EMERALD INSIGHT

Emerald is a global publisher providing you with the highest quality, peer-reviewed research. With over 40 years’ experience, Emerald manages a portfolio of over 290 journals.

Featuring journals that are indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Scopus, content is selected for original contribution to the subject field, as well as practical relevance to policy making and future inquiry.

The Emerald Books portfolio now includes well over 2,000 titles, with a further 160 new titles due to publish this year. Our respected international author and editor base, genuine global appeal and usage of both print and ebooks have contributed to Emerald’s growing reputation as a major scholarly book publisher.
Our books address and explore some of the world’s most topical issues, from the global financial crisis to social media, from sustainability to virtual learning, ensuring our research continues to have impact and relevancy for students, researchers, practitioners, businesses, government departments and institutions worldwide.


Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS) is an online collection of peer-reviewed case studies focusing on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets.
Cases are written by case writers working in or closely with developing economies, offering local perspectives with global appeal.
EEMCS was developed in 2011 in response to increasing demand from business educators and practitioners for quality-controlled teaching cases focusing on global emerging markets. The collection receives regular content updates throughout the year and all cases benefit from a supportive peer-review process to ensure the highest quality content.

LINK: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/

JCR (JOURNAL CITATION REPORT)

Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Available in Science and Social Sciences editions.

OECD ILIBRARY

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books,  papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It  replaced SourceOECD in July 2010.

OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).

OECD iLibrary presents all content so users can find - and cite - tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters in any available format: PDF, WEB, XLS, DATA, ePUB, READ. 

LINK: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/ 

MERGENT DATA MANAGEMENT (A LEADING PROVIDER OF BUSINESS + FINANCIAL DATA)

Mergent’s Data Management Solutions offers an end-to-end data collection service including: 

• Analysis of data quality
• Analysis of company wide data coverage and current consistency
• Collection of prospective client’s current data points.
• Complete data collection
• Database design
• Data delivery
• Product delivery

Mergent can provide a solution for the most economic and efficient way to collection data and qualitative coverage. Our proprietary software allows for a collection system to be set up without programming in minimal time and allows for high quality collection in a highly effective manner.  An integrated API that allows for delivery data back to the clients in any format they require.

If the client desires a database, design can be provided as well as scripts to load the data.   Our Fort Mill data center can house the data for the client or a cloud solution can be provided as well.  As a true research and validation group we provide solutions that save our clients time, money and reduces processing errors.

As a industry specialist, we understand the importance of technical support and effective operational processes.

DEALSCAN

DealScan is the world's number one source for comprehensive, reliable historical deal information on the global loan markets. A simple and intuitive web-based service gives you access to Thomson Reuters LPC's complete terms and conditions database, covering hundreds of thousands of loan and bond transactions from around the world.

With DealScan it's easy to set parameters and search for deals, then generate reports for further analysis – whether you need detailed deal profiles, market overviews or industry studies.

JSTOR (JOURNAL STORAGE)

JSTOR (pronounced jay-stor; short for Journal Storage) is a digital library founded in 1995. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now also includes books and primary sources, and current issues of journals. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. More than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries have access to JSTOR; most access is by subscription, but some older public domain content is freely available to anyone, and in 2012 JSTOR launched a program providing limited no-cost access to old articles for individual scholars and researchers who register.

EUROSTAT

Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg. Its main responsibilities are to provide statistical information to the institutions of the European Union (EU) and to promote the harmonisation of statistical methods across its member statesand candidates for accession as well as EFTA countries. The organisations in the different countries which actively cooperate with Eurostat are summarised under the concept of the European Statistical System.

ORBIS

Orbis contains comprehensive information on companies worldwide, with an emphasis on private company information. Use it to:

• research individual companies
• search for companies by profile
• analyse companies.

Orbis contains information on both listed and unlisted companies. Listed companies are in a more detailed format. Orbis has information on over 100 million private companies. Orbis includes:

• Company financials in a standardised format 
• Financial strength indicators
• Ratings 
• Options to create your own ratios and bring in your own data fields
• Directors and contacts
• Original filings/images
• Stock data
• Private equity data and portfolios
• Patents
• Detailed corporate and ownership structures
• Industry research
• Business and company-related news
• M&A deals and rumours

You can also access the Orbis database via our recently enhanced "end-user interface", on Mint Global. Mint products are designed for end users and desktop access with streamlined options.

REFWORKS

RefWorks has created language-specific sites to assist our end-users around the world with localized support and training documentation. The sites provide a variety of material developed by RefWorks as well as by subscribing organizations who have graciously agreed to share their resources. The types of materials found on these sites will vary to include such items as Quick Start Guides, tutorials, help documentation and our webinar schedule. Our International sites helps you get the most out of RefWorks.

CONNECT 4

CONNECT4 - ASX LISTED COMPANY INTELLIGENCE

Track and analyse takeovers and mergers, capital raisings, auditing and accounting practices, corporate governance and compliance

Get access to information on companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Connect 4 databases and analysis will help you understand the activities of publicly listed companies, give you the business intelligence and industry knowledge that you need to get deals over the line, provide better advice and services, and conduct successful litigation.

The Connect4 suite is designed for professionals in the legal, accounting and financial services industries and supports the needs of CEOs and CFOs making acquisition, investment and market intelligence decisions.

Connect 4 categorises and extracts key information, then presents it in a format you can understand, enabling you to spend more time providing real solutions to your clients and making fully informed business decisions.

• Access to the various Connect 4 databases gives you the tools to:
• Monitor and stay on top of market trends and activity
• Source a massive collection of full text documents as examples of how best to structure deals and draft documents
• Track competitors and their clients
• Benchmark services and price thresholds against competitors
• Identify and research acquisition targets.

DATASTREAM

Datastream offers access to an unrivaled set of historical financial content. The depth and breadth of data that you can analyze is truly remarkable. Access up to 50 years of history, millions of global instruments and indicators and coverage for 175 countries in 60 global markets.

With Datastream's vast reserves of historical financial content, you can research the correlations and relationships between global economic indicators and asset classes. The power of Datastream is available in the way that works best for you: as a powerful desktop application, through a web browser and lightweight, on-demand plug-in or a datafeed for integration into your own systems.

OSIRIS

Osiris is a comprehensive database of listed companies, banks and insurance companies around the world. It contains specific report formats for companies, banks and insurance companies and also has reports that reflect accounting procedures in the major world regions. Both standardised and "as reported" financials are provided.

Provides income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and ratios.

Includes news, ownership, subsidiaries, ratings, earnings estimates, stock data, additional industry codes (Dow Jones Global Indexes), and access to regulatory filings for U.S. companies. This database is produced by Bureau van Dijk.

AMADEUS

A database of comparable financial information for public and private companies across Europe.

Amadeus contains comprehensive information on around 19 million companies across Europe. You can use it to research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles and for analysis. Amadeus now has a new front end that makes it even easier and faster to use.

What information does Amadeus contain?

• Company information for both Western and Eastern Europe, with a focus on private company information
• Company financials in a standard format so you can compare companies across borders
• Financial strength indicators
• Directors
• Images of report and accounts for listed companies
• Stock prices for listed companies
• Detailed corporate structures
• Market research
• Business and company-related news
• M&A deals and rumours
• Maps

Amadeus is easy to use and helps you navigate company information quickly and easily.

META CRAWLER

MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search),Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. MetaCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, video, news, yellow pages and white pages. MetaCrawler hit its stride in the late 90's when the verb "metacrawled" was used by talk show host Conan O'Brien on TRL. It used to provide the option to search for audio. MetaCrawler is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc.

IBSS (INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES)

The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.

Subject Coverage
Major areas of coverage include:

• Anthropology
• Politics
• Sociology
• Economics
• Area studies
• Development studies
• Gender and sexuality
• Human geography and environment
• Business and management
• Policy studies
• Health
• Education
• International relations
• Media and communication
• Psychology
• History
• Law
• Philosophy

TAYLOR AND FRANCIS ONLINE

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom that publishes books and academic journals. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company.

The company was founded in 1852 when William Francis joined Richard Taylor in his publishing business. Taylor initially founded his company in 1798. Their subjects covered include agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences.

Taylor & Francis merged with Informa in 2004 to create a new company called T&F Informa, since renamed back to Informa. Taylor & Francis Group is now the academic publishing arm of Informa.

Taylor & Francis publishes more than 1,000 journals, and over 1,800 new books each year, with a backlist of over 20,000 titles. The group has at least nine offices, in the United Kingdom, New York, Boca Raton, Philadelphia, Singapore, Sydney, and India. The journals and e-books have been delivered through the Taylor & Francis Online website since June 2011. Prior to that they were provided through the Informaworld website.

The old Taylor and Francis logo depicts a hand pouring oil into a lit lamp, along with the Latin phrase "alere flammam" (to feed the flame). The modern logo is a stylised oil lamp in a circle.

In 2013, the entire board of the Journal of Library Administration resigned in a dispute over author licensing agreements.

WEB OF KNOWLEDGE

Thomson Reuters Web of KnowledgeSM is a research platform that gives you access to objective content and powerful tools to search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. This intelligent research platform provides access to the world's leading citation databases, including powerful cited reference searching, the Analyze Tool, and over 100 years of comprehensive backfile and citation data.

With Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge, you choose the resources that you need - there's no need to subscribe to unnecessary or extraneous databases. Combine renowned multidisciplinary databases with content-specific selections and tools for analysis and measurement to create the Web of Knowledge that turns raw data into the powerful knowledge you need.

Citations symbolize the association of scientific ideas. Web of Knowledge uniquely indexes both cited and citing works - which enables the user to make explicit links between current research and prior scientific works.

• Use cited reference data to move both backward and forward in time to track and determine research influence.
• Use citation analysis to find influential authors who are publishing high-impact research in your field, discover important author and/or institutional research collaborations, determine where the most impactful research is being published.
• Analyze research from high-impact journalsin the Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities, and seamlessly link to full-text articles 

ECONLIT

The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes over 120 years of economics literature from around the world.  Compiled and abstracted in an easily searchable format,EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations.

EconLit has now added indexed records for journal articles from 1886-1968!

EconLit is available at libraries and on university Web sites throughout the world, licensed frominformation service providers, who provide search engines, links to libraries’ full-text subscriptions, and other enhancements to assist users in document retrieval. It is available as well to AEA members only through EconLit for Members.

NBER (NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH)

Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

Over the years the NBER's research agenda has encompassed a wide variety of issues that confront our society. Early research focused on the aggregate economy, examining in detail the business cycle and long-term economic growth. Simon Kuznets' pioneering work on national income accounting, Wesley Mitchell's influential study of the business cycle, and Milton Friedman's research on the demand for money and the determinants of consumer spending were among the early studies done at the NBER. 

SABI

Financial company information and business intelligence for companies in Spain and Portugal.

Sabi contains comprehensive information on companies in Spain and Portugal. You can use it to research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles and for analysis.

What information does Sabi contain?

• Company financials
• Brands (Spanish companies only)
• Financial strength indicators
• Directors and contacts
• Stock data for listed companies
• Original filings/images (Spanish companies only)
• Detailed corporate structures
• Market research
• Business and company-related news
• M&A deals and rumours
• Maps and cartographic analysis
• Audit Report (Spanish companies only)

SCIVERSE SCOPUS

Search millions of abstracts & index data with Scopus

Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with smart tools that track, analyze and visualize research. Easy to use and comprehensive, Scopus is designed to quickly find the information researchers need. Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help you focus on the outcome of your work. You can spend less time mastering databases and more time on research.

• Over 20,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide
• Contains 49 million records, 78% with abstracts
• Includes over 5.3 million conference papers
• Provides 100% Medline coverage
• Interoperability with ScienceDirect, Engineering Village and Reaxys, a unique chemistry workflow solution

BLOOMBERG

Bloomberg connects influential decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Our strength - quickly and accurately delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology - is at the core of everything we do. With over 15,000 employees in 192 locations, we deliver business and financial information, news and insight around the world.

LIRN

The Library and Information Resources Network, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation formed in 1996, is a consortium of educational institutions that have joined together to share access to information resources.

LIRN® members enjoy the benefits of group purchasing, a centrally managed authentication gateway, on and off campus access for their students, as well as hosted proxy services.

The LIRN® collection provides students with millions of peer-reviewed and full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, podcasts, audio, and video resources to support their academic studies from Gale Cengage, ProQuest, EBSCO, CREDO Reference, eLibrary, and more, covering topics for General Education, Business, and Medical programs.

IHS GLOBAL INSIGHT (COUNTRY INTELLIGENCE AND INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE)

IHS Global Insight Country Intelligence provides constantly updated analysis of the business conditions, economic prospects and risks in over 200 countries.

Whether you need to assess new market opportunities for foreign direct or portfolio investment, trade in securities and currencies, or monitor the risk landscape in country, regional, or global markets, we help you to:

• Monitor and understand developments as economic and political conditions change
• Assess growth and development potential for individual economies and regional markets
• Analyze relative risks among countries around the world

IHS Global Insight Industry Intelligence covers the world's industries with unparalleled
expertise, market perspectives, and global analysis. In addition to our thorough global industry analysis and detailed U.S. Industry coverage, IHS Global Insight has expertise in all major industries, with special emphasis and dedicated staff providing in-depth coverage for the following industries:

• Agriculture Markets Analysis and Forecasts
• Construction Market Analysis and Forecasts
• Consumer Goods and Retail
• Global Commerce and Transport
• Energy Industry Analysis Forecasts and Data
• Finance and Investments
• Healthcare and Pharma Industry Analysis
• IT and Telecom
• Steel Analysis and Forecasts

ABI/INFORM®

Launched more than 40 years ago, ABI/INFORM remains the gold standard when it comes to business research databases. Its massive content set—which includes important full-text journals and much sought-after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports—will help today's researchers resolve tomorrow's problems.

Combining the foremost business journals and the leading sources of online business news with exclusive, international and scholarly content, ABI/INFORM delivers a remarkable variety of content results to meet the needs of researchers at all levels:

• Top Journals and Periodicals—MIT Sloan Management Review, American Economic Review, Accounting Review, Management Decision, Journal of International Business Studies, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Management and Organization, Journal of Business Ethics, and more

• Major Publishers—Cambridge University Press, Emerald Group Publishing, Springer Science & Business Media, Palgrave Macmillan, American Economic Association, and more

• Business periodicals normally behind paywalls—The Economist, Wall Street Journal*, Financial Times, and more

• Market, industry, and economic data and reports—reports from Business Monitor International, Economist Intelligence Unit, ISI Emerging Markets, First Research, Oxford Economic Forecasting, Oxford Analytica, and more
• Working Papers—over 100,000 working papers from SSRN, OECD, federal reserve banks, and more
• Country Reports—over 190,000 reports from EIU ViewsWire, Oxford Analytica Country Profiles, and more
• Dissertations—over 30,000 full-text doctoral dissertations from over 1,000 colleges and universities, with new dissertations added quarterly
• Business Cases—thousands of business case documents from Ivey, Thunderbird, Darden, and more

Several editions of ABI/INFORM are available on our, award-winning platform, allowing cross searching with other ProQuest business resources as well as creation of RSS feeds, content alerts, Smart Search, article Linking, and much more.

ABI/INFORM Complete—This is the version with everything: more than 6,500 publications, almost 4,000 of which are available in ongoing full text. It includes all content found in ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Research, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Archive.

ABI/INFORM Global—This version contains the core scholarly content, including: approximately 3,500 journals and tens of thousands of dissertations, conference proceedings, and working papers.

ABI/INFORM Dateline—This version contains regional news titles such as McClatchy business news, Expansion, and Cinco Dias.

ABI/INFORM Research—This is the smallest of the ABI/INFORM offerings and offers a mix of full-text and A&I publications.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry