Other Research Resources

Annual Reports/SEC Filings || Associations, Societies, & Organizations || Bestseller Book Lists || Case Studies || Course Reserves || Data & Statistics || Dissertations & Theses || Education || Limited Access Databases || Market Research Reports || News || Working Papers

Annual Reports/SEC Filings

 

United States

Free:
EDGAR
Securities and Exchange Commission's corporate filings database. Provides news, search functions, and definitions.

UIUC Only:
LexisNexis
Offers some pre-1996 filings that are not available through EDGAR.
Mergent Online
OneSource
BEL Only Databases
Databases only available in the Business & Economics Library for current UIUC faculty & students. Company information available from Corporate Text (1987-1995), Disclosure Global Access, and Research Insight (20 years).

Physical Resources:


BEL has historical corporate annual reports on microform. There are paper copies in the large drawers just beyond the reference desk. However, the collection is not complete either in company or in time period.

International

CAROL World Annual Reports of European companies.
Japan Financials
Financial statement data from Tokyo Stock Exchange and major OTC Firms. Data is delayed 18 months from the date of publication.
SEDAR
Canadian securities database. Roughly equivalent to EDGAR, covering Canadian public companies and mutual funds since January 1997. Document format varies, including PDF, MS Word, and WordPerfect.

Associations, Societies, & Organizations

Associations Unlimited Contains information for international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields.

Case Studies

Case Studies in Article Databases:
ABI/INFORM: use "case studies" in SUBJECT with Keyword (e.g., market*)
Business Source Premier: specify "Case Study" in Document Type

Case Studies in Harvard Business Review
HBR via Business Source Premier (Oct, 1922 to present in FT)
HBS Cases - also via Business Source Premier - (April 1942 to present, abstract only, good for identifying the particular issue you are interested in).

Business Plan Archive Free registration required to access publically available plans. Collection and preservation of business plans and related planning documents from the Birth of the Dot Com Era so that future generations will be able to learn from this remarkable episode in the history of technology and entrepreneurship.
Harvard Business School Cases
Search only. Case studies available for personal ordering.

Course Reserves

Student and Faculty Guide

Data & Statistics

UIUC Only:
Passport Reference and Markets (formerly GMID)
International Financial Statistics (IFS) Online
Statistical Universe
World Development Indicators (WDI) Online
STAT-USA
For use in Government Documents Library only.
Source OECD
FAOSTAT
Bloomberg
Certification. Terminal available in BEL.
BEL Only Databases
Government Finance Statistics (IMF)
UN Comtrade Database
Commodity trade statistics.
Dictionary of Statistics

Free:
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Illinois Statistical Abstract
US Census Bureau
Censtats databases
National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA)
Statistical Abstract of the United States
FRED
St. Louis Federal Reserve economic research.

Dissertations and Theses

Digital Dissertations Identifies doctoral dissertations from U.S. & Canadian institutions.

Education

World of Learning International guide to the academic world. Search by countries, institutions, or subjects.

Limited Access Databases

BEL Only Databases Resources available only at the Business & Economics Library. Use is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students.
College of Business Databases

Market Research Reports

Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS) Identifies written reports about technology including information security, the Internet, business intelligence/content management, wireless communications, and software and hardware vendor profiles.
Frost & Sullivan
Identifies global research reports on emerging high-technology and industrial markets in 50 countries.
MarketLine
Company & industry profiles, market research reports, and news covering a wide range of industries around the world.
Reuters Business Insight
Covers the consumer goods, energy, finance, healthcare, and technology industries.

News

Crain's Chicago Business
Financial Times
New York Times (Current)
New York Times (Historical)
Wall Street Journal (Current)
Wall Street Journal (Historical)
Washington Post

Working Papers

RePEc/IDEAS
Social Science Research Network

Working Papers at UIUC:
College of Business Office of Research Faculty Working Papers
Abstracts from 1995-1999
College of Business Office of Research Faculty Working Papers
Abstracts from 2000-2001. Full text 2001-present.
College of Business Center for International Business Education and Research Working Papers
Primarily abstracts from 1997-2002.
Office for Futures and Options Research
Working Papers from a cooperation between the Departments of Finance and Agriculture and Consumer Economics. Abstracts from 1993-1995. PDFs and HTML versions available from 1995-2002.

The Business & Economics Library has the paper copies of all working papers from the Office of Research, including CIBER, CISTM, and Technology Focus (recent issues are only available online). They are NOT searchable individually by title or author. You need to put in the series name (CIBER, CISTM, etc.) to get the call number of the collection, and then look them up within the collection.