Business & Economics Cluster

Datastream [electronic resource].

A database of global financial and economic information with comprehensive, historical coverage on over 140,000 securities and instruments from markets worldwide. Provides up to 40 years of history, including coverage of equities, indices, economics, commodities, forex, interest rates, fixed income instruments, and derivatives. Allows you to evaluate investment opportunities and corporate performance, compare international markets, analyze fund holdings and manage portfolios. Contains current and historical statistics on equities, indexes, investment trusts, warrants, bonds interest rates, exchange rates, commodities, and macroeconomic data for both U.S. and foreign countries. There are 3 different versions you may search - Advance, via MS Excel, or DSWindows (telnet). Advance is the easiest to use but provides less data. Dedicated terminals are located in the Walker Computer Lab and on the first floor of Regenstein Library. An Advance guide and a DSWindows guide are available.

Mediamark reporter [computer file].

Companion to various Mediamark Research reports. CD-ROM providing detailed demographic and marketing segements of media audiences. Cross tabulates product/service data by media audience and demographic characteristics (who buys what).

Mergers & acquisitions [electronic resource].

This application connects to SDC's full database of information. Of the eight available applications that SDC offers the GSB now has three - Venture Xperts, Global New Issue and Mergers and Acquisitions - available in the Walker Computer Lab 307. The library offers Mergers & Acquistions.

Value line investment survey for Windows [computer file].

Current issues of print counterpart, The Value line investment survey (HG4501.V26), available from Regenstein Circulation. Outlines company financial information intended to help investors make informed decisions that fit their individual goals and level of risk. Forecasts stock price performance relative to other stocks and provides interpretive analysis of about 1,700 individual stocks and over 90 industries. Includes historical information. Updated monthly.

World Bank Africa database [computer file].

Provides 1500 indicators of macroeconomic, sectoral and social data, covering 53 African countries. Time series include data from 1970 to 1997. Includes two sets of tables: At-a-Glance and African Development Indicators. Also contains two tools for data display: Query and Africa Briefings. Query allows display of 1300 time series; Africa Briefings allows preformatted display and analysis of key selected indicators for countries and groups.

 

Humanities and Social Sciences Cluster

 

Historical statistics of the United States on CD-ROM [computer file]: colonial times to 1970.

Corresponds to the print source, Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970. Contains all 57 chapters, including over 12,500 time series and the descriptive text. Material is presented in three ways: as an electronic book using the program DynaText, as Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet files, and as tab-delimited text files.

Index to current House of Commons parliamentary papers [computer file].

Index to House of Commons parliamentary papers [computer file].

Corresponds to a number of print sources. Indexes all House of Commons Parliamentary Papers published from 1801 to the current decade. Draws together material from the Subject catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary papers, 1801-1900, the House of Commons decennial indexes covering the period 1900-1979, and data from the Parliamentary Online Information Service (POLIS) Database from 1979 onwards. Some of the [Parliamentary papers] (Regenstein stacks J301.K6 and Microforms, floor 3 Regenstein microptJ1 and Microforms, floor 3 Regenstein microfcJ301 range, etc.) are available in the D'Angelo Law Library also.

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.

The electronic equivalent of the 5-volume work that provides tables of contents of 45 of the most significant English Victorian period periodicals from 1824 to 1900.