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- Business Source Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Business-related articles from many peer-reviewed and other journals, reports, company profiles, and other sources. 
- Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database that provides full-text access to many peer-reviewed business related journals, including disciplines such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for the many important scholarly business journals as far back as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1886.
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbbc
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- Factiva
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.The Wall Street Journal. Other U.S. and foreign newspapers, magazines and trade journals. Company financials.
- Factiva combines Dow Jones and Reuters content from over 8,000 publications:
- 1,000 U.S. and foreign newspapers
- 6,500 news magazines and trade journals
- 270 newswires - Dow Jones, Reuters, AP, Asia Pulse
- Transcripts of leading media news broadcasts - BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR
- Company profiles and reports
- European Union official documents
Factiva is the only database that provides the full text of the Wall Street Journal, 1984-present.
Limiting to the Wall Street Journal:
- Add and rst=j at the end of your search statement. For example: federal reserve and rst=j
- Leave the Search for free-text terms in box set at the default Full Article. Otherwise you will get a 0 hits result.
The truncation symbol is an *. Adding it to the end of a search term will find any term with that basic stem. For example: bank* will find bank, banks, banker, banking, etc.
- Coverage Dates: Varies
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Languages: English and various foreign languages
- Database Provider: Dow Jones & Reuters
- 19 simultaneous users allowed, shared with Georgia Tech and Georgia State University.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=faci-uga1
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- LexisNexis Academic
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
- LexisNexis Academic contains approximately 5,000 publications, virtually all include full text. Many types of publications are included: newspapers (in English, other languages, and translations of international papers), legal news, general interest magazines, medical journals, trade publications, company financial information, transcripts, wire service reports, government publications (such as the federal case law, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Testimony, etc.), law reviews, and reference works (such as the Forbes Annual Directory, the Official Guide/American Marketplace and the US Global Trade Outlook).
If you wish to search for articles published in only a specific publication, click on 'Sources' in the black bar at the top of the screen. Search for the publication, click on 'Find Title', then choose "Search This Title" next to the publication you want to search. This will paste the name of the publication into the search screen, and will ensure that you are searching the correct section of LexisNexis.
- Coverage Dates: Dates of coverage vary by publication
- Updated: Varies by publication (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually)
- Title List
- Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Database Provider: lexis_nexis
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zxau
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- Mergent Online
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Financial statements and more for over 30,000 U.S. and foreign public companies.
Mergent Online (which began in it's print counterpart as the Moody's Manuals) covers over 30,000 U.S. and foreign public companies, providing:
- "as-reported" financial statements (also "restated" and "standardized" available) for up to 30 years (may be downloaded to spreadsheet)
- chronology of major corporate events
- description of bond issues with ratings
- stock screening by various criteria
Archival records for U.S. and foreign public companies that have ceased, 1995 - present.
Access: On & off campus. 30 simultaneous users allowed.
Provider: Mergent.
- Coverage Dates: Current, with historical financial data
- Updated: Daily
- Database Provider: Mergent
- 2 simultaneous users allowed.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=fiso-uga1
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- Thomson ONE
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Financial reports for U.S. and foreign publicly-held companies. Only works with Internet Explorer. IE 6.0 users: cookies must be set to "Low" or lower for this database to function properly.
Related / Narrower Databases
- Business Book Summaries (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Summaries for more than 700 top business books from the last twenty years.
- Business Book Summaries provides concise summaries for the top 1% of the more than 6,000 business books published every year. All summaries are written by business professionals. Each summary consists of the most important concepts of each book presented in a brief yet comprehensive manner. All summaries are available in 300, 600 and 4,500 word versions.
- Coverage Dates: 1989-
- Updated: Monthly, with a total of 60 new books added each year.
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=bus1-uga1
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- Conference Board Online
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Research reports on business management functions and global economics
- Conference Board Online contains full-text research reports on business management functions and economics, as well as periodicals, produced by the Conference Board, a global non-profit business research organization.
Reports on management functions cover such topics as business ethics, accounting, executive compensation, governance, employee benefits, and productivity, to name just a few. Also included in the database are periodic reports on the current status and forecasts for the economies of the U.S, other major countries, and world regions; as well as news releases on U.S. economic indicators. (More extensive, historical data on the U.S. economy are contained in the Conference Board's Business Cycle Indicators database, also on GALILEO.)
- Coverage Dates: 1995-
- Updated: Daily
- Database Provider: Conference Board
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=conf-uga1
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- EconLit
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Abstracts and full-text links to articles in economics journals.
- EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, includes citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. This EBSCOhost offering provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics. EconLit contains six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics from Cambridge University Press, and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.
- Coverage Dates: 1969-present
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbec
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Broader Databases
- Emerald Fulltext
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Full text articles from over 100 business and library science research journals.
- Emerald Fulltext contains the full text of 42,000 articles in over 100 research journals in the fields of management, marketing, and library/information science, 1994-present. You may do a topic search of the entire database or browse journals issue by issue. The full text is usually in both HTML and PDF formats.
- Coverage Dates: 1994- full text; 1989- abstracts
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Emerald Journal Publishing Limited
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=emeu-uga1
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- JSTOR
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals.
- JSTOR provides electronic access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals. The goal of the project is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. The journals are organized into the Arts and Sciences Collections I & II, the General Sciences Collection, the Ecology and Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language and Literature Collection, the Mathematics and Statistics Collection, and the Music Collection.
- Coverage Dates: 1800s- (dates vary)
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: jstor
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xjst-uga1
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- ScienceDirect
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Articles from scholarly journals on all the sciences, including the social sciences.
- ScienceDirect provides full text access to scholarly journals published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries.
- Coverage Dates: 1995 - present (Academic Press journals: 1996 - present)
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: Elsevier
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xsdi-uga1
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- Web of Knowledge
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Provides access to the Web of Science suite and Journal Citation Reports.
