Available on the web:

Associations Unlimited  UW restricted
Contains information for approximately 23,000 U.S. national nonprofit membership associations in all fields. Features full contact information, description, SIC codes, meetings and publications information, and more. Searchable by name, subject, keyword, location, SIC codes or SIC descriptions.

Bowker's Books in print -  UW restricted 
An index of books, audios, and videos available from U.S. publishers; database on publishers, distributors, wholesalers, and book agents; full-text reviews; and inventory data from wholesalers

Business Source Complete UW restricted
Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, international business, econometrics and economics. Contains full text of the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and other important journals.

China Data Online - Comprehensive database focusing on economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories. Includes monthly and yearly reports on China's macroeconomic development, statistical databases on China's population and economy at the county and city level, and financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches. UW restricted

Conference Board Business Knowledge Research UW restricted
This is a searchable database of full-text research reports on some of the latest issues in business and economics.  Economics material includes U.S. and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.

Corporate Affiliations (On Campus Access Only) UW Bothell and UW Tacoma restricted
A corporate affiliations directory that provides insight into 174,000 parent companies, affiliates and divisions--U.S. public, U.S. private, and international. Includes M&A activity from 1976 where available. Searchable by multiple criteria such as company, parent company, subsidiary, personnel (i.e., executive name or job title), responsibility, city, state, zip code, country, product/brand name, outside service firm name or type, area code, number of employees, sales, stock exchange, SIC code and SIC keyword, year founded,  ticker symbol, keyword..  Advanced searches can be limited by public, private or international companies, as well as parent, subsidiaries or both.

Current Index to Statistics  UW restricted
Contains cumulative bibliographic citations to statistical books and articles in more than 1,000 journals, with coverage generally extending back to 1974, earlier in some instances.

Dissertation Abstracts  UW restricted
Provides indexing and abstracts for doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 Universities and Colleges in the U.S. from 1861 to the present. The citations to dissertations include 24-page previews of the dissertations online for free.

EconLit  UW restricted
Comprehensive indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature (over 300 major economic journals and collected volumes) compiled from the American Economic Association's Journal of economic literature and the Index of economic articles in journals and collective volumes.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)  UW restricted
Provide up-to-date analysis on worldwide market trends and business strategies.  Assess and forecast political, economic and business conditions in almost 200 countries. Coverage includes Country Reports, Country Profiles, Viewswire (daily analysis service), Country Commerce, and eBusinessForum.

Electronic Books:

• netLibrary  UW restricted
  ebook collection available for use by University of Washington faculty, staff and students. Public Domain books, which include many classic books and other ebooks, are also available. Browse online or check out the ebooks for 12 hours and either download to your hard drive or browse online.  Entire text is searchable.

• ebrary UW restricted

• Safari Tech Books Online  UW restricted
  Full-text technical reference books on topics such as networking, Java, Linux/Unix, Perl, .NET, desktop productivity, web development and more from O'Reilly and other publishers of IT books. Click here to see the list of titles in the catalog

• Gale Reference Virtual Library  UW restricted
  E-book topics include - Business, Management, IT, Arts, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science.

• Oxford Reference Online UW restricted
  Online Encyclopedias include Computing, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Politics, Social Science and more.

• More E-Book Packages   UW restricted

Electronic Journals:

• Electronic Journals UW restricted
  A-Z List of Electronic Journals. Some searchable.  

• Ingenta UW restricted
  Categories include Computer and Information Science, Engineering and Technology.

• JSTOR UW restricted
  A subject searchable index of journals online with JSTOR. Retrieves full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's.  

• Science Direct  UW restricted
  Web database for scientific research that contains abstracts, articles and full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.  Includes business, management and accounting journals with archives to 1984.

Ethnic Newswatch UW restricted
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America.

EuropaWorld Year Book Online UW restricted 
Presents political and economic information on countries and territories as well as international organizations. Features statistical data and directories

Expanded Academic Index  UW restricted
Abstracts and some full text for over 1,500 scholarly and general interest journals and magazines from major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, science and technology.

Factiva (Formerly Dow-Jones) UW restricted
Factiva provides access to over 8,000 sources including newswires, newspapers, magazines and trade publications, including sources from 118 countries in 22 languages. Also provides company and industry comparison reports, company profiles, SEC filings and stock prices for U.S. public companies.

Facts.com (Facts on File World News Digest) (On Campus Access Only) UW restricted
Provides full access to Facts on File World News Digest (1980 to present), and selected access to the World Almanac, The World Almanac Encyclopedia, Reuters News Service, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science on File and Editorials on File.

Forrester  UW restricted
Forrester is an independent research firm that analyzes the future of technology change and its impact on businesses, consumers, and society and analyzes such technology areas as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications, and the Internet. Access is provided to some reports in this database.

Gale Virtual Reference Library UW restricted  (Select: Business)
Contains several business- and IT-related e-reference sources such as Business Plans Handbook, Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, Encyclopedia of Small Business, International Directory of Company Histories, etc.

Gartner UW restricted
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner analysts and consultants are known to provide the most comprehensive collection of analysis and advice to the global IT industry.

Global Financial Data   UW restricted
Global Financial Data is a collection of financial and economic data, which includes: long-term historical indices on stock markets; Total Return data on stocks, bonds, and bills; interest rates; exchange rates; inflation rates; bond indices; commodity indices and prices; consumer price indices; gross domestic product; individual stocks; sector indices; treasury bill yields; wholesale price indices; and unemployment rates covering over 200 countries.

Hoover's UW restricted
Provides access to company profiles for about 14,000 worldwide public and private companies, as well as to financial information, news and industry profiles.  Our subscription also allows access to Pro Tools for Targeting IPO Companies, Building Company and Executive Lists, and Screening Stocks.

IMD World Competitiveness Online
The World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) analyzes and ranks the ability of nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. World Competitiveness Online provides access to the entire WCY database including a 5-year time series.  The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook measures 55 countries on the basis of 331 criteria.

InfoTech Trends   UW restricted
Provides market data on the information technology industry from over 65 industry journals. Includes peripherals, software, storage, Internet, communications, etc.  Covers revenue, shipment forecasts, market share, usage, etc.   Data is up to the most recent quarter, comes in table format, and can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets.

International Financial Statistics Online UW restricted
http://www.imfstatistics.org
The International Monetary fund's International Financial Statistics is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance.  It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Information is presented in country tables and in tables of area and world aggregates.

iPoll Databank @ The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research UW restricted
A full-text retrieval system, the iPoll online database is organized at the question level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys, 1935 to present. Surveys archived in the Roper Catalog were originally gathered by academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and many more.

ISI Web of Science:  Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities Citation Index  UW restricted
Search for articles that cite an author or article you specify.

Kompass  UW restricted
A searchable international directory containiing information about companies, products, executives' names, and trade and brand names in over 60 countries.

Lexis-Nexis  UW restricted
Full text database of  news from newspapers (national, regional and world), newswires, transcripts, newsletters, magazines and trade journals. Provides company profiles, SEC filings, accounting literature, Country Profiles, Gallup Poll News Service, biographical information and access to other reference, legal and medical sources.

MarketResearch.com UW restricted 
The database MarketResearch.com provides in depth market research reports for U.S. and global industries which are over 100 pages long each. Written and published in the U.S. by various market research firms, the reports provide quantitative and qualitative focus and analysis on leading manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and marketers. Information included are executive summaries, industry interviews, competitive analysis, market trends, product innovation, buyer behavior, market share, and market forecasts.

• Access World News UW restricted
  The electronic editions for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources.

• Newspaper Source (Ebsco) UW restricted
  Provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national (U.S.) & international newspapers.  In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

• Proquest National Newspapers and Washington State Newsstand  UW restricted

• NewsDirectory.Com  UW restricted
  This directory provides links to the web sites of national daily newspapers, TV stations, magazines and international newspapers. National newspapers and TV stations are listed by state. Coverage varies. Newspapers have archives of 14 days to 3 years and allow Advanced  Searching by keywords in title, author or story.  The latest edition of magazines can usually either be searched or browsed.  

Plunkett Research Online  (On Campus Access Only)  UW Bothell and UW Tacoma restricted
An industry center providing market research, trends and analysis, industry stats, profiles of industry-leading companies (both public and private), industry associations, and company contact export features.  Industries include, Airlines, Hotel and Travel,  Automobile, Computers & Internet, Consulting, Energy, Engineering and Research, Entertainment and Media, Finance and Investments, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Biotech and Genetics, Retail, and Telecommunications.  In addition, Job Seeking/Careers information is given.

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Simmons Choices III National Consumer Study for 2000 and 2002   (Choices 3 link works with I.E. only)  
To Access, you must use a Library computer workstation in the Information Commons.
Select: Start/Programs/Library CD-ROMS/Simmons/Choices3.
The 2002 National Consumer Survey gathered information on lifestyles, media habits, and product/brand preferences of American families from over 20,000 U.S. households: what they eat, what they read and watch, the sports they play, the products they buy, and how they feel about consumer decisions they make.  
Here are some Simmons database guides to help you become familiar with the database:

• Beginner's Guide for Simmons Choices III is available here. Try walking through the example in the guide first.
• Using Simmons Choices III:   From the University of Tennessee is this guide to using Simmons Choices III database
• Simmons Choices II Tutorial   From the Foster Business Library, this tutorial explains how to use Simmons Choices II (similar interface)
• For more complex searches, ask at the reference desk for the Simmons Choices 3 User Manual (Public Work Station Computer Manuals HC110 C6 C47 1999-2000, 2002).