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CMIE PROWESS
Prowess is a database of large and medium Indian firms. It contains detailed information on over 9,300 firms. These comprise all companies traded on India's major stock exchanges and several others including the central public sector enterprises. The database covers most of the organised industrial activities, banking, organised financial and other services sectors in India. Collectively, the companies covered in Prowess account for 75 per cent of all corporate taxes and over 95 per cent of excise duty collected by the Government of India.
Prowess provides detailed information on each company. This includes a normalised database of the financials covering 1,500 data items and ratios per company. Besides, it provides quantitative information on production, sales, consumption of raw material and energy. Totally, the number of indicators per company is close to two thousand. Such information is usually available for over ten years. You will also find useful contact information, share holding pattern, list of bankers, auditors, news abstracts, etc.
Prowess also provides daily time series of share prices, computed returns that include dividends and other gains, P/E based on the profits of the last four quarters and a host of other useful ratios and values.
Prowess has found useful applications in places where trust matters the most - in commercial banks, investment companies and researchers, among others. It packages a normalised database in a versatile and amazingly powerful software. The software permits unlimited querying power to the user.
Business
Source® Elite
Business Source® Elite provides full text coverage of scholarly
business, management and economics journals. This rich collection also includes
publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international
business, marketing, sales, etc. Business Source Elite offers full text
for nearly 1,100 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for
150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). 10,000
substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
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.ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free
