Library Guides: Finance: Home

Subject Resources

If you're just starting out as a finance student and need to get some background/fundamentals, the following can help:

To search all of Schewe's databases, use the following:

To search databases with considerable amounts of finance content, consider the following:

Economics & Theory (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
This business database includes full-text access to almost 1,800 scholarly and professional journals. This database attempts to provide full-text coverage of many of the titles contained in the EconLit database.
Business (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
This business database – covering the areas of accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, strategy, and company news – provides full-text coverage of nearly 4,000 business and professional journals.
Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
This business database provides full-text coverage of nearly 1,100 journals and magazines relating to business, management and economics (with over 500 being scholarly). Also good for company profiles and business videos.
Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new window
This business database provides case studies, full-text articles, and data sets which focus on aspects of international business. The database is particularly useful for generating business intelligence using its statistical analysis tools.

Here are some searches that will get you a variety of finance books:

Here are some classics in the field that finance majors should be familiar with:

You can find reliable and high-quality videos on a variety of topics below:

You can find reliable and high-quality finance videos on the following topics:

Here are some websites which might be helpful for a finance student:

The New York Times - Money & Markets
The New York Times' most recent articles and commentary on the markets and money matters.
United States Department of Labor Statistics
The United States Department of Labor Statistics homepage. A tremendous volume of US labor statistics.
The World Bank Documents & Reports Library
Over 300,000 World Bank reports and documents made available for reading and download.
FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data
Statistics from the United States Federal Reserve.
StockCharts.com
Create a variety of daily and weekly charts for periods ranging from just past few minutes to several years in numerous styles and colors.
American FactFinder
United States Census Bureau data on a variety of topics (economy, housing, population, etc.).
Yahoo Finance
A great all-in-one site for market news and personal finance tools.

For help citing materials, click below:

For help citing in the APA format, which is often used in finance, consider using Schewe Library's APA citation guide:

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