Databases for Business
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| ABI/Inform Complete |
Full text for more nearly 4,000 business publications, and citations with abstracts to 1,000 more business titles. |
Full text 1991-present | Indexing 1905-present |
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| Business Source Complete |
Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. |
1886-present |
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| IBISWorld |
IBISWorld’s industry research reports offer the very latest content on every U.S. industry. |
2010-present |
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| Marketline Advantage |
Provides information on 50000+ companies, 215 countries, 2000+ industries, live news feeds, 500 new comment and news articles per week, details of 3,000+ financial deals per month. |
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Also Useful
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| Advertising Red Books |
A directory of advertisers and ad agencies. Provides current, detailed data, including: |
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| BizMiner |
BizMiner offers industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. |
Current |
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| Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Principal fact-finding agency for labor economics and statistics. |
Varies |
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| Company Profiles |
Provides access to over 1 million company profiles via Marketline and Life Science Analytics Reports. |
2010-present |
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| County Business Patterns |
An annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry. |
1998-2010 |
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| EconLit with Full Text |
Provides full text to nearly 500 journals plus citations, with abstracts, to over 600 journals, books, and working papers. |
1969-present |
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| Hoovers |
Business research platform allows you to search U.S. |
Current |
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| MarketResearch.com Academic |
MarketResearch.com Academic reports offer analysis of the market rather than shear numbers culled from secondary data. |
1995-present |
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| Mergent Online |
Sources include: fundamental data on over 50,000 global publicly traded companies, and annual reports for over 300,000 companies worldwide, and more. |
Current |
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| Value Line |
Value Line is a research company that collects data and analyzes performance of approximately 8,000 stocks, 15,000 mutual funds, 80,000 options and other securities. |
1997-present |
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Even More
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Business Expert Press |
Business Expert Press's eBooks cover supply and operations management, international business, social media, finance, accounting, public relations, and marketing strategy. |
2010-present |
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| Campus Research |
Law-related resources, news, and business information including federal and state cases, American Law Reports, SEC Filings, and Hoover's Company Records |
1990s-present |
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| CenStats |
CenStats provides access to several popular Census Bureau databases, including: Building Permits, County Business Patterns, International Trade Data, and much more. |
1990-present |
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| Economic Census |
The economic census provides a detailed portrait of the United States' economy once every five years, from the national to the local level. |
1997-2007 |
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| Entrepreneurial Studies Source |
Entrepreneurial Studies Source™ offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with |
2000-present |
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| Financial Times |
"This publication is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to understand the context of global trade and finance. |
1996-present |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Provides full text access to more than 100 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. |
2000-present |
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| Global Development Finance |
This edition of GDF presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of all low-and middle-income countries. |
1970-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| Making of the Modern World |
The Making of the Modern World: the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature digital collection presents more than 65,000 titles from the period 1460-1914, and 466 pre-1906 serials |
1450-1914 |
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| Morningstar Library Edition |
Morningstar, Inc. is a provider of independent investment research in the United States and in major international markets. |
Current |
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| National Bureau of Economic Research |
Abstracts and full-text (in .pdf) of working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research. |
1998-present |
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| Newspaper Source Plus |
Newspaper Source Plus provides full text coverage for 730 national & international newspapers. |
2000-present |
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| Oxford Handbooks Online |
Each handbook from Oxford University Press takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda |
2000-present |
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| PsycINFO |
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles (over 2,500 journals), book chapters, books, and |
1887-present |
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| Regional Business News |
Regional Business News provides access to 75 regional business publications including journals, newspapers and newswires, and includes Business North Carolina. |
1970-present |
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| RePEc: Research Papers in Economics |
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics provides bibliographic citations to working papers, journal articles, books, and book chapters, many in full text. |
1969-present |
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| Small Business Reference Center |
Small Business Reference Center offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides inf |
1990-present |
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| Wall Street Journal |
Wall Street Journal; Eastern Edition The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news. |
1984-present |
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| Wall Street Journal Historical |
Wall Street Journal; Eastern Edition The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news. |
1889-1994 |
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| World Development Indicators |
The World Development Indicators are compiled from officially-recognized international sources providing 331 indicators, from agriculute to urban development, covering 209 countries. |
1960-present |
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