Database of the Month: Cabell’s Directories

Friends, Faculty, scholars, lend me your ears;

I come to praise Cabell’s, not to bury it.
The manuscript that scholars write lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Cabell’s.

Okay, now that I have your attention, dear faculty, I want to make sure you are familiar with Cabell’s Directories online, a database that is designed to help researchers match their manuscripts with scholarly journals.

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The Facts:

  • Founded in 1978
  • Indexes over 4,000 journals
  • Each entry includes:
    • Journal submission process
    • Manuscript topics
    • Manuscript style and length
    • Acceptance rate
    • Type of review
    • Number of external reviewers
    • Type of readership
    • Whether journal is indexed in JCR / ERIC
    • Website link

The Plusses:

  • One-stop shopping for publication information in the following disciplines:
    • Accounting
    • Economics and Finance
    • Management
    • Marketing
    • Educational Curriculum and Methods
    • Educational Psychology and Administration
    • Educational Technology and Library Science
    • Psychology and Psychiatry
    • Computer Science
  • Continuously updated
  • Off-campus access
  • Unlimited simultaneous users

The Minuses:

  • Undesirable color scheme
  • Podcasts may or may not be useful to new researchers and Ph.D. students
  • Facebook and LinkedIn pages not very informative, or fun
  • Not obvious where to begin

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Click on [Member Area] to begin your search.
Cabell’s Directories is available through the Bentley Library’s Databases A to Z listing.  For further assistance using Cabell’s, please contact the Reference Desk.

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Database of the Month provides a very brief introduction to an important research database, highlighting key features of the database that you should know about. If you would like more information about this database (or any of the library’s databases) please Ask a Librarian. If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.

Resource of the Month: International Tax and Business Guides

The library has many databases to help students research global business conditions. You can find many on the library’s Databases by Subject: International Business webpage.  International Tax and Business Guides There are also several free, and mostly free, online services that are very helpful as well.  Deloitte’s International Tax and Business Guides is one such service.

There are two sections in this resource that offer quick overviews of the tax landscape for various countries.  The first one is called Taxation and Investment Guides, where you can find comparisons of corporate tax rates, withholding tax, and indirect tax for 65 jurisdictions.  For example, here is a side-by-side sample of the corporate tax environment for the United States and India:

United States:
Corporate Tax | Statutory: 35%
India:
Corporate Tax | Statutory:  30-40%
The federal corporate income tax applies to bands of taxable income at rates between 15% and 35%. An additional 5% tax (subject to caps) is imposed on certain bands. A branch tax is imposed on dividend equivalent amounts. An alternative minimum tax is also imposed, calculated on a separate tax base at a rate of 20% (certain credits may reduce tax). The alternative minimum tax is due to the extent a corporation’s tentative minimum tax exceeds its regular tax. The total maximum effective tax rate is 39.5%. The corporate tax rate for domestic companies is 30%, along with a surcharge of 5% (2% for nonresident companies) where total income exceeds INR 10 million. In addition, a 3% education cess (tax), including indirect and service taxes, is levied. The 3% cess applies to the aggregate amount of income tax, plus the surcharge. Nonresident companies and branches of foreign companies are taxed at a rate of 40%, plus a 2% surcharge where the total income exceeds INR 10 million, and the 3% cess. A Minimum Alternate Tax is imposed at a rate of 18.5% (plus any applicable surcharge and tax) on the adjusted book profits of corporations whose tax liability is less than 18.5% of their book profits (effective rate of 20.01%).

 

The second section in the International Tax and Business Guides is called the Highlights series, which offers a quick digest of the tax landscape of 150 jurisdictions, including Azerbaijan, Botswana, Brazil, Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, and Mauritius, to name only a few.  These reports include information about:

  • Corporate taxation
  • Business regulations & intellectual property
  • Foreign trade and investment
  • Filing requirements of doing business in a country
  • Personal & business taxation
  • Labor environment

Combine Deloitte’s International Tax and Business Guides with one of Bentley’s country intelligence databases, such as Global Insight, and you will be able to make informed decisions on doing business around the world.

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Database of the Month provides a very brief introduction to an important research database, highlighting key features of the database that you should know about. If you would like more information about this database (or any of the library’s databases) please Ask a Librarian.  If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.

Database of the Month: NBER / National Bureau of Economic Research

Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is the leading private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

The National Bureau of Economic Research highlights recent projects, publications, and new working papers on all aspects of economics and the economy.  Daily updates are posted on the front page.  Searching for specific topics ranging from the global financial crisis to incentive pay and employee performance is quick and easy using the search box located in the upper right hand corner of the database screen.

The database is divided into five distinct report activities –

  • Working Papers & Publications where you may access reports and chapters from books in process
  • Activities which report on NBER’s programs and working groups (e.g. Development of the American Economy, Entrepreneurship, Health Economics, etc.)
  • Meetings – summaries of meetings on a spectrum of economics topics
  • Data – Boston Census Research Data, Current Population Survey, New Economic Releases, Vital Statistics are some of the frequently requested data sources through NBER

 The most frequently searched for data are:

  •  US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions
  • The NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee Report
  • The Latest NBER Working Papers and Chapters for Forthcoming NBER Books

Some of the available papers listed the Week of March 12, 2012 include:

Target-Date Funds in 401(k) Retirement Plans
Olivia S. Mitchell and Stephen Utkus

On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Nancy Qian

Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior
Shanjun Li, Joshua Linn, and Erich Muehlegger

Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience
Charles J. Courtemanche and Daniela Zapata

 Connect to this Database:

You may find NBER listed on the library’s Databases A-Z page, as well as under the Economics Databases subject page.

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Database of the Month provides a very brief introduction to an important research database, highlighting key features of the database that you should know about. If you would like more information about this database (or any of the library’s databases) please contact the Reference Desk.  If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.

Database of the Month: Cabell’s Directories

Cabell’s Directories provides information on publishing opportunities to nearly 5,000 academic journals, including Accounting and Finance, Computing and Infomatics, Journal of Business Case Studies, Psychology of Sport & Exercise, Today’s CPA and Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance. Cabell’s guides faculty, graduate students, professionals and researchers to the right journal for publication.  It does this through detailed information on the publishing process, manuscript guidelines and advice on submission.Search the Cabell's Directories database

How the Directory Helps you Publish

The Directory specifies the type of review (blind, editorial, or peer) for each journal, what percentage of the articles are invited for review relative to the total number of articles, how to request a reviewer’s comments, the amount of time between submission and acceptance or rejection,  along with acceptance rates for a given journal.  The directory will also help you determine which journal will most likely accept your manuscript by providing:

  • Topics for articles
  • Aims and scope
  • Readership
  • Launch date
  • Prestige of journal
  • Where journal is indexed
  • Links to a journal’s detailed manuscript guidelines

Advice on submission of a manuscript – the Directory provides information on the journal’s:

  • aim and scope
  • style
  • format for references and footnotes
  • submission fees, if any
  • whether or not previously published manuscripts may be submitted
  • what to do if a manuscript is rejected

Cabell’s Subject Directories

We have online access to the following subject directories:

Accounting – indexes over 270 journals according to twenty-four different topic areas, such as: Accounting Education, Accounting Information Systems, Accounting Theory & Practice, and Tax Accounting

Economics & Finance – indexes 860 journals according to twenty-four different topic areas, such as: Econometrics, Financial Services, International Economics & Trade, and International Finance.

Management – 1,180 journals according to twenty-eight different topic areas, such as: Business Education, Global Business, Public Administration, and Strategic Management Policy.

Marketing – 350 journals according to twenty-eight different topic areas, such as: Advertising & Promotion Management, Direct Marketing, Marketing Research, and Sales/Selling.

Educational Curriculum & Methods – 490 journals according to twenty-eight different topic areas, such as: Curriculum Studies, Elementary/Early Childhood, Reading, and Special Education

Educational Psychology & Administration – 390 journals according to twenty-eight different topic areas, such as: Counseling & Personnel Services, Educational Management/Administration, Educational Psychology, and Higher Education.

Psychology & Psychiatry – 620 journals according to forty-one different topic areas, such as: Abnormal Psychology, Child Psychology, Psychopathology, and Social Psychology.

Computer Science and Business Information Systems – 200 journals according to twenty-two different topic areas, such as: Artificial Intelligence, Management Information Systems, Robotics, and Web Design.

Educational Technology & Library Science – 220 journals according to forty-two different topic areas, such as: Academic Librarianship, Distance Learning, Library Management/Administration, and Telecommunications.

Connect to this database:

Please visit the Cabell’s Directories database to explore this valuable resource further, or visit our Databases page to view a complete list of our resources.

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Database of the Month provides a very brief introduction to an important research database, highlighting key features of the database that you should know about. If you would like more information about this database (or any of the library’s databases) please contact the Reference Desk.  If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.

Database of the Month: JSTOR

is like exploring your grandpa’s attic and finding a corner under the eaves stacked high and deep with letters, diaries, old photographs, military histories, an 1878 issue of the American Journal of Mathematics, and a review of Corporation Finance and Accounting by Harry C. Bentley.

Searching through JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Collections will also unearth an article on the various dialects of slave workers on a Cuban coffee plantation in 1790, an image of a woman traveler and geographer in 1897, or the rate of turnover in the American labor force of the 1960s.

JSTOR is one of the premier databases for research in the humanities, and now with JSTOR’s Business Collection, you have access to 68 scholarly business journals, too. In all, Bentley faculty and students may peruse over 620 full-text journals in more than 50 disciplines, including:

  • African Studies
  • Archaeology
  • Business
  • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
  • Feminist & Women’s Studies
  • History
  • Irish Literature
  • Law
  • Mathematics
  • Middle East Studies
  • Political Science
  • Public Policy and Administration
  • Zoology

Calling all researchers and authors!

As you know, JSTOR offers some of the world’s most reliable sources for academic content. Interacting with that content has just gotten easier using JSTOR’s powerful Data for Research (DfR) faceted search interface. Using Data for Research allows you to quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and filter results from approximately 1.25 million articles. More about this service may be found here – http://dfr.jstor.org/info/about/.

Connect to this Database:

Connect to JSTOR and explore this valuable database further, or visit our Databases page to view a complete list of other library resources.

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Database of the Month provides a very brief introduction to an important research database, highlighting key features of the database that you should know about. If you would like more information about this database (or any of the library’s databases) please contact the Reference Desk.  If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.