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Recommended Databases

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Business & Economics Databases

ABI/INFORM Complete A comprehensive business database with over 3,200 journals covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. It consists of: ABI Global, ABI Archive, ABI Images, ABI Trade and Industry, Dateline, Business Dissertations, Hoovers, Oxford Research, Wall Street Journal, SnapShots North American, and EIU. Coverage: 1971 to date.
Business Source Premier Contains coverage for more than 2,300 journals covering a wide range of business topics. In addition, the databases includes access to company profiles, country reports, industry reports, market research reports and SWOT analyses.
EconLit Abstracts that link to scholarly journals, book chapters, and dissertations on topics like accounting, economics, finance, international economics, labor, population forecasting, etc. 1969 to present.
IBISWorld Limited to 30 downloads per session.  Covers about 680 U.S. industries written at the 5-digit level of NAICS. Each report contains key statistics, market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, performance and outlook. These reports are written by industry specialists. Each report is updated every 4 months.
MarketResearch.com Full-text service of market research reports on many topics. Includes more than 40,000 market intelligence publications from 350 publishers worldwide.
Mergent Online Summary company records and EDGAR files for over 11,000 U.S. public corporations and 17,000 non-US public companies.
Checkpoint Edge One-stop shopping for federal and California tax information. Tax News from WG&L tax journals; Federal Library Pension & Benefits Library; State & Local Tax Library (including State & Local Taxes Weekly Alert); International Tax Library; Payroll Library; WG&L Financial Reporting and Management Library and Archives Allows up to 35 simultaneous users.

Statistical & Data Analysis

Statista Reports that provide an aggregate of a variety of data, mainly statistics. Search for data by industry, political issue, consumerism, companies or countries. The data reports provide sourcing information.
iPOLL U.S. sampling of registered voters on public opinions. Find aggregated question-level data and other survey data only at the national level.
Off-campus users may log in by clicking the Login button at the top right of the iPoll site.
To create an account, click Register and Select California State University, Long Beach from the Your Affiliation dropdown menu.
Use your CSULB email address, and then click Register.
Statistical Abstract of the United States A summary of statistics on the United States social, political, and economy. Majority of the data is over time. The data tables provide source information for further research.
International Financial Statistics Online Financial statistical since 1948 from more than 200 countries gathered the International Monetary Fund. Allows up to 5 simultaneous users.
TradeStats Express U.S. merchandise trade statistics at both national and state levels. Graphics, data tables, and thematic maps can be custom-tailored to user needs. Data on major geographic regions (e.g., Middle East) and trade regions (e.g., NAFTA) are pre-aggregated. Can tabulate national trade statistics using three major product classification systems (HS, NAICs, or SITC).

Social Science & Psychology

APA PsycINFO Contains abstracts and bibliographic citations for the contents of thousands of journals. Also includes references to dissertations, media, and books. Coverage: 1887 to present. Updated quarterly.
CQ Researcher Find in-depth coverage of current political events. Each issue provides a summary, the pros-cons, a chronology, and a lengthy bibliography to more sources. 1991 to present.
Opposing Viewpoints A collection of viewpoints from various sources on social issues, such as gun control, genetic engineering, censorship, abortion, endangered species, to name a few. Includes relevant articles, encyclopedia entries and opinions for each topic covered.
SocINDEX Full Text Abstracts and links to articles in anthropology, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, social work & many others. Articles back to 1940.
ScienceDirect Full text of Elsevier's journals, covering sciences, health, and social sciences since 1995 as well as indexing of other publisher's journals.
Social Services Abstracts Provides abstracts from 1,300+ journals and dissertations in fields of social work, human services, social welfare, social policy and community development. Has automatic citation builder. 1979 to present. Abstracts available January 1994 - current.
GenderWatch 40,000 full text articles from more than 100 international journals, books, magazines and newsletters, plus unpublished papers and conference proceedings and nearly 1,000 special reports devoted to gender and women's issues. Includes articles from the Ethnic NewsWatch database on ethnic and minority women and women of color. Coverage: 1978 to present.Allows up to 2 simultaneous users.

Industry & Market Insights

ReferenceUSA ReferenceUSA is a database providing access to information on over 25 million businesses and more than 262 million consumers. Business listings include such data as company names, phone numbers, complete addresses, key executive names, SIC Codes, employee size, sales volume, geo-codes for mapping, contact details, franchise and brand information, news, liens, judgments and bankruptcies, and credit rating scores.
Fitch Connect Covers up to 175 markets worldwide. It provides daily alerts and news stories, country risk ratings, economic analyses and forecasts. It also contains market research and forecast reports covering about 14 industries in 55 countries and a database of thousands of multinational companies.
Hospitality and Tourism Complete Scholarly articles and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism domestically and internationally. Covers 1960 - current.
CountryWatch In-depth reviews of 191 countries, including geographical, political, economic, corporate, and environmental information. Updated with wire service news.
Global Road Warrior Full-text country reports including information on society and culture, communications, travel, trade, business, money and banking, country data and maps.

General Academic Research

Academic Search Complete Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
JSTOR Archive of scholarly journals cover to cover. Interdisciplinary coverage of journals back to the first issue through to the last few years. Also includes over 2 million images originally from Artstor.
SAGE Premier Over 440 journals in social science, scientific, medical, professional and business disciplines.Coverage: 1999 to present.
Wiley Online Library Access to over 1400 online journals from publisher Wiley-Blackwell in the fields of science, technology, engineering, medicine, mathematics, computer science, business, education, environmental science, humanities, law, and psychology. Full page images are available in PDF format and, in some cases, full text in HTML format is also available.
Global Newsstream U.S. and international news sources. More than 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text format from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Updated daily.

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