The Business & Economics Library provides access to numerous business and economic databases via the WWW or the library cd-rom network. Most web-based databases are available for remote use by UCB faculty, students, and staff by using the library proxy server. CD-ROMS are ONLY available from library workstations by clicking on the cd-rom icon from the desktop.
A complete list of all of the University Library's electronic resources may be found here.
Read about the Conditions of Use.
For your convenience, web-based databases are also listed in the pull-down menu. Simply choose the database of interest, and you will be connected to it in a new browser window.
Campus Resource: for access, you must either be on campus, or connect through the Library Proxy Server.
| Database | Description |
|---|---|
| Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
|
Indexes over 10,900 periodicals and journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Full text is available for 5,300 of the publications. A useful source for business-related topics in non-business publications.
Dates Covered: 1865-Present. |
| Access World News (NewsBank, Inc.)
|
Includes a number of databases providing a variety of domestic and international news. Those of most interest include Global Newsbank(1996-current), Newsbank Newsfile (1991-current), Newsbank Full-text Newspapers, Sacramento Bee, and the San Jose Mercury News. |
| Associations Unlimited
|
Contains detailed listings for organizations worldwide, including 23,000 U.S. national associations, 20,000 international associations, 111,000 U.S. regional, state, and local associations and IRS data on 300,000 nonprofit organizations.
Dates covered: current only. |
| BioScan (American Health Consultants)
on campus use only |
Comprehensive coverage of U.S. and foreign companies actively involved in biotech research and development. This invaluable resource provides accurate details on company contact information, company history, agreements, current products, R&D, and products coming to market. |
| Business & Industry Database (Responsive Database Services, Inc.)
|
Indexes, abstracts, and provides partial full-text coverage of almost 1000 major U.S. and international trade journals, general business publications, and national & regional newspapers and newsletters.
Dates covered: 1995- ; updated monthly. |
| Business Monitor Online (BMO)
|
BMO provides quarterly, up-dated market forecast reports on 14 industry sectors in 55 countries. Industries covered include: Automotives, Chemicals, Banking, Defence and Security, Retail Food and Drink, Freight Transport, IT, Infrastructure, Insurance, Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications and Media, and Tourism. There is also a database of 65,000 multinational company subsidiaries and company profiles. UCB does not subscribe to the BMO country analyses.
Dates covered: latest four years. |
| Business Source Complete (EBSCOHost)
|
Business Source Complete, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Business Source Complete provides expanded indexing and abstract backfiles for the top scholarly business journals, dating back to 1965 or the first issue published (whichever is more recent). In some cases, indexing, abstracting, and PDF coverage actually goes back further than 1965. The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.
Updated: daily |
| CCH Capital Changes Reports
|
CCH's Capital Changes Reports contains the complete capital change histories of over 58,000 corporations, including stock dividends, stock splits, reverse stock splits, reorganizations, exchanges, rights and other changes in capital structure. To access, click the "Capital Changes" button on the CCH Internet Tax Service entry page.
Updated: daily |
| CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork
|
UCB subscribes to the CCH OmniTax School Library portion of this online service. Use it to complete tax course assignments requiring access to U.S. Federal and state tax information. Click on the Federal Tax button to use the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, Revenue Rulings, and all court cases.
Updated: daily |
| Chinese Studies Online
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Provides access to five separate databases with information on Chinese culture, medicine, business, and science. Includes a database of over 170,000 companies. All text is in Chinese. |
| Commodity Price Statistics on-line
|
Commodity Price Statistics provide monthly free-market prices and price indices starting in January 1960 for selected commodities that concern commodity-dependant countries. Price indices are provided for commodity groups (including food, tropical beverages, vegetable oilseeds and oils, agricultural raw materials, minerals, ores and metals), and for all groups in current dollars and SDRs.
Updated: monthly |
| Commodity Statistics Trade Database (COMTRADE)
|
Provides commodity trade statistics between countries for 40 years. |
| Communication Abstracts
|
Indexes 160 sources, with over 44,000 records reflecting articles, reports, papers and books covering communication literature in subjects such as mass media, journalism, advertising, marketing, public opinion, interpersonal communication and organizational communication.
Dates Covered: 1977- present, some full text |
| Compustat
accessible only from Haas |
Compustat is a database of financial, statistical, and marketing information. It provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 10,300 active and 9,400 inactive Companies. The following Compustat products are not available to Haas users: executive compensation, global currency, global financial services, global industrial/commercial, global issue, and quarterly updates.
Dates covered: 20 Years of Annual Information 12 Years of Quarterly Information 20 Years of Monthly Information |
| The Conference Board
|
TCB research is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, ethics and corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
Dates covered: Full-text coverage from 1995 to date. |
| CorpTech (High Technology Companies)
|
Provides profiles of over 50,000 high technology companies in the U.S.
Dates covered: Current year only. |
| Counting California (California Digital Library) | Provides a wide-variety of information, facts, and data about the state of California.
Dates Covered: N/A. |
| CRSP
accessible only from Haas |
The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) maintains a comprehensive collection of standard and derived security data available for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ Stock Market. Quarterly updates and CRSP/COMPUSTAT Merged Database are not available to Haas users.
Dates covered: December 1925 - present. |
| Datastream (Thomson Financial) - datastream terminal in the library only
Haas School Funded |
An integrated database of online global financial and economic information containing over 1 billion items, with 1 million items updated daily. Covers equities, indices, economics, FOREX, interest rates, fixed incomes, and derivatives. Use is limited to currently enrolled UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.
Dates covered: up to 40 years of data included, depending on the field. |
| Digital Dissertations (UMI International)
|
Indexes and abstracts dissertations from most U.S. and some foreign universities.
Dates covered: 1861- |
| Dow Jones Averages
accessible only from Haas |
The DJ averages are comprised of The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), The Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJTA) and The Dow Jones Utility Average (DJUA).
Dates covered: 1896 - present |
| DRI /McGraw-Hill Historical Data
accessible only from Haas |
DRI offers a comprehensive collection of U.S. financial, economic and industry information. While a monthly frequency option appears, only quarterly and annual data are available through the Haas subscription
Dates covered: 1936 - present |
| EconBiz | A database of worldwide internet resources in business and economics cataloged by the German National Library for Economics and the University and City Library of Cologne. A very useful source for locating economic statistics and the full text of working and discussion papers. Each entry has been carefully analyzed and appropriate metadata added for searching purposes. Links are checked routinely for accuracy. |
| ECONIS | This is the online catalog of the German National Library for Economics (Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), the largest single collection of resources in economics in the world. In addition to the book holdings of the library, ECONIS provides links to working papers, and analyzes the contents (chapters) of collected works in economics. For economists, It is an important source to search in addition to EconLit. |
| EconLit (American Economic Association)
|
Indexes over 400 economics journals and some collected volumes.
Dates covered: Indexes since 1969; abstracts since 1987. |
| Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Profiles and Reports
|
Objective and timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment in more than 180 countries. Annual profiles are updated by quarterly reports.
Dates covered: 1996-Present. |
| Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Databases (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
|
A multidisciplinary database covering ecology, agricultural biotechnology, energy, climate, pollution, toxicology, waste management, water resources, and other environmental issues. Coverage includes citations and abstracts from 1500 scientific journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and governmental publications. "Environmental Routenet" provides daily news items, environmental impact statements, and other current resources related to legislation and patents.
Dates covered: 1981-Present |
| eScholarship Repository | The University of California's eScholarship repository provides full-text access to working papers, journals, books, and data sets produced by university faculty. |
| Europa World Online
|
Provides political and economic information on over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. A useful source of statistics on area and population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, finance, external trade, transport, tourism, communications media, and education.
Updated: annually with current news updates |
| Eurostat (European Commission) | A good source for European business and economic information and data. Most of the statistical series and all of the documents in PDF format are available free of charge. UCB does not subscribe to the fee portion of the service. |
| Factiva
Haas School funded |
Formerly Dow Jones Interactive, Factiva.com provides access to a variety of textual and company information sources. Factiva's major focus is on "current awareness"; most of the databases concentrate on very recent information about companies, industries, and financial markets. The full text of over 6,000 publications is available, including exclusive access to the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and New York Times, and is updated daily.
Dates covered: varies by publication. |
| Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies
|
A full-text library of reports covering such key technology areas as IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and World Wide Web, as well as technology vendors.
Dates covered: updated monthly |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
accessible only from Haas |
This database contains financial data and history of all entities filing the Report Of Condition and Income (Call Report) and some savings institutions filing the OTS Thrift Financial Report (TFR). These entities include Commercial banks, savings banks, or savings and loans.
Dates covered: 1986 - present |
| Galante's Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory (cd-rom) | A cd-rom database of venture capital and private equity companies that may be searched and sorted in various ways.
Dates covered: latest year Updated annually |
| Gallup Brain
|
The Gallup Brain is a searchable, living record of more than 60 years of public opinion. Inside, you'll find answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935. This unparalleled poll database also houses current Gallup Poll News Service articles that feature the latest in depth poll analyses and replicas of news stories and press releases linked to the surveys.
Dates covered: 1935 to present. |
| Global Development Finance, World Bank
|
Provides development finance data for 136 countries since 1970. Data may be exported for spreadsheets. |
| Global Financial Database (GFD) - Global Financial Data, Inc.
|
The Global Financial Database contains extremely long runs of historical data (over 6,000 series) on security markets and macroeconomic trends for over 150 countries, including the United States. Our subscription includes the full service and these sub-sets: Long-term Financial, Interest Rate, United States Daily Stock Market, Global Stock Market, Total Return, Annual Data, and Dow Jones Industrial Average Intraday. Includes online encyclopedias that describe each database.
Dates covered: 1 AD-Present. |
| Global Market Information Database (GMID) - Euromonitor
CalNet ID required |
An excellent source of product sales data by country (historical and forecasts). Also provides consumer lifestyle information, brands and their companies, and major market profiles.
Dates covered: varies. |
| Global Newsbank
|
Among other resources, includes news articles covering politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East. All articles are in English and are from over 1000 translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines and government documents.
Dates covered: varies. |
| Globus/NTDB (U.S. Department of Commerce)
|
Includes more than 10,000 reports from U.S. federal agencies on overseas markets, export and import statistics for thousands of products, how to guides for exporters, general information on foreign countries, and over 60,000 foreign business contacts for exporters.
Dates covered: October 1990-present (tables vary in historical coverage); updated monthly. |
| Historical Annual Reports Collection (Proquest)
|
Provides full-text images of annual reports for over 800 U.S. companies.
Dates covered: 1884-2005. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States
|
Contains the entire contents of the Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial times to 2000, including text and statistical tables. A rich source of information for studying U.S. history, economics, politics, and other social topics. Data is downloadable in Excel or CSV spreadsheet formats.
Dates covered: Colonial times to 2000. |
| Hoover's Online (Hoover's, Inc.)
|
Over 1,800 company profiles and industry descriptions. Also includes IPO Central, a source of initial public offering data.
Dates covered: Current year only; frequent updates. |
| I/B/E/S
accessible only from Haas |
Use I/B/E/S History to access historical forecast measures such as earnings, sales, revenue, dividends, net income, EBITDA and more.
Dates covered: 1975 - present |
| IMF Direction of Trade Statistics | The Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) database presents annual, quarterly, and monthly figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports by trade partners as well as area and world aggregates showing trade flows between major areas of the world. The DOTS database provides users with more than approximately 100,000 time series of annual, quarterly, and monthly trade data for approximately 250 countries, 1980 to present.
Please note that the IMF has not yet released the Historical Direction of Trade Statistics data back to 1948. For now you still need to consult the DOT Historical Statistics CD ROM, which is networked and available on all Berkeley library workstations. |
| ISI Emerging Markets
(Internet Securities) |
Delivers news, company, and financial data series from more than 50 emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Central, East, and Southeast Europe. Full-text news articles, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from thousands of local and leading international information providers, appear in both English and the local language.
Dates covered: Updated anywhere from annually to continuously, depending on the type of data. |
| InfoTech Trends (Data Analysis Group)
|
Formerly Computer Industry Forecasts, gives market information on computers, peripherals, software, storage, Internet and communications equipment. Data includes sales and shipment forecasts, market share, installed base, planned purchases, and more.
Dates covered: First quarter of 1995 to present; updated biweekly. |
| International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
|
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the London School of Economics & Political Science. This database contains bibliographic information from an international selection of publications (including over 2600 journals) in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
Dates covered: 1981 to the present. |
| International Financial Statistics - International Monetary Fund | Financial, trade, and national accounts statistics by country. Historical data is available back to 1948 and is reported in various time frequencies, including monthly and annual statistics.
Dates covered: 1948-present; updated monthly. |
| Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
|
Headquartered at the University of Michigan, ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Data available includes survey data, census records, election returns, economic data, and legislative records. Files may be downloaded for use in SAS and SPSS. A good source for consumer and economic behavior surveys. |
| JSTOR
|
Description of JSTOR |
| Legal Trac (Gale Group) (Law Library)
|
LegalTrac on InfoTrac Web offers indexing since 1980 for all major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related articles from general interest publications. LegalTrac also includes selective full text.
Dates covered: Updated monthly. |
| Lexis-Nexis Academic
|
A full-text online source for business information, current affairs, legal information, medical information and news. Provides full-text, online access to over 70 million articles appearing in newspapers, journals, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, reference works and other documents. Use is limited to currently enrolled UC Berkeley students engaged in course-related research.
Dates covered: 1979-present; updated daily. |
| Lexis-Nexis Statistical
|
Includes all American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS) abstract and index records, links to 800 full-text documents published during 1994-1997 and stored on LEXIS-NEXIS, and links to 2,000 publications on federal agency web sites. Materials abstracted in ASI are available in microfiche in GSSI. Materials abstracted in SRI are available in microfiche in the Business & Economics Library. |
| Literary Marketplace
|
Literary Market Place (LMP) is an online directory for the people and companies of the book publishing industry, both domestic and international.You can use the "Advanced Search Form" (fill-in-the blanks) or "Quick Search" (keyword(s)only) to: get an inside look at publishers and firms in the industry, locate publishers by type of publications they publish, choose an agent, find a PR firm, look up book trade associations and organizations, see what industry services and suppliers have to offer. The database is updated regularly. |
| Los Angeles Times
-- yesterday's paper -- current issues |
This collection includes every article from every issue of the Los Angeles Times (from 1988):
|
| Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmith's-Kress Library of Economic Literature
|
A digital collection of more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. Focuses on economics but includes political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation, and manufacturing. Combines the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library, and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale. |
| MarketResearch Academic
|
A database providing the full text of more than 600 market studies from three publications: Kalorama Information, Packaged Facts, and Specialists in Business Information. The database covers industries such as: healthcare, financial services, demographics, consumer products, medical equipment, and more. |
| MediaMark Reporter (MRI) | Contains the results of a national probability sample of U.S. consumers and provides very detailed data for specific consumer goods.
Dates Covered: It covers the latest year available to academic users and the preceding 3 years. |
| Medical and Healthcare Marketplace Guide Online
|
The Medical and Healthcare Marketplace Guide Online is a source for the latest information on the trends, developments, scientific advancements, and company activities in every segment of the medical and heathcare industry, including the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology sectors.
Updated: monthly |
| Mergent Online
|
Mergent Online consists of financial information on U.S.and international companies.
The database consists of the following components: U.S. and International Company Data, Archives, Annual Reports, Factsheets Plus, Factsheets Express, Institutional Holdings, Insider Trades, Expanded Long-Term Debt, Equity Portraits, and Corporate Bond Portraits. Dates Covered: Mergent Online offers 15 years of U.S. company data. |
| Mintel Reports (market research)
|
Mintel provides the full text of market research reports in these product categories: beauty, personal goods and toiletries; clothing, footwear and accessories; drink and tobacco; electrical goods; food and foodservice; health and wellbeing; holidays and travel; house and home; leisure time, lifestages; media, books, and stationery, personal finance; retail; and technology/telecoms. Reports cover specific product/country markets and discuss market drivers, market size & trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and market forecasts. Geographic emphasis is on the U.S. and Europe. |
| Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online
|
The MBS Online database presents current monthly economic statistics for most of the countries and areas of the world. In addition, each month a selection of tables is presented showing annual and/or quarterly data on a variety of subjects illustrating important economic long-term trends and developments.
Updated: monthly |
| National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
|
The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Their research is conducted by more than 600 university professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields. Research results are published in a working paper series available on this site.
Dates Covered: 1994 - present. |
| New York Times
-- today's paper -- current issues -- historical issues |
This collection includes every article from every issue of the Eastern Edition (US) of the New York Times:
|
| NYSE TAQ
accessible only from Haas |
The Trade and Quote (TAQ) database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues.
Dates covered: 1993 - present |
| OneSource - Global Business Browser
Haas Students Only Haas School Funded |
One-stop access to 34 databases offering global business information. Useful for company and industry overviews. Content providers include: D&B U.S. Public and Private Company Data, Euromonitor Market Research, Integra Industry Norms, Investext Analysts' Reports, Marquis Executive Biographies, Mergent International Public Company Data, NRP's Corporate Affiliations, Worldscope/Disclosure and much more.
Access is restricted to Haas School of Business students, faculty, and staff having personal passwords. |
| PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
|
The PAIS International database contains records for all types of materials in the area of public affairs. Topics covered include agriculture, banking, demographics, education, environment, finance, government, law, legislation, political science, social sciences, and statistics. The database covers materials from the 1972 to the present and is updated monthly.
Dates covered: 1972-present. |
| PHLX
accessible only from Haas |
PHLX provides data on currency trading on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
Dates covered: 1983 - present |
| PolicyFile | PolicyFile includes information addressing virtually all aspects of public policy. It collects data from world renowned public policy think tanks including the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Cato Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Economic Strategy Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institute, Hudson Institute, International Monetary Fund, RAND Corporation, Urban Institute, World Bank; university research programs, and publishers. Please use an Internet Explorer web browser to access this resource.
Dates covered: Updated Weekly |
| Proquest Direct
|
Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full text for a wide variety of academic journals and general interest magazines and newspapers. Over 1800 titles are covered.
Dates covered: varies by publication, but back to the 1970's for many titles. |
| PsycINFO
|
Use the PsycINFO database to retrieve citations to articles in over 1,300 professional journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Most citations include abstracts.
Dates covered: 1872-present |
| Rand California (Rand Corporation)
|
RAND, one of the nation's think tanks, sponsors and maintains this comprehensive web site on California public policy issues. The web site includes services and products in six areas: 1)An extensive database on California and its cities and counties, ranging from the economy to crime rates to school test scores; 2)An online index of public policy and research publications; 3)An online calendar of workshops, seminars, and other discussions on California public policy issues; 4)Federal policy bulletins from the California Institute on national issues; 5)A new bi-monthly bulletin on state policy developments; 6)Monthly reports on the California economy. |
| Readers' Guide Retrospective
|
Readers Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The version available covers the years 1890-1982. It is useful for locating articles in business magazines such as: Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, etc.
No full text is available online. Articles must be located in the library's print collection. |
| Regional Business News (EBSCOHost)
|
Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.
Updated: weekly |
| Reuters Research on Demand (formely Multex.net)
|
RROD is a web-based research delivery system, which supplies real-time & historical equity, fixed income and economic research from the world's leading analysts. The RROD database delivers morning notes and research reports from all the major global brokerage firms and hundreds of regional specialists.
Updated: daily |
| Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
|
An archive of U.S. and international public opinion information and data on many topics. |
| Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (ISI Web of Knowledge)
|
Indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines. Contains searchable, English language author abstracts for 60% of the articles in the database.
Dates covered: 1956-present |
| Sociological Abstracts
|
Citations for articles from over 1,900 journals, books, book chapters, and reviews in the social sciences.
Dates covered: 1963-present. |
| Source OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
|
A collection of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's economic and governmental studies and reports on the major economies of the world. Some of the topics include labor, trade, government spending, financial market trends, and national accounts. Also includes many data sets.
Dates covered: coverage varies by title. |
| State of the Nation (U.S. Department of Commerce)
|
Tracks the direction of the U.S. economy and provides a repository for statistical releases of economic indicators from a number of Federal agencies, including the Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, Department of Treasury, and banks from the Federal Reserve System. Information provided in SOTN includes economic news/releases, economic indicators, and topical areas including employment and economic policy, and restricted releases.
Dates covered: Some statistical series go back to the 1920's; updated as new releases become available. |
| United Nations Statistical Common Database
|
Provides 442 economic, social, cultural, and demographic series indicators for countries of the world. Some data therein reaches back to the 1940s, most are current through 2000, and some projections reach to 2050. |
| U.S. Company Directory/Reference USA
|
A database of over 13 million U.S. companies. Provides searching and sorting features by industry, geographic location, company employee size, company name, sales size, etc. Replacement for the cd-rom American Business Disk. The database also includes residential addresses for 120 million U.S. households.
Dates covered: current only |
| Wall Street Journal
-- today's paper -- current issues -- historical issues |
This collection includes every article from every issue of the Eastern Edition (US) of the Wall Street Journal:
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| Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)
Haas School Funded |
UCB'S WRDS subscription includes:
Compustat - a database of financial, statistical, and marketing information. It provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 7500 publicly held companies. CRSP - The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) maintains the most comprehensive collection of standard and derived security data available for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq Stock Market. CRSP is a research center at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and maintains historical data spanning from December 1925 to the present. WRDS use is restricted to UCB faculty and graduate students. Reguires a password issued by WRDS. Click on the link, choose "account request," and if you qualify, a password will be sent by email. |
| World Bank E-Library
|
A searchable portal of over 1,200 World Bank titles, plus each new book as it is published. It is possible to browse reports by geographic region (Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe/Central Asia, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, and South Asia). |
| World Development Indicators, World Bank
|
Provides time series development indicators data (1960-present) for 207 countries. Includes tables for population, labor and employment, education, health, energy, urbanization, national accounts, purchasing power, trade, government finance, monetary, balance of payments, external debt, investment risk, taxes, prices and exchange rates, military expenditures, transport and communication, and information & technology. Data may be exported for spreadsheets. |
| World News Connection
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Provides current news from countries around the world. Updated daily. The database may be searched by keywords, region, country, or city names. |