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The core databases for this discipline are ABI-Inform, Business SourcePremier and Econlit.
For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

Web Sites

The core databases for this discipline are ABI-Inform, Business SourcePremier and Econlit.
For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

• AnnualReports.com
  

  Free annual reports.

• BEA – State Bearfacts
  

  Quick economic and demographic data for states, from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

• BigCharts
  

  “Stock Charts, Screeners, Interactive Charting and Research Tools”

• Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
  
• Business.Gov
  
• CensusScope
  

  CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan.

• County and City Data Books
  

  This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000).

• Deposit Rates Exchange
  

  “Compare Interest Rates for Fixed, Term, Time and CD Deposits Worldwide”

• Doing Business – The World Bank Group
  

  Reliable full text free reports by international analysts, from the World Bank.

• Dow Jones Global Index Analysis
  

  Dow Jones Global Index Analysis provides brief performance analyses for ten market sectors and six regions. The analyses are based on 50 DJ indexes.

• Dow Jones Indexes
  

  Dow Jones Indexes develops, maintains and licenses market indexes for investment products, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the leading pan-European indexes, the Dow Jones STOXX Indexes.

• Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
  
• Economic Policy Institute
  

  Nonpartisan think tank, focusing on needs of the American worker.

• Entrepreneur’s Reference Guide to Small Business Information
  

  Through the Library of Congress

• EUROPA – Economic and monetary affairs
  

  From the European Union. Access to official European Union policy and statistics.

• European Union Internet Resources – Berkeley Library
  
• Everything International
  

  Global business and country resources.

• FAOSTAT
  

  “time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries. “

• FBI Records – The Vault
  

  The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office.

• FedStats
  

  Gateway to statistics from over 100 Federal agencies

• Freedom in the 50 States
  

  “This study comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.” From the George Mason MERCATUS Center

• Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
  
• HRC – Corporate Equality Index
  
• IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research
  

  From the Univ. of Connecticut Dept. of Economics, IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics available on the Internet. Provides access to many full text research items.

• ILO Department of Statistics
  

  International labor statistics from the International Labour Organisation, with links to statistical tables, free publications and more.

• IMF – International Monetary Fund
  

  The IMF is an organization of 184 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.

• Index. NYCdata
  

  Through the Weissman Center for International Business, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College/CUNY.

• Industry Snapshots from the Economic Census
  
• IPL — Business and Economics
  

  List of recommended links on business from a reputable virtual library. Links are organized by business subcategories.

• ITC – International Trade Center
  
• LABORSTA Internet
  

  International Labor statistics of all kinds, from the International Labour Office.

• Latest News from Business Wire
  

  Breaking News, Press Release, PR, Public Relations, IR, Investor Relations, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings.

• Latin American Business History – Resources and Research
  
• MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format
  

  Surveys and polls related to marketing and advertising. Useful entry points are the Most Popular Recent Charts/Stories, Major Media Categories and Article Topics, all on the right hand side of the page.

• MetroTrends | Urban Institute’s report card on social and economic trends in urban America
  
• NLRB : National Labor Relations Board
  

  The National Labor Relations Board, an independent federal agency, administers the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector.

• OECD Statistics Portal
  

  Economic data collected for all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development members, as well as annual reports, best practices, newsletters, projections, working documents and more.

• Pop History Dig
  

  “A collection of short stories about popular culture – its history, its people, and its power.”

• Regional Economic Conditions RECON
  

  40,000+ charts, maps and tables of data at the state, MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) and county level economic data.

• Rutgers Accounting Web
  

  “Since 1994, Rutgers Accounting Web has been the center of accounting research. ” Find lectures, digital resources and more.

• SEC – EDGAR
  

  From the Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR provides access to company filings for publicly held foreign and domestic companies.

• Statistics for Specific Industries | SBA.gov
  
• ThomasNet
  

  Industrial Product/Service Search.

• U.S. Census Bureau – Subjects A-Z
  

  Browse Census topics for business and labor, minority business and more.

• United Nations Statistics Division
  

  Access Social and Demographic statistics, and the Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)

• VOX
  

  “VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites. Vox aims to promote research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading scholars. The intended audience is economists in governments, international organisations, academia and the private sector as well as journalists specializing in economics, finance and business.”

• Wage Determinations OnLine
  
• Wirtz Labor Digital Library
  

  The Wirtz Labor Digital Library contains materials representative of the physical holdings at the Wirtz Labor Library, U.S. Department of Labor.

• Working Women, 1800-1930
  

  “Women Working is a digital exploration of women’s impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented in this online research collection from Harvard University.

  The collection features approximately 650,000 digitized pages and nearly 1,500 images images, including:

  3,000 pages of manuscripts and personal papers, and 7,000 pages of institutional records;
  more than 3,100 individually cataloged books, magazines, and trade catalogs; and
  well over 1,400 photographs.”

• World Bank
  

  The World Bank provides technical and financial assistance to developing countries. This site provides information about individual countries, current World Bank projects, and topical issues related to the organization’s assistance, including sustainability.

• World Bank – Open Knowledge Repository
  
• World Bank eAtlas of Global Development
  

  The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organized indicators for over 200 countries, letting you visualize and compare progress on the most important development challenges facing our world. Most indicators cover several decades, so you can see, for example, how “life expectancy at birth” has improved from 1960 up through the latest year.

• Writing in College – A Short Guide to College Writing
  

  From the University of Chicago

• WWW Virtual Library Labour History
  

  The Labour History section of the WWW Virtual Library, part of the WWW VL History Network, maintained by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since October 1996.