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Note: Licensed databases provided by the UH Manoa Library are for academic use only. Remote access to licensed databases is available only to authorized members of the UH Manoa community.

Accounting/Taxation
Advertising and Brands
Articles in Journals and Trade Publications
Books
Career
Company and Industry Research
Company Financials
Country Guides
Demographics
Directories
Dissertations, Working Papers, and Reports
Finance
International
Legal and Patents
Library Catalogs
Marketing and Market Data
News
Politics and Government
Reference
Statistics
Trade

Accounting/Taxation

CCH Internet Tax Research Network
Licensed for UHM use only
Web version of the standard paper edition of the CCH Federal Tax Service. In addition, the web version includes sections on state income taxes, estate and gift taxes, and pension and payroll taxes. Federal Tax Archives are available for all years since 1978; State Tax Archives are available for all years since 1994.

RIA Checkpoint
Licensed for UHM use only
Provides comprehensive tax information and research. Find tax information on a wide spectrum of topics including: complete tax law; expert analysis, practitioner insights, tax-related news, cases, rulings and more. Select the Accting, Audit & Corp Finance practice area for FASB and AICPA materials.

Advertising and Brands

Advertising Redbooks.com
Licensed for UHM use only
Detailed information about domestic and international advertising agencies and advertisers. Contains exclusive information on nearly 21,000 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. Detailed profiles of nearly 14,000 U.S. and international agencies, including accounts represented by each agency and fields of specialization.

Articles in Journals and Trade Publications

ABI/INFORM Global
Licensed for UHM use only
The premier business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and the world. Search nearly 1,800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal.

Asian Business, see ProQuest Asian Business and Reference

Business Source Premier
Licensed for UHM use only
Full text for more than 2,300 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

CAB Abstracts
Licensed for UHM use only
Although the focus of this database is agricultural and biological information it is useful for articles on rural tourism development and world agricultural economics. 1973 to present.

EconLit
Licensed for UHM use only
Provided through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Includes abstracts of journal articles, books, reviews, working papers, collective volume articles and dissertations. 1969 to present.

Emerald Fulltext
Licensed for UHM use only
Emerald Fulltext covers the major management disciplines including, marketing, HR and organizational development, library & information management, quality and operations management. Coverage also includes accounting, education, science & technology, healthcare, and communications. Contains the full text of journal articles published from 1994 to date, in both HTML and PDF format. Abstracts are also provided for articles back to 1989.

Hawaii Pacific Journal Index
Free web access
Provides citations to articles in over 50 Hawaii or Pacific-focused serials including Hawaii Business, Island Business, Midweek, Guam Business News, Islands Business (Fiji) and Pacific Islands Monthly.

Hospitality & Tourism Index
Licensed for UHM use only
Hospitality & Tourism Index is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. HTI contains over 470,000 records from 500 publications. Coverage includes demographics and statistics, food and beverage management, hotel management and administration, leisure and business travel, market trends, and more.

JSTOR
Licensed for UHM use only
Provides full-text journal backfiles in various disciplines. The JSTOR project's primary goal is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Selected journals in the following subject areas are available: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.

LexisNexis Academic
Licensed for UHM use only
Lexis-Nexis database of full text articles back more than 20 years from over 5600 publications. Use it to find general news; business and financial information including accounting, auditing and taxation; federal, state and international legal materials; medical and health information and general reference sources.

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Services)
Licensed for UHM use only
A selective index to the latest books, pamphlets, government publications, reports of public and private agencies and journal articles relating to business, economic and social conditions, public administration and international relations published throughout the world. 1972 to present.

Project Muse
Licensed for UHM use only
Project Muse provides access to selected full text of 110 scholarly journals published by university presses. The publishers involved are Johns Hopkins University Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Duke University Press, Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Texas Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press. Most journals included are in arts and humanities.

ProQuest Asian Business and Reference
Licensed for UHM use only
Find the latest business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere. Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more.

PsycINFO
Licensed for UHM use only
PsycINFO provides citations and abstracts of international journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Produced by the American Psychological Association it covers over 1,400 journals, representing professional and scientific literature from over 50 countries going back to 1872. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English language material published since 1987. More than 55,000 records are added each year. This access is provided through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Includes articles on consumer behavior and consumer attitudes.

Recent Advances in Manufacturing
Free web access
Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) is a database of bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas. It covers items in over 500 niche and mainstream journals and magazines, and also details of books, videos and conference proceedings.

Regional Business News
Licensed for UHM use only
This full text newswire database incorporates business wires from all over the world. Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network, and Phillips Business Information Highlights.

Science Direct
Licensed for UHM use only
ScienceDirect is an internet resource for scientific, technical and medical information. Using Science Direct you can access over 1,200 peer reviewed academic journals, search over 30 million abstracts from scientific articles and link out to articles from over 80 other publishers. Includes subject groupings for business, management and accounting, as well as economics, econometrics, and finance.

Social Sciences Citation Index via Web of Science
Licensed for UHM use only
Multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. 1980-present.

SpringerLink
Licensed for UHM use only
Access the complete contents of more than 650 Springer (formerly Kluwer) journals in subjects including business administration, economics, operations research/management science, technology, and law.

Wiley InterScience
Licensed for UHM use only
Full text of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals. Includes subject area for Business.

Books

ebrary
Licensed for UHM use only
Online access to more than 22,000 books in business & economics; career & general education; computers, engineering & applied sciences; humanities; science, medicine, & allied health; and social & behavioral sciences.

Hawaii Voyager (University of Hawaii library catalog)
Free web access
Search for books, journal titles, videos, music, etc., available via the University of Hawaii.

Career

CollegeSource
Licensed for UHM use only
Access to complete college catalogs, links to each college homepage, profiles of every school, college course descriptions.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Free web access
"...working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations."

Company and Industry Research

Corporate Affiliations.com
Licensed for UHM use only
"...provides current, accurate corporate linkage information and company profiles on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent global public and private parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions—down to the seventh level of corporate linkage." Includes corporate family trees, 700,000 corporate contacts, 110,000 board members, 150,000 brand names, 140,000 competitors, and merger/acquisition/out-of-business information back to 1976.

Directory of United States Importers/Exporters
Available on CD-ROM in Hamilton Library; please consult the main reference desk
This directory gives key company information on 55,000 top importers and exporters in the United States. The source of the information is the PIERS
Database (Port Import Export Reporting Service) produced by the Journal of Commerce. Location: Hamilton Library, 1st Floor CD-ROM Area.

Global Market Information Database (GMID)
Licensed for UHM use only
Euromonitor International's GMID is an integrated product for business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. Includes hard-to-find demographic, economic and marketing statistics, as well as lifestyle and market analysis.
NOTE: This resource is restricted for use by UH Manoa students, faculty and staff. You will be prompted to log in to your Library account before proceeding to the resource. Once you have connected to GMID, you will need to create a personal account with Euromonitor. Your personal Euromonitor account will be used each time you access GMID.

Marketresearch.com Academic
Licensed for UHM use only
Market research reports for consumer goods, food and beverage, heavy industry, life sciences, technology, and more. Sources include Kalorama Information, Packaged Facts, Simba Information and Specialists in Business Information (SBI). Full reports (many 200-400 pages) are available after 12-month embargo.

Mergent Online (U.S. and international company data)
Licensed for UHM use only
Fully searchable database of approximately 15,000 NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ companies and 20,000 non-U.S. based corporations (representing 95% of the non-U.S. global market capitalization). Provides real-time access to EDGAR® filings, dating back to 1993 and updated daily. Coverage includes: history, business, property, subsidiaries, officers, directors, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock, income statement, balance sheet, statements of cash flow, exchange and ticker symbol, address, telephone number, annual stock price ranges, trustees, registrar, transfer agent, stock splits, dividend payment history, up-to-the-minute news items on U.S. public companies, and more.

Morningstar Investment Research Center
Licensed for UHM use only
Morningstar Investment Center gives faculty, staff, and students access to daily updates on more than 30,000 mutual funds, stocks, closed end funds and exchange traded funds. It also includes Morningstar fund and stock screeners, all 3,500 fund and stock Analyst Reports, Portfolio X-Ray and 150 investment classes.

ReferenceUSA (U.S. Business Module)
Licensed for UHM use only
Database of over 14 million businesses allows you to search with 27 unique data elements. Searchable by geography, business type, number of employees, ownership, etc.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Licensed for UHM use only
Comprehensive source of business and investment information. Includes Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports, Compustat Excel Analytics, and more. Extensive financials and analysis on more than 10,000 public companies. Basic data for 85,000 private companies.

Thomson ONE Banker - subscription canceled effective March 31, 2008.
For U.S. public company financials, filings, prices, see Mergent Online, Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, Morningstar, LexisNexis Academic
For international company financials, see Mergent Online, LexisNexis Academic
For analysts' research, earnings estimates, and ratings, see Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, Morningstar, LexisNexis Academic

Company Financials

EDGAR
Free web access
EDGAR is the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) electronic database of corporate filings. All publicly-traded companies in the U.S. are required to file Annual Reports, Quarterly Reports, Proxy Statements, and other disclosure documents electronically with the EDGAR system.

LexisNexis Academic
Licensed for UHM use only
Business and financial information including accounting, auditing and taxation; federal, state and international legal materials.

Thomson ONE Banker - subscription canceled effective March 31, 2008.
For U.S. public company financials, filings, prices, see Mergent Online, Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, Morningstar, LexisNexis Academic
For international company financials, see Mergent Online, LexisNexis Academic
For analysts' research, earnings estimates, and ratings, see Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, Morningstar, LexisNexis Academic

Country Guides

EIU Online
Licensed for UHM use only
This database provides online access to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) publications analyzing and forecasting the economic, political and business environments of almost 200 countries.

IMF Country Information
Free web access
From the International Monetary Fund

STAT-USA Country Commercial Guides
Licensed for UHM use only
STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government. Select Globus & NTDB, then Country Commercial Guides.

Demographics

American Factfinder (U.S. Census Bureau)
Free web access
Quick access to demographic, social and economic data by city, town, county, state or ZIP Code. Data sets, tables, and thematic maps. Access to American Community Survey and Decennial Census.

See also: U.S. Census Bureau Subjects A to Z.

See also Statistics

Directories

Directory of United States Importers/Exporters
Available on CD-ROM in Hamilton Library; please consult the main reference desk
Provides key company information on 55,000 top importers and exporters in the United States. The source of the information is the PIERS Database (Port Import Export Reporting Service) produced by the Journal of Commerce.

FedBizOpps
Licensed for UHM use only
Notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information over $25,000 - all updated daily.

ThomasNet (web version of Thomas Register)
Free web access
Directory of manufacturers, suppliers, industrial products/services in U.S. and Canada. Some product catalogs and CAD available.

Dissertations, Working Papers, and Reports

Capital Ideas: Selected Papers on Global Markets
Free web access
"...summarizes research conducted by the faculty of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business."

Columbia Ideas at Work
Free web access
"...bridges business research and practice, offering key insights from Columbia Business School’s faculty in a readily accessible format."

Conference Board Research Collections Online
Licensed for UHM use only
Full-text of management and economic research from 1998 to present. Research covers corporate citizenship and sustainability, corporate governance, economics, enterprise risk management, ethics and compliance, executive compensation, human resources, and strategic management and planning.

Dissertations and Theses
Licensed for UHM use only
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and masters work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. Citations for dissertations from 1980 forward include abstracts, and from 1997 on full text is available for over 100,000 titles deposited with UMI.

HBS Working Knowledge
Free web access
Features new work from among the more than 200 Harvard Business School faculty.

Knowledge@Emory
Free web access
"...online business journal that provides thought leadership, research, and strategic perspectives from faculty at Emory University and its Goizueta Business School."

Knowledge@Wharton
Free web access
Searchable access to works from faculty of Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers
Licensed for UHM use only
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers. Provides full-text of this research organization's working papers from November 1994 to the present and chapters of its forthcoming books in PDF files. Includes searchable index.

Finance

International Financial Statistics Online
Licensed for UHM use only
Historical financial and economic data for IMF member countries. Time series data from 1948. Includes data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.

International

EIU Online
Licensed for UHM use only
Provides online access to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) publications analyzing and forecasting the economic, political and business environments of almost 200 countries.

WorldNews Connection
Licensed for UHM use only
A foreign news service provided by the National Technical Information Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It contains translations and English-language news and information gathered by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) from non-U.S. media sources in various regions of the world: Central Eurasia, China, East Asia, Near East and South Asia, East Europe, West Europe, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Legal and Patents

LexisNexis Academic Universe
Licensed for UHM use only
Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Database
Free web access
United States Patent and Trademark Office. Full text of all patents granted since 1976, and the patent number, issue date, and current US classification for all patents granted from 1790 through 1975. Also includes patent application database.

See also Accounting/Taxation

Library Catalogs

Hawaii Voyager
Free web access
Catalog of books and other materials housed in the UH Manoa Library

WorldCat
Licensed for UHM use only
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

Marketing and Market Data

Industry Profiles and Market Research Reports via Business Source Premier
Licensed for UHM use only
Over 5,000 industry and market research reports. Providers include Datamonitor, Gartner, ICON Group.

National Trade Data Bank via STAT-USA
Licensed for UHM use only
Index of over 120,000 documents from 15 Federal agencies. Includes full-text of market research reports, domestic and foreign economic data, import/export statistics, time series, trade information and regulations and country studies.

See also ABI/INFORM - keyword and subject searches on "market shares"
See also Articles in Journals and Trade Publications

News

Hawaii Newspaper Index
Free web access
Index to the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from 1989 to present. The Index is a service of the Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS). The Hawaii Newspaper Index can be searched by subject or by keyword(s).

LexisNexis Academic Universe
Licensed for UHM use only
Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, both U.S. and worldwide, with a variety of flexible search options.

Newspaper Source
Licensed for UHM use only
Newspaper Source provides selected full text coverage for more than 240 newspapers and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London) as well as selected full text from more than 180 regional newspapers including: Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, etc. Full text transcripts are also included from Face the Nation, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, 60 Minutes, O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, etc.

World News Connection
Licensed for UHM use only
Foreign news service provided by the National Technical Information Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It contains translations and English-language news and information gathered by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) from non-U.S. media sources in various regions of the world: Central Eurasia, China, East Asia, Near East and South Asia, East Europe, West Europe, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Politics and Government

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Services)
Licensed for UHM use only
Selective index to the latest books, pamphlets, government publications, reports of public and private agencies and journal articles relating to business, economic and social conditions, public administration and international relations published throughout the world. 1972 to present.

Reference

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Licensed for UHM use only
Search the complete Encyclopedia Britannica with the addition of audio and video components and links to WWW sites with related information. Includes Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. This database is continuously revised and updated weekly.

Oxford Reference Online
Licensed for UHM use only
Economics & Business section includes Dictionary of Accounting, Dictionary of Business and Management, Dictionary of Economics, Dictionary of Finance and Banking, Dictionary of Human Resource Management, The Handbook of International Financial Terms, and Dictionary of Statistics.

Statistics

LexisNexis Statistical Universe
Licensed for UHM use only
Easy access to statistics produced by federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations with advanced PowerTables™ functionality.

STAT-USA
Licensed for UHM use only
Index of over 120,000 documents from 15 Federal agencies. Includes full-text of market research reports, domestic and foreign economic data, import/export statistics, time series, trade information and regulations and country studies.

UNData (replaces UN Common Database 2008)
Free web access
"...find official statistics produced by countries and compiled by United Nations data system, as well as estimates and projections. The domains covered are agriculture, education, energy, industry, labour, national accounts, population and tourism."

World Development Indicators
Available on CD-ROM in Government Documents Department, Sinclair Library.
Call number: IBRD W 891 D 49/2 [yr.] CD-ROM

Trade

UN Comtrade (United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database)
Licensed for UHM use only
Official source for imports, exports, re-imports and re-exports for 90% of world trade. Data for over 140 reporter countries detailed by commodity and partner country.

Last modified: June 17, 2008 (David Flynn david.flynn@hawaii.edu)

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