New Electronic Resources

Investext® Investment Research featuring research reports written by top analysts at over 1,000 leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide. Nearly 4,000 new reports are added each business day.

The Investext Collection includes over 7.5 million reports available containing in-depth analysis on international companies, industries, products and countries, as well as active and historical research available from more than 1,200 brokerages, investment banks, and independent research firms around the globe, including Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and J.P. Morgan.

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CCH Research Network

This network contains three separate categories of databases:

Business and Finance Research Network
Health and Human Resources Research Network
Tax Research Network

Each database provides reports, explains and analyzes the related areas. The networks contain the bulk of CCH publications available online. Each site has a search based query system to search, as wells as a search history feature which saves your most recent searches.

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 Business & Finance Research Network  

The specialty databases included through this link are securities, corporation law, banking, Intellectual Property, transportation law, and many others in the related areas of business law and regulation. It contains the latest news reports, newsletters, and CCH reporters on the areas covered in the database.
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Health & Human Resources Research Network

The specialty databases included through this link cover Health and Human resources. It also contains latest news reports and newsletters and reporters on the areas covered in the database. The databases include EEOC decisions, OSHA materials, forms, labor and employment law, health care compliance, benefits, pensions, and many other databases.
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 Tax Research Network

The specialty databases included through this link are Accounting & Audit, Federal Tax, State Tax, Financial & Estate Planning, Wealth Management, Tax Practice Areas, International Tax, and more. It contains the latest news reports, newsletters, and CCH reporters on the areas covered in the database.
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The library no longer subscribes to the Business Insights database.

Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

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Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media.

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Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of investment and business information and analysis on industries and companies including financial data and market trends. It provides online access to many Standard & Poor’s research publications. Core titles include:

Industry Surveys which contain detailed analysis of over fifty U.S. industries and in addition over 140 Sub-Industry Reviews. Also includes retrospective industry reports back to 1999.

Stock Reports which contain detailed company analysis and financial data for some 4,000 public companies.

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The Global Industry Research section of the IBISWorld database is now available. This section provides world analysis of selected global industries. Content will continue to be added over the next 12 months.

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Do you need to find the impact factor for a particular journal? The Thomas Cooper Library and the School of Medicine Library have partnered to bring you Journal Citation Reports online access! Both the Science and Social Sciences journals are included in this resource.

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Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. There is full text for more than 300 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. Subject areas covered include the culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and more.

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Current Research@ the University of South Carolina: A Digital Library of Dissertations and Theses has changed titles to Dissertations & Theses @ University of South Carolina. The database is now on the Proquest platform. It is currently listed under both titles on the Electronic Resources page.