Business Databases Available from the Seton Hall University Library

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Business & Legal Databases:

Other Useful Databases:

 

ABI/INFORM Global for Business (ProQuest)

Off-Campus Access:

  1. Go to the Library Homepage (library.shu.edu).

  2. Click on "Electronic Databases".

  3. Select the "Off-Campus Access" menu on the right side of the page, and click "Databases in Alphabetical Order."

  4. Look for the entry "Academic Journals (Proquest) and click on "Obtain a remote password" next to it.

  5. Click on "click here…" which appears on the page.

  6. A dialog box will appear that prompts you to enter your user name and password.

  7. Enter your Seton Hall email account name. This consists of the first six letters from your last name and first two letters from your first name with no dashes. If your name is fewer than six letters, enter your whole last name and the number of letters in your first name that would produce an id of eight letters. For example, the name Williams, Roland will be entered as williaro. In the password box, type the password in your SHU email account. It is either your social security number without dashes or whatever password you use with your email account.

  8. A page will appear with the user names and passwords for the databases that require separate accounts (If you cannot access this page, call the computer center at (973) 275-2222 to verify your SHU e-mail account).

  9. Scroll down to Proquest.

  10. Copy the user name and password for Proquest Databases.

  11. Click on Proquest, which is in hypertext. 

  12. A dialog box will appear. For account name, enter the Proquest user id. If the word "IPAUTO" appears, write over it. Enter password, and click on OK. You are in Proquest!

On-Campus Access:

  1. Go to the Library Homepage (library.shu.edu).

  2. Click on "Electronic Databases".

  3. Select the "On-Campus Access" menu on the left side of the page, and click "Databases in Alphabetical Order."

  4. Click on "Academic Journals (Proquest)".

  5. The Proquest databases appear. You are in Proquest!

Contents:     Covers business and management subjects with considerable international content. Includes over 1,000 journals and trade publications of which 600 are full text. Subject areas covered include accounting and taxation, banking and finance, economics, government, health care, human resources, labor relations, marketing, public administration, real estate, etc. The database is updated daily. ProQuest also contains information on 60,000+ companies. Indexing covers 1970 to present, and full text is available 1991 to present.

How to Use:

  1. Click on "Continue". A search box for the database will appear. Enter your search terms, and a "results list" of articles will show.

  2. Search for articles using: Search by Word, or Search for Publication from the navigation bar at the top of the screen.

  3. ProQuest displays a list of articles resulting from a search called the "results list".

  4. To the left of each title in the results list is a format icon. There are three columns of icons. The icon on the left (a horizontal sheet of paper) provides the citation/abstract format. If the full article is available from Proquest, there will be icons in the second and/or third columns. An icon in the second column (a vertical sheet of paper) indicates that the article is available in full text (ASCII) format, containing words only. If a camera is superimposed on the icon it means that there are graphics (table, photo, etc) in a format that can be enlarged. If there is an icon in the third column, it is a page image (Adobe Acrobat file) of the original article. The image format contains page numbers on each page; full text does not. When citing to a specific page, it is advantageous to have the page number.

  5. To further limit the results list to selected articles, click in the box to the left of each selected article, and then click "marked list" on top. 

  6. For more advanced searching features, select "Guided Search". 

  7. A search is automatically conducted in the most current three years." There is a "back file" and a "deep back file" that can be searched separately. Back files contain less full text and image formats than the Current file.

  8. There are three output options Proquest: print, download and, email to yourself if your address has been specified on the computer that you are using. It is possible to download and email full text (ASCII text). It is not possible to download or email an image record, and graphics cannot be downloaded or saved.

  9. For assistance from the database, click "help" on the right, and then click "help contents" on the left, and select a help topic.

  10. For assistance from the reference desk, call (973) 761-9437. Or, pose a question online through the University Library homepage, "Ask A Librarian" on the left of the top page. You can contact the business librarian, Dr. Richard E. Stern at (973) 275-2046 and sternric@shu.edu.

How to Download:

  1. Click on the page image icon.

  2. Click on "Save it to disk".

  3. Click ok.

  4. Name the file.

  5. Click "Save".

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe

Content     covers nearly 5,000 publications, most of which are available in full text. The most comprehensive sections are legal, news, and business. The other two sections are medical and reference. Academic Universe contains the following content segments, each of which must be searched separately

News -- Full text coverage of newspapers, wire services, transcripts of television and radio news broadcasts, magazines, newsletters, and journals from around the world. The full text contains word text only and does not include charts, tables, photos, etc. The New York Times is covered from the current day’s issue back to 1980 in fulltext and from 1969 to 1979 by abstract. Coverage includes major foreign language news sources in Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, and German. 

Business -- Full text coverage of business news sources. Company financial data is available for US and international companies and includes SEC reports, bankruptcy reports, financial information from Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, and Hoover's and more. Extensive coverage of accounting literature is included, including FASB and GASB texts and Miller guides. The directories segment includes trade show information, NTDB market reports, the SIC directory, and more. Abstracts for the Wall Street Journal are available from May 1973 to the present.

Legal -- Coverage includes the following: extensive full-text coverage of legal periodicals and law reviews, federal and state case law, Shepard's ® for US Supreme Court cases, federal and state codes and regulations, tax law from the Internal Revenue Code down through state tax law cases, European Union legislation and treaties, full-text patents, the Martindale-Hubbell directory of lawyers and law firms, and much more. Additional search tools are available for locating cases by citation, party, or topic. 

Dates        Vary; many sections more than 10 years back.

Mediamark Reporter

Description:        Mediamark Reporter provides information on demographics, lifestyles, product and brand usage, and advertising media preferences reported by a sample of over 25,000 United States consumers. 

Where to Obtain Mediamark Reporter Disk on CD-ROM       To obtain the CD-ROM disk, go to the Circulation / Reserve Desk.  Ask for Mediamark Reporter.  The disk is contained within a thin, cardboard-covered user guide kept behind the Reserve Desk on the “Permanent Reserve” shelf under call number HF5415.3. M42 2000.

How to Run Disk 

  • Go into the library reference area.  Look for a white Gateway workstation that faces the glass that surrounds the circulation desk.  The monitor is labeled “WR-25”.
  • Go to the “Welcome to Windows” screen.  Click on the “x” in the upper right portion of the screen to exit from this screen.
    • Troubleshooting:
      • If you see a screen that reads “CDROMS only” in large letters, move the mouse to get to the “Welcome to Windows” screen.
      • If you see a screen containing horizontal blue, green, and red bars with the words “Self Test…”, press the power button on the right side of the monitor.
      • If the monitor is not lit, press the power button on the right front of the monitor.
  • Click on the “K-Q” folder.
  • Open the CD-ROM drive; push the rectangular button below the CD-ROM door. Insert the CD-ROM.  Push the button to close the door.  You cannot close the door by pushing it.
  • Click the Mediamark icon.
  • You will see: “Mediamark Reporter / Available Studies”.
  • If you see a message “Your CD-ROM is off-line”:
    • Click OK
    • Click Mediamark icon.
    • Continue…

Printing and Downloading

  • The CD-ROM workstation is equipped with a printer and a floppy disk drive

Instructions for Use 

  • See a tutorial from the Pace University Library (Sarah Higgins, creator).
  • The printed Mediamark Reporter User Guide that accompanies the CD-ROM may also be useful.
  • Print copies of the Pace tutorial and this two-page instruction sheet are also attached to the CD-ROM.
  • The Seton Hall disk covers 1995 to 2000.  However, I have set the opening screen to list studies from the year 2000 only.  Academic library versions of Mediamark Reporter do not contain the latest information available.
Mergent Online (Formerly FISonline-Company Data Direct)

is a database of corporate information covering 10,000 U.S. publicly held companies listed on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ. The contents of the database are equivalent to the print Mergent (formerly Moody's Manual series). Information available for each company includes the following: 

  • A complete corporate history including acquisitions and changes in ownership structure 

  • Lists of subsidiaries, property holdings, and key personnel 

  • Up to 10 years of annual and quarterly financial data, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and financial ratios

  • Full coverage of SEC filings

  • Extensive information about the corporation's current long term debt 

  • Links to recent news reports 

  • Data output can be customized and exported as comma-delimited files (readable by Excel and other software). 

    Dates: Various

RIA Checkpoint Tax

Contains comprehensive federal and state tax information compiled by the Research Institute of America (RIA). It includes the following databases: 

Analysis of Recent Tax Legislation 
Federal Tax Coordinator 2d (RIA's topic-oriented tax service) 
United States Tax Reporter (RIA's Code-oriented tax service) 
Internal Revenue Code 
Final, Temporary, and Proposed Regulations 
Revenue Rulings and Revenue Procedures 
Notices and Announcements
Private Letter Rulings, Technical Advice Memorandums, and General
Counsel Memoranda 
IRS Publications 
Committee Reports 
Tax Treaties 
American Federal Tax Reports 
Tax Court Regular and Memorandum Decisions 
Citator 2nd

Dates: Various

The Value Line Investment Survey is one of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. Its up-to-date, weekly issues are a comprehensive reference for investors. It covers 1,700 stocks classified into 90 industries.  For each stock it offers year-ahead and three- to five-year probable relative price performance projections of key financial measures, and concise, objective commentary on current operations and future prospects.

Access:

Value Line is available in two formats:

  • In paper at the University Library reference desk in two volumes:
    • Blue Binder loose leaf
      • Part 1: Summary & Index.
      • Part 3: Ratings & Reports (13 “rolling” issues).
    • Black binder loose-leaf: Part 2: Selection & Opinion weekly issues.
  • The database is available both on and off campus in electronic format.  It requires a special id and password from wherever the database is accessed.   Go to the library’s lists of databases.
To Search the Electronic Edition: 

  • From within Value Line, click on Subscriber Log On in top of the left-hand column.
  • Click on the first service listed:

The Value Line Investment Survey online—Standard Edition.

  • The library does not subscribe to the other listed services.
Assistance within Value Line:

  • To find a general description of the Value Line Standard Edition go to: “Description” in the left hand column.
  • To find an explanation of the company pages, FAQs on technical contents of the reports in Value Line and an extensive glossary of investment terms:
    • Click on Support on top bar.
    • Click on FAQs in left-hand column.
    • Under the heading Print Products click on The Value Line Investment Survey.
How to Use Value Line: 

Explain the main information page: what the different parts mean and the 13 week cycle.

Indicate what is available on the freebie page where you sign in.

Value Line is divided into three sections:

1. The Ratings & Reports section contains one-page reports on approximately 1,700 companies and more than 90 industries. Each company report contains Value Line's Timeliness, Safety, and Technical ranks, financial and stock price forecasts for the coming 3 to 5 years, and an analyst's written commentary.

2. The Summary & Index contains an index of all stocks in the publication as well as many up-to-date statistics about the latest company results. It also contains a variety of stock "screens" designed to help investors identify companies with various characteristics.

 3. The Selection & Opinion section contains Value Line's latest economic and stock market forecasts, one-page write-ups of interesting and attractive stocks, model portfolios, and financial and stock market statistics.

How to Find a Company: 

  • By name: Click on Look up Company in left hand column.
  • By industry: Click on Look Up in left hand column in the Industry / Company Breakdown column.
  • Also, click on Supplemental Reports in left hand column for current developments.
How to search for an industry:

  • Click on Lookup Industry in left hand column.
  • Enter the industry name, or scroll through the list of industries.
  • Click on the icon in the “Industry Description” column.

Updated 10.13.02

Wall Street Journal Online 

Wall Street Journal  

Content     The Wall Street Journal is the premier business publication in the United States. The current day's newspaper is freely accessed at http://www.wsj.com. There is a link to locate online items referenced from the print editions of the Journal. To access this link, go to the bottom of the left column and click "Journal Links". 

To access a thirty-day searchable archive requires an id and password. To sign on look in the left hand column for "article search" about one page down. After entering search terms, a sign-on screen appears. Seton Hall students and faculty can access this information from http://library.shu.edu/remote.htm. Look for the id and password under "journals". Enter id and password. Use of "advanced search" mode provides several choices including source (wsj.com, Barron's, or Dow Jones newswires); search in (full article, headline, headline and summary or byline); specific issue or range of dates up to one month. The twenty-year archive is not accessible from the Seton Hall account.

Print copies of the Wall Street Journal are located in the University Library as follows:
current day (Monday to Friday editions) at the Circulation Desk; two months until the film arrives in the Browsing Room on right side; back to 1947 in the microforms room on film.
Barron's is kept in the Browsing Room on the right side until the film arrives, and it is on film in the microforms room from 1963 in the A to Z film sequence. 

WESTLAW

Content     Excellent database for searching and retrieving case law, codes,
law review articles (fulltext), specialized services such as Daily Labor Reporter. There are two passwords to WESTLAW. One password is reserved for remote access and campus access. To find the password go to the following page on the University Library homepage: http://library.shu.edu/remote.htm. A second password is reserved for use in the Walsh Library reference area. On the workstation desktop (the screen), click on the WESTMATE icon. The password is listed on the top part of each workstation. For the client id enter the word library. 
Dates        Vary by database.

JSTOR

Content      This is an archive or backfile collection of 117 scholarly journals that are in the arts and sciences. JSTOR, (pronounced jay'-store), is an acronym for Journal STORage. Students and faculty can access this resource anywhere on campus or remotely via the Internet when off-campus. JSTOR is a unique full-text digital archive of core scholarly journals. JSTOR contains 18 journals in economics and finance.
Dates         Each journal backfile generally begins with the first issue of the first volume, sometimes dating back to the mid- to late-1800s.

MEDLINE

Contents     11 million references and abstracts and some links to fulltext. The preferred access to MEDLINE is from "Medline (NLM)" in the library's database listing. Select Grateful Med or Pub Med.

ScienceDirect

Content     Database includes journals in economics, business, and management. Index, abstract, and selected fulltext of articles. Can set up personalized alert service in order to be notified of newly published articles.
Dates        Starting 1995.

PsycInfo

Content     Includes management-relevant information. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, dissertations, reports, English-language book chapters and books, and other scholarly documents.
Dates        Starting 1887.

SETONCAT (Library catalog)

Content     Reserves (including electronic reserves), books, government publications, media (video, cds, etc.), websites, and microform collections in the University Libraries (including Archives, Special Collections, and Seminary Library). Search by keyword, author, title, and subject, and combinations thereof. Limit by year, language, and publication type.
Remote     From the University Libraries' homepage (http://library.shu.edu), look for "library catalog". 


Richard E. Stern, Ph.D., Business Librarian 
sternric@shu.edu  
(973) 275-2046 

 Updated 01/09/06