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- Trade Data
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Librarian: Steve Cramer
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- Best Practices
- Business & Company Resource Center
- Business & Industry
- Business Insights
- Business Source Premier (Ebsco)
- Comtrade
- Corporate Affilations
- DemographicsNow
- Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios
- EIU Country Commerce
- Euromonitor GMID
- General OneFile
- Google Scholar
- GTIS: U.S. State Export Edition
- Hoover's (via LexisNexis Academic)
- IBIS
- LexisNexis Academic
- MarketLine (Datamonitor)
- Mintel
- Morningstar
- OneSource Global (ReferenceUSA-International)
- Osiris
- ReferenceUSA
- S&P NetAdvantage
- Statistical Warehouse
- SimplyMap
- U.S. ITC Trade Database
- Uniworld
- Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest)
Quick list:
Articles
Business Source Premier
- Our largest database for business articles.
- Covers over 8,200 journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Also provides country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, and CountryWatch.
- Also provides company and industry reports from MarketLine.
- Covers 1984-present, with earlier coverage for hundreds of top business journals.
- More info
- Covers all aspects of business and economics.
- Especially strong in international and U.S. regional publications, and articles about specific markets and industries.
- Covers over 10,000 general periodicals and scholarly journals.
- Covers 1980-present.
- More info
Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest)
- Provides the full text of the publication from 1982 to present.
- We also have Wall Street Journal Historical, which covers 1889-1989.
- More info
- Provides full text articles from business newspapers, press releases, newsletters, and some trade magazines.
- Especially strong in international and U.S. regional publications, and articles about specific markets and industries.
- A weak source for articles from general business magazines and scholarly journals.
- Covers 1975-present.
- More info
OneSource Global (select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA)
- Select the "News & Reports" section.
- Provides full text articles from newspapers, newswires, and trade magazines.
- Use the advanced search to easily focus on certain countries, industries, etc.
- More info
- Covers specific markets and industries from around the world.
- Indexes over 1,500 publications.
- Provides no full text, but the abstracts usually contain the key data from each article.
- Covers 1994-present.
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- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database.
- Covers over 8,200 journals in the social sciences, humanities, general sciences, and education.
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- Covers ejournal websites, institutional and disciplinary repositories, and books.
- Provides links to Journal Finder. (From off-campus, select "Scholar Preferences", search for "UNCG", select all the options, and "Save Preferences.")
- On-campus users will often get straight to the fulltext (if we subscribe to that ejounal).
SSRN: Social Science Research Network
- Provides an abstracts database of working and forthcoming papers.
- Also provides a "Electronic Paper Collection".
- Some content requires a subscription.
- UNCG doesn't have an institutional subscription, but check Journal Finder for any fee-based article you would like to see.
- More info
Regional News:
- Provides articles from 70 U.S. regional and local business newspapers and 13 U.S. business newswires.
- From Ebsco.
- More info
Citation Searching
- Provides citation searching for over 1,200 business journals.
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- Indexes over 2,200 social science journals, including several hundred in business.
- Also provides access to cited references, the footnotes to a scholarly article.
- Covers 1955-present.
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Management
- Provides summaries (often quite detailed) of best practice research conducted for major corporations.
- Covers business operations, customer service, human resources, e-commerce, sales and marketing, and knowledge management.
- Searchable by company, industry, and topic.
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- Our largest database for business and management articles.
- Covers over 8,200 journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Includes working papers, Datamonitor reports, business books, and more.
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- Provides over 2,000 management ebooks.
- Also includes a Reference Center providing business encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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Management & Leadership Encyclopedias from Gale/Sage
- Provides 7 encyclopedias, including the Encyclopedia of Management, Encyclopedia of Leadership, and the Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
- Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Other Management Encyclopedias
- Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Human Resource Management
- Oxford Dictionary of Human Resource Management
- Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Management
- Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Strategic Management
- Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behavior
- Provides detailed financials and descriptions of 42,000 US & international public companies.
- Covers product, service, and business lines, sales by continents and product lines, balance sheets, income and cash flow statements, ratios, stock, bond, and earnings information, top shareholders, subsidiaries, board members, senior executives and their salaries, and merger and acquisitions.
- Data can be exporting into Excel
- Companies can be easily compared using the Peer Report and Peer Analysis tabs.
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- Provides full text company, investment, and industry research from Standard & Poor's.
- For U.S. public companies, includes company profiles, stock reports, compitors, and basic financials.
- Also provides U.S. company income statements, balance sheets, ratios, and monthly stock data in Excel via "Compustat Excel Analytics," and the same for international companies via "Compustat International Fundamental Reports."
- Financial comparisons of competitors (U.S. and international) are also provided through the Compustat data.
- More info
MarketLine Business Information Center (Datamonitor)
- Provides 10,000 company profiles (many including a SWOT analysis).
- Covers companies from around the world.
- Also provides 2,000 industry profiles.
- More info
OneSource Global (select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA)
- Provides detailed profiles of over 15,000 international public companies, and over 5,000 U.S. public companies.
- Covers corporate families, brands, financials, competition, strategic initiatives, executive biographies, directors and major shareholders, stock data, and business ratios.
- More info
Business & Company Resource Center (2 concurrent users)
- A "one-stop shopping" database for company and business research.
- Provides brief information on 445,000 US and international companies.
- Provides reports on over 1,000 US and international industries.
- Covers associations, company financials, company histories and chronologies, company rankings, investment reports, market research reports, market share, products, suits, and claims.
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Hoover's Company Records (via LexisNexis Academic)
- Look for the Hoover's link in the "Business Description" section of LexisNexis' company profiles.
- Hoovers provides several thousand profiles of public and private, U.S. and international companies.
- Provides executives, company description, history, NAICS and SIC codes, segemented sales data, and competitors.
- Disclosure, WorldScope, and U.S. Executive Compensation Database are also available from LexisNexis.
- More info
Mergent Horizon (5 concurrent users)
- Covers around 6,200 public companies (NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX companies) and hundreds of product and service sectors.
- Provides detailed hypertext product and service hierarchies for each company.
- Identifies competitors, customers, suppliers, and partners.
- Provides peer-group, competitive analysis, and merger and acquisition analysis tools.
- Includes detailed stock performance data.
- Provides enhanced data for health care, technology, media, and finance companies.
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- Provides basic company profiles and corporate family structure on 65,000 parent companies and 135,000 affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, and outside service firms.
- Covers public and private companies worldwide
- Companies can be searched by name, location, SIC code, number of employees, personal name, products, and more.
- More info
Uniworld (U.S. Firms Operating in Foreign Countries/Foreign Firms Operating in the U.S.) 
- Searchable by country, state, region, keyword, industry sectors (NAICS), zip codes, postal codes, company employees and company revenue.
- Covers companies in over 190 countries.
- Results can be downloaded to Excel.
- More info
- Provides 10 years of financial data for most US public companies and US-traded foreign companies.
- Also includes company profiles, and stock data and analysis.
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IDEA (SEC)
- Provides documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Searchable by company name or ticker symbol.
- Covers 1994 to present.
- New filings are held for 24 hours before being made available to the public.
- More info
Private Companies
- Provides descriptions of 14 million U.S. companies.
- Also covers 95,000 U.S. and Canadian high-tech businesses.
- Complex searches, based on any combination of 27 values, are possible.
- Search results can be downloaded.
- More info
OneSource Global (select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA)
- Covers 4.6 million international companies.
- Complex searches are possible.
- Search results for companies can be sorted, and downloaded into Excel or PDF.
- More info
- Provides basic company profiles and corporate family structure on 65,000 parent companies and 135,000 affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, and outside service firms.
- Covers public and private companies worldwide
- Companies can be searched by name, location, SIC code, number of employees, personal name, products, and more.
- More info
Business & Company Resource Center (2 concurrent users)
- A "one-stop shopping" database for company and business research.
- Provides brief information on 445,000 US and international companies.
- More info
- Provides company directories for U.S. and international private companies.
- More info
Investments
Morningstar Investment Research Center
- (Not the same as morningstar.com)
- An investment database for stocks and mutual funds.
- Covers all stocks on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and ASE, and 14,000 mutual funds.
- Provides screeners, Morningstar Analyst Reports, the portfolio x-ray, and education tools.
- More info
- Covers stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
- Provides a screeners, market snapshots, commentary, and lists of top stocks and funds, and the S&P indexes.
- Use the advanced search from the "Companies" section to access the screeners.
- More info
Yahoo! Finance Historical Quotes
- Coverage of some stocks goes back to 1970.
- Data can be downloaded into a spreadsheet (look for the link under the chart).
- Covers stock, bond, and earnings information, and major stockholders, for 42,000 US & international public companies.
- Data can be exporting into Excel
- Companies can be easily compared using the Peer Report and Peer Analysis tabs.
- More info
Industries
- Provides 25 to 45-page US industry reports for all 5-digit NAICS codes (over 720 reports).
- Each report includes statistics, industry structure, product & customer segmentation, performance analysis, major players & market share, external drivers, 5-year forecasts with forecast analysis, and more.
- Reports are updated three or four times a year.
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- Includes the S&P Industry Surveys, which provides analysis, descriptions, and data on 52 industries.
- Also provides Global Industry Surveys for over 20 sectors in Europe and Asia.
- Updated twice a year.
- More info
OneSource Global (select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA)
- Provides industry & market reports from Datamonitor, Freedonia, Business Monitor International, and STAT-USA/NTDB Industry Sector Analysis (use the "Industries" section).
- Also provides the full text of RMA Annual Statement Studies (industry ratios) in PDF format (use the "Industries" section).
- More info
MarketLine Business Information Center (Datamonitor)
- Provides 2,000 concise industry profiles, international in scope.
- Also provides 10,000 company profiles (many including a SWOT analysis).
- More info
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database (GMID)
- Provides marketing statistics and reports on industries, countries, companies, markets, and consumers from over 200 countries.
- Particularly strong for the apparel, retailing, food, drink, consumer electronics, toys, travel, and personal care products industries.
- Video on getting started with GMID
- More info
Business & Company Resource Center (2 concurrent users)
- A "one-stop shopping" database for company and business research.
- Provides overviews of over 1,000 U.S. and global industries.
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Manufacturing & Distribution USA 2009 (5th edition)
- Provides industry analyses, statistics, and leading companies on 460 industries, listed by NAICS codes.
- The statistics include the number of establishments, employment, wages, production, selected ratios, leading companies, materials consumed, product share, and industry data by state.
- An ebook from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Ratios
Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios
- Provides 14 financial ratios for 800 products and services, arranged by SIC code.
- Includes three years of data.
- Data can be exported into spreadsheet format.
- More info
RMA Annual Statement Studies in OneSource Global (select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA)
- Provides the full text of "RMA Industry Norms" in PDF format (use the "Industries" section).
- More info
Markets
Reports
Mintel Market Research Reports
- Provides market and consumer research reports, for many sectors.
- Now also provides reports on the African-American, Asian-American, & U.S. Hispanic markets.
- International in scope, but with emphasis on the U.S. and Europe.
- Most of the reports covers market drivers, market share, size, structure, segmentation, trends, consumer expenditure and spending patterns, psychographics, forecasts, and company and brand profiles.
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Euromonitor Global Market Information Database
- Provides market reports and statistics on countries, companies, markets, and consumers from over 200 countries.
- Particularly strong for the apparel, retailing, food, drink, consumer electronics, toys, travel, and personal care products industries.
- Video on getting started with GMID
- More info
- Provides 25 to 45-page US industry reports for all 5-digit NAICS codes (over 720 reports).
- Each report includes statistics, industry structure, product & customer segmentation, performance analysis, major players & market share, external drivers, 5-year forecasts with forecast analysis, and more.
- Reports are updated three or four times a year.
- More info
- Provides full-text market research, analysis, and forecasts
- Covers five industries: e-commerce and technology, consumer goods, energy, finance, and healthcare.
- More info
OneSource Global (select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA)
- Provides industry & market reports from Datamonitor, Freedonia, Business Monitor International, and STAT-USA/NTDB Industry Sector Analysis (use the "Industries" section).
- More info
MarketLine Business Information Center
- Provides 2,000 industry profiles, international in scope, which include market segmentation and market share data.
- More info
- The S&P Industry Surveys usually include some market analysis.
- More info
Statistics & Data
- Covers U.S. population, age, race and ethnicity, income, housing, employment characteristics, and consumer expeditures.
- Provides data for census block-groups, census tracts, zip codes, cities, urban areas, counties, and states, as well as custom radiuses defined by the user.
- Areas can be compared and ranked.
- Provide tables, graphs, pie charts, and maps, which can be can be downloaded into Excel, Word, or Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- More info
SimplyMap (10 concurrent users)
- A web-based mapping database for developing thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables.
- Each user accesses SimplyMap through a "personal workspace"; you will need to create an account the first time you use the database.
- Covers census block-groups, census tracts, zip codes, cities, counties, states, and the entire United States.
- Includes Mediamark Research (MRI) data, covering usage and consumption for thousands of products, including brand data, details of frequency of usage, and more.
- Data can be exported and maps can be printed.
- Video on getting started with SimplyMap
- More info
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database
- Provides market statistics and reports on countries, companies, markets, and consumers from over 200 countries.
- Particularly strong for the apparel, retailing, food, drink, consumer electronics, toys, travel, and personal care products industries.
- Video on getting started with GMID
- More info
- Provides over 70,000 statistical data series on many topics, including population and demographics, economics, social indicators, health and mortality, voting and elections, geography, intellectual property, social services, and libraries.
- Covers the U.S., U.S. states, counties, cities, and other Census-designated places (more than 30,000 places total).
- Data can be ranked.
- Data can be downloaded into Excel, or formatted into a PDF file for printing.
- More info
American FactFinder, U.S. Census Bureau
- The Census' search engine for population, housing, and economic data.
- You can search by state, city, county, or zip code, or just browse data for the entire U.S.
- Covers the 2000 Census, American Community Survey (annual data), the Economic Census, and more.
- Statistical Warehouse and SimplyMap provide more search, ranking, and/or mapping options.
Business Decisions (Greensboro Public Library database)
- Available if you have a Greensboro Public Library card.
- Covers Guilford County.
- Provides demographics, consumer spending, and market segmentation profiles within Guilford County as data tables and maps.
- Similar to DemographicsNow and SimplyMap, but also provides its own proprietary "Tapestry" consumer market segmentation system (examples: "Laptops and Lattes," "Prosperous Empty Nesters;" there are 63 others).
World Development Indicators Online (WDI)
- Provides statistics on countries.
- Covers 550 indicators for over 200 countries and 18 county groups, from 1960 to one year ago.
- Includes social, economic, financial, natural resource, and environmental data.
- Video on getting started with WDI
- More info
Countries (doing business in)
- Provides "how to do business" information for over 54 countries.
- Includes coverage of trade regulations and tariffs, investment conditions and regulations, e-commerce and intellectual property law, taxes, financial incentives, labor trends, and more.
- More info
Export.gov: Country Commercial Guides (CCG)
- Requires free registration.
- Use the "Report Type" to limit a search to a CCG.
- Most reports cover economic trends, political environment, how to market U.S. products, leading sectors for exports, trade regulations, investment climate, business travel, and more.
- Also available in the STAT-USA/NTBD database.
MarketLine Business Information Center
- Provides 50 country profiles.
- Useful for economic data, trends, and analysis.
- More info
- Provides full text descriptions of countries and international organizations, as well as multinational comparative statistics.
- Covers recent political and economic affairs, a statistical survey, and a directory of government and politics, society and media, and business and commerce.
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Trade Data
- Provides summary and bilateral global trade data, covering over 130 countries.
- Supports up to 5-digit SITC codes and 6-digit harmonized codes.
- More info
- Covers United States imports and exports, at all levels of commodity classification.
- Free registration is required to use this database.
- Help using this database
- Provides U.S. state-level export trade data.
- Supports up to 6-digit harmonized codes.
- More info
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