Selected Economics & Business Online Resources

Databases
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

Use *360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

*America: History and Life
America: History and Life provides a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

• *Annual Stockholder Reports
  A collection of over 3,700 annual reports (252,000 pages) and 6,200 SEC 10-Ks from the top corporations in America, dating back as far as 1994. Each annual report is presented as exact high-quality scanned images of every page in the official printed annual report of the company
• *EconLit with Full Text
  EconLit Index plus full text for more than 400 publications in the field of economics.
• EDGAR Online
  All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. Here you′ll find links to a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database.
  SEARCH EDGAR.
• *Facts On File World News Digest
  U.S. and world news, 1940 - the present.
• Google Patent Search
  Search over 7 million patents.
• *Historical Abstracts
  Historical Abstracts provides a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
• *Lexis-Nexis
  Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. It couples the convenience of the Internet with the power of Lexis-Nexis services so you can quickly and easily retrieve documents that meet your specific research needs. Includes Congressional and Statistical Universe.
• *Newsbank
  "A comprehensive, full-text news resource consisting of more than 500 regional, national, and international newspaper and newswire services." This link also access the NewsBank Academic Library Collection, Global Newsbank, Business Newsbank (1993-  ),Newbank Retrospective, and several individual newspaper titles including digital image editions of Die Welt, El Pais, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, and the New York Times.
• SEDAR
  SEDAR is the official site that provides access to most public securities documents and information filed by public companies and investment funds with the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) in the SEDAR filing system.
• *Standard & Poor′s NetAdvantage
  A comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor?s research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports and others.
• THOMAS
  U.S. Government informational database form the Library of Congress.
• *Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Includes these Wilson full text indexes: Education, General Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Legal, Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Business & Readers GuideDatabases
• *World News Connection
  A research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-US. media sources.

Online Journals
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• Advertising Age
• Business Law Journal (UCDavis)
• *Blackwell-Synergy
  A collection of over 800 online journals from Blackwell Publishers.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level
• Economist
• Ethispher
  In an age of deeper government scrutiny of business operations, increased civil and criminal penalties for compliance failure, and heightened consumer awareness and sophistication, organizations that want to lead realize that there is a direct link between ethics and profits. Ethisphere Magazine was created to illuminate this important correlation.
• Forbes Lists
• Fortune Magazine Company Lists
• Inc.com
• *JSTOR Business Journals
• *JSTOR Economics Journals
• *Nation Archive
  Established in 1865, the Nation offers an online 135-year archive of reporting opinion and criticism. It is an important collection of primary source material for history, politics, culture and the arts.
• *Online Journals for Business and Economics (SerialsSolutions)
• *Oxford Journals Online
  A large collection of online full text journals from Oxford University Press.
• *Wall Street Journal Online
  Comprehensive coverage back to 1984 from this leading financial newspaper.

Online Reference Works
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Management
• *The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems
• *The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics
• BusinessDictionary.com
• *Dictionary of Accounting
• *Dictionary of Business and Managment
• *Dictionary of Business Terms
• *Dictionary of Economics
• *Dictionary of Finance and Banking
• *Dictionary of Human Resource Management
• *Dictionary of International Business Terms
• *Dictionary  of Statistics
• *Encyclopedia of Small Business
• *Handbook of International Financial Terms
• *List of Business Dictionaries from CredoReference
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
• *Oxford Foreign Language Business Dictionaries
• World Factbook (CIA)
  Annual publication with information arranged by country.

General Websites - Business

• Ad*Access
  The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
• Business.com
  Directory of Business websites
• Business.gov: the Official Business Link to the U.S. Government
  Business.gov, the official business link to the U.S. Government, is managed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in a partnership with 21 other federal agencies.
• BizWeb
  BizWeb is a web business guide to 46290 companies listed in 208 categories.
• CPA Directory 
  A nationwide database of 450,000 Certified Public Accountants and CPA firms searchable by criteria including name, location, and industry focus.
• Finance - WWW Virtual Library
  The WWW Virtual Library is a resource that Ohio State′s Department of Finance provides to academia and investors alike.
• GlobalEdge
  Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.
• FedWorld.gov
  In 1992, FedWorld was established to serve as the online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information disseminated by the Federal Government.
• FINWeb
  Lists Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics.
• Government Websources - Library of Congress
• GovBrowserl.com FindLaw - Law and Economics Resources
• Research RoundUp: Business Filings Databases Updated
  All 50 states make some level of corporate and business filings available online. In a few instances only limited information (such as name availability) is retrievable. The majority of the states, however, use their Web presence to disseminate a range of public business records -- and most of them offer access at no charge.
• Rutgers Accounting Website
  Links to accounting resources.
• Searching for Company Information (NYPL)
• Social Science Research Network
  SSRN′s objective is to provide worldwide distribution of research to authors and their readers and to facilitate communication among them at the lowest possible cost.
• Stat-USA
  STAT-USA/Internet, a service of theU.S. Department of Commerce, is a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government.
• Stock and Commodity Exchanges List (Rutgers)
• VIBES: Virtual International Business & Economic Sources (UNCC)
  VIBES provides over 3,500 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge.

General Websites - Economics

• Econometric Resources on the Web
• EconSources
• Federal Reserve Board
• VIBES: Virtual International Business & Economic Sources (UNCC)
  VIBES provides over 3,500 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge.
• WebEc
  WebEc was an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW.
• World Economics Web Sources

Business Ethics

• Wharton School - Business Ethics
• Business Ethics Resources - Canada
• Business Ethics Case Studies (Abbott Laboratories through DePaul University)
• Business Ethics: Managing Ethics in the Workplace and Social Responsibility
• Ethics Case Studies (Vanderbilt)
• Ethics Online Resources (Vanderbilt Center for Ethics)

Statistical Information

• Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Consumer Price Indexes (BLS)
• Economic Census
• 2002, 1997, 1992 Census information
• Economic Data - Federal Reserve, Minneapolis
• Economics Statistics Briefing Room (White House)
• Economist - Country Briefings
• Federal Reserve Economic Data (Fed. Reserve, St. Louis)
• Federal Reserve Board: Statistical Releases and Historical Data
• Federal Reserve Beige Book
• FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
  On this web site you will find links to scanned images (in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format) of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.
• Index of Economic Freedom (Heritage Foundation)
  The ... Index of Economic Freedom covers 162 countries across 10 specific freedoms such as trade freedom, business freedom, investment freedom, and property rights.
• LatinFocus
  LatinFocus is the first stop for professionals seeking reliable business research information on  Latin American economies.
• OECD Statistics Portal
• Most of OECD′s statistical outputs are made available to the public through electronic and paper publications and through the Statistics Portal, which offers for each of the 26 topics  a set of statistical tables.
• Penn World  Table
• The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004.
• Producer Price Indexes  (BLS)
• State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)
  The SOCDS provides data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs.
• U.S. Census Bureau - Business and Industry
• USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (ESMIS)
  The system contains nearly 2500 reports and datasets. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Available titles include both current and historical data.

Company & Banking Information

• AAAdir World Banks
  Directory of banks, central banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions.
• Bank for International Settlement: Central Bank Websites
  Gives links for central banks sites alphabetically by country.
• Central Banks of the World
• FDIC Institution Directory
  Comprehensive financial data for every FDIC-insured institution, including the most recent quarterly balance sheets, income statements, performance and condition ratios
• Hoover′s Business Directory
  Company reports and industry profiles with in-depth coverage of the world′s top business enterprises.
• Kompass International
  Searchable database of companies, products, executives names, trade and brand names, and more.
  www.kompass.com
• Thomas Regional Directory
  Directory of companies by region, cross-referenced by industry.
• WorldBank
• World Chambers Network 
  GLOBAL network Chambers of Commerce.