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Databases marked with an ^o are available to Law Students for remote access.

A | B | C | D | E | F| G | H | I | L | M | N | O | P | S | T | V | W

DATABASES - A	DESCRIPTION
Accounting Research Manager	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.

DATABASES - B	DESCRIPTION
Bartleby.com	Contains over 300 titles of books online, including reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction. [Note: no login required.]
BNA Human Resources Library = For off-campus access, a special login is required. =	Provides coverage of workplace issues including federal/state compliance requirements, key state laws and regulations, and tips on writing, implementing work rules and policies. For off-campus access, you will need to enter a user name and password. They are available to you through electronic reserve.
Business Source Complete^o (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. [quick guide]

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.
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.]
CoreReference	Core Reference provides financial data on U.S. publicly traded companies. "CoreReference allows you to sift through the fundamentals of public companies using a variety of financial, pricing, valuation, executive name and compensation criteria. There are standard reports for quick display of detailed as-reported annual and quarterly financial statements, stock price charts and company lists, annual and quarterly business segment financials, officer & director information and summaries of stock ownership, dividends and short interest. CoreReference is updated on a daily basis to provide latest stock price data and pricing calculations data." (Quote from http://www.hemscottdata.com/products.html, retrieved September 26, 2007)
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 Electronic Library	Click on The CQ Researcher Plus Archive for news and analysis of American government, politics, history, public policy, current affairs, and controversial topics. Click on CQ Weekly for coverage on the U.S. Congressional news and activities.

DATABASES - D	DESCRIPTION
Dekker Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy	Over 300 encyclopedia entries related to Public Administration and Public Policy. New articles are added on a quarterly basis.
Dissertations & Theses^o	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.

DATABASES - E	DESCRIPTION
Ebrary^o	Provides access to 32,200 full text electronic books selected for their relevance to GGU programs. To learn more about Ebrary and Ebooks, click here.
EBSCO^o	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.
The 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.
Emerald Management Xtra^o	Articles from select management journals covering human resource management, information management, marketing, and e-business.
Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line^o	The online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Additional features include an atlas, historical features and the year in review.
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.]

DATABASES - F	DESCRIPTION
Faulkner Technology	Provides comprehensive reports covering computer system software, networking, telecom technologies, trends, vendor profiles, product solutions, and security management practices.

DATABASES - G	DESCRIPTION
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 Database^o (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.

DATABASES - H	DESCRIPTION
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.

DATABASES - I	DESCRIPTION
IBISWorld^o	The IBISWorld US 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 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. GGU access is limited to the titles in bold, at the top of the list. Titles can be browsed independently or searched together, in either the basic or advanced search options.
IMF Publications	Provides access to International Monetary Fund (IMF) publications including periodicals, series and books.

DATABASES - L	DESCRIPTION
LegalTrac^o (via Infotrac)	Use to find indexing and abstracting from major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers.
Lexis-Nexis Academic^o	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.
Lexis-Nexis Statistical^o	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.

DATABASES - M	DESCRIPTION
Mental Measurements Yearbook^o (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.
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 (Library Edition)	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.

DATABASES - N	DESCRIPTION
NBER Working Papers	Provides unbiased economic research for public policymakers, business professionals and the academic community.

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 on "Search More info" next to International Databases; or, select "International Databases from the drop-down menu at the top of the screen.

Opposing Viewpoints^o

Brings together viewpoint articles on social issues, topic overviews, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles as well as links to more than 1,400 reviewed web sites.

DATABASES - P	DESCRIPTION
PAIS International^o	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.
Proquest^o	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. [quick guide].
PsycArticles^o	Full-text articles from over 40 journals in general and specialized basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.
PsychInfo^o	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.]

DATABASES - S	DESCRIPTION
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.
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.

DATABASES - T	DESCRIPTION
ThomasNet	Provides information on industries, companies, products, and brands. Search by company, brand, or product, and by state or province. [Note: no login required.]

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
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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