BUSINESS FINANCE


	HENRY G. BENNETT LIBRARY SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY BUSINESES FINANCE RESEARCH INFORMATION RESOURCES

Marketing research involves using most business publications, so there are many resources listed here that may at first glance, not be useful to marketing research.

BASIC FINDING TOOLS

Basic finding tools are items that you can use to locate sources of business information. These resources tell you what books, magazines, people and organizations to contact to find business information.

R 650.072
L39b Business Information: How to Find it, How to Use it
Provides descriptions of major business publications and the basic concepts essential for using these publications properly. It provides a discussion on the value and cost of information, and the general characteristics of business information, statistical reasoning. It discusses finding books, documents and statistical reports, locating reference materials, locating experts, and searching journals, newspapers and news services. It provides information about sources of information about companies, such as: national business directories, specialized business directories, financial information on private and public companies, sources of basic investment information, investment advice and analysis, statistical sources, industry statistics, marketing information, and business information, this is an invaluable resource.

R 332.1753 International Business Information: How to Find it, How to Use it
Provides information on general sources for international business research, sources for company information, corporate affiliations and corporate change, international credit information and rankings, international marketing research, exporting and importing, economic statistics, industry information, international trade and payments, and more.

R 353 Un3s United States Government Manual
This is the official handbook of the Federal Government. It provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.

R 061.3
G13ENC Encyclopedia of Associations
Guide to nearly 23,000 national and international organizations, including: Trade, Business, and Commercial; Environmental and Agricultural; Legal, Governmental, Public Administration and Military; Engineering, Technological, and Natural and Social Sciences, Educational; Cultural; Social Welfare; health and Medical; Ethnic; Religious; Labor Unions, Associations, and Federations; Chamber of Commerce and Trade and Tourism

R 338.02973 Standard Industrial Classification Manual
This publication classifies all types of economic and business activities by what they do or produce. For example, coal mining, oil and gas mining, railroad transportation and retail stores are each given their own classification number. This SIC code number is used by most business directories, business indexes, and other business publications, so it is very important to understand.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES and GUIDES

Encyclopedias and dictionaries present basic information about a topic. They are a good starting point for research.

Encyclopedia of Business
A new encyclopedia that contains articles on many aspects of business, including: business terms, government agencies that effect business, such as: the Federal Trade Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. There are also non profit organizations included that effect business, such as the Better Business Bureau. Also included are business law topics, such as affirmative action, age and employment, environmental law and business, equal opportunity, sex discrimination, sexual harassment, commercial law, AIDS in the workplace, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Civil Rights Act of 1991.

R 338.709 Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography
This set contains historical and biographical information on the major industries in United States history, such as: railroad, automobile, aviation, oil, iron and steel, and banking.

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BUSINESS DIRECTORIES

Business Directories provide basic information about a company. They usually have the company, name, address, telephone number, geographic location, and product or industry. They are used primarily as location guides, giving you access to the company.

R 658.1
P79r Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directories and Executives
Contains basic business information on 55,000 corporations and 500,000 corporate executives.

R 338 W62 Who's Who in Finance and Industry

R 338 W 21 Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
Contains basic information on 133,000 public and private companies. For each company the company name, address, and phone number are given, plus the fax number, financial information number of employees, type of company (public, private, subsidiary, division), year founded and import/export designation.

R 338.74 Hoover's Handbook of American Business
Contains profiles of over 500 major U.S. companies. For each company listed, there is an overview section which talks about the current status of the business, a history of the business, and financial information.

R 338 Am3 American Manufacturers Directory
Contains 161,000 manufacturing companies in the U.S. that have 20 or more employees

R 3378.7 Ok4 Oklahoma Business Directory
Contains more than 151,000 businesses of all kinds and sizes. Lists businesses by city, yellow page category and businesses with 100 or more employees

R 338.74
D62 Directory of European Business
Gives the operating environment, business organizations, leading companies, government structure, business services, national newspapers, business periodicals and statistical sources for countries of Europe, including new ones.

R 338.88
D62 Directory of Multinationals
Provides information on 428 of the largest industrial corporations in the world. For each company, it contains a listing of directors, products made, background information and current situation, a five year financial summary, and principal subsidiaries.

CORPORATE FINANCES

Disclosure of financial information by corporations. All corporations produce financial information, but for many corporations, that information is not public. Businesses that are public businesses, must report on their financial activity to government agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission. However privately owned companies are not required to disclose any financial information, and so financial information is harder to come by.

Sources of Corporate Finances

Primary sources of financial data, for public companies, are the Annual Report to Stockholders, and Form 10-K reports

Annual Reports
Company annual reports contain financial data, as well as mission statements, and plans for the future. The library has around 250 company annual reports of major corporations.

Form 10-K reports
Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission

Secondary sources of financial data

R 332 Moody's Manuals
Moody's manuals provide: financial statements, history, background, mergers and acquisitions, subsidiaries, business constructional programs, principal plants and properties, names and titles of officers of a large number of public companies. Private companies are not included. The manuals are published once a year, and weekly or twice weekly news reports update the information found in the manuals. There are five different manuals. Information is obtained directly from the corporation, or from financial reports given to the stockholders and the SEC.

R 332.6
V23 Value Line Investment Survey
Contains stock and financial information and analysis on individual companies, as well as analysis on industries as a whole.

Basement Fortune 500
Published every spring as a special issue of Fortune Magazine since 1955, this contains information on the 500 largest public industrial and service companies in the United States by revenues. For each company listed, it gives revenues, profits, assets, stockholders equity, market value, profits as a percentage of revenues, assets and stockholders equity, earning per share, and total return to investors. It also analyzes the 500 companies by performance, such as highest profits, biggest increase in profits, biggest increase in revenues, and highest returns on revenues, assets and stockholders equity.

Basement Forbes International 500
Published each year as a special issue of Forbes Magazine, it gives the largest corporations in the world by a composite ranking of sales, profits, assets, and market value.

Basement Forbes Annual Mutual Fund Survey
Published as a special issue of Forbes Magazine, it rates stock funds, balanced funds, global stock funds, foreign stock funds, taxable bond funds, municipal bond funds, junk bond funds, global bond funds, taxable money funds, and tax-free money funds.

Basement Forbes: The Best Small Companies
Published as a special issue of Forbes Magazine, it gives basic information (what each company does, sales debt/equity, market value and other financial information) for the top 200 United States companies who have less than 350 million in revenues.

Basement Forbes: Companies
Published each December as a special issue of Forbes Magazine. For each company listed, it gives a brief description of what it does, the name of the chief executive, revenues, operating and net profits, number of employees.

Basement Inc 500: The Fastest-Growing Private Companies
Published every year as a special issue of Inc Magazine. For each company, it contains number of employees, date founded, sales growth, sales for the year.

Basement Franchise 500
Published each year as a part of Entrepreneur Magazine. Contains information and rankings of the top 500 franchises in the United States every year.

R 332.6322
M771 Moody's Industry Review
Contains comparative statistics of companies in different industries, such as advertising, airlines, cable and Pay TV, machine tools and many more.

INVESTMENT INFORMATION: BASIC, ADIVCE AND ANALYSIS

R 332.6
V23 Value Line Investment Survey.
According to Business Information, "For sheer volume of information few sources can compare with this extensive publication." Contains stock and financial information and analysis on over 1700 individual companies that are grouped into 90 industries, as well as analysis on industries as a whole. It comes in three parts:
Summary and Index;
Published weekly, this is an alphabetical listing of all 1700 stocks at their most recent prices. To the left of each stock listed is the page number that you will find the detailed information on the stock in the Ratings and Reports.
Selection and Opinion;
This section contains opinion on selected stocks, markets and industries. Gives advisable investment strategies and analysis of interesting industries. It also gives extensive reports on one or two stocks that Value Line editors think are worth noting.
Ratings and Reports;
This contains the full stock report for all 1700 stocks. The 1700 stocks are divided into 13 sections. One section is updated each week, so information on any particular stock is never more than 13 weeks old. For each stock listed it gives: dividend yield, earnings yield, current assets, liabilities, number of shares traded monthly, a condensed summary of the business, a report on recent developments and prospects, and Value Line's advice on the strength of the stock.

MOODY'S Handbook of Common Stocks.
Provides quick and easy access to basic financial information on over 900 stocks with high investor interest. Provides financial information plus background, recent developments and prospects for the future for each company area listed.

Business America: the Magazine of International Trade
Designed to help American exporters penetrate markets by providing them with timely information on opportunities for trade and methods for doing business in foreign countries.

STATISTICAL INFORMATION

United States Bureau of the Census
    The Bureau's main job is to conduct, tabulate, and analyze the census it conducts every ten years. It publishes many volumes on each census, plus special reports during the intervening years. Here are just some of the publications of the Bureau of the Census:

CD-ROM 1990 Census of Population and Housing
The Census is the most important source of demographic data there is in the United States. It is the basis of many other reports and studies on the population of the United States. Compiled by the Bureau of the Census. Contains a massive amount of statistical information on the American people. Contains statistics on housing, race, families, marital status, income, educational attainment, poverty and many other topics. These statistics are presented by state, and by city. Each state is on a separate CD.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
This annual publication has been published since 1878, and it is very useful because it pulls together from many different resources statistical information in one volume. It contains statistics from both government agencies and private sources. Data is generally at the national ar state level, but there is some data at the metropolitan level. For each table of statistics presented, it gives the source of the information, where you can generally get more complete data. It covers such topics as: population, vital statistics, health and nutrition, law enforcement, parks, elections, labor force, income, expenditures, finance, communications, and more.

Census Catalog & Guide
Contains a complete listing of Census Bureau publications.

County Business Patterns
Provides data, by county, on all business establishments with one or more paid employees.

County and City Data Book 1994
Provides data on counties of the United States, and cities of population of 25,000 or more. It provides area and population statistics, population statistics, vital statistics, statistics on health care, social programs, and crime, statistics on education and money income, education and poverty, housing, building permits, labor force, how people get to work, number of vehicles, personal income, wholesale and retail trade and more.

C59.11 Survey of Current Business
Published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, this periodical contains articles and statistics on many different aspects of business.

NTBD (National Trade Data Bank)
The National Trade Data Bank is a U.S. Department of Commerce Service which selects the best international trade and economic information available, and provides it monthly on a CD-ROM disc. The NTDB contains over 100,000 documents of current information from 17 U.S. Government agencies.

NESE (National Economic, Social and Environmental Databank)
Compiles data from several government agencies on domestic economic, social, environmental topics.

Basement Federal Reserve Bulletin
Published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, this monthly contains several articles in each issue on banking and finance, plus many tables of statistics.

Basement Monthly Labor Review
Contains articles and statistics on the labor force, labor-management relations, business conditions, industry productivity, compensation, occupational safety and health, and demographic trends.

Employment and Earnings
Published monthly by the Department of Labor, contains statistics on employment and unemployment, earnings of the employed, and characteristics of the employed and unemployed.

C 61.34: U.S. Industrial Outlook. (annual)
Contains business analysis and trends and forecasts for 350 major industries.

R 353.9
B64b The Book of the States
Published annually by the Council of State Governments, this source has numerous facts on state in the United States, such as: all the state Constitutions, information on state executives, state legislatures, state judiciary, state budgets, state revenue and expenditure, state taxes. It also contains information on state government employment and payrolls, public employee retirement systems. There is also a chapter on state programs and issues, such as: education, corrections, environmental management, labor, health care, and highways. For each state program revenue and expenditures statistics are given.

FINDING INFORMATION IN MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, AND NEWSPAPERS

Magazines and journals and newspapers are good sources to find business information. There are many, many business journals. How do you find what you need in a business journal?

MAGAZINES,JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS

A magazine or journal is something that is published periodically, and so in libraries they are called periodicals. A magazine is a periodical that can be published daily, weekly, or monthly. Magazines usually contain fairly short articles written in a style of writing that is easy to understand. There are usually lots or advertising in a magazine. A journal, however, contains the results of research or experiments done. Usually in a journal article there is data presented about a research project, and the language can be quite technical, and there are few advertisements.

Unlike books, the contents of journals are not available in the SE library catalog. So where are they located? They are located in magazine and journal indexes. Magazine and journal indexes assign a subject to each article in each journal indexed in the magazine and journal index. Until the 1990's most magazine and journal indexes were in paper, now they are almost all on the Internet. Some of these journal indexes on the Internet index popular magazines, other scholarly, while others are devoted to one subject area, NO Journal Index indexes every journal that is published, so they are selective.

HOW TO FIND ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, MAGAZINES

Step One: Look in a Periodical Index

A periodical index is a publication that indexes the content of periodicals. There are many different periodical indexes, some general and some subject specific. One thing needs to be made clear: There is not any periodical index that indexes every single periodical being published today. So each index is selective in what periodicals it indexes. Periodical indexes tend to index the most important or most popular or most respected or well known periodicals.

PAPER PERIODICAL INDEXES

For many years periodical indexes were published in paper, like a book. They would usually come out every few months with an update, and then come out at the end of the year with an annual cumulation. Paper periodical indexes are cumbersome to use and take some take to look at every year, but they can contain information on many valuable articles written sometimes years ago, and paper indexes are valuable places to search for topics in music, drama, art, literature and history.

Basement	International Index An index to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities. The index begins in 1907 and ends in 1964.
basement	Social Sciences and Humanities Index An index to articles appearing in several hundred magazines and journals. Coverage begins in 1965 and continues to 1974.
Basement	Humanities Index An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the humanities. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1993.
Basement	Social Sciences Index An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the social sciences. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1998.
Basement	Art Index An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the arts. Coverage begins in 1967 and continues until 2002.
Basement	Poole's Index to Periodical Literature A guide to periodical literature published in 1802-1906.This is a hard index to use, so see a reference librarian.
Basement	Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature A general subject index to about 200 popular magazines. We have this index from 1915 to the present.
Basement	New York Times Index Index to the New York Times, a major national newspaper. The library has the New York Times from 1851 to the present on microfilm. The index is subject arranged. Paper indexes begin in 1929, and from 1851 to 1928 they are on microfiche. There is an online Index to the New York Times available at: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html

ONLINE PERIODICAL INDEXES

In the 1980's many Paper Periodical Indexes became digitized and now most periodical indexes are online on the Internet. In this form they can still be called indexes, but they are usually referred to as DATABASES.

Why use online databases?

It is much easier to use online databases, and you can search years of a database with one search
You can also find the most recent articles on any topic because most online databases are updated daily or weekly

There is a disadvantage to online databases for those who are researching topics in history or literature

Most online databases go back only to the 1990's or the 1980's, and so many potentially valuable articles in older magazines and journals can be missed if you search only in online databases.

Some Online Databases that the SE Library Has

FirstSearch	Article First This database contains citations to articles that appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities, and popular culture. With over 15,000 journals indexed, this is one of the largest journal databases in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to the present, and is updated daily.
EBSCOHost	Academic Search Premier The SE Library has subscribed to a new database called Academic Search Premier. This database has been designed specifically for academic institutions and EBSCOHost claims that, it is “the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.” Indeed, it is larger that the database that it is replacing, Academic Search Elite. It contains full text for nearly 4,550 journals and magazines, whereas Elite has only 2050. It has indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 titles. It contains full text for many journals back to the 1990’s and for one hundred journals there is full text back to 1975.
EBSCOHost	Business Source Premier "Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost."
EBSCOHost	Regional Business News "This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. This database is updated on a daily basis."
EBSCOhost, and FirstSearch	ERIC ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a very large education database that has been around since 1966. It was funded by the U.S. Department of Education until 2003, and since has been in limbo. So the database is current as of the end of 2003. IT contains over 1 million records in two types: (1) ERIC Documents, which are classroom guides, results of research not published, dissertations, manuals, results or research, and (2) Journal articles from almost 1000 journals. A new contractor for ERIC, called CSC, is currently putting 2004-2005 materials into the ERIC database. About 107,000 of the ERIC Documents from 1993-2004 are available full-text online. There is another online version at the Department of Education website, at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ For more information on ERIC, go to the following website: http://www.se.edu/lib/eric.htm
EBSCOhost	Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
EBSCOhost	PsychInfo PsychInfo contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the late 1800's includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.
EBSCOhost	PsycARTICLES "PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 52 journals. Examples of titles offered in PsycARTICLES include: American Psychologist, Behavioral Neuroscience, Canadian Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training, etc. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present."
EBSCOhost	Communication and Mass Media Complete "Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields."
FirstSearch	H.W. Wilson Select Full Text Covers 1,600 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: *Readers'* *Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science* *Abstracts, and Business Abstracts* and other Wilson databases. It is updated weekly. An important feature of this database is that all articles are full text.
EBSCOhost	MasterFILE Premier Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost	MAS Ultra School Edition Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
EBSCOhost	Middle Search Plus Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and Junior high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost	Primary Search Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
FirstSearch	MLA Bibliography This database is compiled by the Modern Language Association, and is one of the top indexes of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. It contains over 1.3 million citations to over 6,500 periodicals and other publications. It covers from 1963 to the present, and is updated 9 times a year.
ABI-Inform	ABI Inform This database provides abstracts to articles from trade magazines, academic journals and international professional publications in the following subject areas: accounting, advertising, auditing, banking, broadcasting, computers, economics, engineering, finance, foreign investment, health care, human resources, insurance, international trade, international trends, investment analysis, management, marketing, planning and strategy, public administration, real estate, taxation, telecommunications and transportation. It covers almost 4000 publications from 1971 to the present. More Information on ABI Inform
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index	Criminal Justice Periodicals Index This is a database containing journals from criminal justice.

NEWSBANK

NewsBank Infoweb
http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm
NewsBank consists of two parts:
Access World News
"Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Never before could researchers pinpoint information so easily for one source or country, or any combination specified by the user. Newspaper archives provide a rich source of information for researchers. This archive provides comprehensive coverage of current events (history in the making) and historical events. Each newspaper or wire service provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including specific information about local companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and the people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded."

America's News Magazines
"America's News Magazines from NewsBank provides full-text articles from various familiar magazines in one easy-to-search database. These leading magazines provide coverage and analysis of current events in a range of categories including: news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, and sports. Paid advertisements are excluded."
The above information was obtained from the About part of the Newsbank Webpage.

1. Where the Databases are located
These databases are all to be found on the SE Library's Electronic Resources Page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm

2. What EBSCOHost and FirstSearch are
The word EBSCOhost or FirstSearch to the right of the database name in the table above indicates the name of the database vendor where you can find these databases. If you look at the list of links on the ELectronic Resources page, you will see the links organized by the type of database that they are. You will find EBSCOhost and FirstSearch under the listing of databases called Periodical Databases. When you go down the list, you will see at least two links for both EBSCOhost and FirstSearch. The first link is for those that are on the SE campus. Click on that link, and you will be taken to the list of databases under EBSCOhost or FirstSearch. The second link is the off campus link. This link is necessary to use if you are off of the SE Campus. This link takes you to a page where you will be asked to type in a userid or authorization number, and a password. The userid or authorization number and password to gain access to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch is available at the SE Library Reference Desk, and also is on the proxy server.

What the Periodical Databases part of the Electronic Resources Page looks like on the SE Library's Webpage. You can see the links to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch

Step Two: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text

(the steps from here on pertain only to online databases)

Databases have changed much in the last ten years. it used to be that databases contained only the citation (information needed to find the article) and sometimes a summary, or abstract of the article. Starting about ten years ago, database vendors began to offer some articles in full-text, that means that the entire article was available online, making it unnecessary to find the article in a library. Now there are fewer databases that offer no titles in full-text, and so after doing research in one of SE's databases, check to see if the article that you are interested is available full-text. There will be a link that say something like this: HTML full text, or PDF full text. When you click on the link, you are presented with the full-text of the article, and you are finished. What if the full-text of the article is not available in the database that you are searching? If that is the case, then we move onto Step Three

Step Three: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text in another database

If you can't find an article full-text in one database, then look to see what other databases have a journal title available full-text. You do that by checking another database called A-to-Z A-to-Z is located at: http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?id=seosu, or you can also get to A-to-Z from the electronic resources page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm. A-to-Z is a list of journals that are available full-text, either in an online database that we subscribe to or available in the library in paper in the basement on in microform.

Step Four: Check to see if the the SE Library has the journal in paper

The library subscribes to almost one thousand journals, magazines, and newspapers. In many cases the journal article that you want is located in a journal that we have downstairs in the basement, or on microform. How do you check to see if the library has a journal? By checking A-to-Z, or checking a copy of the SE Library's Periodicals Holding List http://www.se.edu/lib/perhold.htm

Step Five: Use InterLibrary Loan to obtain the article from another college library that has the journal that you want

If you have determined that you cannot locate a journal article full-text on any online database, AND the SE library does not have the journal that the article is in, then what do you do? Give up? You can, but if the article is an important one for your research, you would still like to get it, right? There is one last way for you to get a copy of this article. You can obtain a copy of an article from almost any journal by using a service called Interlibrary Loan. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service that the SE Library provides to students where you can ask (through us) another library that has the journal title that you want . The process of doing this is simple.

1. Obtain an Interlibrary loan form from the circulation desk or go to an online InterLibrary Loan form at: http://www.se.edu/lib/illjournalreq.htm for a journal article and http://www.se.edu/lib/illbookreq.htm for Interlibrary loaning a book. 2. Fill out the form, take note that those fields of the form that have an asterisk in front of them are required fields that are needed to send the information via e-mail. Click submit after filling out the form. 3. The process of receiving something from InterLibrary loan takes about 4 days to two weeks, so if InterLibrary Loans are needed, plan early.

SELECTED MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, AND NEWSPAPERS

ABA Banking Journal
A monthly magazine on the American Bankers Association. Each issue has articles on leading banking figures, banking issues, and individual banks.

Appraisal Journal
Published quarterly by the Appraisal Institute, a leading organization of real estate appraisers. This contains scholarly articles on appraisal issues.

Advertising Age's Business Marketing
This is a monthly publication that has news in the business-to-business marketing world.

American Demographics
This monthly magazine is published by Dow Jones & Company, and contains articles on demographics of the United States. These articles are useful for marketing purposes.

Business Week
A weekly newsmagazine that covers business in such areas as: finance, personal business, marketing, the corporation, international business.

Entrepreneur
A monthly magazine concerned with small business. Contains articles dealing with business concerns for entrepreneurs and business executives. There are special issues published each year, such as: Franchise 500 and Business Opportunity 500

Forbes
A weekly magazine of business that covers business in the United States with some foreign coverage. It produces several issues each year, such as the richest 400 people in a given year, the International Forbes 500, the Forbes 500 Annual Directory, Forbes Annual Mutual Fund Survey, The Best Small Companies and The 500 Largest Private Companies

Fortune
A biweekly magazine of business. Each bi-weekly issue has some major stories that deal with some aspect of business, and articles on individual corporations and industries. Each spring it contains the Fortune 500, a ranking of the largest public industry and service corporations in the United States. The library has this magazine back to the 1930's.

Financial Management
This journal is published quarterly by the Financial Management Association.

Harvard Business Review
A bimonthly journal that contains articles on business issues, such as: business ethics, new ideas, business strategies, executive burn-out, equal opportunity for women.

Inc.
A monthly magazine on business topics.

Industry Week
This magazine is distributed to "qualified executives with management responsibilities in administration, finance, production, engineering, purchasing, marketing and sales." It contains articles dealing with concerns for industry as a whole, and individual corporations.

InfoWorld
A newsmagazine on the Information/computer industry. Each weekly issue contains news of information corporations, product reviews, opinions, and more.

Journal of Finance
Published by the American Finance Association, this quarterly journal contains scholarly research articles on finance topics.

Marketing News

Nation's Business
A monthly magazine geared toward small business. It contains articles on government legislation effecting business, marketing, family businesses, managing a business, and more.

Wall Street Journal
A leading national newspaper of business news that is published every weekday. A good source to obtain current information on stocks.

BUSINESS FINANCE RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

Last Updated: June 23, 2008

R 650.072 L39b	Business Information: How to Find it, How to Use it Provides descriptions of major business publications and the basic concepts essential for using these publications properly. It provides a discussion on the value and cost of information, and the general characteristics of business information, statistical reasoning. It discusses finding books, documents and statistical reports, locating reference materials, locating experts, and searching journals, newspapers and news services. It provides information about sources of information about companies, such as: national business directories, specialized business directories, financial information on private and public companies, sources of basic investment information, investment advice and analysis, statistical sources, industry statistics, marketing information, and business information, this is an invaluable resource.
R 332.1753	International Business Information: How to Find it, How to Use it Provides information on general sources for international business research, sources for company information, corporate affiliations and corporate change, international credit information and rankings, international marketing research, exporting and importing, economic statistics, industry information, international trade and payments, and more.
R 353 Un3s	United States Government Manual This is the official handbook of the Federal Government. It provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
R 061.3 G13ENC	Encyclopedia of Associations Guide to nearly 23,000 national and international organizations, including: Trade, Business, and Commercial; Environmental and Agricultural; Legal, Governmental, Public Administration and Military; Engineering, Technological, and Natural and Social Sciences, Educational; Cultural; Social Welfare; health and Medical; Ethnic; Religious; Labor Unions, Associations, and Federations; Chamber of Commerce and Trade and Tourism
R 338.02973	Standard Industrial Classification Manual This publication classifies all types of economic and business activities by what they do or produce. For example, coal mining, oil and gas mining, railroad transportation and retail stores are each given their own classification number. This SIC code number is used by most business directories, business indexes, and other business publications, so it is very important to understand.

	Encyclopedia of Business A new encyclopedia that contains articles on many aspects of business, including: business terms, government agencies that effect business, such as: the Federal Trade Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. There are also non profit organizations included that effect business, such as the Better Business Bureau. Also included are business law topics, such as affirmative action, age and employment, environmental law and business, equal opportunity, sex discrimination, sexual harassment, commercial law, AIDS in the workplace, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Civil Rights Act of 1991.
R 338.709	Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography This set contains historical and biographical information on the major industries in United States history, such as: railroad, automobile, aviation, oil, iron and steel, and banking.
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R 658.1 P79r	Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directories and Executives Contains basic business information on 55,000 corporations and 500,000 corporate executives.
R 338 W62	Who's Who in Finance and Industry
R 338 W 21	Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies Contains basic information on 133,000 public and private companies. For each company the company name, address, and phone number are given, plus the fax number, financial information number of employees, type of company (public, private, subsidiary, division), year founded and import/export designation.
R 338.74	Hoover's Handbook of American Business Contains profiles of over 500 major U.S. companies. For each company listed, there is an overview section which talks about the current status of the business, a history of the business, and financial information.
R 338 Am3	American Manufacturers Directory Contains 161,000 manufacturing companies in the U.S. that have 20 or more employees
R 3378.7 Ok4	Oklahoma Business Directory Contains more than 151,000 businesses of all kinds and sizes. Lists businesses by city, yellow page category and businesses with 100 or more employees

R 338.74 D62	Directory of European Business Gives the operating environment, business organizations, leading companies, government structure, business services, national newspapers, business periodicals and statistical sources for countries of Europe, including new ones.
R 338.88 D62	Directory of Multinationals Provides information on 428 of the largest industrial corporations in the world. For each company, it contains a listing of directors, products made, background information and current situation, a five year financial summary, and principal subsidiaries.

R 332	Moody's Manuals Moody's manuals provide: financial statements, history, background, mergers and acquisitions, subsidiaries, business constructional programs, principal plants and properties, names and titles of officers of a large number of public companies. Private companies are not included. The manuals are published once a year, and weekly or twice weekly news reports update the information found in the manuals. There are five different manuals. Information is obtained directly from the corporation, or from financial reports given to the stockholders and the SEC.
R 332.6 V23	Value Line Investment Survey Contains stock and financial information and analysis on individual companies, as well as analysis on industries as a whole.
Basement	Fortune 500 Published every spring as a special issue of Fortune Magazine since 1955, this contains information on the 500 largest public industrial and service companies in the United States by revenues. For each company listed, it gives revenues, profits, assets, stockholders equity, market value, profits as a percentage of revenues, assets and stockholders equity, earning per share, and total return to investors. It also analyzes the 500 companies by performance, such as highest profits, biggest increase in profits, biggest increase in revenues, and highest returns on revenues, assets and stockholders equity.
Basement	Forbes International 500 Published each year as a special issue of Forbes Magazine, it gives the largest corporations in the world by a composite ranking of sales, profits, assets, and market value.
Basement	Forbes Annual Mutual Fund Survey Published as a special issue of Forbes Magazine, it rates stock funds, balanced funds, global stock funds, foreign stock funds, taxable bond funds, municipal bond funds, junk bond funds, global bond funds, taxable money funds, and tax-free money funds.
Basement	Forbes: The Best Small Companies Published as a special issue of Forbes Magazine, it gives basic information (what each company does, sales debt/equity, market value and other financial information) for the top 200 United States companies who have less than 350 million in revenues.
Basement	Forbes: Companies Published each December as a special issue of Forbes Magazine. For each company listed, it gives a brief description of what it does, the name of the chief executive, revenues, operating and net profits, number of employees.
Basement	Inc 500: The Fastest-Growing Private Companies Published every year as a special issue of Inc Magazine. For each company, it contains number of employees, date founded, sales growth, sales for the year.
Basement	Franchise 500 Published each year as a part of Entrepreneur Magazine. Contains information and rankings of the top 500 franchises in the United States every year.
R 332.6322 M771	Moody's Industry Review Contains comparative statistics of companies in different industries, such as advertising, airlines, cable and Pay TV, machine tools and many more.

CD-ROM	1990 Census of Population and Housing The Census is the most important source of demographic data there is in the United States. It is the basis of many other reports and studies on the population of the United States. Compiled by the Bureau of the Census. Contains a massive amount of statistical information on the American people. Contains statistics on housing, race, families, marital status, income, educational attainment, poverty and many other topics. These statistics are presented by state, and by city. Each state is on a separate CD.
	Statistical Abstract of the United States This annual publication has been published since 1878, and it is very useful because it pulls together from many different resources statistical information in one volume. It contains statistics from both government agencies and private sources. Data is generally at the national ar state level, but there is some data at the metropolitan level. For each table of statistics presented, it gives the source of the information, where you can generally get more complete data. It covers such topics as: population, vital statistics, health and nutrition, law enforcement, parks, elections, labor force, income, expenditures, finance, communications, and more.
	Census Catalog & Guide Contains a complete listing of Census Bureau publications.
	County Business Patterns Provides data, by county, on all business establishments with one or more paid employees.
	County and City Data Book 1994 Provides data on counties of the United States, and cities of population of 25,000 or more. It provides area and population statistics, population statistics, vital statistics, statistics on health care, social programs, and crime, statistics on education and money income, education and poverty, housing, building permits, labor force, how people get to work, number of vehicles, personal income, wholesale and retail trade and more.
C59.11	Survey of Current Business Published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, this periodical contains articles and statistics on many different aspects of business.
	NTBD (National Trade Data Bank) The National Trade Data Bank is a U.S. Department of Commerce Service which selects the best international trade and economic information available, and provides it monthly on a CD-ROM disc. The NTDB contains over 100,000 documents of current information from 17 U.S. Government agencies.
	NESE (National Economic, Social and Environmental Databank) Compiles data from several government agencies on domestic economic, social, environmental topics.
Basement	Federal Reserve Bulletin Published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, this monthly contains several articles in each issue on banking and finance, plus many tables of statistics.
Basement	Monthly Labor Review Contains articles and statistics on the labor force, labor-management relations, business conditions, industry productivity, compensation, occupational safety and health, and demographic trends.
	Employment and Earnings Published monthly by the Department of Labor, contains statistics on employment and unemployment, earnings of the employed, and characteristics of the employed and unemployed.
C 61.34:	U.S. Industrial Outlook. (annual) Contains business analysis and trends and forecasts for 350 major industries.
R 353.9 B64b	The Book of the States Published annually by the Council of State Governments, this source has numerous facts on state in the United States, such as: all the state Constitutions, information on state executives, state legislatures, state judiciary, state budgets, state revenue and expenditure, state taxes. It also contains information on state government employment and payrolls, public employee retirement systems. There is also a chapter on state programs and issues, such as: education, corrections, environmental management, labor, health care, and highways. For each state program revenue and expenditures statistics are given.