UCF Research Guides: Finance Databases: Finance

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CASSIDI (Competitive Analysis & Structure Instrument for Depository Institutions) This link opens in a new window
"strives to be the one-stop shop for your banking competition information needs. CASSIDI contains information for the entire country and is updated regularly."
- Find an Institution - "View information such as subsidiaries & branches, history, and operating markets."
- Find a Banking Market - "View a market definition, structure & concentration, history, and even a map."
- Perform a "What If" (Pro Forma) HHI Analysis - "See how a potential transaction (e.g. merger or acquisition) would change a banking market's concentration."
Global Financial Data This link opens in a new window
NOTE: First time users must register
"Global Financial Data provides the most comprehensive, historical economic and financial information available anywhere. GFD specializes in providing Financial and Economic Data that extends from the 1000s to the present—beyond what any other data provider has ever delivered."
Global Financial Data - registration This link opens in a new window
UCF Faculty and Students must Register for access to the Global Financial Data database:
1. Register for your account while on-campus or logged into campus via a proxy server.
2. Register using a UCF email address ending in .ucf.edu at Global Financial Data registration
3. Note the 19-page Terms of Use agreement when you're registering
4. You will receive an email with a temporary password
5. Log in with your email and temporary password and change your password on the Account page (circle icon in top right corner), Basic Info tab
If you encounter problems with your registration, contact Mike Cerneant or Dean Jacobsen for service and support.
VitalLaw This link opens in a new window
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As of November 2021, Cheetah has been renamed "VitalLaw"

The link to create an account to save searches is currently not working and "under repair" by Wolters Kluwer.
Please use this link to create an account and then proceed to the database.

-Information about the law of business and finance, plus federal and state tax laws, rules, regulations, cases and forms.
-All content has migrated from Intelliconnect to Cheetah. Intelliconnect is no longer available.
- Tax News, Journals, & Newsletters
- Federal Tax, including Primary Sources, Legislation, and Federal Tax Archive (1913, 1939, 1954, 1978+)
- State Tax, including (1) Tax Reporters for each State, and (2) Multistate Tax Guides: business formation & qualification; franchise or capital stock taxes; corporate income taxes; personal income taxes; property; miscellaneous taxes; motor fuels; cigarettes, tobacco products; sales & use; public utilities; practice & procedure
- International Tax: Tax Treaties
- Accounting & Audit
- Advertising Law
- Antitrust & Trade Regulation
- Banking (Federal & State)
- Bankruptcy Law
- Commercial: Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
- Commodities & Derivatives
- Consumer Financial Services
- Corporate Governance
- Energy & Natural Resources
- European Union Financial Services
- Exchanges & SROs
- Financial & Estate Planning
- Franchising & Distribution
- Government Contracts
- Health Care Compliance & Reimbursement
- Insurance Coverage Litigation
- Intellectual Property (Patents, Trademarks & Copyrights)
- International Securities & Business
- Investment Management
- Labor & Employment Law, including Case Law, Disabilities Management, EEOC Compliance, Employment Practices, Labor Arbitration Awards, Labor Relations, NLRB Case Handling, OFCCP Compliance, Wages-Hours
- Labor & Employment Law (State)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Privacy Law
- Products Liability & Safety
- Secured Transactions
- Securities (Federal & State)
- Transportation Law
Mergent Archives by FTSE Russell (1909-2013) This link opens in a new window
Company histories, business, properties, income statements, balance sheets, long-term debts, lines of credit
Corporate Manuals, 1909-2013
- Bank & Finance
- Industrial
- International
- OTC Industrial
- Public Utility
- Transportation
- OTC Unlisted
- Archives Supplement
- Archives Supplement International
Municipal Manuals, 1918-2013
NetAdvantage (S&P) This link opens in a new window
Database for searching information on stocks, companies, industries and mutual funds. Access to nine of the most popular S&P publications including Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, and The Outlook.
Sage Skills: Business Skills This link opens in a new window
Interactive instruction, self-assessment, virtual scenarios, downloadable data, and expert insights to empower users to develop and practice real-world skills needed to successfully transition from campus to the modern workplace. Business Skills modules include: Data Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Organizational Communication, and Professionalism.

Finance Databases

General Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) (1971+) This link opens in a new window
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The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world
arXiv This link opens in a new window
Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
(formerly xxx.lanl.gov)
Physics
Astrophysics (astro-ph new, recent, find)
includes: Astrophysics of Galaxies; Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Condensed Matter (cond-mat new, recent, find)
includes: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks; Materials Science; Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics; Other Condensed Matter; Quantum Gases; Soft Condensed Matter; Statistical Mechanics; Strongly Correlated Electrons; Superconductivity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc new, recent, find)
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex new, recent, find)
High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat new, recent, find)
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph new, recent, find)
High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th new, recent, find)
Mathematical Physics (math-ph new, recent, find)
Nonlinear Sciences (nlin new, recent, find)
includes: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems; Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases; Chaotic Dynamics; Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems; Pattern Formation and Solitons
Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex new, recent, find)
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th new, recent, find)
Physics (physics new, recent, find)
includes: Accelerator Physics; Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics; Atomic Physics; Atomic and Molecular Clusters; Biological Physics; Chemical Physics; Classical Physics; Computational Physics; Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability; Fluid Dynamics; General Physics; Geophysics; History and Philosophy of Physics; Instrumentation and Detectors; Medical Physics; Optics; Physics Education; Physics and Society; Plasma Physics; Popular Physics; Space Physics
Quantum Physics (quant-ph new, recent, find)
Mathematics
Mathematics (math new, recent, find)
includes (see detailed description): Algebraic Geometry; Algebraic Topology; Analysis of PDEs; Category Theory; Classical Analysis and ODEs; Combinatorics; Commutative Algebra; Complex Variables; Differential Geometry; Dynamical Systems; Functional Analysis; General Mathematics; General Topology; Geometric Topology; Group Theory; History and Overview; Information Theory; K-Theory and Homology; Logic; Mathematical Physics; Metric Geometry; Number Theory; Numerical Analysis; Operator Algebras; Optimization and Control; Probability; Quantum Algebra; Representation Theory; Rings and Algebras; Spectral Theory; Statistics Theory; Symplectic Geometry
Computer Science
Computing Research Repository (CoRR new, recent, find)
includes (see detailed description): Artificial Intelligence; Computation and Language; Computational Complexity; Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science; Computational Geometry; Computer Science and Game Theory; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Computers and Society; Cryptography and Security; Data Structures and Algorithms; Databases; Digital Libraries; Discrete Mathematics; Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing; Emerging Technologies; Formal Languages and Automata Theory; General Literature; Graphics; Hardware Architecture; Human-Computer Interaction; Information Retrieval; Information Theory; Learning; Logic in Computer Science; Mathematical Software; Multiagent Systems; Multimedia; Networking and Internet Architecture; Neural and Evolutionary Computing; Numerical Analysis; Operating Systems; Other Computer Science; Performance; Programming Languages; Robotics; Social and Information Networks; Software Engineering; Sound; Symbolic Computation; Systems and Control
Quantitative Biology
Quantitative Biology (q-bio new, recent, find)
includes (see detailed description): Biomolecules; Cell Behavior; Genomics; Molecular Networks; Neurons and Cognition; Other Quantitative Biology; Populations and Evolution; Quantitative Methods; Subcellular Processes; Tissues and Organs
Quantitative Finance
Quantitative Finance (q-fin new, recent, find)
includes (see detailed description): Computational Finance; Economics; General Finance; Mathematical Finance; Portfolio Management; Pricing of Securities; Risk Management; Statistical Finance; Trading and Market Microstructure
Statistics
Statistics (stat new, recent, find)
includes (see detailed description): Applications; Computation; Machine Learning; Methodology; Other Statistics; Statistics Theory
Business Expert Press (BEP) This link opens in a new window
Full text ebooks covering specific areas of business, including supply and operations management, international business, social media, finance, accounting, public relations, and marketing strategy.
Subject areas include:
- Analytics
- Business intelligence
- Business logistics
- Consumer behavior
- Decision making
- Decision support systems
- Economic conditions
- Entrepreneurship
- Forecasting
- Globalization
- Information services
- International business enterprises
- Leadership
- Lean manufacturing
- Management
- Marketing
- Planning
- Public relations
- Strategic planning
- Strategy
- Supply chain management
- Sustainability
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
EconLit (EBSCOhost) (1969+) This link opens in a new window
EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1.1 million records from 1886-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
Insurance and Liability (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
"provides access to academic journals and trade publications covering the insurance industry and topics such as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. The database offers content of interest to individual property owners and multinational corporations alike."
Mergent Intellect by FTSE Russell This link opens in a new window
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"Mergent Intellect is a highly flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence."
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"Coupling Mergent's expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B®'s private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.
Additionally, through Mergent’s partnership with Whitepages Pro, clients now have immediate access to contact information for over 250 million U.S. consumers. This enhanced search tool features specific information - name, address, previous address, age, number of household members and reverse phone number lookup capabilities - another valuable source of business insight."
Nexis Uni - All Content This link opens in a new window
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Full text of news and legal sources, as well as company and industry data.
Sources include newspapers, wire services, magazines, SEC filings, law cases, state and federal codes, law review journals, and reference works. Limited coverage of health administration news.
LexisNexis Academic (previous platform) is no longer accessible, as of December 2018.
Nexis Uni - Company Dossier This link opens in a new window
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Links to Nexis Business pages. Scroll down for Company Dossier options.

Search for information about specific companies, executives, or industries. Create a company list based on criteria such as NAICS industry classification or geographic location.
Company Dossier is part of Nexis Uni business information solutions including: legal, corporate, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic, and risk and compliance assessment.

See also Mergent Intellect and Business Market Research Collection
Sage Business Cases This link opens in a new window
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Cases designed to suit a range of academic uses: from short vignettes to narrative long form, written using both field research and publicly available sources.
-browse by subject, content partner, or academic level.
-Thousands of authoritative cases (published 2016-2024) from over 100 countries, designed to engage students in applying core concepts to practice through the use of examples from the global business environment.
Includes curated SAGE Originals case series such as Social Impact, Sustainability, Music Marketing, Ancient Leadership and additional cases on public policy, tech, accounting, health management and more.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) (1984+) This link opens in a new window
Financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance.