FIN 4521 Resources
Applied Portfolio Management

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

General Internet Information

UCF Library Homepage provides links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/

• ABI/INFORM (ProQuest database) provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and a wide variety of other topics. It gives you informative indexing and substantive abstracts to articles from nearly 1,800 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S. Provides access to the full text, page image of articles from over 600 journals. Dates of coverage: 1971+   A companion archival database has full text of some historical business journals, with the earliest coverage dating back to 1905.
• Business & Company Resource Center (Gale database) provides company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals articles covering company and industry news. Reports and forecasts prepared by top Wall Street and international brokerage firms. More than 11,000 U.S. and international companies and 53 industries are covered. Includes PROMT, Newsletters, and Investext Plus.  Historic reports similar to those found online in Investext are available in the UCF Library on microfiche for 1979-1991 in CIRR : Corporate and Industry Research Reports, providing over 100,000 analytical research reports prepared by leading analysts and economists from regional, national, and international securities and investment firms.
• Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost database) provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
• CCH Internet Research Network provides full text of various CCH publications, including Federal Securities Report Letters, Global Capital Market Report Letters, NYSE Proposed Rule Filings, etc.
• Corporate Affiliations Online provides online access to the Directory of Corporate Affiliations with information about more than 174,000 parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions - all the way down to the seventh level of reporting relationships.
• DataMonitor Library Service (Reuters database) provides international market research covering 6 sectors: automotive; consumer; energy; financial services; healthcare and technology.
• Hoovers Online provides directory information, brief histories and financials on companies, industries, people and products, as well as business news.
• Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios (D&B database) provides 14 key business ratios, including numbers for solvency , efficiency and profitability, for major industries. Median figures, with upper and lower quartiles, are presented.
• JSTOR provides full text, page image from approximately 300 scholarly journals, including International Economic Review (1960-1998), Journal of Money, Credit & Banking (1969-1997), Journal of Political Economy (1892-2000) and Journal of Business (1922-2001).
• LexisNexis Databases: Academic provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18,300 sources, including access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Their files are updated with full-text documents from general interest wire services, newspapers, and magazines from around the world.   Statistical provides the full text of Statistical Abstract of the U. S., plus indexing and abstracts (with some full text available) from American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS).
• Mergent Online provides financial and background information, income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, long term debt and Edgar (SEC) documents, on over 10,000 U.S. public corporations. Covers current 5 years for most data. Corresponds to Moody's: Municipal & Government, Bank & Finance, Industrial, OTC Industrial, OTC Unlisted, Public Utility, Transportation, and International. Formerly FISOnline and Moody's Company Data.  Moody's Manuals are available in the UCF Library back to 1914, either on microfiche or in bound paper copies.
• NetAdvantage provides full text access to many Standard & Poor's publications.
• Political Risk Yearbook Online contains unbiased detailed political risk assessment for 100 strategic countries based on the research & knowledge of political & economic analysts & consultants. Includes social & economic conditions, business climate, forecasts, trade information & more. Data is updated annually in January.
• Reference USA provides a searchable database of over 12 million U. S. businesses.
• Science Direct provides the electronic full-text version of approximately 650 of Elsevier's research journals, including approximately 85 economics and business titles.  Dates of coverage: 1997+
• STAT-USA (U.S. Dept of Commerce) - State of the Nation provides current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data. GLOBUS & NTDB provide current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).
• Value Line Investment Survey provides financial summaries and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks and more than 90 industries. UCF Library has microfiche historic data since 1969.
• Wall Street Journal (ProQuest database) Online full text access is 1982+.  Microfilm full text is available by title in the Newspaper files, 1925+. Bound paper index covers 1958+ [Index HG1.W26]
• World News Connection (Dialog database) provides Full text English-language translations or summaries of newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, conference proceedings, and reports. Strong coverage of local media sources. Created by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

• Business Resources provides links to business journals, information portals and other noteworthy business sites identified by the UCF Library's LINE Office.

• Resources for Statistics, Demographics & Census

Other Useful Web Sites:

• Finance Related Resources (UCF Finance Dept)
  http://www.bus.ucf.edu/finance/cgi-bin/site/sitew.cgi?page=/resources.htx

• Virtual Finance Library (WWW Virtual Library - Finance)
  http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/overview.htm

• Statistical Resources on the Web - Finance & Banking (Univ of Michigan)
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecfin.html

• Instructor's Website (UCF - Dr. James H. Gilkeson)
  http://www.bus.ucf.edu/gilkeson/

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