They can be viewed by clicking the Browse tab after logging on to ABI/INFORM Complete. Look under the Country Reports Heading. Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Data, for example, "contains 370 economic variables over a 50 year period (1980-2030), actual and forecasted. Reports include comprehensive information such as GDP, import/export statistics, industry data, monetary indicators, liquidity metrics, and more." This is for the G20 countries. Data can be downloaded into a spreadsheet.

ABI/INFORM Complete can be accessed from the Rod Library Business Portal and the Rod Library home page under Databases A-Z.

This tool can be used to identify periodicals - scholarly, trade, general - covering particular disciplines or industries. Entries for specific titles include details such as publisher, start year, whether refereed, and URL. This is an international directory, so, for example, it can be used to find periodicals published in a certain country that focus on a certain industry or field.

Business Monitor International reports cover more than 30 industries, with separate reports for dozens of countries, such as 104 page document called, "China Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report - Q3 2009." First Research reports cover about 140 domestic industries such as bars, theatres & cinemas, and pharmaceuticals.

These Industry and Market Research Reports can be viewed by clicking the Browse tab after logging on to ABI/INFORM Complete. They also can be accessed by doing a Basic or Advanced search for an industry such as movie theaters, and then clicking the Reference/Report tab on the results screen.

ABI/INFORM Complete can be accessed from the Rod Library Business Portal and the Rod Library home page under Databases A-Z.

One of the links on this page is for Advertising and Consumer Culture. It contains several collections of advertisements in various formats, some dating back to the 19th century. Two examples:

Ad*Access - "presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955"

adViews - "a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s"

One of us will be in the student lounge on the first floor every Monday (noon-2 p.m.) and Thursday (10 a.m.-noon), from the first week of October through the week before Finals. We'll be at one of the study tables with a laptop and a sign that says, "HELP!"

Students can ask me for help at other times (BizBlog includes contact info on right side of screen). You can also get help through the Rod Library Ask Us! service.

As before, there are groupings of databases in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, and Marketing, as well as more general groups such as Social Sciences, Humanities/Fine Arts, and Sciences. These databases can be searched as a group, but individual databases also can be selected and searched in their "native interfaces."

Icons for many peer-reviewed journal articles have been added to citations. Machine-generated citations in various formats (APA, etc.) are included as well.

Panther Prowler can be accessed from the Rod Library home page and from the Rod Library Business Portal.

If you have trouble finding something, the site search box in the upper right corner of the home page may help. The new home page will have a link to the old home page for some period of time. Ask Us if you have trouble finding something.

The Rod Library Business Portal is using the new look; its content is essentially the same as before.

Webcasts, press releases, and related information are available through this FASB Codification Resources page.

UNI Accounting Department faculty and students will have access to a "professional view" of the Codification through the Academic Accounting Access program, sponsored by the American Accounting Association.

All currently enrolled UNI students and employees can access the FASB Codification through another database licensed by Rod Library: RIA CheckPoint. The Codification is available under the "Accounting, Audit & Corporate Finance" Library in the RIA Table of Contents.

A "Basic View" of the Codification is available for no charge to registered users.

If your browser does display a security certificate warning, you can accept the certificate and connect to the database.

Rod Library staff are examining other access methods that will not get this inconvenient browser message.

They also changed the log-on process. Before, the database could be accessed by entering your email address. Now, new users must create individual accounts the first time they log on, using the "New User" link on the right side of the initial screen.

Last, the IntelliConnect interface is significantly different from the the CCH interface. After logging on the first time, you may want to click the Help/Getting Started link on the left side of the screen. The material here includes a short video tour.

*ABI/INFORM Global
*ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
*ABI/INFORM Dateline
*The Wall Street Journal

ABI/INFORM Complete can be picked to search everything, or the individual components can be picked from a drop-down on the ABI/INFORM home page.

ABI/INFORM Complete can be accessed from the Rod Library Business Portal and the Rod Library home page under Databases A-Z.

New types of sources include:
*Industry and market research reports from Business Monitor International and FirstResearch
*Country Finance and Country Forecast reports from Economist Intelligence Unit
*Commodity reports from Economist Intelligence Unit

Other types of resources that may be of interest include:
*ProQuest Annual Reports Collection (10Ks and Annual Reports to Shareholders)
*Doctoral dissertations
*Social Science Research Network working papers

For details such as how to reserve the room, go to this page from the Rod Library News blog.

* Business Strategy
* Financial and Operational Data
* Revenue Breakdown
* SWOT Analysis
* Value Chain Analysis

Another Rod Library database, Business Source Elite, also provides SWOT analysis for large firms in its company profiles.