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Accounting Research Manager
    CCH
Accounting standards
  • Text
Full text of all current authoritative accounting standards, including FASB, AICPA, EITF, IASB
  • 1963+

  • Daily
Checkpoint
   RIA
Federal and state tax information
  • Text
Tax and accounting source material and analysis; case law rulings, statutes, journals, news
  • 1860+

  • Daily
GFDatabase
   Gfd (Global Financial Data)
Historical financial data: economic, fixed-income, equity, and total-return data.
  • Text
  • Data
Collection of financial and economic data covering more than 200 countries extending back to 1265.
  • 1265-
  • Daily
Hoover's Company Records
   ProQuest
Business directory
  • Text
Brief information on 40,000 companies including location, summary financials, competitors, and top officers.
  • ---

  • Daily
International Directory of Company Histories
  Gale
Business
  • Text
Comprehensive information on 8,500+ of the world's largest and most influential companies
  • 1988-

  • Annually
LEXIS-NEXIS Company Dossier
   LEXIS-NEXIS
General, news, business, legal, and medical information
  • Citations
  • Abstracts
  • Text
  • Web links

Company Dossier module contains information on 35 million U.S. and international companies.

  • Varies

  • Daily
Mergent Online
   Mergent Inc.
Corporate, industrial, and financial information
  • Text
Online counterpart of Mergent/Moody's manuals; includes U.S. and international company business and financial data back 15 yrs.; U.S. annual reports.
  • Current

  • Daily
Passport Markets
   
Euromonitor
International business intelligence on consumers, industries, and markets.
  • Text
1,3000 market reports examining 21 consumer and service industries, 6,500 local company profiles, and 20,000 market size statistics.
  • Varies

  • Monthly
Safari Books Online
   ProQuest
A broad range of technical fields, including business, computer science, information technology, and software engineering.
  • Citations
  • Text
  • Images
202 electronic books
  • Varies by title

  • Varies by title
Sorkins Directory of Business and Government
   Sorkins Directories
Business
  • Citations
Company profiles, names and business lists from all industries and professions in IL, MO, and KS.
  • ---

  • Daily
Sports Business
Research Network

   SBRnet
Sports business
  • Text
Market research reports and articles from 15+ journals and newsletters
  • Varies

  • Daily
SRDS Media Solutions
   SRDS
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Advertising media rates; Demographic, segmentation, & targeting data for consumer markets and media planning.
  • Text
  • Data
Online access to: "Local Market Audience Analyst", "Radio Advertising Source", "TV and Cable Source"
  • Daily
Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
   Standard & Poor's
Corporate, industry, and financial information
  • Text
6 S&P publications
  • Daily
STAT-USA
   STAT-USA
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Domestic economic and trade statistical data and analysis. Includes NTDB data.
  • Statistics
  • Full text reports
40,000+ documents
  • Last 24 months

  • Daily
UNdata
   United Nations Statistics Division
Economic, financial, health, and socio-demographic data for world. 
  • Data
Statistical time series covering worldwide economic and socio-demographic topics
  • Varies
  • Continually
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