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ABI Inform Complete
- (ProQuest/GALILEO)
Description: Provides indexing for all major business publications, including full-text access for over 1,460 titles
Coverage: 1971- (Indexing) | 1991- (Some full-text)
Academic Search Complete
- (EBSCO/GALILEO)
Additional Information/Links: Replaces Academic Search Premier
Description: Provides full-text for over 5,300 journals from a variety of disciplines. Indexes and abstracts over 10,000 journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Coverage: 1865 - Present (Varies by Title)
Access World News: International Newspapers
- (Newsbank)
Description: Access World News offers hundreds of international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
Coverage: Varies by Title
Access Note: On Campus Access Only
Access World News: U.S. Newspapers
- (Newsbank)
Description: Access World News offers access to over 800 full text newspapers including back issue access to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Coverage: Varies by Title
Access Note: Available on campus only
Business & Industry - (OCLC FirstSearch)
Description: Coverage of nearly 700 trade magazines, newsletters, and general business dailies
Coverage: Mid-1994-
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Business and Management Practices - (OCLC FirstSearch/Responsive Database Services)
Description: Focuses on the processes, methods, and strategies of managing a business. Emphasis is on functions and issues, e.g., best practices, benchmarking, business plans corporate culture, quality control, etc.
Coverage: 1995-
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Business Organizations Directory - (OCLC FirstSearch)
Description: Contact information for national and international organizations, government agencies, and other business-related institutions
Coverage: Current
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Business Source Complete
- (EBSCO/GALILEO)
Additional Information/Links: Replaces Business Source Premier
Description: Provides full text for more than 3,600 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting and marketing. Includes country economic reports and detailed company profiles for larger companies.
Coverage: 1886 - Present (Varies by Title)
CCH ACCESS Tax Research - (Commerce Clearing House)
Description: Provides on-line access to state and federal tax publications
Coverage: Daily updates
Access Note: CCH has recently moved to a new platform (Intelliconnect). Users may need to re-register and create a new account.
Census Data
- (GALILEO)
Description: Collection of links to sites that provide access to demographic, economic, and social data
Coverage: Current & Retrospective
CHOICES II [CD-ROM] - (Simmons)
Additional Information/Links: Add'l information and help sheets from Georgetown's Business Intelligence Center
Description: Electronic version of Simmons Survey of Media and Markets. Annual marketing data database which looks at buying habits of people based on their media habits. Data supplied to academic institutions runs one year behind commercial Simmons
Coverage: Annual updates
Access Note: CD-ROM available on selected workstations in Library
Chronicle of Higher Education
- (Chronicle)
Additional Information/Links: Chronicle Campuswide
Description: The No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
Coverage:
Access Note: Available off-campus via Berry email username and password
Chronicle of Philanthropy - (Chronicle)
Additional Information/Links: (Chronicle Missionwide)
Description: The Chronicle of Philanthropy is the newspaper of the nonprofit world. It is the No. 1 news source, in print and online, for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise.
Coverage:
Access Note: Available on-campus only
Credo Reference
- (Credo)
Description: Credo Reference features full-text, aggregated content from over 270 reference titles and 57 publishers, with over 3 million entries covering every major subject.
Coverage:
Access Note: Available off-campus via Berry email username and password.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ )
- (DOAJ)
Description: DOAJ offers access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages.
Coverage:
Disclosure Corporate Snapshots - (OCLC FirstSearch)
Description: Contains data on approximately 11,000 publicly owned companies filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Coverage: Current
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations
- (ProQuest/GALILEO)
Description: Covers dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions
Coverage: 1861- | Abstracts from 1980
GeorgiaNet - Administrative Rules & Regulations
- (GeorgiaNet/GALILEO)
Description: Database of the rules and regulations governing the conduct of business in the state
Coverage: Current
GeorgiaNet - Corporate Search
- (GeorgiaNet/GALILEO)
Description: Lists all organizations or individuals licensed for business by the Georgia Secretary of State
Coverage: Current
Hoover's Online - (Hoover's)
Description: Access to premium content at Hoover's site, including advanced company search capabilities, in-depth financials and industry information, information on public and private companies, information on public and private companies, and more.
Coverage: Current
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Hospitality & Tourism Index Complete
- (EBSCO)
Description: Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
Coverage: 1965-
Access Note: Available off campus via GALILEO password.
Insurance Periodicals Index (IPI)
- (EBSCO)
Description: IPI indexes and abstracts over 200 insurance industry journals and magazines.
Coverage: 1965-
Access Note: Available off campus via GALILEO password.
JSTOR
- (JSTOR)
Description: A complete digitized archive of over 200 core scholarly journals, covering a variety of disciplines
Coverage: Varies By Title | 1665-
Access Note: Accessible off-campus via your Berry email username and password.
Key Business Ratios (D&B) - (Dun & Bradstreet)
Description: Allows users to evaluate a company's financial position, strengths and weaknesses as compared to those of competing businesses or the entire industry. Ratios are arranged by SIC codes.
Coverage:
Access Note: License has a 5-concurrent user limit. Please remember to log off when you are using the database. Available off-campus via Berry email username and password.
Legal Collection
- (EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 250 law journals with information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.
Coverage: 1965-
Access Note: Available off campus via GALILEO password
LexisNexis Academic
- (Lexis-Nexis' Academic Universe)
Description: Major business, news, legal, and reference tool. Over 5,000 full-text source titles
Coverage: Varies
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
LexisNexis Statistical - (Lexis-Nexis/CIS)
Description: Provides comprehensive access to U.S. government-generated statistics
Coverage: 1960s-
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Mergent Online - (Mergent)
Description: Online product suite (formerly Moody's) that enables in-depth business and financial research. Current subscription includes access to U.S. and international company data, annual reports, fact sheets, institutional holdings, insider trades, and more.
Coverage: Varies by segment | Detailed financial statements available for previous 15 years.
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Million Dollar Database Premier (Dun & Bradstreet) - (Dun & Bradstreet)
Additional Information/Links: Tutorial
Description: On-line company directory for over 1 million public and private companies with $1 million or more in sales or 20 or more total employees or branches with 250 or more employees
Coverage: Current
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Net Advantage - (Standard and Poor's)
Additional Information/Links: Bond Guide; Corporation Records; Dividend Record; Earnings Guide; Industry Surveys; Outlook; Register of Corporations; Directors and Executives; Stock Guide; Stock Reports
Description: Brings together nine popular Standard and Poor's investor products under a single interactive interface. Wide variety of searchable fields and pre-defined report formats
Coverage: Current
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
New York Times, Historical (1851-2002)
- (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Description: Provides full-image/pdf access to the complete run of The New York Times through 2002. Includes cover-to-cover access complete with all graphics. Includes photographs, advertisements, maps, etc. as well as all editorials and columns.
Coverage: 1851-2002
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
OAIster
- (OCLC/GALILEO)
Additional Information/Links: Open Archives Initiative (Univ. of Michigan)
Description: Multidisciplinary discovery tool for digital resources, with over 20 million records from over 1,000 contributing institutions. Resources include born-digital texts, images, audio files, movies, datasets, and digitized books and articles. Records contain digital object links allowing users single-click access to the material. Examples from Georgia include Chemcases (chemistry case studies from Kennesaw State); SAGE (Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory); Goizueta Business School Paper Series, and more.
Coverage: Varies
Access Note: Available off-campus via GALILEO password
Regional Business News
- (EBSCO/GALILEO)
Description: Abstracts for 67 regional business publications, with full-text for 52 of these titles (e.g., Arizona Business, Fort Worth Business Press, etc.)
Coverage: current 30 days
Research Library
- (ProQuest/GALILEO)
Description: Multi-disciplinary, full-text database which indexes nearly 2,500 scholarly journals as well as general magazines. Full-text available for over 1,000 titles.
Coverage: Varies by Title
Access Note: Accessible off-campus via GALILEO password
Stat-USA - (U.S. Federal Government)
Description: Federal business, economic, and trade publications. Includes State of the Nation (SOTN), Global Business Opportunities (GLOBUS) and National Trade Databank (NTDB)
Coverage:
Access Note: Some content freely searchable and/or may also be available from other federal web sites. Other sections require mediated logon from library using depository library account information.
Value Line Research Center - (Value Line)
Additional Information/Links: Complete Info
Description: Includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
Coverage: current
Access Note: Access available from on-campus only
Wall Street Journal via ProQuest
- (ProQuest/GALILEO)
Description: Full-Text of the Wall Street Journal
Coverage: 1984-
Access Note: Available off-campus via Berry email username and password
Washington Post via ProQuest
- (ProQuest/GALILEO)
Description: Full-Text of the Washington Post
Coverage: 12/1996-
Access Note: Available off-campus via Berry email username and password
Westlaw Campus Research - (Thomson West)
Additional Information/Links: Includes ALR and American Jurisprudence
Description: Comprehensive news and legal research service contains statutes, cases, legal news, and articles from law reviews.
Coverage: varies by source
Access Note: Available off-campus via GALILEO password
Wilson Business Abstracts - (The H.W. Wilson Company)
Additional Information/Links: Now Included in Wilson Omnifile Mega
Description: Provides abstracts and some full-text to articles in 350 English-language business magazines
Coverage: 6/1990-
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega - (The H.W. Wilson Company)
Description: Full-text, indexing, and abstracting of multidisciplinary, select English-language periodicals. Subject coverage includes current events, business, the humanities, science, and the social sciences
Coverage: 1994-
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
WorldCat
- (OCLC /GALILEO)
Description: World's most comprehensive bibliography with records representing information spanning 4,000 years of knowledge
Coverage: 1000 A.D.-
Worldscope GLOBAL - (OCLC FirstSearch)
Description: Provides financial information on nearly 9,000 of the world's largest companies representing 32 countries
Coverage: Current
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password
Zack's Investment Research - (Zack's Investment Research, Inc.)
Description: Supplies investor information over the Internet, including earnings-per-share estimates, full-text brokerage research reports, earnings monitoring and more.
Coverage: Current
Access Note: Accessible off campus via Berry e-mail username and password