Library Resources for MFE Students

OskiCat:

• is only for UC Berkeley
• can restrict searches to only books in the Business Library
• can't show Law Library or other "affiliated" library holdings
• will be replaced by OskiCat later this semester

NextGen Melvyl Pilot

• is for the entire UC system
• is slightly more forgiving in its search results
• can show holdings outside of UC, for interlibrary loan purposes

• A news database with a business focus
• Worldwide newspapers, magazines, trade journals, transcripts
• Good indexing for business topics (companies, industries, corporate news items)
• If your future employer uses a news database, it will probably be Factiva

• Peer-reviewed, refereed academic journals in business and economics, plus magazines and trade journals
• Very few newspapers
• Many journals in full-text; if not, click "UC E-Links"

• Scans footnotes and bibliographies to show relationships among published academic articles
• Demonstrates how useful or influential an article or author has been
• Helpful for finding additional articles on a topic

• US stock prices
• US and worldwide macroeconomic data
• Very long historical series

• Company financials from COMPUSTAT
• Stock prices from CRSP
• Stock ownership from Thomson Reuters
• Economic data from Global Insight
• Earnings estimates from I/B/E/S
• Many ways to manipulate data, using SPSS or UNIX-type commands
• Use MFE login for remote access and expert commands

• Huge database of international, historical data
• Stocks and bonds, indexes, macroeconomic data, options, futures, exchange rates, and more
• Confusing interface
• Can only be used from the standalone terminal in Long Library

• Mergers & acquisitions and new issuances of stocks and bonds, going back to the early 1980's
• Extremely confusing interface
• Can only be used from the standalone terminal in Long Library

Databases by subject
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/databases_by_subject.html