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Contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology. Provides access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular reference sources. Provided by Credo.
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- Academic Search Premier
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Provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Provided by EBSCOhost.
- MasterFILE Premier
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Provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags. Provided by EBSCOhost.
- Business Source Premier
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Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Provided by EBSCOhost.
- Regional Business News
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Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.; incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Provided by EBSCOhost.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- The Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis reports of regional, national and international economic trends. Topics include: GDP (Gross Domestic Product) data, data by industry, balance of payments, imports and exports, foreign investment in the United States, state and local data, personal income, and more.
- Economic Report of the President
- "The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices." Archived reports from 1995; reports are searchable from 1996. Documents are available as ASCII text and PDF files.
- Economy at a Glance
- A summary page provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The page is a chart of principal economic indicators covering about a year. Includes links to more extensive data on each category going back over ten years. Data is provided for the United States, regions, individual states, and metropolitan areas, as well as industries.
- Federal Reserve Education
- This site provides links to instructional materials and tools that can increase your understanding of the Federal Reserve, economics and personal finance. There are links to other economic education sites, also.
- Federal Reserve System Beige Book
- "Commonly known as the Beige Book, this report is published eight times a year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key businessmen, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector." (site introduction) Archived back six years.
- Internet Sources for U.S. Corporate, Industrial, and Economic Information
- Limited to web sites that are free. It includes sections on many aspects of business and economics.
- NAICS: North American Industry Classification System
- "NAICS is a unique, all-new system for classifying business establishments. It is the first economic classification system to be constructed based on a single economic concept. Economic units that use like processes to produce goods or services are grouped together. This "production-oriented" system means that statistical agencies in the United States will produce data that can be used for measuring productivity, unit labor costs, and the capital intensity of production; constructing input-output relationships; and estimating employment-output relationships and other such statistics that require that inputs and outputs be used together."
- U. S. Economic Census
- This census is released every five years; the most current is 2002. It includes revenue for all lines of business within geographical areas.
- World Development Reports
- The annual World Development Reports, published by the World Bank, discuss issues on global economic development. Reports are archived back through 1992 and may be ordered. Each issue focuses on a specific topic such as labor, planned vs. market economies, changing governments, and the transition to the 21st century.