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Microtext Collection

Microtext Subject Guide: Business

Business NewsBank, 1986- MFE 3502
Full text of business articles selected from the newspapers and business journals in over 500 cities in the United States. Collection contains articles about companies, industries, products, and business people.

  • Format: Microfiche
  • Access: Print - Business NewsBank Index which is published monthly and cumulated quarterly and annually, in microfiche guides

    • CIRR (Corporate and Industry Research Reports) 1988-1991 MFE 4093
    MTSU Library subscribes to the Abridged collection of CIRR which includes analytical research from 28 U.S. national and regional investment banking firms. Its coverage includes 10,000 research reports analyzing 5,000 companies and approximately 1,000 industry reports covering 610 industries. It also includes periodicals and newsletters from 61 securities and investment banking firms. Updated quarterly. Ceased March, 1991.

  • Format: Microfiche
  • Access: Printed CIRR Index in microfiche guides and CD-ROM Center

    • History of American Business MFE 4348
    A primary source of hard-to-find information on the American economy, this collection contains 50 serial publications which provided current economic, industrial, and commercial data through 1975. Subjects include transportation, insurance, alcoholic beverages, fuel and utilities, finances, investments, stocks, industrial data, and major federal reserve banks' monthly reviews.

  • Format: Microfiche - 2241
  • Additional Subject: History. U.S.

    • IRS Forms MFE 4349
    Microfiche reprint edition of Internal Revenue Service forms for the years 1864-1990. Part I contains 1864-1986 combined filed with all numerical forms in numerical order followed by alphabetical forms in alphabetical order. Part II contains annual supplements, each arranged as the main collection.

  • Format: Microfiche
  • Access: First microfiche is combined index for all forms 1864-1990

    • Q-File (National Databank Corporate Microfile) MFE 2605
    A collection of corporation reports, including such items as annual reports to shareholders, ARK (Form 10k), reports of annual meetings, Form 10Q, proxy statements and others. New York Stock Exchange companies only.

  • Format: Microfiche
  • Access: Index by company name in Q-File notebook on top of microfiche cabinets

    • Papers of the Federal Reserve System MFM 743
    Part I of this collection contains legislation, major speeches and essays, and special reports, 1913-1960. Part II contains the minutes of meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee, 1923-1975. They provide source material on the evolution of the Federal Reserve Act, the Open Market Policy, and other legislation affecting banking.

  • Format: Microfilm - Part I - 19 reels; Part II - 32 reels
  • Access: Printed Papers of the Federal Reserve System, Part I and Part II in MFM Guides

    • Recessions, Depressions, and Economic Panics in American History MFM 312
    Reproduces many pamphlets, speeches and addresses, books, Congressional Reports and Hearings, conference reports, etc. dealing with the subject from 1815 to 1974.

  • Format: Microfilm - 7 reels
  • Access: Chronological arrangement; some individual documents contain indexes.
  • Additional Subject: History. U.S.