Looking for Real Estate Investment Trust information?  Here’s some of the TCU databases that provide that information:
MorningStar (only allows 2 users at a time): Click on the Industries link under the Industries category (see screen shot). This takes you into an alphabetical listing of industries. Scroll down until you find the REITS link.  Voila!
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Value Line [...]
Trying to figure out rules of business etiquette in Botswana? Check out the TCU database, Global Road Warrior. It covers lots of other areas too: Business Women, Money and Banking, Travel Essentials, Country Facts, etc.
Wanting an investment overview of Bangladesh? Try the TCU database, CountryWatch. Click on the “Country Reviews” tab at the top. It [...]
FYI: This post/topic is geared towards serious academic researchers.  If you need to discover the impact factor of a journal, here is how to do it.Â
Go to the TCU database, Web of Science
Click on the yellow tab at the top of the page titled “Additional Resources”
Click on the link: “Journal Citation Reports”  (under ‘Analytical Tools’ [...]
Just occurred to me that I do not believe I have posted the pathway to get to the TCU databases. Based on the emails I get, there are at least a few people who don’t know, so here it is.
Go to www.lib.tcu.edu
click on the “Journal Articles & Databases” link on the left side of the [...]
Doing research on these topics for accounting? Here are some suggested databases and search terms.
I would look in the following TCU databases (keep in mind that some of these databases have limits on the # of simultaneous users, so if a non-TCU password screen pops up, just wait and try again later):
Business Source Complete, EconLit, [...]
Here’s another useful feature in TCU’s database, MorningStar (I’m quoting from their email):
“If you go to the Help and Education page of Morningstar Investment Research Center, you will find our Investing Classroom. There are courses on stocks, mutual funds, and portfolio analysis. The nice thing about Investing Classroom is that it can help anyone–from the [...]
If one of the EBSCOhost databases has a journal in it that you read on a regular basis, and you want to be informed when a new publication is available (and see the Table of Contents), below are instructions on how to either set-up an email alert or an RSS feed. See my earlier post on [...]
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Only of use to TCU folks- to access the Wall Street Journal (full text): I am giving you instructions on how to only search through the Wall Street Journal publication.
Go to the TCU database, Factiva  (note: this database only allows 5 users at a time, so if a nonTCU password screen pops up, that means that [...]
To find out whether TCU has the full text to a particular journal, magazine, or newspaper, take the following steps (double click on images to see larger view):
1. In the TCU catalog, type the name of the journal/mag./newspaper into the search box and select “Journal/Serial name begins with…” in the drop down box.
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2. Your search will [...]
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I had a question in a class about this and didn’t really have an answer. Now I have an answer.
Here’s the short version for those in a hurry (click on the hyperlinked text to get the complete answer directly from the census bureau with a cherry on top!):
Census tracts are subdivisions of a [...]
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