Web Resources:

Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
• Bank for International Settlements:   This bank is "an international organisation which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks." See their statistics on Derivatives.

• Beginners's Guide to Derivatives:   This brief guide is from the British financial weekly magazine MoneyWeek. See also the related article on the Dangers of Derivatives.

• The Financial Pipeline:   This website describes itself as "an internet site dedicated to financial knowledge and education. We are a neutral third party, independent site. All articles are screened and edited for accuracy and impartiality." See their section on Derivatives.

• International Swaps and Derivatives Association:   This association is "a trade organization of participants in the market for over-the-counter derivatives. It is headquartered in New York, and has created a standardized contract (the ISDA Master Agreement) to enter into derivatives transactions." Membership includes "over 815 member institutions from 56 countries on six continents." See their sections on Surveys & Market Statistics and on Education.

• Investopedia:   "Investopedia was founded by Cory Wagner and Cory Janssen back in 1999. Originally we set out to build the best investing dictionary on the web. Over time, the focus of the site expanded to building educational content and tools to help empower the individual investor." See their definition of Derivative and related links.

• InvestorWords:   This site provides a good list of commonly used terms and jargon in investing, with over 6,000 terms in an A to Z arrangement. See their definition of Derivative.

• Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic though caution must be exercised with this resource; see What About Wikipedia from the UW-Tacoma Library. See the Wikipedia entry for Derivatives (Finance) (including their warning about weasel words).

The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
• Encyclopedia of business ethics and society.
  This five-volume reference work includes 900 essays by scholars, arranged alphabetically by topic, on all aspects of business ethics.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .E53 2008.

  See Financial Derivatives in volume two, on pages 911 to 914.

• The Irwin guide to stocks, bonds, futures, and options.
  This work includes chapters on treasuries securities, corporate fixed-income securities, municipal securities, and asset-backed securities, with market overviews, conventions, structure, etc.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4521 .L637 2001.

  See Derivatives on pages ten and eleven.

• The handbook of alternative assets.
  This handbook covers hedge funds, commodity and managed futures, private equity, credit derivatives, and corporate governance.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4530 .A57 2002.

  See chapter twenty, starting on page 409, for Credit Derivatives.

• Stocks, bonds, options, futures.
  This updated work covers all major securities markets, designed for creating optimum investment portfolios.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4921 .S7945 2001.

  See Derivatives on pages 12 and 13, page 253, and page 298.

  See also these older titles on derivatives, in the reference collection:

  • Fixed income markets and their derivatives.   HG4650 .S86 1997.
  • Treasury securities and Derivatives.   HG4936 .F325 1998.
  • Handbook of credit Derivatives.   HG6021 .H36 1999.
  • A guide to international financial derivatives.   HG6024 .A3 .F44 1991.
  • The Derivatives handbook: risk management and control.   HG6024 .A3 .S39 1997.
  • The handbook of derivative Instruments.   HG6024.3 .H37 1996.

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

A keyword search for Derivatives, limited to the Foster Business Library, retrieved over ninety records. A search for the subject Derivative Securities retrieved over two hundred records in the UW Libraries, with over eighty records in the Foster Business Libraries' collections.

Foster Business Library titles from these searches include:

• Fundamentals of futures and options markets   (2008)   (See chapters 21, 22, and 23 on derivatives)
• Credit derivatives: techniques to manage credit risk for financial professionals   (2007)
• The mathematics of derivatives   (2007)
• Modeling derivatives applications in Matlab, C++, and Excel   (2007)
• Mastering derivatives markets   (2007)
• Credit derivatives: a primer on credit risk, modeling, and instruments   (2006)
• Capitalism with derivatives: a political economy of financial derivatives, capital and class   (2006)
• Bonds and bond derivatives   (2005)

Foster Business Library Articles:

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to over 100 million full text articles in over 10,000 periodicals through its full text article databases such as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.

All four of these databases are available from any computer on the campus network as well as from home (via the UW Connectivity Kit or the Libraries' Off-Campus Access link, using your UW Net ID and password). The easiest of these databases to use is ProQuest Databases. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, see Database Access. For more information about business databases, see the research guide entitled Databases, A to Z.

• ProQuest Databases:

  This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide. Article full text is often available in several formats, including text, text plus graphics, and PDF. This database also offers a very useful subject structure, to narrow search results, as well as article citation information.

  Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, see About ProQuest Databases.

  This database includes full text articles for Derivatives Use, Trading & Regulation (2001- current, delayed 1 year), Derivatives Week (Sep 8, 1997 (Volume 6, Issue 35) - current, delayed 28 days), the Journal of Derivatives (Fall 1997 (Volume 5, Issue 1) - current, some exceptions, delayed 1 year), and the Review of Derivatives Research (May 1999 (Volume 3, Issue 2) - current, delayed 1 year), as well as indexing and citations for a number of other derivatives-related publications (some with for full text for limited periods).

  A subject search for SUB(Derivatives) produced over 24,000 articles, including over 12,000 articles in scholarly journals, over 600 magazine articles, over 6,000 articles in trade and industry periodicals, and over 4,000 newspaper articles (as well as over sixty dissertations). Some of these citations were for medical rather than business-related derivatives.

  Examples of articles, from the searches above, include:

  • "Taking a New View of Risk"   (U.S. News & World Report. Washington: Sep 10, 2007. Vol. 143, Iss. 8;  pg. 50)
  • "Kramer eerily clairvoyant"   (Pensions & Investments. Chicago: Sep 3, 2007. Vol. 35, Iss. 18;  pg. 10, 1 pgs)
  • "Derivatives meltdown?"   (Investors Chronicle. London: Jul 20, 2007.  pg. 1)
  • "IRS Probes Tax Goal of Derivatives"   (Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Jul 19, 2007.  pg. C.1)
  • "Credit derivatives: Buying other people's debt? "   (Accountancy SA. Johannesburg: Jul 2007.  pg. 10, 3 pgs)
  • "Currency Derivatives and Exchange Rate Forecastability"   (Financial Analysts Journal. Charlottesville: Jul/Aug 2007. Vol. 63, Iss. 4;  pg. 72, 7 pgs)
  • "Weather Derivatives for the Middle Market"   (Financial Executive. Morristown: Jul/Aug 2007. Vol. 23, Iss. 6;  pg. 11, 1 pgs)
  • "Derivative wars"   (Financial Executive. Morristown: Jun 2007. Vol. 23, Iss. 5;  pg. 46, 3 pgs)
  • "Derivatives Demystified"   (Wall Street & Technology. New York: Jun 2007.  pg. 38)
  • "Small Firms Look to Derivatives Trading to Manage Costs"   (Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: May 29, 2007.  pg. B.4)

The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all of the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies. For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

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