Databases

• Economatica
  Provides historical data for over 1,400 major companies which trade on the exchanges of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. The information tracked includes financial statements, stock prices, shareholder breakdowns, and corporate actions. Additionally, information on major commodities and stock exchanges of the Japan, United Kingdom, and United States, are included.
• Research Insight
  Provides access to two Standard & Poor’s databases:
  • Compustat PC Plus - Contains detailed financial information (over 800 data items) on 11,100 active and 11,000 inactive companies in the U.S. and Canada.  For each company, the database contains up to 20 years of annual data and twelve years of quarterly data.  Updated annually.
  • Global Vantage - The international version of Compustat PC Plus.  It supplies twelve years of annual data for over 13,000 firms representing more than eighty countries.  Updated annually.
• Securities Data Company (SDC) (available only in the WCL Barclay Reference Center)
  Provides access to two modules of Thomson Financial SDC data:
  • Mergers & Acquisitions - Worldwide M&A data from 1979 for U.S. firms; from 1985 from non-U.S. firms.  Covers more than 273,000 transactions.  Find target and acquirer profiles, deal terms, financial and legal advisor assignments and fees, deal value and stock premiums, deal status and more.
  • Global New Issues - Find info on global equity issues including IPOs & private placements.  New Issues covers more than 290,000 transactions from 1970 for the U.S. International coverage varies, but no info prior to 1978.  Divided into sub-databases by geographic region.
• NetAdvantage
  Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage provides web access to the S&P Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund Reports for 12,000+ funds, Stock Reports, Quarterly & Annual Earnings Estimates, Bond Guides and Dividend Records, Corporate Records for 12,600 publicly held US, Canadian and international companies and directory information for more than 100,000 public and private international companies.

Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks

• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Economics & Finance
  H91 .C24
• Who's Who in Finance and Industry
  HF3023 .A2 W5
• A Financial History of the United States
  HG181 .M297
• Dunn & Bradstreet Reference Book of American Business: Texas
  HG3751.75 T4 D86
• Financing Start-ups: How to Raise Money for Emerging Companies
  HG4027.7 .B74
• Handbook of Small Business Valuation Formulas and Rules of Thumb
  HG4028 .V3 D478
• In the Market: The Illustrated History of the Financial Markets
  HG4521 .F563
• 1001 Financial Words You Need to Know
  HG151 .A15 2003
• Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms
  HG151 .D69 2003
• Dictionary of Financial Abbreviations
  HG151.3 .P39 2003
• Financial Lexicon: A Compendium of Financial Definitions, Acronyms, and Colloquialisms
  HG151 .B2697 2005
• International Dictionary of Finance
  HG151 .B274 2003
• Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary
  HG151 .E88 2003

Professional & academic associations

• American Finance Association
• Association for Financial Professionals
• American Association of Individual Investors
• Institute of Management Accountants
• International Swaps & Derivatives Association
• National Futures Association
• Non-profit Finance Fund
• North American Securities Administrators Association