Electronic Resources in the Business and Economics Library

If you do not find a database that meets your needs, please contact us at: business@libraries.cul.columbia.edu 

  The key designates electronic resources that are available off-campus. Off-campus access to licensed electronic services is restricted to current students, staff, and faculty at Columbia University, Teachers College, and Barnard College. You must be a registered student, faculty, or staff member to access these resources off-campus; for more information, see the guidelines for off-campus use.

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ABI/INFORM Dateline (ProQuest Direct)
Contains complete articles from hundreds of local and regional publications that chronicle the day-to-day operations of thousands of U.S. and Canadian companies. Important business trends and events as well as regional market and economic conditions also receive considerable coverage. Coverage dates: 1985 - present

ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest Direct)
Periodical database specializing in business literature, including full text of over 1920 of the 2890 ABI/Inform titles. All titles are indexed and abstracted. Also included in ProQuest are Newspapers and General Periodicals. Coverage varies from 1971 - present.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (ProQuest Direct)
Search more than 1200 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. Coverage dates: 1971 - present

Accounting & Tax with Standards
Provides access to journal content and accounting standards, interpretations, and other texts from the leading standard boards--FASB, GASB, and IASB.

AdSpender [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
An online database that tracks millions of brands across 18 media and ranks top spenders by industry, parent, brand, etc.

Amadeus [Replaced by ORBIS]
Integrates data from all of BvDEP's databases. ORBIS includes full searching facilities and global standard report format for in-depth international searching and analysis.

American FactFinder
AmericanFactFinder (AFF) is an online source for population, housing, economic and geographic data that presents the results from four key data programs: Decennial Census of Housing and Population - 1990 and 2000, Economic Census 1997 and 2002, American Community Survey - 1996-present, Population Estimates Program - July 1, 2003-present

Associations Unlimited
Database covering over 152,000 organizations worldwide. Also includes U.S. regional, state and local associations. Entries provide directory (e.g., phone, address, web address, etc.) as well as descriptive (e.g., organization profile, conference schedule, etc.) information. Updates: 5 times a year.

Barclay Hedge Fund Directory
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
Published twice a year,  delivers in-depth analysis on the performance of the more than 1,800 hedge funds and funds of funds.  Statistical data includes rates of return, expected months to new peak and probability of losing, projectability and comparison with benchmarks.

Bloomberg
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
Online database providing current and historical financial quotes, business newswires, and descriptive information, research and statistics on over 52,000 companies worldwide. Printing is available. Downloading is not available. For search help see our Bloomberg Help Guide. There is also one Bloomberg terminal available in Lehman Library.

BoardEx [for access information email business@libraries.cul.columbia.edu] [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
Information on companies, and nonprofits. Allows users to analyze current and historical linkages between companies, individuals, not-for-profits organizations and other private associations.

Business and Company Resource Center
Business & Company Resource Center brings together a variety of global business information. Resources in the database include: Company profiles (including corporate parent/sibling relationships), Industry ranking, Products and brands, Stock prices, Investment reports, Industry statistics, Corporate chronologies and histories, Consumer marketing data, Emerging technology reports, Industry newsletter news and analysis, and Business journal news and analysis.

Business Plans Handbook
Compilation of actual business plans.

Business Source Complete
Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, international business, econometrics and economics. Contains full text of the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and other important journals. BSP also includes country reports from EIU and Global Insight as well as company reports from Datamonitor.

Capital IQ [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
Non business school affilates can use Capital IQ at one of the two designated terminals in the library.
Business School students and faculty must request individual accounts.  For access information see: Business 24/7 Help. Please note: this resource can be used by CURRENT students, faculty and staff ONLY.

 CEIC Data Manager
CEIC Data contains economic, industrial and financial time-series data and cover 117 countries and regions including detailed data on China. Data comes from analysts on the ground and the prime national and regional statistical agencies and major industrial data issuing organizations of each country covered.

 CEPR Discussion Papers
Over 3000 Discussion Paper Abstracts are currently available online and all Discussion Papers published since the beginning of 1999 (i.e. from No2050) are available as electronic [PDF] files. Discussion papers may have been presented at conferences or workshops, but will not have been published in journals.

Choices III (published by Simmons)
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
Choices is the successor to the Simmons' Study of Media and Markets. The database is a collection of consumer data about product and brand usage. Based on a survey of 30,000 households, it can be used to create customized reports analyzing the demographic and psychographic characteristics of product users and their media behavior. The latest available data is for 2004.

 China Data Online
Covers comprehensive economic and statistical data on China such as data on county and city levels. It also provides economic and industrial census data from the 1982, 1990, 1995, and 2004 China Censuses. Additionally, it offers a series of unique China GIS data products with administrative boundaries of province, city, county and township.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
A wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

Compact Disclosure
Available at Business Reserves desk
This database contains extracts of the Securities and Exchange Commission filings from 12,000 public companies.  Monthly CDs: 1990-2006.

 Conference Board. Business Knowledge Research
Provides full-text research reports from the Conference Board on the latest issues in business management and on United States and global economics, covering topics such as business outlook, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, human resource management, productivity, economic indicators and analysis/forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.

CountryWatch
Encyclopedic background articles, maps, selective up-to-date news, statistical data, financial data, and analysis covering 191 countries of the world. Organized for quick reference by region and country, and with full-text indexing for keyword searching. Service includes CountryReviews, Country NewsWire, wire service newsfeeds, Country Forums, currency converters, and other quick-reference resources for each country.

CountryWatch Forecast
A globally integrated 5-year macroeconomic forecast for each country of the world, including concise economic overviews complementing forecast tables and graphs, 5-years of historical data on key macroeconomic variables, and an interface that allows one to change forecast input assumptions to create customized country forecast scenarios.

Datastream
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
Large database of statistical time series covering stocks, bonds, commodities and economic data for numerous countries, along with company profiles. See the notebook at the workstation for instructions. Coverage varies by dataset.
NOTE: Also available in Lehman Library's Electronic Data Service Lab.

Data Insight [see Global Insight]

Dealscan  [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
DealScan contains global loan, high-yield bond and private placement data terms and conditions on over 100,000 transactions dating back to 1986. Approximately 250 new transactions are added weekly to the database. 

Directory of Alternative Investment Programs
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
CD-ROM database profiling over 500 active US and International institutions and advisors. The programs include pension funds, endowments, and funds-of-funds. Searches may be printed but not downloaded.

Global Insight
Global Insight contains time series, economic, and business data for the United States and international economies. Data is available for downloading into a spreadsheet. Country intelligence is also available.

EconLit
Comprehensive, indexed bibliography of worldwide literature on economics from over 300 major economics journals, books, and collected volumes. Coverage: 1969-present ; Updates: Quarterly

Economist Intelligence Unit [also known as EIU.com]
Includes Country Reports, Country Monitor, Country Forecast, and Country Commerce as well regional newsletters, and a time series database providing information and data on over 190 countries. Information is presented as analysis, briefings, commentary, or forecasts.

EIU Country Data
Analytical database of worldwide economic indicators and forecasts, covering more than 270 statistical variables in series for each of 115 countries. Data can be manipulated, displayed, graphed, analyzed and downloaded in various formats. Major data categories include economic structure, foreign payments, external debt stock, external debt service, external trade, trends in foreign trade, quarterly indicators.

Eurekahedge [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
EurekaHedge provides comprehensive data services on nearly 20,000 hedge funds and alternative funds worldwide. It covers directory, strategies, assets, industry trends and statistics, and news information on hedge funds, private equity funds, and specialist funds such as real estate funds and Islamic funds, etc. Historical data are available for each fund covered.

Factiva
Full-text database providing timely and detailed facts, figures and analyses of companies, industries and financial markets. Includes industry and trade publications, news sources, and company and market data. Coverage varies by source.

Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies
Virtual library of reports covering IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and World Wide Web, as well as technology vendors. FAITS also links to technology and business news resources such as Nando Net, The New York Times, Financial Times, NewsBytes, and the BBC.

Forrester Research (includes Jupiter Communications) [On-campus and off-campus access are restricted to CURRENT Columbia University students, faculty and staff.]
Forrester's research publications analyze a broad range of technology areas such as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications and the Internet, and project how technology trends will affect businesses, consumers, and society. Forrester reports include up-to-date industry statistics, as well as illustrative graphs and charts.

Fortune Lists
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
Fortune 1000 available in Excel format from 1996 - 2004; Fortune Global 500 available in Excel format from 2001 - 2004.  Spreadsheets may be downloaded or emailed.

 Foundation Directory
Foundation Directory provides descriptions of grant makers, including private grant-making foundations, community foundations, operating foundations, and corporate grant makers.

 Foundation Grants to Individuals
Comprehensive directory of grantmakers to individuals.

Galante's Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
CD-ROM version of Galante's print directory. Includes profiles of over 1,700 firms and investors, searchable by name, geography, type of firm, industry, size and other variables. Results may be printed but not downloaded. 

 Gartner Intraweb
In depth market research reports on information technology. Topic areas include: computing hardware, software infrastructure, IT services, communications, semiconductors and business objectives.

Global Development Finance Online
Global Development Finance Online (GDF) provides data on more than 200 external debt and financial flow indicators for the 134 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. The time series data run from 1970 to 2016, where available.

Global Financial Data
Global Financial Data contains historical financial and economic data on 200 countries. Data includes:long-term historical indices on stock markets; total teturn data on stocks, bonds, and bills; interest rates; exchange rates; inflation rates; bond indices; commodity indices and prices.

Global Insight (formerly DRI/WEFA Global Economics)
Global Insight contains time series, economic, and business data for the United States and international economies. Data is available for downloading into a spreadsheet. Includes Data Insight (Economic and Financial Data) and Country Intelligence.

Global Market Information Database (GMID)  [On-campus and off-campus access are restricted to CURRENT Columbia University students, faculty and staff.]
GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts.Coverage: 1977 to present, forecasts to 2016.

 Hoover's Company Capsules & Profiles (via Proquest)
Find information on 40,000 companies covered by Hoover's. Company Capsules and Profiles deliver information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Use the title or company field to search company names.

 Infoshare Online
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databases/3105451.html
Database of statistics about New York City from 1980 to the present. Consists of Official statistical data from U.S., New York State, and New York City agencies. Includes population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, and more.

 International Financial Statistics
The IFS database contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables.

Investext
Contains full-text research reports from over 1,400 investment banks, brokerages, and other third party researchers. The reports cover U.S. and international companies and are updated daily.

iRatings [Innovest]
Investment research analyzing a companies' performance on factors such as environmental, social, and strategic governance management.

ISI Emerging Markets
Full-text news, financial and economic information on emerging market countries.

JSTOR
Full-text articles from more than 600 scholarly journals in several disciplines

Jupiter Communications (now part of Forrester Research)
Database focusing on the impact of the Internet and new technologies on commerce and marketing. Covers a variety of regions (e.g., Europe, Latin America, Japan) and industries (e.g., automotive, consumer goods, financial services, health, and media & entertainment). Coverage: 1986 to present; Updates: Daily.

LehmanLive ® [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
LehmanLive ® is the online information system of Lehman Brothers, a global financial services firm. The online system provides access to capital-markets data, research, information, analytical tools, and ideas on all facets of the balance sheet. Access to LehmanLive ® is provided free of charge to the Columbia University Business School by Lehman Brothers.   LehmanLive ® is accessible in the Watson Library from one computer workstation only. Please ask at the circulation desk for more information.

LexisNexis Academic
Full-text database of over 6000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, SEC filings and international company reports, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works.

LexisNexis Statistical
Bibliographical citations to statistical information from the U.S. government, international intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), state governments, and private sources. Some items have links to full-text. Comprised of American Statistics Index (ASI),Index to International Statistics (IIS), and Statistical Reference Index (SRI). Coverage varies, updated monthly.

NBER Working Papers
Contains the full-text of working papers from the National Bureau of Economics Research. The NBER covers four areas of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policyproposals. Many of its publications, including its working papers, NBER reporter, and NBER digest, are available for download.

Orbis
Orbis integrates data from all of BvDEP's databases.Includes data for millions of public and private companies globally.

Osiris
OSIRIS is a comprehensive database of listed corporates, banks and insurance companies around the world. In addition to the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and ratios it contains news, ownership, ratings, earnings estimates and stock data. Covers over 120 countries, includes 55,000 publicly listed corporates (12,000 US and 43,000 non US) 1,500 banks, and 350 insurance companies.

PAIS International
Contains citations to periodical articles, books, government documents and research reports in business, finance, government, international relations, banking, environment, health, social sciences, political science, law, and legislations. It is international and multilingual. Many items contain abstracts. Coverage: most recent ten years; updates: monthly

ProQuest Direct
An interdisciplinary database covering more than 2,000 professional, scholarly, trade and general interest periodicals, including full-text for over a thousand titles and indexing/abstracts for the others. The database also covers 27 primary and secondary US newspapers (including a 90-day rolling file of The New York Times), 11 of which are in full-text. ProQuest Direct represents titles found in ABI-INFORM (Global Edition), Periodicals Abstracts (Research II Edition), and Newspaper Abstracts. Coverage: varies ; Updates: Daily

Ratings Direct. Standard and Poor's Corporation
Real-time database for global credit ratings, research and risk analysis. Provides historical ratings, research articles and breaking news.

ReferenceUSA
Directory information on U.S. and Canadian business, health care, and residential listings. Search by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, yellow page listing, revenue, location, number of employees or any combination of the above. In addition to address and phone number, each entry includes officer names and titles, corporate affiliation, business type and size of yellow page advertising. Toll free and fax numbers are given for some companies.

 RGE Monitor
RGE aggregates information on many global economic and geostrategic issues.

SDC Platinum (Also available through Thomson ONE Banker w/ StreetEvents - Click on the Deals tab at the top left of the screen)
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only) [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
The three components of the Business Library's subscription to SDC are: VentureExpert, which has data on venture capital deals from 1970 onward. 70% of the companies are private; Worldwide Merger and Acquisitions, which contains data on all corporate transactions involving at least 5% of the ownership of a company, varied coverage from 1980 onward.; New Issues, containing all taxable issues of debt, equity and taxable municipals since 1970.
Note: There is an embargo period of 60 days on the data in SDC. Data can be downloaded.

SourceOECD
The online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Includes all OECD books, reports, periodicals and statistical databases. Coverage: 1988 to the present, updated weekly.

Sports Business Research Network: SBRnet
Full-text database focusing on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. Provides market research and industry news on all aspects of the industry including sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing. Coverage: 1996 to the present, updated daily.

SRDS: Local Market Audience Analyst
SRDS delivers up-to-date consumer demographics, lifestyle analysis reports, and regional market profiles.

SRDS: Standard Rate and Data Service
SRDS delivers up-to-date media information, including detailed advertising rates, deadline dates and contact data for the print and broadcast.

SSRN: Social Science Research Network
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks in the social sciences. Topics covered by networks include accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship, and management (including negotiation and marketing). The SSRN eLibrary consists of abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection of downloadable full text documents in pdf format.

 Standard & Poor's Execucomp
Global industry surveys provide industry overviews and trends covering Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Each survey includes the following sections: current environment, industry trends, how the industry operates, key industry ratios and statistics, glossary, industry references and comparative company analysis.

Standard and Poor's Net Advantage
Contains Computstat stock reports, S&P Tear Sheet Reports, Global Industry Surveys and data on mutual funds. Updated annually.

STAT-USA
Contains most of the National Trade Databank, the Current Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business Procurement Opportunities (including the Commerce Business Daily and the Trade Opportunity Leads), the Survey of Current Business, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis data, including information not found at their website. Also contains press releases from the government for various statistical figures. Coverage is approximately 1990 to present, updates vary by file.

 StreetEvents [part of Thomson ONE Banker]
Access to company and industry conference call events coverage and their transcripts. Once in Thomson ONE Banker search by company and click on the News and Events tab.

Telegeography [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
Contains online databases and reports on subjects ranging from wireless carrier competition to global Internet backbone traffic. Provides statistics and insight on markets and service providers.

 TheDeal Pipeline
Integrated access to thedeal.com as well as data on deals, and bankruptcies.

 Thomson ONE Banker w/ StreetEvents
Thomson ONE Banker provides access to financial data on public companies, as well as merger and acquisition information and market data. Users can search and screen across databases to identify companies that meet your specific investment criteria as well as conduct peer analysis.  Includes SInvestext, StreetEvents, Private Equity database (Venturexpert) and Thomson Deals (SDC Platinum).

Thomson Research
Thomson Research contains real-time and historical SEC EDGAR filings, scanned images of company annual reports and foreign exchange filings.

 ULI Development Case Studies [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
Access to more than 300 detailed case studies of completed projects ranging from low-income housing to mixed-use downtown developments to commercial and industrial projects. The case studies provide photographs and site plans, information on costs and rents, innovative features and strategies of the project, and an explanation of the entire development process. It covers projects from 1985 to the present. Thirty new case studies are added every year.

UN Comtrade
UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) contains trade data (imports, exports and re-exports) from countries world-wide. For each country annual data can be retrieved by commodity and trading partner. Commodity is defined by either standard international product codes or international industry codes.

UNdata
More than 450 statistical time series for countries from around the world covering a wide range of economic and socio-demographic topics. Descriptions of the international sources and definitions used in compiling the data are included.

 USA Trade Online
USA Trade is a web-based product that allows for remote access to detailed trade data between the United States and its trading partners. Currently it is accessible only from Columbia network. Users can download data on the imports or exports of specific products in either Excel or ASCII format. Products are described at the various levels of detail within 10 digit U.S. Harmonized Schedule of code products.

 VentureXpert Web (Available through Thomson ONE Banker - Click on the Private Equity tab.)
VentureXpert is a venture capital and private equity research tool from Thomson Financial. It contains detailed information on venture capital and private equity deals in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) [Use restricted to CURRENT students, faculty and staff]
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only - Business School or Economics Department faculty and PhD students may  request a password.)
WRDS provides access to important databases in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy including Compustat, CRSP, Global Insight and OptionMetrics.

  Wilson Business Full Text
Provides indexing and abstracting of articles from over 800 English-language business magazines, trade and research journals, plus the full text of selected periodicals.

 World Bank e-library
The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. Searchable by region and topic; documents available as downloadable PDFs.

 World Development Indicators
WDI Online is a comprehensive database on development data covering 575 indicators, 225 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection of development data includes population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for more than forty years (1960 to 2000, where data are available).

World Telecommunication/ICT database [2007]
Business Electronic Resources (Library Use Only)
Contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975-2006 for around 100 sets of telecommunication statistics covering telephone network size and dimension, mobile services, quality of service, traffic, staff, tariffs, revenue and investment.

Worldscope
Available at Business Reserves desk
Contains basic financial information on public companies worldwide; international equivalent to Compact Disclosure.  1991 – 2006(quarterly)