FDU LibGuides: Administrative Science and Public Administration Subject Guide: Databases

Databases for Administration

These databases will help you identify key topics, people, and events, which can help you to narrow the scope of your research to a specific topic or research question.

CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher offers original, comprehensive reporting on and unbiased analysis of issues in the news. Areas covered include health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report includes an introductory overview of the topic; background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. CQ Researcher Online offers access to CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference is an online reference library providing access to over 615 reference books. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, in addition to a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Database Guide
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
This collection provides access to over 140,000 full-text books, reports, and other authoritative documents in the fields of Business & Economics; Career & General Education; Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences; Humanities; Science, Medicine & Allied Health; and Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Database Guide
U.S. Government Online This link opens in a new window
U.S. Government Online is a reference site designed to facilitate study of the structure, function, and history of the U.S. government. The site includes overview essays, articles from encyclopedias and other reference works, primary source documents, current news articles, tables, charts, and maps, images and videos, special features, and a dictionary.

These databases contain scholarly (peer-reviewed), journal, and trade publication articles.

General Administration

JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new window
The JSTOR journal archives provide full-text collections of core scholarly journals across a variety of disciplines from the arts to the sciences with a strong emphasis on the humanities.

Database Guide
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 15,000 full-text news, legal and business sources. Includes journal articles, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on 80 million U.S. and international companies and 75 million executives.
LegalTrac This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
Search ProQuest for information from over 3,300 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and physical sciences.

Database Guide
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics going as far back as 1886, with searchable cited references back to 1998.
Useful for:

Accounting
Finance
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Management
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Journal Articles
Company Profiles (MarketLine Reports)
Industry Reports (MarketLine Reports & Barnes Reports)
Harvard Business Review Articles
Newspapers

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business - Management

Government/Public Administration

Criminal Justice from Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Provides more than 250 journals covering law, law enforcement, paralegal services, homeland security, forensic science, and much more.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text includes over 300,000 records representing hundreds of journals from around the world. The database covers criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; and probation and parole.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Military And Intelligence Database This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and present military affairs, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
War & Terrorism Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides more than 200 journals military science, history, risk management, and social science.

These sources provide current news.

Access World News This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics.

Database Guide
Black Life in America (News Sources) This link opens in a new window
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media from 1976 to the present.
LegalTrac This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Military And Intelligence Database This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and present military affairs, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
New York Times Online This link opens in a new window
Access the New York Times starting with the first issue in 1851 through the latest news of today.

Database Guide
The New York Times online requires you to create an account before you can access the site. You must use your FDU email address when registering. Access is good for one year. After which you will need to re-register. To re-register follow these instructions.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 15,000 full-text news, legal and business sources. Includes journal articles, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on 80 million U.S. and international companies and 75 million executives.
US Majors Dailies This link opens in a new window
ProQuest US Major Dailies includes full-text coverage of several major US newspapers: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times (with New York Times Book Review and New York Times Magazine), USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal (with WSJ : the Magazine from the Wall Street Journal), and The Washington Post. Although starting dates differ, coverage for each newspaper extends to the present.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Access the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present, one of the world's leading daily financial newspapers.
Useful for:

Newspaper articles on various topics including finance, the stock market, the economy, management, politics, U.S. news and world news.
Market data including stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, mutual funds, and ETFs

Includes:

Newspapers

These sources provide facts, statistics, and reports.

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.

Database Guide
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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Business Market Research Collection‎ This link opens in a new window
This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
Useful for:

Economics
Market Research
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Industry reports
Country reports
OxReach articles – analytical articles
Company description – includes marketing strategy, geographic reach and acquisitions
Company history (limited and not available for all companies)
Company financials
Competitors
Competitive Landscape – comparing financial data including ratios to competitors
Executives including biographies

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher offers original, comprehensive reporting on and unbiased analysis of issues in the news. Areas covered include health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report includes an introductory overview of the topic; background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. CQ Researcher Online offers access to CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference is an online reference library providing access to over 615 reference books. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, in addition to a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Database Guide
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
This collection provides access to over 140,000 full-text books, reports, and other authoritative documents in the fields of Business & Economics; Career & General Education; Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences; Humanities; Science, Medicine & Allied Health; and Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Database Guide
Legal Information Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 15,000 full-text news, legal and business sources. Includes journal articles, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on 80 million U.S. and international companies and 75 million executives.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
Search ProQuest for information from over 3,300 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and physical sciences.

Database Guide

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.   Database Guide 
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

Similar Resources:
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed publications.
Access World News This link opens in a new window This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics.   Database Guide 
Black Life in America (News Sources) This link opens in a new window The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media from 1976 to the present.
Business Market Research Collection‎ This link opens in a new window This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
Useful for:

Economics
Market Research
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Industry reports
Country reports
OxReach articles – analytical articles
Company description – includes marketing strategy, geographic reach and acquisitions
Company history (limited and not available for all companies)
Company financials
Competitors
Competitive Landscape – comparing financial data including ratios to competitors
Executives including biographies

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics going as far back as 1886, with searchable cited references back to 1998.
Useful for:

Accounting
Finance
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Management
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Journal Articles
Company Profiles (MarketLine Reports)
Industry Reports (MarketLine Reports & Barnes Reports)
Harvard Business Review Articles
Newspapers

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business - Management
CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window CQ Researcher offers original, comprehensive reporting on and unbiased analysis of issues in the news. Areas covered include health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report includes an introductory overview of the topic; background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. CQ Researcher Online offers access to CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Credo Reference is an online reference library providing access to over 615 reference books. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, in addition to a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.  Database Guide 
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text includes over 300,000 records representing hundreds of journals from around the world. The database covers criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; and probation and parole.
Criminal Justice from Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window Provides more than 250 journals covering law, law enforcement, paralegal services, homeland security, forensic science, and much more.
Films on Demand: Archival Films & Newsreels Collection This link opens in a new window The Archival Films & Newsreels Collection contains over 700 hours of historical films and newsreels.
Films on Demand: Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window The Films on Demand Master Collection provides access to over 41,000 educational videos and award winning documentaries covering a wide range of topics.
JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new window The JSTOR journal archives provide full-text collections of core scholarly journals across a variety of disciplines from the arts to the sciences with a strong emphasis on the humanities.  Database Guide 
Legal Information Reference Center This link opens in a new window Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms.
LegalTrac This link opens in a new window Provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Military And Intelligence Database This link opens in a new window Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and present military affairs, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
New York Times Online This link opens in a new window Access the New York Times starting with the first issue in 1851 through the latest news of today.  Database Guide 
The New York Times online requires you to create an account before you can access the site. You must use your FDU email address when registering. Access is good for one year. After which you will need to re-register. To re-register follow these instructions.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Provides access to more than 15,000 full-text news, legal and business sources. Includes journal articles, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on 80 million U.S. and international companies and 75 million executives.
Research Library This link opens in a new window Search ProQuest for information from over 3,300 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and physical sciences.  Database Guide 
U.S. Government Online This link opens in a new window U.S. Government Online is a reference site designed to facilitate study of the structure, function, and history of the U.S. government. The site includes overview essays, articles from encyclopedias and other reference works, primary source documents, current news articles, tables, charts, and maps, images and videos, special features, and a dictionary.
US Majors Dailies This link opens in a new window ProQuest US Major Dailies includes full-text coverage of several major US newspapers: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times (with New York Times Book Review and New York Times Magazine), USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal (with WSJ : the Magazine from the Wall Street Journal), and The Washington Post. Although starting dates differ, coverage for each newspaper extends to the present.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window Access the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present, one of the world's leading daily financial newspapers.
Useful for:

Newspaper articles on various topics including finance, the stock market, the economy, management, politics, U.S. news and world news.
Market data including stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, mutual funds, and ETFs

Includes:

Newspapers
War & Terrorism Collection This link opens in a new window Provides more than 200 journals military science, history, risk management, and social science.

Administrative Science and Public Administration Subject Guide: Databases

Databases for Administration

These databases will help you identify key topics, people, and events, which can help you to narrow the scope of your research to a specific topic or research question.

These databases contain scholarly (peer-reviewed), journal, and trade publication articles.

General Administration

Government/Public Administration

These sources provide current news.

These sources provide facts, statistics, and reports.

Metropolitan Library

Florham Library