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.
MOST databases not marked (WRDS) are freely available to all faculty, staff, and students of FSU. If you desire access to WRDS datasets, click on the link, follow the instructions for signing up for a password and the COB will decide if you qualify for access.
For more extensive help with WRDS, please see the Tutorials tab on the left.
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).
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 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
See also: Youtube Tutorial created by Stockton College | Richard E. Bjork Library
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).
Abbreviation: abi-trade
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1971–Current
Subjects: Accounting, Business, Business Legal Studies, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Insurance, Management & Strategy, Marketing, MIS: Management Information Systems, Real Estate, Risk Management
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
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.
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Please note that FSU does not having a data-mining subscription with Newsbank. Downloading entire series or papers is prohibited.
Abbreviation: awn
Vendor: NewsBank
Coverage: 1903–Current
Subjects: Communication, Hospitality
Type: Newspapers and Newswires
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. FSU has access to the Sciences and Economics collections.
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
Annual Reviews Mobile App
Abbreviation: annrev
Vendor: Annual Reviews
Coverage: 1932–Current
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Economics, Public Health
Type: E-Journal Collections, Historical / Primary Sources
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 scholarly literature.
Abbreviation: browz
Vendor: Third Iron
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
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.
Abbreviation: igilib
Vendor: IG Publishing, Inc.
Subjects: Business, Economics
Type: E-Book Collections
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.
Abbreviation: bscomp
Vendor: EBSCO
Coverage: 1886–Current
Subjects: Business, Business Legal Studies, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Hospitality, Insurance, Management & Strategy, Marketing, Real Estate, Retail Entrepreneurship, Sport Management, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Datasets / Statistics, E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Proceedings, Reports
Checkpoint Edge provides access to the full text of federal, state and financial estate information, including tax laws, regulations, and cases. Tax archives back to 1990.
Tutorials:
Quick Reference (20 page pdf)
Abbreviation: checkpt
Vendor: Thomson Reuters
Coverage: 1990–Current
Subjects: Accounting, Law
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Government Publications
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.
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. The Maps 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.
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 a 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.
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
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)
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
Explore a curated collection of United States statistics in Sage Data. 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.
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. Ceases publication on March 28, 2025.
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.
Tutorials:
Derwent Innovations Index: Introduction (03:57)
Abbreviation: diidw
Vendor: Clarivate Analytics
Coverage: 1993–Current
Subjects: Engineering, Material Science
Type: Indexes / Catalogs, Patents / Trademarks
FSU Digital Repository 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).
Abbreviation: curres-fsu
Vendor: Florida Virtual Campus
Coverage: 1952–2003
Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Images, Indexes / Catalogs, Open Access
Gale Directory Library hosts a variety of directory products 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
Abbreviation: gdlib
Vendor: Gale
Type: Directories
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. Access ends December 31, 2024.
Abbreviation: eng-infovillage
Vendor: Elsevier
Coverage: 1970–Current
Subjects: Engineering, Material Science
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
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.
Abbreviation: djfac
Vendor: Dow Jones & Company
Subjects: Business, Communication, Finance
Type: Newspapers and Newswires
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
Abbreviation: hoovers
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: Current
Subjects: Business, Communication, Finance, Hospitality
Type: Directories
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.
Abbreviation: ibisworld
Vendor: IBISWorld
Subjects: Business, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Hospitality, Marketing
Type: Reports
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
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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current and draft IEEE standards.
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
Abbreviation: ieee
Vendor: IEEE
Coverage: 1988–Current
Subjects: Computer Science, Engineering, Material Science
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Proceedings, Standards, Testing / Tutorials
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.
Abbreviation: ilc
Vendor: Gale
Coverage: 1980–Current
Subjects: Insurance
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
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.
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
JSTOR is a digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and diverse primary sources. FSU has access to JSTOR’s Archive, Primary Sources, and Global Plants collections.
Tutorials:
JSTOR on YouTube
How to search (04:20)
Primary Source Collection: 19th-Century British Pamphlets (00:51)
Abbreviation: jstor
Vendor: JSTOR
Coverage: 1665–Current
Subjects: Arts Administration, Art History, *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections
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.
Tutorials:
Legislative Insight LibGuide
Abbreviation: legi
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1866–Current
Subjects: Political Science, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Government Publications
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.
Abbreviation: mrabr
Vendor: Adam Matthew Digital Ltd
Coverage: 1935–1965
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. This resource contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries and provides access to 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.
Abbreviation: mergenta
Vendor: Mergent
Coverage: 1925–Current
Subjects: Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Reports
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.
Abbreviation: mintel
Vendor: Mintel International Group
Coverage: 2001–Current
Subjects: Business, Communication, Hospitality, Marketing
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Reports
MRI Simmons Catalyst is a consumer intelligence and discovery platform that provides information on consumer behaviors, brand consumer messaging, cross-channel marketing, and media planning tactics.
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.
Abbreviation: nberwp
Vendor: National Bureau of Economic Research
Coverage: 1998–Current
Subjects: Business, Economics
Type: Datasets / Statistics, E-Book Collections
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
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.
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.
Tutorials:
User Guide
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
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
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.
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
Abbreviation: oxfordref
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
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.
Tutorials:
How to Use Oxford Reports on International Law (08:21)
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
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)
Abbreviation: oso
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
PolicyMap is a U.S. national data and mapping tool that combines a curated, comprehensive geographic data library with simple, robust mapping and analytics tools. University faculty, researchers, and students use it to create compelling maps of up to five layers, export trend charts with key benchmarks, download data for use in other tools, generate on-the-fly reports and upload your own data to view it with ours.
Note: create or sign in to your personal user account to access PolicyMap.
Abbreviation: pcmap
Vendor: PolicyMap
Subjects: Communication, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Demography and Population Studies, Finance, Food, Geography, Law, Political Science, Public Health, Public Safety and Security, Social Work, Statistics, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Directories, Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources, Maps
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.
Abbreviation: peo
Vendor: Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company
Coverage: 1962–2013
Subjects: Communication, Psychology
Type: E-Book Collections, Historical / Primary Sources, Images, Streaming Video
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.
Abbreviation: bwh
Vendor: EBSCO
Coverage: 1993–Current
Subjects: Business, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Citation Management, E-Journal Collections, Newspapers and Newswires
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, books, 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.
Abbreviation: sagej
Vendor: Sage Publishing
Type: E-Journal Collections
A collection of over 250 Reference Titles. Sage Reference Online is a social science book platform, where you will find an expansive range of SAGE book and reference content.
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.
Domains:
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Energy
Engineering
Materials Science
Mathematics
Physics and Astronomy
Tutorials:
Online tutorials
Abbreviation: sciencedirect
Vendor: Elsevier
Coverage: 1997–Current
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject, *General Science, Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies, Mathematics, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition, Ocean Science, Physics, Public Health
Type: Citation Management, E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections"
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
Abbreviation: sbrnet
Vendor: SBRnet
Subjects: Business, Communication, Marketing, Sport Management, Sport Psychology, Statistics
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Directories, E-Journal Collections, Government Publications
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.
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 Nature. 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
Abbreviation: springer
Vendor: Springer Nature
Coverage: 1996–Current
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: Citation Management, E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
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.
This single destination platform from Taylor & Francis offers library users improved search and filtering, chapterization, APA format citations, and other features. The collection contains 90,000 titles in specialist subjects.
Tutorials:
T&F eBooks help
Abbreviation: tfeb
Vendor: Taylor and Francis Group
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections
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.
Abbreviation: undata
Vendor: United Nations
Subjects: Demography and Population Studies, International Affairs
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Government Publications, Open Access
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 quickly—with actionable insights that lead to better outcomes.
Current Practice Areas Include:
Other Expert Content:
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.
Also see: ProQuest (for today's edition back to Jan 8, 2010) Wall Street Journal Online
Also see: Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition
Abbreviation: wsj
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1984–Current
Type: Citation Management, 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.
Note: FSU has access to the Fashion Module.
Abbreviation: wgsntex
Vendor: WGSN
Subjects: Business, Interior Design, Marketing, Retail Entrepreneurship
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Directories, Images, Streaming Audio, Streaming Video
Wiley Online Library features 1,500 journals, over 14,000 books, and hundreds of multi-volume reference works, databases, and other resources.
Tutorials:
Wiley Online Library Tutorials
Subjects include:
Agriculture, Aquaculture & Food Science
Architecture & Planning
Art & Applied Arts
Business, Economics, Finance & Accounting
Chemistry
Computer Science & Information Technology
Earth, Space & Environmental Sciences
Humanities
Law & Criminology
Life Sciences
Mathematics & Statistics
Mathematics
Statistics
Medicine
Nursing, Dentistry & Healthcare
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Psychology
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Veterinary Medicine
Abbreviation: wiley
Vendor: Wiley
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: Citation Management, E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections
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.
Abbreviation: wwd
Vendor: Fairchild Publishing, LLC
Coverage: One year before today's date.
Subjects: Business, Marketing, Retail Entrepreneurship
Type: Biographies, Images
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