Databases
- Computing Articles
- Management Articles
- Company Research
- Best Practices
- Industry & Market Research
- Dissertations
ISOM Librarian: Tim Bucknall
tim bucknall@uncg.edu
336-256-1216
April Spotlight:
The library has added "Multicultural America Reports" to our Mintel subscription. Mintel provides full-text market and consumer research reports covering the U.S. and Europe. Requires free registration.
Computing Articles
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- Abstracts and indexes over 7,900 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Provides the full text of over 4,500 journals (over 3,600 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Covers 1984-present.
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- Provides the full text of approximately 300 publications of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Provides customization and tables of contents services.
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ACM Guide to Computing Literature
- ACM's index to computing journals.
- Indexes books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and technical reports.
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- Our largest database for business technology articles
- Indexes over 8,000 journals, most of which have full text.
- Covers 1984-present, with earlier coverage for hundreds of top business journals.
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- Provides the full text of IEEE computer journals and proceedings.
- Dates of coverage: 1988 to present for most titles; selected coverage from 1950 for some titles.
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- Provides the full text of hundreds of scholarly journals, including many in computing.
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- Indexes over 6000 peer-reviewed science journals cover-to-cover.
- Also provides access to cited references, the footnotes to a scholarly article.
- Covers 1955-present.
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Management Articles
- Our largest database for business articles.
- Indexes over 8,000 journals, most of which have full text.
- 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
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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- Covers all aspects of business, economics, and technology
- Indexes over 10,000 publications. 52% of those publications deal with business or industries.
- Provides full text articles from 2,700 of the 6,300 publications indexed
- Covers 1980-present.
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- Provides full text articles from over 7500 journals, magazines, transcripts, newspapers, newsletters, and other sources. Covers news, business, legal, and other types of information.
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- Indexes over 6000 peer-reviewed science journals cover-to-cover.
- Also provides access to cited references, the footnotes to a scholarly article.
- Covers 1955-present.
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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
Company Research
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 full text company, investment, and industry research from Standard & Poor's.
- Covers public and private companies.
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MarketLine Business Information Center
- 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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- Provides access to 14 million U.S. businesses, 120 million U.S. residences, 650,000 physicians and dentists, and 95,000 U.S. and Canadian high-tech businesses.
- For most companies, ReferenceUSA provides an address and phone number, SIC and NAICS codes, estimated sales, number of employees, credit rating, and more.
- Complex searches, based on any combination of many values, are possible.
- Data can be exported to a spreadsheet.
- More info on ReferenceUSA
See Business Administration Databases for more company databases.
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.
- More info
Industry & Market Research
- Provides full text company, investment, and industry research from Standard & Poor's.
- Includes the S&P Industry Surveys, which provides analysis, descriptions, and data on 52 industries, including many in computing and technology. Updated twice a year.
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- 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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- 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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Mintel Market Research Reports
- Provides market and consumer research reports for technology (among other sectors).
- 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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Dissertations
- Provides lengthy abstracts of U. S. dissertations.
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