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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
ArticleFirst
Index to articles from over 12,000 journals.
Audit Analytics
Audit Analytics has information on over 20,000 public registrants and over 1,500 audit firms. It is the most comprehensive market intelligence tool for the audit industry available today. AuditAnalytics.com currently offers over 80 data fields to its users. Access to this data is available as on-line user subscriptions, as enterprise data feed subscriptions, and in custom reports.

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Business and Industry
Business and Industry is no longer updated; the 1994-2006 material will remain in place indefinitely. You may wish to search: Business Source Complete.
Business Source Complete
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full-text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.

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EBSCOhost Economia y Negocios
EBSCOhost ECONOMIA Y NEGOCIOS is produced in Peru by ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish-speaking world. This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 60,000 bibliographic records. Coverage dates back to the early 1980s and includes over 200 periodicals published in Latin America and Spain.
Econlit
EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application. Literature covered is of interest to researchers, academics, product managers, advertisers, product development specialists, and public policy professionals. EconLit includes information that is of prime relevance to many industries and research establishments world-wide. Over 80% of all current records include abstracts. Also included are fulltext of book reviews published in the Journal of Economic Literature since 1993.
EJC
Full text of 6000+ research journals. Includes or has links to full text.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Full text of the Encyclopędia Britannica.
Encyclopaedia Britannica School Edition
Access to the Encyclopędia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia.

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Hein Online
HeinOnline is an expanding collection of legal information including the following collections: Law Journal Library; Code of Federal Regulations; English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865); European Center for Minority Issues; Federal Register Library; Foreign & International Law Resources Database; Legal Classics; Philip C. Jessup Library; Session Laws; Treaties and Agreements Library; U.S. Attorney General Opinions; U.S. Federal Legislative History Library; U.S. Presidential Library; U.S. Statutes at Large; U.S. Supreme Court Library; and World Trials.

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Infotrac Full-Text Articles (1,000 Journals)
Index to citations in 1,000 journals with full-text access to almost 900 journals. Covers many subject areas at the undergraduate level. Includes or has links to full text.
Insurance Periodicals Index
Insurance Periodicals Index (IPI), formerly produced by the NILS Publishing Co., Inc. in cooperation with the Insurance & Employee Benefits Division (IEBD) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), indexes and abstracts over 200 of the most respected and widely-read insurance industry journals and magazines, including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, and the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

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Legal Collection
This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.more.
Legal Trac
Index to legal periodical literature from 1980 to date. Approximately 25% of the articles are available in full text.
LexisNexis Academic
Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Includes or has links to full text.

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Materials Business File
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Materials Business File focuses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries. Citations for this database are pulled from 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books indexed by expert editors from Materials Information. Begun in 1985, Materials Business File is the database equivalent of the bulletins Steels Alert, Polymers/Ceramics/Composites Alert and Nonferrous Metals Alert. Together they cover new technologies, new materials and other industry developments reported in the press. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
Mergent Online
Business and financial information for investment research. Includes or has links to full text.

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NewsBank Newspapers
Online full-text newspapers, including 17 Ohio newspapers. Includes or has links to full text.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source contains selected full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, nine newspaper columns, and cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for four national newspapers.

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Reference USA
Directory of over 11 million entries for U.S. businesses and professionals.
RefWorks
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. To sign up for a RefWorks account, point your browser to https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/newuser.asp and view the quick start guide.
Regional Business News
A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world. Includes or has links to full text.

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Safari Tech Books Online
Electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related fields.
SimplyMap
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data. SimplyMap turns complex data into valuable information that is easily accessed through an innovative and user-friendly interface.
Standard and Poor's Net Advantage
STAT-USA
Economic, business, and international trade information from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Includes or has links to full text.

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Thomas Register
Thomas Register is a comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America.

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ValueLine
Vente et Gestion
Vente et Gestion provides full text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and the professional researcher. This collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others.
Vocational and Career Collection
Index, abstracts, and full text for 350 trade and industry related periodicals. Includes or has links to full text.