, and the social sciences. Designed for interdisciplinary research and to serve the needs of the researcher.

Title: SIRS Knowledge Source
Via: SIRS (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Four primary databases which can be searched concurrently or separately: SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, and SIRS NetSelect. Full-text articles on economic, business, government, political and global issues. Also contains information on U.S. Supreme Court decisions and an awards recipients directory.

Title: SourceOECD
Via: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: A database from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development providing access to statistics, books, reports, periodicals, and other publications worldwide.

Title: Stat-USA/Internet
Via: U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Access: Restricted to North Campus library and lab computers; may be available remotely
Coverage: varies
Description: Agency in the Economics & Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, delivering vital economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government and brought together in one easy-to-access location.

Title: U.S. Economic Indicators
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: 1995 - present
Description: Searchable database from 1995 to the present; includes links to browse Indicators from 1998 to the present.

Title: U.S. Patents
Via: Community of Science
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1975 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Comprehensive bibliographic database containing records for each of the 2.6 million U.S. Patents issued since 1975.

Title: Web of Science
Via: Thomson ISI
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1945 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Comprehensive bibliographic database containing three citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present); Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present); and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Searches in any of three for topic, person, place, and cited reference.

Title: Wilson OmniFile Full-Text Mega
Via: HW Wilson
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Full-text articles from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, including business, fine arts, history, law, and librarianship.

Title: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Via: CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1975 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Abstracts covering the following subjects: Comparative politics, Developing nations, Disarmament, Economic policy, Electoral systems, Environmental policy, Government/Political systems, History and theory of political science, International relations/trade, Labor relations, Military policy, Methodology and research technology, Political behavior, economy, and psychology, Politics and law, communication, religion, society, Public administration, Security and defense, and Welfare systems.

See also:

• Business Sites on the Web
• Population & Statistical Data on the Web

Last modified Monday January 22, 2007