Page History

Starting points:

• Biographical information:
  • Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century. From the Harvard Business School.
  • Ref HC29 .I57  - International Directory of Business Biographies
  • Ref HD6054.4 .U6 K753 2004 - Encyclopedia of American Women in Business
  • Ref HD2358.5 .U6 E53 2006 - Encyclopedia of African American Business
  • Ref HB76 .W47 1986 - Who's who in economics : a biographical dictionary of major economists, 1700-1986

• Industry and company information, financial and economic statistics, stock market links and research guides:
  • LexisNexis Academic (access fromElectronic Resources by Title)-  access Hoovers company reports, news articles from major national and international papers, hundreds of regional and local papers, biographical information and more.
  • Business Source Premier (access fromElectronic Resources by Title) - access Datamonitor company reports.
  • SEC filings (Edgar) (company filings) and  Laws That Govern the Securities Industry (SEC).
  • Ref Counter 317.3 U58s - Statistical Abstract of the United States (most recent shelved behind the reference desk. Archived issues shelved in reference, under the same number. Also online: 2010 http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ and archived issues http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/past_years.html )
  • Historical Tables - Budget of the United States Government
  • Ref HF1042 .A55 2007 - North American Industry Classification System (NAICS); available online http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html  and Ref HF1041.5 .N35 2000- NAICS Desk Reference
  • Ref HC101 .B594 2004 - Industry Research Using the Economic Census: How to Find it, and Use it
  • Federal Reserve Bank 
  • FRASER - Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
  • NYSE 
  • Stock and Commodity Exchanges - links to exchanges worldwide, and much more!  
  • Economic Indicators from the  Economics and Statistics Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce.  
  • NBERNational Bureau of Economic Research
  • BEOnline - Internet resources for business. Click Subject Lists.   
  • Consumer Expenditure Survey, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Export.gov  is managed by the International Trade Administration in collaboration with numerous government agencies to help U.S. business export.

• Encyclopedias/dictionaries
  • Ref HG151 .B36 2010 The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of finance, investment and banking
  • Ref HF3021 .H67 2009 Historical encyclopedia of American business
  • Ref HF1001 .S348 2009 The American Heritage dictionary of business terms
  • Ref HF1373 .P75 2009 The Princeton encyclopedia of the world economy
  • Ref HD30.4 .A16 2008 21st century management
  • Ref K1004.6 .O88 2008 Dictionary of international business law
  • Ref HG151 .D54 2008 A dictionary of finance and banking.
  • Ref JA61 .E513 2011 - Encyclopedia of Political Economy
  • Ref HB61 .E66 2004 - An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics : a Guide to Laws and Theorems Named after Economists
  • Ref HB61 .N49 2008 - The New Palgrave. A Dictionary of Economics
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
  • Ref HB 171.A19 2010 - 21st Century Economics
  • Ref HC106.8 .O47 2000 - Handbook of United States Economic and Financial Indicators
  • Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms
  • Ref HG151 .N48 1992 - The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance
  • Financial History of the United States
  • Ref HG2563 .H235 2005 - The Federal Reserve System: An Encyclopedia
  • Ref HB235 .U6 V358 2005 -The value of a dollar : colonial era to the Civil War, 1600-1865
  • Ref HB235 .U6 V35 1994 - The value of a dollar : prices and incomes in the United States, 1860-1989
  • Ref HB3730 .B38 2005 - The Secrets of Economic Indicators
  • Ref HF5387 .E53 2008 - Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
  • Ref HD30.15 .B455 2005  - The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management
  • Ref HG 4501.M59 (yr) - Handbook of Common Stocks
  • Ref HG 4009.B58 2010 - The Blue Pages. A Directory of Companies Rated by Their Politics and Practices.
  • Ref HF 5681.B2R6 (yr) - Financial Ratio Benchmarks

Drew Databases for business and economics:

access fromElectronic Resources by Title

•  LexisNexis Academic -  access Hoovers company reports, news articles from major national and international papers, hundreds of regional and local papers, biographical information and more.
•  Business Source Premier - access Datamonitor company reports, industry and trade publications, scholarly articles and more.
•  EconLit -  the premier database for scholarly articles related to economics.
•  Academic Search Premier - large, interdisciplinary database with information about companies, people, industries and more.
•  JStor - Provides full text access to older issues of over 300 scholarly journals.
•  ProQuest Direct -  large, interdisciplinary database with information about companies, people, industries and more.
•  Sociological Abstracts- social behavior surrounding economic issues and business activities.
•  PsycINFO -  psychological behavior involving economic behavior.
• See also:
  • Electronic Resources by Subject: Economics
  • Electronic Resources by subject: Business, Society and Culture 
  • Electronic Resources for Business Studies

E-Journals at Drew for Business and Economics OR search for keyword in a journal title:

• Go to E-Journals at Drew.
• Use the drop down menu to find "Title contains all the words" and type in keyword such as wall street OR money OR investing _OR _stocks,  etc.
• Click Search.
   
  Key business journals/newspapers accessible via E-Journals at Drew. 
• Barron's
• Business Week
• The Economist
• Entrepreneur Magazine (access at http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/index.html)
• Financial Times
• Forbes
• Fortune
• Harvard Business Review
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal

Questions?

• Contact Beth Patterson epatters@drew.edu x3480.
• Stop by at the reference desk 9-5 weekdays, and 6-10 pm Sunday-Thursday.
• Check out the Ask a Librarian link on many of our library web pages.