Annual Reports at Academic Business Libraries
This database is a merged list of the corporate Annual Reports to Shareholders at the following universities:
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Purdue University
- University of Alabama
- University of Western Ontario
- Yale University
- Science/Industry/Business Library of New York Public Library.
For research assistance or information about the compilation of this database, contact Heather Howard at hahoward@purdue.edu. The article reporting the overlap analysis, "Annual Reports to Shareholders: Historical Collections in Libraries," published in College and Research Libraries, vol. 71 no. 6, 525-531, and is available at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/123. Link the original published article is http://crl.acrl.org/content/71/6/525.
Loan Policies By University
| Columbia University | Annual Reports are available only for onsite use at the Columbia's Watson Library of Business & Economics. For information contact the library at business@libraries.cul.columbia.edu or call 212-854-7804. |
| Harvard (University) Business School | Historical Corporate Reports will not be loaned but are available for onsite use at Baker Library | Bloomberg Center and are eligible for reproduction services. Users may request up to 500 copies per fiscal year. Staff are available to conduct limited searches of the library's internal database for the most recent information on holdings. For more information, please see the Historical Corporate Reports page and contact the library at specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Annual Reports are not lended out to researchers outside of the MIT community. |
| Purdue University |
Purdue University Libraries will no longer loan Annual Reports, but items will be available for scanning or onsite use at Archives and Special Collections. Contact our Interlibrary Loan Department to request scans or to coordinate viewing of volumes.
**Effective 12/15/2023, Annual Reports will be completely unavailable for scanning or viewing as they are moved to off-site storage. Volumes are not expected to be accessible until late 2024.** |
| University of Alabama | The University of Alabama does not loan annual reports. They are for onsite use only, although the staff will assist a remote researcher to hire a local student to make photocopies or scans. See http://brunolib.cba.ua.edu/search/histars/ for more information. |
| University of Western Ontario | The University of Western Ontario does not lend Annual Reports. They do have the facilities to copy or scan the reports. There is a fee for this service. Contact buslib@ivey.uwo.ca if you have questions about their annual report collections. |
| Yale University | Some annual reports may be available for use through interlibrary loan. Others may be used on site only. For information on using materials see http://www.library.yale.edu/circ/. |
