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Journal, Magazine, and News Articles:
The ABI group of databases is one of the oldest and best known in the field. The following links to the separate components of this article resource allow for more focused searching.
To search them all at once, choose ProQuest Direct .
ABI/Inform Archive on ProQuest via NCLive -- Full-text.
Full-text of 80 premier business titles, some dating back to the early 1900's.
ABI/Inform Dateline on ProQuest via NCLive -- Full-text.
Includes coverage of local and regional business news and other market reports.
ABI/Inform Global on ProQuest via NCLive -- Full-text.
Includes 1800 business titles and provides coverage of over 60,000 companies.
ABI/Inform Trade & Industry on ProQuest via NCLive -- Full-text.
The coverage is almost all full-text in this trade and industry database with its focus on marketing and competitive information.
Business Source Premier on Ebsco via NCLive -- Full-text.
Covers over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers in all areas of business. Also provides country economic reports, company profiles and analyses, and industry reports.
Directories and Company Information:
ReferenceUSA (American Business Directory) -- Full-text.
Business directory covering 12.5 million companies and 125 million residents. Provides access and lineage for nearly all of the companies in the US. Use the basic search to find a particular company, non-profit or other organization. Use the custom search to find all the companies in a geographic region such as county, city or state.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Financial, Accounting, and Investment Information:
Disclosure Business File on LEXIS-NEXIS-- Full-text.
Search LEXIS-NEXIS for financials and news articles on companies and business topics.
FASB Pronouncements -- Statements of Financial Accounting Standards
Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts
FASB Interpretations -- Full-text.
Kiplingers Business and Personal Finance viaNCLive -- Full-text.
Mergent (Moody's) Financial Records Online with Annual Reports
Financials for 31,000 companies with 74,000 annual reports. Domestic and international companies are included.
MorningStar Stocks and Mutual Funds Guide via NCLive -- Full-text
Valueline Investment Survey -- Full-text
Investment information on 1700 companies.
Investment Resources on the Web:
Historical Stock Quotes from BigCharts
International and Marketing Information:
NTDB - The National Trade Database -- Full-text.
Includes import/export data and foreign marketing possibilities.
EDIS - NC Economic Development Information Systems -- Full-text.
State, region, and county data for North Carolina.
OECD Economic Outlook -- Full-text.
STAT-USA - State of the Nation Database -- Full-text.
Includes current data on the economy.
Foreign Trade Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau
Business-Related Databases and Resources:
Wall Street Journal on NCLive -- Full-text.
Covers 1980 to current.
Computer Literature Database via Infotrac -- Full-text
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