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The following are some commonly used library databases for NUF capstone papers. Please remember we have many more databases, so don’t limit yourself to what is listed below.

ABI/Inform Global – Business & industry; trade journals, scholarly articles
Academic Search Premier – Interdisciplinary database; popular and scholarly articles
Business Source Premier – Business & industry; trade journals, scholarly [...]

Many of you know the Conference Board for its reports on the Consumer Confidence Index and economic indicators of the business cycle but they are also active researchers in many areas of management , corporate governance and executive compensation. In May 2007 The Conference Board formed a Research Working Group on Hedge Fund Activism and [...]

When researching a company’s product(s), one should also consider the competition. The Mergent Horizon database, available through the Newman Library website, has a feature allowing users to generate reports identifying a company’s competitor(s) by product.

Once connected to Mergent Horizon, search for a company by ticker symbol or company name
In the company record that appears, [...]

Do you need a country’s Consumer Price Index, health expenditure per capita, literacy rate, exchange rate, imports/exports, or other development indicators?
Then use the Newman Library database called WDI: World Development Indicators. This database provides international social and economic data for over 550 development indicators and time series data for over 207 countries and 18 country [...]

Newman Library subscribes to over 200 databases. To help you decide which database to use, you can narrow the list of databases by subject. Here’s how …

Go to the library’s homepage
Under the Search & Find section, click on the link for Databases
The “Find a Database” page will open. Scroll down to the bottom [...]

Gartner, a market research and advisory firm, is a leading provider of research in IT markets. If you are doing research about new technology issues, tech companies or tech markets, Gartner’s reports, briefings, news analysis and online Webcasts will be valuable. Gartner reports are unique in that they tie together issues and industry applications. They [...]

Have you ever wanted to read a specific journal or newspaper online and wondered which library database to use? Were you ever given a citation for a specific article, but you didn’t know how to locate it in one of the many library databases?
Follow these directions to determine whether Newman Library has access to a [...]

Newman Library subscribes to a few databases providing access to ebooks:

Books24X7 – 3,000+ full-text electronic books on databases, programming, software engineering, networking, security, operating systems, hardware, office applications, multimedia applications, operating systems, and more from 80+ publishers. NOTE: To access Baruch’s subscription, register with your Baruch e-mail address. You will be sent an e-mail with [...]

An industry analysis is a common research assignment. If you are new to this type of research and don’t know where to start, I recommend that you begin by reading the Standard & Poor’s Industry Survey in the library database called Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage. S&P publishes Industry Surveys covering fifty-two industries, pretty [...]

The Newman Library now has a Reuters terminal for student use. The terminal has the same functionality and programs as the Reuters terminals in the Subotnick Center and offers access to Reuters, TradeStation, ThomsonOne Analytics and the supporting statistical software packages.

If the Wasserman Trading Floor is being used for classes or seminars, come up to [...]