Business Databases

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This is a list of electronic databases that are most useful to the business researcher. Please note that this list is not comprehensive. For more lists of databases, please be sure to consult InfoTree.

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General Article Databases

Business & Industry

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  • Contains over 11,000 periodicals indexed and abstracted, with more than 10,000 full text, covering management, economics, finance, accounting and international business, among others. More than 200 of the journals have PDF full text back to 1965 or the first issue published. Contains PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are searchable and in color. The Company Profiles section of the database contains Datamonitor reports for major U.S. and international companies.

Business Source Complete

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  • Contains over 3,200 periodicals indexed and abstracted, with 2,700 full text; topics covered include management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, and international business; updated daily.


Conference Board - Business Knowledge Research

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  • Provides full-text research reports from The Conference Board on the latest issues in business management and U.S. and global economics.


Business News

Lexis-Nexis Academic

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  • Provides full-text access to a wide range of business, legal, medical, general interest, and other types of information sources. The Business section includes business news, accounting literature, company financial reports, company profiles, and SEC filings and reports.

Regional Business News

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  • Provides comprehensive full text from business newswires throughout the world and from regional (U.S.) business publications.


Factiva

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  • "Factiva provides essential business news and information together with the content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva’s unrivalled collection of more than 9,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles."
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Management & Human Resources

BNA Human Resources Library

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  • Contains information for planning and managing human resources and is intended for HR and employee relations practitioners, consultants, and lawyers.

Business & Management Practices

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  • Contains articles about how businesses are managed worldwide from over 300 practically oriented management journals from mid - 1995 to the present; updated daily. Over 60% of the articles are available as full text.



Company & Industry Analysis

Compact D/SEC

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  • Contains information on more than 11,000 public companies. Updated monthly and available on Alden Library computers only.

Investext Plus

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  • Provides full-text access to investment research reports and trade association studies on companies and industries.

Hoover's Online

  • "Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. Our database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises, is at the core of our business tools and services that customers find vital to their business operations. Hoover's editorial staff of some 80 editors and researchers brings vital business information and knowledge to its coverage, updating the site daily to bring our visitors and subscribers the most up-to-date business information in the industry."

Market Insight

  • Provided by Standard & Poor's, this database includes Standard & Poor's Stock Reports, Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys, EDGAR filings, and ExecuComp (executive compensation data).

Mergent Online

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  • Contains U.S. and international company information, company annual reports, EDGAR filings, current news stories, and a limited number of industry reports.

Standard & Poor's Research Insight


Miscellaneous

CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork™

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  • Provides access to current federal and state tax laws, rules, regulations, etc., as well as to both federal and state tax archives.



Economist Intelligence Unit

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  • Contains full-text reports on several dozen countries that provide country profiles (Country Profile section), economic and political trend analyses (Country Reports section), financial information (Country Finance section), and commercial information (Country Commerce section).

Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies

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  • Includes more than 1,200 full-text reports on a wide range of information technology topics.

Global Market Information Database (GMID)

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  • Contains key business intelligence data on countries, companies, markets, and consumers.




ReferenceUSA

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  • Contains basic information on over 12 million U.S. businesses and organizations; updated monthly.



Stat-USA / Internet

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  • Provides access to important business-related U.S. government databases: State of the Nation, which contains current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data, and GLOBUS (Global Business Opportunities) & NTDB (National Trade Data Bank), which contains current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, and country analysis.

TableBase

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  • Provides access to tables dealing with industries, products, and companies from periodicals and newspapers, trade associations, and investment research houses from mid-1997 to the present; updated daily.
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