Last updated: 6/23/08
Reference Databases Business, Labor & Economics

  ABI/INFORM Dateline (ProQuest)

Indexing, abstracts, and full text of local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. 1985-. Updated daily. [user guide]

  ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest)

Indexing, abstracts, and full-text of international scholarly periodicals in business and management. Topics include in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, and information technology. Includes the ABI/INFORM Archive, which provides digital images from every issue of selected business journals from the first issue to the present. 1918-/1971-. Updated daily. [user guide]

  ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (ProQuest)

Indexing, abstracts, and full text of more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Covers the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, etc. Coverage varies by publication but generally begins mid-1980s to early-1990s. Updated daily. [user guide]

  Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)

Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Includes marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Updated daily. Enter your 14 digit Providence Public Library barcode when prompted. [user guide]

  EconLit (EBSCOhost)

Indexing and selected abstracting of more than 550 international economics journals, books, dissertations, and working papers covering economic development, economic history, macroeconomics, and microeconomics. 1969-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

  Fed in Print

“An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research.” 1963-.

  Human Resources Report (BNA)

Service offering focused news, practical information, and strategic insights on all HR-related developments. Includes updates on national and state laws and regulations; HR-related court decisions; expert advice on and in-depth analysis of employee relations trends and issues; industry standards; company policies; economic and other statistics; and case studies. Updated weekly. 1996-. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access.

 

  ICPSR Direct

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata, may be downloaded by URI users after creating an account on the site.

 

  JSTOR

JSTOR is an online archive of back runs of core scholarly journals in many disciplines. Articles may be searched by keyword or browsed by journal. JSTOR provides high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Note that JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR’s archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. [user guide]

 

  Labor & Employment Law Library (BNA)

Text of federal and state statutes, regulations, and policy statements, with editorial explanations, related to labor-management relations, wages and hours, and employment practices. Also contains the decisions of federal and state courts, arbitrators, and administrative agencies such as the NLRB. Corresponds to the print titles Labor Relations Reporter and Collective Bargaining Negotiations and Contracts. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access.

  LexisNexis Academic

News, law, and business information service. Includes company and industry news from newspapers, trade journals, and other periodicals and accounting, auditing, and tax literature. All sources are full-text. Also offers company information from Disclosure, Standard & Poor’s, and Hoover’s and archival SEC filings. Updated daily. [user guide]

  Mergent Online

Covers over 10,000 U.S. publicly-traded companies and selected international companies. Unique information provided includes property owned or leased, long-term debt (loans and bonds), and details on all capital stock, with annual high/lows and outstanding shares. Also offers earning estimates, institutional holdings, insider trades, stockholder equity, up to 15 years of annual and quarterly financial statements, and downloadable annual reports. Archival information is provided for over 4,000 companies that were acquired, went bankrupt, or merged out of existence from 1995 onward. Key financial information from Dun & Bradstreet is also provided on over 400,000 global private companies. Users may perform custom searches and build reports, convert currency, and download financial information to a spreadsheet. [user guide]

  National Newspapers (5) (ProQuest)

Indexing, abstracts, and full text of The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. Coverage varies by publication but generally begins in 1980s. Updated daily. [user guide]

  Providence Business News

Weekly business newspaper covering southern New England. Full text of current issues and searchable full text archive. 1989-. Updated weekly.

  Reference USA — Business (InfoUSA)

Find directory information for 12 million U.S. businesses. Custom search allows searching by many criteria, making it possible to create customized lists by type of business, geographic area, and business size. [user guide]

  RIA Checkpoint

Analysis of federal and state tax law for practitioners. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access.

  SRDS Radio Advertising Source

Searchable database of commercial radio stations in the United States. Can be searched by call letters, programming format, primary demographic, metro-market, network affiliation, sales representatives' names, etc. employee relations professionals. Updated daily. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access.

  STAT-USA/Internet

Access to over 50 Federal sources of economic, financial, and trade data. Two simultaneous users only. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access.

  Statistical Warehouse (Regional OneSource)

A database of statistical information under 46 various subject headings grouped into ten categories including demographics, economics, social indicators, health and health-related behavior, government enrollment, payroll and finances, politics and political science, geographic and climatic data, intellectual property, and social services. Updated continuously.

  USA Trade Online

Access to U.S. export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities world wide. Two simultaneous users only. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access. 1992-.

  Web of Science (ISI)

Web access to ISI citation databases (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index). Contains citations to articles from nearly 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. The ability to search by cited reference allows the user to uncover the research that influenced an author’s work or to navigate forward in time to discover a paper’s impact on current research. 1998-. Updated weekly. [user guide] [online tutorial]