The list of Business Databases curated from the University Libraries "Databases A-Z" list with additional datasets available through the Wharton Data Research Service (WRDS) provided and maintained by the College of Business' IT Services staff.
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Documents in ABI/INFORM Collection (the most comprehensive version of ABI/INFORM) number over 40 million. Over 90% of the articles can be found right in the database. For the remaining 10%, summaries and links to other resources are provided. Publications are precisely indexed and various search aids and tools are provided in the ProQuest platform to help users find information. Tools for citation generation, emailing and printing articles of interest are also provided on the platform.
Subjects include:
Business
Economic conditions
Corporate strategies
Management theory
Management techniques
Business trends
Competitive landscape and product information
Accounting
Finance
ABI/INFORM Dateline covers more than 140 local, city, state, and regional business publications as well as business-oriented newswire services across the U.S. and Canada. Sources include ColoradoBiz, Crain's Chicago Business, Manitoba Business, New Orleans CityBusiness, and San Diego Business Journal . All articles are available in ASCII full text.
Subjects include:
Local and regional business information
Local company news
Local markets
Local employment opportunities
Benefits and compensation
Set up a My Research Account in ProQuest to save documents, searches, alerts and more (go to the top right corner of any ProQuest database).
Resource URL: http://search.proquest.com/abidateline/advanced?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: abi
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1971–Current
Subjects: Accounting, Business, Business Legal Studies, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Hospitality, Insurance, Management & Strategy, Marketing, MIS: Management Information Systems, Real Estate, Risk Management
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
ABI/INFORM Global connects business researchers with more of the scholarly information that they need. ABI/INFORM Global contains the full text of thousands of journals, including essential scholarly journals and the most important trade journals. Researchers increasingly need more than just scholarly journals to conduct their research thoroughly and effectively. This is why we have made it easy for them to access thousands of dissertations, working papers, reports, news sources, and much more.
Subjects include:
Business
Economic conditions
Corporate strategies
Management theory
Management techniques
Business trends
Competitive landscape and product information
Accounting
Finance
Set up a My Research Account in ProQuest to save documents, searches, alerts and more (go to the top right corner of any ProQuest database).
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry™ provides business professionals with critical information about companies, products, and executives as well as in-depth news and analysis of industry trends and developments. With ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, users can study and compare specific industries such as food & drink, pharmacy, telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, and petrochemicals.
Subjects include:
Pharmaceutical industry
Telecommunications industry
Computing industry
Construction industry
Transportation industry
Petrochemical industry
Food & drink industry
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Set up a My Research Account in ProQuest to save documents, searches, alerts and more (go to the top right corner of any ProQuest database).
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 9,100 full-text periodicals, including nearly 7,900 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 13,690 journals and publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. Updated daily.
Find current and archived state, national, and international full-text articles on issues, events, people, government and more with over 4,500 newspapers and other news sources including the Miami Herald (5/19/82–Current), Orlando Sentinel (4/1/85–Current), and USA Today (7/1/87–Current). Also includes: Access Business News, Access International News, Access Military, Government, and Defense, Access Newswires & Transcripts, and Acceda Noticias.
Log into NewsBank and create an account to save your search history, save articles, save searches, and create Email alerts.
To Create an Alert
Enter a search that you're interested in.
On the results page click on Set up an Alert.
Choose to create the alert as a registered user or without registering.
Specify the frequency by which you'd like to receive your alerts.
If there are new results, NewsBank will send them to you in an email.
Please note that FSU does not having a data-mining subscription with Newsbank, downloading entire series or papers is prohibited.
Full-text access to all ACM journals, magazines, and Special Interest Group conference proceedings. A wide range of computer- and information-science topics are covered from 1947 to the present. The ACM Digital Library is published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Resource URL: http://www.acm.org/dl/
Abbreviation: acm
Vendor: Association for Computing Machinery
Coverage: 1947–Current
Subjects: Communication, Computer Science, Engineering, Library & Information Science
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires
ALFRED (ArhivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data)ALFRED allows you to retrieve vintage versions of economic data that were available on specific dates in history. In general, economic data for past observation periods are revised as more accurate estimates become available. As a result, previous vintages of data can be superseded and may no longer be available from various data sources. This data allows academics to reproduce others' research, build more accurate forecasting models, and analyze economic policy decisions with contemporary data.
The Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions (AREAER) tracks the exchange rate and trade regimes of all members of the International Monetary Fund (currently 188 countries and three territories). The IMF has published the AREAER annually since 1950. AREAER Online provides direct access to the data used to create the yearly reports covering the period from 1999 through 2010. The data and datasets can be searched across years, countries, and specific categories.
Provides searchable, full-text access to original scholarly review articles. These review articles provide periodic examination of scholarly advances in a number of scientific fields as well as reviews of the current state of research in a field. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 46 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics.
Tutorials: Website guided tour
The timeline below shows when specific topics are covered in the video.
00:00-00:46 min. - Annual Reviews Homepage and Login
00:47-01:15 min. - My Account Features
01:16-02:11 min. - Homepage Browse Features and Access Icons
02:12-02:30 min. - Journals Tab (Browse)
02:31-04:21 min. - Journal Homepage Features
04:22-05:13 min. - Table of Contents Page Features
05:14-05:42 min. - Abstract Page Features
05:43-06:41 min. - Full-Text Journal Page Features
06:42-08:45 min. - Content Box Features (Figures and References)
08:46-09:02 min. - Search Features
09:03-09:48 min. - Search Results Page and Filtering Options
ProQuest online version of Psychological Abstracts, 1887 to present. Covers journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations, in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Some links to full text.
Subject coverage:
Applied psychology
Communication systems
Developmental psychology
Educational psychology
Experimental human and animal psychology
Personality
Psychological and physical disorders
Physiological psychology and neuroscience
Professional personnel and issues
Psychometrics and statistics
Social psychology
Social processes and issues
Sports psychology and leisure
Treatment and prevention
Resource URL: http://search.proquest.com/psycinfo/advanced?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: psycinfo
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1887–Current
Subjects: African-American Studies, Art Therapy, Communication, Communication Disorders, Early Childhood Education, Educational Psychology, Exceptional Student Education, Higher Education, Hospitality, Human Development & Family Science, Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies, Linguistics, Medicine, Music Education, Music Therapy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Work, Sociocultural and International Education, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Women's and Gender Studies
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
APA delivers all of its databases on APA PsycNet. Based on years of user research and usability testing, APA PsycNet is designed specifically for APA databases, with all searchable fields mapped to APA products.
Resource URL: http://psycnet.apa.org/
Abbreviation: apapsy
Vendor: American Psychological Association
Subjects: Communication Disorders, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Educational Psychology, Psychology, Public Health
Type: E-Book Collections, Indexes / Catalogs, Testing / Tutorials
Audit Analytics (WRDS)Access detailed audit information on over 1,200 accounting firms and 15,000 publicly registered companies. Know who is auditing whom and how much they are paying for what services. Create reports by auditor, fees, location, industry, etc, through WRDS
BCC Research is a market research and forecasting company providing industry reports for business categories such as biotech, chemicals, energy, engineering, environment, food and beverage, fuels cell and battery technologies healthcare, information technology, instrumentation and sensors, manufacturing, membrane and separation technology, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, plastics, safety and security, and semiconductor manufacturing. BCC publishes over 250 market research reports annually.
Resource URL: http://www.bccresearch.com/epublish/index/loginip/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bccresearch.com_epublish_index_loginip_&d=DQMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=xExQCi5O5bDl7SFsn80M5-PUmP1uKRiIoT
Abbreviation: bccr
Vendor: BCC Research LLC
Coverage: Current
Subjects: Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Marketing
Type: Datasets / Statistics
Bank Regulatory Database (WRDS)Bank Regulatory Database provides accounting data for bank holding companies and commercial banks. Create reports through WRDS.
BEBR Florida DataThe BEBR database contains Florida demographic, economic, and many other areas of statistical social science data. The data is used extensively by policy makers, government agencies, nonprofits, businesses, students, researchers, private citizens, and many others.
Blockholders (WRDS)Free database of large-block shareholders created by researchers in 2004.
BloombergBloomberg is an information provider for stocks, bonds, currencies, futures, options, mortgages and other financial products. Includes a worldwide news service. Located in the Trading Room Lab in the Rovetta Business Annex. Bloomberg is restricted to the Finance department.
Browse, read, and follow thousands of the library's journals, on the web and from your mobile device. Save your favorite journals, and keep up with the scholarly literature.
Resource URL: http://browzine.com/libraries/808/subjects
Abbreviation: browz
Vendor: Third Iron
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications.
Resource URL: https://link.gale.com/apps/ITBC?u=tall85761 Abbreviation: buscol Vendor: Gale Coverage: 1980–Current Subjects: Business Type: Indexes / Catalogs, Newspapers and Newswires
Business Expert Press (BEP) is a collection of concise, practical, action-oriented books for business students and practitioners. The collection consists of books in areas such as International Business, Strategic Management, Managerial Accounting, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior. Business Expert Press books are available online 24/7 and may be read by multiple users simultaneously.
Provides company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and industry news and information from 1980- (Business and Company Resource Center with PROMT, Newsletters, and Investext Plus).
This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from sources including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analytica, First Research Industry Profiles, and US Industry & Market Reports.
Search hundreds of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. Includes templates, fictional business plans, and a listing of organizations, agencies, and consultants. This is the series of Business Plans Handbooks from #1 to the current issue (#50, 2021 and continuing).
Resource URL: https://go.gale.com/ps/aboutSeries.do?userGroupName=tall85761&inPS=true&prodId=GVRL&seriesId=0PHU
Abbreviation: bphs
Vendor: Gale
Subjects: Business
Type: Directories, E-Book Collections
Business Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Contains the full text of articles from more than 510 key publications dating back to 1995, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more. Part of EBSCOhost.
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
With online access to unique, indispensable and extensive scholarly content, Cambridge Books Online will offer all levels of user a new dimension of access and usability to support and enhance research. FSU does not have access to all titles. Full text noted by a green circle.
Cambridge University Press publishes peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.
CBOE Indexes (WRDS)CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Volatility Index® (VIX®) is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices. The New VIX still measures the market’s expectation of 30-day volatility, but in a way that conforms to the latest thinking and research among industry practitioners. The New VIX is based on S&P 500 index option prices and incorporates information from the volatility “skew” by using a wider range of strike prices rather than just at-the-money series.
Formerly Checkpoint (RIA Checkpoint)—provides access to the full text of federal, state and financial estate information, including tax laws, regulations, and cases. Tax archives back to 1990.
The Chronicle of Higher Education provides news reports and editorials on all facets of higher education in the United States, Canada, and abroad, with reference lists of relevant research, books, seminars, workshops, fellowships, and grants; for senior administrative, business, and academic officers.
Resource URL: http://chronicle.com/
Abbreviation: chronicle
Vendor: Chronicle of Higher Education
Coverage: 1970–Current
Subjects: Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Educational Psychology, Higher Education
Type: Newspapers and Newswires
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
Resource URL: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
Abbreviation: ciawfb
Vendor: Central Intelligence Agency
Subjects: Demography and Population Studies, Political Science
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Government Publications
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video. All sections of CIAO are updated monthly.
Resource URL: http://www.ciaonet.org/
Abbreviation: ciaonet
Vendor: Columbia University Press
Coverage: 1991–Current
Subjects: Asian Studies, International Affairs, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Russian & Eastern European Studies, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Compustat - Capital IQ (WRDS)Compustat Fundamentals provides standardized North American and global financial statement and market data for over 80,000 active and inactive publicly traded companies, FSU gets North America, Global, Banks, Historical Segments, Marginal Tax Rates and Tools.
Conference Board contains the full-text of Conference Board publications. Contents include strategy-focused reports on key business topics, "Straight Talk" magazine, analysis of regional economies and markets, the International Economic Scoreboard (A broad annual economic forecast for Canada, the United States, and Mexico), US and Global economic indicators, and consumer confidence top-line updates. Contains backfiles of data from 1995 to the present.
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Contributed Data (WRDS)Databases in this section have been contributed to WRDS by various academic researchers and faculty. Note that some databases in this section may require a separate subscription in order to access the data
The CQ Press database combines many of CQ's most well- known government and political titles into a single searchable database. It includes such titles as the Political Handbook of the world, Elections A to Z, the Federal Regulatory Directory and the Washington Information Directory and covers such topics as International Affairs, Congress, Law and the Courts, Elections and Political Behavior, the Presidency and Politics and History.
Subjects:
American Government and Politics
Comparative Politics
History (General)
International Relations (General)
Middle East Politics
Political History
Politics & International Relations (General)
Politics (General)
Public Policy & Public Administration
Sociology (General)
Resource URL: http://library.cqpress.com/
Abbreviation: cqpr
Vendor: SAGE Publishing
Coverage: 1998–Current
Subjects: Business, Earth Science, Geography, History, International Affairs, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Management & Strategy, Political Science, Public Administration and Policy, Sociology
Type: Directories, E-Book Collections
CRSP (WRDS)Center for Research in Security Prices, LLC (CRSP) maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta-based and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, mutual funds, and real estate data. FSU gets Annual Stock/Security Files/Events/10-Year Events/Tools; Quarterly Inde History-Intraday
Explore a curated collection of United States statistics in Sage Data (formerly Data Planet Foundations). With this dynamic tool, you can scan and search the contents of billions of datasets, compare and contrast variables of interest, and create customized views in tables, maps, rankings, and charts. Views also include descriptive summaries of the datasets and data sources. Datasets cover a wide range of subjects – including business, finance, banking, economics, sociology, political science, demography, agriculture, education, international studies, criminal justice, housing and construction, labor and employment, energy resources and industries, and more. Sources include public, private/commercial, and nongovernmental organizations.
Subjects: Statistics and Data, Business, Finance, Economics, Sociology, Political Science, International Studies, International Relations, Demography, Agriculture, Education, Criminal Justice, Housing and Construction, Labor and Employment, Energy Resources and Industries, Climate and Weather.
Resource URL: https://dataplanet.sagepub.com/
Abbreviation: dpf
Vendor: SAGE Publishing
Subjects: Communication, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Demography and Population Studies, Finance, Food, Geography, International Affairs, Law, Political Science, Public Health, Public Safety and Security, Social Work, Statistics, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Citation Management, Datasets / Statistics, Directories, Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources, Maps
Datastream (WRDS Thomson/Refinitiv)Contains global time series data from corporate, government, and intergovernmental sources covering financial data, including markets, valuation, securities, constituent lists, sector indices, exchange-trade derivatives, fixed income, and more. FSU subscription includes equities, commodities, futures, and economics data.
Manual: https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/support/manuals-and-overviews/thomson-reuters/datastream/
Demographics Now has been developed by SRC, LLC to bring you the data you need to make sound business decisions. With DemographicsNow you can analyze the demographic and market potential of any geography in the U.S.
Resource URL: https://link.gale.com/apps/DNOW?u=tall85761
Abbreviation: demnow
Vendor: Gale
Subjects: Communication, Demography and Population Studies, Geography, Hospitality, Public Health
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Maps
Value-added patent information from Derwent World Patent Index® as well as patent citation information from Patents Citation Index®. Derwent Innovations Index® facilitates rapid, precise patent searching, letting you conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering.
This resource merges the value-added patent information from Derwent World Patents Index® with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index®. You can use additional descriptive information and coding to quickly grasp a patent's significance and its relationship to other patents. Reduce duplication of R&D; track competitors' activities; detect and avoid patent infringement; identify potential gaps in the marketplace and possible licensing opportunities.
DigiNole Commons is a service of The Florida State University Libraries. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the individual university departments, research units and faculty on campus. Complete Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) at FSU from 2003 to the present. Includes select retrospective digitized dissertations from 1952–2002 (FSU Dissertations 1952–2002 section). Includes selected retrospective digitized theses prior to 2003 (FSU Historic Early Theses section).
Gale Directory Library hosts a variety of directory product in the following categories: Government Entities, Libraries & Information Sources, Media Entities, Organizations, and Research Centers.
Included are the titles:
Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers Encyclopedia of American Religions Encyclopedia of Associations - International Organizations Encyclopedia of Associations - National Organizations of the U.S. Encyclopedia of Associations - Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U.S. Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations Gale Directory of Databases Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media Government Research Directory International Research Centers Directory Publishers Directory Research Centers Directory
Resource URL: https://link.gale.com/apps/GDL?u=tall85761 Abbreviation: gdlib Vendor: Gale Type: Directories
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital form full-text.
You have access to:
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: Business
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: Health & Medicine
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: History
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: Literature & Language
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: Science & Technology
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: Social Sciences
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: The Arts
DMEF Academic Data (WRDS)Direct Marketing Educational Foundation contains customer buying history for about 100,000 customers of nationally known catalog and non-profit database marketing businesses.
EconBiz"EconBiz is an academic search portal for journals, working papers, and conferences in business studies and economics. It is provided by the ZBW - German National Library of Economics, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics." - Wikipedia
Indexes and provides citations and abstracts from over 600 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Coverage includes urban, rural and regional economics, public finance, international economics, banking, labor economics, country studies, economic history, demography, law & economics, industry studies, government regulations, business, economic development, cultural economics, agricultural and natural resources economics, and health, education and welfare economics. Most records since 1987 include an abstract. EconLit uses the Journal of Economic Literature Classification system as Subject Descriptors.
Formerly eMarketer Pro, Insider Intelligence is a definitive source of independent analysis based on vetted and transparently sourced data. The platform gives users access to the latest content from Financial Services, Retail & eCommerce, and Digital Marketing.
Includes access to journals from Emerald’s Engineering, Management, Library & Information Sciences, Information & Knowledge Management, and Backfiles Premier collections.
Subject areas:
Accounting and Finance
Built Environment
Business Ethics and Law
Economics
Education
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Enterprise and Innovation
Environmental Management/Environment
Health and Social Care
Health Care Management/Healthcare
Human Resource Management
Industry and Public Sector Management
Information and Knowledge Management
International Business
Learning and Development
Library and Information Studies
Management Science/Management Studies
Managing Quality
Marketing
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Operations and Logistics Management
Organization Studies
Performance Management and Measurement
Regional Management Studies
Sociology and Public Policy
Strategy
Tourism and Hospitality
Comprehensive source of detailed information concerning nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope. Covers more than 23,000 organizations in categories such as trade, business, and commercial; legal, governmental, public administration, and military; cultural; educational; veterans, hereditary, and patriotic; athletic and sports; fan clubs, and many more.
Provides access to over 6,000,000 summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings dating from 1970 forward as well as more than 10,000 web site abstracts, and 80 full-text searchable handbooks, patents and standards.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.
Ideal for business schools and entrepreneurs, Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, and more.
Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the year book covers political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
Regions Covered:
Africa South of the Sahara
Central and South-Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia
The Far East and Australasia
The Middle East and North Africa
South America, Central America and the Caribbean
South Asia
USA and Canada
Western Europe
Resource URL: http://www.europaworld.com/
Abbreviation: europa
Vendor: Taylor and Francis Group
Subjects: Asian Studies, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, International Affairs, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian & Eastern European Studies
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Eventus (WRDS)Eventus performs event studies using data read directly from CRSP stock databases or pre-extracted from any source. The Eventus system includes utility programs to convert calendar dates to CRSP trading day numbers, convert CUSIP identifiers to CRSP permanent identification numbers, and extract event study cumulative or compounded abnormal returns for cross-sectional analysis.
Factiva.com, from Dow Jones, includes access to a wide range of information from newspapers, newswires, industry publications, websites, company reports, and more. The broad range of content provides both local insight and global perspective on business issues and current events – especially with regard to research requiring current information on companies, industries, and financial markets.
There is a 20 concurrent user limit.
Resource URL: http://global.factiva.com/en/sess/login.asp?XSID=S00Zcnl3XNb2dmnNdmnNDMrMTYrMDas5DByWcNGOTNHYdNZUUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUEA&=cookie=on
Abbreviation: djfac
Vendor: Dow Jones
Subjects: Business, Communication, Finance
Type: Newspapers and Newswires
Online drug reference database for biomedical and clinical sciences. Especially useful for instruction, research, and clinical practice involving pharmacology.
First Research Industry ProfilesIndustry profiles covering over 1,000 industry segments. Profiles include industry overview, recent news, industry forecasts, critical issues, business challenges, industry drivers, economic indicators, business trends, opportunities, financial data, and more. (available through Mergent Intelliect or Business Market Research Collection)
FIRSTHAND (formerly VAULT)Provided by the FSU Career Center. Career information web site, providing employee surveys of top employers, career advice, job listings, and career guides to individual industries.
WorldCat Discovery FirstSearch helps people easily find resources available at their library and in libraries worldwide through a single-search of OCLC's WorldCat and central index of e-content collections. Includes results from all former FirstSearch Base Package databases, except Clase & Periόdica.
The Foundation Center maintains a comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants. The Foundation Center Directory Online contains over 100,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors, over 2.4 million recent grants, and over half a million key decision makers. It allows users to keyword-search across the database of IRS Form 990s, and to map and chart the distribution of a funder's grants. Please note: FSU users submitting proposals should coordinate with David Lipten, Ph.D., Director of Corporate & Foundation Development at the FSU Foundation, at dlipten@foundation.fsu.edu.
Resource URL: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/ipl.php
Abbreviation: fdir
Vendor: Foundation Center
Type: Directories, Grant Information
Elevate your research with complimentary access to info about the latest technology trends. Gartner Higher Education Reference provides unlimited access to a knowledge base of IT research and technology news, products, and trends to support your research and business projects. Funded in part by the Student Technology Fee, Gartner is available to all current Florida State University students, faculty, and staff. With thousands of research articles on every aspect of information technology, the applications of Gartner research reach far beyond the technology field to practical uses in education, business management, healthcare, government, and more.
Resource URL: https://ssofed.gartner.com/sp/startSSO.ping?PartnerIdpId=https://idp.fsu.edu
Abbreviation: gtnr
Vendor: Gartner
Subjects: Business, Information Technology, MIS: Management Information Systems
Type: Datasets / Statistics, E-Journal Collections, Testing / Tutorials
Explore the histories of fifteen key commodities that changed the world through a wide range of manuscript sources, rare books, maps, advertising, paintings, photographs, and ephemera. One of the most popular ways of teaching World History is through the story of global commodities and the way in which these transformed the world. This resource focuses on the following fifteen significant commodities whose stories are often intertwined: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver & gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, and wine & spirits.
Resource URL: http://www.globalcommodities.amdigital.co.uk
Abbreviation: gc
Vendor: Adam Matthew Digital Ltd
Subjects: Business, Food, International Affairs
Type: Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources, Images, Indexes / Catalogs, Maps, Reports
Global Development Finance OnlineWorld Bank database providing direct access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 138 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. Data run from 1970 to present, where available.
globalEDGEGlobal business knowledge portal connecting international business professionals, academics and st6udents to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business. Country pages include the U.S. Foreign Service Country Commercial Guides.
Google Scholar uses Google's search engine to provide a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Using the link within Google Scholar, you may also link to resources that FSU owns. For more information, visit our Google Scholar LibGuide.
To access FSU resources from Google Scholar, please follow these instructions:
Government Finance Statistics is a subset of the database International Financial Statistics which is a product of the International Monetary Fund. It includes all aspects of international and domestic finance, with history from 1948 forward.
Resource URL: http://data.imf.org/?sk=a0867067-d23c-4ebc-ad23-d3b015045405
Abbreviation: imf-gfs
Vendor: IMF
Coverage: 1948–Current
Subjects: Business, Finance, International Affairs
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Open Access
Publishes research and case studies on issues in corporate strategies, management, finance, regulatory policy, technology, international trends, and related subjects.
HeinOnline provides a searchable format and full-image access to a large and growing collection of legal journals from the time of their inception to a few years before present.
Resource URL: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome
Abbreviation: hein
Vendor: HeinOnline
Subjects: Business Legal Studies, History, International Affairs, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Law, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian & Eastern European Studies
Type: E-Journal Collections, Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources
Historical SPDJI (S&P Dow Jones Indices) (WRDS)More assets are invested in products based on our indices than products based on indices from any other provider in the world. Since Charles Dow invented the first index in 1884, S&P DJI has been innovating and developing indices across the spectrum of asset classes helping to define the way investors measure and trade the markets.
Contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in 1990, HSUS has been expanded to include data series and topics such as slavery, American Indians, health, crime, migration, poverty, and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context.
Resource URL: http://hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSLink/search
Abbreviation: hsus
Vendor: Cambridge University Press
Subjects: Criminology and Criminal Justice, History, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Historical / Primary Sources
Includes selected data from Hoovers company profiles, histories, key financial data and competitor lists. This database contains proprietary information about more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leader in company data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers and more.
Subject coverage:
Company overview
Company history
Officers and board members
Competitors
Products and operations
Auditors
Rankings
Related industry information
Historical financials
Industry analyses
IBES (WRDS)I/B/E/S International Inc. created their Academic Research Program over 30 years ago to provide both summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, cash flows, and other important financial items, as well as buy-sell-hold recommendations. In 2000, I/B/E/S was integrated with Thomson Reuters / First Call, and in 2012 First Call was discontinued. FSU gets IBES Academic, IBES Guidance.
A collection of Industry Market Research and Industry Risk Ratings. Coverage includes over 700 U.S. industries in over 1100 industry-specific reports. Research reports contain trends, statistics and analysis on market size, market share of competitors, forecasting, and industry growth rates. Performance analysis includes emerging trends, recent production performance and 5 year forecasts. The US Specialized Industry Reports series covers niche industries such as pawn shops, boat insurance companies, air gun manufacturers and circus operators.
ProcurementIQ is a database of more than 1,000 procurement research reports providing essential data and analysis on pricing dynamics, product characteristics, supplier benchmarking, supply chain risks, and negotiation questions and tactics.
*If you are on-campus and experiencing problems accessing ProcurementIQ, paste the URL http://client.procurementiq.com directly into your browser
IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Based on RePEc, it indexes over 2,300,000 items of research, including over 2,000,000 that can be downloaded in full text.
Currently 14,011 institutions in 232 countries and territories are listed.
Florida State University, Tallahassee
College of Business
Department of Finance
Real Estate Research Center
Department of Economics
DeVoe L. Moore Center
Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy
Resource URL: https://ideas.repec.org/
Abbreviation: unrepec
Vendor: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Coverage: 1700–Current
Subjects: Economics
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Open Access
Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards. Also called IEEE/IEE Electronic Library. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Topic areas:
Aerospace
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking & Broadcasting
Components, Circuits, Devices & Systems
Computing & Processing (Hardware/Software)
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics & Plasmas
Engineering Profession
Fields, Waves & Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers (Math, Science & Engineering)
Geoscience
Nuclear Engineering
Photonics & Electro-Optics
Power, Energy, & Industry Applications
Robotics & Control Systems
Signal Processing & Analysis
Transportation
IMF DataIMF Data Portal includes all of the important datasets collected by the IMF: World Economic Outlook, International Finance Statistics, Global Financial Stability Report, Fiscal Monitor, IMF Data Mapper, Regional Economic data sets, etc.
Contains citations from scholarly and practice-oriented legal journals and other publications covering international law other than the US, British Isles and British Commonwealth. Provided by The FSU College of Law Research Center.
Resource URL: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Index?collection=iflp
Abbreviation: flp
Vendor: HeinOnline
Coverage: 1985–Current
Subjects: International Affairs, Law
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Full-text journals in a wide variety of subject areas including business, economics, education, engineering, medicine, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Topics:
Agriculture/Food Sciences
Arts and Humanities
Biology/Life Sciences
Chemistry
Computer and Information Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Economics and Business
Engineering/Technology
Mathematics and Statistics
Medicine
Nursing
Philosophy/Linguistics
Physics/Astronomy
Psychology/Psychiatry
Social Sciences
Protection of assets—physical or intellectual—is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations. Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.
Provides easy access to data that helps evaluate and compare scholarly journals. The JCR is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Provide citation data such as Impact Factor (most frequently cited) for more than 4500 scientific journals. Contains data from roughly 1,500 journals in the social sciences.
Resource URL: https://jcr.clarivate.com
Abbreviation: jcr
Vendor: Clarivate Analytics
Coverage: 1997–2016
Subjects: Anthropology, Business, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Demography and Population Studies, Economics, Human Development & Family Science, Information Studies, Law, Literature, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration and Policy, Public Safety and Security, Retail Entrepreneurship, Social Work, Sociology
Type: Citation Management, Datasets / Statistics
A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.
Kluwer Arbitration is a resource for international arbitration research. It contains commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials, including ICC cases and awards. Kluwer Arbitration requires users to register for VitalLaw with their FSU email address for access. Please use your VitalLaw user name and password to log in.
Categories: Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) Conventions Jurisdictions Legislation Rules NY Convention Decisions Chinese Court Decision Summaries on Arbitration
Resource URL: http://www.kluwerarbitration.com/ Abbreviation: klewar Vendor: Wolters Kluwer Coverage: 1984Current Subjects: Law Type: Government Publications
Labordoc contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications, including journal articles, from countries around the world, on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights. Labordoc provides an ever-increasing number of links to online publications available on the Internet.
Resource URL: http://labordoc.ilo.org/
Abbreviation: labordoc
Vendor: International Labour Organization of the UN
Coverage: 1919–Current
Subjects: Economics, Statistics
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Indexes / Catalogs, Open Access
Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. Updated daily, this library resource is useful for researchers or any professional interested in career development.
Topics: Skills Development Professional Development
Resource URL: https://link.gale.com/apps/PPRF?u=tall85761 Abbreviation: procoll Vendor: Gale Subjects: Art Education, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Student Education, Music Education, Teacher Education Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs, Newspapers and Newswires
Provides indexing for approximately 1800 of the most highly regarded legal publications: major law reviews, legal newspapers, law specialty publications, bar association journals, and international legal journals. Includes topics such as tax, corporation Law, copyright, and more.
Resource URL: https://link.gale.com/apps/LT?u=tall85761 Abbreviation: legaltrac Vendor: Gale Coverage: 1980–Current Subjects: Law Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Congress produces a variety of publications as a bill moves through the legislative process on its way to becoming a law. A compilation of these full text primary source publications produces a legislative history that is valuable to a wide variety of researchers. Legislative histories enable users to trace the development of a public law from its early consideration to its enactment, including development that spans more than one Congress.
LinkedIn Learning offers beginner-to-advanced courses in numerous areas including customer service, finance, IT, marketing, operations, sales, software, and web development. Also included are soft skill courses covering leadership skills, time management, problem solving, peer relationships, conflict management, project management, communication and presentation skills.
Delve into the pseudo-psychological world behind the advertising of some of America's biggest brands. What motivates women and men to buy and how can knowing that be used to sell? The collection is a treasure trove of information on some of America's best-known brands, containing thousands of reports commissioned by companies such as Philip Morris, Chrysler, Exxon, and CBS on consumer goods ranging from tobacco and broadcasting, to cars and hotels.
Resource URL: http://www.marketresearch.amdigital.co.uk Abbreviation: mrabr Vendor: Adam Matthew Digital Ltd Coverage: 19351965 Subjects: Business, Marketing Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Indexes / Catalogs, Reports
Mergent Archives is an online database providing you with access to a vast, indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents. Containing more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries. Provides access more than 85 years of Annual Reports for companies across the globe through Mergent Archives' historical annual report collection dating back to as early as 1925.
Mergent FISD (WRDSMergent Fixed Income Securities Database (FISD) for academia is a comprehensive database of publicly offered U.S. bonds. Research market trends, deal structures, issuer capital structures, and other areas of fixed income debt research.
Mergent Intellect is a flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information, including private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.
Mergent Online provides U.S. company data as well as international company data including U.S. company data for over 15,000 public companies and their SEC filings, U.S. annual reports, international company data for approximately 17,000 companies, international annual reports, FactSheets, and country information. Records may be retrieved by company name, product or service category, or tradename.
Comprehensive evidence-based information on Drug Interactions, IV Compatibility, Drug ID, Drug Comparison, CareNotes, NeoFax/Pediatrics, Red Book drug pricing, and Tox & Drug Product Lookup.
Mintel Reports offers product and industry market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, supply chain, market-share size and trends, and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market.
Industries covered include: Automotive Beauty Consumer Electronics Digital Media Drink Financial Services Food Foodservice Health & Wellness Household Personal Care Packaging Retail Sport & Entertainment Travel & Tourism
Tutorials: Interactive Databook Training (10:39) A 10-minute tutorial video on how to navigate Interactive Databook, how to explore demographics, and customize your own consumer data report.
MIT Press is a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. MIT Press books and journals are known for their intellectual daring, scholarly standards, interdisciplinary focus, and distinctive design.
Leon County Library Library. Comprehensive coverage of stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. Includes analysts’ reports and recommendations, industry indexes and statistics, portfolio analysis tools, and investor education. All Leon County residents including FSU and TCC students can obtain a library card and access. Use your local library card number to login.
MRI-Simmons Insights (formerly University Reporter) is a consumer intelligence and discovery platform that provides information on consumer behaviors, brand consumer messaging, cross-channel marketing, and media planning tactics.
Resource URL: https://insights.mrisimmons.com/university/fsu Abbreviation: insi Vendor: MRI Simmons Subjects: Business, Communication, Demography and Population Studies, Marketing Type: Datasets / Statistics
MSRB (Municipal Securities Transaction Data) (WRDS)The trades represent transactions by investors and dealers in the over-the-counter market for municipal securities issued by municipal entities, including states, counties, cities and special tax districts.
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers is the full text collection of U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research working papers written by its researchers on a range of economics topics. Presents papers on economic issues ranging from corporate finance, industrial organization and taxation to monetary economics, international finance and macroeconomics.
Resource URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/ Abbreviation: nberwp Vendor: National Bureau of Economic Research Coverage: 1998Current Subjects: Business, Economics Type: Datasets / Statistics, E-Book Collections
Find business, company and financial reports, plus investment, stock and mutual fund research. Provides financial content for public companies globally as well as hard-to-find private company information. Contains Company Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, Funds Reports, Stock Screener, Corporations, Executives and Directors Screener, Mutual Fund Screener, Corporate Bond Screener, and Compustat Excel Analytics.
New Palgrave Dictionary of EconomicsThis is the online second edition of the Dictionary and contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists updated continuously.
The New York Times is considered the "official" U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches, and presidential press conferences. The paper's reporters have won scores of Pulitzer Prizes throughout the publication's 150-year history.
Offers full-page-images and article images from the New York Times newspaper from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand primary source accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Resource URL: http://search.proquest.com/hnpnewyorktimes/advanced?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: nythist
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1850–Current - 3 years
Subjects: History
Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires
Nexis Uni offers a simple, intuitive research experience with flexible search options and tools to help guide students through common research tasks. Nexis Uni offers the same trusted content collection of more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources that students and librarians alike have come to expect from LexisNexis, while also providing a better research experience.
Content: Briefs, Pleadings and Motions Cases Company and Financial Directories Law Reviews and Journals Legal News News Statutes and Legislation
Resource URL: http://www.nexisuni.com Abbreviation: nexis Vendor: LexisNexis Subjects: Business, Business Legal Studies, Communication, Hospitality, Law, Psychology, Public Administration and Policy, Sociology Type: Directories, Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires, Proceedings
NewsBank is a Web-based collection of primary source information from regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, government and international documents, regional business journals and, periodicals.
Please note that FSU does not having a data-mining subscription with NewsBank, downloading entire series or papers is prohibited.
This database includes:
NPR Transcripts from 1990–Current
Broadcast Transcripts from Nightly News local and national
World & US Newswires
Current full text of major metro newspaper articles
Log into NewsBank and create an account to save your search history, save articles, save searches, and create Email alerts.
To Create an Alert:
Enter a search that you're interested in.
On the results page click on Set up an Alert.
Choose to create the alert as a registered user or without registering.
Specify the frequency by which you'd like to receive your alerts.
If there are new results, NewsBank will send them to you in an email.
Resource URL: http://infoweb.newsbank.com/
Abbreviation: infoweb
Vendor: NewsBank
Coverage: 1789–Current
Type: Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Everything published by the OECD (books, journals, series, working papers, databases) is available online on OECD. OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF). OECD iLibrary presents all content so users can find - and cite - tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters in any available format: PDF, WEB, XLS, ActiveChart, DATA, ePUB, READ.
Subjects include: Agriculture and Food Development Economics Education Employment Energy Environment Finance and Investment Governance Industry and Services Nuclear Energy Science and Technology Social Issues/Migration/Health Taxation Trade Transport Urban, Rural and Regional Development
Resource URL: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org Abbreviation: sourceoecd Vendor: OECD Subjects: Anthropology, Art, Business, Communication, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Demography and Population Studies, Economics, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Geography, Higher Education, Human Development & Family Science, Information Studies, International Affairs, Law, Music Education, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration and Policy, Public Health, Retail Entrepreneurship, Sociocultural and International Education, Urban and Regional Planning Type: Datasets / Statistics, Directories, E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections
OptionMetrics (WRDS)OptionMetrics is a comprehensive source of historical price and implied volatility data for the US equity and index options markets. FSU subcribes to Ivy DB US. (WRDS)
OTC Markets (WRDS)Access End-of-Day Pricing, timely and accurate data available on the 10K securities that trade on the OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink Marketplaces.
The Oxford Legal Research Library (OLRL) is a family of products from Oxford University Press, providing integrated access across four unrivalled collections of leading works: International Commercial Arbitration International Commercial Law Financial and Banking Law Private International Law Users can search and browse across the full set of titles or to drill down into particular topics and check for relevant coverage using key word terms from an over-arching subject taxonomy which provides a shared index to all of the titles in the collection.
Resource URL: http://olrl.ouplaw.com/ Abbreviation: olrl Vendor: Oxford University Press Subjects: Law Type: E-Book Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
Oxford Reference contains over 100 general and subject dictionaries, and language reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes quotations, proverbs, place-names and other general reference works. Among the English language reference works are thesauri and a wide variety of dictionaries (e.g. grammar, abbreviations, idioms, eponyms, euphemisms). Foreign language dictionaries include German, Italian, and Spanish. Specialized subject dictionaries are available in a wide range of disciplines.
Please note: Oxford Reference only allows access for 5 FSU users at one time. If you are being asked for a username and password, please try to access the database later.
Subjects: Archaeology Art & Architecture Bilingual dictionaries Classical studies Encyclopedias English Dictionaries and Thesauri History Language reference Law Linguistics Literature Media studies Medicine and health Music Names studies Performing arts Philosophy Quotations Religion Science and technology Social sciences Society and culture
This database from Oxford University Press integrates important decisions on public international law from international courts and tribunals, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Comprised of five modules (International Courts of General Jurisdiction, International Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Investment Claims, and International Law in Domestic Courts), this online service is a single point of reference for all international law jurisprudence, providing access to a wide range of international law jurisprudence.
Subjects: Air law and law of outer space Diplomacy and consular relations History of international law Human rights Immunities Individuals and non-state actors International co-operation International courts and tribunals International criminal law International economic law International environmental law International humanitarian law International law and international relations International organizations International responsibility Law of the sea Law of treaties Relationship between international and domestic law Settlement of disputes Sources, foundations and principles of international law Statehood, jurisdiction of states, organs of states Territory Theory of international law Use of force, war, peace and neutrality
Resource URL: http://opil.ouplaw.com/home/ORIL Abbreviation: interlaw Vendor: Oxford University Press Subjects: International Affairs, Law Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources
A cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,100 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Includes full text and abstracts.
Subjects with full text:
Philosophy
Law
Religion
Political Science
Economics and Finance
Psychology
Tutorials: Take a Tour (PowerPoint, PDF, and video available)
Resource URL: https://academic.oup.com/pages/oxford-scholarship-online
Abbreviation: oso
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Index (formerly PAIS International)
Materials on public affairs from 1972 to date. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Contains a variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.
Subject coverage:
Administration of justice
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Banking and finance
Business and service sector
Culture and religion
Economic conditions
Education
Energy resources and policy
Environment
Government
Health conditions
Human rights
International Relations
Labor conditions and policy
Law and ethics
Manufacturing and industry
Media and communications
Military and defense policy
Politics
Population and demographics
Science and technology
Social conditions
Trade
Transportation
Resource URL: http://search.proquest.com/pais/advanced/socialsciences/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: pais
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1972–Current
Subjects: International Affairs, Political Science, Urban and Regional Planning, Public Health, Asian Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian & Eastern European Studies
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
Penn World Tables (WRDS)The Penn World Tables provides national income accounts-type of variables converted to international prices.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) WRDS)Philadelphia Stock Exchange founded in 1790 is the oldest organized stock exchange in the nation. As one of North America’s primary marketplaces for the trading of stocks, equity options, index options and currency options, the PHLX continues to be a market leader in the development and introduction of innovative new products and services.
Policy File Index includes access to timely, updated information from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
Resource URL: https://search.proquest.com/policyfile/advanced?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: pqpfi
Vendor: ProQuest
Subjects: Economics, International Affairs, Political Science, Public Administration and Policy
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
PrivCo is a source for business and financial data on major privately-held companies, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. PrivCo covers over 165,000 companies, including financial data, over 30,000 M&A transactions, and over 15,000 funding rounds. PrivCo also has over 10,000 investors, and advance search options by company, deal or investor, giving you the ability to generate fields of data within seconds based on criteria such as location, sub-industry, revenue and employee sizes, financial backing and more.
Note: create or sign in to your personal user account to access PrivCo.
Search across all ProQuest databases or choose one or more databases to cross search from this main page. ProQuest provides millions of documents from thousands of sources, covering all research and subject areas. ProQuest gives you access to current and historical documents from sources like these:
Newspapers
Dissertations and theses (ProQuest is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress)
Scholarly journals
Television and radio broadcasts
Wire service and press releases
Company annual reports and snapshots
Books
Government documents and archives
Maps
From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, westward expansion, industrial developments, race relations, and World War I and II; to international, local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports, ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ reveals the day-to-day news coverage to researchers and historical explorers, providing invaluable insights and information to users from a wide range of subjects.
Historical coverage of 17 Southern newspapers, including the Tallahassee Democrat.
Titles:
Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC)—1873–2009
The Daily News Leader (Staunton, VA)—1912–2011
The Daily News-Journal (Murfreesboro, TN)—TBD
Daily Press (Newport News, VA)—1898–2001
The Daily Times (Salisbury, MD)—1913–2011
Florida Today (Brevard County, FL)—1969–2006
The Jackson Sun (Jackson, TN)—TBD
The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, TN)—TBD
Miami News (Miami, FL)—1904–1988
The News-Press (Fort Meyers, FL)—1911–2010
Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)—1892–2001
Palm Beach Daily News (Palm Beach, FL)—1976–2011
Palm Beach Post (Palm Beach, FL)—1916–2004
Pensacola News Journal (Pensacola, FL)—1956–2011
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)—1925–2000
Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, FL)—1913–2008
The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, FL)—1895–2016
Resource URL: https://search.proquest.com/hnpusse/advanced?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: usshist
Vendor: ProQuest
Subjects: Communication, History
Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires
Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia collection that synthesizes psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, fostering deeper levels of understanding for students and scholars alike. These experiments have far-reaching impacts on fields as diverse as sociology, business, advertising, economics, political science, law, ethics, and the arts.
Resource URL: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/pexp Abbreviation: peo Vendor: Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company Coverage: 19622013 Subjects: Communication, Psychology Type: E-Book Collections, Historical / Primary Sources, Images, Streaming Video
PubMed, is a service of the National Library of Medicine, which provides access to over 16 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. MEDLINE is the primary database used for getting to the subject content of articles in medicine. There are several ways to get to MEDLINE, including OVID and PubMed. The FSU customized version of PubMed links directly from the article reference to the full article for all electronic journals available at FSU.
See also: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus and will assist you in formulating your successful searches.)
Resource URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?otool=fsumlib
Abbreviation: pubmd
Vendor: National Library of Medicine
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Engineering, Communication, Communication Disorders, Medicine, Music Therapy, Nursing & Integrative Physiology, Public Health, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, incorporating 75 business news magazines, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Research Quotient (WRDS)Research Quotient = percentage increase in revenue from a 1% increase in R&D. RQ is the output elasticity of R&D. RQ offers a universal, uniform, and reliable measure of a firm's R&D productivity.
The broad multi-disciplinary coverage of risk-related concerns ranges from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects. Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk.
SAE Mobilus includes resources covering a wide range of technologies surrounding the aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle industries. Included are aerospace standards, ground vehicle standards, aerospace material specifications, technical papers, eBooks, magazines, videos, and journals.
SAGE Journals replaces Criminology Full-Text Collection by Sage, Political Science Full-Text Collection by Sage, Psychology Full-Text Collection by Sage, Sociology Full-Text Collection by Sage and offers a gateway to search by discipline: Health Sciences; Social Sciences & Humanities; Materials Sciences & Engineering; and Life & Biomedical Sciences. Users may also browse all SAGE journals.
A collection of over 250 Reference Titles. SAGE Reference Online is a social science eBook platform, where you will find an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content.
Subjects include:
Business & Management
Communication and Media Studies
Counseling and Psychotherapy
Criminology & Criminal Justice
Education
Engineering & Materials Science
Geography, Earth & Environmental Science
Health and Social Care
History
Life & Biomedical Sciences
Maths, Physics, Chemistry & Computing
Philosophy
Politics & International Relations
Psychology
Research Methods & Evaluation
Sociology
An excellent tool on social science research methods includes over 1000 methods books, 1100 case studies, reference works, journal articles, and instructional video tutorials by world-leading academics from across the social sciences. In addition, the full-text titles from the SAGE’s Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series(“The Little Green Books”) and Qualitative Research Methods Series (The Little Blue Books”) books are available.
The electronic full text version of approximately 650 traditional research journals published by Elsevier and Academic Press. These journals are primarily in the scientific, technical, and medical disciplines.
SDC Platinum (contact COB IT for access to this product)Covers Mergers & Acquisitions. See Business Librarian for access. Access is restricted to faculty and PhD students.
Seeking AlphaSeeking Alpha is a crowd-sourced content service for financial markets. Articles and research covers a broad range of stocks, asset classes, exchange-traded funds, and investment strategies.
SMA: Sports Market Analytics combines market research from the largest single research supplier to the industry, the National Sporting Goods Association; the U.S. Department of Commerce; various sports governing bodies; and full-text articles from 14 magazines and newsletters published by VNU, the world's largest sporting goods trade publisher, and newsletters provided by leading independent industry experts. Subjects covered include sporting goods industry, sports sponsorship and marketing, broadcasting, facilities, broadcasting and new media.
Single sport/product search include:
Archery
Backpacking
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Bicycling
Billiards
Bowling
Cheerleading
Camping/Hiking Climbing
Equestrian
Exercise/Fitness
Eyewear
Fishing
Footwear
Football
Golf
Gymnastics
Hunting/Shooting
Ice Hockey
Inline Skating
Lacrosse
Martial Arts
Motorsports
Paintball
Rugby
Running/Jogging
Scooter Riding
Skateboarding
Skiing
Snowboarding
Soccer
Softball
Tennis
Volleyball
Water Sports (All)
Winter Sports (All)
Women's Total Market
Wrestling
Resource URL: https://sportsmarketanalytics.com/
Abbreviation: sbrnet
Vendor: SBRnet
Subjects: Business, Communication, Marketing, Sport Management, Sport Psychology, Statistics
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Directories, E-Journal Collections, Government Publications
Note: Only 1 simultaneous user is allowed. Contains historical decennial census data for the United States from 1790 to the latest census, the American Community Survey, the American Religious Bodies (ASARB), and InfoGroup for latest religion data. Able to create reports and download data in convenient formats quickly and easily. Engagement between society and science.
Resource URL: http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx
Abbreviation: socex
Vendor: Center for Research Libraries
Subjects: Anthropology, Communication, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Demography and Population Studies, Economics, Geography, Human Development & Family Science, Information Studies, International Affairs, Law, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration and Policy, Public Health, Social Work, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Directories, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources, Maps
A multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Resource URL: https://webofknowledge.com/?DestApp=WOS&editions=SSCI
Abbreviation: sssi
Vendor: Clarivate Analytics
Coverage: 1956–Current
Subjects: Anthropology, Communication, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Demography and Population Studies, Economics, Geography, Human Development & Family Science, Information Studies, Law, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration and Policy, Public Health, Public Safety and Security, Retail Entrepreneurship, Social Work
Type: Citation Management, E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
An electronic journal service with over 410 full text electronic journals published by Springer. The journals are searchable and browsable by author, title, topic or individual issue.
Disciplines include:
Architecture & Design
Astronomy
Biomedical Sciences
Business & Management
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth Sciences & Geography
Economics
Education & Language
Energy
Engineering
Environmental Sciences
Food Science & Nutrition
Law
Life Sciences
Materials
Mathematics
Medicine
Philosophy
Physics
Psychology
Public Health
Social Sciences
Statistics
The STASH PERMANENT COLLECTION keeps creative professionals and students inspired with the planet's largest online video archive of motion design, animation, and VFX projects. Curated by the editors of Stash Magazine, the Collection streams over 5,000 outstanding video projects including commercials, music videos, title sequences, brand films, game trailers, and short films—PLUS behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews with the creators.
Resource URL: https://www.stashmedia.tv/login.php
Abbreviation: spc
Vendor: Stash Media
Subjects: Communication, Film Studies
Type: Streaming Video
Statista is a leading provider of market and consumer data. Statista consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.
Resource URL: https://www.statista.com/
Abbreviation: stati
Vendor: Statista
Subjects: Business, Communication, Demography and Population Studies, Economics, Hospitality, Marketing, Public Health, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Datasets / Statistics
The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic conditions of the United States.
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Taylor & Francis eBooks is a new single destination platform from Taylor & Francis that offers library users improved search and filtering, chapterization, APA format citations, and other features. The collection contains 90,000 eBooks in specialist subjects.
Resource URL: http://www.taylorfrancis.com
Abbreviation: tfeb
Vendor: Taylor and Francis Group
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections
Taylor & Francis Online provides access to all journals and database products from Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press. In addition, over 180 Informa Health care journals are available.
Resource URL: http://www.tandfonline.com
Abbreviation: inforwld
Vendor: Taylor and Francis Group
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: Citation Management, E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
TRACE (WRDS)The TRACE Historical Time and Sales for corporate bonds covers over 30,000 securities including investment grade, high yield and convertible bonds. Via WRDS.
UNdata is a data access system to UN databases. The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point. Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
Resource URL: http://data.un.org/
Abbreviation: undata
Vendor: United Nations
Subjects: Demography and Population Studies, International Affairs
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Government Publications, Open Access
The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) is considered the most comprehensive trade database that contains detailed imports and exports statistics of close to 200 countries or areas. It concerns annual trade data from 1962 to the most recent year.
This statistical database provides extensive coverage of topics including economic trends, foreign direct investment (FDI) in-flows, out-flows, and stocks, population, commodity prices, and many others. Information can be displayed as a chart or graph and be exported easily in several file formats.
Resource URL: http://unctadstat.unctad.org/EN/Index.html
Abbreviation: unstat
Vendor: United Nations
Subjects: International Affairs
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Government Publications
The United Nations Digital Library includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open-access publications as well as bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979.
Resource URL: https://digitallibrary.un.org
Abbreviation: unbib
Vendor: United Nations
Subjects: African-American Studies, Asian Studies, International Affairs, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Russian & Eastern European Studies
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Government Publications, Open Access
This database provides free access to country, population and gender, economy, Millennium Development Goals (MDG), transport, and forestry data of Europe.
Resource URL: http://w3.unece.org/PXWeb/en
Abbreviation: unece
Vendor: United Nations
Coverage: 1980–Current
Subjects: Demography and Population Studies, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Geography
Type: Datasets / Statistics
CEPALSTAT is the gateway to all the statistical information of Latin America and the Caribbean countries collected, systematized and published by ECLAC. Access more than 2000 internationally comparable statistics and indicators of Latin America and the Caribbean countries.
Resource URL: http://estadisticas.cepal.org/cepalstat/WEB_CEPALSTAT/Portada.asp?idioma=i
Abbreviation: cepalst
Vendor: United Nations
Subjects: Demography and Population Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Statistics
Type: Datasets / Statistics
The United Nations iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations. It provides librarians, information specialists, scholars, students, policy makers, influencers and the general public with a single digital destination for seamlessly accessing publications, journals, data, and series published by the United Nations Secretariat, and its funds and programs.
Resource URL: http://www.un-ilibrary.org
Abbreviation: unilib
Vendor: OECD
Subjects: Demography and Population Studies, Economics, Geography, International Affairs, Law, Political Science, Public Health, Statistics, Women's and Gender Studies
Type: E-Book Collections, Government Publications, Reports
Leon County Library Library. Value Line Investment Research provides analysis of 1,700 of the most actively traded U.S. exchange-listed stocks is a comprehensive and multifaceted investment management solution used to formulate sound investment strategies and identify timely opportunities. All Leon County residents including FSU and TCC students can obtain a library card and access. Use your local library card number to login.
VitalLaw provides expert content drawn from over 1,200 practitioners and 99 Am Law 100 firms. Advanced browsing, searching, and collaborating capabilities are included and the Practical Content Dashboard ensures quick, efficient access to more than 20,000 practical content tools and documents. Covering 16 practice areas, VitalLaw's in-depth expertise and analysis ensure you have what you need to proceed quicklywith actionable insights that lead to better outcomes.
Current Practice Areas Include:
Antitrust & Competition
Banking & Consumer Finance
Bankruptcy
Cybersecurity & Privacy
Elder & Estates
Energy and Environment
Family Health
Intellectual Property
Labor & Employment
Litigation
Products Liability & Insurance
Property & Construction
Securities & Corporate
Tax
Transportation
Other Expert Content:
Blue Chip
Employee Benefits
Government Contracts
Health Reform
Human Resources
Life Sciences
Payroll & Entitlements
Pension
Practice of Law
Telecommunications
Resource URL: http://my.vitallaw.com Abbreviation: vitlaw Vendor: Wolters Kluwer Subjects: Accounting, Business, Law, Public Health Type: Government Publications
The Wall Street Journal is the financial newspaper of record. It is an indispensable source for business professionals, providing business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns.
The United States financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news. Updates vary, current coverage 1889–1999.
Resource URL: http://search.proquest.com/hnpwallstreetjournal/advanced/news/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: wsjh
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1889–1999
Subjects: History
Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires
WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) is the leading online trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries. Keywords: Trade Shows, Marketing, Retail, Celebrity, Buying, Visual, Merchandising, Business.
Wilson Business Full TextWilson Business Full Text provides access to a multitude of outstanding magazines and scholarly journals, including indexing and abstracts for key publications such as The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal.
Women's Wear Daily (WWD) delivers fashion and retail news, photography, analysis, in-depth features, profiles, opinions and coverage of the rich social and cultural scene that revolves around the fashion sector.
Note: there is a 5 concurrent user limit.
Resource URL: http://wwd.com
Abbreviation: wwd
Vendor: Fairchild Publishing, LLC
Coverage: One year before today's date.
Subjects: Business, Marketing, Retail Entrepreneurship
Type: Biographies, Images
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open-access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Resource URL: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/
Abbreviation: wbokr
Vendor: The World Bank Group
Subjects: International Affairs, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: E-Book Collections
World Development Indicators contains statistical figures from the World Bank, including almost 600 development indicators going back to 1960 for over 200 countries and eighteen country groups include social, economic, financial, and more.
Resource URL: https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators
Abbreviation: wdi
Vendor: The World Bank Group
Coverage: 1960–Current
Subjects: African-American Studies, Asian Studies, Business, Demography and Population Studies, Economics, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Public Health, Public Safety and Security, Russian & Eastern European Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Historical / Primary Sources, Open Access
Documents Online provides access to the official documentation of the World Trade Organization. The database contains over 140,000 documents in the three official languages from 1995 onwards and is updated daily.
Resource URL: https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/FE_Search/FE_S_S005.aspx
Abbreviation: unwto
Vendor: World Trade Organization
Coverage: 1995–Current
Subjects: International Affairs
Type: Government Publications
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.
WRDS: Wharton Research Data Service PortalProvides access to Compustat, CRSP, Compustat/CRSP Merged Database, I/B/E/S and TAQ data. Limited to faculty and PhD students. Students may have faculty sponsor access. Faculty may apply for class accounts for their students.
This WRDS tool allows you to tap into the 13F filings by institutional investors, accessing metrics commonly used in academic literature, including overall ownership by institutions, concentration of institutional ownership, and number of block ownerships.
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