COLLECTIONS:

Special Collections

University Archives

Collection Preservation

Research Collections:
Management Collection

Selected Resources

In the O'Neill Library:

• Key Reference works: Standard and Poor's Industry Surveys, Moody's Manuals, Dun's Million Dollar Directory, U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook, The Value Line Investment Survey, Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Principal International Businesses.
• Key Data Sets: DRI Basic Economics, International Monetary Fund: International Trade Statistics and Direction of Trade Statistics, Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Compustat, Trade and Quote (TAQ), ICPSR, STAT-USA.
• O'Neill Library Workstations: First Call, Bloomberg, Internet Securities.
• Indexes on CD-ROMs located in the O'Neill Electronic Information Center: Morningstar, CCH Standard Federal Tax Reporter, CACI Sourcebook America.

• Subject index to management literature: ABI/Inform., Business and Industry, Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis), General BusinessFile ASAP, Dow Jones Interactive, PROMPT, EconLit, Statistical Universe, and TableBase.
• Full text databases: ABI/Inform, Business and Industry, Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis), General BusinessFile ASAP, Global Access, NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research), TableBase, Statistical Universe, Dow Jones Interactive, Datapro, and Dun's Million Dollar Database.
• Full text electronic journals: ECONbase and Emerald Library. Other select electronic journals may be found at the following e-journal gateways: JSTOR and Electric Library.
• Other related databases: Expanded Academic Index ASAP, PAIS International, PCI Periodical Contents Index (includes historical business and economics journals).

Research Guides
More information about available resources can be found in the following resource guides: Industry and Corporate Information, Marketing, Investments, Economics, Nonprofiit Organzation Information, and Statistical Sources.

Interdisciplinary Elements of Subject Area
The subject areas of this collection are frequently related to the statements for the economics, computer science, and government documents collections.  Books dealing with behavioral sciences may be found in statements for the psychology and sociology collections.

Formats and Types of Materials
The library collects both scholarly and popular treatments of management subject areas as well as basic handbooks, loose-leaf legal business services, directories, business histories and organizational studies in print form. Serials at the research level, trade journals and newspapers are collected in both print and microform formats. All major business, statistical, and economic indexes and abstracts are in the collection in one or more formats: print, CD-ROM, and optical disk. The Library subscribes to DRI Basic,Compustat, CRSP, International Monetary Fund databases which are currently being distributed in electronic format via the web through a subscription to the Wharton Research Data Services. The Library maintains files of corporate reports in print and microform. Management films and videodiscs are in the collection. Occasionally, conference proceedings, textbooks, and working papers are collected. Duplication of titles depend on the history of intensive use, reserve needs, and number of copies on campus. The Library has standing orders for most publications from the following organizations: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Financial Accounting Standards Board, American Management Association, American Marketing Association, Brookings Institution, Conference Board, International Monetary Fund, National Bureau of Economic Research, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Languages
English is the language of the collection.

Geographic Areas (Subject Approach)
Emphasis is primarily on the United States with global coverage in the areas of marketing, management, finance, accounting and  emerging markets.  Comparative economic, industry, and organization statistics are collected on an international basis, particularly for OECD member countries.

Time Periods (Subject Approach)
Acquisitions emphasize current materials. The primary areas of historical interest are economic or financial statistical data.

Date of Publication
Current publications are acquired. A limited number of earlier titles, both book and serials, are purchased as needed for replacement purposes.

Subject Areas Collected by Library of Congress Classification Number
BCAT, the online catalog, can be searched by LC classification number to get a better idea of what specific titles the management collection contains.  For example, the command c=HD81 will produce the beginning of a list of works on management.  This list can be browsed by pressing the F8 key or typing f and pressing the Enter/Return key.