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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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IBISWorld (U.S. Industry Reports)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
In-depth reports on over 700 U.S. industries.
- IBISWorld: U.S. Industry Reports contains in-depth surveys of 723 industries. Reports are usually 30-50 pages long. Reports cover industry segments, market characteristics, industry conditions, profiles of key companies, and industry outlook. There are numerous statistical tables, which can be exported to Excel. Reports are updated every four months.
- Coverage Dates: Current
- Updated: Every four months
- Database Provider: IBISWorld
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=ibil-uga1
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Mintel Reports
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.
In-depth market research reports on U.S. and European consumer products. Restricted: Creation of a Personal Profile with a valid UGA email address is required to use the database.
- Mintel Reports provides in-depth market research reports on a wide range of U.S. and European consumer products, including food/drink, clothing, beauty, electronics, automobiles, etc. Reports are typically 100 pages long and cover consumer demographics, market size, market shares, trends/forecasts, segmentation, and distribution channels, among other topics. About 120 reports are added annually.
  
  Restricted access: When signing in the database for the first time, a brief Personal Profile must be created, specifying a valid UGA e-mail address and password. Subsequent use of the database requires signing in with that same e-mail address and password.
- Coverage Dates: 2001-present
- Updated: Daily
- Database Provider: Mintel International
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=mint-uga1
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Product Launch Analytics (formerly Productscan 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.
Detailed descriptions of over one-half million new consumer products.
- Product Launch Analytics contains detailed descriptions of over one-half million new products, introduced from 1980-present worldwide. Coverage of consumer packaged goods encompasses foods, beverages, health and beauty aids, household products, and pet supplies.
  Ways you can search the product description include:
  - Brand or product name
  - Manufacturer
  - Product category or industry
  - Flavor or fragrance
  - Health or product claim
  - Ingredient
  - Packaging type or material
  - Innovation rating
  - UPC code
  - Country and date of introduction
  There are also charting capabilities to identify trends and gaps in product introductions.
- Coverage Dates: 1980-present
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Datamonitor
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=pru9-uga1
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Simmons OneView (Experian)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Consumer survey data on product buying behavior.
- Consumer survey data on product buying behavior and media habits of 33,000 adults, 18 years of age and over. Offers the capability to crosstab demographic characteristics with types or brands of products. See our guide to searching Simmons
- Coverage Dates: Most recent data is three years old. Oldest data is 8 years old.
- Updated: Every 6 months.
- Database Provider: Experian Simmons
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=conr-uga1
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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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Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Database
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.
Brief information on 1.6 million private and public U.S. companies.
- Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Database provides brief information on 1.6 million private and public U.S. companies. Only companies with $1 million or more in sales or 20 or more total employees are included. The directory information includes: address, sales, number of employees, industry classification (SIC and NAICS), type of ownership, and names of chief executives. You can create lists of companies meeting specific criteria (geography, sales size, employee size, industry) and download the results to spreadsheets.
- Coverage Dates: Current
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: dun_bradstreet
- 5 simultaneous users allowed
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xdbm-uga1
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Encyclopedia of Career Development (2006) (SAGE)
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.
Covers a wide variety of career-related topics.
- Encyclopedia of Career Development (2006) is the premier reference tool for research on career-related topics. Covering a broad range of themes, the contributions represent original material written by internationally-renowned scholars that view career development from a number of different dimensions. This multidisciplinary resource examines career-related issues from psychological, sociological, educational, counseling, organizational behavior, and human resource management perspectives.
  Access note: On and off campus. Unlimited simultaneous users allowed.
  Database provider: SAGE.
- Database Provider: sage
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=enp9-uga1
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Encyclopedia of Case Study Research (2010) (SAGE)
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.
- Encyclopedia of Case Study Research (2010) provides a compendium on the important methodological issues in conducting case study research and explores both the strengths and weaknesses of different paradigmatic approaches. It focuses on the distinctive characteristics of case study research and its place within and alongside other research methodologies. Encompasses topics such as: Academic Disciplines, Case Study Research Design, Conceptual Issues, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Methodological Approaches, Theoretical Traditions and Theory Development and Contributions.
  Access note: On and off campus. Unlimited simultaneous users allowed.
  Database provider: SAGE.
- Database Provider: sage
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=enpc-uga1
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MRI+ University Internet Reporter (UIR)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Data on buying behavior and media habits of U.S. adult consumers. Restricted: Creation of a Personal Profile with a valid UGA email address is required to use the database. Use Firefox or Internet Explorer for full functionality.
- Data on product buying behavior and media habits of a sample of U.S. adult consumers (approximately 27,000). The most recent sample is typically between 1 and 1.5 years old. MRI requires users to set up a personal profile using a valid UGA email address. Register at www.mriplus.com. For more information on registering and interpreting MRI data go to http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/mri.html.
  
  NOTE: When you have logged all the way into MRI click on the Mediamark Reporter tab to access the data. You will need to use Firefox or Internet Explorer for Mediamark Reporter to function correctly.
  
  This database lets you create customized charts by cross-tabbing consumer demographics and product purchasing and media usage. Additionally, many products have brand level product purchasing data available.
- Database Provider: Mediamark Research Inc.
- URL: http://www.mriplus.com/
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ReferenceUSA Business Database (Infogroup)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Directory info on 14 million US businesses.
- The ReferenceUSA Business Database provides directory information on over 14 million US businesses, public and private. Typical data provided are:
  - Address
  - Telephone
  - County
  - Metropolitan Statistical Area
  - Yellow pages category
  - SIC and NAICS codes, both primary and secondary
  - Contact person
  - Estimated employee size (modeled)
  - Estimated sales size (modeled)
  - Web address
  - Location map
  There are two types of searches:
  - Quick Search, to find a specific company.
  - Custom Search, to find companies meeting specific criteria, singly or in combination (for example, geography, industry, sale size).
  Download restrictions are:
  - On campus: 400 company records at a time.
  - Off campus (via proxy server): 100 company records at a time.
  - Coverage Dates: Current
  - Updated: Daily
  - Languages: English
  - Database Provider: Infogroup
  - URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=refa-uga1
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Sports Business Research Network
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.
Information on sports and business.
- Sports Business Research Network combines market research from the largest single research supplier to the industry, the National Sporting Goods Association; the U.S. Department of Commerce; various sports governing bodies; and full-text articles from 14 magazines and newsletters published by Miller Freeman, the world's largest sporting goods trade publisher, and newsletters provided by leading independent industry experts. In mid-1999, SBRnet added buyTRACK, an exclusive tracking study of sporting goods purchasing habits on the Internet, to its already comprehensive database. buyTRACK data are provided by Harris Interactive, a leading market research firm specializing in Internet-based data collection and analysis.
- Coverage Dates: 1993 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
- Title List
- Languages: English
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xsbn-uga1
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SRDS Media Solutions (Standard Rate and Data Service)
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.
Advertising rates for print and broadcast media.
- SRDS Media Solutions provides extensive descriptions of and advertising rates for thousands of print and broadcast media outlets. It contains data from eight SRDS publications:
  - Business Publication Advertising Source
  - Consumer Magazine Advertising Source
  - Direct Marketing List Source
  - Interactive Advertising Source
  - Newspaper Advertising Source
  - Radio Advertising Source
  - TV & Cable Source
  - Print Media Production Source
  Media Solutions enables identification of advertising sources for specific geographic markets or subject categories. It offers online links to the media outlets that it lists.
  Database provider: Standard Rate and Data Service.
- Coverage Dates: Current
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Standard Rate and Data Service
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=srdm-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.
- Thomson ONE contains reports of publicly-held, stockholder-owned companies, both U.S. and foreign, generally 1992/1993-present. U.S. reports include the Annual Report to Shareholders (ARS), 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Proxy, and Registration Statements/Prospectuses. The database provides enhanced navigation through reports, and the capability of customizing reports and downloading financial statements to spreadsheets.
  How to reach the screen to search for company reports:
  - Open the Screening and Analysis bar on the left.
  - Open Filings and select Filings Search.
  Access: On & off campus. 5 simultaneous users allowed.
- Coverage Dates: Varies. Generally 1992/1993-present.
- Updated: Daily
- Database Provider: Thomson Financial
- 5 simultaneous users allowed.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=thom-uga1
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Broader Databases

Academic Search Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.
- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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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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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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