Self Guided Tutorial & Personal Finance Simulation
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Tutorial: "Finding Business Information"An exciting, self-guided, tutorial that introduces many useful business databases, reviews the pro's & con's of each and includes a highlight of database special features.
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Personal Finance LabA personal finance simulation where you’ll learn to build a monthly budget, manage your cash flow, save each month, and much more.
Key Resources
Locate articles, company information, and more using the library's specialized research databases. Frequently used databases are listed below:
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Business Source CompleteIndexing for 2,300 periodicals covering a full range of business topics; includes peer reviewed plus trade and industry publications. Full text for 1,350+ peer reviewed journals. Industry and company reports from MarketLine and Datamonitor
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FactivaFull text access to the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and hundreds of other international business news publications.
For quick searching within the WSJ, use sc=j as a search term. Example: sc=j and starbucks. Jointly funded by the University Libraries and the D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis)New version of Lexis Nexis Academic. Full text source of news, business and company information and legal information.
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StatistaData on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources categorized into 21 market sectors. Statista provides access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets
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S&P NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's)Includes Industry Surveys, Company Profiles, Mutual Funds, and S&P 500, 400, and 600.
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Mergent OnlineFinancial information for publicly traded companies. Create custom peer analysis reports and more.
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MarketLine AdvantageProvides company, industry, country and financial data. Includes company SWOTs, industry profiles, case studies. Now includes city profiles as well.
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D&B Key Business RatiosCalculate business ratios that identify key relationships between financial data. 14 key business ratios cover all critical areas of business performance, broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles.
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EconLit (EBSCOhost)Econlit, from the American Economics Association is a good source for researching the socioeconomic dimensions of business. It includes books, dissertations and working papers as well as journal articles.
Scholar OneSearch
Cast a wide net! Search for books, articles, videos, and more:
Looking for Hoover's Company Records?
See the Quick Guide to
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Finding Hoover's Company Reports in Nexis UniThere are company reports from many sources is Nexis Uni. This guide will show you how to limit to those from Hoover's. PDF
Publishing
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Cabell's DirectoriesHelpful for those wanting to publish articles in business journals. Business directories funded by the D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
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Choosing a Publishing VenueA guide for researchers looking for places to publish their work
Your Librarian
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Contact:
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Bloomberg Terminals
Bloomberg terminals are located on the 2nd floor of the library. Get Started guides are available through Bloomberg University help: press <BU><GO>. Live chat help can be accessed by pressing the <HELP> key twice.
Bloomberg terminals are provided courtesy of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business. Current NU only.
Case Studies
Harvard Business case studies are not available through the library due to copyright restrictions.
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Harvard Business for EducatorsView access options available to educators.
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Ivey Case Studies: NortheasternRegistration required. For case studies where Northeastern University has retained copyright, faculty may request free access for their classes.
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Emerald Emerging Markets Case StudiesFaculty can request teaching notes. Please contact me for more information.
Help Guides
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Finding and Creating PermalinksNote: you may NOT create or share permalinks to HBR articles per Harvard Business Review Use Policy.