The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics aspires to be the “definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists.” Given the caliber of its contributors and scope of the encyclopedic articles included, this resource should be the first stop for undergraduates and researchers looking for orientation to and context for unfamiliar economics topics. Faculty members’ pedagogical goals may be well served by assigning articles from this source as supplementary reading. This encyclopedia contains almost 2000 articles and will be updated quarterly. It is browsable by JEL topics or alphabetically and supports simple keyword searching.

Bizminer offers

• “Sole Proprietor and Start-Up”
• “Industry Financial Reports” with average income statements
• cash flows
• balance sheet and financial ratios for benchmarking
• projections for smaller private enterprises
• It is searchable by keyword, SIC code or industry cluster

Fuente Académica
Fuente Académica is a full text Spanish language database with a rapidly growing collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain.

• It is a multidisciplinary database that indexes articles from more than 200 Spanish language scholarly journals and magazines.
• Coverage includes:   literature, linguistics, history, political science, business & economics, medical sciences, law, computer science, library & information sciences, philosophy and theology.
• Time span from 1990 (for most titles) to the present.  The database is updated monthly.

International Encyclopedia of Communication *

The International Encyclopedia of Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work sponsored by the International Communication Association. The contributors are all respected scholars in their areas of specialty.

For Communication students this, rather then Wikipedia, should be the first place to look for background and orientation to topics across the spectrum of communication topics.

The scope of subjects covered include

• theory
• philosophy
• interpersonal communication
• organizational communication
• foreign media systems
• technology
• media policy
• research methods

To find what you need browse alphabetically, by subject, people, place or period or search the full text of articles for your own keywords.

OpinionArchives
Provides an accessible and invaluable source of information of electronic archives to leading journals of opinion.

Gale Directory Library: Encyclopedia of  Business Information Sources is a research guide for business topics.  Use it to identify the handbooks, manuals, encyclopedias, article databases, statistical sources, periodicals and trade and professional associations for industries and issues important to doing business in the US.

Dissertations & Theses Full Text (ProQuest)  (1861- ; Full Text 1997 – )

A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master’s theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, nearly one million are available for download in PDF format. (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).

New Databases

• Index of Christian Art, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
• Early American Imprints, Series II Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
• Sabin Americana 1500-1926
• The Making of the Modern World
• Mintel Reports
• GNPD (Global New Product Development)
• World Bank Global Development Finance GDF
• World Bank Global Economic Monitor GEM
• World Bank World Development Indicators WDI
• Reference Universe

Trial Databases:

• Nursing Reference Center  Expired
• NCJRS,
• Birds of North America,
• International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text  Expired
• Palgrave Dictionary of Economics