Networked CD-ROMs
1. ABI/INFORM Global Management Database (Current and Back Files from 1987-present): Features 150-word abstracts and indexes to over 800 periodicals in academic management, marketing and business journals. The database offers information on accounting, banking, computers, economics, engineering, finance, health care, human resources, insurance, international trends, law, management/management science, marketing, public administration, taxation, telecommunications and transportation. This database is also avaliable through the BUSFIN Library in Lexis-Nexis. Some journals can be accessed with full text articles.
2. Value Line Investment Survey: An electronic version of the print product which is designed to analyze and select stocks. Functions such as sorting, filtering, graphing and reporting are available with the software and portfolios can be created and compared. An exact reproduction of the print version can also be viewed. Records can be downloaded or printed.
3. Morningstar Mutual Funds: Statistical profiles of the most important mutual funds, including description and analysis, basic operating facts, several years of statistics for total return, income, capital gains, performance/risk, 13-year historical financial statistics, portfolio holdings, % loan, yield, total assests, NAV, and a Morningstar rating. Updated quarterly.
4. Compustat: A sophisticated microcomputer software program that allows you to access, select, and present data. The database includes financial and market data for individual corporations, business segments and industry composites. Some of the functions available include generating competitive analyses, developing corporate planning strategies, evaluating the performance of strategic business, performing credit analysis, analyzing divestiture candidates, managing investment portfolios, developing marketing strategies and evaluating a company's vulnerability to mergers or acquisitions.
5. Financial Accounting Research System: Enables fast, comprehensive research on accounting guidelines. It contains information from AICPA Accounting Interpretations, Accounting Terminology Bulletins, Accounting Research Bulletins, Accounting Principles Board Opinions, Accounting Principles Board Statements, FASB Statements, FASB Interpretations, FASB Technical Bulletins and FASB Concept Statements.
6. American Business Disc: Directory information on more than 10.5 million American businesses
Online Databases
Bloomberg Financial News: Bloomberg provides information on financial market and commodity news. Major subject areas include equity valuation and derivatives, portfolio analysis, cross currency analysis, technical analysis, bond valuation, bond swaps and switches, and futures and options. There is online help available within the equity sector, as well as an expert help file. There are also occasional Bloomberg workshops offered by MBA students. Use of the Bloomberg computer is restricted to Freeman students, alumni, faculty, and staff, and terninals are located within the library.
WEB Databases
The following databases can be accessed through the World Wide Web from a Tulane account. Other databases are avaliable, but the following will be of interest to Freeman affiliated students and faculty.
1. National Trade Data Bank(NTDB): The NTDB contains a number of databases produced by the U.S. Commerce Department, and is avaliable through STAT-USA. Heavily researched topics include import/export statistics, international market research reports, and country business plans.
2. SEC Database on Global Disclosure: SEC/Global Disclosure provides access to company facts and figures. It gathers information from SEC reports such as official annual business and financial reports, quarterly income statements, reports of unscheduled material events, company proxy statements, annual reports to shareholders, registration statements, tender offers and acquisition reports. Restricted to Tulane users. Requires a user ID and password to log on.
3. Business & Industry: Facts, figures, trends, forecasts for public and private companies, industries, and markets. Includes full text and abstracts from over 600 trade magazines, newsletters, and newspapers in 30 countries. Non-English articles include an abstract in English.
4. LEXIS/NEXIS: Provides full text articles from over 1000 newspapers, periodicals, and government publications; subjects range from business and law to medicine and music. Printed guides are available, as well as handouts in the library on basic searching techniques. Small-group introduction sessions are offered in the library on an occasional basis. Use of LEXIS-NEXIS is restricted to Freeman students, alumni, faculty, and staff, and is avaliable only from Turchin library.
5. Dow-Jones News Retrieval: Full text of the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and the National Business Employment Weekly, as well as thousands of other sources for news articles.
6. Dialog: Knight-Ridder's Dialog library of over 600 databases draws from a broad scope of disciplines ranging from news and travel to scientific research and patents. Group or individual instruction is necessary to begin searching any of the Dialog databases. Dialog usage is restricted to Freeman students, working on course-related subjects, and is avaliable only from the library.
TULANET Databases
1. OPAC: The OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) is Tulane's catalog of books, microforms, government documents, and periodical titles owned by all of the Tulane libraries, except for the Law Library. It is accessible via a Telnet client through the Web Home Pages. The Law Library is also searchable through the Web from the Tulane Home Page.
2. DOLD & DNEW: These collections of indexes are accessed through Tulanet and contain citations to journal articles on topics indexed through Applied Science and Technology Index, Business Periodicals Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Social Sciences Index and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.
2. PAIS: PAIS is made available through Tulanet. It contains a selective list of books, periodical articles, government documents, and reports relating to economic and social conditions, public policy and administration, international relations and business. Emphasis is on factual and statistical information. The coverage of the index is international, and material is included in English, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese. Citations date from 1972 to the present.
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