Databases: In Alphabetical Order
A Note about Remote Access: If you are trying to access these databases from somewhere off-campus, you will need to login using your ID number and last name. Please include all 7 digits of your ID number, including any leading zeroes. If you encounter problems when accessing any database, please consult our troubleshooting guide.If you have questions regarding the databases or need additional help with remote access, please contact the University Library Reference Desk 415-442-7244; instant message a librarian via Meebo; or e-mail askalibrarian@ggu.edu.Databases marked with an o are available to Law Students for remote access.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
| DATABASES - A | DESCRIPTION |
| ABI/INFORM (via ProQuest) | Contains over 3,000 worldwide business periodicals that provides coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. |
| Academic Search Eliteo (via EBSCO) | This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more. Academic Search Elite is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database. |
| Accounting Research Manager (via CCH) | Accounting Research Manager (ARM) from CCH is a comprehensive financial reporting database providing materials designed to help solve accounting issues. ARM contains the full-text of the most important documents produced by the FASB, AICPA, EITF, and IASB. In addition, ARM contains accounting, auditing, government, and regulatory information. Note: This service only permits a limited number of simultaneous users. If you are denied to access this service, please try again later. When you are done using ARM, please click the Logout link so that others may use the service when you are done. |
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| DATABASES - B | DESCRIPTION |
| Bartleby.com | Contains over 300 titles of books online, including reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction. [Note: no login required.] |
| BizJournalso (via American City Business Journals) | The BizJournals collection via American City Business Journals provides local business news and information from major metropolitan cities across the United States; includes San Francisco Business Times, The Bay Area Book of Lists, and other specialty publications. |
| BNA Human Resources Library | Provides coverage of workplace issues including federal/state compliance requirements, key state laws and regulations, and tips on writing, implementing work rules and policies. |
| Business Source Completeo (via EBSCO) | Provides full text for nearly 8,200 business serials including Harvard Business Review. Additional full text content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analysis. [EBSCO LibGuide ] |
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| DATABASES - C | DESCRIPTION |
| Cambridge History of English and American Literature | Contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writings. |
| Capital Changes Reporter | Capital Changes Reporter provides a chronological list of dividends, stock splits, name changes, mergers, acquisitions, and other changes in corporate capital and debt structure for public companies in the USA and selected international companies. Access Note: Click the Browse icon on the IntelliConnect page and check the box next to Capital Changes. |
| Catalog of Nonprofit Literature | Contains more than 22,000 citations, including some descriptive abstracts, covering the literature of nonprofits and philanthropy. [Note: no login required.] |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education | Weekly news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students. |
| The Conference Board | The Conference Board is a non-profit business research organization. They conduct research, convene conferences, make forecasts, assess trends, and publish information and analysis about topics related to business. |
| CorpTech Directory | CorpTech Directory provides information on over 95,000 technology companies. Search by company name, industry, geography, company size, industry executives, products, and more. |
| CQ Researcher | CQ Researcher provides news and analysis of American government, politics, history, public policy, current affairs, and controversial topics. Each report contains a synopsis and discussion of the issue, a pro/con section and bibliography. |
| Counseling and Therapy in Video | Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling-400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. For more information about this resource, see this page. Firefox 3.0 or Internet Explorer 7.0 and Flash Player 9 or higher are required to view video content. |
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| DATABASES - D | DESCRIPTION |
| Dissertations & Theseso | Provides citations and information for doctoral dissertations and master's theses ranging from the first U.S. dissertation accepted in 1861, to those recently accepted.
GGU dissertations submitted since 1997 are available full text online. You can also search the GGU Library Catalog for all GGU dissertations, available in both print and microform. |
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| DATABASES - E | DESCRIPTION |
| Ebraryo | Provides access to over 47,000 full text electronic books selected for their relevance to GGU programs.
To learn more about Ebrary and Ebooks, click here. |
| EBSCOo | EBSCO includes access to eight databases offering full text and citation coverage in a number of areas including business, health care, psychology, news, and more. |
| Economist Intelligence Unit | Provides statistics and reports about political, economic and business climates of more than 180 countries and regions. Includes industry sector reports, country profiles, country commerce, country finance, market indicators, and forecasts.
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| Edgar (SEC Filings) | Public company filings required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) archived back to 1993. |
| Emerald Management eJournalso | Articles from select management journals covering human resource management, information management, marketing, and e-business. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica On-Lineo | The online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Additional features include an atlas, historical features and the year in review. |
| Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Second Edition | Over 300 encyclopedia entries related to Public Administration and Public Policy. New articles are added on a quarterly basis. |
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)o
(via EBSCO) | Provides access to the world's largest source of education information. |
| Export.gov | Resources include 100,000 industry and country-specific reports and web sites. Reports include country commercial guides, industry sector analysis, marketing insights, best markets, and industry/regional reports. [Note: no login required.] |
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| DATABASES - G | DESCRIPTION |
| Gale Business and Company Resource Center | Provides company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies. It includes articles and press releases; investment reports; corporate chronologies and company histories; brands and product information; industry and company rankings; financial overviews; industry overviews; and HR law case digests. |
| Gale Directory Library | Search and download text records from Business Rankings Annual, Directories in Print, Encyclopedia of Associations, Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Market Share Reporter. |
| Gale General Business File ASAP | Indexes over 1,000 general business and finance magazines, trade journals, and local business journals, with full-text of several hundred titles. |
| Gale LitFinder | Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Also includes biographies, work summaries, photos, and a glossary. |
| Gale Small Business Resource Center | Covers areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources and franchising. Also includes business journals and a wide selection of sample business plans. |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | The Gale Virtual Reference Library provides electronic access to the latest editions of several encyclopedias: Encyclopedia of American Industries; Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries; Encyclopedia of Global Industries; and West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Each title is searched by the default search option; to only search the business materials, you can limit your subject to "business." |
Global Market Information Databaseo
(via Euromonitor) | Provides statistics and reports on national and international consumer and industrial markets, company profiles, lifestyle indicators and analysis, and country demographic, economic and marketing statistics. |
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| DATABASES - H | DESCRIPTION |
| H. W. Wilson OmniFile Full Text | This general database contains full-text articles from thousands of different journals in a variety of subjects including the social sciences and business. Its easy to use search screen and results page helps you easily perform and organize your research. In addition, it contains many unique publications and journals not found in the other article databases. |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Editiono (via EBSCO) | Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | This compendium includes statistics for the United States from the Nineteenth Century to the recent past. Categories available include: Population, Work and Welfare, Economic Structure, Economic Sectors, and Governance. This is the definitive resource for Historical Statistics. |
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| DATABASES - I | DESCRIPTION |
| IBISWorld Chinao | The IBISWorld China Industry Reports Database provides access to information on many industries in the China Economy including reports categorized by the Chinese Industry Code. Each IBISWorld China report is updated every six months and provides an overview of the industry, competitor information, market share data, and more. |
| IBISWorld USAo | The IBISWorld USA Industry Reports Database provides access to information on many industries in the US Economy including over 700 reports categorized by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Each IBISWorld USA report is updated every four months and provides an overview of the industry, competitor information, market share data, and more. |
| IGI Global's Reference E-Access Collection | IGI Global's Reference E-Access Collection provides access to over a dozen information technology reference materials. Topics include knowledge management, e-commerce, and mobile technologies, among others. To see a list of the GGU-access books, click the "E-Access Books" link on the left side. |
| IMF Publications | Provides access to International Monetary Fund (IMF) publications including periodicals, series and books. |
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| DATABASES - J | DESCRIPTION |
| Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)o | A peer-reviewed, general medical journal that contains original articles on clinical science, disease prevention, and health policy information for physicians and other health professionals; includes current medical reports, reports from the CDC, book reviews and more. |
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| DATABASES - L | DESCRIPTION |
| LegalTraco (via Infotrac) | Use to find indexing and abstracting from major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. |
| LexisNexis Academico | Provides full-text and abstracts on a broad range of subjects including reference materials, accounting, economics, finance, human resource development, legal research, management, marketing and e-business, medical, news. Provides company reports and access to Hoover's Reports. |
| LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collectiono | The LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) provides full-text access to more than 5,000 Congressional committee prints published from 2004 to present and more than 23,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 2004-present. For more information about the Congressional Research Service, see: http://www.loc.gov/crsinfo/whatscrs.html |
| LexisNexis Statistical Insighto | Provides detailed abstracts to statistics produced by the U.S. Government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies and universities. |
| LexisNexis Statistical DataSetso | LexisNexis Statistical DataSets provides fast and easy one-stop shopping to more than 5.3 billion (and growing) data points from licensed and public domain datasets. Sources of data include local, state and international governments and organizations. The EASI Market Planner section provides consumer demographic information. DataSets allows you to customize the data by selecting subjects, variable(s) of interest, and the ability to view your data in side-by-side tables, charts and even maps.
Note: If your computer does not currently have Java installed, you will be prompted to install it the first time you access the DataSets service. |
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| DATABASES - M | DESCRIPTION |
| Mental Measurements Yearbooko (via EBSCO) | Provides users with critical evaluations for over 2,000 commercial tests within a wide variety of areas that include education, psychology, business, aptitude, achievement, and intelligence. |
| Mergent Onlineo | A comprehensive global company database. Both U.S. public and international public-equivalent companies are represented. Provides details on items from SEC filings such as business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies. Search by company name or ticker symbol. |
| Mintel | Offers extensive market research reports covering the US and International marketplace. Reports combine data & analysis of the competitive branding landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. You must create a personal profile in Mintel to access the database; any email address can be used to do this, simply follow the link to "create a personal profile." |
| Morningstar Investment Research Center | Tracks mutual funds, stocks and other managed investments. Screens more than 18,000 stocks and funds using dozens of criteria and provides analyst opinions on 1000 stocks and 2000 funds. |
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| DATABASES - N | DESCRIPTION |
| NBER Working Papers | Provides unbiased economic research for public policymakers, business professionals and the academic community. |
| NetLibrary | The NetLibrary service provides access to thousands of scholarly, reference, and professional full-text books in electronic format from the world's leading university presses and commercial publishers. All NetLibrary eBooks may be browsed online, printed one page at a time, or copied and pasted into a text editor one page at a time. If 15 minutes elapses without active use (turning pages, searching within the full-text, etc.), the book will be "put back on the shelf." Adobe Reader or DjVu Browser Plugin may be required to view some online books.
Video Tutorial |
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| DATABASES - O | DESCRIPTION |
| OneSource | OneSource provides access to financial information for over 3.7 million global companies, 45,000 of which are public; annual reports, ratio data, executive information, analyst reports, and recent developments are all available in this database, among many other features. Financial data can be downloaded and exported into Excel. Note: to access OneSource, click the "International Businesses" item on the ReferenceUSA page. |
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| DATABASES - P | DESCRIPTION |
| PAIS Internationalo | This Public Affairs Information Service database contains over 500,000 citations and references in the areas of public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations from 1972 to the present day. Also included in this database is the PAIS Archive which covers the years 1915 to 1976, providing historical perspective on the social and public policies that shaped our present world. |
| Proquesto | Provides full text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Offers access to scholarly and general interest literature in business, social sciences, science and technology, and humanities. [Proquest LibGuide]. |
| PsycArticleso (via EBSCO) | Full-text articles from over 40 journals in general and specialized basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. |
| PsycInfoo (via EBSCO) | Provides full text and citations covering academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, criminal justice, and human resource development. |
| PubMed (National Library of Medicine) | Provides citations in all areas of medicine, nursing, health services administration, nutrition and the preclinical sciences. [Note: no login required.] |
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| DATABASES - R | DESCRIPTION |
| Reference USA Directoryo | Contains basic directory information for more than 14 million businesses in all zip code areas of the United States. Information includes name of business, address, telephone number, headquarters, branch and subsidiaries identification, SIC codes, yellow pages headings, ticker symbol, credit rating, number of employees, and estimated sales volume. Also includes some federal, state, and municipal offices. Note: To access the database, hover your mouse pointer over the "U.S. Businesses" entry and click the "Search" link. |
| Regional Business Newso (via EBSCO) | Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. |
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| DATABASES - S | DESCRIPTION |
| SAGE Journals Online | SAGE Journals Online include leading international peer-reviewed titles, including high-impact research journals published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. SAGE Journals Online cover a wide range of subject areas, including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. |
| SEC Filings (via Edgar) | Public company filings required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) archived back to 1993. |
| SEDAR | The Canadian public securities filings. |
| SRDS | SRDS provides access to two great Marketing Reference books: Business Publication Advertising Source and Consumer Magazine Advertising Source. Find advertising rates and contact information for business publications and consumer magazines. NOTE: Currently, some SRDS services require the Internet Explorer web browser. If you have problems using SRDS, please try accessing it with Internet Explorer. |
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN) | Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an online open access database of working papers on a variety of topics related to the social sciences, including psychology, public administration, and health services management. The SSRN eLibrary contains over 183,900 abstracts for scholarly working papers and over 147,500 full text documents in pdf format. |
| Standard & Poor's Net Advantage | Search for surveys of U.S. industries, financial and directory information on U.S. companies and profiles of mutual funds. |
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| DATABASES - T | DESCRIPTION |
| Tests in Printo (via EBSCO) | Tests in Print serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language, including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test. |
| ThomasNet | Provides information on industries, companies, products, and brands. Search by company, brand, or product, and by state or province. [Note: no login required.] |
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| DATABASES - V | DESCRIPTION |
| ValueLine | Provides investment analysis, research and advice on 1,700 stocks and 90 industries. Research for options, exchange-traded funds and mutual funds. |
| DATABASES - W | DESCRIPTION |
| Wall Street Journal--Historical Archiveso (via ProQuest) | Historical archive of The Wall Street Journal that provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Note: For current issues of the WSJ, please check availability with the online Journal Finder. |
| Wilson OmniFile Full Text | This general database contains full-text articles from thousands of different journals in a variety of subjects including the social sciences and business. Its easy to use search screen and results page helps you easily perform and organize your research. In addition, it contains many unique publications and journals not found in the other article databases. |
Databases marked with an o are available to Law Students for remote access.
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