Disciplines & Professions: Finance

Web Sites

Open Directory's Financial Services Directory
http://dmoz.org/Business/Financial_Services/

Over 13,000 financial links organized in 30+ categories. Directory also includes a list of 40+ annotated links to popular sites.

Search Engine Guide's Finance and Investment Links
http://www.searchengineguide.com/pages/Business/ Finance_and_Investment/

30+ annotated links to other online directories of financial resources. Also provides links for subcategories of accounting, insurance, and currency.

Yahoo!'s Finance and Investment Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/ Finance_and_Investment/

Yahoo! directory includes 40+ categories and dozens of annotated links to Web sites. Also includes a separate section for the most popular links. Search can be limited to financial topics.

Databases

Banking Information Source (Bell & Howell)

Covers sources related to the financial services industry. Bibliographic information and abstracts are available from publications, theses, and newsletters. Covers 1981 to the present, with some post-1994 entries including full text.

Print Resources

Cummings, Jack. Real Estate, Finance, and Investment Manual. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.

A comprehensive source of information in the real estate and finance fields. Chapters are arranged topically. Includes an index.

Downes, John, and Jordan Elliot Goodman. Finance and Investment Handbook. 4th ed. New York: Barron's, 1995.

This reference source includes a dictionary of financial terms, information on how to invest, as well as a “ready reference” section for basic information on finance and investment. An index is also included.

Government Finance Statistics Yearbook. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2000.

An annual publication that provides data on revenue, financing, grants, and debt of central governments. Organized alphabetically by nation.

Heck, Jean Louis, ed. Finance Literature Index. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Provides bibliographic citations for articles about finance in more than 50 leading journals. Part I organizes entries by journal title, part II by author's last name.

Mahony, Stephen. The Financial Times A-Z of International Finance. London: Pitman, 1997.

Designed partially for a student audience. Provides brief summaries of terms and concepts in international finance. Organized alphabetically.

Terry, John V. Dictionary for Business and Finance. 3rd ed. Fayetteville, AK: Arkansas UP, 1995.

Offers definitions for thousands of terms used in finance, organized alphabetically. Includes several appendices of additional information.