Databases
- ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
Full text of business and financial journals, including essential scholarly journals and the most important trade journals.
- Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new window
Full-text company and industry intelligence on global corporations.
- Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
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 and income statement information and ratios, provided by member institutions. Arranged by industry and business size. Access includes 2 sets of data: Financial Ratios Benchmarks | Industry Default Probabilities and Cash Flow Measures.
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) Data Portal This link opens in a new window
IMF data visualization and statistical tools.
- Key Business Ratios This link opens in a new window
Access to competitive benchmarking data. Researchers can examine industry benchmarks compiled from DandB®’s database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios in 800 lines of business. (Coverage: latest 3-5 years depending on the Industry Code.)
- Key Business Ratios Archive This link opens in a new window
Archival access to Key Business Ratios. Includes benchmarking data from public and private companies. (Coverage:1979 to 3-5 years ago)
- Mergent BondViewer This link opens in a new window
Contains a wide-range of bond data, including both issuer and issue-level terms and conditions, and end-of-day evaluated prices for U.S. taxable bonds, municipal bonds, and retail notes
- Marketscope Advisor This link opens in a new window
Extensive market commentary, independent investment analysis, real-time news and extensive data about a broad range of asset classes and sectors.
- Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Provides access to private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, and industry profiles.
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
Ceases June 30, 2025. See Market Atlas as an alternative.
Suite of information resources for in-depth business and financial research. Contains corporate information covering thousands of U.S. and foreign public companies. Includes access to Investext, which provides reports written by analysts at investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms.
- SAGE Business Cases This link opens in a new window
A discipline-wide collection of global business cases from a variety of industries. Topics include Marketing, Operations Management, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, International Business, Human Resource Management and more.
- Value Line Research Center This link opens in a new window
Information about investments, including stocks, mutual funds, options, and 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.