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Acronyms/Abbreviations

Associations

Automobile Pricing

Balance of Payments

  • Europa World Year Book (Ref Desk JN 1 .E85)
  • International Financial Statistics Yearbook (Ref Desk HG3881 .I6268) 
  • Balance of Payments Statistics. Yearbook (Ref HG3882 .B34) 
  • World Development Indicators (Ref Desk  HC59.15 .W656) – Also available on CD format.
  • Central Bank Website - links to major world central banks. Central banks provide current balance of payments and other economic information.
  • Business Source Premier U- Search using the keywords: "country report" and "balance of payments" and "name of country" to retrieve articles entitled "Foreign Trade and Payments".
  • Consult the statistical sources in the "Country Risk Analysis" research guide.  

Balance of Trade

Bank Rates

Bata of a company

  • ValueLine Investment Survey (Ref Desk HG4501 .V26) - Each company report gives the current beta on the upper left corner.
  • Security Owner's Stock Guide (Standard & Poors) (Ref Desk HG4915 .S67)
  • Mergent  Online U - Use the "Equity Reports" tab to access individual analyst equity reports on over 4,000 large and mid-cap U.S companies.
  • 411Stocks  - Search for company and display company's profile to find beta.
  • Multex Investor (some information free with registration) - enter company's ticker symbol, then select stock overview to view beta.
  • Using Excel's Slope Function to Calculate Beta

Batas by industry

  • Damodaran Online - Among many other data includes betas by industry. Aswath Damodaran computes betas for industries based upon firm-specific ValueLine betas. 

Bond Prices & Ratings

Books Online

Mergent Bond

Business Directories

  • Argali White & Yellow (free) -meta phone directory that allows users to search multiple telephone and email directories at once. Requires downloading software. 
  • Business.com  
  • Switchboard - find a business by business name, type of business, city and state 
  • Anywho -  find a business by name, category, city and state; includes map and nearby businesses; includes a reverse directory 
  • Big Yellow - business yellow pages
  • BigBook - business yellow pages
  • 555-1212.com - national and international phone and e-mail directories 
  • WhoWhere - telephone, e-mail and other
  • Infospace -  yellow pages and white pages
  • Telephone Directories on the Web - online phone books for over 170 countries

Business Libraries

Business Plans go to the Starting a Small Business research guide

Business Schools see "College and University Rankings"

Calculators see also "Currency Rates"

For case studies go to the "Management" research guide.        

Chambers of Commerce Directories

Citation Guides

    APA

    MLA (Modern Language Association)

    Other Guides & Sources 

Code of Ethics

College and University Rankings

  • College and University Rankings (Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - provides links to ranked lists for general/undergraduate institutions, graduate/research programs, business, law, and international institutions.

The "Company Information" research guide will provide you with resources on company annual reports/financial information, company directories, company history, company profiles, international companies, investment analyst reports, mergers & acquisitions, private companies, product/brand, regional companies, subsidiaries, and ticker symbols. 

Consumer Price Index

Consumer Product Recall Statistics

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Corporate Governance see "Employee Compensation/Information" in this guide

Cost of Living see also "Calculators" in this guide

 Additional Sources

The "Country Information" research guide will provide you with resources on information for countries all over the world.

County Business Patterns see "Economic Census Data" in this guide

Currency Rates

Demographic Statistics

Dictionaries/Thesauri/Glossaries see also “Encyclopedias” in this guide

Dividends

  • Mergent Dividend Record (Ref HG4905 .M79)
  • Dividend Record/ Standard & Poor (Ref HG4908 .D583)  

Dow Jones Averages see "Indices" in this guide

Economic Census Data

The Economic Censuses are taken from businesses for years ending in 2 and 7. Included are type of industry, number of establishments, employees, payrolls, and sales or shipments for NAICS industries. It is issued for the nation, regions, states, and some counties, metropolitan areas, cities, and zip codes.  

Census Updates

  • Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (by type of industry) 
  • CenStats Databases - Databases currently available include Annual Survey of Manufactures Data, Building Permits Data, Census Tract Street Locator, County Business Patterns Data, International Trade Data, Occupation Data, and USA Counties Data.  
  • County Business Patterns - establishments and payrolls by industry for states and counties   
  • Current Industrial Reports - quantity of production and value of shipments by the manufacturing industry; provide regular updates to the Economic Census.

Additional Sources

Employee Compensation/Information 

  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe U ->Business->Company Profile ->U.S. Executive Compensation Database
  • Business Source Premier U- For information on employees, select "Company Profile", select your company and then click on "PDF Complete Report".
  • Corporate Library  - Most information is free. Includes firms based in 25 different countries. Provides data on firms and directors who sit on their various boards, updated annually. Special focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management, their boards and their shareowners. Click on "Governance Research" or "Company Research". 
  • eCompNetwork - Compensation data for executives at U.S. public companies
  • Eliyon Networking  (some info for free) - a database of 16 million profiles of current and past employees at about one million companies located in the U.S. and Canada.

Encyclopedias 

Exchange Rates see "Currency Rates" in this guide

Forms

Franchising

  • Directory of franchising organizations and a guide to franchising.  New York, Pilot Industries, inc. (Ref HF 5429 .D5)    
  • The Source book of franchise opportunities. Homewood, Ill. : Dow Jones-Irvin, (Ref HF 5429.235 .U5S66)

Gateways/Internet Indexes

Glossaries see "Dictionaries" in this guide

GNP/GDP

  • International Financial Statistics - monthly & yearly for various countries (Ref Desk HG3881 .I6268) 

Government Documents

The "Industry Information" research guide will provide you with resources on industry codes, industry analysis/overview, industry articles/news, industry financial ratios, industry statistics, market share, company rankings, competitors, lists, and professional associations.

Indices see also "Stock Prices" in this guide

  • Yahoo Finance - click on "US Indices" or "World Indices" and click on "more" for historical prices. Includes Dow Jones Averages, New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Standard & Poor's, Treasury Securities, Commodities, and others.
  • Dow Jones Indices 
  • Standard & Poor's Indices (free registration required) - includes historical information

Industrial Averages

  • The Dow Jones averages, 1885-1995 / edited by Phyllis S. Pierce. Chicago : Irwin Professional Pub., c1996. (Ref HG 4915 .D6434 1996)
  • Standard & Poor's statistical service: security price index record.  [New York, N.Y.] : Standard & Poor's Corp. (Ref HG4915 .S68a)

Inflation Rate

Initial Public Offering (IPO)

  • IPO Central - Initial public offering tracking from Hoover's Online  
  • IPO Express- Initial public offering tracking from Edgar Online  
  • IPO.com - Information on initial public offerings 
  • IPO Monitor 
  • IPO Resources Page
  • Barron's runs a review of IPO's in early December with a list of all IPO's to date that year. 

Insider Trading

Institutes see also "Associations" in this guide

Internal Revenue Service see "Tax Forms"

The "International Business" research guide will provide you with resources on international business, import/exports for various countries, and international trade data.

IPO see "Initial Public Offering" in this guide

Listserve

Markets see "Securities Exchanges" in this guide

Market Capitalization

  • Market Guide (free with registration) Assume market capitalization is of the last quarterly report when share information would have been published.
  • Standard & Poor's 500 Guide (Ref Desk HG 4057 .A44)
  • Yahoo Finance - type in ticker, click on chart, market capitalization is third column from bottom.
  • You can calculate by multiplying the number of shares outstanding (reported on a quarterly basis to the SEC on form 10Q or 10K) by the price per share on the specific day. 
  • The Corporate Library - Most information is free. Includes firms based in 25 different countries. Provides data on firms and directors who sit on their various boards, updated annually.

The "Marketing" research guide will provide you with resources on ads, advertising agencies directories, advertising law, marketing associations, brands, consumer preferences, marketing dictionaries/glossaries,  encyclopedias, handbooks, international marketing, market research reports, nielson ratings, statistics and demographics.

Mutual Funds

News & Recent Developments

  • Business Source Premier U
  • BusinessWire - Provides a searchable database of the last seven days of press releases from hundreds of companies.  It also provides short company profiles for selected firms in its database at  http://www.businesswire.com/cna-index.html.  
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe U- Select the Business/Business News section to search for news articles.
  • Reuters.com - provides breaking international business news. Topics reported on include company news, reports, and snapshots including ratios and commentary; consensus forecasts; economic indicators; governmental filings; stock charts and graphs; IPOs; mergers; market commentary and analysis, indices; and a currency converter
  • NewsNow - news aggregator scans over 12,000 online news sources
  • Kidon Media Link - Identifies and provides links to news sources around the globe. You can search for news sources by format (newspapers, magazines, TV, etc.), by city, or by keyword. You can also restrict your search to English or other languages. 

Occupations see also "Salaries" in this guide

The "Patents & Trademarks" research guide will provide you with resources on patents & trademarks

People Search

Periodicals Directories see also “Publishing Opportunities” in this guide

Periodicals - Types

Prime rate

  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York - prime rates for commercial banks
  • S & P Statistical Service. Current Statistics (Current two years kept at Ref HG4921.S78 T73) 

Publishing Opportunities – see also “Periodicals Directories” in this guide

  • Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Oppontunities in Accounting (Reference H 91 .C235) – includes address for submission, publication guidelines, circulation data, review information, and more.
  • Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Oppontunities in Management (Reference HD 28 .C23) - includes address for submission, publication guidelines, circulation data, review information, and more.
  • Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Oppontunities in Marketing (Reference HF 5410 .C23) - includes address for submission, publication guidelines, circulation data, review information, and more.
  • Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Oppontunities in Economics and Finance (Reference H 91 .C24) - includes address for submission, publication guidelines, circulation data, review information, and more.

Reference

  • BRAINTRACK - Over 6900 Links to Higher Educational Institutions in 189 Countries.
  • International Dictionaries - international online dictionaries from Cambridge University Press. 

Salaries see also "Occupations" and  "Cost of Living" in this guide

Search Engines - Business

Securities Exchanges see "Stock Markets" in this guide

Small Businesses

  • BizOffice - small & home based businesses resources

The Starting a Small Business research guide will provide you with links to resources on starting a new business, entrepreneurship, business planning, franchises, and more. 

Statistics

  • Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe U
  • Stat-USA U  
  • Foreign Trade Statistics 
  • FedStats - one stop shopping for locating statistics from 70 agencies in the government 
  • Data on the Net - provides links to all types of statistical data 
  • OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the web - directory of statistics-gathering bodies around the world, out of The University of Auckland Library, in New Zealand. Organized by country.
  • BizStats - Categories include national business statistics such as employee productivity; and safest/riskiest businesses to begin; as well as statistical compilations for specific areas like construction, retail, and service industries

Stock/Bond Certificates

Stock Exchanges see "Stock Markets" in this guide

Stock Market Indices see "Indices" in this guide

Stock Markets

Stock Prices / Stock Quotes see also "Stock Markets" in this guide

  • Mergent  Online U  Use the "Global Equity Pricing” tab.
  • Yahoo Finance - daily stock prices; For historical prices click on "US Indices" or "World Indices" and click on "more".  Includes Dow Jones Averages, New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Standard & Poor's, Treasury Securities, Commodities, and others.
  • BigCharts - stock prices (quotes), historical quotes, top & worst performing industries and companies within those industries. Also, view securities within each stock exchange and information on the state of the markets. 
  • Bloomberg.com - Access stock quotes and charts. Click on "Market Data" for stocks, rates & bonds, currencies, funds, and commodities. 
  • BusinessWeek Online  
  • CyberTimes Navigator 
  • Standard & Poor's statistical service: security price index - historical price data index; includes statistics for the S&P 500 companies (Ref HG 4915 .S68a)
  • Silicon Investor - company information for over 600 high technology firms 
  • New York Times - daily stock quotes

Stock Repurchase/Buybacks

Surveys/Trends

Tax Forms

The "International Business" research guide will provide resources on trade.

Transportation

Treasury Bill/Bond Rates

Stock or Bond Certificates

Video & Audio Transcripts

Working Papers/Research Papers

Other Reference Sites

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