Baker Institute Research: Energy
Resources which support the research initiatives of Baker Institute
Platts Energy Information
Platts' Dispatch Service (providing energy prices) is available for use by current Rice faculty and staff only. Access is via a vendor-provided account password. Requestors must be listed as a current Rice faculty or staff member in the Rice web directory.
Data sources
Fondren provides you access to the following:
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new windowICPSR provides access to a vast archive of social science data. ICPSR is a membership organization; as an "ICPSR Direct" member (courtesy of Rice's membership), you can register for a personal password and download information directly from ICPSR.
- LexisNexis Statistical This link opens in a new windowPresented by the Hobby Foundation Endowment Fund
Indexing & abstracts for a range of sources from U.S. federal, U.S. state, and international organization publications.
Articles, etc.
- ABI Inform Collection (ABI/INFORM)ABI/INFORM is part of the database ProQuest One Business.
Full-text academic journals, dissertations, working papers, and business and economics periodicals. The ABI/Inform Collection is made up of several products: ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry and ABI/INFORM Dateline. - Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new windowUse this database to research and analyze companies and industries around the world. It has content needed to explore a global business landscape: extensive reference content from Gale’s core business collection, easy-to-use company fundamentals and investment research reports, industry rankings, profiles, market share data, company histories and more. Provides journal/news coverage of both industries and companies. Limited private company coverage.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowFulltext of scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
- EconLit with Full Text This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing and abstracts of over 400 journals, over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers. Fulltext of articles is available.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790— and is a good source for foreign newspapers.
*Previously called Lexis Nexis Academic. - Scopus This link opens in a new windowIndexes over 15,000 journals, as well as several million web pages and U.S. and international patents. Database includes article citations from 1996, and permits citation tracking, and (both) saving searches and email or RSS alerts of new material. The system will export records into major citation managers and prepare a bibliography according to major formats. (1966- )
Current Financial News
The Business Information Center (BIC), in McNair Hall, has range of sources of company and industry information. Some is online (but limited to use in the BIC); some is not.
The following online sources may give useful information, and are available from on and off-campus.
- Value Line This link opens in a new windowComprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 97 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
- Morningstar Investment Research Center This link opens in a new windowMorningstar's data reports cover more than 20,000 securities.
- IBIS World - Industry Reports This link opens in a new windowOffers web-based, “off-the-shelf” research reports on thousands of global industries. and covering economies in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, the UK and the US.
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowEasy-to-access current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U.S. public companies.
- Standard & Poor's Global NetAdvantage This link opens in a new windowS & P Global NetAdvantage provides access to industry surveys, stock reports, company descriptions and financials, and mutual fund research.
Note: Previous platform available at http://ezproxy.rice.edu/login?url=http://www.netadvantage.standardandpoors.com/ until December 31, 2016.
DOE News
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