Alphabetical list of Electronic Resources

• EBSCO A-to-Z is a powerful locator tool that helps IIM Indore user to discover all of the electronic resources offered by the learning centre

• ACE EQUITY Nxt is a web-based Company Financials database that provides the latest / historical financial and non-financial information on 40000+ Listed & Unlisted [Private] companies of India. The Database provides extensive information available in the Annual Report of the companies like Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Cash Flow, and Reports; along with the Interim Results, Share Holding, Ratios etc.

• ACE Knowledge Portal is an exhaustive library of online databases, covering data on companies, industries, mutual funds, macroeconomy as well as live markets. It also provides all kinds of historical information about the company, industry and economy..

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• ACE MF Nxt Online is a browser based version of India’s Comprehensive Mutual Fund Research Tool ACE MF Nxt.

• The ACM Digital Library (DL) is the world’s most comprehensive database of full-text articles and bibliographic literature covering computing and information technology. This renowned repository includes the complete collection of ACM publications plus an extended bibliographic database of core works in computing from scholarly publishers.

• Annual Review is a non-profit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.

• To create this impactful content, we bring together expert Editorial Committees in each covered discipline and facilitate meetings where members can discuss trends in each field and select relevant topics for review. Authoritative authors are then invited to submit reviews, and they readily accept the challenge to help shape and define their field as a service to scholars and society

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• Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) is conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). ASI is principal source of industrial statistics in India. ASI, an annual event, not only facilitates suitable data collection based on appropriate sampling techniques but also ensures timely dissemination of statistical information to asses and evaluate the dynamics in composition, growth and structure of organized manufacturing sector.

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• Bloomberg is a leading global financial data and analytics platform that provides real-time market data, economic insights, and industry research. Widely used by finance, business, and academia professionals, Bloomberg Terminal offers advanced tools for investment analysis, risk assessment, and portfolio management. Users will benefit from Bloomberg’s vast database, which includes global financial news, company reports, and economic indicators, enabling students and researchers to gain hands-on experience with industry-standard resources.

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• BoardEx database provides the user with time series data on Compensation, Committee Structures and Board Composition from 1999 to the present, and Board Announcement from 2002 to the present; with this, it also provides Organization Summary and Company Details.

The data also covers the Director Profiles of all Board and Supervisory directors in the selected region. These profiles hold details of current and past appointments and activities in both the public and private sectors, going back as far as possible. The networks which evolve throughout a Director’s career are also included in the data sets, as are Company Networks.Currently, they have fully analysed over 26,000 companies and maintain current profiles on over 1.6 million individuals across the world. The data sets are organized by region: North America, Europe, the UK and the Rest of the World.IIMILC have access to All Regions and All Data through the WRDS platform.

• The Hindu BusinessLine, part of the well-known The Hindu group of publications, is a business daily. BusinessLine is known for its credibility, accuracy, in-depth analysis of markets and sober coverage of business news. The Sunday edition, Portfolio, which gives advice and tips on personal finance and investment, is very popular with readers.

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• The Business Standard is India’s leading business daily newspaper, providing breaking business news, in-depth analysis, and intelligent commentary.Aside from news headlines, users can follow the stock prices of India’s leading companies and stay up to date on all business activities throughout the day.It also has a 15-year archive that users can access.

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• Cabells is the complete source for journal info, evaluation metrics, and submission details. It’s curated list of over 11,000 academic journals spanning 18 disciplines guides researchers in getting the most impact out of their research.

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• Capitaline is online database giving financials and other information on more than 35,000 companies, which include listed as well as unlisted companies. It provides extensive and accurate data on companies, which runs into over 1500 data fields. Capitaline is an indispensable tool for a wide gamut of finance professionals, including fund managers, bankers, analysts and individual investors to conduct in-depth, fundamental and technical analysis. Companies are grouped under all major industries from various sectors. A Balance Sheet or P&L can be read with complete schedules or breakups along with different useful tools like; common size, simple growth, CAGR growth, etc. The data format has been created and standardized by keeping in mind the accepted norms & practices.

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• Capital IQ is a web-based platform on which historical as well, the current data is available. It covers more than 88,000 global companies, including 42,000 active and 46,000 inactive companies and 5,000 unique financial data items.

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• The Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis, is an interdisciplinary consortium devoted to helping faculty, graduate students, and professionals learn about current developments in various areas of research methods and statistics. Their focus on research methods is relevant to the management and organizational sciences.CARMA Video Library currently contains on-demand access to over 250+ recorded lectures from internationally recognized scholars on various research methods.

• • CEIC provides the most relevant data series for developed and developing markets from thousands of conventional macroeconomic and selected alternative sources accessible through an easy-to-use platform that integrates directly with your workflow.

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• Provides information and insights on the new capacities coming up in India in the near or medium-term future. The database will help financial markets look for funding opportunities, construction companies and capital goods providers for business opportunities, policymakers for possible new employment potential or infrastructure gaps, analysts for future industry structure and competition. 

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• Economic Outlook provides forecasts on growth, inflation, fiscal balance, balance of payments, corporate earnings and a host of sectoral indicators. It provides its analytical view explaining these forecasts. Its backed by a huge depository of historical and continuously updated data.

• Industry Outlook helps you anticipate trends in 207 industries. Expected creation of new capacities, projected financial performance, price movements of commodities, demand-supply balances or gaps in the future – these are some of the indicators that Industry Outlook provides information on. Industry Outlook is particularly useful in understanding the current and expected trends in the economic environment that your industry operates in. These are your suppliers’ industries, your customers’ industries or your competing industries.

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• Prowessdx database is a web-based database accessible without any installation of the client application. It covers data for about 35,000 Indian companies, which includes listed companies, unlisted public companies and private companies of all sizes and ownership groups. It contains time-series data since 1990. For updated information, please prefer Prowess.

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• CMIE Prowess IQ (Interactive Querying) provides the financial performance of Indian companies, it covers 37,780 companies’ financial data. It is an internet-based application for querying CMIE’s database on performances of listed and unlisted companies. It is simple and easy to use with virtually no installation and updating hassles. ProwessIQ provides charting tools and well-formatted reports on performances of companies. The reports provide financial information including analytical ratios and benchmark comparisons.

• Provides comprehensive compilation of state level statistics. Statistics is sourced from official documents of state government. The database includes socio-economic indicators of all the states.

• Compustat is a comprehensive database of fundamental financial and market information on both active and inactive global companies, indices and industries produced by Standard & Poor’s since 1962. The type of information published by Compustat includes Global Industry Classification Standards (GICS), pricing data, earnings data, insider and institutional holdings and other information directed at investors and analysts.

• The Consumer Pyramid Survey is the largest survey of households in India. This is done during three rounds in a year, four months or on waves throughout the year. The sample size of survey is around 170,000 households, and the sample is maintained as a panel surveyed over multiple Waves. This collection contains the following 4 databases:
• People of India dx: It includes 71 variables covering Identity (gender, age, marital status, education, state of origin, religion, caste, and migration), Employment (labor status, type of worker, occupation, and industry), Health (health status, medication and hospitalization), Financial inclusion (access to bank accounts, credit cards, health insurance, and mobile phones), and time use for work and leisure.
• Aspirational India dx: Explore household assets and amenities, household sentiments, their perceptions and decisions regarding purchase of assets or to make investments. It includes 311 variables covering household wealth (assets, investments, and debt), amenities, and consumer sentiments.
• Income Pyramids dx: Enables the study of seasonality of household incomes, volatility of incomes, growth in incomes, changing composition of household incomes and a lot more. It includes 68 variables covering monthly household and household-member income and its composition by sources.
• Consumption Pyramids dx: It fills a serious gap in the official Indian statistical system. It delivers fast-frequency data on consumption expenditure of households. It includes 249 variables reporting monthly household expenditures (153 categories of consumables) and weekly household expenditures (27 categories).

• CLAonline is India’s premier online exclusive e-library on Corporate / SEBI and Business Laws since 1950 from the house of “Corporate Law Adviser” a more than two-decade-old leading publishing house on the subject. The e-library consists of Case Laws (with headnotes), Wealth of intellectual knowledge in the shape of Articles by experts, Procedures under Company Law, Resolutions, Queries and their replies by experts, Notifications and Circulars of various Ministries / Departments, Updated legislations etc.

• Corporate Social Responsibility Database provides information on the CSR activity of Indian listed companies. The data includes Financial Year, Average Net Profit of last three Financial Years, Prescribed CSR Expenditure. The sector in which the CSR Activity is covered and State in which the Expenditure is done. It also provides CSR Board Committee details and the reasons for unspent amounts. Additionally, it provides the CSR report extracted from the annual report of the company.

• Provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the current trends and the long-term performance outlook on 70 industries in India. It includes the evolution of an industry, the regulatory environment, cost structures, nature and extent of competition, global trends along with statistical information on capacities, production, imports-exports, domestic and international prices, and consumption patterns.

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• Micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) lending of over Rs 15 trillion, accounted for around 22% of corporate lending in India as of fiscal 2018. The segment continues to offer attractive business opportunities for financiers, especially with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime in place. The challenge lies in spotting the sectors and clusters that are likely to offer the desired risk-adjusted returns. And that entails tracking the performance and riskiness of sectors and clusters on a timely basis.

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• Crisil research provides data on 70 industries like automotive casting, bulk drugs, coffee, cold chain, edible oil etc. It covers total 11 cities like Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata, NCR, Pune, Bengaluru and super 16 reports, SME reports & Agriculture report. Crisil provides access to data, research and analysis to track the performance and outlook of industries. It provides access to Eco View, a monthly document published by CRISIL, provides a comprehensive analysis of the Indian macro-economy. It examines trends in key variables and provides rigorous forecasts based on the fundamental economic analysis. It focuses on linking macro trends and issues to micro variables like company sales, profits, and borrowing costs.

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• The CRSP is one of the 12 Research and Learning Centers at Chicago Booth, maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets.

• IIM Indore Learning Centre is a member of DELNET. DELNET has been established with the prime objective of promoting resource sharing among the libraries through the development of a network of libraries. It aims to collect, store, and disseminate information besides offering computerised services to users, to coordinate efforts for suitable collection development and also to reduce unnecessary duplication wherever possible.

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• ebrary is an online eletronic books library currently hosts 903,637 full texts scholarly documents.

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• Business Source Ultimate, an upgraded version of Business Source Complete, is the world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full-text contents. Business Source Ultimate offers an unprecedented wealth of 1401+ peer-reviewed, 3507+ full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more. It has the collection of more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency, and it also provides detailed company information on finances, subsidiaries, products, employees and industry specifics for more than 1.1 million of the world’s largest, public and private companies.

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• EBSCO offers hundreds of thousands of high-quality eBook and audiobook titles from leading publishers.

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• The Economic and Political Weekly is a weekly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all social sciences, and is published by the Sameeksha Trust. EPW is also unique because it is the one forum where there is an exchange of ideas across the social science disciplines – political scientists debate with economists, sociologists read what political scientists have to say, historians study what economists have to say and so on.

• EconLit, the American Economic Association’s database is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations. The database contains more than 785,000 records from 1969-to date.

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• The cases are peer-reviewed and provide graduates with authentic examples of organisational challenges within emerging markets, and inspire strategies designed to tackle the business problems of the future. Each case is accompanied by complimentary teaching notes that have been compiled by teaching faculty at some of the world’s best business schools.

• Emerald Insight
  Emerald, a collection of more than 75,000 full text articles, 200,000 reviews from management journals, plus case studies, literature reviews, book reviews, conference information, interviews, and profiles.

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• Data services from Economic and Political Weekly Research Foundation include long-term data series online in about thirteen modules covering a wide range of macro-economic and financial sector variables in a manner convenient for research and analytical work. It also includes economic and market reviews, financial market review, money market review, theme articles and papers on economic/financial market indicators.

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• Equitymaster is India’s leading independent research initiative with over 1.7 million members spread over 72 countries. Since inception in 1996, we have committed ourselves to empowering you, dear reader, with honest and credible investment opinions. Our aim is to help you earn profits, safely. And in turn enable you to realise your life’s goals. Be it retirement or funding your child’s education.

• This site aims to provide economic and business research on India. It offers all the details & reports on markets, company news & industry information.

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• ETPrime is a members-only business storytelling platform that decodes and curates the most important business stories for its readers . It provides in-depth, sharply researched, the insight-rich analysis that fills the gaps in the news flow — building on ET’s promise of deep domain expertise ETPrime will quickly home in on the news that matters to the discerning reader like students and faculty through crisp, data-driven pieces that save time and add perspective.

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• Formerly known as “Global Market Information Database” or “GMID”
  Provides business intelligence on Countries, Consumers and Industries. Includes integrated access to statistics, reports, topical comment and business information sources. Also includes analytical tools such as Brexit scenario tools, consumer spending by income brands, cities income distribution model, marco model, economic barometer, future demographics model and Passport Connector.

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• Fair Observer is an independent, non-profit media organization that engages in citizen journalism and civic education. They produce a unique 360 series that delves deep into the issues. It places a topic in context and then elicits many views on it. They also publish a monthly e-publication on world affairs “Fair Observer”.Fair observer digital media platform has content on issues such as environmental challenges or scientific innovations, economic trends or political developments, humanitarian crises or social movements.

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• Frost and Sullivan provide economic research and analysis, technical and market insights, financial benchmarking & analysis, etc. It covers subjects like; ICT healthcare, metals, minerals, measurement & instrumentation, aerospace, defence, chemicals, materials & food, energy & power systems, automotive & transportation, electronics & security, environment & building technologies.

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The database provides access to not only FT newspaper it ’s also home for business intelligence on the web, providing an essential source of news, comment, market information, data and analysis for the global business community.

• 5 global editions in PDF
• Mobile app

The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community.

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• Grammarly automatically detects grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and style mistakes in your writing. It’s easy to use:
  • Copy and paste any English text into Grammarly’s Editor, or install Grammarly’s free browser
  extension for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge. Grammarly will help you write correctly on nearly every site on the web.
  • Download Grammarly for Microsoft® Office on Windows.

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• Hindustan Times is an English-language daily newspaper in India based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited. Hindustan Times offers news in politics, sports, entertainment, and business, featuring national and international news.

• The ICSSR Data Service hosts a comprehensive set of statistical datasets in social sciences generated and contributed by MoSPI, New Delhi. The ICSSR Data Service is set up with an aim to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who are heavily relying on high-quality social and economic data for their research.The platform provides single-point access to a wide range of primary datasets including datasets generated by large-scale government surveys i.e. ASI and NSS that provides unit-level data as well as qualitative studies.All datasets documentation and resources are freely available through this platform after user registration.

• This database provides single-point access to information on the boards of companies listed at NSE and some prominent unlisted financial sector companies (MFs, Insurance Cos. etc.) along with a profile with age, qualification, experience, remuneration, other directorships of each director & connectivity with other directors.

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• Indian Capstone Simulations is a new platform developed by group practitioners and professors with experience from leading corporates like Ernst & Young, Bosch, Kotak Bank, ICICI Bank, etc. This platform was designed after rigorous pilots with students at leading colleges, including IIM Bangalore and BSE Institute. The founder is a Chartered Accountant and a former Partner at Ernst & Young with extensive teaching and corporate experience.

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• India Data Portal is a state-of-the-art platform re-engineered to revolutionise data accessibility, analysis, and visualisation. It holds higher spatial granular data beyond the village level, sourced from the Government of India and its ministries, departments, and regulatory bodies. There are 160 datasets with more than 5000 indicators categorised across 25 diverse domains, including – economy, socio-economic, finance, financial inclusion, elections, climate and weather, commerce, crime, education, food and agriculture, forestry and wildlife, government schemes, health, nutrition, rural development, union budget, and various others.

• Source for Indian statistics collected from the government sources for information and statistics on India. It provides socio-economic statistical data and useful information on India.

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• LC subscribes to 14 scholarly journals including subjects like; management science, operations research, decision analysis, information systems research, computing, interface, marketing, organization, service and transport science, etc.c.

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• Dion Global Solutions is a leading technology solution provider, partnering with global banking and financial institutions to optimise the processing of business operations and transform their customer experience. With over three decades of experience in building creative software solutions for wealth management; post-trade processing; FATCA, CRS and other tax compliances; mutual fund distribution and governance, risk and compliance, we understand the needs of our customers and build customised solutions to address their specific requirements.

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• ISID Database provides the Indexes for 224 Indian Social Science Journals & Press Clippings on diverse social science subjects. Under other research, references provide data on union budget speeches, economic survey review chapters, national policy documents, other important documents, Indian statistical indicators and international statistical indicators.

• An aggregator database delivers information on Asian emerging markets. It aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analysis, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from more than 13,000 local and global publications.

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• J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature that provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online offered by 12,983 Publishers. It presently has a massive database of journal literature, indexed from 60,214 e-journals with links to full text at publisher sites.

• JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. It helps to explore a wide range of scholarly content through a robust research and teaching platform. JSTOR collaborate with the academic community to help libraries connect students and faculty to vital content while lowering costs and increasing shelf space, provide independent researchers with free and low-cost access to scholarship, and help publishers reach new audiences and preserve their content for future generations.

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• LexisNexis provides over 15,000 business, legal and news, access thousands of newspapers, periodicals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, blogs, corporate directories and financial information. News sources like accountancy age, advertising age, Hoover’s IPO reports, M & A reports, monthly industry reviews, etc. – complete coverage of U.S. federal and state courts, Shepard’s Citations Service, and access to hundreds of law reviews. – LexisNexis company dossier reports access provides comprehensive information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies, including industry and executive data.

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• LSEG Workspace: LSEG Workspace combines exceptional data, news and content coverage with cutting-edge web technology that is fast, light and intuitive. It gives users a richer, more interactive learning experience and quickly surfaces expertly vetted, reliable and meaningful data on their chosen device. Optional Add-ons in LSEG Workspace:
• Datastream for Office
• SDC Platinum
• Aftermarket Research

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• Formerly known as Datamonitor, this database provides a wide array of proprietary business research information including 31,000+ company profiles, 850+ Data books (company financials and global market reports), 7000+ industry profiles and 100+ country profiles.

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• Magzter is the world’s largest digital magazine newsstand, with over 6,000 magazines from around the world including 2000+ Indian magazines in English and regional languages in its catalogue.

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• MICA Indian Marketing Intelligence (MIMI) is third in the series and it provides the secondary data for socio-economic variables and market intelligence up to district level for all the States and Union Territories of India. It also provides Market Potential Index (MPI) and other data separately for the rural, urban and total Indian market for more than 630 districts from States and UTs.

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