Accessing Online Resources
To access the Mildred F. Sawyer Library databases, enter the Library Home Page, and select Find Databases. Choose a database. If you are off-campus, you will be asked to enter you name and Suffolk ID number before proceeding to the database.
To locate a specific online journal, type the journal title in the eJourals tab.
Library Databases
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowMergent Online provides financial information for over 15,000 U.S. public companies and 20,000 non-U.S. companies (active and inactive). Allows multiple company reports, 15-year balance sheets and income statements, institutional holdings, FactSheets, equity reports, Profitability Ratios, company history, news, and much more. It includes access to SEC filings through EDGAR, seven years of annual reports, plus Portraits, which provide in-depth industry analysis and commentary, financial data, and a review of a company's investment potential. Also, Mergent allows for user-defined company comparison reports. International company data includes annual reports, company financials, business history, industry reports, and more. The Sawyer Library has only three licenses for simultaneous use of Mergent Online. When ending a session, PLEASE choose "Logout."
- S & P NetAdvantageStock Reports provide data, analysis, and projections for publicly held U.S. corporations. The Stock Report for each company includes the latest share price, current year's range, P/E ratio, current dividend and yield, and S&P's proprietary earnings and dividend rankings. It also offers stock charts showing six to seven years of monthly stock price ranges plus a 10-year summary of per-share data and tables of income and balance sheet data. Bond Reports are also available. Company Profiles provide history and directory information. Corporate Records allows the creation of a user-defined screener for selecting stock information. Options include industry sector, S & P ranking, price-per-share, earnings, and more. Industry Surveys offers the full-texts of the print version of Standard & Poor's Industry Survey.
- Value Line Research CenterCovers 1,700 equity issues and provides year-ahead and three-to-five year probable price performance, projections of key financial measures, plus commentary on current operations and future plans. Allows multiple stock screening based on user-defined criteria; current industry reviews in PDF format; timeliness and performance rank changes; user-customized profile summary reports; weekly texts of the "Ratings & Reports," the "Selection & Opinion," and the "Summary & Index," found in the print edition.
- Mergent WebReportsMergent WebReports allows access to an archive of more than 180,000 documents ranging back to the early 1900s, covering over 100 countries and industries. The collection is searchable by company name, year or manual type.
- D&B Key Business RatiosThis database determines solvency, efficiency and profitability ratios.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing and abstracting for the most important scholarly business journals, including the full-text of the Harvard Business Review back to 1922. Non-journal content includes financial data, books, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more. Covers nearly every area of business, including economics, finance, management, and international business.
- ABI Inform Complete (ProQuest)Covers economics, business and management subject. Indexes over 5,700 journals, nearly 80% of which are in full-text. Includes the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, academic journals, such as MIT Sloan Management Review, some SSRN Working Papers, and EIU Country Data reports.
- Business Collection (Gale-Cengage Publishers)Provides abstracts and articles from magazines, journals, and investment analysts' reports on major companies, industries, economics, and business. Coverage is from 1980 to the present. To access the Company ProFiles, choose the advanced search, then Company ProFiles, then select company name from the drop-down box. The profiles include basic directory information and links to articles about the company's finances, strategic ventures, products and technology, and the overall industry.
- Wall Street Journal (Proquest)Provides abstracts and full-text articles. Abstracts available from 1984 to date.
- EconLit with Full Text This link opens in a new windowThe American Economic Association's database, which provides indexing and abstracting of international economic literature. It corresponds to the print Journal of Economic Literature and covers books, journal articles, working papers, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Includes full text for more than 430 journals. Coverage is from 1969 to present.
- JSTORJSTOR is a full-text collection of back issues of core scholarly journals. It includes over 50 business, finance, and economic journals.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts, and provides full-text to over 9,500 publications in nearly every academic field, including accounting. It offers more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals, including finance.
- Europa World This link opens in a new windowEuropa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries. Country finance data includes currency and exchange rates, bank reserves, money supply, national income and product, balance of payments, GDP by economic activity, budget, and more. Allows user-defined comparisons of multiple country data.
- IMF e-Library This link opens in a new windowThe International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. Covers macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and more.
- IMF Statistical Database This link opens in a new windowAccess to macroeconomic & financial data from the International Monetary Fund. Includes domestic and international financial data from 200 member countries from 1948.
- RePEc IDEASThe largest free bibliographic database devoted to economics on the Internet. Includes over 1,200,000 searchable research items, and over 1,100,000 can be downloaded in full text. This site is part of RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 75 countries, seeking to enhance the distribution of research in economics.
