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Description: The premier business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and the world. Search nearly 3,000 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. More than 1,920 titles available in full text. Expanded international coverage. Now includes fulltext of The Wall Street Journal.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1923-present

Description: Accounting Research Manager (from CCH) provides complete authoritative texts of major US and International accounting standards. Includes CCH commentary and interpretative guides. Content is cross-referenced, including cites to FASB pronouncements. Updated daily.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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AICPA Statements (See Accounting Research Manager )

American Factfinder (U.S. Census Bureau)
Description: Population, housing, economic and geographic data. Includes data sets from the Decennial Census of Housing and Population (1990 and 2000), Economic Census (1997 and 2002), American Community Survey (1996-present), and Population Estimates Program (July 1, 2003-present).
Access: Free web access.
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Asian Business, see ProQuest Asian Business and Reference

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1998-present

Description: Full text for more than 2,300 journals, 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1922-present

Description: Although the focus of this database is agricultural and biological information, it is useful for articles on rural tourism development and world agricultural economics.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1973-present

CCH Internet Tax Research Network now available via IntelliConnect

Conference Board Research Online Collection, see Business Knowledge Research

Description: In-depth reports released weekly covering "hot topics." Business section includes reports on advertising, financial crisis, consumer behavior, economic development, etc.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1991-present

Description: "...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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1976-present

Directory of United States Importers/Exporters
Description: 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.
Access: Available on CD-ROM in Hamilton Library; please consult the main reference desk.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: Indexing from 1861. Fulltext from 1996 (with selective fulltext for earlier years).

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: Provided through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Includes abstracts of journal articles, books, reviews, working papers, collective volume articles and dissertations.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1969-present

Description: Provides online access to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) publications analyzing and forecasting the economic, political and business environments of almost 200 countries.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1996-present

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: Full text of journal articles published from 1994-present. Abstracts for articles 1989-present.

FASB Documents (See Accounting Research Manager )

Description: Notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information over $25,000.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: Updated daily

Description: Provides external debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The time series for 216 indicators run from 1970 to current, with contractual obligations data out seven years. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1970-present plus seven year obligations

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus. NOTE: 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.
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Description: 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).
Access: Free web access.
Coverage: 1989-present

Description: 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.
Access: Free web access.
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Hawaii Voyager (University of Hawaii library catalog)
Description: Search for books, journal titles, videos, music, etc., available via the University of Hawaii.
Access: Free web access.
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Description: Bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. Nearly 650 publications. Coverage includes demographics and statistics, food and beverage management, hotel management and administration, leisure and business travel, market trends, and more.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1965-present

Description: New interface and enhanced functionality for searching EDGAR filings. (EDGAR is the Securities and Exchange Commission's 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.)
Access: Free web access
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IntelliConnect™ (CCH tax and accounting research)
Description: Includes CCH Federal Tax Service, plus state income taxes, estate and gift taxes, pension and payroll taxes. Also includes Accounting Articles index; Federal Excise Tax Reporter; Federal Tax Articles index; Standard Federal Tax Reports; Tax Court Memorandum Decisions; Tax Court Reporter; U.S. Tax Cases. News and Current Awareness feeds available, plus much more.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: Current and 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1948-present

Investext Current Reports via LexisNexis Academic
Description: Latest two reports for companies and industries. Available in "Financial Information" section of a company dossier report, or by selecting from Sources menu and performing search.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. 350 full-text newspapers from around the world. Information on 35 million public and private companies. Transcripts from major television and radio networks, as well as news wires and polling services.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: Current plus 25 years of backfiles

Description: Provides easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international and intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. The "Find a Table" module includes more than 100,000 tables, mostly from U.S. federal sources. The "Find a Publication" module searches Statistical Reference Index (SRI, 1980-present) and Index to International Statistics (IIS, 1983-present). Use these extensive indexes and abstracts to identify statistics available fulltext in the library's SRI Microfiche Collection (microfiche S50003) or other print and online sources.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: Standard federal Power Tables, 1980-present
Statistical Reference Index, 1980-present
Index to International Statistics, 1983-present

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Mergent Online (U.S. and international company data)
Description: Comprehensive global company database with custom reporting features. Integrated searching across the following components:
  • U.S. Company Data - Financials, ratios, history, ownership, analysis for 15,000 NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ companies.
  • U.S. Company Archives Data - Financials for more than 4,000 companies that were acquired, went bankrupt, liquidated or merged out of existence from 1995 onward.
  • International Company Data - 20,000 non-U.S. based corporations, representing 95% of the non-U.S. global market capitalization. Business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies.
  • International Company Archives Data - financials on more than 2,000 non-U.S. companies that have merged, were acquired, went bankrupt, liquidated or otherwise disappeared from 1995 forward.
  • Global Private Company Data - Basic information on approximately 1 million global private companies, including up to four years of full financial information on over 400,000 firms.
  • Institutional Holdings - 15 largest institutional holders for every U.S. company, as well as aggregate institutional buyers and sellers data.
  • Insider Trading - complete, up-to-date record of all stock purchases and sales by U.S. corporate officers and directors for the past three- and six-month time periods.
  • U.S. and International HSD Equity Pricing - 20+ years history with flexible charting and reporting.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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National Trade Data Bank via STAT-USA
Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers. Provides full-text of this research organization's working papers and chapters of its forthcoming books in PDF files. Includes searchable index.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1973-present

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Services)
Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1972-present

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: See description above.

Description: Project Muse provides access to selected full text of 400 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1993-present

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1971-present

Description: Comprehensive database of literature in psychology and related disciplines. Business topics include human resources, marketing, consumer behavior. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations from 1887 to the present.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1887-present

Description: 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.
Access: Free web access.
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ReferenceUSA (U.S. Business Module)
Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1965-present

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1980-present

Description: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's online source for economic and governmental reports, books, periodicals and data sets. Topics include labor, trade, government spending, financial market trends, and national accounts for major economies around the globe. Statistical databases allow users to build their own tables from the latest data, draw graphs and tables, and download to Excel or as .csv files.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: STAT-USA is a service run by the US Department of Commerce for the US business, economic and trade community, providing access to Global Business Opportunities & the National Trade Data Bank, and the State of the Nation Library.

GLOBUS (Global Business Opportunities) offers daily trade leads from the Trade Opportunities Program (TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture. GLOBUS also offers daily procurement activity from the Defense Logistics Agency, the United Nations, and the Commerce Business Daily leads.

The NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) provides access to Country Commercial Guides, Market Research reports, Best Market reports and other programs. The International Trade Library is a comprehensive collection of over 40,000 documents related to international trade. All are full text searchable, as well as keyword searchable by country or product.

The State of the Nation Library now includes Travel & Tourism Statistics from the International Trade Administration’s Office of Travel & Tourism. This new set of data tracks arrivals and departures to and from the United States, as well as market profiles based on country of origin and overseas visitors.

Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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ThomasNet (web version of Thomas Register)
Description: Directory of manufacturers, suppliers, industrial products/services in U.S. and Canada. Some product catalogs and CAD available.
Access: Free web access.
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UN Comtrade (United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database)
Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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UNData (replaces UN Common Database 2008)
Description: "...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."
Access: Free web access.
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Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. See ABI/INFORM Global

Description: Full text of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals. Includes subject area for Business.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: Varies by title.

Description: Provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators, with time series data (1960 to present) for more than 200 countries and 18 country groupings. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Updated monthly. Export to Excel and CSV.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
Coverage: 1960-present

Description: 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.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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Description: OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
Access: Licensed for UHM students, faculty and staff. Available on and off campus.
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