Electronic Resources - Alphabetical List
Electronic Resources by Alpha
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B
Bankscope
Available through WRDS
A financial database covering more than 10,000 banks worldwide.

Span: Up to 8 years of data

In-depth guide (190p PDF)
Bloomberg Professional Service
In Doriot and Tanoto Libraries only
Real-time current and historical economic and financial data as well as real-time news.

Short guide to navigating Bloomberg (2p PDF)
Short guide to using API (Bloomberg excel add-in) (2p PDF)
Bloomberg training in Singapore
Business Insights
Available off campus
Reports on consumer goods, energy, financial services, healthcare, technology (including telecoms and e-commerce), human resources.

Span: 1998 onwards.
Business Leader Rankings
INSEAD login required
Rankings of top CEOs, business leaders and other influential people.

Span: Latest available.
Business School Rankings
INSEAD login required
Rankings from the business press covering MBA, EMBA and executive education programmes.

Span: Latest available.
Business Source Complete

Available off campus

Articles from over 3500 academic and general business periodicals including country reports and company profiles.

Span: Many journals 1965 or volume 1 onwards.

Journal title list (HTML)  
Industry and country report list (HTML)
Help guide to EBSCO databases (HTML)
C
Cabell's Publishing Directories
Available off campus

Editorial and submission guidelines for peer-reviewed journals in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Psychology and Psychiatry. Each entry includes acceptance rate, review type and contact information.
Capital IQ
Available off campus

Company intelligence for over 60,000 public companies and over 600,000 private companies worlwide. Information on over 980,000 top officers.

Span: up to 10 years of data

You must request a login to access the database. Please fill out this online form and the information will be emailed to you.
Short guide to company intelligence (2p PDF)
Short guide to screening intelligence (2p PDF)
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Available off campus
Discussion Papers from CEPR. Also available via SSRN.

Span: 1984 onwards. DP 2050 (January 1999) onwards available in electronic format.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Available off campus
Theory and research in international affairs, teaching materials including original case studies and course packs of background reading.

Span: 1991 onwards.
Company Rankings
INSEAD login required
Rankings of top companies by region and sector, taken from the business press.

Span: Latest available.
Compustat
Available through WRDS
Compustat North America provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 24,000 publicly held companies.

Compustat Global financial and market data covering publicly traded companies in more than 80 countries, representing over 90% of the world's market capitalization: 96% of European market capitalization and 88% of Asian market capitalization.

Span: Up to 20 years of data for North America, 12 years for Global.

Online manual (WRDS login required)
Compustat Executive Compensation
Available through WRDS
Standard & Poor's ExecuComp, accessible via the Compustat Executive Compensation page in WRDS, provides executive compensation analyses.

Span: 1992 onwards. Updated annually.

Online manual (WRDS login required)
Country Rankings
INSEAD login required
Rankings of countries by various economic and political criteria.

Span: Latest available.
CRSP
Available through WRDS
Center for Research in Security Prices: security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Also contains stock indices and mutual fund databases.

Span: December 1925 onwards.

Online manual (WRDS login required)

CUSIP Master file                                                      Available through WRDS

Provides CUSIP numbers, standardized descriptions and additional data attributes for over 5 million corporate, municipal and government securities offered in North America.

Online manual (WRDS login required)

D
Datastream
In Doriot and Tanoto Libraries only
Extensive historical coverage of company, financial and economic data from the world's major markets.

Span: Up to 15 years of data.

Professors and PhD students can have access to this database installed on their desktop. Contact Christel Froidevaux on the Europe Campus or the Library on the Asia Campus.
In-depth guide to using Datastream Advance with Excel (39p PDF)
In-depth guide to Datastream Advance  (190p PDF)
Short guide to Datastream Advance (5p PDF)
Digital Dissertations
E
EBSCOHost
Available off campus
Access to Business Source Complete, Econlit, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Regional Business News, and Sociological Collection. Databases can be searched individually or all at once. Allows personalization of interface and creation of search and journal alerts.

Help guide to EBSCO databases (HTML)
Available off campus
Abstracts for 400 major journals plus other works including books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers in Economics.

Span: 1969 onwards. Updated monthly.

Help guide to EBSCO databases (HTML)
Emerald Fulltext
Available off campus
Over 150 journals covering management, HRM, marketing, librarianship, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering topics.

Span: 1989 onwards.

Short guide (2p PDF)

EndNote Web                                                                    Available off campus

Free, web-based version of the desktop citation management software.

Short Guide
Tutorials

Euromonitor - Global Market Information Database
Available off campus
Statistics, market reports and company profiles covering the global consumer markets in over 200 countries , with extended coverage for 52 countries. Includes consumer markets and lifestyle information , brand and market share data.

Span: 1977 onwards; Forecasts provided up to 2012.

EVENTUS                                                                         Available through WRDS

Eventus performs event studies using data read directly from CRSP stock databases or pre-extracted from any source.

Online manual (WRDS login required)

F
Factiva
Available off campus
8000 news sources from 118 countries in 22 languages with same-day full text access to major newspapers and business magazines as well as 25 000 company reports.

Span: 1969 onwards.

Short guide (2p PDF)
In-depth guide (32p PDF)
Financial Times

Available through Factiva

Span: 1981 to present with 24h embargo.

FT.com                                                                                 Available off campus

Complimentary access for INSEAD provided thanks to the Financial Times.

 

Span: 2003 onwards.

G
Global Insight
Available off campus
Five-year forecasts, country reports, risk ratings and analysis of the economic, political, legal, tax, operational and security environments in 186 countries. Industries covered: automotive, energy, healthcare and telecoms.

Span: 1998 onwards.

Short guide - General Navigation (4p PDF)
Short guide - World Markets Automotive (8p PDF)
Short guide - Country Risk (7p PDF)
Global Insight
Available through WRDS
Span: 1980 onwards.

Basic economic series for the US.

Online manual (WRDS login required)
H
Handbooks in Economics Series
Available off campus
26 handbooks giving both factual and theoretical overviews of the fields related to economics.
I
I/B/E/S
Available through WRDS
Summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, cash flows, and other important financial items, as well as buy-sell-hold recommendations.

Span: 1976 onwards.

Online manual (WRDS login required)
Icon Group Database
In Doriot and Tanoto Libraries only
Reports for 200 countries and 2,000 industries. Financial gap and labour productivity reports for over 20,000 companies. Cultural statistics cover religion, languages and ethnic groups worldwide.

Span: 2000 onwards.

Short guide (HTML)
International Financial Statistics (IMF)
Available off campus
Economic and financial data from over 200 countries.

Span: Annual entries: 1948 onwards. Quarterly and monthly entries: 1957 onwards. Updated monthly..

In-depth guide (HTML)
Investext Plus
Available off campus
Company and industry reports from over 500 investment banks, brokerage firms.

Span: 1982 onwards.

IRRC                                                                              Available through WRDS

The Investor Responsibility Research Center datasets provide details on the structure and practices of the boards of directors at a large number of U.S. companies, and information on takeover defense and other corporate governance provisions for major US firms .  

Span: 1990-2006 (varies with datasets)

Online manual for Directors dataset (WRDS login required)

Online manual for Governance dataset (WRDS login required)

ISI Emerging Markets
Available off campus
News, company and industry reports, financial and macroeconomic data for emerging countries.

Short Guide (HTML)
ISI Web of Knowledge
Available off campus
Research platform giving access to citation-related databases, including Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports.
J
Journal Citation Reports
Available off campus

Impact factors, an immediacy index, article counts, and cited half-life for over 7000 peer-reviewed journals in the Sciences and Social Science.

Span: 2001- . Updated annually

Online tutorial
In-depth guide (37p PDF)

Journal Finder
A comprehensive list of the Library periodicals including direct links to electronic journals.
JSTOR
Available off campus
Backfiles of academic journals.

Span: Vol. 1 no. 1 onwards. Most recent 3-5 years unavailable.

Interactive tutorial (Flash)
In-depth guide (HTML)
M
Marketline Business Information Centre
Available off campus
Datamonitor profiles and news analysis on 2,000 industries, 10,000 of the world's largest companies, and 50+ countries. 5-year historical and forecast data. Does not include access to Datamonitor premium reports.

Span: News analysis from 2000 onwards. Profiles available from current or previous year.

Short guide  (2p PDF)

MEDLINE - please see PubMed

 

N
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Available off campus
Working Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Span: November 1994 onwards.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
Available off campus
An extensive resource containing articles by the world's leading economists. Equivalent to the 8-vol. print edition.

Span: 2008 ed., updated quarterly.

NewspaperDirect - PressDisplay                                         Available off campus

Same-day editions of internationally recognized newspapers.

Span: 2 months

O
OECD Statistics
Available through SourceOECD

 ORBIS                                                                                  Available off campus

Financials and stock market data for 750,000 public and private companies worldwide.

Important access note: regardless of your current location, when prompted, select "France" from the pull down menu.

Span: 10 years

Oxford Reference Online
Available off campus
Over 100 language and subject dictionaries and other reference books from Oxford University Press.

Span: Most recent edition available - publication year varies by title.

In-depth guide (HTML)
P

Palgrave Dictionary              See New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online

Proquest Dissertations & Theses
Available off campus
Abstracts for doctoral dissertations and masters theses. N.B. INSEAD is listed as Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires.

Short guide (4p PDF)
PsycARTICLES
Available off campus
Articles from 56 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

Span: 1985 onwards.

Help guide to EBSCO databases (HTML)
Title list (HTML)
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Available off campus
Articles from over 500 journals, on topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Span: 1965 onwards.

Help guide to EBSCO databases (HTML)
Title list (HTML)
PsycINFO
Available off campus
Abstracts of the international literature in psychology and related behavioural and social sciences, including psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, pharmacology, linguistics, business and law.

Span: 1887 onwards. Updated weekly.

Help guide to EBSCO databases (HTML)
PubMed
Available off campus

Citations and abstracts of biomedical and life science research articles (formerly MEDLINE). Use the pull down menu to search PubMed Central, a digital archive of free full text articles in those fields.

Span: 1950 onwards, varies by title.

R

RefWorks
Off campus access: get password help

A webbased citation management software. Available for free to INSEAD users as an alternative to EndNote.

Interactive tutorial for RefWorks
Interactive tutorial for RefShare
Exporting tip sheet

Reuters 3000 Xtra
Available on the Europe Campus only
Get procedure and password help
Real-time current and historical economic and financial data as well as real-time news.
S
ScienceDirect
Available off campus
Articles from 1200 journals published by Elsevier, covering economics, business, management, computing, engineering and technology as well as the physical, social and behavioural sciences.

Span: Full-text available from 1995 onwards.

Short guide (8p PDF)
SDC Platinum
In Doriot and Tanoto Libraries only
Global new issues, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and venture capital financing information. Please note that M&A data from 1985 onwards is also available online from Thomson One Banker Deals and that private equity/venture capital data is also available from VentureXpert Web.

Span: 1962 onwards. Most recent 30 days unavailable.

In-depth guide for SDC  (102p PDF)
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Available off campus
Research paper in accounting, economics (with a subnetwork covering Latin America), financial economics, legal scholarship and management with an alert service.
Social Sciences Citation Index, 1991-  
Social Sciences Citation Index, 1981-1990 (CD-ROM)
Ask at the Information Desk in Doriot
Use the DVD on PC 7 in Tanoto
Citation index covering over 1,700 journals in the social sciences as well as 3,300+ related science journals.

Span: 1981-1990, not updated. Continued by Web of Science.
Sociological Collection
Available off campus
Articles from over 600 journals covering social behaviour, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.

Span: 1965 onwards.

Help guide to EBSCO databases (HTML)
Source OECD
Off campus access: get password help
Statistical data from the OECD: "OECD databases", "Statistical country profiles" as well as some "At a glance" data.
No IEA data. For OECD publications, see the library's catalogue.

Span: 1960 onwards.

Short guide to accessing statistics (1p PDF)

Standard & Poor's Market Insight                                                 Ask a librarian


Industry surveys from S&P's equity analysts in the US, sorted according to the 147 GICS sub-industries as well as financials for 1000 US companies .
The access code to this resource is available in the Modern Financial Management textbook.
Textbooks purchased on the Asia Campus do not have this code though it can be purchased separately. Please approach INStore or the librarian for more information


Span: latest for industry surveys; six years for financials.

T
TAQ
Available through WRDS
The Trade and Quote database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as NASDAQ National Market System (NMS) and Small Cap issues.

Span: 1993 onwards. Updated monthly.

Online manual (WRDS login required)
Thomson Financial Ownership Data
Available through WRDS
Mutual Funds Holdings (CDA/Spectrum s12) and 13f Institutional Holdings (CDA/Spectrum s34). The Insiders Filings database (also referred to as Lancer Analytics) contains transaction and holdings information filed with the SEC.

Span: 1980 onwards. Updated quarterly.

Online manual for Insiders data (WRDS login required)
Online manual for Mutual Fund (WRDS login required)
Thomson One Banker Analytics
(NOT available via Firefox browser)

Available off campus
Excel Add-In: get procedure and password help

Company and stock market information, for over 45,000 public companies worldwide.

Span: Up to 5 years of data.
Thomson One Banker Deals
(NOT available via Firefox browser)
Available off campus
M&A information including data, news stories and weekly market activity, as well as league tables of top deals, industry, and advisors. Also available from SDC Platinum.

Span: 1985 onwards.
U
University of California eScholarship Repository
Available off campus
Working papers and academic research, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.

Span: 1990 onwards.
V
ValueLine
Available off campus
Information and investment advice on approximately 1700 stocks from the USA, in more than 90 industries.

Span: Current year.

Short guide (12p PDF)
In-depth guide (30p PDF)
Vault Online Career Library
Available through Career Services intranet

Click the Research tab then the Vault logo

Includes Vault industry guides, career guides and employer guides/profiles. Also includes selected "gold" employer information. (N.B.The encrypted pdfs require Adobe reader 6.x or higher; version 7.x is recommended and is available on the library computers. Version 8 is not recommended.)

Span: 2003 onwards.

VentureXpert Web

(NOT available via Firefox browser)

Available off campus

Data on venture funds, private firms, executives, venture-backed companies and limited partners, as well as an analytics source for fund commitments, disbursements, statistics and performance. Also available through SDC Platinum.

Span: 1970 onwards.

In-depth guide for VentureXpert through SDC Platinum (58p PDF)

W
Wall Street Journal
Available through Factiva
Span: 1984 onwards . Abstracts from 1979-83.

Web of Science                                                                    Available off campus

Citation indexes covering over 9000 journals in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Please remember to click on the Log Out button in order to disconnect properly.

Span: 1991 onwards. Updated weekly.

Online tutorial
In-depth guide (37p PDF)
Windhover Strategic Intelligence Systems (SIS)

Available on and off campus
get password

Global healthcare business intelligence data and transaction information in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries since 1991, plus a complete archive of IN VIVO, IN VIVO Europe, START-UP and The RPM Report.
World Development Indicators
Available off campus
550 development indicators and time series data for 207 countries and 18 country groups from the World Bank. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.

Span: 1960 onwards. Updated annually, one or two year delay.

Short guide (HTML)
WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services
In Doriot and Tanoto Libraries only

Access to the following financial datasets: Bankscope, Compustat, Compustat Executive Compensation, CRSP, CUSIP Master file, EVENTUS, Global Insight, I/B/E/S, IRRC, TAQ, Thomson Financial Ownership Data.


Access to free datasets: Bank Regulatory, Blockholders, CBOE Indexes, CISDM, DMEF, Dow Jones, Fama french Momentum, FDIC, Federal Reserve Bank Report, Mutual Fund Links, Penn World Tables, PHLX, SEC Disclosure of Order Execution, TRACE.


Span: Depends on source.

Professors and PhD students can request a user account directly from the WRDS site by clicking on the 'account request' link.
Online manuals (WRDS login required)
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