FIN Subject Gateway
Articles
Articles from newspapers, trade publications, magazines, and scholarly journals on all aspects of business, including finance. Includes industry profiles and company SWOT analyses.
U.S. and international news, company information, and federal, state, and international legal materials.
Articles from the Wall Street Journal.
Note: Does not include tables from paper edition. To view the WSJ in paper/microfilm, including tables, visit the Periodicals Desk, 2nd floor.
Working papers in Finance from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Research on economics from scholarly journals, books, dissertations, and working papers. Covers scholarship relating to financial markets, financial institutions, and corporate finance and governance.
Company Financials & SEC Filings
15 years of financials for public companies. Brief company information. Allows you to create custom lists according to your criteria as well as comparison reports.
Searchable database of corporate filings (including 10-Ks and Annual Reports) submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Covers 1994 to the present.
Stock Reports & Investment Analysis
Information and analysis on companies, industries, bonds, and mutual funds/ETFs from Standard & Poor’s. Includes complete text of The Outlook and Credit Week.
Information and analysis on 1,700+ stocks and 98 industries.
More information on interpreting Value Line company (stock) reports.
LexisNexis Academic includes full text newspapers, company news and financial information, as well as federal, state, and international legal materials. Also contains some medical and reference sources.
Market Data
Intraday and historical quotes for companies and indexes; news. See the Industry Center for top and worst performing industries (Leaders & Laggards).
Interactive tool to locate historical data, quotes, and software for equities, derivatives, international finance, commodities and more. From Ohio State University.
Financial Ratios
One can calculate selected ratios for a list of companies generated from an industry code or other criteria, or for a custom list (public companies only).
Companies/Markets > Company > search for representative company > Financial Results > select Statement Type: Key Ratios
Latest 3 years in RESERVE (main level): HF5681.R25 T7
Aggregate industry ratios
Latest 3 years in RESERVE (main level): HF5681 .R25I525
Aggregate industry ratios.
Latest 3 years in RESERVES (main level): HF5681 .B2 R5
Aggregate industry ratios
Citation Searching & Publishing
Delve into the literature on your topic through citation searching with this multidisciplinary scholarly database. Journal analytics also available.
Identify appropriate venues for your research with the Business and Education Set. The Business Set includes Accounting; Economics and Finance; and Management and Marketing, and is funded by the Towson University College of Business and Economics. The Educational Set includes Directories of Educational Curriculum and Methods and Education Psychology and Administration, and is funded by the Towson University College of Education. In both sets, you may search by topic, review method and acceptance rate, and may use this resource to evaluate publication records.
Selected Journals
...to identify coverage of additional subscriptions in Finance at Cook Library.
Selected Journals:
FIN Subject Gateway / Albert S. Cook Library
http://cooklibrary.towson.edu//gateways/page.cfm?dept=FIN&class=0
Last revised: September 18, 2012





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