Availability of these databases at selected public libraries is also noted. These libraries, with some business databases, are the King County Library System, the Pierce County Library System (PCLS), the Seattle Public Library (SPL), and the Sno-Isle Regional Library System (SIRLS). While many public library databases are available remotely using your local public library card number, some databases (usually CD-ROM) are only available in the libraries themselves. For a list of public library webpages in Washington state, click here.

Also noted, at the end of this list, are business databases available from selected public libraries but not available in the Foster Business Library at this time.

Foster Business Library Databases, A to Z:

• ABI/Inform Dateline:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases.   This ProQuest database provides full text articles for 160 local and business publications from around the United States and Canada, including the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Journal of Business, Spokane and Northwest Construction, with coverage of companies and issues that are not usually covered by national press sources. (U.W. restricted)
       (Available from Off-Campus)
      (This database will no longer be available online via ProQuest after spring quarter 2008. For alternative access and further information, please click here.)

• ABI/Inform Global:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. Indexes and abstracts over 1,800 management and business periodicals, most of them with full text, including Advertising Age, Adweek, Asian Business, The Banker, Business Week, The Economist, Forbes, and Fortune. Subjects covered include marketing, international business, management, accounting, finance, human resources, etc. This database does not include national newspapers such as the New York Times or Washington state newspapers (though it does include the Wall Street Journal); for those newspapers, go to National Newspapers or Washington State Newstand under Business Databases. For search tips, click here.      (U.W. restricted)
  (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available, as ProQuest, to cardholders via the King County Library System, Pierce County Library System, Seattle Public Library, and Sno-Isle Regional Library System).     (This database will no longer be available online via ProQuest after spring quarter 2008. For alternative access and further information, please click here.)

• ABI/Inform Trade & Industry:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. This ProQuest database provides full text articles from 700 trade and industry newsletters, with publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. While there is some overlap between this database and ABI Inform Global, about 470 trade newsletters are unique to this database. For search tips, click here.      (U.W. restricted)
  (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available, as ProQuest, to cardholders via the King County Library System, Pierce County Library System, Seattle Public Library, and Sno-Isle Regional Library System).     (This database will no longer be available online via ProQuest after spring quarter 2008. For alternative access and further information, please click here.)

• America: History and Life:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. Index to journals and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. (U.W. restricted)
  (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Associations Unlimited:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Database of national, state, regional and international trade and professional organizations and non-profit membership organizations. The information in this database is also available in the print publication Encyclopedia of Associations, available in many campus libraries' reference collections (with the call number AS 22 .E5).      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #19 and #20.     (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the King County Library System, Pierce County Library System, Seattle Public Library, and Sno-Isle Regional Library System).

• Bloomberg:   24-hour-a-day, real-time financial information network for news and analyses of financial markets and business as well as current and historical data for all securities, statistics, indices, and research, using a special terminal and keyboard.      UW Restricted; signon available from the Foster Business Library reference desk staff. Service restricted to current UW students, faculty and staff. For search tips to this database, click here.
  Public PC #20 only.

• Books in Print:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. Online version indexes in-print and forthcoming books published or distributed in the U.S which are available to the general public or trade for single or multiple copy purchases. Areas covered include over 1.2 million books of all kinds: adult, juvenile, popular, scholarly, and reprints.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #19 and #20.     (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available, as ProQuest, to cardholders via the King County Library System)

• China Data Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases.   Comprehensive database focusing on economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories. Includes monthly and yearly reports on China's macroeconomic development, statistical databases on China's population and economy at the county and city level, and financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Comtrade:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. A product of the United Nations Statistics Division, this database is the most comprehensive source for world trade data. "Every year between 120 to 140 countries or areas report their merchandise trade statistics to the United Nations...[covering] as much as 95% of world trade. Each of these countries report the trade by commodity and trading partner." Our site license allows multiple users access. Access to Comtrade is IP controlled to the UW only, so be sure to click on Off-Campus Access(upper right corner of the Foster Business Library homepage, to authenticate your UW status from off-campus). Downloads may consist of an unlimited number of records. There are two technical restrictions:   first, a maximum of six queries per minute, and, second, no more than 150,000 records downloaded per query. Please logoff after using, to enable other UW users to access this database.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Conference Board Business Knowledge Research:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. A searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business and economics. Economics material includes U.S. and global economic indicators and analysis as well as forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Congressional Universe:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. The most comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Includes text of bills, laws and regulations and information about members of congress and congressional committees. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Datastream:   Detailed international securities and economic data, available to UW students, faculty and staff in the Foster Business Library, on Tuesday mornings from 8AM to noon and on Thursday afternoons from noon to 5PM. This database is only available on PC #20. (U.S. data is not available in Datastream; it is only available in Compustat, limited to U.W. faculty and Ph.D. students via BA Computer Services Research Computing.) For a Princeton tutorial on using this database, click here.     Service restricted to current UW students, faculty and staff. Datastream is also available to UW students, faculty and staff at the University of Washington's Center for Social Sciences Computation and Research.

• EBSCO Business Complete: On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Journals, News and Magazines. Full text for over 8,800 magazines, newspapers and journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals (among them, the Harvard Business Review). Also includes some market research reports, SWOT analyses, and country reports. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• EconLit: On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Journals, News and Magazines. Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics. The database provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, to the international literature on economics since 1969. Econ Lit corresponds to the Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles, covering journal articles, books, and dissertations, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings and collected essay volumes.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Economic Literature Database:   Library CD-ROM Network. On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases.   Contains citations from a wide range of economic, accounting, and finance journals.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.

• EIU Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. This database, provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit, provides online access to their print editions of the annual Country Profiles, quarterly Country Reports, and Country Commerce, for nearly 200 countries, with both current and retrospective publications. There is also access to the Unit's Viewswires, with more up-to-date coverage of countries and topics.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (EIU Viewswires is also available to cardholders via the King County Library System)

• Euromonitor.      Replaced by MarketResearch.Com Academic.

• Europa World:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed List of All Business Databases. This database mirrors the Europa World Year Book in the Foster Business Library, with profiles for 250 countries as well as a variety of regions and international organizations, with statistical, historical, political, and economic information and data, as well as a comparison feature, and directory information. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Expanded Academic ASAP:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 1,500 scholarly and popular humanities/social science journals.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the King County Library System, Pierce County Library System, Seattle Public Library, and Sno-Isle Regional Library System).

• Factiva:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Journals, News and Magazines. Factiva is a Dow Jones database that provides full text access to all editions of Dow Jones publications, the Wall Street Journal (back to 1979), Barron's, three months of the New York Times, and 8,000 other publications. In addition, this database provides reports for over 30,000 companies worldwide, much of it from Reuters, over 8,000 selected business Web sites, and Reuters Business Briefings. Service restricted to current UW students, faculty and staff.     (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.

• Forrester Research:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Forrester is an independent research firm that concentrates on the effects of technology change on businesses, consumers, and society, and analyzes such technology areas as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications, and the Internet. University of Washington faculty, staff, and students who wish to use Forrester Research must register for an individual account after agreeing to terms and conditions. You need only supply Forrester Research with your first and last name, after having identified yourself via your UW NetID. As a result, your individual use of Forrester can be, and may be monitored by the company, although Forrester will not convey any personal information to third parties. UW Faculty, staff and continuing students may need to re-register periodically as Forrester purges accounts to keep their lists up to date. Click here to register with your UW NetID.  (U.W. restricted)   Service restricted to current UW students, faculty and staff.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Gale Virtual Reference Library:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research; go to Business for five major business sources:   the Business Plan Handbooks (in 12 volumes), the Encyclopedia of American Industries (4th ed., 2005), the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance (2001), the Encyclopedia of Small Business (2nd ed., 2002), and, since 2004 and volume 59, the International Directory of Company Histories. Go to History for the Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (1999); go to Nation and World for Countries and Their Cultures (2001) and the Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies (2002). Go to Social Science for the Encyclopedia of Population (2003) and Social Trends and Indicators USA (2003).  
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Gartner Research:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Gartner Research provides in-depth analysis and market intelligence for the information technology industry, covering the full range of products and technologies associated with computer hardware, software, communications products, financial services, electronic business, and healthcare application software worldwide.      Service restricted to current UW students, faculty and staff.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Global Financial Data:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. This database provides access to over 20,000 series of long-term global financial and economic data, both current and historic, gathered from original sources and historic archives, for more than 200 countries. Data is in ASCII or Microsoft Excel format.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Global Market Information Database.      Replaced by MarketResearch.Com Academic.

• Global Market Information Database:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Euromonitor International's Global Market Information Database is an online business information system providing business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers. It offers integrated access to statistics, reports, comment and business information sources, for more than 200 countries. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)-->

• Hoover's Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Source for detailed company information, company histories, lists of competitors, financials and news. Also includes industry profiles and comparisons.      Service restricted to current UW students, faculty and staff.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Historical Abstracts:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. Index to journals and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present excluding the United States and Canada. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Historical Statistics of the United States:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. A compilation of statistics from the colonial times to the Present; includes population, social, business and economic statistics. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• InfoTech Trends:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. InfoTech Trends indexes statistics and forecasts published in computer and telecommunication trade publications. For search tips to this database, click here.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• International Financial Statistics Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. The International Monetary fund's International Financial Statistics database is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments, inflation, deflation, exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Information is presented in country tables and in tables of area and world aggregates.       (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Investext Plus:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Investext contains indexing and the full text of company and industry research reports prepared by leading Wall Street firms, as well as regional and international brokerage and financial firms. All reports are in PDF format. Because the Libraries' subscription to this service is limited to five concurrent users, there may be delays in obtaining full text reports.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available, through General BusinessFile ASAP, to cardholders via the King County Library System, the Seattle Public Library (SPL), and Sno-Isle Regional Library System).

• JSTOR:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. JSTOR is a subject searchable index of over 360 journals, with full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's. Over one hundred business and economics journals are among the collections of scholarly journals on this site. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Kompass:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Directory information for 1.6 million companies in 72 countries, with indexes for company products and services, containing 23 million product and service references, and 500,000 trademarks and brand names.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• LexisNexis Academic:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Journals, News and Magazines. This database provides accounting, business, legal, medical, news, and reference information as well as full text articles from over 18,000 sources, including 6,000 news sources (mostly newspapers, both U.S. and international), as well as transcripts and polling information. Also contains corporate annual reports, SEC filings, some international company information, and country data.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• MarketResearch.com Academic:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases. This database contains comprehensive full-text market research reports covering a broad range of markets, industries, and companies from reputable market intelligence sources Icon Group, Kalorama, Packaged Facts, SBI, and Simba, for U.S. and global markets for 200 countries covering over 2,000 industries and products.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Mediamark Reporter:   Library CD-ROM Network.   CD-ROM version of Mediamark Research, a tool for market research, with information on demographics, product and brand usage, and advertising media preferences based on survey responses from a sample of over 25,000 consumers in the United States. Print copies of Mediamark Research are available in over 20 volumes in the Foster Business Library reference collection, call number HF5415.3 .M43, dated spring 1998; the online version offers 2001 data. Search tips for using this database are available by clicking here.
  Available only in the Foster Business Library, on all public and Access Plus computers; not available from off-campus.

• Mergent Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Online access to the print edition of the Mergent Manuals, with extensive information on 11,000 U.S. and 17,000 international companies, including financials, stock, properties, joint ventures, annual reports, subsidiaries, S.E.C. filings, etc. For search tips, see About Mergent Online.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the Seattle Public Library).

• MintGlobal:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Other Business Databases. This database contains information on over 40 million companies worldwide, providing descriptive information, company financials, news, market research, scanned reports, ownership data, and merger and acquisition news.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Morningstar Principia Pro:   Library CD-ROM Network.   Online version of Morningstar Mutual Funds, an advisory service providing profiles and performance measures for selected mutual funds. For more information on how to use this database, go to Morningstar's twenty-five Product Tutorials.
  Available only in the Foster Business Library, on all public and Access Plus computers; not available from off-campus.
  (Also available in a web version to cardholders via the King County Library System)

• National Newspapers:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. Indexing and full text for 27 major national newspapers, including, among other titles, the Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Journal, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. For search tips, click here.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)     (This database will no longer be available online via ProQuest after spring quarter 2008. For alternative access and further information, please click here.)

• New York Times Historical:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. Part of ProQuest Databases, this database provides full page and article images with searchable full text, from September 18, 1851 through December 31, 2003. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• OCLC WorldCat:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases.   OCLC WorldCat consists of over 30 million catalog records and holdings information for material owned by OCLC member libraries around the world. Cataloged materials include books, journals, maps, sound recordings, films, videotapes, manu scripts, and other items.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Oxford Reference: Economics & Business:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. This database provides online searching and content for Oxford University Press's Dictionaries of Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance and Banking, Human Resource Management, and the Handbook of International Financial Terms.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the King County Library System)

• PAIS.      See Public Affairs Information Service.

• ProQuest Business:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Journals, News and Magazines. Part of ProQuest Databases, this database is limited just to business-related databases, including ABI/Inform Global, ABI/Inform Trade & Industry, ABI/Inform Dateline, Accounting & Tax - Newspapers, Accounting & Tax - Periodicals, Banking Information Source, ProQuest Asian Business, ProQuest Computing, ProQuest European Business, and ProQuest Telecommunications. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
      (This database will no longer be available online via ProQuest after spring quarter 2008. For alternative access and further information, please click here.)

• ProQuest Databases:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Journals, News and Magazines. Over 10,000 scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry publications, newspapers, reports, and dissertations in business, news, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology; databases include ABI/Inform Dateline, ABI/Inform Global, ABI/Inform Trade & Industry, National Newspapers, ProQuest Medical Library, Research Library Complete, and Washington State Newsstand, among many others.   (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)     (This database will no longer be available online via ProQuest after spring quarter 2008. For alternative access and further information, please click here.)

• ProQuest Dissertations:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. Index and abstracts to doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 universities and colleges in the U.S. from 1861 to the present.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.     (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• ProQuest Newspapers:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Journals, News and Magazines. Full text and indexing for over 600 newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Oregonian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other major U.S. national newspapers, international English-language newspapers, and selected regional/state newspapers; coverage includes content of the National Newspapers and Washington State Newsstand databases.   (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)     (This database will no longer be available online via ProQuest after spring quarter 2008. For alternative access and further information, please click here.)

• PsycARTICLES:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. Provides full text access to articles in 43 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations since 1988. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. More journals will be added in 2003. All journals in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• PsycINFO:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. The PsycINFO database indexes articles from over 1,300 journals in the field of psychology including human and animal behavior, psychiatry and sociology; useful for marketing and consumer information.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Public Affairs Information Service:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. PAIS indexes articles from over 1,400 journals along with thousands of government documents, statistical directories, reports, pamphlets, conference proceedings and books in the broad field of public and social policy issues.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• ReferenceUSA:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases. Directory information for 14 million companies in the U.S. and 1.5 million companies in Canada, as well as 135 million U.S. households. Companies can be searched for by name, business activity, size and location. For a tutorial on Reference USA, from the Houston Public Library, click here.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the King County Library System, Pierce County Library System, Seattle Public Library, and Sno-Isle Regional Library System).

• Research Library:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. Indexing and full text for a collection of over 2,300 newspapers, magazine and journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, from 1986 to present, many with full text. This database includes full text for titles such as Advertising Age, Barrons, Business Week, the Economist, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Forbes, Fortune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. For search tips, click here.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)     (This database will no longer be available online via ProQuest after spring quarter 2008. For alternative access and further information, please click here.)

• RIA Checkpoint:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. RIA Checkpoint is a tax database, designed for research, with comprehensive coverage of U.S., international, and state tax law, analysis, treatises, tax news, rulings, and practical practice aids. The database also includes a pension and benefits and a payroll library. In addition to the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, this database includes a number of RIA full text publications such as the Federal Tax Coordinator and the RIA Federal Tax Handbook, as well as Warren, Gorham, and Lamont tax journals. Use of this database requires a one-time personal registration. Click here to register with your UW NetID.  (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Simmons Choices III:   Library CD-ROM network.   CD-ROM version of the Simmons Study of Media and Markets, a tool for market research; a print version of this resource, in many volumes, is available in the Foster Business Library reference collection, dated 1993, with the call number HF5415.3 .S78 1993. Choices III provides marketing data that can be cross-tabulated to create demographic and psychographic profiles of consumers. Search tips for using this database are available by clicking here.
  Available only in the Foster Business Library, on all public and Access Plus computers; not available from off-campus.

• SimplyMap:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases.   This web-based mapping application enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. See these tutorials for help.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Social Sciences Citation Abstracts:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Journals, News and Magazines. Index to cited and citing references in journals in the social sciences.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Sociological Abstracts/Socio-File:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. The Sociofile database contains abstracts of journal articles in the field of sociology and related social science disciplines from 2,300 journals published worldwide since 1974, plus enhanced citations for relevant dissertations since 1986, books, book reviews, and conference papers.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Source OECD:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Source OECD is the online library of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, with twenty OECD book collections by theme, including all of the organization's monographs and reports published since 1998; twenty OECD periodicals; some OECD reference titles; and the OECD databases. The OECD has 30 member countries and relationships with 70 other countries.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Sports Business Research Network / SBRnet:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. Market research and industry news covering all aspects of the sporting goods industry including: sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Other Business Databases. Full text for the following S&P publications:   Bond Guide; Corporation Records; Dividend Record; Earnings Guide; Industry Surveys; Mutual Fund Reports; The Outlook; Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives; Security Dealers of North America; Stock Guide; and Stock Reports.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the King County Library System) and Seattle Public Library).

• STAT-USA - No longer available; cancelled in March 2008. Country Commercial Guides may be found by going to the U.S. Embassy website in a country and then to the U.S. Commercial Service.

• Statistical Universe:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Index to statistics published in commercial, international and U.S. government publications. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• ThomasNet:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. Web-based access to a directory of hundreds of thousands of products and services in the U.S. and Canada; online version of the print edition of the Thomas Register, available in the Foster Business Library reference collection, call number T12 .T62 2006. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. Directory of over 240,000 serials, including consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, monographic series, newsletters and newspapers, and other types of serial publications; good source for identifying periodicals by business topic as well as, in many cases, annual circulation data; an online version of the print Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory .      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• UW Libraries Catalog:   Holdings of the books and journals of the University of Washington Libraries, including Bothell and Tacoma Campus Libraries. A separate catalog contains holdings for the UW Law Library.
  Public PC's # 1 to # 19 and # 21 to # 26.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Value Line.      Replaced by Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage.

• Vault Career Library:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Other Business Databases. This database provides information and guides for over 3,000 companies, 40 industries, and over fifty career paths, including over ninety career guides, as well as employer profiles, articles, and advice on careers, resumes, and cover letters; and more.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• VentureXpert Web:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. This venture capital database provides worldwide information and statistics on venture capital firms, funding, disbursements, rounds, industries, geographic areas, executives, etc., with the ability to download data to spreadsheets. Service restricted to current UW students, faculty and staff, with UW NetID.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Wall Street Journal Historical:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. This ProQuest database, covering the years 1889 through 1989, stores each page in PDF format, fully searchable by keyword. Content includes news, editorials, letters to the editor, articles, obituaries, financial quotes, and advertisements. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Washington State Newsstand:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. This database includes full-text coverage of major Washington newspapers including the daily newspapers from Pasco, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Vancouver, and Yakima, plus selected coverage of other regional sources. For search tips, click here.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)     (This database will no longer be available online via ProQuest after spring quarter 2008. For alternative access and further information, please click here.)

• World Bank GDF Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Statistical data from the World Bank for over 200 debt and financial flows indicators for 138 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank. Data is from 1970 to 2011, where available. Web version of the annual Global Development Finance.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• World Bank WDI Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Other Business Databases. Statistical data from the World Bank for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2000 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Web version of World Development Indicators.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.     (Available from Off-Campus)

• World Telecommunication Indicators:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. International Telecommunication Union database of telecommunications data, country by country, with data from the Yea rbook of Statistics and from the Worl d Telecommunications Development Report. Part of the UW Libraries CD-ROM Network. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

But available in some of the area's local public libraries:

• Business and Company Resource Center:   This database includes company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodical articles about companies, with detailed company as well as industry news and information. Available online to cardholders via the King County Library System and the Seattle Public Library.

• Business Forms from Facts on File:   Available online to cardholders via the King County Library System.

• Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database:   This database includes much of the information in the D&B million dollar directory (which is in the Foster Business Library Reference Collection), with address, location, and brief data for one million public and private U.S. companies with sales of more than $1,000,000 or more than 20 employees. The database is updated every 60 days. Available online to cardholders via the King County Library System.

• General BusinessFile ASAP:   This database includes directory information for 150,000 companies, company information, investment reports from Investext, articles from business periodicals, and other sources of business information. Available online to cardholders via the King County Library System and the Seattle Public Library.

• Resume Builder:   Available online to cardholders via the King County Library System.

  See also this list of selected Business Databases Not Available in the Foster Business Library.

The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all of the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies. For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.

See also the Foster Business Library's Business & Economics FAQ, and, in particular, the section for Business Databases.

See also the selected list of business databases that the Foster Business Library does not offer:  Databases Not Available in the library.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by class or program)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by industry)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by title of assignment)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by academic quarter)
• Index to all Team Consultations and Research Guides