Finance Databases
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| Business Source Premiervia Ebsco (1922 to present) Aggregation of business and management journals, indexes and abstracts. Includes many full text scholarly journals. Provides company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies. |
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| Proquest Central (formerly Proquest 5000) (1923 to present) Multidisciplinary database ,indexes and abstracts over 10,090 publications, full-text coverage beginning as early as 1986. This is a combination of Proquest's selected databases including ABI/INFORM,ProQuest Asian Business & ProQuest European Business. |
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| ECONLITvia Proquest (1922 to present) Bibliographic references and abstracts to articles in journals, books, higher degree theses, articles from collective volumes (eg conference proceedings, research papers), book reviews and economic working papers. |
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| ScienceDirect A database for scientific research in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences including economics & business. |
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| Expanded Academic ASAPvia Infotrac (1980 to present) Contains an index and abstracts to over 1500 journals including the full-text of 520 journals indexed. Topics covered include economics & business related issues. |
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| Web of Sciencevia ISI Web of Knowledge Contains Science Citation Index Expanded 1945 - present, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956 - present, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975. Enables cited reference searching for tracking a paper's influence. |
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| JSTOR (Dates vary - many from the 1800s) Access to the full text of journals from a wide range of disciplines including economics & business. |
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| Factiva Factiva provides Australian and international news, commentary, pictures in addition to company information and share price data. The database contains more than 8,000 overseas and Australian newspaper and newswire publications.For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive is 13-22 years [SMH 1986+] and the News Limited archive is 8 years [Australian 1996+]. Important: Click Logout when finished. 15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstand databases for international & recent Australian news coverage. Access to the Australian Financial Review and BRW |
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| Proquest Newsstand databases Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list. Use Factiva for access to ANZ titles prior to these dates.  |
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| Google Scholar Free to all, but much of the material it finds is not freely available without a subscription. By using this link to Google Scholar, you can get access to the full-text of articles in journals to which the Library subscribes. |
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| ABS Statistics The Statistics section of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) web site provides access to the full range of ABS statistical and reference information. |
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| Annual Reports Online via Aspect Huntley (1995 - present) Annual reports dating back to 1995 for all ASX listed/de-listed companies. All ASX-lodged announcements from October 1998, including prospectuses. |
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| Connect 4 Australian listed company information. (USYD subscriptions indicated with a red star). Includes Annual Reports 2003 - present, Boardroom (senior salary packages), Company Prospectuses 1994- present, Mergers & Acquisitions, New Issues, & Takeovers 1997 - present. |
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| DatAnalysis DatAnalysis provides comprehensive data for all ASX listed companies. These reports are updated daily from relevant ASX announcements. Included are corporate details, company history, extracts from company reports, financial tables, shareholder information, company announcements, and company reviews. |
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| FinAnalysis via AspectHuntley (12 year history) Detailed financial information for all companies listed on the ASX More than 400 data items are provided. Includes Company Announcements, Charts & Prices, Peer Analysis, Annual & Interim Financials. Financial information is also available for delisted companies. |
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| GMID: Global Market Information Databasevia Euromonitor Log-in required on-campus Tip - if search times out, try drilling down using subject headings to select topics & countries International coverage of key business intelligence on countries and markets. It provides users with historical statistics and forecasts, analysis of consumers' lifestyles, company profiles and information sources, plus full-text market analysis. |
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| Hoovers Company Records Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Access to International Financial Statistics package only |
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| IFS : International Financial Statistics now IMF eLibrary Data Time series database produced by the International Monetary Fund. It provides statistics for a wide range of economics and financial indicators. Data covered includes: national accounts, balance of payments, interest rates, government finance, exchange rates & commodity prices (Australian and global information). |
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| Kompass Global access to information on: 1.8 million companies, 750,000 trade & brand names, 3.6 million executive names. In Australia contains: 32,685 companies, 56,041 executive names. |
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| OECD iLibrary Comprises full text access to book collections, journal articles, reference titles and statistical databases in School of Business |
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