Ka-Neng Au Business Librarian au@rutgers.edu 15 May 2009

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Business:
Indexes to Business Topics

Here is a variety of indexes, in print or online, to articles in journals and other publications. Please note that access to some databases are restricted to current Rutgers students, faculty, and staff. Please send all comments or questions to au@newark.rutgers.edu.

General Accounting Banking, Finance and Insurance Economics Human Resources and Labor Relations Information Systems International Business

Management Marketing and Advertising Operations Research Pharmaceutical Management Real Estate Statistics

A. General Business

Business Source Premier (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Indexes and abstracts over 8,000 trade publications and scholarly journals with the emphasis on business, economics, and management. About 70% of the references include the full-text of the article.

BPubs

This site calls itself "the business publications search engine" but is still quite thin in its coverage. Links to full-text articles available for free.

Business & Industry, 1994- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Index to articles from over a thousand business and trade journals, newspapers, and selected government documents. Full-text articles available for many entries. Replaces the F & S Index: United States. (DANA REF Index Table H)

Business NewsBank Index. NewsBank, 1986- . Monthly with quarterly and annual cumulation.

An index to selected articles from the newspapers of more than 450 cities in the U.S. Access is by company, industry, product, personal name, and geographic location. (KILMER REF CD-ROM)

Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive) (Rutgers-restricted Access)

A vast archive of the world's most important publications, reports and news, focusing on business. Major sections include Track, News Page, Companies/Markets, and Search, for articles from thousands of publications.

FindArticles.com: Business

Several dozen journals and trade magazines are indexed here, with the full-text of recent articles available for free.

LexisNexis Academic (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Full text coverage of business news sources. Company financial data is available for US and international companies and includes SEC reports, bankruptcy reports, Hoover's profiles, financial information from Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, and more.

Links to Working Papers In Business

Contains links to many archives of working papers in business, including accounting, finance, management, marketing, and operations management.

Official Index to the Financial Times. Financial Times Business Information, 1982-2005. Monthly with annual cumulation.

Index to the London Financial Times with listings by country, personal and corporate name, and subject. (DANA REF Index Table G) For current content, use LexisNexis Academic (Rutgers-restricted Access).

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times, 1851- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Indexes and provides the full image of articles from the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 to two years prior to the current year. For more recent coverage use LexisNexis Academic (Rutgers-restricted Access).

Regional Business News. (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Full text coverage for regional business publications, incorporating 75 business news magazines, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States, including Crain's New York Business and NJBiz.

Wall Street Journal Index. Dow Jones, 1957- . Monthly with annual cumulation.

Index to the Wall Street Journal and Barron's with listings by corporate name and subject. (DANA REF Index Table G) Full-text articles from January 2, 1984 to the present are available on Factiva (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Wilson Business Full Text, 1982- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Its coverage of more than 650 selected periodicals (about 400 in full text) is very comprehensive in all areas of business. Online indexing equivalent to the Business Periodicals Index. (DANA REF Index Table I)

World News Connection. (Rutgers-restricted Access)

An online news service that offers an array of translated and English-language news and information from full text and summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.

B. Accounting

Accounting & Tax Index University Microfilms, 1992- . (Formerly in part Accountants' Index, A.I.C.P.A., 1921/23-1991). Quarterly with annual cumulations.

A comprehensive list of books, articles, government documents, and professional reports about accounting, auditing and taxation. Includes author, title, and subject access. (CAMDEN Reference Index Area, DANA Reference Index Table G, KILMER Reference Business Counter)

Accounting Articles. Commerce Clearing House, 1963/66- . Monthly.

Annotated list of major accounting articles and books. Uses a unique classified subject arrangement with an author index. (DANA Business Reference)

Accounting Literature Index. Jean Louis Heck et al. McGraw-Hill, 1990.

This actually has the table of contents of each issue of 29 accounting journals, from their first issue until 1988. Includes author index. (DANA REF HF 5635 .H34)

Accounting Research Directory: The Database of Accounting Literature. 3rd ed. Lawrence D. Brown et al. Markus Wiener Publishing, 1994.

An index to the accounting literature with a unique classification scheme; articles are coded according to their method of analysis, research method, school of thought, and treatment of the subject. (CAMDEN, DANA REF HF 5635 .B884)

CCH Tax Research Network (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This database of U.S. taxation documents includes official state and federal government publications, CCH interpretative materials, and daily and weekly newsletters covering various areas of tax law.

Index to Accounting and Auditing Technical Pronouncements. AICPA, 1978- . Annual.

An index to the current pronouncements of the AICPA, FASB, SEC, and other professional accounting organizations. (DANA, KILMER REF HF 5635. I52)

Links to Working Papers In Business

Contains links to many archives of working papers in business, including accounting and finance.

C. Banking, Finance and Insurance

American Banker Index. American Banker, 1971-2001. Monthly with annual cumulation.

Index to the American Banker newspaper. Arranged in three parts: personal names, corporations and banks, and general subjects. (DANA REF Index Table F) For current content, use LexisNexis Academic (Rutgers-restricted Access).

Banking Information Index, UMI, 1994- . (Formerly Banking Literature Index. American Bankers Association, 1982-94). Monthly with annual cumulation.

Subject index to banking articles in major banking and business journals. Oriented toward practical bank management. (DANA REF Index Table F)

ECONbase: see ScienceDirect below.

Search citations/abstracts of contents of 38 economics and finance journals published by Elsevier Science.

Fed in Print: An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research

Index to the publications of all the Federal Reserve Bank Research Departments. Formerly available in print as a quarterly publication. (ALEXANDER, DANA REF HG 2559 .F44)

Finance Literature Index. Jean Louis Heck, ed. McGraw-Hill, 1994.

This actually has the table of contents of each issue of 55 finance journals, from their first issue until 1992. Includes author index. (ALEXANDER REF Z 7164 .F5 F459; CAMDEN, DANA, KILMER REF HG 173 .F56)

IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service)

Index to the complete data from the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) database, including EconWPA, Fed in Print, NBER, CEPR, and over 80 other economics working papers archives. Includes citations/abstracts of almost 60,000 working papers, over 10,000 articles, and some 350 software components. Links to about 15,000 downloadable papers.

Insurance Periodicals Index. Special Libraries Association, 1962-1994. Annual.

Indexes 40 journals in insurance. Cumulates indexes appearing monthly in Best's Review, Life/Health and Property/Casualty editions. (DANA REF HG 8011. I545)

D. Economics

EconLit, 1969- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

The online equivalent to the indexing included in the Journal of Economic Literature, which covers more than 200 current journals. (DANA REF Index Table F)

Fed in Print: An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research

Index to the publications of all the Federal Reserve Bank Research Departments. Formerly available in print as a quarterly publication. (ALEXANDER, DANA REF HG 2559 .F44)

IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service)

Index to the complete data from the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) database, including EconWPA, Fed in Print, NBER, CEPR, and over 80 other economics working papers archives. Includes citations/abstracts of almost 60,000 working papers, over 10,000 articles, and some 350 software components. Links to about 15,000 downloadable papers.

Index of Economic Articles in Journals and Collective Volumes. American Economic Association, 1966- . Annual.

Indexes English language articles from major economic journals from 1886 and articles in collected volumes, conference proceedings and congressional hearings since 1968. Includes an author index. (ALEXANDER REF AI 3 .A52; CAMDEN REF Z 7164 .E2 A57; DANA REF Index Table F)

International Bibliography of Economics. UNESCO, 1952- . Annual.

A subject index in English and French, arranged in classified order, to articles, pamphlets, and books, including many in foreign languages. Good international coverage. Author index. (ALEXANDER, DANA REF Z 7164 .E2 I58)

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Publications Index, 1990- .

Includes links to full text where available.

ScienceDirect. (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This electronic science journal package from Elsevier Science provides access to more than 1,500 periodicals from 1995 to present. Included in ScienceDirect's holdings are dozens of journals in Economics as well as Business and Management Science. ScienceDirect replaces the ECONbase service.

University Research in Business and Economics Association for University Business and Economic Research, 1981-89. Annual. (Formerly AUBER Bibliography, 1977-1980, ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DANA Z 7165 .U5 A8).

Classified subject index to publications -- articles, books, proceedings, working papers -- of the member universities. Includes an author index and a list of publications by institutions. (ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DANA REF Z 7165 .U5 A81)

E. Human Resources and Labor Relations

Canadian Labour History Bibliography

This searchable database of books and articles was compiled by Michael Lonardo, Social Sciences Librarian, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Board Decisions of the National Labor Relations Board

NLRB decisions searchable back to 1981. Results available in text format (either ASCII or HTML) and as PDF files.

ETUI Labourline

Searchable database of references to articles, books, and working papers, primarily on industrial relations in the EU. From the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).

European Industrial Relations Observatory On-Line

Searchable database of full-text articles on all aspects of industrial relations in Europe. Also browsable by country, industry sector, or date.

Human Resources Abstracts. Sage, 1975- . Quarterly.

Index with abstracts covering labor, manpower, and social problems. (ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF Z 7164 .P87 P5; DANA REF Index Table G; SMLR Periodicals)

Personnel Management Abstracts. Personnel Management Abstracts, 1955- . Quarterly.

Index with abstracts to selected journals in management. A list of subjects covered in each issue appears on page one. (CAMDEN REF HF 5549 .P452; DANA REF Index Table G; SMLR Periodicals)

Personnel Literature. U.S. Office of Personnel Management Library, 1941- . Monthly.

Lists books, articles, and pamphlets in the Office of Personnel Management Library. Arranged by subject with an annual author and subject index. (ALEXANDER U.S. DOCS; CAMDEN Reference Index Area; DANA REF Index Table G)

Trade Unions and Labor Relations Database (Gewerkschaften und industrielle Beziehungen)

Searchable database of references to articles, books, and working papers, primarily on labor relations in Germany and the EU. From the Center for Labor Relations at the Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft.

F. Information Systems

ACM Digital Library, 1991- .

Index to all Association for Computing Machinery journals and conference proceedings. Non-subscribers must register (no charge) to use. Rutgers users have access to the full-text of all of their publications. Also includes links to the Guide to Computing Literature and Computing Reviews.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text, 1983- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Subject index with full text of many articles in science, technology, computer science, and engineering, including related industries.

Association for Information Systems Electronic Library.

The Association for Information System Electronic Library (AISeL) is an electronic repository for the ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems, 1980- ) and AMCIS (Americas Conference on Information Systems, 1995- ) conference proceedings. Non-members have access to bibliographic citations only.

The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

Browse or search across about 1,200 bibliographies covering most aspects of computer science. More than 940,000 references to journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, dissertations and manuals. Links to full-text where available.

Compendex, 1987- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature, including Computer and Data Processing, Electronics and Communication Engineering, as well as related fields in science and management. Compendex now forms part of the Engineering Village 2 database.

Computer Literature Index. Applied Computer Research, 1980- . Quarterly with annual cumulation. (Formerly Quarterly Bibliography of Computers and Data Processing, 1971-1979).

Covers some 300 computer-related as well as business and management publications. Entries are annotated and organized by subject; an author index is also provided. (DANA REF Index Table I; MATH REF QA 76 .Q3)

IEEE Xplore, 1988- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This database covers more than 30% of the world's literature in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science, information science, materials science, physical sciences and biomedical engineering. The database allows for full text access to over 120 journals and over 350 conference proceedings.

INSPEC, 1969- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

INSPEC provides the leading English-language bibliographic access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers, computing, and information technology. INSPEC now forms part of the Engineering Village 2 database.

ScienceDirect (Rutgers-restricted Access)

ScienceDirect, the electronic science journal package from Elsevier Science provides access to more than 1,500 periodicals from 1995 to present. Included in ScienceDirect's holdings are the following fields: Engineering and Technology, Business and Management Science, and Mathematics and Computer Science.

Scirus.

This free database search service covers journals from several commercial publishers and scientific societies, as well as preprints, patents, and technical reports.

SIAM Journals Online, 1997- .

You can search the full-text of a dozen journals from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics covering computing, applied mathematics, and optimization.

G. International Business

AccessUN, 1966- (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This database will include citations and some full-text of United Nations documents on a current, rolling two-year basis. Online equivalent to the Readex United Nations Index (ALEXANDER International Documents Reference)

Asia-Studies Full-Text Online. (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This database is a portal that provides access to reports, working paper series, and journals from Asia's most prestigious research institutions, covering business, economic, government, political, and social issues related to the nations of Asia-Pacific. Examples of specific subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, and tourism. Statistical reports on Asian countries are also available.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This database attempts to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, with material from university research institutes and non-governmental organizations. Includes selected economic indicators from the U.S. Government and the OECD.

European Integration Current Contents

This service "provides access to the tables of contents of journals relevant in European Integration research - law, human rights, economics, history and political sciences." Coverage from 1998 for most of the 101 journals.

European Research Papers Archive

Index to online working papers relating to European Integration research.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Publications Index, 1990- .

Includes links to full text where available.

LexisNexis Statistical (formerly Statistical Universe).(Rutgers-restricted Access)

Online equivalent to the Index to International Statistics as well as the American Statistics Index and the Statistical Reference Index.

PAIS International and Archive, 1972- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

A subject index to books, pamphlets, journals, and government documents in the fields of political science, economics, international business, and contemporary affairs. Online equivalent to the PAIS International In Print (ALEXANDER Reference Index Table; CAMDEN Reference Index Area; DANA REF Index Table G)

SourceOECD, 1988- (Rutgers-restricted Access)

A collection of monographs and periodicals from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, searchable by title and keywords in the abstracts.

World News Connection (Rutgers-restricted Access)

An online news service that offers an array of translated and English-language news and information from full text and summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.

H. Management (see also General Business)

ASQ InfoSearch

Covers journals and conference proceedings from the American Society for Quality.

Catalog of Nonprofit Literature

Index to over 25,000 books, articles, reports, and non-print resources dealing with philanthropy, fundraising, charitable and corporate giving, nonprofit management, etc.

Conference Board Research Collection (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Subject index and full-text of over 300 research reports published by the Conference Board.

PsycINFO, 1887- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

A subject and author index to all areas of psychology, including inter-personal and organizational behavior, applied psychology, and consumer and social issues. This online database corresponds to the APA's Psychological Abstracts. (ALEXANDER, LSM BF 1 .P65; CAMDEN Reference Index Area; DANA REF Index Table L)

RAM (Recent Advances in Manufacturing) Database

More than 500 journals and magazines are covered by this bibliographic database. Topics include manufacturing management, environmental and quality management, and product development.

ScienceDirect. (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This electronic science journal package from Elsevier Science provides access to more than 1,500 periodicals from 1995 to present. Included in ScienceDirect's holdings are dozens of journals in Economics as well as Business and Management Science. ScienceDirect replaces the ECONbase service.

Social Sciences Full Text, 1983- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Covers all aspects of economics and management, as well as public administration, organizational behavior, and psychology.

I. Marketing and Advertising

Consumer and Household Studies Database (Formerly the Home Economics Database)

Index to over 30,000 articles selected from about 140 scientific and popular periodicals dealing with home economics, family studies, and consumer sciences, including product research, income procurement and spending, consumption patterns, and household social-economic policies. Emphasis on literature relating to the Netherlands, Western Europe, and developing countries.

Journal of Marketing. American Marketing Association, July 1936- . Quarterly.

Each issue has a section of "Marketing Abstracts" that lists articles on marketing from business and social science journals. (CAMDEN, DANA, KILMER Periodicals)

Market Research Abstracts. Market Research Society, 1963- . Semi-annual.

Articles from more than 35 major business, marketing, and marketing reserch journals from Europe and the US are abstracted by this publication. (DANA REF HF 5415.32 .M328)

Polling the Nations, 1986- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

A compilation of the full-text of the questions and responses from over 14,000 national, state and local surveys conducted since 1986 by some 700 polling organizations in the United States and eighty other countries. Records can be searched by topic, question text, universe polled, date, polling organization and response categories.

World Advertising Research Center

This database contains over 25,000 articles, case studies, research reports and summaries covering all areas of marketing communications drawn from more than 30 leading content sources worldwide. Searching is free but a subscription is required to view the articles and reports; a seven-day free trial is available.

J. Operations Research

INFORMS Annual Comprehensive Index, 1976- .

Index to some 30,000 journal article citations in operations research. From the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

International Abstracts in Operations Research. North Holland Publishing Company, 1981- . Quarterly.

Published for the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. Abstracts articles in operations research, management, and human engineering. Articles are classified as process, applications, technique, and professionally oriented. (DANA REF Q 500. I5)

Operations Research Yearbook. Executive Sciences Institute, 1961-1996. Annual.

Provides lengthy abstracts, often with charts and formulas, of articles from U.S. and foreign journals. Arranged by a unique classification code based on methodology and functional area of applications. Includes author and subject indexes. (DANA REF HD 20 .O6)

Quality Control and Applied Statistics Yearbook. Executive Sciences Institute, 1956-1997. Annual.

Provides lengthy full-page abstracts of articles from U.S. and foreign journals and conference proceedings. Arranged by a unique classification code. Includes author and subject indexes. (DANA REF TS 155 .Q3)

K. Pharmaceutical Management (see also Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Guide: Drug Information: Databases)

Applied Science and Technology Full Text, 1983- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Subject index with full text of many articles in science, technology, computer science, and engineering, including related industries.

FDC Reports. (Rutgers-restricted Access)

The FDC Reports newsletters (Pink Sheet, Gray Sheet, Tan Sheet, Rose Sheet, Gold Sheet, Silver Sheet, Blue Sheet) cover U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations, corporate news, mergers and acquisitions, product development, patent information, and statistical data (e.g. sales, market share, etc.) for the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries.

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, 1970- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This database covers more than 750 journals in the pharmaceutical sciences and health related areas, with information on topics such as legislation, economics, and pharmacy practice.

Ovid HealthSTAR, 1975- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

HealthSTAR contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research, with coverage of topics such as effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services and processes; administration and planning of health facilities, services and manpower; health insurance; health policy; health economics and financial management; laws and regulation; and quality assuarance.

Scirus.

This free database search service covers journals from several commercial publishers and scientific societies, as well as preprints, patents, and technical reports.

L. Real Estate

Appraisal Institute - Lum Library

Non-members of the Appraisal Institute may search for articles from the Appraisal Journal with this online catalog. Many entries include a summary of the article.

Real Estate Periodical Index

This index is maintained by NYU's Brause Library, and covers articles from more than 140 real estate related journals in that collection. Uses its own set of subject headings.

M. Statistics

American Statistics Index (ASI). Congressional Information Service, 1973- . Monthly with quarterly and annual cumulation.

Comprehensive index for statistical publications of the U.S. government. Detailed abstracts give subjects, time periods, and geographical areas covered by the data. Indexes cover author, title, subject, agency report number, and categories such as age, sex, and ethnic group. (ALEXANDER REF; DANA REF Index Table A)

LexisNexis Statistical (formerly Statistical Universe). (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Online equivalent to the American Statistics Index, the Statistical Reference Index, and the Index to International Statistics.

Statistical Reference Index (SRI). Congressional Information Service, 1980- . Monthly with annual cumulation.

Index to American statistical publications published by private organizations, trade associations, universities, and state agencies (not the Federal government). (ALEXANDER REF; DANA REF Index Table A)

TableBase, 1994- . (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This database specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products, and demographics. Find market share, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, imports and exports, usage and capacity, number of users/outlets, trends and more.