Business, Economic, and Demographic Titles on CD-ROM

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Avista
CCH Tax Series (Internet)
CCH Capital Changes Reports
CCH Human Resources Library / State Employment Laws
Choices II - Simmons Market Research
Corporate Affiliations Plus
CorpTech Directory
*CoWorks
Datastream (Internet)
Demographics USA County Edition
Directory of United States Importers
Directory of United States Exporters
F&S Index
FARS-Financial Accounting Research System (latest only)
---(For back issues, ask at Reference Desk)
Goldsmith's-Kress Library of Economic Literature
International Statistical Yearbook--Latest Issue
---(For back issues, ask at the Reference Desk)
*MorningStar Mutual Funds Ondisc
*MorningStar Principia
Sourcebook America 1999 Edition
U.S. Exports 1972-1994, With State Exports, 1991-1994 (Bus)
U.S. Imports - Data and Concordances, 1972-1994 (Bus)
World Resources
World Trade Flows, 1980-1997 (Bus)

AVISTA - Russian Language Version
Support S & D, Ltd.

AVISTA 1.2 - English Language Version
Support, Ltd.

CCH Tax Reporter

Standard Federal, Federal Estate and Gift, Federal Excise Tax Reporters
CCH Incorporated

Corporate Affiliations Plus
Reed Reference Publishing Company

Contains descriptive and financial data on approximately 16,000 major domestic and foreign corporations and their 140,000 subsidiaries, divisions and affiliates. Covers companies on the New York and American stock exchanges, companies with affiliates that are traded over-the-counter, and major private companies and their affiliates. Information provided includes name, address, telephone number, stock exchange, ticker symbol, SIC codes, business description, corporate hierarchy when available, key personnel, directors, net worth, total assets and total liability.

Corresponds to the Directory of Corporate Affiliations, the International Directory of Corporate Affiliations, and the Directory of Leading Private Companies.

CorpTech Directory

The CorpTech Directory profiles 50,000+ U.S. high tech companies, including divisions of foreign owned firms. Most are privately held or subsidiaries. Company records include products, sales, employment, business description, primary industry and SIC codes. International and government activity is included. Some records include NAISC codes, executives, ownership and corporate family and funding source. You can screen for companies on a wide choice of criteria such as product, country of ownership, minority-owned, or growth (historic or projected).

CoWorks Time Series Library
CoWorks Corporation

Encyclopedia of World Economies
DRI/McGraw Hill

Provides financial, economic, labor and currency information for 84 nations. Includes up to 150 tables of economic facts and 20 years of data for each country.

The criteria for including a country in this edition are:

1. extent of participation in the world economy,
2. size of the local economy.
3. availability of timely national source data (although some countries are included because of the size of the economy even though timely data were not available.

The data is collected from national sources, primarily central banks and central statistical agencies, and is supplemented by reports from McGraw Hill local representatives and from Planecon economists in Eastern Europe. Specific data includes: population, prices, labor and earnings, production and sales, interest rates and yields, monetary aggregates, foreign exchange, mercantile trade, balance of payments and national accounts.

For each country three brief profiles are provided. The "Country Overview" reports population, area, religion and language. The "Economic Overview" gives a snapshot of GDP, GDP/capita, labor force, industry and currency. The "Trade Overview" lists imports, exports, leading trading partners in both directions and current account balances.

Searching is uncomplicated via a simple hierarchical arrangement.

International Statistical Yearbook
Issue: 1994
Data Service & Information
GMBH
Gesellschaft fur Wirtrschaftsanalyse und Prognose

International Statistical Yearbook 1994 on CD-ROM is a collection of national and international economics databases from the following official agencies: Eurostat, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Citicorp, the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBBK), the Statistisches Bundesamt (Statbund--Statistical office of the German government), and the Deutsches Institut fuer Wirtschaftforschung (DIW).

About 540,000 time series are included. These are classified according to common terminology, and calculated by standardized guidelines, enabling the economic analyst to compare data and to trace its history. Data begins in 1948/1960, depending on the institution, and can be searched in English, French and German.

Subjects covered include short term economic indicators; general economic and national account statistics; financial and industry statistics; and regional and social statistics.

Print equivalents for the databases are: European Commission Main Economic Indicators; Federal Reserve Bank of Germany Monthly Reports and Statistical Supplements 1-5; OECD Main Economic Indicators; and IMF International Financial Statistics.

Data retrieved through keyword searching can be output in chart or graphic form. Other calculations can be performed; for example, index, growth rates, forecasts, etc.

Morningstar Mutual Funds Ondisc
Morningstar, Inc.

Mutual Funds OnDisc provides comprehensive coverage of over 5000 load and no-load funds. For each fund it is possible to display: fund name, fund family, fund manager, minimum initial investment, investment objective, Morningstar rating, risk measures, total returns, portfolio statistics, analyst review, performance data, etc. One important feature is the complete listing of portfolio composition, which is unavailable in the paper edition.

The software enables the user to check funds using a combination of variables on up to 90 fields and to create customized reports, complete with graphs. There is also an option to create customized portfolios and to compare fund returns with any of 25 benchmarks, including: the S & P 500, inflation, exports..... Data can be exported into both spreadsheet and word processing packages.

World Resources 1992-93
A Guide to the Global Environment
World Resources Institute
This is not a CD-ROM. It is found on the hard drive of each machine.

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