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For accessing online databases, please visit at

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EJournalsDatabases(ContainsResearchArticles)

ABI/InformComplete(Proquest)ABI/INFORMComplete is themostcomprehensivebusinessdatabasecoveringmore

than 4,000 research journals. The database contains content from thousands of

journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management

techniques,corporate

strategies,

and

industry

specific

topics

worldwide.

EmeraldManagement

Emeraldisthelargest,mostcomprehensivecollectionofpeerreviewedmanagement

journalsandonlinesupportforfacultyandresearchers.Itprovidestheopportunityto

exchange ideas and information, get to know what is happening in the world of

researchworkinprogress,findoutwhatrelevantconferencesarebeingplannedand

readreviewsofpreviousones.EmeraldsSubjectCollectionsprovideaccesstounique

groupsofhighqualitypeerreviewedjournalsinspecificmanagementdisciplines.

EBSCOBusinessSourceCompleteThis

is

the

world's

definitive

scholarly

business

database,

providing

the

leading

collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive

coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for themost important

scholarlybusinessjournalsbackas faras1886are included. Journalrankingstudies

reveal thatBusiness SourceComplete is theoverwhelmingly superiordatabase for

fulltextjournals inalldisciplinesofbusiness,includingmarketing,management,MIS,

POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text content includes

financialdata,books,monographs,majorreferenceworks,bookdigests,conference

proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market

researchreports,countryreports,companyprofiles,SWOTanalyses,facultyseminars

(videos),andmore.

EconlitwithFulltext

EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's

foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit adheres to the high

qualitystandardslongrecognizedbysubscriberstotheJournalofEconomicLiterature

(JEL) and is a reliable sourceof citations and abstracts to economic researchdating

back to1886. Itprovides linksto fulltextarticles inall fieldsofeconomics, including

capitalmarkets, country studies,econometrics,economic forecasting,environmental

economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban

economics,andmuchmore.

EntrepreneurialStudiesSource

EntrepreneurialStudiesSourceprovidestheacademicresearcheraswellasthestudent

withthelatestinsightintotopicsrelevanttoentrepreneurshipandsmallbusiness.This

databaseoffersusersfulltextformorethan125keyperiodicals,135referencebooks,

casestudies, thousandsofcompanyprofilesandover600videoswith transcriptsand

relatedarticles from theHarvardFacultySeriesandVator.TV.The reliableand timely

datacanbeutilizedbystudents for theirentrepreneurialassignmentsorcasestudies


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ranging from solo projects tomajor entrepreneurial undertakings. Subjects covered

include business planning, communications, innovations, management, marketing,

organizational behavior, product development, raising capital, risk taking, andmany

more.

ResearchStarters Business

Research Starters Business is study and research guides designed specifically for

advancedhigh

school

students,

college

students

and

selected

graduate

students.

They

consistofcomprehensive,yetconcisetopicsummaryarticlesofabout3,000words in

lengthwrittenbyresearchers,scholarsandothersubjectmatterexperts.Topicsparallel

courseofferingsatmajorcollegesanduniversities inthesubjectareascovered.These

articles are designed to be starting points for students, providing them with topic

overviews, definitions of relevant terms and concepts, detailed bibliographies, and

importantly, links to top articles from the relevant EP database(s). Research Starters

supplementstextbooksandothermaterialswithcurrentandfocusedtopicoverviews,

assistingstudentsinundertakingtheirassignmentsandresearchsuccessfully.

RegionalBusinessNews

Incorporatesmorethan80regionalbusinesspublicationscoveringallmetropolitanandrural areaswithin theUnited States. Included in this database areArizona Business,

BusinessNorthCarolina,Crain'sNewYorkBusiness (andotherCrainCommunications

editions),DesMoinesBusinessRecord, Enterprise Salt LakeCity, FortWorthBusiness

Press,OrangeCountyBusinessJournal,WestchesterCountyBusinessJournal,etc.

GreenFILE

GreenFILEofferswellresearched informationcoveringallaspectsofhuman impact to

the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and generalinterest titles

includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and

local/nationalgovernments,

and

what

can

be

done

at

each

level

to

minimize

these

effects.Multidisciplinarybynature,GreenFILEdrawson theconnectionsbetween the

environmentandavarietyofdisciplinessuchasagriculture,education,law,healthand

technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution,

sustainableagriculture,renewableenergy,recycling,andmore.Thedatabaseprovides

indexingandabstractsformorethan538,000records,aswellasOpenAccessfulltext

formorethan5,800records.

INFORMSJournals(Availablefrom1998onwards)

InformsPubsOnlinecontainsthefullcontentofeachissueofthejournalspublishedby

INFORMS,including

all

figures

and

tables.

In

addition,

the

full

text

is

searchable

by

keyword,andthecitedreferencesincludehyperlinkstoMedlineandtothefulltextof

manyotheronlinejournals.Online fulltextPDF contentbeginswith the1998 issues,

andwillexpandwitheachmonthsnewissues.

ElsevierScienceDirect(Business,Management&Accounting)

ScienceDirect isthewebbased interfacetothefulltextdatabaseofElsevierjournals.

The Science Direct offers a rich electronic environment for research journals on

Business,Management&Accounting,bibliographicdatabasesandreferenceworks.


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CompanyResearch&InformationDatabases

BLOOMBERGDatabase(TerminalavailableinLibrary)

BloombergDatabaseisanonlinedatabase,providesrealtimepricing,data,history,news,

analyticsandresearchforglobalfinancialmarkets.

Centrefor

Monitoring

Indian

Economy

(CMIE)

Databases

EconomicOutlook(AvailableOnline)

Thisserviceprovidesinsights,forecasts,nearrealtimereleaseofneweconomicdata,

commentsondevelopmentsandalargedatabase.Theserviceprovidesforecastsfor

growth in real GDP, industrial production, agricultural production, and also for

inflation, balance of payments, Central Government finances, corporate finances,

money&banking,energy,infrastructureandmore.Forecastsareavailableforthenext

618months and these are continuously calibratedwith the release of new data.

Everydatareleaseisdealtwithatthreelevels Tidings,whichisaquickdeliveryof

thefacts,

Insights,

which

is

adeeper

and

contextual

analysis

of

the

new

data

release

and,Outlook,which isa forward lookingessay thatdescribes the implicationsof

thenewdata release.ThecorestrengthoftheEconomicOutlook is theunderlying

database.Theserviceprovidesfullaccesstothisdatabase.Timeseriesonmorethana

85,000 indicators are provided inmultiple frequencies and in the form of several

derivations.Thefullsetof indicators includingallfrequenciesandderivationsaddup

to nearly a million timeseries. All these are presented in intelligently laidout

tabulations.

IndustryAnalysisService(InstallationRequired)

The Industry Analysis Service is a powerful combination that brings together the

advantagesofadatabase serviceandanalysis. Itprovidesboth. Ithelpsyou remainfullyabreastofthetrendsinindividualindustries.Theservicecoversaroundhundred

industries. It provides an uptodate database and an incisive analysisofwhat the

numbersspeak.ThedatabaseisatthecoreoftheIAS.Itpresentsdetaileddataon

DemandandSupply

Prices

Financialperformance

Investmentsetc.oftheindustries

Demand and supply includes production, trade, consumption and in some cases

inventories. Prices include those in multiple markets and for multiple

grades.

The

financial

performance

includes

quarterly

growth

in

sales

profits

and

profitabilityofcompaniesintheindustries.CMTE'ssharepriceindicesarethemost

broadbasedandcomprehensive.They includesectoral indices. IASprovidesthese

series.Thedatabaseisavailableintheformoflongtimeseries.Itprovidesthebasic

inputs required by any analyst to perform his/her own analysis. IAS also provides

news abstracts relevant for the industries covered. The IAS also provides its own

analysis of the individual industries. This includes forecasts and descriptive

analysisof thecurrent trends.Theseanalytical reportsareavailable in the formof

PDFfiles.


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IndiaTrades(InstallationRequired)

India Trades presents India's official foreign trade statistics and related data in a

userfriendlyandsoftwareenableddatabase.Indiaexportsandimportsabout10,000

commoditiestoandfromnearly200countries/regions. IndiaTradesprovidesmonthly

statisticsonthistrade.Thedatabaseprovidesquantity,valueandunitvalueinrespect

ofeach

of

products

exported

or

imported.

The

monthly

time

series

is

available

for

upto

tenyears.Annualseriesisavailableforabout15years.IndiaTradesalsoprovides

Briefworldtradestatistics

Newsabstracts

Exchangerates

Otherrelateddatabase

Prowess(InstallationRequired)

Prowess is a database of large and medium Indian firms. It contains detailed

informationonover26,000firms.Thesecomprise:

AllcompaniestradedonIndia'smajorstockexchanges

Severalothersincludingthecentralpublicsectorenterprises.

Prowessprovidesdetailed informationoneachcompany.This includesanormalised

databaseofthefinancialscovering1,500dataitemsandratiospercompany.Besides,

itprovidesquantitativeinformationon

Production&Sales

Consumptionofrawmaterial

Energy

Totally, the number of indicators per company is close to two thousand. Such

informationisusuallyavailableforovertenyears.Itgivescontactinformation,share

holdingpattern,listofbankersetc.aboutcompanies.Prowessalsoprovidesdaily

timeseriesofshareprices,computedreturnsthatinclude

Dividendsandothergains

P/Ebasedontheprofitsofthelastfourquarters

Ahostofotherusefulratiosandvalues.

Prowesshas

found

useful

applications

in

places

where

trust

matters

the

most

Commercialbanks

Investmentcompanies

Researchers

CharteredAccountants/TransferPricing


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CRISILResearch(RegistrationRequired)

CRISILResearch Industry InformationServicepresents adetailed and comprehensive

analysisofthecurrenttrendsandthelongtermperformanceoutlookon49industries

in India. It includes theevolutionofan industry, the regulatoryenvironment, cost

structures, nature and extent of competition, global trends along with statistical

informationon

capacities,

production,

imports

exports,

domestic

and

international

prices,andconsumptionpatterns.

Factiva.com

FactivaisabusinessinformationandresearchtoolownedbyDowJones&Company.

Factiva aggregates content from both licensed and free sources, and provides

organizations with search, alerting, dissemination, and other information

management capabilities. Factiva products provide access to more than 36,000

sources (such as newspapers,journals,magazines, television and radio transcripts,

photos,

etc.)

from

almost

200

countries

in

28

languages,

including

more

than

600

continuouslyupdatednewswires.

ETIntelligence.com

This site is a productof the ET IntelligenceGroup (ETIG), the research armof The

EconomicTimes.This sitebrings to you research knowledge andexpertiseofETIG.

Etintelligence provide macroeconomic and sectoral research, detailed primary,

secondaryandmarketresearchbasedstudies forthebenefitof Indianbusiness.We

analysebusinessfromvariousanglessectoral,firm level,macroeconomic,process

and functional. The site also carries research from all those top Indian research

houses,which

have

shared

their

research

with

us.

These

include

outfits

doing

economic research, market and consumer research, equity research and

consultancies.

CapitalinePlusCapitalinePlusprovidesfundamentalandmarketdataonmorethan20,000 Indian

listed and unlisted companies, classified undermore than 300 industries, along

withpowerfulanalytictools.Extensivedataandanalysisoneverycompanyprofile,

directors,morethan10yearfinancials(P&L,balancesheet,cashflow,consolidated

financial

data,

segment

data,

forex

data,

R&D

data,

ratios,

etc),

quarterly

results,

ownership pattern, finished products, rawmaterials, share price data, directors'

report,managementdiscussion,notestoaccount,businessnews,corporateevents,

etc.


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CountryResearch&InformationDatabases

WorldBankELibraryWorld Bank eLibrary portal covers 4,500World Bank documents. The collection

consists of over 1,800 World Bank publications and over 2,700 Policy Research

WorkingPaperspluseachnewbookandpaperastheyarepublished.

IMDWorldCompetitivenessOnline

The most comprehensive database on the competitiveness of nations, World

CompetitivenessOnlineisbasedontheleadingannualreportonthecompetitiveness

ofnations,the IMDWorldCompetitivenessYearbook,publishedsince1989, ranking

and analyzing how a nation's environment sustains the competitiveness of

enterprises.

IndiaStat.ComIndiastat is the authentic source for Indian statistics collected from the best

sources

for

information

and

statistics

on

India.

Within

huge

database,

user

can

easily

surf through halfamillion pages that contain socioeconomic statistical data and

usefulinformationonIndia.

CaseStudies

HBPforEducators

Provides collection of course materials, teaching and educational resources are

available in formof casestudies, chapters,Multimedia and video cases atHarvard

BusinessforEducators.

EBooksDatabases

EbraryEbrary is a leading provider of ebooks and research technology to academic,

corporate, government and public libraries worldwide, ebooks contains from

worldrenownedpublisherssuchasTaylor&Francis,Elsevier,Wiley,themajority

ofUniversityPressesetc.Flexibleand integratedmodels likeofferaffordable,on

demand access with short term loans, personal bookshelves that can be shared,

Notesand

highlights,

copying/pasting

and

printing

with

automatic

citations

etc.

BlackwellReferenceOnline(Business&Economics)

Blackwell Reference Online provides academic reference collection on Business,

Management&Economicsarea.Around34 referencebookscanbeaccessible from

BRO.


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OtherDatabases

DevelopingLibraryNetwork(DELNET)

Developing Library Network (DELNET) aims to collect, store and disseminate

informationbesides

offering

computerised

services

to

users,

to

coordinate

efforts

for

suitablecollectiondevelopmentandalsotoreduceunnecessaryduplicationofbook(s)

andjournalarticle(s)whereverpossible.

OtherEJournals

SAGEJOURNALS

AdvancesinDevelopingHumanResources

AsiaPacificJournalofHumanResources

AsianJournalofManagementCases

HumanResourceDevelopmentReview

IndiaQuarterly

Intl.Jr.ofCrossCulturalManagement

Intl.Jr.ofRuralManagement

Jr. ofCreativeCommunication

Jr.ofHumanValues

Jr.ofEmergingMarketFinance

Jr.

of

Entrepreneurship

Jr.ofLeadership&OrganizationalStudies

Jr.ofManagement

Jr.ofManagementEnquiry

ManagementandLabourStudies

PersonalityandSocialPsychologyReview

SouthAsianEconomicJournal

WORLDBANKJOURNALS

DevelopmentOutreach

WorldBankResearchObserver

WorldBankEconomicReview

Economic&PoliticalWeekly

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