Librarian
Katie Thonen
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Contact:
Louis J. Blume Library
1 Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228
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Business Source Complete: Academic Journal Articles and More
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowKey database for business and economics research. Includes scholarly journals, business and industry magazines, country reports, company and industry reports, and videos.
Active full-text, non-open access journals - 1,346
Active full-text, peer-reviewed, non-open access journals - 828
Active full-text, peer-reviewed, non-open access journals with no embargo - 340
Active full-text, non-open access journals indexed in Web of Science or Scopus - 663
Nexis Uni: Newspaper and News Articles; Company Profiles and Lists
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowIncludes local, regional, national, and international newspapers, as well as non-English language news; business information about US and international companies; federal, state, and international legal materials including case law, media transcripts, and more.
Nexis Uni features more than 17,000 news, business, and legal sources—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
ESG Manager: Find Social Responsibility Reports and Data
Look for reports about your company's ethical behavior in ESG Manager. Report types include:
- ESG Rating Report - Report focuses on the "intersection of a company's core business and the industry issues that can create significant financial risks and opportunities for the company." Provides a ESG rating and details environment, social, and governance (ESG) issues for the company.
- IVA (Intangible Value Assessment) Report – measures and analyzes companies’ risk and opportunities arising from environmental, social, and governance issues; rankings again peers in industry sector
- Impact Monitor Report – assessments of ESG controversies including issues relating to the environment, customers, human rights and community, labor rights and supply chain, and governance
- Industry Report – metrics relating to the industry in which a company operates, comparative information
- AGR Report - "analyzes and rates the integrity of a firm’s financial reporting and corporate governance ... to help quantify risks around financial disclosures."
- ESG Direct (MSCI) This link opens in a new windowMSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading, research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process. MSCI’s industry-leading analytics include Barra multi-factor models; pricing models; methodologies for performance attribution; RiskMetrics models for statistical analysis, such as VaR; and tools for security analysis, portfolio optimization, backtesting, and stress testing.
Content includes ESG ratings, IVA ratings, ARG ratings, Controversies Flags, and Business Involvement Screenings about various global businesses as modifiable search parameters. Also includes publications (Bond indexes, Industry, methodology reports, and thematic reports) about various issues
