• CorpTech EXPLORE:   Temporarily unavailable.

• EBSCO Business Source Complete:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.        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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Factiva:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #20.

• Hoover's Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• LexisNexis Academic:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Mergent Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the Seattle Public Library).

• 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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• EIU Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (EIU Viewswires is also available to cardholders via the King County Library System and Seattle Public Library).

• Europa World:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Global Financial Data:   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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• International Financial Statistics Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed 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 #19 and #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 such as Packaged Facts, Icon Group, and many others, 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Source OECD:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• World Bank GDF Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• World Bank WDI Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.     (Available from Off-Campus)

• World Competitiveness Online  The World competitiveness yearbook analyzes and ranks the ability of nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. World competitiveness online provides access to the entire WCY database including 5 year time series.

• ProQuest Dissertations:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, 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 #19 and #20.     (Available from Off-Campus)

• 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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Datastream:   Detailed international securities and economic data. (U.S. data is not available in Datastream; it is only available in Compustat 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.
  Public PC #20 only.

• EconLit:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.

• Global Financial Data:   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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• International Financial Statistics Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed 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 #19 and #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. See the Dictionary of Economics.      (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)

• 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 Plans Handbook, 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.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #19 and #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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the Seattle Public Library).

• 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• 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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

Investment Firms:

• Investext Plus:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #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).

• Forrester Research:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Gartner Research:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #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 such as Packaged Facts, Icon Group, and many others, 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 #19 and #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 such as Packaged Facts, Icon Group, and many others, 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 #19 and #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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the Seattle Public Library).

• Factiva:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #20.

• LexisNexis Academic:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• National Newspapers:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• ProQuest Newspapers:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #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.)

• 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• Factiva:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #20.

• LexisNexis Academic:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• National Newspapers:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• ProQuest Newspapers:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #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.)

• Forrester Research:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Gartner Research:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Investext Plus:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #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).

• Factiva:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #20.

• LexisNexis Academic:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• ProQuest Newspapers:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #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.)

• Washington State Newsstand:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #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.)

• 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 Plans Handbook, 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.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Social Sciences Citation Index:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   Index to cited and citing references in journals in the social sciences.      (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #19 and #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 #19 and #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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• InfoTech Trends:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   Formerly called Computer Industry Forecasts. 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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Statistical Universe:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   Index to statistics published in commercial, international and U.S. government publications. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• 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.

• Datastream:   Detailed international securities and economic data. (U.S. data is not available in Datastream; it is only available in Compustat 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.
  Public PC #20 only.

• Global Financial Data:   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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Mergent Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  (Also available to cardholders via the Seattle Public Library).

• InfoTech Trends:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   Formerly called Computer Industry Forecasts. 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Statistical Universe:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   Index to statistics published in commercial, international and U.S. government publications. (U.W. restricted)
  All Foster public PC's except PC #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• LexisNexis Academic:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   For tax, go to Legal Research and to Codes & Regulation; select Tax Law for sources such as ABA Tax Lawyer, AICPA Tax Adviser, Combined State Attorney General Tax Opinions, Federal Tax Cases, Internal Revenue Bulletin/Cumulative Bulletin, Internal Revenue Code, International Tax Materials - IBFD, IRS Actions & Memoranda, Journal of International Taxation, Law Reviews - Tax Articles:, Practical Tax Lawyer, Private Letter Rulings/Tax Advice Memoranda, RIA Employee Benefits Alert & RIA Executive Compensation Alert, RIA Estate & Financial Planners Alert, RIA Tax Reporter - Income, Estate & Excise, RIA Weekly Tax Alert, State Tax Cases, Tax Analysts Daily Tax News, Tax Analysts Journals, Treasury Regulations (Final/Temp/Proposed), and Warren, Gorham & Lamont Tax Journals.
  All Foster public PC's except PC #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• RIA Checkpoint:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Global Financial Data:   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 #19 and #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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)
  

• International Financial Statistics Online:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• VentureXpert Web:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under 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 #19 and #20.      (Available from Off-Campus)

• Factiva:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   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 #19 and #20.

• National Newspapers:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.   Index and full text for 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.   &nb