Business Librarian: Steve Cramer
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- Our largest database for business articles.
- Covers over 8,200 journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Also provides company and industry reports from MarketLine.
- Covers 1984-present, with earlier coverage for hundreds of top business journals.
- 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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- 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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
- An investment database for stocks and mutual funds.
- Covers all stocks on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and ASE, and 14,000 mutual funds.
- Povides analyst reports for 1,000 companies.
- Provides screeners, Morningstar Analyst Reports, the portfolio x-ray, and education tools.
- 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.
S&P's Industry Surveys (in 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.
MarketLine Business Information Center
- Provides 2,000 concise industry profiles, international in scope.
- Also provides 10,000 company profiles (many including a SWOT analysis).
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 full text articles from trade magazines and newswires on international companies, markets, and industries (use the "News & Reports" section).
Mintel Market Research Reports
- Provides fulltext market & consumer research reports, with a focus on consumer sectors/industries.
- Covers Europe and the U.S.
- Provides full-text market research, analysis, and forecasts.
- Covers five industries: e-commerce and technology, consumer goods, energy, finance, and healthcare.
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database
- Focuses on the food, drinks, clothing, electronics, appliances, and personal care products industries.
- Provides full text market research reports as well as company overviews and analysis, market share, brands, brand share, and financial breakdowns by product categories.
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.
Duns Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
Library Reference Desk
- Provides 32 performance indicators for over 800 products and services, arranged by SIC code.
- Covers the most industries of any ratio source.
RMA Annual Statement Studies: Financial Ratios Benchmarks
Library Reference Desk
- Provides 40 performance indicators for 340 products and services, organized by NAICS code.
- Provides five years of data.
- Available online via OneSource Global
- Select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA.
- Then search or browse for an industry.
- From the industry profile, look for the "RMA Industry Norms" link on the left.
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
Reference HF5681.R25 T68
- The Almanac provides 50 performance indicators for 192 industries, organized by NAICS code.
- Provides the most ratios per industry of any ratio source.
