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EJournalsDatabases(ContainsResearchArticles)
ABI/InformComplete(Proquest)
ABI/INFORM Complete is the most comprehensive business database covering more than 4,000 research journals. The database contains content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques,corporatestrategies,andindustryspecifictopicsworldwide.

EmeraldManagement
Emerald is the largest, most comprehensive collection of peer reviewed management journals and online support for faculty and researchers. It provides the opportunity to exchange ideas and information, get to know what is happening in the world of research workinprogress, find out what relevant conferences are being planned and read reviews of previous ones. Emeralds Subject Collections provide access to unique groupsofhighqualitypeerreviewedjournalsinspecificmanagementdisciplines.

EBSCOBusinessSourceComplete
This 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 the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, faculty seminars (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 quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886. It provides links to fulltext articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics,andmuchmore.

EntrepreneurialStudiesSource
Entrepreneurial Studies Source provides the academic researcher as well as the student with the latest insight into topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small business. This database offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Series and Vator.TV. The reliable and timely data can be utilized by students for their entrepreneurial assignments or case studies
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ranging from solo projects to major entrepreneurial undertakings. Subjects covered include business planning, communications, innovations, management, marketing, organizational behavior, product development, raising capital, risk taking, and many more.

ResearchStartersBusiness
Research Starters Business is study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in lengthwrittenbyresearchers,scholarsandothersubjectmatterexperts.Topicsparallel course offerings at major colleges and universities in the subject areas covered. 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 supplements textbooks and other materials with current and focused topic overviews, assistingstudentsinundertakingtheirassignmentsandresearchsuccessfully.

RegionalBusinessNews
Incorporates more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press,OrangeCountyBusinessJournal,WestchesterCountyBusinessJournal,etc.

GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers wellresearched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and generalinterest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 538,000 records, as well as Open Access full text formorethan5,800records.

INFORMSJournals(Availablefrom1998onwards)
Informs Pubs Online contains the full content of each issue of the journals published by INFORMS, including all figures and tables. In addition, the full text is searchable by keyword, and the cited references include hyperlinks to Medline and to the full text of many other online journals. Online fulltext PDF content begins with the 1998 issues, andwillexpandwitheachmonthsnewissues.

ElsevierScienceDirect(Business,Management&Accounting)
Science Direct is the webbased interface to the fulltext database of Elsevier journals. 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.

CentreforMonitoringIndianEconomy(CMIE)Databases
EconomicOutlook(AvailableOnline)
This service provides insights, forecasts, near realtime release of new economic data, comments on developments and a large database. The service provides forecasts for 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 618 months and these are continuously calibrated with the release of new data. Every data release is dealt with at three levels Tidings, which is a quick delivery of the facts, Insights, which is a deeper and contextual analysis of the new data release and, Outlook, which is a forward looking essay that describes the implications of the new data release. The core strength of the Economic Outlook is the underlying database.Theserviceprovidesfullaccesstothisdatabase.Timeseriesonmorethana 85,000 indicators are provided in multiple frequencies and in the form of several derivations. The full set of indicators including all frequencies and derivations add up 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 advantages of a database service and analysis. It provides both. It helps you remain fullyabreastofthetrendsinindividualindustries.Theservicecoversaroundhundred industries. It provides an uptodate database and an incisive analysis of what 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's share price indices are the most broad based and comprehensive. They include sectoral indices. IAS provides these series. The database is available in the form of long timeseries. It provides the basic 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 analysis of the current trends. These analytical reports are available in the form of PDFfiles.
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IndiaTrades(InstallationRequired)
India Trades presents India's official foreign trade statistics and related data in a userfriendly and softwareenabled database. India exports and imports about 10,000 commodities to and from nearly 200 countries/regions. India Trades provides monthly statistics on this trade. The database provides quantity, value and unit value in respect ofeachofproductsexportedorimported.Themonthlytimeseriesisavailableforupto 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. Prowess provides detailed information on each company. This includes a normalised database of the financials covering 1,500 data items and ratios per company. Besides, itprovidesquantitativeinformationon Production&Sales Consumptionofrawmaterial Energy Totally, the number of indicators per company is close to two thousand. Such information is usuallyavailable forover tenyears. It givescontact information, share holdingpattern,listofbankers etc. about companies. Prowess also provides daily time seriesof share prices,computedreturnsthatinclude Dividendsandothergains P/Ebasedontheprofitsofthelastfourquarters Ahostofotherusefulratiosandvalues. Prowesshasfoundusefulapplicationsinplaceswheretrustmattersthemost Commercialbanks Investmentcompanies Researchers CharteredAccountants/TransferPricing

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CRISILResearch(RegistrationRequired)
CRISIL Research Industry Information Service presents a detailed and comprehensive analysisofthecurrenttrendsandthelongtermperformanceoutlookon49industries in India. It includes the evolution of an industry, the regulatory environment, cost structures, nature and extent of competition, global trends along with statistical information on capacities, production, importsexports, domestic and international prices,andconsumptionpatterns.

Factiva.com
Factiva is a business information and research tool owned by Dow Jones & 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 product of the ET Intelligence Group (ETIG), the research arm of The Economic Times. This site brings to you research knowledge and expertise of ETIG. Etintelligence provide macroeconomic and sectoral research, detailed primary, secondary and market research based studies for the benefit of Indian business. We analyse business from various angles sectoral, 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.

CapitalinePlus
Capitaline Plus provides fundamental and market data on more than 20,000 Indian listed and unlisted companies, classified under more than 300 industries, along with powerful analytic tools. Extensive data and analysis on every company profile, directors, more than 10year financials (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, consolidated financial data, segment data, forex data, R&D data, ratios, etc), quarterly results, ownership pattern, finished products, raw materials, share price data, directors' report, management discussion, notes to account, business news, corporate events, etc.

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CountryResearch&InformationDatabases
WorldBankELibrary
World Bank eLibrary portal covers 4,500 World 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 Competitiveness Online is based on the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations, the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, published since 1989, ranking and analyzing how a nation's environment sustains the competitiveness of enterprises.

IndiaStat.Com
Indiastat is the authentic source for Indian statistics collected from the best sourcesforinformationandstatisticsonIndia.Withinhugedatabase,usercaneasily 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 form of casestudies, chapters, Multimedia and video cases at Harvard BusinessforEducators.

EBooksDatabases
Ebrary
Ebrary is a leading provider of ebooks and research technology to academic, corporate, government and public libraries worldwide, ebooks contains from worldrenowned publishers such as Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Wiley, the majority of University Presses etc. Flexible and integrated models like offer affordable, on demand access with short term loans, personal bookshelves that can be shared, Notesandhighlights,copying/pastingandprintingwithautomaticcitationsetc.

BlackwellReferenceOnline(Business&Economics)
Blackwell Reference Online provides academic reference collection on Business, Management & Economics area. Around 34 reference books can be accessible from BRO.
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OtherDatabases
DevelopingLibraryNetwork(DELNET)
Developing Library Network (DELNET) aims to collect, store and disseminate information besides 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.ofEntrepreneurship Jr.ofLeadership&OrganizationalStudies Jr.ofManagement Jr.ofManagementEnquiry ManagementandLabourStudies PersonalityandSocialPsychologyReview SouthAsianEconomicJournal WORLDBANKJOURNALS DevelopmentOutreach WorldBankResearchObserver WorldBankEconomicReview Economic&PoliticalWeekly
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