Electronic resources A-Z List

Complete collection of the Working Papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research starting from the 1st issue of 1973. Most of the Working Papers are accompanied by abstracts. The full text of the NBER Digest starting from April 2001 and the table of contents of the monographs published by the NBER in collaboration with other publishing houses starting from 1997 and most of the contents of the forthcoming works are also available.

Second edition (2008) of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics is considered a fundamental reference work by economists as it reflects the current state of the economy. The online edition contains 1,977 entries, of which over 1,000 were written for the 2nd edition. Access is also provided to over 1,900 entries from the original 1987 edition.

Legal and economic information platform designed for academic research. It provides access to over 35,000 sources, including news, legal information, business, international legislation, newspapers and the FT Financial Times full-text cover-to-cover, as well as company and country profiles, demographic and market research , reports and industrial analyzes.

Regarding legal information, it documents American and European legislation and jurisprudence, most of the full-text English-language legal journals including the major journals of American law schools, ABA publications, as well as all the Case American Law, Administrative Codes, Federal and State, etc.

On Nexis Uni are also available the Restatements of the Law, a set of treatises on specific legal subjects published by the American Law Institute (ALI), that harmonize and consolidate American Common Law.

As regards business and financial information, Nexis Dossier includes information on over 280 million companies and allows to examine the profiles of companies and of the executives who manage them, along with: annual reports; SEC filings; bankruptcy reports; corporate affiliations; mergers and acquisitions operations.

The TotalPatent One section gives access to a database of patent literature aggregated by LexisNexis, consisting of the full-text documentation of the 32 main international Patent Authorities, as well as the bibliographic data and abstracts of a further 68 patent offices. The collection includes: full-text patents, images, citations, legal status, and patent families.

The CSRhub ESG Ratings dedicated to environmental, social and governance performance are also integrated into the Nexis Uni interface. They cover almost 30,000 companies for which scorecards are available with the rating value and breakdown by category. Ratings are determined by analyzing aggregated data from SRI analysis firms, over 600 government agencies, non-governmental agencies, news feeds (source: CSRHub LLC.).

NRG Metrics Family business dataset provides information on the family's involvement in companies based in a large number of countries. It provides information on whether the company's CEO/Chairman is a family member and who specifically the person is (i.e., founder or descendant). Additionally, it provides information on the number of family members sitting on the board,  It also provides information on the equity stake retained by the founding family as well as whether the family is the largest shareholder in the company. Finally, it classifies companies as family or non-family firms using 19 different definitions of family businesses used in the literature.