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Requires Internet Explorer. NetAdvantage can be used only for non-commercial, academic research. NetAdvantage cannot be in connection with the creation, structuring, development, managing, trading, marketing and/or promotion of any financial instrument or other investment product that is based on, or seeks to match the performance of, ail or any portion of the Service or such data, such as, without limitation, a security whose capital and/or income value is calculated based on changes in value of an S&P index. Data extracted from NetAdvantage for non-commercial, academic research must be credited to Standard & Poors and use the following disclaimer: S&P, ITS AFFILIATES AND ALL OF THEIR THIRD-PARTY LICENSORS DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE AS TO THE SERVICE, INCLUDING THE INFORMATION, DATA, SOFTWARE OR PRODUCTS CONTAINED THEREIN, OR THE RESULTS OBTAINED BY THEIR USE OR AS TO THE PERFORMANCE THEREOF.
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) 
Publisher : EBSCO Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1975 or earlier, many with PDF images
Description : A multi-disciplinary database with citations and abstracts for nearly 8200 journals and full text articles from nearly 4500 journals.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses. Advertising Redbooks Publisher : LexisNexis Type: Full Text Database Updated : Weekly
Holdings : 14,500 agency parent and branch profiles and 19,000 advertiser profiles
Description : Online version of Advertising Redbooks. Includes current, detailed data -- such as contact information and financial information -- on advertising agencies, advertisers, advertising data, and brand names. Search by company name, location, SIC code, agency type, or agency specialization.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus American Law and Economics Review Publisher : Oxford University Press Type: Journal Updated : 2 times a year
Holdings : Full text from 1999 - present
Description : Online version of journal.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus America's News Magazines Publisher : NewsBank/InfoWeb Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : Full text articles, some back to the 1990s.
Description : Full text of articles from nearly 30 popular magazines, including Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses. America's Newspapers Publisher : NewsBank/InfoWeb Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : Full text articles, some back to the 1970s.
Description : Full text articles from nearly 800 popular newspapers. Includes Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, L. A. Times, and Washington Post.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.
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Bloomberg Professional Publisher : Bloomberg Type: Terminal Updated : Continuously (20 min delay)
Holdings : Varies depending on resource
Description : Includes historic data, news, analytics, pricing, trading and communications tools for professional investors. Also features Bloomberg Law with legal research resources for bankruptcy, securities, and mergers & acquisitions.
Available only at the designated terminal in the 4th floor Stuart School student lounge Business & Company Resource Center (Gale) Publisher : Gale Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : Varies depending on resource
Description : The Resource Center features detailed company profiles (including parent/sibling relationships), industry rankings, investment reports, industry statistics, and financial ratios. Search by company name or ticker symbol, industry, or keyword. The Resource Center also covers private and international companies.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus. Business Insights Publisher : Business Insights Type: Full Text Database Updated : As reports become available
Holdings : PDF reports from 1998 to present
Description : Features detailed analytical reports created by industry experts from a wide range of sectors, including consumer goods, healthcare, energy, finance, and technology. Note that the Library's subscription does not include all reports in the database.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses. Business Periodicals Index (Wilson) Publisher : H. R. Wilson Co. Type: Index Updated : Daily
Holdings : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1982
Description : Citations from over 850 business publications. To search this database, check "Business Index" in the top navigation bar.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus. Business Source Premier (EBSCO) Publisher : EBSCO Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : See database publication list for exact holdings. Includes full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals and other sources. Some publications back to 1922.
Description : Full text articles from management, marketing, and scholarly journals including Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), and Management Science. Includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, SWOT analyses, and detailed company profiles. PDF images are available for the great majority of journals, many of which are searchable or scanned in color.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses. Business Week Online Publisher : Business Week Type: Web Resource Updated : Daily
Holdings : Full text from Jan. 1991 - present
Description : Featuring comments on Business Week articles, weblogs, and other web resources.
Partially password restricted -- please see a reference librarian for full access
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Downtown Campus Library Online Catalog Publisher : Illinois Institute of Technology, Downtown Campus Library Type: Catalog Updated : Daily
Holdings : Downtown Campus Library's collection records
Description : The online catalog for the Downtown Campus Library.
No restriction
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EBSCOhost Publisher : EBSCO Type: Full Text Database Updated : Varies depending on individual EBSCO database
Holdings : Varies depending on individual EBSCO database; some PDFs available
Description : Full text articles, abstracts, and citations from business, academic, health, and general databases (full text is not available for all articles). See individual EBSCO databases for more information.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses EconLit (EBSCO) Publisher : EBSCO Type: Index Updated : Monthly
Holdings : Citations and abstracts from 1969 - present.
Description : The American Economic Association’s electronic database includes citations and abstracts for all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics. Includes abstracts of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge University Press.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses. Economist.com's Country Briefings Publisher : Economist.com Type: Web Resource Updated : Daily
Holdings : Current reports
Description : Country profiles including articles published in The Economist, links to Web sites useful for conducting research about the country, and links to important articles appearing in other news sources. The profiles include data on political and economic structure, economic data, political and economic outlook, population statistics, currency, trade, taxation, etc.
No restriction EDGAR Publisher : SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) Type: Web Resource Updated : Daily
Holdings : Filings from 1994. Full-text search from the last four years. Mutual fund and associated filings from February 2006 - present. Variable insurance products from February 2006. Comment and response letters from August 2004.
Description : Find public company, mutual fund, and variable insurance fund filings. Research company financial information and operations through 10-K and 10-Q forms. Find information about recent corporate events in 8-K forms. Full-text search is now available.
No restriction.
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Far Eastern Economic Review Publisher : Far Eastern Economic Review Type: Journal Updated : Weekly
Holdings : Full text articles from 1946 - present
Description : Includes Far Eastern Economic Review's electronic archive.
Partially password restricted -- please see a reference librarian for full access FirstSearch (OCLC Databases) Publisher : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases) Type: Full Text Database Updated : Varies depending on FirstSearch database
Holdings : Varies depending on FirstSearch database; some PDFs available
Description : Databases with abstracts and full text articles from business and management journals, catalogs of library collections, and other resources. Users can search 3 FirstSearch databases at a time.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses
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Hoover's Publisher : Hoover's Type: Web Resource Updated : Daily
Holdings : Varies depending on information type
Description : The Library no longer subscribes to Hoover's Pro, but Hoover's basic services offer detailed company information. In addition, please find company information in Business Source Premier and Hoover's company profiles in LexisNexis Academic.
No restriction.
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IIT Dissertations and Theses Publisher : ProQuest Type: Full Text Database Updated : As available
Holdings : Index from 1982 - present; full text from 1997 - present
Description : Dissertations and Theses produced at IIT. Works best in Firefox. See also ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses Industrial and Corporate Change Publisher : Oxford University Press Journals Type: Journal Updated : Quarterly
Holdings : Abstracts and tables of contents from 1996 - present; Full text from 1999 - 2003 (PDF)
Description : Online version of journal.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus INFORMS Journals Publisher : INFORMS Type: Journal Updated : Varies by title
Holdings : Full text; ranges vary by title
Description : Electronic access to: Information Systems Research; Interfaces; Journal on Computing and Manufacturing; Marketing Science; Manufacturing and Service Operations Management; Management Science; Mathematics of Operations Research; Operations Research; Organization Science; Transportation Science; Transactions on Education
Available on the Downtown Campus only. International Financial Statistics (IFS) Publisher : International Momentary Fund (IMF) Type: Web Resource Updated : Monthly
Holdings : Statistics from 1945
Description : The IMF’s principal statistical publication which includes approximately 34,000 time series (from as far back as 1945) covering nearly 200 countries and geographic areas. Data can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets. Includes data of major economic aggregates used in economic analysis.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus.Investext Plus Publisher : InfoTrac/Gale Group Type: Full Text Database Updated :
Holdings :
Description : Investext has been discontinued. Please use Gale's Business & Company Information Resource Center.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus.
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Journal of Alternative Investments Publisher : Institutional Investor, Inc. Journals Group Type: Journal Updated : 4 times/year
Holdings : Citations Fall 1998 - present; Full text: last 2 years
Description : Online version of journal
Password required -- please see a reference librarian to access. Journal of Derivatives Publisher : Institutional Investor, Inc. Journals Group Type: Journal Updated : With print publication
Holdings : Abstracts and full text from 1999 - present (PDFs)
Description : Online version of journal.
Partially password restricted -- please see a reference librarian for full access Journal of Investing Publisher : Institutional Investor, Inc. Journals Group Type: Journal Updated : With print publication
Holdings : Abstracts and full text from 1999 - present (PDFs)
Description : Online version of journal.
Partially password restricted -- please see a reference librarian for full access Journal of Law, Economics and Organization Publisher : Oxford University Press Journals Type: Journal Updated : Twice a year
Holdings : Full text is now 1998-2003.
Description : Online version of journal
Available by remote access and on the Downtown campus JSTOR Publisher : JSTOR Type: Full Text Database Updated : As new issues become available
Holdings : Some articles as far back as the 1800s; recent issues of included journals are generally not available.
Description : Search authoritative business, law, education, public policy, social science, fine arts, and many other scholarly journals. Articles are imaged full text.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses
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LexisNexis Academic Publisher : LexisNexis Type: Full Text Database Updated : Current/Daily
Holdings : Varies depending on resource selected
Description : LexisNexis Academic offers full text news, business information, biographic tools, medical information, and legal research. Includes over 350 newspapers such as the New York Times (back to 1980) and the Washington Post (back to 1977), over 300 magazines and journals, over 600 newsletters, radio and television transcripts, and blogs; some publications in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch. Includes company profiles from Hoover's, Standard & Poor's, and other research resources. Stuart School of Business students can use LexisNexis Academic for legal research -- search cases, statutes, law reviews, treaties, and law directories. Update legal research using Shepard's Citations for federal and state cases.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.
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MarketResearch.com Academic Publisher : MarketResearch.com Type: Full Text Database Updated : As new reports are available
Holdings : PDF Reports from 1994
Description : Features in-depth market research reports and industry reports covering the service industry, consumer goods, demographics, food & beverages, heavy industry, life sciences, technology & media, and the public sector.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses
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National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers Publisher : National Bureau of Economic Research Type: Full Text Database Updated : Weekly
Holdings : Over 10,000 full text PDFs from 1973 to present; abstracts from Sept. 1993 to present.
Description : Searchable database of NBER Working Papers.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online Publisher : Palgrave Type: Web Resource Updated : Quarterly
Holdings : Over 1,850 articles
Description : Written by leading economists, the Palgrave Dictionary of Economics covers such topics as Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology, Mathematical and Quantitative Methods, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, International Economics, and Financial Economics.
Available off campus and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses. NewsBank/InfoWeb/Readex Publisher : NewsBank/InfoWeb Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : Varies depending on resource
Description : Full text articles from over 1000 newspapers and nearly 30 popular magazines; full text historical Congressional documents (PDF)
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses. Newspaper Source (EBSCO) Publisher : EBSCO Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1994.
Description : Full text from 25 national newspapers, selected full text from 260 national newspapers; includes television and radio transcripts.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses
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Policy Archive Publisher : Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) / Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis (IUPUI) Type: Full Text Database Updated : Frequently, though perhaps not always daily
Holdings : See database for exact holdings; depends on contributing members
Description : A free, multi-disciplinary database with public policy research from governmental, charitable, for-profit, and non-profit contributors
No restriction. PROMT (Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology) Publisher : InfoTrac/Gale Group Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles back to 2000.
Description : Summaries and full text articles from over 1000 business and trade journals. Includes the F & S Index and industry newsletters on company products and technologies (full text is not available for all articles).
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Publisher : ProQuest Type: Full Text Database Updated : As new material becomes available
Holdings : Includes dissertations and theses published from 1861-present. Full text generally available from 1996 - present (some full text available from 1939-1995)
Description : Dissertations from 1980-present include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. More than 600,000 PDF dissertations and theses are available.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses. ProQuest National Newspapers (Wall Street Journal) Publisher : ProQuest Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : Full text from 1984
Description : Full text access to the Wall Street Journal
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses
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Redbook Publisher : LexisNexis Type: Full Text Database Updated : Weekly
Holdings : 14,500 agency parent and branch profiles and 19,000 advertiser profiles
Description : Online version of Advertising Redbooks. Includes current, detailed data -- such as contact information and financial information -- on advertising agencies, advertisers, advertising data, and brand names. Search by company name, location, SIC code, agency type, or agency specialization.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus. Regional Business News (EBSCO) Publisher : EBSCO Type: Full Text Database Updated : Daily
Holdings : See database publication list for exact holdings; some from 1985 (full text from 1995; some full text from 1990)
Description : Citations and full text articles from 75 regional business newspapers (full text is not available for all articles).
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses
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Sage eReference Encyclopedias Publisher : Sage Type: Web Resource Updated :
Holdings : over 60 online encyclopedias
Description : If you are looking for a starting point to learn about concepts in business, economics, legal & political issues, or social science, check out our collection of over 60 SAGE eReference Encyclopedias. Topics covered include: Aging & Gerontology, Business & Management, Communication & Media Studies, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Economics, Environment, Family Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Politics, Psychology,Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, Sociology. From the Galvin Library.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses SEC/EDGAR Publisher : SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) Type: Web Resource Updated : Daily
Holdings : Filings from 1994. Full-text search from the last four years. Mutual fund and associated filings from February 2006 - present. Variable insurance products from February 2006. Comment and response letters from August 2004.
Description : Find public company, mutual fund, and variable insurance fund filings. Research company financial information and operations through 10-K and 10-Q forms. Find information about recent corporate events in 8-K forms. Full-text search is now available.
No restriction. Sorkins Business Directory Online 
Publisher : Sorkins Type: Full Text Database Updated : Annually
Holdings : Current profiles
Description : Company profiles, names, and business lists from industries and professionals in the Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City regions. Search companies by location, sales, number of employees, or keyword in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage Publisher : Standard & Poor's Type: Web Resource Updated : Daily
Holdings : Financial information in HTML, PDF, and Excel. Includes historic stock data back one decade. Industry Surveys back to 1998.
Description : NetAdvantage features comprehensive company information including industry surveys, company stock and financial reports, company descriptions, private company information, security dealers directories, investment news, and resources for mutual fund research. Includes data for domestic and international companies. Download and analyze company financial data with Compustat Excel Analytics. Get started with the Users Guide.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.
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Thomas Register Publisher : Thomas Register Type: Full Text Database Updated : Quarterly
Holdings : Current company information
Description : Company and product information on US and Canadian manufacturers and distributors. Links to some company catalogs and websites are available. Covers over 150,000 companies.
No restriction Tutorial Series Publisher : Downtown Campus Library Type: Web Resource Updated : Annually
Holdings : Self-paced tutorials
Description : Tutorials for legal research and writing resources. Includes Westlaw/Lexis Self-Paced Exercises, Legislative History Tutorial, Empirical Research Tutorial, and International Law Tutorial.
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US Ad Review Publisher : US Ad Review Type: Web Resource Updated : Monthly
Holdings : From Vol. 33 of US Ad review; from Vol. 48 of US TV Ad Review
Description : Online version of journal. Also includes US TV Ad Review. Includes Adfolio, a searchable database of advertising from print, television, radio, web, and other media.
Password required -- please see a reference librarian to access.
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World Economics Publisher : World Economics Journal Type: Journal Updated : Quarterly
Holdings : Full text pdf articles from January 2000-present
Description : Web version of journal
Password required -- please see a reference librarian to access. World Trade Review Publisher : Cambridge University Press Journals Type: Journal Updated : Quarterly
Holdings : Abstracts and full text from 2002 only
Description : Online version of journal.
Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus
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