The University Libraries

Databases

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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.
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 General OneFile

• 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.
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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.
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LexisNexis Academic

• 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.
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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.
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Business & Industry

• 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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Academic Search Premier

• 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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Google Scholar

• 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.
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Regional News:

Regional Business News

• Provides articles from 70 U.S. regional and local business newspapers and 13 U.S. business newswires.
• From Ebsco.
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Greater Triad Business Journal

• Provides articles from this and 39 other city business newspapers, back to 1996.
• The Book of Lists are also included.
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Citation Searching

Business Source Premier

• Provides citation searching for over 1,200 business journals.
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Web of Science

• 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

Best Practices

• 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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Business Source Premier

• 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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NetLibrary

• 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

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S&P NetAdvantage

• 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 SWOT analyses (500 total), 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.
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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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Corporate Affiliations

• 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.
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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.
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Morningstar

• 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.
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Private Companies

ReferenceUSA

• 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.
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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.
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Corporate Affiliations

• 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.
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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.
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LexisNexis Academic

• Provides company directories for U.S. and international private companies.
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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.
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S&P NetAdvantage

• 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.
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Mergent Online

• Provides detailed information on 15,000 U.S. public companies (active and inactive) and 20,000 public companies from over 80 other countries.
• Includes Mergent Equity Research Reports, historical stock prices, institutional holdings, insider trading, and more.
• Data can be downloaded.
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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).

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Industries

IBIS Industry Market Research

• 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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S&P NetAdvantage

• 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.
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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).
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Mergent Online

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).
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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
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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.

Industry Analysis Guide

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Ratios

RMA eStatement Studies

• Provides financial ratio benchmarks (FRB) and industry default probabilities (IDP), plus regional breakouts.
• Covers around 340 U.S. industries, defined by NAICS codes.
• Includes historical data.
• Data can be exported into Excel and viewed as PDF files.
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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

IBIS Industry Market Research

• 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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Business Insights

• Provides full-text market research, analysis, and forecasts
• Covers five industries: e-commerce and technology, consumer goods, energy, finance, and healthcare.
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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).
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MarketLine Business Information Center

• Provides 2,000 industry profiles, international in scope, which include market segmentation and market share data.
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S&P NetAdvantage

• The S&P Industry Surveys usually include some market analysis.
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Statistics & Data

DemographicsNow

• 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.
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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
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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
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Statistical Warehouse

• 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.
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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
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Countries (doing business in)

EIU Country Commerce in Business Source Premier ("Country Reports")

• Select the "Country Reports" link on the left, then select the county, and look for the "Country Commerce" link.
• Provides "how to do business" information from the Economist Intelligence Unit 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.
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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.
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Europa Online

• 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

Comtrade

• Provides summary and bilateral global trade data, covering over 130 countries.
• Supports up to 5-digit SITC codes and 6-digit harmonized codes.
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U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Trade Database

• Covers United States imports and exports, at all levels of commodity classification.
• Free registration is required to use this database.
• Help using this database

GTIS: U.S. State Export Edition

• Provides U.S. state-level export trade data.
• Supports up to 6-digit harmonized codes.
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Trade Data Guide

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