Databases for Commerce

and

Databases for Sydney Business School

Databases to try first
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Title	Tips	Notes
ABI/Inform Global	Tips	Business, management, including accounting, taxation, banking, labor relations, marketing & advertising, human resources. International. Dates vary Also available: ABI/Inform Trade and Industry or ABI/Inform Dateline Conditions of use Proquest
Academic Research Library	Tips	General reference including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. International. Dates vary Conditions of use Proquest
Account	Tips	Accounting, auditing, taxation, insolvency, financial management, corporation law. Australian. 1982 - present Conditions of use Informit
Accounting and Tax	Tips	Accounting, auditing, and financial management. International. 1971 - present Conditions of use Proquest
Annual Reports Online	Tips	Annual reports of all ASX listed and de-listed companies. Australian 1995 - present Aspect Huntley
Australian Accounting & Taxation Database (AATD)		This database is now called Account. Please find it under that name
Australian Bureau of Statistics	Tips	Statistical data of Australia, the States and smaller regions. ABS' full standard product range on-line. Australian. publications 1988 - present, with older time series This is a free site but there are some conditions of use specified on the ABS website ABS website
Australian Public Affairs - full text APAFT	Tips	Business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. APAIS with some fulltext. Australian. Index 1978 - present Fulltext 1995 - present Conditions of use Informit
Business and Company ASAP	Tips	Companies, markets and industries; market trends, mergers and acquisitions, management theory and company overviews. International 1980 - present Conditions of use Gale
Business Monitor Online	Tips	Country based industry reports, forecasts, alerts and analysis. Detailed economic, political and social coverage Conditions of use Business Monitor
Business Source Premier	Tips	Business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. EBSCOhost
Business Who's Who of Australia	Tips	Company information by specific industry, location, board members and other key personnel, parent and subsidiary companies,annual revenue, employee numbers, product trade names. Australian. Current Conditions of use Dun and Bradstreet webpage Password required
Cambridge Journals Online	Tips	Sciences, social sciences, and humanities Conditions of use Cambridge journals website
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts	Tips	Portal site for CSA databases, some technical engineering, some social sciences. Conditions of use CSA
Columbia International Affairs Online - CIAO	Tips	International affairs, comparative politics, area studies. International Dates vary Conditions of use CIAO website
Conference Proceedings Citation Index	Tips	Conference papers and citations. Choose Science or Social Science and Humanities 1991- present Conditions of use Thomson Reuters
Econlit	Tips	Economics. International 1969 - present Conditions of use Ovid
Emerald Fulltext	Tips	Management, economics, marketing, logistics, training and education. International Indexing 1989 fulltext 1994 - present Conditions of use Emerald website
Expanded Academic ASAP	Tips	General Database with information in arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. International. 1980 - present Conditions of use Gale InfoTrac
Factiva	Tips	Newspaper and company information Factiva Preferred browser Internet Explorer v. 5.5+, Firefox (Windows) and Safari (Macintosh). The site uses secure http. The certificate on the Library's EZproxy server can cause an error. If you are warned about a security error and recommended not to proceed it is OK to do so in this instance. It is possible with IE browsers to turn off the warning about certificate mismatches but it can be a valid warning, so take this option with care.
FinAnalysis	Tips	A 12-year history of detailed financial information for all companies listed on ASX. Aspect Huntley
General Business File	Tips	Company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. International 1980 - present Conditions of use Gale
Hoover's Company Records	Tips	Company data and brief financial data, known as company capsules and profiles. Conditions of use Proquest
Informaworld	Tips	Over 1000 journals in many disciplines. Strengths in Social Sciences and Humanities. International. Conditions of use
JSTOR	Tips	Archives of significant scholarly journals published in the arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences, music, business, mathematics and statistics. Conditions of use JSTOR
Lexis.com	Tips	Legal resources. International law. Various dates Lexis
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics		Economics including the schools of economic theory, sub-disciplines and related areas Palgrave Macmillan
OneSource Global Business Browser - G4	Tips	Very extensive industry and company resource International, global not just Asia Pacific More information OneSource Information Services
Oxford Scholarship Online	Tips	Electronic Books from Oxford University Press. The Library subscribes to the Economics and Finance module. International. Various dates. Conditions of use Oxford
Oxresearch	Tips	A "first draft of history" as it occurs. Provides succinct analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance 1986 - present Conditions of use Proquest
Proquest ANZ Newstand	Tips	Newspapers and newswires from Australia and New Zealand covering regional and international topics Conditions of use Proquest.
Proquest Central	Tips	Information in most topic areas. Several databases which may be searched either individually or in combinations. International. Various dates Conditions of use Proquest.
SAGE Journals Online	Tips	Virtually all journals published by SAGE. This publisher publishes in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. International SAGE Note: SAGE Journals Online includes the Nursing and Psychology collections which have been available on the CSA platform. These are still available on the CSA platform as well as on the SAGE platform
ScienceDirect	Tips	Life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. International. 1995 - present, some earlier Conditions of use ScienceDirect website
Snapshot series	Tips	International market research overviews by industry within within regions and countries. Conditions of use Proquest
SourceOECD	Tips	OECD documents with emphasis on country comparison, periodicals, working papers, statistics, International Energy Agency statistics Conditions of use Source OECD Website
Springerlink	Tips	Journal of the publisher Springer-Verlag. International with strengths in Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Material Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences & Law, Mathematics, Medicine, and Physics & Astronomy. Dates vary Conditions of use Springerlink
Sydney Morning Herald Archives		Full content of The Sydney morning Herald 1955 - 1990 Faifax Media Note: click on "Access archive"
Web of Knowledge	Tips	Portal for Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, JCR Web Dates vary for each database Conditions of use ISI Web of Knowledge
Web of Science	Tips	Citation indexes, which allow searching by cited references. Science Citation Index, Social Science citation Index 1965 - present, Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - present Conditions of use ISI Web of Knowledge
Wiley Interscience	Tips	Journals published by Wiley, including sciences, life sciences, technology, business and finance and behavioural sciences. International. Dates vary according to title Conditions of use Wiley
World Development Indicators		World Bank's comprehensive database on development data, covering more than 700 indicators, 208 economies, and 18 regional and income groups. Includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for more than forty years. 1960 - present, where data are available World Bank

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Other relevant databases
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Title	Tips	Notes
AIM Management & Training (AIMMAT)	Tips	Management, training, human resources, communication and marketing. Australian. 1991 - present Conditions of use Informit
Attorney-General's Information Service (AGIS) Plus Text	Tips	Law, including administrative law, companies and securities, constitutional law, copyright, criminal law, environmental law, family law. Australian. Indexing 1975 - present Fulltext 1999 - present Conditions of use Informit
AUSTLII	Tips	Law, legislation and case law. Australia. Commonwealth and state jurisdictions plus New Zealand and South Pacific. Starting dates vary Conditions of use AustLII website.
Banking Information Source	Tips	Business, finance, government and law. International, North American focus. 1971 - present, fulltext may be later Conditions of use Proquest
CCH Online	Tips	Law. Fulltext access to UOW subscriptions only. Australian. Availability dates vary Conditions of use CCH website
CLIB2001, CLIB96 & CLIB91	Tips	Statistics from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Stand alone CD ROM ask at Research Help.
Current Contents Connect	Tips	Current information in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, technology and medical science. International. Conditions of use ISI Web of Knowledge
ERIC	Tips	Education. International. 1966 - present Conditions of use Ovid
ERIC	Tips	Education. International. Dates vary Conditions of use Proquest
Family and Society Plus	Tips	Issues about, or of relevance to families. Australia. Fulltext 2000 - present. Index 1980 - present This is Family database with selected fulltext added Conditions of use Informit
Lexis.com	Tips	Legal resources. International law. Various dates Lexis
LexisNexis AU	Tips	Law including administrative, corporate, family, intellectual property,civil and industrial law. Australian. Current Recommended browser: IE Conditions of use LexisNexis AU
Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei/ ASEAN Database (BERITA)	Tips	General reference. Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, or South-East Asia as a whole and ASEAN. 1990 - present Conditions of use Informit
Media Scan	Tips	Current events and news items. Australian focus. 1991 - present Conditions of use Informit
NBER Working Papers	Tips	Economics and economic aspects of industrial relations, education, health and related subjects. International 1994 - present NBER
Philosopher's Index	Tips	Philosophy and related fields. International. 1940 - present Conditions of use Ovid.
Proquest Asian Business & Reference	Tips	Detailed information on companies, economies, markets and overall business conditions, news and current awareness, country information, cultural, government and biographical information relating to Asia. A greatly expanded resource Conditions of use Proquest
Proquest European Business	Tips	Regional European business news. 1986 - present Conditions of use Proquest.
ProQuest Social Science Journals	Tips	Periodicals covering the social sciences. Dates vary Conditions of use Proquest
Psycinfo 1806- , 1967- , 1985-	Tips	Psychology and related disciplines. International. 1806 - present Conditions of use Ovid
Safari Tech Books Online	Tips	Computing, networks, web, applications, security. books from several key publishers. Usually latest editions Conditions of use Safari Proquest
SCANfile	Tips	Science and technology policy, R&D management, social and economic issues of R&D. Australian focus. 1973 - present Conditions of use Informit
Sociological Abstracts	Tips	Sociology and related disciplines. International. 1952 - present Records after 1974 include abstracts Conditions of use CSA.

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