Business Resources

Note: FIS online is available only from Auburn University campus computers.

Global Access
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/disclosure
Global Access provides electronic access to financial information on publicly traded companies.

Note: Global Access is available on campus and remotely to Auburn affiliated constituents. To access from home,you will need to type your library ID and last name. Your library ID is usually: two, zero, your Social Security Number, then zero. For example: A person with the Social Security Number 123-45-6789 has the library ID: 201234567890

Hoovers Online
http://www.hoovers.com
Database of information on more than 50,000 of the largest or fastest growing public and private U.S. companies. Information provided includes company address, number of employees, key people, financial data, news items and selected Web links to company Web sites, SEC filings, and current stock prices.

Marketguide
http://www.marketguide.com
A financial information database provider with coverage of over 12,000 publicly traded companies. Provides financial ratios and industry sector data. 

Moody's Industrial Manuals
3rd. Floor Call Number:(REF TABLE 1A)
In-depth information on all publicly traded companies. Includes medium sized company history and substantial financial data.

EDGAR Database
http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
Full-text searchable index to the filings by corporations to the Securities and Exchange Commission that are available to the public (including 10-Kreports).  

Free Edgar - Free real time SEC EDGAR Filings
http://www.freeedgar.com
Not too finicky. Once you bring up a company record it's very easy to click SIC and find all other public companies in the same industry. Easy to read and download, and print records.

Company Histories

International Directory of Company Histories
3rd. Floor Call Number:(REF HD 2721. I63)

Annual Reports

Public Register's Annual Report Service
http://www.annualreportservice.com
Over 2,100 online annual reports included. Also provides the option of ordering free hard copies of the annual reports.

Annual Report Gallery (by Cornerstone) 
http://www.reportgallery.com
Close to 1,000 online annual reports included from this Website.

Annual Reports of Selected Alabama Companies
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/ala_companies.html

Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database
http://www.dnbmdd.com/
(Companies with Sales Greater than $9 million or 180 or more Total Employees) D&B's Million Dollar Database provides the information professional, marketer, and sales executive with information on over 1,300,000 U.S. leading public and private businesses. Company information includes industry information with up to 24 indiviual 8 -digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies.

Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
3rd. Floor Call Number:(REF HG 4057.a575 1999 v.1-8)

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
http://www2.thomasregister.com
(Member ID: auburn Password: library)
A directory of 160,000 U.S. and Canadian manufacturers. Search by product category, company, or brand name.

Kompass International
http://www.kompass.com
(Member ID: Auburn Password: library)
A directory of over 1.5 million companies worldwide. Search by product, company, or both.

Industry Information

Industry Overviews

Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys
3rd Floor Call Number:(DESK REF HG 4921. S66)

U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook
3rd Floor Call Number:(DESK REF HC 101. U54)

Hoover's Industry Group Snapshots http://hoovers.com/industry/archive/0,2048,169,00.html
Hoover's has researched and written over 45 in-depth overviews of various industry groups. Each Snapshot may cover one or more industries or sectors.

Trade and Export Information by Industry - International Trade Administration http://www.ita.doc.gov/ita_home/itakeyin.html
This page provides links to ITA web sites which provide coverage of key industrial and services clusters: Technology and Aerospace, Tourism, Basic Industries, Environmental Technologies, Service Industries and Finance, and Textiles-Apparel and Consumer Goods.

Current Industrial Reports of the U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/cir/www/

Market Share

Market Share Reporter
3rd Floor Call Number:(REF HF 5410. M35)

World Market Share Reporter
3rd Floor Call Number:(REF HF 5410. W67)

Ward's Business Directory - Volume 5 [organized by SIC]
3rd Floor Call Number:(REF HG 4057.a575 1999 v.1-8)

Industry Norms & Business Ratios

Dun & Bradstreet's Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
3rd Floor Call Number:(DESK REF HF 5681. R25 I5344)

RMA Annual Statement Studies
3rd Floor Call Number:(DESK REF HF 5681. B2 R6)

Troy's Almanac of Business & Industrial Financial Ratios
3rd Floor Call Number:(DESK REF HF 5681. R25 T68)

Classification Systems

Standard Industrial Classification Search
http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html

North American Industrial Classification System
http://http.tamu.edu/~jennyb/naics.html

Business Statistics

National Trade Data Bank (available on-campus only)
http://www.stat-usa.gov

Provides economic and industrial data of interest to foreign traders. Among the subfiles are country profiles from the CIA, and estimates of the value of U.S. exports.

Statistical Universe (available on-campus only)
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/STATUNIV

Statistical Universe can be used to find all statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through the American Statistics Index (ASI); some 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through the Statistical Reference Index (SRI); and approximately 2,000 indispensable titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through the Index to International Statistics (IIS).

Statistical Abstracts of the United States
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
An invaluable compilation of statistics mostly provided by governmental agencies.
Although it contains more than business statistics, fully two-thirds of the material can be
characterized as economic or industrial. 

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov
Compilation of statistical data from over 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government. A great one-stop-shopping site for governmental statistics.

Bureau of Economic Analysis
http://www.bea.doc.gov/beahome.html
Key national, international, and regional aspects of the U.S. economy including the Gross Domestic Product.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov
This independent national statistical agency collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statisitical data in the broad fields of labor economics and statistics. Includes current data on the Consumer Price Index, Unemployment Rates, Average Hourly Wages, etc.

U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov
The preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States.

County Business Patterns
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/cbptotal.html
The divisions of the economy covered are agricultural services, forestry, and fisheries; mining; contract construction; manufacturing; transportation and other public utilities; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.

Other Business Resources

Business Dictionaries

Journal Articles

The following databases provide access to journal articles in business. These databases are available on campus and remotely unless otherwise noted. To access a resource from home, you will need to type your library ID and last name.  Your library ID is usually: two, zero, your Social Security Number, then zero. For example: A person with the Social Security Number 123-45-6789 has the library ID: 201234567890

ABI/INFORM : http://aubiecat.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/abi.cgi?pg=ip

An index with abstracts to periodicals in business, including economics, finance, accounting, management, marketing, and transportation. Coverage is from 1971 forward and approximately 60% of the database is full text.

Business & Industry Database : http://www.lib.auburn.edu/BIDB

Contains information, facts, and figures dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. Coverage is from 1994 forward and approximately 60% of the database is full text.

Business Newsbank : http://www.lib.auburn.edu/NEWSBANK

Provides hard-to-find local and regional business newspaper articles from over 400 U.S. cities. Covering private and public companies, its monthly updates provide current full-text articles and index citations to specific company and industry issues and events.

Business Source Elite: http://www.lib.auburn.edu/EBSCOHOST

Provides full text for nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and much more.

Academic Search FULLTEXT Elite   http://www.lib.auburn.edu/EBSCOHOST

Covers abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals and features full text articles for over 1,200 journals since 1990.

InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP   http://www.lib.auburn.edu/searchbank

Indexes 1500 journal titles in a variety of subject areas.  Articles in over 500 journals are full text. 1980 – Present

Reveal   http://uncweb.carl.org:80/reveal/

An automated alerting service that delivers the table of contents of periodicals or results of keyword searches directly to your e-mail address.  Available to AU faculty, graduate students and staff.

UnCover   http://csi.carl.org:3001/Scripts/gateway.cgi

A database of article information taken from over 18,000 journals that allows faxing of articles not owned by AU Libraries. Available to AU faculty, graduate students and staff.

Currency Exchange Rates

Foreign Currency Exchange Rates
http://www.italianvillas.com/cgi-local/exchange.pl

Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.net/currency/

Interactive Currency Converter - by Date
http://www.xe.net/ict

Research Guides

Finding Information on Companies

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/companies.htm

Additional Marketing Resources

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/market.htm

Additional Exporting/Importing Resources

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/export.htm

Auburn University Department Pages

Auburn University College of Business
http://www.auburn.edu/business/

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