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ABI/INFORM Global
Articles in business, finance, management, accounting, advertising, banking, insurance, marketing, public administration, real estate, and telecommunications. 1991-current (fulltext); 1971-current (index & abstracts).
Also Known As
- ProQuest ABI/Inform Global
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Indexes over 2700 business publications. Subject coverage includes:
- advertising and sales management
- banking
- business and management, including accounting and auditing economics
- electronic data processing systems and information science
- engineering management
- finance and financial management
- health care
- insurance
- law and taxation
- management science
- marketing
- personnel, employee benefits, and labor relations
- public administration and government
- real estate
- telecommunications
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Audit Analytics

==> PLEASE NOTE: Audit Analytics requires that you obtain a password to log in. Please email Tom Hardy at thardy@ivesinc.com using your UConn email account to get a password. <==

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Access detailed audit information on over 1,500 accounting firms and 20,000 publicly registered companies. Know who is auditing whom and how much they are paying for what services. Create reports by auditor, fees, location, industry and more. Data is available on the Audit Analytics website and on the WRDS website. To request a password to the Audit Analytics website, please email Tom Hardy at thardy@ivesinc.com using your UConn email account. To request a password for WRDS, go to WRDS Account Request https://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/request.shtml
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Best's Insurance Reports - Property/Casualty

Electronic version of "Best's Insurance Reports" containing the Property/Casualty and the Retired Companies databases. 2006.
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Provides vital information that enable insurance professionals to analyze and review the financial strength and health of insurers. A.M. Best utilizes a broad range of financial measures to evaluate the quantitative financial performance of an insurance company. The data contained in the CD-Rom offers information derived from both quantitative and qualitative evaluation tests. The software enables you to view, print, search, and export data and reports for any companies you select.
Business & Company Resource Center
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Includes detailed company and industry news and information. 1980-current.
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Includes:
- Company profiles, including corporate parent/sibling relationships
- Industry ranking
- Products and brands
- Stock prices
- Investment reports
- Industry statistics
- Corporate chronologies and histories
- Consumer marketing data
- Emerging technology reports
- Industry newsletter news and analysis
- Business journal news and analysis
- Press releases
- Global coverage
- Investext (ASCII) reports
- Comprehensive financial overviews
- Twenty minute delayed stock quotes
- Company performance ratings
- Current investment ratings
- First Call Consensus Estimates
- CDA/Investnet Insider Buying & Selling Activity
- CDA/Spectrum Major Shareholders
- Pricing Momentum Short Interest Share and Ratios Key Measures
- Balance sheets and income statements
- Financial ratios
- Coverage of major business events and trends back to 1980
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China Data Online Service
Economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories. Includes monthly and yearly reports on macroeconomic development, statistical databases on population and economy at the county and city level, and financial indicators. current.
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Inlcudes the following databases:
- China Yearly Macro-economy Statistics
- China Monthly Macro-economy Statistics
- Monthly Reports on Economy Development
- China City Statistics
- China County Statistics
- China Industrial Data
D&B Key Business Ratios
Financial statements of U.S. corporations, partnerships, and proprietorships. 14 ratios include solvency, efficiency, and profitability. Calculate key business ratios that identify key relationships between financial data.
Also Known As
- Dun & Bradstreet's Key Business Ratios
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Can export data to a .csv file for easy manipulation in Microsoft Excel.
Business ratios are broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles.
Ratios are arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes -- a four-digit number that classifies business establishments by defining the industries in which they do business.
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EconLit through EbscoHOST
Indexes the international literature on economics. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more. 1969-current.
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Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics. The database covers the international literature on economics since 1969 and provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, of journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings, collected essay volumes and full text book reviews. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more. Subjects:
- Business
- Economics
- Finance
- Industry
- Statistics
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Europa World
Provides economic, political and geographic information and statistical data by country. Includes over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. current.
Also Known As
- Europa World Yearbook
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Includes thousands of directory contact details for over 1,900 international organizations. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information.
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Factiva
Global news and business information articles. Includes Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Current.
Also Known As
- Dow Jones Factiva
Please LOG OUT when done. Works best with Internet Explorer.
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Full-text global news and business information service, combining the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.
Several journal titles are not included in UConn's subscription.
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Global Development Finance (GDF)

GDF Online provides financial data on 136 developing countries for indicators including long-term debt, public and publicly guaranteed debt, private nonguaranteed debt, official creditors, and private creditors. From the World Bank. 1970-future projections.
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Global Insight
Economic, financial, and political coverage of countries, regions, and industries. Covers over 200 countries and spans over 170 industries. Includes REFI. 1946-current.

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Some material may be downloaded in Excel format. Data consist of national-level information, taken from over one hundred U.S. government and private publications. DRI Basic Economics data is collected from over 100 sources in the government, institutional, and private sectors of the economy with series dating back to 1947. Subjects include:
- Financial Data: Money Supply, Interest Rates, Stocks
- Construction & Housing
- Industrial Statistics: Production, Capacity, Labour
- Population Counts and Estimates
- Forecasts
- Foreign Trade and Interest Rates Includes "REFI", which offers detailed coverage of regional and industrial segments of the US economy.
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Global Market Information Database (GMID)
Provides comparable statistics for 205 countries on economic indicators, health, foreign trade, environment, lifestyle, industrial and agriculture output, communications and more. Also includes market size data for over 300 consumer products and services. Varies.
Also Known As
- World Marketing Data and Statistics
- WOMDAS
- Euromonitor
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It covers demographic trends, economic indicators, finance, foreign trade, health, labor force, industrial and agricultural production, environmental data, consumer expenditure patterns, retail sales, advertising and media patterns, consumer prices, household patterns, literacy rates, telecommunications, automotive and transport figures, travel and tourism, income and earnings potential. It also includes market size data for over 300 consumer products and services.
Please note that our subscription only covers statistics not the qualitative analysis.
Formerly known as: WOMDAS (World Marketing Data and Statistics)
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Hoover's Company Capsules & Profiles

Brief information on 15,000 public and private companies. Information includes summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Current.
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Find brief information on 15,000 companies covered by Hoovers. Company Capsules and Profiles deliver information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Use the title or company field to search company names.
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International Financial Statistics

Data for over 200 countries. Includes exchange rates, commodity prices, consumer prices, and other financial data. current; many data files are from 1945 to current.
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From the publisher:
32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables.
The Country, World, and Commodity Prices Tables, as presented in the monthly printed copy of IFS, are available as selection options. The Economic Concept View provides a cross-country view of the concepts in the IFS by individual or groups of countries.
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Investext Plus

Full-text reports on companies, industries and global markets prepared by expert analysts at world’s top brokerage firms, investment banks, research firms and trade associations. They include relevant data, charts, graphs, and analysis. current.
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Research reports are global in coverage and become available as soon as their release terms allow. Historical research reports are available back to 1982. To find these reports, enter a company’s name or ticker and click on Research folder in the Company Analysis tab. Use the Screening and Targeting Tab/Research to search by additional criteria such as SIC & NAICS codes, contributor’s name, and report type, and date.
Use the Screening and Targeting Tab/Research to search by additional criteria such as SIC & NAICS codes, contributor’s name, and report type, and date.

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LexisNexis Business
Company financial reports; company profiles; SEC filings & reports; corporate directories; business articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires & transcripts; industry reports.
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See also LexisNexis News and LexisNexis Legal
Coverage includes
Business News
- Business News -- Business articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires & transcripts
- Industry & Market -- News from over 25 industries
Accounting Literature
- Accounting -- Accounting journals & literature
Company Information
- Company Financial Reports -- Detailed financial data about companies
- Company Profiles -- Company information including executives, revenue and competitors
- Compare Companies -- Find companies based on a variety of criteria
- SEC Filings & Reports -- EDGAR filings, annual & quarterly reports & proxy statements
Business Resources
- Directories -- Contact and resource information for companies and industries
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LexisNexis News
National and international newspapers, news transcripts from TV and radio, and company financial reports. 1980s-current.
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Includes national and international newspapers, popular and general-interest magazines, economics and trade journals, company financial reports, and the 'Public Opinion Online' database, produced by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. See also LexisNexis Legal and LexisNexis Business Publication groups within LexisNexis News include:
- Today's news
- U.S. and International news
- News transcripts from television and radio
- Arts & sports information
- Campus newspapers
- Business news
- Company financial information
- SEC filings
- Industry & market news and reports
- Patents
- Biographical information from Marquis Who's Who
- Country profiles
- Polls & surveys
- Quotations
- World Almanac
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Mediamark Reporter

Reports document product usage and purchasing habits of consumers for food, real estate, and hundreds of consumer products by brand and/or manufacturer based on survey data. Current.
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Provides information to magazines, television, radio, Internet and other media, leading national advertisers and over 450 advertising agencies - including 90 of the top 100 in the United States. Mediamark conducts more than 26,000 personal interviews with consumers annually throughout the continental United States to produce syndicated reports and data for electronic access.
Mergent Online
Business & financial data about U.S. and international public companies. Includes: company data and annual reports. Most recent 15 years.
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Download data to Excel, Word, or as pdf. Includes:
- U.S. company data
- U.S. company archives
- U.S. annual reports
- International company data
- International company archives
- International annual reports
- Factsheets Plus
- Factsheets Express
- Institutional Holdings
- Insider trades
- Expanded long-term debt
- Equity portraits
- Corporate bond portraits
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- Export company reports and financials into software applications such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Execute accurate cross-border searches using a variety of financial and text variables
- Compare multiple companies' reports
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Mintel reports

Product and industry market research reports covering US and International marketplaces.

Must agree to "CONDITIONS OF USE" prior to searching. Free registration required to search database; must use uconn.edu email address: firstname.lastname@uconn.edu
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Mintel Reports offers product and industry market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, supply chain, market-share size and trends, and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports may be downloaded as RTF (rich-text format) files; tabular data may also be saved as CSV (comma-separated values) files. Please note that Mintel requires users to create a personal profile before using this database
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NBER Working Papers

Working papers published by National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) researchers, intended for other professional economists. 11/1994-current.
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New York Times Historical

Full-image archive of The New York Times. Includes the full-text of everything published in the newspaper. 1851 to 2 years ago.
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Includes articles, editorials and commentary, display and classified ads, obituaries, birth & death annoucements, cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc. Also shows the entire page display of the newspaper, so you can see where articles, advertisements, and photos appear on the page. Articles are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat. You may download the reader here.
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Newspapers through ProQuest
Full text of: the Hartford Courant, 1992 -;
Also Known As
- iConn Newsstand
- Hartford Courant
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RIA Checkpoint (Full Access)
IMPORTANT NOTE: First time users must register here
Also Known As
- Thomson RIA (Full Access)
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First time users must register here
UConn students, faculty and staff can use this link to get access to all content avialable on RIA Checkpoint. To use RIA Checkpoint without logging, but without access to the entire database, in click <a href="http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1591>here
RIA Checkpoint is a database for accounting and tax research. It includes tax cases, codes and regulations, IRC publications and other tax documents and federal rulings and internal revenue bulletins. It also includes accounting standards and regulations from AICPA, FASB, GASB, IASB, PCAOB and the SEC reference library.
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes over 1,700 journals in the social sciences. Some full-text available. 1994-present.
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Subjects include:
- Anthropology
- History
- Information Science & Library Science
- Law
- Linguistics
- Philosophy
- Political Science & Industrial Relations
- Psychiatry & Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Work & Sociology
- Substance Abuse
- Urban Studies
- Women's Studies
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Social Sciences Citation Index (1987-1999)

Indexes scholarly articles published published in 1400 social science journals. 1987-1999.
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For access to the current (1994-present) Social Science Citation Index files, use Web of Science.
SourceOECD
Coverage includes: agriculture & food; economic outlook; education; health; science & technology, and much more. NOTES: UConn has access to the OECD statistical databases ONLY. 1960-current.
Also Known As
- OECD Statistics
Works best with Internet Explorer on Windows.
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The Statistical Database Sets available from SourceOECD include:
- Agriculture & Food
- Bank Profitability
- Economic Outlook
- Education at a Glance
- Employment
- Globalization
- Health
- Indicators for Industry and Services
- Industrial Structure
- Institutional Investors
- Insurance
- International Development
- International Migration
- International Trade and Competitiveness
- International Direct Investment
- ITCS International Trade by Commodities
- Main Economic Indicators
- Monthly International Trade
- National Accounts
- Revenue
- Science and Technology
- Services
- Social Expenditure
- STAN Industry Structural Analysis
- Taxing Wages
- Telecommunications
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SRDS (Standard Rate and Data Service)
Media rates and data for the advertising industry. Includes print and online media sources. current.
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Media rates and data for the advertising industry, listing advertising rates, editorial or programming content, circulation and other basic information for a variety of advertising media, including radio, television, newspapers, and consumer magazines. Includes print and online media. Includes:
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Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

Financial information for thousands of US and global companies. Also includes Industry Surveys, Bond Reports, Stock Reports, Directory of Corporations, Register of Executives and more. current.
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TableBase

Data from tables published in magazines, brokerage, and government reports. Covers market share, market size, capacity, production, imports and exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics, and demographics. 1997-present.
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Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade association reports, and governmental reports. The contents of the table is indexed - not the text that may accompany the table. Categories include about 100 industry terms; marketing terms, such as "loyalty" and "brand equity;" concept terms; SIC and geographic regions.
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Thomson ONE Banker

Offers current & historical financials, filings, earning estimates, real-time market data and stock quotes, ownership profiles, deals data and more for U.S. and International companies. An Excel Add-in facilitates the downloading and analysis of data

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Data is drawn from multiple sources, including Thomson Financial, Datastream, Extel, I/B/E/S, First Call, SDC, Worldscope, and Disclosure with advanced filtering and screening capabilities. An Excel Add-in facilitates the downloading and analysis of data. This Excel Add-in feature allows leveraging pre-formatted templates and a large range of individual data elements to quickly create download data, create models, and analyze companies, portfolios and markets. Also included are analyst reports on companies and industries as well as the annual statistical reports of many industry trade associations. To access these research reports, search by company’s name or ticker and click on Research folder in the Company Analysis tab. Use the Screening and Targeting Tab/Research to search by additional criteria such as SIC & NAICS codes, contributor’s name, report type, and date.
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Thomson Research

Filings, quotes, investment research, and earnings estimates for U.S. and global companies.

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May require a plugin to access older materials.
Formerly known as Global Access.
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Value Line Investment Survey

Weekly reports on 1,700 stocks, projections of key financial measures, and commentary on current operations and future prospects. current.
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Vanderbilt University Television News Archive
Largest repository of television news in the world: over 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and over 9,000 hours of special news-related programming. 1968 to present (NBC), 1995 to present (CNN); view online without charge.
Also Known As
- Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University)
RealPlayer required
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Updated weekly. 900,000 abstracts of evening news broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CBS (August 1968 to present); daily news programs from CNN (1995 to present), FOX News (2004 to present) and ABC Nightline (12 September 1988 to present); and a selection of special programs, including coverage of elections, political conventions, events related to September 11, 2001, and more.
These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.
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World Development Indicators (WDI)

Provides statistics on the economies of over 200 developing countries, including time series data on agriculture, manufacturing, health indicators, education, natural resources, and foreign investment. From the World Bank World Development Indicators. 1960s-current.
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WRDS
Data management service. From the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Also Known As
- Audit Analytics (via WRDS)
- COMPUSTAT
- CRSP
- Global Insight (via WRDS)
- First Call
- I/B/E/S
Click on [account request] and complete the online form.
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WRDS Includes:
- Audit Analytics
- COMPUSTAT
  300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 24,000 publicly held companies. include Industrial, Full Coverage, Research; Prices, Dividends & Earnings; Segments; Bank; Canadian; Global Vantage. Bank Annual and Bank Quarterly Files plus Back Data Segments.
- CRSP
  The most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX, and Nasdaq stock markets.
- Global Insight
  Provides comprehensive economic coverage of countries, regions and industries. Their collection of U.S. and international financial, economic and industry data covers over 120 industries and 200 countries. Basic Economics, IMF, and International data are available in annual, monthly and quarterly time series. Market indices are available in a daily time series.
- I/B/E/S
  The Institutional Brokers Estimates System (IBES) provides consensus and detail forecasts from security analysts, including earnings per share, revenue, cash flow, long-term growth projections and stock recommendations.
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