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ABI/INFORM: Article database that indexess academic journals, trade publications, newspapers and magazines in business and economics. Full text is often available.
Use the links to locate full text of articles that are not included in the database.
Accounting & Tax: Article database that indexes journals covering current accounting, taxation, and financial management information. The focus is on literature for practioners.
Use the links to locate full text of articles that are not included in the database.
Accounting & Tax with Standards: Combines the Accounting & Tax database with the full text of standards from FASB, GASB and IASB.
Accounting Research Network (ARN): Working papers in accounting. Many are freely available for download. Also includes information on job openings and upcoming conferences.
Part of the Social Science Research Network.
Agricola [National Agricultural Library]: Article database produced by the National Agriculture Library. Includes information on economics and marketing as well as statistics.
Bank Regulatory Database GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Contains five databases for regulated depository financial institutions. These databases provide accounting data for bank holding companies, commercial banks, savings banks, and savings and loans institutions. The source of the data comes from the required regulatory forms filed for supervising purposes.
Banking Information Source: Indexes essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.
Use the links to locate full text of articles that are not included in the database.
Bloomberg GSB restricted, access in the Hyde Park Center and Gleacher Center Labs.: Bloomberg features real time current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and futures for both international and domestic markets. It also has real time news feeds from business and general news services.
Business Monitor Online: Country risk, macroeconomic data and forecasts, company profiles and industry profiles and forecasts covering most countries. Also includes information on joint ventures and investments made by multinational companies.
Business Source Complete: Article database that includes trade publications, academic journals, industry profiles, country information and company profiles, which include SWOT analyses. Full text is often available.
Use the links to locate full text of articles that are not included in the database.
China Data Online: Economic and demographic statistics at the national, provincial, county and city levels.
COMPUSTAT GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: COMPUSTAT (from Standard & Poor's) provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 24,000 publicly held companies.
The GSB's subscription includes the North America, Global and Daily Emerging Markets segments
Conference Board: Business Knowledge Research: The Conference Board produces reports on ethics, corporate governance, leadership, executive compensation and other management topics. These are written from a non-partisan perspective. Particularly notable are their annual reports on CEO and Director compensation and corporate charitable giving.
CountryWatch: Demographic, political and economic data for countries worldwide. Also contains newswires that can be filtered by countries.
CRSP (The Center for Research in Security Prices) GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Data on security prices, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, and mutual fund databases.
Datastream: Access in Regenstein Library, first floor terminal A9, and in Hyde Park Center and Gleacher Labs
Current and historical time series data on stocks, stock indices, bonds, futures, interest rates, commodities, derivatives, exchange rates, and economic data.
Regenstein Library has access through Advance, DSWindows and an Excel add-in that allows searching directly from within Excel.
Datastream Advance Guide
DealscanGSB restricted, accessed via Loan Connector: Web-based database that holds term sheets for every syndicated loan in the market, including deal terms and conditions on over 50,000 loans, high yield bonds, private placements, and hybrid financing structures originated globally.
Directory of Alternative Investment Programs GSB Restricted: Directory of more than 1,150 limited partners and their advisors and placement agents.
Access at Fisher Library at the Gleacher Center.
EconLit with Full Text: EconLit indexes articles from economics journals, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers. It is a very good source for empirical studies on economics and finance.
Use the links to locate full text of articles that are not included in the database.
Economics Research Network: Working papers in economics. Many are freely available for download. Also includes information on job openings and upcoming conferences.
Part of the Social Science Research Network.
EconPapers: Freely available database of working papers in economics. Many papers are available for download for free as well.
EconStats: Free resource with statistics aggregated from a variety of sources. Most useful as a quick source of data.
Elsevier Handbooks in Economics: Each Handbook presents a self-contained survey of the current state of the field in a specific sub-field of economics. These surveys summarize the most recent discussions in journals, and elucidate new developments.
Factiva: Two segments. One is articles from over 8,000 sources including newswires, newspapers, magazines and trade publications, including sources from 118 countries in 22 languages. The second is company and market information, including stock prices, company profiles and financials as well as charting and graphing.
Some features and periodicals are not available in our academic subscription.
Guide to finding a specific journal in Factiva
Titles unavailable in our subscription
Facts on File World News Digest: Digests key events as reported in the major newspapers and news magazines of the U.S., Canada, Britain, and Australia and elsewhere.
FactSearch: Specialized database of full-text statistical statements on current social, economic, political, health, and environmental issues and public policy topics. Primarily excerpts of articles rather than full text.
N.B.: This database is no longer updated.
Fama French, Momentum, and Liquidity GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Fama-French Factors summarize (1) the performance of small stocks relative to big stocks and (2) the performance of value stocks relative to growth stocks.
More information as well as data can be found at the web site of Kenneth French
Also includes Pastor-Stambaugh Liquidity series and Sadka Liquidity measures.
Federal Reserve Bank Reports: Foreign exchange rates from the H.10 report, interest rates from the H.15 report and the FRB-Philadelphia State Indexes, a compartive economic index of the fifty states.
FDIC Datasets GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Datasets containing historical financial data for all entities filing the Report of Condition and Income (Call Report) and some savings institutions filing the OTS Thrift Financial Report (TFR). These entities include commercial banks, savings banks, or savings and loans.
More recent data are in the Bank Regulatory database
Financial Economics Network: Working papers in financial economics. Many are freely available for download. Also includes information on job openings and upcoming conferences.
Part of the Social Science Research Network.
First Call Historical Database GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Historical earnings estimates from analysts as well as actual data for comparison. This does not include First Call news or analyst reports.
FRED II -- Federal Reserve Economic Data: Database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series collected from U.S. Government agencies. Includes macroeconomic data, interest rates, exchange rates and employment and population data.
Galante's Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory GSB restricted: Directory of venture capital firms, leveraged buyout firms, leveraged lenders, mezzanine investors, turnaround investment firms and international private equity investors.
Access at Fisher Library at the Gleacher Center.
Gartner Research Online: Gartner Group provides up-to-the-minute research and in depth analysis on IT issues, dominant trends, companies and products. Comprehensive coverage of products and technologies associated with computer hardware, software, communications products, financial services, electronic business and healthcare application software.
Our subscription does not include all reports. Use the advanced search to limit to "Research you own".
Global Insight GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Data on national income accounts, balance of payments, foreign debt, exchange rates, money supply, employment and more.
The GSB subscribes to Basic Economics.
Global Market Information Database: Market research reports and statistics on consumer markets, economic and statistical data, company profiles and consumer lifestyles reports.
Hoover's Company Records via ProQuest: Features profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives. Includes financial data, key competitor lists and corporate histories.
Hoover's Online GSB restricted See note on access: Features profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives. Includes financial data, key competitor lists and corporate histories. This version offers screening by size, sales, etc.
Ibbotson EnCorr GSB restricted: A portfolio selection tool that integrates historical data analysis, strategic asset allocation, forecasting, style analysis, and portfolio attribution with a wide range of statistical and graphical analyses. There are over 3500 US and international macroeconomic time series.
Access in the Hyde Park Center and Gleacher Center Labs.
I/B/E/S GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Consensus and detail forecasts from security analysts, including earnings per share, revenue, cash flow, long-term growth projections and stock recommendations.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR): ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and includes many large time-series.
Downloading of data is currently restricted to the GSB, Harris School and Social Science Division.
Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb (United States International Trade Commission): Detailed information on imports, exports and tariffs. Free registration is required for access.
International Financial Statistics (IMF): Statistics on all aspects of international and domestic government finance. Includes exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, production prices, international transactions, and government and national accounts.
Investext Plus: Full text of analyst reports from major brokerage houses and investment banks. Reports from the last 2-4 weeks are unavailable, depending on the issuer.
JSTOR: Articles from scholarly journals. JSTOR is an archival collection that focuses on the core journals in major disciplines. It does not include articles from the last 2-5 years, depending on the title.
LexisNexis Academic: Articles from newspapers, trade publications, news wires and broadcast transcripts. Business segment includes company profiles and SEC filings.
LexisNexis Statistical: Indexing to statistics published in a wide range of sources. Only some full-text is available directly in the database.
Legal Scholarship Network: Working papers in law and related topics. Many are freely available for download. Also includes information on job openings and upcoming conferences.
Part of the Social Science Research Network.
Macroeconomic Time Series Data Source Locator: This service provides you with a list of macroeconomic data sources available at the University of Chicago Library categorized by year, geographic location and subject. Types of sources include books, journals, yearbooks, CD-ROMs and Internet resources.
The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic LIterature: Electronic book collection from the Goldsmith Library at the University of London and the Kress Collection from Baker Library at Harvard Business School. It comprises almost 60,000 pre-1850 monographs and 466 pre-1906 serials on economics, trade, commerce, social conditions, slavery and more.
Management Research Network: Working papers in management and related topics. Many are freely available for download. Also includes information on job openings and upcoming conferences.
Part of the Social Science Research Network.
MediaMark Reporter: CD-ROM database that provides information on demographics, lifestyles, product and brand usage, and advertising media preferences. Data are from 2000 and are no longer updated.
Access on the first floor of Regenstein Library, workstation A11.
Mergent FISD GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: The Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database (FISD)is a comprehensive database of publicly-offered U.S. bonds. FISD contains issue details on over 140,000 corporate, corporate MTN (medium term note), supranational, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Treasury debt securities and includes more than 550 data items. The database also covers ratings changes by the major credit rating companies.
Mergent Online: Financial data, equity pricing, debt data and annual reports for publicly traded companies worldwide. Up to 15 years or quarters are available.
Mergent WebReports (Moody's Manuals): Online archive of the Moody's/Mergent Manuals. These include company financial and debt information, officers, subsidiaries and capital structure. Coverage begins in 1909.
Mintel Reports: Market research on consumer markets. Mintel focuses on the U.S. and U.K. but does produce reports on other European and Asian markets from time to time.
One-time registration required
NBER Working Papers: Current research papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that publishes working papers from over 1000 researchers from colleges and universities around the country.
NYSE TAQ GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues.
OneSource Global Business Browser: Company profiles, financial data, corporate structures and executive biographies. Also has industry profiles and reports.
PHLX(The Philadelphia Stock Exchange's United Currency Options Market (UCOM)) GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Data on currency options traded on the Philadephia Exchange. Includings pricing, volume and volatility.
Polling the Nations: Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations and Theses: Indexing and abstracting of dissertations and these written at Universities across North America with some international coverage. The full text of most dissertations written from 1997 to the present is available through the database.
ProQuest Historical Annual Reports: Annual reports for over 900 companies available from 1844 - 1985. The emphasis is on the largest companies and includes most Fortune 500 companies.
ProQuest Newspapers: Full text of over 300 newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, the New York TImes, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
PsycINFO via APA PsycNET: Article database covering psychology. Many articles relate to consumer behavior, organizational behavior and decision making.
ReferenceUSA: Directory database that covers the U.S. and Canada. Screen by geography, revenue, employee size and more. Includes corporate linkage showing parent and subsidiary relationships. Our subscription limits downloading to fifteen records at a time.
Regional Economic Accounts: Provides local area economic data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas. Includes State GDP, income, earnings and employment.
Scopus: Index and abstract database that covers over 15,000 journals. Coverage of business and economics is best for 1996 - present. Includes information on cited references and articles that have cited other articles.
SDC Platinum Mergers & Acquisitions: Detailed information on mergers and acquistion activity worldwide. Includes company financial data, advisors and fees and other data.
Access in Regenstein Library, first floor reading area, workstation A10. The same data can be accessed online in Thomson ONE Banker, although it is easier to construct complex search strategies in the SDC interface.; The Global New Equities and Venture Capital databases that were formerly available to GSB users via SDC Platinum are now included in Thomson ONE Banker
SEC Disclosure Order of Execution GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Data from market centers that trade national market system securities must make monthly, electronic disclosures of basic information concerning their quality of executions on a stock-by-stock basis, as mandated by the SEC.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN): Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
SourceOECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development): Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals from the OECD. These cover macroeconomics, trade, education, development and science and innovation.
Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage: Features S & P's Industry Surveys, which provide macro-level analysis of 56 major industries. Also includes company profiles and financial data with analyst rankings of investment potential as well information about company executives.
Thomas Register: Free directory of manufacturers and industrial suppliers. An excellent source for determining who manufactures a particular type of machinery or equipment.
Thomson Financial Securities Data GSB restricted, accessed via WRDS: Institutional and insider stock transactions aggregated from SEC filings. A third segment covers stocks held by mutual funds.
Thomson ONE Banker: Comprehensive database of company financial data. It incorporates Disclosure financials, First Call estimates and recommendations, Datastream price history and SDC Platinum M&A, New Issues and Venture Capital information.
Off-campus access is only available using the VPN Client
Thomson Research: Company financials and SEC filings. Includes annual reports for U.S. and international companies from 1996 - present.
United Nations Common Database: Statistics compiled by various UN agencies covering a wide range of economic and socio-demographic topics. Includes agriculture, demographics, public health and economic indicators.
USA Trade Online: Database of imports and exports for the United States. Data can be broken down by commodity, trading parner and port of entry/exit.
Value Line Investment Analyzer: Investment analysis tool that provides screening tools for selecting stocks. Includes the full entry from the print edition of Value Line for each company covered.
Access in Regenstein Library, first floor workstation A-11. Previous editions may be checked out from the circulationdesk, call number CDRom HG4501.V263.
Wall Street Journal -- current issues: Full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 - current, including the current day's articles. Does not include charts, tables and other illustrations.
Wall Street Journal -- historical issues: Full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1889 - 1989. Includes stock tables, charts and other illustrations as well as advertising.
Web of Science (includes the Social Science Citation Index): Article database that provides links to other articles cited by an article. It also allows searching for articles that have cited an article or other source.
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) GSB restricted, see note on access: WRDS is a web-based common interface to a collection of financial databases, including CRSP and COMPUSTAT. See a list of available databases by clicking on the my.wrds tab and choosing account permissions.
World Development Indicators Online: Statistics compiled by the World Bank. Includes over 900 indicators covering demographics, environment, economics, public health and more.

Other Electronic Resources at the University of Chicago Library

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
GSB Faculty and Ph.D. students may sign-up for an account through the Account Registration link on the WRDS web page. Use your GSB email address during sign-up, or we will not be able to pass your account information on to you. MBA students will receive access only through a generic account updated each quarter. The logon account will be sent to registered student a week before the start of the quarter. Students must contact the helpdesk to obtain the password ((773) 702-7414, helpdesk@gsb.uchicago.edu).

Loan Connector
Dealscan users will need a user ID, password that can be obtained from the GSB Computing Services Help Desk ((773) 702-7414, helpdesk@gsb.uchicago.edu).

Hoovers Online
Hoovers Online is a combination of free information and subscription information, which is indicated by a lock icon. Access to the subscription portions of Hoovers Online is restricted to the GSB. GSB users must contact the Fisher Career Resource Center or GSB Career Resource Center for password information.

Mintel Reports
Access is restrcted to current students, faculty and staff. You must register with Mintel before you receive full access to the database. Registration allows you to save searches for later use but will not allow you to access Mintel from off-campus without using the proxy server. Please use a University of Chicago email address when registering.