Databases
- ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
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Full text of business & financial journals, including essential scholarly journals & the most important trade journals. - Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new window
Full-text company & industry intelligence on global corporations.
- Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
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Full-text for thousands of journals, covering all disciplines of business. (Coverage: Varies according to journal, some back to 1922.) - eStatement Studies (RMA) This link opens in a new window
Source of composite financial data, including balance sheet & income statement information & ratios, provided by member institutions. Arranged by industry & business size. Access includes 2 sets of data: Financial Ratios Benchmarks | Industry Default Probabilities & Cash Flow Measures.
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) Data Portal This link opens in a new window
Open Access. IMF data visualization & statistical tools.
- Key Business Ratios This link opens in a new windowAccess to competitive benchmarking data. Researchers can examine industry benchmarks compiled from D&B®’s database of public & private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios in 800 lines of business. (Coverage: latest 3-5 years depending on the Industry Code.) An archive dating back to 1979 is available.
- Key Business Ratios Archive This link opens in a new windowArchival access to Key Business Ratios. Includes benchmarking data from public & private companies. (Coverage:1979 to 3-5 years ago)
- Mergent BondViewer This link opens in a new windowContains a wide-range of bond data, including both issuer & issue-level terms & conditions, & end-of-day evaluated prices for U.S. taxable bonds, municipal bonds, & retail notes
- Marketscope Advisor This link opens in a new windowExtensive market commentary, independent investment analysis, real-time news & extensive data about a broad range of asset classes & sectors.
- Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new windowProvides access to private & public U.S & international business data, industry news, facts & figures, executive contact information, & industry profiles.
Residential Search: Find address & other contact information on individuals.Demographics Search: Demographic reports on a geographic area of your choice. Data includes statistics on the area's population, including age, race, gender, income & more. - Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowSuite of information resources for in-depth business & financial research. Contains corporate information covering thousands of U.S. & foreign public companies. Includes access to Investext, which provides reports written by analysts at investment banks, brokerage houses, & consulting firms.
- SAGE Business Cases This link opens in a new windowA discipline-wide collection of global business cases from a variety of industries. Topics include Marketing, Operations Management, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, International Business, Human Resource Management & more.
- Value Line Research Center This link opens in a new window
Information about investments, including stocks, mutual funds, options, & convertible securities, as well as special situation stocks.
Other General Resources
- Investor.govA website dedicated to retail investors, provided by the SEC Office of Investor Education and Advocacy.
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)FINRA is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. Provides information on many aspects of investing.
- Smart Investing @ Your LibraryA grant-funded program developed collaboratively by the American Library Association and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. The program addresses the growing need for unbiased financial and investor education at the grassroots level.
- Financial Markets and InvestmentsA section of the 'Best of the Best' Business Web Sites (Free Resources). A project of the American Library Associations's Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) which provides resources on business topics.