Finance Subject Guide

This subject guide covers finance resources available at the Johnston Memorial Library, including full-text journals, magazine, and newspaper articles, finance websites, and printed materials in the Reference Collection. This is not a comprehensive subject guide, but rather a selective list of materials that are most useful for locating information in this field. Library location and call  number are provided for print publications. 

Full Text Databases Journal Indexes and Abstracts
Reference Works Additional Internet Websites

Full-Text Databases

  • ABI/INFORM
    Covers nearly every aspect of business, including company histories and new product development. Includes abstracts and indexes of significant articles from nearly 1,000 current business and management periodicals. Provides access to selected full-text  articles.

  • Business and Company Resource Center
    Provides company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.
  • Factiva
    • Provides financial, historical, and product information for publicly traded companies worldwide, full-text magazine and journal articles, and current and historical stock quotes.
     
  • InfoTrac OneFile
    • A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe 
    Provides access to a wide range of domestic and international news, business, and legal information sources, including legislative, government, company, financial and demographic information, market research, and industry reports.

  • Mergent Online
    Index of real-time EDGAR (SEC) filings, providing the ability to select a needed document, view it and print it. All financials "as reported", providing unparalleled review of balance sheets, income statements, expenditures, assets, liabilities, cash flow, performace trends, and more.

  • Standard and Poor's Net Advantage
    Provides full-text access to the Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund Reports, The OUTLOOK, the Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Security Dealers of North America, the Stock Guide, and Stock Reports.

  • Thomson Research (formerly Global Access)
    Contains information from SEC filings and corporate annual reports. Includes financial and management information for more than 12,000 public companies trading on major U.S. exchanges.

  • Value Line Investment Survey
    Contains full-page reports and analyst commentaries on more than 1,700 stocks. Includes current and historical statistics on investment factors and three to five year forecasts.

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Journal Indexes and Abstracts
  • EconLit
    • An index of economic literature, including citations and abstracts for articles from journals, books, and dissertations.
     
  • PAIS International
    • Contains abstracts of journal articles, books, statistical yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, research reports and government documents. Topics covered include economic, political and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, and much more.
     
  • Statistical Universe 
    • Allows users to search American Statistical Index, the latest edition of Statistical Abstracts of the United States, the Statistical Research Index, and Index to International Statistics. Includes full text of selected U.S. federal and state documents.

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Reference Sources

  • Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
    Location: Reference Collection, First Floor. Call Number: REF HF5681.R25A44

  • Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Finance 
    Location: Reference Collection, First Floor. Call Number: REF HG151.B49 1998

  • Fitzroy Dearborn Encyclopedia of Banking and Finance
    Location: Reference Collection, First Floor. Call Number: REF HG151.E63 1994

  • Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
    Location: Reference Collection, First Floor. Call Number: REF HF5681.R25I523

  • New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance
    Location: Reference Collection, First Floor. Call Number: REF HG151.N48 1992

  • Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks
    Location: Reference Collection, First Floor. Call Number: REF HG4905.M59

  • RMA Annual Statement Studies
    Location: Reference Collection, First Floor. Call Number: REF HF5681.B2R58 


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Additional Internet Websites

 

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