Recommended Databases

ABI/Inform Global (includes Hoover's)

Authoritative source of scholarly and practitioner articles covering all business topics.  Full text begins in the mid-1980’s.  Updated daily.

 Business Source Complete (includes Datamonitor Reports)

Full text articles from management, marketing, economics, finance & accounting publications.  Hundreds of major scholarly journals, including the Harvard Business Review and the MIT Sloan Management Review, are available in full-text PDF back to 1965 or the first issue.

Econlit

Index to articles covering all aspects of economics.  Provides some coverage of finance and accounting. 

Investext Plus (Access via Thomson One Banker within Research Module)

Contains the full text of over 3,000,000 analysts’ reports, ranging from brief financial snapshots and morning meeting notes to lengthy, extensive analyses, covering more than 11,000 companies in over 50 industries.  A good source of information on the strengths and weaknesses of individual companies, as well as larger industry trends.  Updated daily.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.

Lexis-Nexis Academic

A comprehensive collection of news, business, and legal information. Nearly all articles, reports, cases, statutes, regulations and filings are full text.

Marquis Who's Who on the Web

Comprehensive profiles on over 1,000,000 people.

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) International

Index to a range of contemporary political, economic and public policy issues in business, finance, law, international relations, public administration, government and political science.

Recommended Reference Tools (in the Libraries Reference Centers)

Who's Who in Finance and Industry (2003)

Encyclopedia of Finance   (2006)   

Biographical Dictionary of American Economists  (2006)

A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals: from Enron to Reform  (2006)

Economics of Corruption and Illegal Markets (1999)

Recommended Journals

 Useful Web Sites

• 20th Century Great American Business Leaders 
  A free database compiled by Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative.
• Business Ethics Links Library / University of Colorado 
  Provides a starting point for research in business ethics
• Ethics Updates / University of San Diego
  Updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics
• Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)
  Historical economic and statistical publications, including Economic Indicators, 1948-2005, bank statistics, productivity and costs
• Resources for Economists on the Internet / American Economics Association
• Zicklen Center for Business Ethics Research / University of Pennsylvania      
  Go to Links > Corporate Scandals to find various Fraud Information Centers

Recommended Books

Financial markets and institutions 7th edition, 
by Jeff Madura, 2007

by Thomas Busby, 2007