Help Sheets for Databases

This is an international effort to highlight excellence in support materials for unique business sources. If you know of an additional source please forward your suggestion to Jennifer Boettcher.

Most databases come with "help" installed. You should look for icons featuring question marks. Also some publishers include printed manuals with their sources. The databases listed below tend to have unusual interfaces and need extra help. The ultimate place to seek assistance is your local librarian.

Compustat's Research Insight	Bloomberg Station	Value Line.com	Primark's Datastream	Reuter's Bridge	WRDS's Compustat
Simmons' Choices 3	Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database: GMID	Trade Dimensions' Demographics USA	Esri's ArcView GIS	Mediamark	Ad $pender
LIVEDGAR	KLD's Socrates	Census Bureau's American Factfinder	Factiva	FirstSearch's WorldScope	Thomson Research
FASB's Financial Accounting Research System	RMA's Annual Statement Studies	CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork	BNA's Tax Management Portfolios
IMF's International Financial Statistics	World Bank's World Development Indicators	OECD's Statistical Compendium	SourceOECD	World Trade Analyzer

FINANCIAL SOURCES

Research Insight
• Custom reports, Ithica College
• Rutgers University
• College of William & Mary
• University of Western Ontario
• University of Oklahoma
• Babson College
• University of Otago
• Microsoft
• Compustat Technical Support
  Using Research Insight with Excel (not in Lauinger Library)
  • Company info, Ithica College
  • Ratio info, Ithica College

BloombergStation Not available in Lauinger Library
• Georgetown University (how to save from academic account)
• Georgetown University (general help)
• Cornell University
• University of Texas-Austin
• Babson College

Value Line
• The College of William & Mary
• University of Pennsylvania

Datastream Not available in Lauinger Library
• Princeton University
• University of California, Berkeley
• Columbia University
• University of Pennsylvania

Reuters Bridge Not available in Lauinger Library
• University of Illinois
• University of Southern California
• Cornell University

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) (get username and password from your professor)
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Tilburg University
• University of Missouri-Columbia

MARKETING SOURCES

Simmons Choices 3
• University of Tennessee
• Purdue University
• Michigan State University (Basic Guide)
• Michigan State University (Video Tutorial)

Simmons Choices II
• Georgetown University
• University of Washington
• Michigan State University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Pace University
• Arizona State University

Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database: GMID

• Pace University
• Aston University

Demographics USA

• Georgetown University
• Column descriptions

Mintel

• College of William & Mary

ArcView Geographic Information System (GIS)

• Duke University
• ESRI Support
• University of Michigan
• U.S. Geographical Survey
• University of Colorado at Boulder

Mediamark Reporter
• Marquette University
• University of Connecticut
• Pace University
• University of Washington
• Mediamark Technical Guide

Ad $pender
• Stanford University

LIVEDGAR
• Kristina Justh, MLS 03*

Socrates
• Socrates's Help Sheet

American FactFinder's Economic Census and Surveys
• AFF Tutorial

Factiva
• Babson College
• Factiva
• Northwestern University
• University of Vermont

FirstSearch's Worldscope Not available in Lauinger Library
• Heather Rories, MLS '03*

Thomson Research
• Babson College
• Thomson Financial

Financial Accounting Research System (FARS)
• Babson College

Annual Statement Studies
• RMA's Definitions of Ratios

CCH Internet Tax Research Network
• Commerce Clearing House
• University of Michigan
• University of Texas- San Antonio

BNA's Tax Management Portfolios Not available in Lauinger Library
• BNATAX Management

International Financial Statistics
• Marquette University
• Georgetown University
• Columbia University
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Colorado School of Mines

World Development Indicators
• Georgetown University

OECD Statistical Compendium
• Georgetown University

SourceOECD
• Marquette University
• OECD Help sheet
• European University Institute

World Trade Analyzer
• Duke University