Business - General

Library Specialist

and

 Lisa Beall:

Reference Tools including Web Sites

Company Directories

D&B Million Dollar Directory: Americas leading Public & PrivateCompanies
3rd. Floor Call Number: (REF HF 5035.m5 1999 v.1-4)

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 productcategory, company, or brand name. Registration (free) required. They'vealso made their Food Industry Register, Regional Business Directories,and Register of European Manufacturers available.
 
 

Comapany Overviews and Financial Information

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

Marketguide
http://www.marketguide.com
Provides financial ratios and industry sector data. 

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

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

Annual Reports
Annual Report Gallery (by Cornerstone) 
http://www.reportgallery.com
Close to 1,000 online annual reports included from this Website. 
Public Register's Annual Report Service
http://www.annualreportservice.com
Over 2,100 online annual reports included. Also provides the optionof ordering free hard copies of the annual reports. 
 

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)
 

Industry Norms & Business Rations
Dun & Bradstreet's Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios

         3rd Floor Call Number:(DESKREF HF 5681. R25 I5344) 

RMA Annual Statement Studies

         3rd Floor Call Number:(DESKREF HF 5681. B2 R6) 
 

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

Business Statistics

Statistical Abstracts of the United States
http://www.census.gov/prod/3/98pubs/98statab/cc98stab.htm
An invaluable compilation of statistics mostly provided by governmentalagencies.
Although it contains more than business statistics, fully two-thirdsof the material can be
characterized as economic or industrial. 

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 laboreconomics and statistics. Includes current data on the Consumer Price Index,Unemployment Rates, Average Hourly Wages, etc.

 

Other Business Resources

Business Dictionaries

Quicken's Glossary of Business Terms

http://www.quicken.com/glossary

Occupational Descriptions

Occupational Outlook Handbook 

http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm

Compiled by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, thisresource
provides an excellent source of current, concise information on nearly250 different
occupations, including the nature of the work, working conditions,employment, training,
qualifications and advancement, job outlook, earnings, related occupationsand sources to consult for additional information. Updated every 2 years.

Indexes and Databases

All databases are available on campus and remotelyunless otherwise noted.  To access a resource from home, you willneed 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. Coverageis 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 privatecompanies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and serviceindustries at an international level. Coverage is from 1994 forward andapproximately 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 fromover 400 U.S. cities. Covering private and public companies, its monthlyupdates provide current full-text articles and index citations to specificcompany and industry issues a nd events.

Business Source Elite: http://ehostweb3.epnet.com/selectdb.asp?onedb=true&db=Business+Source+Elite

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

EconLit: http://aubiecat.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/ovidlink.cgi?pg=ip&db=econ

Produced by the American Economics Association, EconLit indexes and abstractsmore than 450 international economic journals. EconLit source materialincludes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations,book reviews, and working papers. Contains records from 1969-present withapproximately 15,000 records added annually.

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

Covers abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals and featuresfull 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.  Articlesin over 500 journals are full text. 1980 – Present 

Dissertation Abstracts   http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/

1861 – Present.  The years 1998-1999 are available off campus, butearlier years are only available on campus. 

Current Awareness Resources

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

An automated alerting service that delivers the table of contents of periodicalsor results of keyword searches directly to your e-mail address.  Availableto 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 thatallows faxing of articles not owned by AU Libraries. Available to AU faculty,graduate students and staff. 

Journals

ResearchGuides

Finding Information on Companies

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

JobHunting Websites

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/jobs.html

Marketing Resources

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

Investment Research

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

Exporting/Importing

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

AuburnUniversity Department Pages

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

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