FDU LibGuides: Business Subject Guide: Databases

Databases for Business

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.

Database Guide
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection This link opens in a new window
This database contains essential publications for information about the financial services industry, including accounting, tax, banking, and industry trends.
Useful for:
Accounting
Taxation
Financial services
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Scholarly journal articles in accounting, taxation, auditing and financial services (banking, investing, insurance)
Dissertations & theses
Trade journals
Newspaper articles (limited)

Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete (Uses the same platform)

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AtoZ World Business This link opens in a new window
AtoZ World Business is a comprehensive country-by-country resource for international business and trade. It consists of 100 Country Business Guides of 108 topics each, as well as 76 other world trade resources. Information is provided on business and trade environments, current economic climate, statistical rankings, taxation, business culture, trade compliance for imports and exports, and more. Major contributions from Ernst & Young, The World Bank, World Trade Organization, and GALA (Global Advertising Law Alliance) are included.
Useful for:

Entrepreneurship
International business
Management
Business culture
Economics
Taxation

Includes:

Country profiles
Business culture
Culture in society
Starting a business
Business travel information
Communications
Crime & security
Population demographics
Economy and trade statistics
Government information
Holidays & festivals
Exporting
Importing
Investment climate
Language
Media outlets
Money and banking
Seaports
Taxation
Trade

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Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new window
Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
Thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection.
Case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies.
Useful for:

Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Economics
Management

Includes:

Case studies
Company history
Company chronology
Business rankings
SWOT
Brands
Product list
Industry Info
Market Share
Financial Statements
Investment Reports
News
Industry Reports (Plunkett)
Comparison Charting (Company, Country and Industry)

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics going as far back as 1886, with searchable cited references back to 1998.
Useful for:

Accounting
Finance
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Management
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Journal Articles
Company Profiles (MarketLine Reports)
Industry Reports (MarketLine Reports & Barnes Reports)
Harvard Business Review Articles
Newspapers

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Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business - Management
D & B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
This database provides in-depth profiles of international companies (including key executives and detailed financial information), as well as industry analysis, global business news, and RMA Industry Norms.
Useful for:
Finance
Market research

Includes:

Industry reports (Freedonia and MarketLine)
Company reports
Financial analyst’s reports
Company financial statements
Company News Alerts (triggers)
Competitors
Company financial ratios
Corporate Structure
Company Executives
RMA industry norms
SWOT
Stock Report (incl. valuation tearsheet)
SEC filings
News
Products/Operations

Guide:

Using D&B Hoovers

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
MarketLine Advantage tracks company and industry competition, strategy, market share, trends, mergers, acquisitions, and forecasting. Reports are all full-text, with both capsule and full-report access. Reports for large companies often include a SWOT analysis. Many reports are in real time, often generated from primary data gathered from industry-specific associations.

Research Guide
Useful for:

Marketing
Market research
Entrepreneurship (secondary)
Finance (secondary)
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Industry profiles – includes five forces analysis
Industry statistics
Company profiles – includes SWOT analysis
Country profiles
Country statistics
City statistics
Case studies
Value and supply chain analysis
News
Theme reports
Financial deals - including mergers & acquisitions, partnerships and capital raising

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Business - General
Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Mintel This link opens in a new window
Mintel is a consumer research database with an international scope. In over 600 market research reports, it provides data for entrepreneurial studies, sales marketing, and target markets, as well as key current statistical information. Mintel can be used across academic disciplines to retrieve timely cultural, demographic, and environmental trends and statistics that affect international economic conditions.

Database Guide
Useful for:

Marketing
Market research
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Consumer Markets and Industry Reports
Company market share
Brand market share
Market size and forecast
Demographics
Target market
Market opportunities
Consumer survey data
Competitive strategies
News
Trends

Guide:
Searching Mintel

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Business - General
Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's) This link opens in a new window
NetAdvantage is Standard & Poor’s comprehensive database of key business information. It provides Corporation records to over 12,000 publicly held U.S. Companies. It includes the Dividend Record to both domestic and foreign stocks, bonds, and money market funds. The Bond Guide is a comprehensive statistical tool to U.S. and Canadian corporate bonds and many of the most actively traded foreign bonds. The Industry Surveys give a current analysis of over 50 major U.S. industries including forecasts, trends and current data. The Outlook, Register, Stock Guide, Stock Reports and Security Dealers of North America are all individual investment decision making tools that add value to the database. Compustat Excel Analytics is also a part of this database with the exception of data being available only for 5 to 7 years.
Useful for:

Finance
Economics
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Company descriptions
Financial reports
Investor reports
Economic statistics
Executives
SEC filings
Company stock information
Interest rates
Treasury yield curve
S&P 500 Index profile (data/analysis)

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Plunkett Research Online This link opens in a new window
Plunkett Research Online provides industry analysis, research, trends and timely industry specific statistics. If you are looking for competitive intelligence information, account plan or sales guide data, market research material, industry marketing data, product strategy data, specific industry trend analysis, industry statistics, job search data, company profiles and executive lists this is the database you should consult.
Useful for:

Economics
Entrepreneurship
Market Research

Includes:

Industry trends
Industry statistical data
Financial statements
Executives
Company profiles
Compensation data (limited)
Industry associations
Job and career information

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Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Value Line Investment Survey This link opens in a new window
The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Useful for:

Finance
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Industry analysis
Economic statistics
Company information (primarily financial statistics)

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.

Database Guide
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than 8,000 journals covering a variety of academic disciplines — from science, technology and medicine to the humanities.

Database Guide
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics going as far back as 1886, with searchable cited references back to 1998.
Useful for:

Accounting
Finance
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Management
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Journal Articles
Company Profiles (MarketLine Reports)
Industry Reports (MarketLine Reports & Barnes Reports)
Harvard Business Review Articles
Newspapers

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Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business - Management
Economics & Theory from Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text academic journals and magazines including more than 1,800 titles.
Useful for:
Economics

Includes:

Journals articles on various aspects of business with an emphasis on economic theory and application
Magazine articles
News

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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 15,000 full-text news, legal and business sources. Includes journal articles, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on 80 million U.S. and international companies and 75 million executives.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
Search ProQuest for information from over 3,300 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and physical sciences.

Database Guide
SAGE Premier This link opens in a new window
The SAGE Premier collection consists of over 640 peer-reviewed journals from SAGE Publications in the fields of business, the humanities, the social sciences, science, technology, and medicine. Articles from January 1999 to the present are available in full text.

Database Guide

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.

Database Guide
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new window
Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
Thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection.
Case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies.
Useful for:

Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Economics
Management

Includes:

Case studies
Company history
Company chronology
Business rankings
SWOT
Brands
Product list
Industry Info
Market Share
Financial Statements
Investment Reports
News
Industry Reports (Plunkett)
Comparison Charting (Company, Country and Industry)

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
D & B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
This database provides in-depth profiles of international companies (including key executives and detailed financial information), as well as industry analysis, global business news, and RMA Industry Norms.
Useful for:
Finance
Market research

Includes:

Industry reports (Freedonia and MarketLine)
Company reports
Financial analyst’s reports
Company financial statements
Company News Alerts (triggers)
Competitors
Company financial ratios
Corporate Structure
Company Executives
RMA industry norms
SWOT
Stock Report (incl. valuation tearsheet)
SEC filings
News
Products/Operations

Guide:

Using D&B Hoovers

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Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Hoover's Company Profiles - See Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Hoover's Company Profiles lets you find financial and organizational information for over 40,000 public and non-public companies.

Research Guide
MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
MarketLine Advantage tracks company and industry competition, strategy, market share, trends, mergers, acquisitions, and forecasting. Reports are all full-text, with both capsule and full-report access. Reports for large companies often include a SWOT analysis. Many reports are in real time, often generated from primary data gathered from industry-specific associations.

Research Guide
Useful for:

Marketing
Market research
Entrepreneurship (secondary)
Finance (secondary)
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Industry profiles – includes five forces analysis
Industry statistics
Company profiles – includes SWOT analysis
Country profiles
Country statistics
City statistics
Case studies
Value and supply chain analysis
News
Theme reports
Financial deals - including mergers & acquisitions, partnerships and capital raising

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Business - General
Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's) This link opens in a new window
NetAdvantage is Standard & Poor’s comprehensive database of key business information. It provides Corporation records to over 12,000 publicly held U.S. Companies. It includes the Dividend Record to both domestic and foreign stocks, bonds, and money market funds. The Bond Guide is a comprehensive statistical tool to U.S. and Canadian corporate bonds and many of the most actively traded foreign bonds. The Industry Surveys give a current analysis of over 50 major U.S. industries including forecasts, trends and current data. The Outlook, Register, Stock Guide, Stock Reports and Security Dealers of North America are all individual investment decision making tools that add value to the database. Compustat Excel Analytics is also a part of this database with the exception of data being available only for 5 to 7 years.
Useful for:

Finance
Economics
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Company descriptions
Financial reports
Investor reports
Economic statistics
Executives
SEC filings
Company stock information
Interest rates
Treasury yield curve
S&P 500 Index profile (data/analysis)

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.

Database Guide
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new window
Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
Thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection.
Case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies.
Useful for:

Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Economics
Management

Includes:

Case studies
Company history
Company chronology
Business rankings
SWOT
Brands
Product list
Industry Info
Market Share
Financial Statements
Investment Reports
News
Industry Reports (Plunkett)
Comparison Charting (Company, Country and Industry)

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
MarketLine Advantage tracks company and industry competition, strategy, market share, trends, mergers, acquisitions, and forecasting. Reports are all full-text, with both capsule and full-report access. Reports for large companies often include a SWOT analysis. Many reports are in real time, often generated from primary data gathered from industry-specific associations.

Research Guide
Useful for:

Marketing
Market research
Entrepreneurship (secondary)
Finance (secondary)
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Industry profiles – includes five forces analysis
Industry statistics
Company profiles – includes SWOT analysis
Country profiles
Country statistics
City statistics
Case studies
Value and supply chain analysis
News
Theme reports
Financial deals - including mergers & acquisitions, partnerships and capital raising

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Mintel This link opens in a new window
Mintel is a consumer research database with an international scope. In over 600 market research reports, it provides data for entrepreneurial studies, sales marketing, and target markets, as well as key current statistical information. Mintel can be used across academic disciplines to retrieve timely cultural, demographic, and environmental trends and statistics that affect international economic conditions.

Database Guide
Useful for:

Marketing
Market research
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Consumer Markets and Industry Reports
Company market share
Brand market share
Market size and forecast
Demographics
Target market
Market opportunities
Consumer survey data
Competitive strategies
News
Trends

Guide:
Searching Mintel

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Business - General
Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's) This link opens in a new window
NetAdvantage is Standard & Poor’s comprehensive database of key business information. It provides Corporation records to over 12,000 publicly held U.S. Companies. It includes the Dividend Record to both domestic and foreign stocks, bonds, and money market funds. The Bond Guide is a comprehensive statistical tool to U.S. and Canadian corporate bonds and many of the most actively traded foreign bonds. The Industry Surveys give a current analysis of over 50 major U.S. industries including forecasts, trends and current data. The Outlook, Register, Stock Guide, Stock Reports and Security Dealers of North America are all individual investment decision making tools that add value to the database. Compustat Excel Analytics is also a part of this database with the exception of data being available only for 5 to 7 years.
Useful for:

Finance
Economics
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Company descriptions
Financial reports
Investor reports
Economic statistics
Executives
SEC filings
Company stock information
Interest rates
Treasury yield curve
S&P 500 Index profile (data/analysis)

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Plunkett Research Online This link opens in a new window
Plunkett Research Online provides industry analysis, research, trends and timely industry specific statistics. If you are looking for competitive intelligence information, account plan or sales guide data, market research material, industry marketing data, product strategy data, specific industry trend analysis, industry statistics, job search data, company profiles and executive lists this is the database you should consult.
Useful for:

Economics
Entrepreneurship
Market Research

Includes:

Industry trends
Industry statistical data
Financial statements
Executives
Company profiles
Compensation data (limited)
Industry associations
Job and career information

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Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Sport Business Research Network (SBRNet) This link opens in a new window
Sport Business Research Network provides detailed information on the business of sports. Topics include college and professional sports, endorsements, marketing, market demographics, licensing, sponsorship, and fan market profiles. Data is provided in the form of statistics, directories, and market research reports.
Value Line Investment Survey This link opens in a new window
The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Useful for:

Finance
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Industry analysis
Economic statistics
Company information (primarily financial statistics)

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.

Database Guide
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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D & B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
This database provides in-depth profiles of international companies (including key executives and detailed financial information), as well as industry analysis, global business news, and RMA Industry Norms.
Useful for:
Finance
Market research

Includes:

Industry reports (Freedonia and MarketLine)
Company reports
Financial analyst’s reports
Company financial statements
Company News Alerts (triggers)
Competitors
Company financial ratios
Corporate Structure
Company Executives
RMA industry norms
SWOT
Stock Report (incl. valuation tearsheet)
SEC filings
News
Products/Operations

Guide:

Using D&B Hoovers

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's) This link opens in a new window
NetAdvantage is Standard & Poor’s comprehensive database of key business information. It provides Corporation records to over 12,000 publicly held U.S. Companies. It includes the Dividend Record to both domestic and foreign stocks, bonds, and money market funds. The Bond Guide is a comprehensive statistical tool to U.S. and Canadian corporate bonds and many of the most actively traded foreign bonds. The Industry Surveys give a current analysis of over 50 major U.S. industries including forecasts, trends and current data. The Outlook, Register, Stock Guide, Stock Reports and Security Dealers of North America are all individual investment decision making tools that add value to the database. Compustat Excel Analytics is also a part of this database with the exception of data being available only for 5 to 7 years.
Useful for:

Finance
Economics
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Company descriptions
Financial reports
Investor reports
Economic statistics
Executives
SEC filings
Company stock information
Interest rates
Treasury yield curve
S&P 500 Index profile (data/analysis)

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Value Line Investment Survey This link opens in a new window
The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Useful for:

Finance
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Industry analysis
Economic statistics
Company information (primarily financial statistics)

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles

Some companies publish a corporate social responsibility report each year and these reports are frequently made available on the company's website. The link for this information can usually be found by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and looking in the section where they give company information. Search for terms such as sustainability, corporate social responsibility, green or environment. Provided below are some databases and websites that contain information about corporate social responsibility.

GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.

Database Guide
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics going as far back as 1886, with searchable cited references back to 1998.
Useful for:

Accounting
Finance
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Management
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Journal Articles
Company Profiles (MarketLine Reports)
Industry Reports (MarketLine Reports & Barnes Reports)
Harvard Business Review Articles
Newspapers

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Corporate Register
Corporate Register is an online directory of corporate responsibility reports past and present for over 21,000 organization. Free registration is required to access the reports on this website.
Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire
CSRWire is a real-time source for information on corporate social responsibility and contains news, CSR reports, conferences, and webcasts.

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.   Database Guide 
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection This link opens in a new window This database contains essential publications for information about the financial services industry, including accounting, tax, banking, and industry trends.
Useful for:
Accounting
Taxation
Financial services
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Scholarly journal articles in accounting, taxation, auditing and financial services (banking, investing, insurance)
Dissertations & theses
Trade journals
Newspaper articles (limited)

Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete (Uses the same platform)

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AtoZ Maps Online This link opens in a new window AtoZ Maps Online, from World Trade Press, is a comprehensive database of over 145,000 world, continent, country, and state maps. Included are political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection monthly.
Business from Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
Useful for:

Management
Finance
Economics
Marketing
Accounting

Includes:

Academic journals
News
Videos (extremely limited)

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Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new window Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports. Thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection. Case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies.
Useful for:

Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Economics
Management

Includes:

Case studies
Company history
Company chronology
Business rankings
SWOT
Brands
Product list
Industry Info
Market Share
Financial Statements
Investment Reports
News
Industry Reports (Plunkett)
Comparison Charting (Company, Country and Industry)

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business Market Research Collection‎ This link opens in a new window This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
Useful for:

Economics
Market Research
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Industry reports
Country reports
OxReach articles – analytical articles
Company description – includes marketing strategy, geographic reach and acquisitions
Company history (limited and not available for all companies)
Company financials
Competitors
Competitive Landscape – comparing financial data including ratios to competitors
Executives including biographies

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Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics going as far back as 1886, with searchable cited references back to 1998.
Useful for:

Accounting
Finance
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Management
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Journal Articles
Company Profiles (MarketLine Reports)
Industry Reports (MarketLine Reports & Barnes Reports)
Harvard Business Review Articles
Newspapers

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D & B Hoovers This link opens in a new window This database provides in-depth profiles of international companies (including key executives and detailed financial information), as well as industry analysis, global business news, and RMA Industry Norms.
Useful for:
Finance
Market research

Includes:

Industry reports (Freedonia and MarketLine)
Company reports
Financial analyst’s reports
Company financial statements
Company News Alerts (triggers)
Competitors
Company financial ratios
Corporate Structure
Company Executives
RMA industry norms
SWOT
Stock Report (incl. valuation tearsheet)
SEC filings
News
Products/Operations

Guide:

Using D&B Hoovers

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Economics & Theory from Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window Provides access to full-text academic journals and magazines including more than 1,800 titles.
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Economics

Includes:

Journals articles on various aspects of business with an emphasis on economic theory and application
Magazine articles
News

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Entrepreneurship from Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window Provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories through more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text journals.
Useful for:
Entrepreneurship
Accounting
Management
Economics
Financial services (secondary)

Includes:

Scholarly journal articles about business including entrepreneurship, accounting, management, economics and financial services
News
Magazines
Business Videos

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Hoover's Company Profiles - See Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window Hoover's Company Profiles lets you find financial and organizational information for over 40,000 public and non-public companies.  Research Guide 
MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window MarketLine Advantage tracks company and industry competition, strategy, market share, trends, mergers, acquisitions, and forecasting. Reports are all full-text, with both capsule and full-report access. Reports for large companies often include a SWOT analysis. Many reports are in real time, often generated from primary data gathered from industry-specific associations.  Research Guide 
Useful for:

Marketing
Market research
Entrepreneurship (secondary)
Finance (secondary)
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Industry profiles – includes five forces analysis
Industry statistics
Company profiles – includes SWOT analysis
Country profiles
Country statistics
City statistics
Case studies
Value and supply chain analysis
News
Theme reports
Financial deals - including mergers & acquisitions, partnerships and capital raising

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Mintel This link opens in a new window Mintel is a consumer research database with an international scope. In over 600 market research reports, it provides data for entrepreneurial studies, sales marketing, and target markets, as well as key current statistical information. Mintel can be used across academic disciplines to retrieve timely cultural, demographic, and environmental trends and statistics that affect international economic conditions.  Database Guide 
Useful for:

Marketing
Market research
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Consumer Markets and Industry Reports
Company market share
Brand market share
Market size and forecast
Demographics
Target market
Market opportunities
Consumer survey data
Competitive strategies
News
Trends

Guide:
Searching Mintel

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NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's) This link opens in a new window NetAdvantage is Standard & Poor’s comprehensive database of key business information. It provides Corporation records to over 12,000 publicly held U.S. Companies. It includes the Dividend Record to both domestic and foreign stocks, bonds, and money market funds. The Bond Guide is a comprehensive statistical tool to U.S. and Canadian corporate bonds and many of the most actively traded foreign bonds. The Industry Surveys give a current analysis of over 50 major U.S. industries including forecasts, trends and current data. The Outlook, Register, Stock Guide, Stock Reports and Security Dealers of North America are all individual investment decision making tools that add value to the database. Compustat Excel Analytics is also a part of this database with the exception of data being available only for 5 to 7 years.
Useful for:

Finance
Economics
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Company descriptions
Financial reports
Investor reports
Economic statistics
Executives
SEC filings
Company stock information
Interest rates
Treasury yield curve
S&P 500 Index profile (data/analysis)

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Plunkett Research Online This link opens in a new window Plunkett Research Online provides industry analysis, research, trends and timely industry specific statistics. If you are looking for competitive intelligence information, account plan or sales guide data, market research material, industry marketing data, product strategy data, specific industry trend analysis, industry statistics, job search data, company profiles and executive lists this is the database you should consult.
Useful for:

Economics
Entrepreneurship
Market Research

Includes:

Industry trends
Industry statistical data
Financial statements
Executives
Company profiles
Compensation data (limited)
Industry associations
Job and career information

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Regional Business News This link opens in a new window Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full text from nearly 100 sources.
Useful for:

Managment
Economics
Finance
Marketing

Includes:

General business news about a variety of business topics.

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RKMA Business Reference Handbooks This link opens in a new window Biennial business reference handbooks focused on marketing and the consumer marketplace. Each handbook includes market assessments and forecasts, sector trends, profiles of market leaders, and statistics. In addition to in-depth analyses, the handbooks include links to hundreds of websites for additional information.
Useful for:

Marketing
Hospitality management
Market research

Includes:

Business to business marketing
Consumer behavior
Consumer use - Internet and mobile devices
Healthcare business
Hospitality management
Sports Marketing
International consumer markets
Retail business

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Simmons Catalyst This link opens in a new window This database tabulates marketing information on the demographic and psychographic characteristics of individuals, products, and services. It is an enormous composite of statistical information.  Research Guide 
Useful for:

Marketing

Includes:

Quick reports
Custom Reports - contains data on consumer attitudes, brands, demographics, lifestyles, media preferences and buying behaviors
Target markets
Trends

Special Note:
Limited to 5 simultaneous users.

Guide:

Searching Simmons

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Sport Business Research Network (SBRNet) This link opens in a new window Sport Business Research Network provides detailed information on the business of sports. Topics include college and professional sports, endorsements, marketing, market demographics, licensing, sponsorship, and fan market profiles. Data is provided in the form of statistics, directories, and market research reports.
Value Line Investment Survey This link opens in a new window The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Useful for:

Finance
Economics (secondary)

Includes:

Industry analysis
Economic statistics
Company information (primarily financial statistics)

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Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window Access the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present, one of the world's leading daily financial newspapers.
Useful for:

Newspaper articles on various topics including finance, the stock market, the economy, management, politics, U.S. news and world news.
Market data including stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, mutual funds, and ETFs

Includes:

Newspapers
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Provides access to more than 15,000 full-text news, legal and business sources. Includes journal articles, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on 80 million U.S. and international companies and 75 million executives.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window This collection provides access to over 140,000 full-text books, reports, and other authoritative documents in the fields of Business & Economics; Career & General Education; Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences; Humanities; Science, Medicine & Allied Health; and Social & Behavioral Sciences.  Database Guide

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