Primary Finance Databases & Article Indexes

Barclays Capital Live
Research, indices and analytical tools from Barclays Capital with a fixed income focus. Available in Lippincott Library only at terminals 8A and 8B. Ask at the Lippincott Information Desk for assistan...   [more]

Bizcomps
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Unrestricted Access

Business Source Complete
Also Known as: BSC
Citations, summaries and full text of articles from business-focused academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as access to company, industry and market research. ...   [more]
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CB Insights
Also Known as: cbinsight
Tracks private companies and their investors (venture capital, PE, angel investors, etc.), as well as private company M&A activity across multiple sectors, including technology, green tech/clean tech,...   [more]

CEIC
Provides financial time series data on Brazil, China, India, Russia, and other countries on a macroeconomic scale. Contains a wide range of data points on topics including national accounts, governmen...   [more]

Datastream (local use only)
Available in Lippincott Library at terminal 7B.
Financial statistical database with international coverage of stocks, bonds, interest rates, exchange rates and other economic indicators....   [more]
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    Datastream DSWindows Help Guide
    Datastream DS Windows - Economic Indicators and Forecasts Help Guide

EconLit
Also Known as: Econ Lit CSA
- from CSA Databases
Covers accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and planning. Primarily English language, some foreign language publications included. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Book reviews (1994- ), Dissertations (1987- ), Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (1984- ).Updated monthly.
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    Journal List (AEA)
    JEL Classification Codes Guide (AEA)

EIU Country Commerce
- from EIU - Economist Intelligence Unit
Guide to regulations, operating conditions, and corporate practices in more than 60 countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1996 - Present

Factiva
Also Known as: Dow Jones Factiva, Factiva Dow Jones
Provides access to sources of national and international news, business and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. I...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
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Factset
Provides tools to analyze global markets, public and private companies, and equity and fixed income portfolios with coverage of aggregates, benchmarks, corporate governance and activism, economics, es...   [more]

Fitch Connect (formerly BMI research, Country Risk Analysis/ Industry Risk Analysis/Operational Risk Analysis)
Information on global markets, including coverage of political risk, finance, economic indicators, macroeconomic performance, outlook and forecast, and the business operating environment in a wide ran...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
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    fitchconnect additional access
    
    
    
    

Global Development Finance
Also Known as: World Bank GDF Online
World Bank time series statistical data covering 1960 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 210 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt. Data include extern...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
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    old interface url

Global Financial Data
Also Known as: GFD
Global Financial Data is a collection of 20,000 financial and economic time series. It includes data on bonds, commodities, interest rates, stock markets and indices, futures, exchange rates, GDP, p...   [more]

Global Insight
Provides timely and comprehensive economic and financial coverage of over 200 developed and emerging countries, various regions, financial markets and over 170 industries. Analyses and forecasts are...   [more]

LSEG Workspace (formerly Refinitiv and Thomson ONE)
Access to current and historical data, including financial statements, filings, stock prices, earnings estimates, deals, analyst reports, and more.
The Deals module provides comprehensive historica...   [more]
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Mergent BondViewer
Covers municipal and corporate bonds. Search for bonds from specific issuers, or screen on a variety of variables including industry, ratings and coupon. ...   [more]

Mergent Online
Company information including business descriptions, histories, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock for US and international companies. Financial statement...   [more]

Mintel Oxygen
Also Known as: Mintel Reports
Market research reports focusing on consumer products and services. Covers US and UK markets. ...   [more]

Moody's Analytics
Also Known as: moodys
Includes information on the bond market, company risk analysis, and economic analysis. Company Credit Reports are available as well as industry overviews....   [more]
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Morningstar Direct
Morningstar Direct provides complete coverage of Morningstar's global investment database and analytics, including worldwide investment data and global market indexes. It has hundreds of financial var...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Morningstar Direct

Preqin Private Equity Suite
Also Known as: Funds in Market; Preqin Performance Analyst; Preqin Infrastructure, Preqin Hedge Fund Analyst
Extensive source of net to LP private equity fund performance, with full metrics for over 7,600 named vehicles. NOTE: Penn's subscription only includes the Performance Analyst section of Preqin's Priv...   [more]

PrivCo
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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ProQuest Historical Annual Reports
Historical Annual Reports from U.S. Corporations. Coverage begins in the 1800s for certain companies. ...   [more]

ProwessDX
Also Known as: prowessdx
Prowess is a database of the financial performance of Indian companies. Annual Reports of companies and data available from India's two large stock exchanges are the principal sources of the data. ...   [more]

Real Capital Analytics
Focuses on the commercial real estate sector: office, industrial, retail, apartment and hotel, plus sales of commercially developable land sites. RCA captures sales of properties and portfolios of $2...   [more]

RMA eStatement Studies
Also Known as: RMA Annual Statement Studies, RMA E-Statements
Online version of RMA's Annual Statement Studies. Source of composite financial data, including balance sheet and income statement information and ratios, provided by member institutions. Arranged by...   [more]
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S&P Capital IQ
Find profiles of public and private firms worldwide including financials, officers and directors, ownership, advisory relationships, transactions, securities, key developments, estimates, key document...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    connect to Capital IQ
    create a CapitalIQ account

S&P Capital IQ Pro (formerly S&P Global Market Intelligence, formerly SNL Interactive)
Also Known as: SNL Financial, Global Market Intelligence
Only available on campus. SNL combines analysis and in-depth data for the U.S. banking, insurance and media & communications industries. Get complete GAAP and as-reported financials,...   [more]
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    connect to SNL if you have an account
    connect to SNL to set up an account
    
    
    

Security Dealers of North America
A searchable directory of North American brokers and security dealers. ...   [more]

Social Science Research Network
Also Known as: SSRN
Recent research results through abstracts, fulltext working papers, and journal articles in economics, finance, business and economic law, accounting, and business. Professional job openings and annou...   [more]
Holdings: 1997-present. Updated daily
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    SSRN Conference Papers
    SSRN Partners in Publishing (publisher list)

Standard & Poor's Net Advantage
Also Known as: S&P Global NetAdvantage
Comprehensive source of business and investment information offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys and Corporation Records....   [more]

VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah)
Also Known as: Blue Chip Financial Forecasts
Blue Chip Financial Forecasts (Excel) w/Archive (2001+) on VitalLaw platform OmniTax (Biddle Subscription starting in March 2022) on VitalLaw platform...   [more]
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WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services
Wharton Research Data Services - WRDS is a comprehensive sources of financial, accounting, economic, management, marketing, banking, and insurance data. WRDS offers access to the following databases: ...   [more]

Important Finance Databases & Article Indexes

EMIS
Full-text news, financial, economic and market information focusing largely on emerging market countries....   [more]

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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GlobalData Power
GlobalData Power (formerly titled Alternative Energy eTrack) offers comprehensive coverage on clean technologies and alternative energy industry sectors worldwide. It contains detailed information on ...   [more]

Hoover's
Provides brief company profiles for 85+ million international companies, with more in depth coverage of more than 40,000 leading companies (company histories, strategies, market positions, major event...   [more]
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International Financial Statistics Online
Also Known as: International Monetary Fund IFS, IMF IFS
- from IMF eLibrary
International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current dat...   [more]
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    IFS via old IMF interface

Knowledge@Wharton
Wharton's bi-weekly online business journal...   [more]
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Related Finance Databases & Article Indexes

ABI/Inform - Proquest
Provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, marketing, and product development, including complete runs of key business and mana...   [more]

OECD iLibrary
Also Known as: Source OECD, SourceOECD
Publications and statistical information from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) covering agriculture and food, education and skills, emerging economies and transition e...   [more]