Primary Business Databases & Article Indexes

AAM Media Intelligence Center (formerly ABC E-Statements Historical)
Also Known as: ABC E-Statements Historical
current and historical ABC publication member reports, including Audit Reports, Publisher's Statements, ABC Interactive Audit Reports, Insert Verification Service Reports (IVS), Supplemental Data Repo...   [more]
Holdings: 1996-current for Periodicals and 1997-current for Newspapers.
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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]

AdForum Creative Network
Also Known as: ad forum
Advertising database includes a directory of over 20,000 advertising agencies in a range of specializations, a database of over 150,000 ads, and a directory of advertising awards....   [more]

Advertising Insights/Vivvix
Also Known as: formerly adspender, ad$pender
Advertising expenditure information on brands and product categories, industries, and companies across various media types including cable and network TV, broadcast radio networks, magazines, and news...   [more]
Holdings: Includes 5 years of data.
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Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective (1913-1983)
Combined HW Wilson journal article indexes: Industrial Arts Index (1913-1958), Business Periodicals Index (1958-1982), Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983). Articles cover some of the most i...   [more]
Holdings: 1913 - 1983

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]

BCC Research
Includes comprehensive market research reports in the following categories: advanced materials, advanced transportation technologies, biotechnology, chemicals, energy and resources, engineering, food ...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary, but reports are generally available from 2000 to present.

Best's Library Center
Also Known as: Best's Insurance Reports, Best's Weekly Review, AM Best's Reports
In-depth reports on public and private US, Canadian and Non US insurers, reinsurers, and groups. The AMB Credit Reports feature five years of financial analysis and detailed commentary on a company's ...   [more]

Bizcomps
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Unrestricted Access

BOMA Experience Exchange Report - BOMA EER
The industry benchmark for 75+ years. A compilation of income and expense data for office buildings across North America produced by Building Owners and Managers Association International...   [more]

Business Collection (formerly Predicasts PROMT)
Also Known as: Predicasts PROMT, Gale Business Collection
Topics indexed in PROMT include: new product development, market share, advertising strategy, mergers & acquisitions, use of materials, computer industry, federal regulation, consumer attitude, sales ...   [more]

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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Cabell's Whitelist
Also Known as: Cabells Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management, Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Education, Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Nursing
Journal quality metrics such as acceptance rates, as well as submission criteria and other information researchers might need to match their manuscripts with the journals most likely to be interested ...   [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]

CCH Accounting Research Manager
Also Known as: Accounting Research Manager, CCH ARM
Database of analytical accounting, auditing, and primary source data. Access limited to one concurrent user....   [more]
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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]

Conference Board Business Knowledge Research
Also Known as: ReSearch, Conference Board Research Online Database
A searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US, Canada, and global economics. Subjects include business trends, leadership decisions, performanc...   [more]
Holdings: 1995 to date

Corporate Affiliations
International directory of corporate structure of public and private companies, with subsidiary listings and corporate linkage information on more than 170,000 parent companies and their affiliates. ...   [more]

Current Index to Statistics
A bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. Draws from both core statistical jouranls and non-core journals with statistical content, and books. Most coverage is from 1975-...   [more]
Holdings: 1995 - present
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Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA)
The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 210 million U.S. residents, 855,000 U.S. health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian business...   [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

Derwent Innovations Index
Search more than 11 million patent records from 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. These include the US Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, PCT (WO) applications and the Japanes...   [more]
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    Derwent Classification System
    Derwent Manual Coding and Classification Lookup
    Derwent Patent Assignee Codes Lookup
    Kind Codes (application, examined, granted, etc.)
    International Patent Classification (IPC)

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)

Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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Holdings: 1843-2020
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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

EMarketer
Also Known as: eMarketer
Aggregates, filters, and organizes data on e-commerce, digital marketing and media from over 4,000 global sources, as well as producing independent articles and reports covering all aspects of the mar...   [more]

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

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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Foreign Firms Operating in the United States
Also Known as: directory of foreign firms
Includes two directories: Foreign Firms Operating in the United States and U.S. Firms Operating in Foreign Countries. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Forrester
Also Known as: Forrester Research
A technology-oriented market report research site. Note: You are required to register individually using your Penn email address. See instructions on landing page for further information. Penn's acade...   [more]
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    Login link IF YOU ALREADY HAVE REGISTERED with Forrester
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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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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]
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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]

GlobalData Medical
Focused on the medical device and medical equipment industries, GlobalData Medical provides information about companies, product pipelines, clinical trials and deals in these sectors....   [more]

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]

Health Business Fulltext
Provides full-text coverage of more than 130 well-known health and life sciences business journals such as Bioworld Week, H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks, Health Mana...   [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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IBISWorld Industry Reports
Also Known as: IBISWorld's Industry Market Research collection
Provides reports for U.S. industries , categorized by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), as well as more specialized reports covering a wide range of niche sectors. Individual ...   [more]

IDC
IDC is a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets. IDC does not make all its reports ava...   [more]

Import Genius
Shipping manifest databases show shipping histories for importers and exporters. Reporting countries include the USA and Latin American countries. Search by product, consignee, shipper, port, vessel...   [more]
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IndustriusCFO Industry Metrics
Also Known as: FINTEL Industry Metrics
Provides a broad range of industry ratios from over 2,500 industry groups....   [more]
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International Directory of Company Histories
Covering more than 11,000 companies worldwide, the International Directory of Company Histories provides concise company profiles compiled from academic periodicals, books, magazines, annual reports a...   [more]

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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Knowledge@Wharton
Wharton's bi-weekly online business journal...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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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Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
Provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through the market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era's foremost consumer analyst, market research pioneer an...   [more]
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MarketResearch.com Academic
Qualitative industry analysis and quantitative research on market trends including data on market segmentation, size and growth. Industry coverage includes: service, consumer products, food & beverage...   [more]

Mergent Archives
Also Known as: Moody's Manuals, mergent web, Mergent WebReports, mergent web reports, mergent, Municipal & government manuals, corporate manuals, Mergent's Full Collection of Digitized Manuals, Annual Reports, Municipal Manuals
Includes every Moody's or Mergent Manual published since 1909, as well as a collection of historical annual reports dating from 1925....   [more]
Holdings: 1909-
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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 Intellect
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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]
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NBER Working Papers
Working papers in Economics for public policy makers, business professionals, and the academic community. Includes NBER Technical Working Papers and NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy...   [more]
Holdings: June 1973 No.1 - present

Newsbank Access World News
Also Known as: NewsBank National Newspapers , America's Newspapers , Access World News , News Bank
Searchable fulltext of international and U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles. Business and Management, ...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with title, 1970s or more recent to present.
    NewsBank U.S. Newspapers

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
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OECD Health Data
Data on a range of key aspects (utilization, expenditures, financing) of the health care systems in the 30 OECD Member countries. Select Statistics then select Health Data under OECD ...   [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]

Passport GMID
Also Known as: Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database
Provides key business intelligence on countries, companies, 350+markets and consumers in over 200 countries, including statistics, in-depth market analysis reports and company profiles. Primarily focu...   [more]
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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]

Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [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]

PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources a...   [more]
Holdings: 1887 to the present. Updated monthly.
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    PsycINFO Classification Categories and Codes (APA Online)
    PsycINFO Journal Coverage List (APA Online)

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]

Regional Business News (EBSCO)
Regional Business News incorporates regional business journals, newspapers and newswires covering selected metropolitan and rural areas within the United States and Canada....   [more]

REIS
Commercial Real Estate transactions. Located in Lippincott Library....   [more]
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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]
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    connect to Capital IQ
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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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Security Dealers of North America
A searchable directory of North American brokers and security dealers. ...   [more]

SimplyAnalytics
Also Known as: SimplyMap
Web-based mapping application that enables users to create maps utilizing a wide range of underlying data including census, consumer expenditure, and business counts. Datasets include Claritas, PRIZM,...   [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)

Sports Market Analytics
Also Known as: SBRnet
Sports Business Research Network provides sports marketing information: market size, and demographics; sports participation, licensing, financial and retail trends; international marketing and profess...   [more]

SRDS
Also Known as: Standard Rate and Data Service
Advertising rates and information for magazines, newspapers, radio, television, and out-of-home. Search by media type or designated market area....   [more]

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]

Statista
Statista aggregates statistical data on a wide variety of international industries, with information from more than 18,000 sources, including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journa...   [more]
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UN Comtrade
Also Known as: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database
Annual detailed import / export commodity and trading partner statistics for 130 countries. Many countries have data from 1962. Commodities are classified by Standard International Trade Classif...   [more]
Holdings: 1962-present
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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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Wall Street Journal (1889-2001), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: wsj, ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Wall Street Journal
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers

Full-text of the Wall Street Journal. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, financial quotes, and advertisements are all searchable and available for viewing and printin...   [more]
Holdings: 1889-1999

Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) (Proquest Recent Newspapers)
- from ProQuest Digital Microfilm
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Holdings: 2008-
Embargo: 2 month embargo on full-text

WARC
WARC is a collection of case studies, articles, research reports, conference papers and data focusing on marketing, advertising, and media. Research is drawn from over 50 global sources, including the...   [more]

Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
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    Web of Science Tutorials
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

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 Business Databases & Article Indexes

U.S. International Trade Library : A Current and Historical Archive
Also Known as: U.S. International Trade Library
- from HeinOnline
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WH 399 - JWS/WRS Senior Research Seminar - Fall 2015
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Related Business Databases & Article Indexes

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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State Net (formerly LexisNexis State Capital)
Also Known as: State Capital Universe
State government information from all United States, including legislative statutory, and regulatory information, and news coverage about state governments....   [more]
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