Business

This American online database indexes more than a thousand international journals which focus on business and management. Subjects covered include accounting, marketing, human resources, finance and taxation. Over 70% of the articles indexed are available in full text, text and graphics or page images. Hypertext links at the end of citations allow further searching under related subject headings as well as publisher information. A backfile is available for a number of articles published before 1985.

ABIX is an indexing service providing subject access to business information contained in the periodical literature of Australia and New Zealand, including key industry journals and newspapers. More than 200 titles are indexed dating from 1994 to the present.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database. Source documents include a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.

A searchable database of employment vacancies in the Australian Public Service. This replaces the publication Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Public Service..

Provided by VISA, this site allows one to locate an automatic teller machine anywhere in the world.

AUSTGUIDE contains all the GUIDELINES and EDUCATION GUIDELINES data from January 1986 onwards.

GUIDELINES and EDUCATION GUIDELINES give complete subject access to the contents of more than 120 periodicals, of both general and educational interest. The majority of these periodicals are Australian, but there are a considerable number of overseas publications indexed, such as 'Scientific American', 'History Today', 'Far Eastern Economic Review' and 'Unesco Courier'. A complete listing of the periodicals indexed is included in the AUSTGUIDE on-screen guide.

An index to over two thousand periodicals on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, medicine and the sciences. Many of the articles are available in full text. It is produced in the USA.

Academic Search Premier is an academic multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals, offering information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers. The quintessential accountant's database.

Find annual reports for the Fortune 500 companies. Search for annual reports alphabetically, by company name, by sector, or by industry.

This database contains 4.5 million articles from more than 2,000 periodicals. Use this database to find information by innovators, personal and corporate names, development of a particular technology, etc.

This site provides a database of Australian companies, their products and services and contact details. Also provided is information on Austrade's services, getting ready to export, export assistance and Internet marketing advice.

The Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre contains Australia/New Zealand magazines, newspapers and newswires, reference books, biographies, photographs, maps and flags.

Titles include: Architecture Australia, Australian Geographic, Australian Women's Weekly, Inside Rugby, The Australian (National), The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), Encyclopedia of Australia, History of Australia, etc.

Complete title coverage list available on EBSCOhost website.

The ACCC promotes and enforces competition, fair trading and consumer protection laws. This site contains information and news about consumer rights, industry regulation and price monitoring.

The ACTU provides information about industrial and employment issues, advice for employers and employees, campaigns about current issues, a directory of union organizations and historical information about the union movement. Includes the Your rights at work website.

A national vacancy database containing jobs listed with the Job Network Service, some national newspapers, the Commonwealth Public Service gazette, jobs lodged directly by employers, and jobs from the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association. The site can also be used to find Job Network Service and New Apprenticeships centres.

This site provides basic information about business organisations. Search by company name, business, association, ACN or ARBN. Results of searches display information such as company classification, locality of office and a list of documents lodged.

This online database contains the full text of Australian and New Zealand standards,as well as indexing standards from the International Standards Organization (ISO, British Standards and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) records. Search by Standard title, number, keywords or phrases.

This site provides information about the stock exchange including links to fee-based company information.

This is an Australian government website for businesses. It got a lot of very useful links to different government business web pages. It also has a section on 'Doing business with Australia'.

Search essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.

Coverage: 1971- current

From the Directorate-General Trade, this page links to detailed recent reports on trade between the EU and individual countries. It also contains reports on trade between the EU and trading blocs such as ASEAN and APEC.

A national Indigenous business and community enterprise directory. As well as providing a comprehensive national listing of Indigenous businesses, community enterprises and services, Black pages aims to be a central communication portal to promote Australia's Indigenous culture and facilitate community and socio-economic development. Links to Government and other information relating to Indigenous affairs are listed in the Smart links section.

Laws and standards for all aspects of construction in Australia.

Business Source Complete provides full text for nearly 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Also includes country reports, company and industry profiles and market research reports.

This online database provides information on Australian public and private companies including company activities, contact details, company directors, branches, subsidiaries, company websites, tradenames and agencies. The company information is fully searchable which allows you to locate information such as companies within specific industries, companies by region or see who sits on which boards.

The Business entry point (BEP) is an initiative of the Australian Federal Government. The site provides information on running a business, the ability to register with the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as well as access to detailed information related to specific business topics.

This index lists types of small businesses and a corresponding sample business plan, profile or book about the business with sources provided after each entry.

Company Annual reports Online (CAROL) is an on-line service offering direct links to the financial pages of listed companies in Europe and the USA. CAROL provides direct access to companies' balance sheets, profit & loss statements, financial highlights etc.

From the European Union's Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market, this is the Community Trade Mark database. Contains descriptions and illustrations of trademarks as well as registration information.

Jobs from News Limited newspapers, including The Australian and The Daily Telegraph

Business directories by country and industry sector. Includes links to business registers, mailing lists, and marketing sites for manufacturers and exporters. Some sites require registration.

Connect 4 provides information which relates to Australian Stock Exchange listed companies.

Subscription required.

This site provides country information prepared by the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Australia.

A pathfinder site for historical values of money such as 17th century prices, 18th century currencies and exchange rates, CPI since 1750, and what things cost in the 1940s.

This site is useful for people wanting to find out what has happened to companies that are no longer listed on the ASX, and especially shareholders in failed companies who need to establish if they can claim a capital loss against their income tax.

Very useful information about doing business in different countries published by the World Bank. Select information by country or topic Explore Economies section provides a snapshot of each country's aggregate ranking on the ease of doing business and on each of the ten topics that comprise the overall ranking. Data is also provided for each country for all the 10 topics covered in the database.

EconLit, the American Economic Association’s database, is a leading source of references to economic literature dating back to 1969. There are over 825,000 records on EconLit covering accounting, econometrics, economic forecasting, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and many other branches of economic research. Citations in EconLit are linked to the full text of articles from nearly 280 journals in Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier.

This site, produced by the Economist magazine in partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit, provides news, profiles, forecasts, and statistics on countries worldwide.

This site provides a searchable product and company name database of 500 000 European suppliers.

A resource provided by the European Commission to facilitate access for developing countries to markets within the European Union. Includes information relevant to Australia. Provides regulations, tariffs, customs documents and trade statistics. Can be searched by country of origin and by product codes. Trade statistics (2000 to date) provide volume and Euro value of exports and imports between a non-EU country (e.g. Australia) and either the entire EU or particular countries within the EU.

This site allows you to obtain the historical exchange rate for any currency pair, select the language, the range of dates and the currencies for which you would like to obtain exchange rates.

Factiva is a full-text news and financial information database of publications from Australian and international sources in 22 languages from 118 countries including newspapers, magazines, company and industry reports, newswires, pictures, and websites. Searches may be limited by keywords, subject, region, industry, company, language etc. but personal notices and advertising are not included.

FITA website includes links to 8,000 international trade (export import) related annotated and indexed websites.

Fortune magazine with the ranking of the largest companies in USA and the world.

GoAbroad.com is an education and alternative travel resource. Provides directories of opportunities including study abroad, internships, volunteering, teaching abroad, language schools and ecotourism.

A directory of environmental technology, covering environmental products & services from suppliers around the world.

Allows comparisons of value including prices, purchasing power, earnings, GDP, interest rates, exchange rates and other economic variables between the past and today. Calculators convert past values into current values and vice versa.

A bibliographic database on Economics. There are over 325,000 items (such as working papers, articles and software components) on the database, and over 225,000 can be downloaded in fulltext.

Informit is the leading provider of online access to indexes and full text databases of Australasian scholarly research. A product of RMIT Publishing, databases can be divided into the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.

Occupational profiles are available at this website of the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science & Training.

A resource and reference site for marketing, market research, advertising, selling, promotion, and other marketing-related areas. Includes articles, tutorials, news items and search option. Has minimal advertising and is part of the WWW Virtual Library, the oldest catalogue of the Web.

This Internet database, which can be searched in several languages, provides information on over 1.5 million companies involved in manufacturing, distributing, importing and exporting worldwide.

Includes Kompass Australia and Kompass New Zealand

LexisNexis Statistical contains abstracts of statistical publications from 1980 to the present and the full text of selected publications from 1995 forward. It indexes documents produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organisations, professional and trade organisations, commercial publishers, independent research organisations, state government agencies, and universities.

This database replaces Aspect Huntley Datanalysis. It provides comprehensive financial information on ASX listed companies including company reports, historical shares prices and market capitalisation, individual directors' report, shareholders' trading history, financial data and direct link to announcements.

A Fairfax employment website.

OZJAC is an easy to use online database that can help young people and adults find answers to their job, course and career questions. It brings together information on all accredited courses in Australia, links courses to jobs, and jobs to industry, with explanations of new concepts used in education, training and the labour market. The database also offers suggestions about future employment options.

This important indexing service provides global coverage of public affairs and world issues, including references to sources from more than 120 countries in English, French, German, and other languages. The service indexes more than 1,200 journals and 8,000 monographs each year. PAIS also identifies relevant web sites of which there are now around 4,300 included.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index) is a leading humanities and social sciences indexing service which provides access to bibliographic records of articles from more than 4,000 journals published from 1770 to 1995. Periodical Archives Online at present gives the full text of articles from 228 journals indexed by PCI.

Find the latest business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere. Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more.

ProQuest Australia and New Zealand Newsstand is an online news service that includes the full text (not personal notices or advertising) of major Australian, New Zealand (14), Fijian (2) and Papua New Guinea (1) newspapers, transcripts from the ABC and BBC and Australian Associated Press (AAP) News Wires.

Full text Australian newspapers covered up to the current issue include : the Australian and the Weekend Australian (from 2001); the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald (from 1996); the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph (from 2001); Wollongong's Illawarra Mercury (from 1997); Newcastle's Herald (from 1997); Newcastle's Central Coast Herald (from 1997 to 2004); Gosford's Central Coast Express Advocate (from 2004); Melbourne's Age and Sunday Age (from 1996); Melbourne's Herald Sun (from 2001); Brisbane's Courier Mail and the Sunday Mail (from 2001); The Gold Coast Bulletin, the Townsville Bulletin and the Cairns Post (from 2004); Adelaide's Advertiser and the Sunday Mail (from 2001); The Canberra Times (from 2007); Perth's Sunday Times (from 2004); Hobart's Mercury and the Sunday Tasmanian (from 2001); Darwin's NT Business Review (from 2005) and its Sunday Territorian (from 2001); and Alice Spring's Northern Centralian Advocate (from 2004).

Find the latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many more. Coverage: 1971 - present

Dun and Bradstreet database of companies registered with B2nB searchable by various categories eg product, brand name, personnel, post code, business code , manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer. (Formerly known as Business to any Business)

This database abstracts and indexes the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. It includes the full text of more than 120 selected periodicals such as the New York Times. Types of materials include news stories, cover stories, product evaluations and book reviews. Subjects include such general news areas as current events, business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science.

This news service accompanies Business Source Premier. It provides full text coverage of more than 60 regional business publications from the United States and is updated daily.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is responsible for printing and issuing Australian currency notes and this site provides information about the Australian notes including a counterfeit detection guide. Media releases and recent articles from the RBA Bulletin are also available.

Sponsored by the American Economic Association, this site lists data sources, reference works, resources and organisations dealing with economics on the web.

SNIPER, produced by the Library at IP Australia, is a bibliographic database of journal articles, conference papers, and other documents about issues in intellectual property. It provides a knowledge base to support policy, awareness and research in intellectual property matters.

This site provides access to reports prepared by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Subjects covered include imports and exports, major trading partners and major economic indicators.

A directory of 700,000 manufacturers and distributors from 28 countries, classified by 11,000 products and services categories.

This site provides a searchable database of US and Canadian companies. Registration required.

This site provides a database which converts currencies.

The Wall Street Journal (1889-1992) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

A browsable and searchable database of biographies of prominent Australians. It includes various categories like Nobel Prize Winners, Diplomats in Australia and more.

A portal to information on global business activities. The site provides access to international resources such as banking and financial information, trade information, statistics, country data and business news. Also covers current issues in international business, research and teaching resources, decision-support tools for managers, and an interactive forum for business professionals. Created by the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University.

A joint initiative of Commonwealth, State and Territory governments, designed to help with career guidance, job preparation, training resources and other information.