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Business Source Complete
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Selected full text articles from journals, magazines, and trade publications, including industry and country reports, MarketLine company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more
Datastream
Available only in Business Programming Lab SSCB 3.201.01; "historical, global coverage of equities, stock markets, commodities, futures, currencies, options, bond markets, company financials, and economic data"

Description source: Baker Library, Harvard Univ.
Plunkett Research
Analyzes industry trends, including finances, markets, technologies, deregulation, research/development and globalization; also includes industry statistics, company profiles, glossaries, and more
Business Insights: Global
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Primarily full text case studies, statistical data, news articles, journal articles, and topical reference materials organized by company, industry, and country; includes SWOT reports
Nexis Uni
Primarily full text for news sources from around the world, plus statutory case law, and other legal resources, company and industry information, etc. Use Company Dossier to search and compare companies. See link to guide below.

How-To Guide for Nexis Uni's Company Dossier

Wall Street Journal
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1983 to present; full text of the newspaper's Eastern edition
SEC EDGAR Corporate Reports (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
Full text of annual and other public company corporate reports filed with the SEC
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Reference Center
Primarily full text industry, popular, and scholarly articles on all aspects of business disaster recovery, including risk evaluation, emergency preparedness and crisis communications
AtoZdatabases (Business & Marketing)
Addresses, phone numbers, sales volume, credit rating, SIC codes, and more for U.S. businesses and executives; also includes directory information on U.S. residents
Business Abstracts with Full Text
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Selected full text articles from business-related magazines and journals
Regional Business News
Selected full text for primarily U.S. business-related newspaper and trade publications; also includes radio and TV news transcripts
ScienceDirect
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Selected full text articles from Elsevier journals in the physical sciences/engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences/humanities
Web of Science
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Identifies articles and references from journals in science, the social sciences, and art and humanities; selected full text available via Find It @ UHCL; results can be sorted by times cited; use Cited Reference search to find works that cite an earlier article or publication
Environment Complete
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Selected full text for journal articles, books, and conference proceedings on agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, pollution, and affiliated areas of study

Depending on your topic, these databases also may be relevant.

Checkpoint
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Registration required; tax and accounting research tool that includes Federal Tax Coordinator and U.S. Tax Reporter; AICPA Professional Standards, Technical Practice Aids, Audit and Accounting Guides; PPC Tax Deskbooks; BNA Daily Tax Report®, West Employee Benefits Cases and more.
Checkpoint student registration for off-campus access
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UHCL email address required; Checkpoint IDs for students are limited to 160 users and expire on July 31 and December 31
Datastream
Available only in Business Programming Lab SSCB 3.201.01; "historical, global coverage of equities, stock markets, commodities, futures, currencies, options, bond markets, company financials, and economic data"

Description source: Baker Library, Harvard Univ.
WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
Historical data on thousands of companies; requires registration

Includes "security prices and trading volume, income and balance sheet items, stock market indices, bond prices and interest rates, mutual fund and stock ownership information, options data, and a wide array of macroeconomic time series, global data, marketing and industry reports" Please contact LeeAnn Wheelbarger wheelbarger@uhcl.edu College of Business for registration issues.
Gartner
Research and analysis about the global information technology industry, including product information, evaluations, recommendations, and measurement services of technology issues and trends
Academic Search Complete
Selected full text articles from journals in a wide range of subjects, plus magazines, reports, books, and more
Houston Chronicle
Selected full text for recent articles; other content requires a personal subscription

Houston Business Journal
Find the latest breaking business news, some of this week's top stories from the Houston Business Journal and other popular features.
Forbes (Global 2000 Leading Companies)
Use industry and geographic filters to narrow search. Search Forbes magazine for more.

AEA Journals (American Economic Association)
Selected full text
EconLit with Full Text
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Selected full text of journal articles, books, book reviews, working papers and dissertations on economics literature from around the world
PsycINFO
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American Psychological Association (APA) content with selected full text articles from approximately 2,500 journals, plus books, book chapters, dissertations, and more
Small Business Reference Center
Selected full text of magazine articles, books, reports, and case studies relevant to small businesses
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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1889-2001; full text of the Eastern edition; includes page view

Search OneSearch for a DOI (digital object identifier) or a distinctive "exact phrase" from the article title. Add an author name if needed.

Sample citation and searches:

Robbins, B. G. (2016). Probing the links between trustworthiness, trust, and emotion: Evidence from four survey experiments. Social Psychology Quarterly, 79, 284-308. doi:10.1177/0190272516657546

doi:10.1177/0190272516657546
"trustworthiness trust and emotion"
"trustworthiness trust and emotion" AND robbins

A peer-reviewed (or refereed) journal:

uses experts from the same subject field or profession as the author to evaluate a manuscript prior to acceptance for publication
has articles that report on research studies or provide scholarly analysis of topics
may include book reviews, editorials, or other brief items that are not considered scholarly articles

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Explains key elements from the first & last page of a typical scholarly or academic article. North Carolina State Univ. Libraries

These tutorials include practice in Neumann Library web-based resources and self-quiz questions to help you check your understanding.

Step 1: Choose a Relevant Research Database
Learn how to find subject-specific and other research databases in Databases A-Z and library research guides
Step 2: Create an Effective First Search
Learn how to choose keywords and how to use logical operators, wildcards, basic limiters, and more
Step 3: Critically Review and Refine Search Results
Learn how to identify scholarly articles and to find and use database subject terms, field, and other specialized limiters

(1:43) Learn how logical operators AND and OR work to help you get good results in library research databases.

(1:55) Learn how to retrieve varying forms of a word and improve search results.

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CQ Researcher
Current events/issues coverage includes full text reports with overviews, historical background, chronologies, pro/con features, and more
Credo
Full text articles and images from subject encyclopedias, biographical dictionaries, and other reference works
Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Full text encyclopedias, biographical dictionaries, and subject-specific reference books
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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Current social issue topic overviews, including pro/con viewpoint essays, academic journal and news/magazine articles, images, videos, statistics, and more
Very Short Introductions
Full text overviews of diverse subjects, including ancient warfare, climate, consciousness, economics, game theory, Islamic history, literary theory, privacy, and more from Oxford Univ. Press
Science in Context
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Current scientific topic overviews, including selected full text for journal and news/magazine articles, images, videos, interactive data maps, and more
Britannica
Full text academic edition of Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster Dictionary; includes video and audio clips
Oxford English Dictionary
Landmark historical resource that defines and illustrates through quotations the use of English language words from earliest known occurrence to present

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Resources for Statistics
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Using the Library Catalog Advanced Search:

enter desired terms (e.g., chemistry or biochemistry) in the first text entry box
enter encyclopedia* or dictionar* in the next
add other desired limiters (e.g., location UHCL or format ebooks)
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Library Catalog Advanced Search for chemistry or biochemistry and encyclopedia* or dictionar* with limiters for location UHCL and format ebook