Business Databases
ABI/INFORM Complete via ProQuest
Description: ABI/INFORM Complete is a
comprehensive business database including scholarly
journal articles, company profiles, and a wide variety
of helpful documents. The combination of products forms a business database package that offers nearly 3,000 full-text titles
covering the United States and international business.
NCWC Librarians Say: ABI/INFORM is the
second-largest full-text business database, after Business
Source Premier. Useful for its large amount of full text
content, and the usually well-updated company profiles. |
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Business Source Premier via EBSCO
Description: The most used
business research database, Business Source Premier (BSP)
provides the full text for nearly 8,800 serials.
BSP also provides book citations, some company profile
data, and a variety of reports.
NCWC Librarians Say: BSP is similar to ABI/INFORM,
but contains a larger amount of scholarly literature while ABI
includes better and more recent reports. Use both to get
a comprehensive search on a particular topic. |
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Mergent Online
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Description: Mergent Online is the
most comprehensive source of data, news, and information about
public companies. Annual reports, financial data, and a
wide variety of other data can be found here. One of the
most useful aspects of Mergent Online is its exceptional
collection of industry reports and comparisons.
NCWC Librarians Say: One-stop shopping
for company data. A great resource, with a huge number
of features and areas worth exploring. |
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Morningstar Library Edition via Morningstar
Description: Morningstar is the
library's most important reference point for
investment research. Reports, data,
performance analyses, and expert opinions on stocks,
bonds, funds, and more can be found here.
NCWC Librarians Say: One-stop shopping
for investment research. Goes far beyond the kinds of
data that you can find on the free web. The
Morningstar Ratings are very important for investors.
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STAT-USA and Globus
via U.S. Department of Commerce
NOTE: Password Required!
Contact a librarian
for the password.
Description: STAT-USA contains two services.
State of the Nation is an aggregated source of economic
indicators and economic data for business and economic
activity within the United States. GLOBUS
contains data and reports related to international trade.
These databases include statistics, indicators, economic
census data, and the most up-to-date official information on
the status of the economy.NCWC
Librarians Say: In both of these databases, try clicking
on the "Library" link in the top navigation bar. This
will lead you to a list of reports and documents broken down
by category. This is a powerful resource for official
government documents related to all facets of the economy.
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Statistical Warehouse via Regional OneSource
Description: Statistical Warehouse contains raw
statistics that can be used for business, political
science, sociology, and other disciplines. The
statistics are often broken down by state, and
typically only address topics within the United
States.NCWC Librarians Say:
When looking for data here, try clicking through the menus
instead of using the search box. There is some useful data
here.
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ReferenceUSA via RefUSA
Description: Rather than articles, ReferenceUSA
contains directory-style information about businesses
and corporations based in the United States. The main
address and key executives for large corporations, as
well as the local offices of smaller businesses, can
all be found here.
NCWC
Librarians Say: Think of ReferenceUSA as a souped-up national
yellow pages for businesses.
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Regional Business News via EBSCOhost
Description: RBN contains abstracts
and indexes for 67 regional business publications. Includes some full text for 52 of those titles.
NCWC Librarians Say: A decent resource
for some specific business research, especially up-to-date and
specific business news. |
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The Wall Street Journal via ProQuest
Description: The financial newspaper of record,
offering in-depth coverage of national and
international finance as well as first rate coverage
of hard news. NCWC offers coverage from
1984-present.
NCWC Librarians Say:
The Wall Street Journal, pure and simple.
You might also try General/Multidisciplinary article databases |
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