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A ABI/Inform (Abstracted Business Information)
Citations, abstracts and selected fulltext articles from 1000+ business journals
Use for: finding business articles, case studies and company information
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Academic Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals.
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Access World News
News reports on politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East
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ACM Digital Library
Technology-related journals, magazines, newsletters and conference proceedings
Use for: Technology topics such as e-commerce, supply chain management, human computer interfaces, RFID, etc.
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AgEcon Search
Free repository of working papers, conference papers and journal articles in applied economics, including agricultural, energy, environmental, resource, and consumer economics.
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AgeLine (FREE)
AGRICOLA
Compiled by the National Agricultural Library, USDA.
Use for: Agricultural Sciences and Forestry research in North America.
Agri-Food Trade Service
Market information, trade counselling and export support activities, which will take the exporter from initial enquiry to foreign market.
Annotated Bibliography of Canadian Demography
Useful guide to Canadian demographic statistics and articles. Indexes "Canadian Social Trends."
Asia-Studies Full-text Online
Thousands of very useful reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of issues
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B Basic Economics (previously Citibase)
US macroeconomic time series data
BCStats
Current reports and statistics from British Columbia's central statistical agency.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Bloomberg
Use for: finding stock prices, ratios, betas, business news, freight rates, stock exchange members, etc.
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Books 24x7
Business & Company Resource Center
One-stop company research resource. Includes Analyst Reports from Reuters that are not replicated by Investext.
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Business Source Complete
Business Source® Complete provides journal articles and other materials relating to business, management, economics, banking, finance, and accounting
Use for: finding business articles, case studies, company and industry information.
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C CAB Direct (CAB Abstracts & Global Health)
International literature on all topics in agriculture, forestry, human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources, leisure and tourism
Search aids: CAB Thesaurus | Serials Checklist
Coverage online: 1973-
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Canadian Advertising Rates and Data (CARD)
Advertising rates and related data on significant media in Canada and on selected international media.
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Canadian Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios (INKBR)
This database provides users with a set of business ratios, measured as relationships between companies' balance sheet and income statement categories, across industries classified as per Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.
Canadian Newsstand Complete
Many Canadian national and leading regional newspapers, such as the National Post and the Vancouver Sun.
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CANSIM (CANadian Socioeconomic Information Management) Database (Statistics Canada)
CANSIM is a comprehensive database from Statistics Canada containing more than 38 million numeric time series.
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CBCA Complete
Combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets.
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Census of Canada 2006: Profiles
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Census of Canada 2006: Topic-based Tabulations
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China Academic Journals
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China Online Journals
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China Stock Market & Accounting Research Database
CICA Handbook
The CICA (Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants) Handbook provides information on accounting practices and processes.
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CMHC Market Analysis Centre publications (depository collection)
CMHC market analyses cover the Canadian housing market, starts and completions, mortgage market, and rental market trends both nationally and in major urban centres.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete
High quality research solution in communication and mass media
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Compendex Engineering Village 2
Core literature of the engineering field.
Composites Industry Abstracts
Contemporary Women's Issues
Global database covering all kinds of women's issues, including development, human rights, work, violence & exploitation, education, politics, science & technology, health, legal issues, demographics, family life, arts, the media and business.
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CRSP / Center for Research in Security Prices
NYSE/AMEX/Nasdaq daily and monthly security prices and monthly data for US Government bills, notes and bonds.
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D Datastream
International economic, company and financial data, that can be downloaded for analysis, display and print
Dissertation Abstracts
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DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ electronic journals available in the UBC collection. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Journals in the directory covering all subjects and languages.
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E EBSCO Databases
Family of databases including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, etc.
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Ebusiness Forum
Produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), ebusiness forum provides insight and analysis to help business executives build strategies for the global digital economy.
Use for: researching the latest developments in e-business, strategic issues, case studies, assessments of major markets.
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EconLit
Core literature on global economics /American Economic Association
Use for: researching scholarly topics in economics, business and public management.
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Ed/ITLib Digital Library for Information Technology and Education
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EDGAR
US public company filings submitted to the US Securities & Exchange Commission.
Use for: finding financial and competitive information and documents (financial statements, reports) for US publicly traded companies.
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ELN Media
Elsevier ScienceDirect
1700+ full text electronic journals covering the physical sciences, applied sciences, life sciences, social sciences, business & economics. Also provides access to other journal collections, reference works, indexes and web search engines.
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eMarketer
Market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies.
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Emerald Management Xtra 150
Articles on major management disciplines including strategy, leadership, marketing and human resource management.
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ERIC (EBSCO interface)
Most comprehensive education index, covering nearly 1000 journals, primarily American. Also indexes ERIC documents, including conferences, curricula, reports etc. ERIC (EBSCO) includes many links to full text.
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E-STAT (Statistics Canada)
E-STAT: Statistics Canada "electronic learning package" for students, contains comprehensive statistical and demographic data about Canada, including detailed census returns from 1986-2006.
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Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database
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F Factiva
Factiva provides a single point of access to a deep archive of news and business information, allowing users to conduct in-depth research on companies, industries, regional affairs.
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Foodline Market
FOODLINE MARKET (FOMA) provides extensive coverage of published information on food and drink markets, worldwide.
Forrester Research
Forrester Research identifies and analyzes emerging trends in technology and their impact on business and the economy.
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FP Infomart
Corporate information and current and historical financial reports on Canada's leading 500 companies; tools to retrieve, manipulate and analyse fundamental data for over 1400 Canadian companies; IPO and New Issue information on Canadian companies; and upcoming dividend payments.
Use for: Financial research on Canadian companies
Freedonia Focus
Market research database focusing on consumer, technical and high tech products and services.
Use for: Market research, business plan preparation.
Fundata Mutual Fund Databases
Information for over 4200 active Canadian mutual funds from almost 200 sponsor companies
G Global Market Information Database
Numerical and analytical information from Euromonitor for 205 countries, their consumers, markets, and industries.
Use for: finding international consumer retail reports & data, economic data, commodity production data, and general lifestyle & culture data
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Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage From 1844
Archive from June 1844 to December 1999.
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Google Scholar (beta)
Google scholar is designed to provide easy access to scholarly literature (ie. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports) published by academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities.
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GreenFILE
Around 300,000 articles on green issues, including green building, global warming, etc.
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H Hoover's Company Records
Hoover's profiles more than 40,000 public and non-public companies.
Use for: introductory company and competitor research
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I I/B/E/S: Institutional Brokers Estimate System
Searching I/B/E/S earnings forecasts (U.S. and international)
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
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Index to Theses ... of Great Britain and Ireland
Index to theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland.
Industry Canada (formerly Strategis)
Canada's most comprehensive website for business information.
Use for: finding Canadian company information, market research reports, small business information, and industry reports.
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IngentaConnect
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International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
The Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale. It is the largest reference work ever published for the social and behavioral sciences and the first to appear in both print and electronic formats.
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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
Full text of accounting standards and interpretations adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
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International Monetary Fund Statistical Databases
Annual, monthly, and quarterly financial and economic time series for more than 200 countries and over 40 regional and special groups of countries.
Use for: finding data on the following topics: Balance of payments, Banking and Financial systems, Employment, Exchange rates, Fund position, Finance, Government, Interest rates, International liquidity and Banking, National accounts, Population, Prices, Production, and Trade.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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Investext
Search this database to find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image.
Use for: finding research analyses and forecasts of company financial performance.
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J Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Web Editions
Find: impact factor (the relative importance of journals within a given field) and other citation data.
JSTOR Collection
The Journal STORage database contains backfiles of 100+ journals from a variety of academic disciplines.
Use for: access to full text of the first issue (vol. 1) of a journal to within six months to five years from the present.
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L Labour Spectrum (formerly Canadian Labour Law Library)
Labour Spectrum is a complete electronic collection of dozens of volumes of labour law decisions and commentary covering decades of court decisions. Includes Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (CLAS). Access to more than 10,000 LAC decisions and 42,000 CLAS decisions.
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LexisNexis Academic
One of the world's premier fulltext news, government, legal, finance and business information services.
Use for: finding news items from around the world (old and new). Also useful for researching international legal materials, company and medical information
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LexisNexis Statistical
Use for: finding US government and intergovernmental (UN, European Union, OECD, IMF, Asian Development Bank, etc.) statistics.
LGBT Life with Full Text
The premier resource to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues.
Use for: searching issues on management and diversity.
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M MarketResearch.com Academic
MAIN TOPIC: MARKET RESEARCH
Market research reports for consumer products, demographics, food, beverage, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and more.
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MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO)
600 popular general interest and current events publications
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Materials Business File
Begun in 1985, Materials Business File is the database equivalent of the bulletins Steels Alert, Polymers/Ceramics/Composites Alert and Nonferrous Metals Alert.
Use for: finding journal articles, patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books on topics related to the metals and materials industry.
Mergent Online
U.S. & International public company data with enhanced features that allow you to compare companies and export data into applications such as Excel. Current and historical annual reports.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
MetaLib
MetaLib is a new federated search tool that enables you to search multiple databases simultaneously.
MINT Global (Bureau van Dijk)
MyiLibrary
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N National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
The NBER is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that publishes economic research by academic researchers.
Use for: finding the full text of NBER working papers on economic research from 1994 - present.
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Negotech
A searchable labour relations database developed and maintained by Human Resources Development Canada. Provides access to current collective agreements and settlement reports.
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netLibrary
Collection of e-books, primarily business-oriented.
Use for: finding full-text electronic versions of published books on accounting, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, economics and global economy, finance and banking, management, business writing, etc.
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O OAIster Institutional Repository Search Engine
"OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Our goal is to create a collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone."
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O'Brien's Encyclopedia of Forms
Resource for Canadian model legal forms and precedents: with general format for agreements ­to be adapted as needed, standard clauses as well as alternative clauses,­ commentary on the subject area in question providing context for the forms and precedents, and checklists ­in drafting agreements.
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OECD.Stat
OECD databases with quarterly, monthly and annual time series for 29 industrialised OECD member countries, and some for developing countries too.
OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.
ORBIS (Bureau van Dijk)
OSIRIS (Bureau van Dijk)
OSIRIS is a comprehensive database of listed companies, banks and insurance companies around the world. Covering more than 190 countries OSIRIS contains information on over 57,000 companies.
Outlook Online
Catalogue of the holdings of British Columbia's public, college, and institute libraries.
Oxford Reference Online
100+ key Oxford University Press dictionaries and reference works
Oxford Scholarship Online
P Performance Plus
An on-line performance benchmarking tool. It includes more than 30 performance benchmarks to help small businesses determine how they measure up against their competitors.
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Periodicals Archive Online
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Polling the Nations
Full text of survey questions and responses covering a broad range of issues, from polling groups such as Gallup, Harris, Roper, and more than 700 other organizations
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Print Measurement Bureau
Data on Canadian consumers, print readership, product usage and lifestyles.
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Professional Development Collection
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
Searchable index of dissertations, some theses. The full text of dissertations and theses added to the database since 1997 are available to UBC users. See also: "Current research at the University of British Columbia" a database of dissertations & theses submitted by UBC.
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PsycINFO
Covers psychology and the psychological aspects of various other disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations.
R Red Book Online (Directory of Services for the Lower Mainland by Information Services Vancouver)
Guide to community, business and government agencies and services in the Lower Mainland
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RefWorks and RefShare - Citation Management Software
RefWorks allows users to create personal citation databases by importing references and links from online databases and catalogues.
RIA Worldwide Tax Law
Offers updated English translation text of worldwide tax and commercial laws. Covers major laws including income and corporate tax law; VAT; corporation law; trust law; commercial codes; environmental law; money laundering and other regulations affecting financial transactions; labor law; and bankruptcy.
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S Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
A collection of pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and innumerable other genres.
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Sage Journals Online
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SDC Platinum
SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis & Retrieval)
Public securities information filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators from 1997-present.
Use for: finding basic information (addresses, contact information, stock exchange listings) and documents (financial statements, prospectus, and news releases) for Canadian public companies and mutal funds.
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Sociological Abstracts
Focuses on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Provides abstracts of journal articles, citations to book reviews, and abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
SourceOECD
Access to ejournals, books, and statistics published by the OECD.
Use for: full-text access to books, journals and statistics from the OECD.
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SportDiscus
International database that covers all aspects of sport and fitness
SpringerLink
Full-text online access to journals published by Springer.
Use for: finding full-text articles in journals published by Springer. Subjects include: business, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, law, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics, and related subjects.
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Standard & Poor's Compustat
Company information and hundreds of financial data items collected from a variety of sources, including news releases, shareholder reports, direct company contacts, and quarterly and annual documents filed with the Securities Exchange Commission.
Standard & Poor's ExecuComp
Compensation history and current compensation data for US directors and executives of companies within the S&P 1500
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Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Standard & Poor's investment research, including Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corproations, Directors and Executives, and The Outlook.
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Statistics Canada electronic publications (depository collection)
Use for: finding electronic versions of Statistics Canada publications.
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T TableBase
Tabular information on companies, industries, products, countries and markets from a wide variety of sources.
Use for: finding market share, market research data, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, and production and consumption statistics.
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Teacher Reference Center
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Termium Plus
Government of Canada's terminology and linguistic database.
French, English, Spanish dictionary.
Thomson ONE Banker
Financial data on public companies, merger and acquisition information, and market data
Trade Analyser Database
The Trade Analyser Database has detailed statistics on Canada's trade with other countries.
Use for: finding Canadian import and export data and world trade data.
Trade Data Online
TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services)
Use for: finding articles, books, and technical reports on transportation research. Also includes, U.S. government reports on transportation and Canadian research from the Canadian Surface Transportation Research Database. Transportation covers highways, transit, railrods, maritime and aviation.
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TSX-CFMRC
The TSX/CFMRC database is a product of the TSX Group, which includes the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Markets and TSX Datalinx.
Use for: researching historical stock prices and other corporate financial data for TSE and TSX-listed companies.
U ULI Development Case Studies
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UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)
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Uniworld Online
Contact information for headquarters, branches, subsidiaries, and affiliates of multinational firms
Urban Studies Abstracts
Bibliographic records covering urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas.
V Value line investment survey
Use for: finding information and advice on stocks, industries, the stock market, and the economy.
W Wall Street Journal
World's leading financial newspaper.
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Web of Knowledge / Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews and Journal Citation Reports
Web of Science
Online access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Use for: citation analysis of research journals.
Wiley InterScience
Use for: full text online access to journals published by John Wiley & Sons in the sciences, life sciences, law and business.
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World Development Indicators Online
Development-oriented statistics from the World Bank: social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for over 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering 1960 to the present.
WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
Use for: Verifiying & locating Inter Library Loans.
WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
WRDS is a Web-based interface which allows access to data from Standard & Poor's Compustat, CRSP, Execucomp, Global Insight (formerly DRI), I/B/E/S and TAQ (limited data).



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