Online Value Line Investment Survey and Historical Reports Since 1997

Great news for business students and faculty as well as anyone who is interested in investment research and studying stocks. Tarver Library recently subscribed to the Value Line Research Center and its Historical Reports dating back to 1997. You can access this database from Tarver Library's alphabetical database listing on the library web site, through GALILEO, or through the business Subject Librarian page.

The Value Line Research Center provides on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. It includes:

• The Value Line Investment Survey (covering 1,700 equity issues from 100 industries)
• The Value Line Investment Survey – Small and Mid-Cap Edition (covering approximately 1,800 additional, mostly small-capitalization, issues.)
• The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey (full-page reports on about 700 leading equity funds, and abbreviated reports on over 1,200 additional equity and bond funds, plus summary data for 13,000 mutual funds)
• The Value Line Daily Options Survey (daily evaluations and ranks on over 130,000 options, on about 2,000 stocks, and 11,000 longer-term options)
• The Value Line Special Situations Service (emerging companies )
• The Value Line Convertibles Survey (analysis and evaluation of over 700 convertible issues)

Tarver Library also subscribes to the Value Line Historical Reports Service. This service provides access to the Value Line Investment Survey or the Value Line Expanded Edition dating back to 1997. To get to the historical reports, select "Plus Edition" under Quick Index on the left and then choose "Historical Reports".

Finding Trade Data in TradeStats Express

Do you want to get the latest annual and quarterly trade data from the U.S. government? TradeStats Express, a powerful government database, is a great resource to import and export statistics for the U.S. and its trading partners.

TradeStats Express displays the latest annual U.S. merchandise trade statistics -

* At national and state levels.
* In maps, graphs, and tables.
* As exports, imports, and trade balances.
* Custom-tailored to your year and dollar ranges and display preferences.

It is divided into two main sections: National Trade Data and State Export Data. For each section, the basic tools (for example, choosing product classifications, downloading the data, seeing a print preview) are the same.

The National Trade Data are available as full year totals for 1989 through 2007 and Year-To-Current-Quarter for 2007 and 2008. This section offers two options:

• Global Patterns of U.S. Merchandise Trade
• Product Profiles of U.S. Merchandise Trade with a Selected Market
  

The State Export Data are available as full year totals for 1999 through 2007 and Year-To-Current-Quarter for 2007 and 2008. This section offers three options:

• Global Patterns of a State's Exports
• State-by-State Exports to a Selected Market
• Export Product Profile to a Selected Market
  

You can access the database through Tarver Library government documents statistics web page.