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Steve Cramer
Business Librarian
smcramer@uncg.edu
AIM & Google Talk: stevebizlib
336-256-0346
A. Business Databases for Articles
i. The Big Two:
Business Source Premier
- General OneFile
- These are our biggest and most popular databases for business articles.
- Both include articles from journals, trade magazines, popular magazines, and newspaper.
ii. Databases for Regional Business News
- EBSCO Newspaper Source Plus
- LexisNexis Academic
- EBSCO Regional Business News
- These are the best databases for articles from regional business news sources (ex. regional papers or local "journals" like the Triad Business Journal).
iii. Databases for Local News
- See the Newspapers Guide for an up-to-date list of sources for local newspapers.
B. Journal Finder
- Used to look up a journal title (i.e. when you already have the citation for the article you need.)
- Covers over 43,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers available online and/or in print.
Mintel Market Research Reports
- Provides fulltext market and consumer research reports for many consumer sectors.
- International in scope, but with emphasis on the U.S. and Europe.
- Many reports cover market distribution.
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database
- Provides marketing statistics and reports on countries, companies, markets, and consumers from over 200 countries.
- Particularly strong for the apparel, retailing, food, drink, personal care products, and consumer electronics industries.
Business Insight (Reuters)
Other databases for market research
- Provides full-text market research, analysis, and forecasts.
- Covers five industries: e-commerce and technology, consumer goods, energy, finance, and healthcare.
Provides 25 to 45-page industry reports for all 5-digit NAICS codes.
- Reports are updated three or four times a year.
- 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.
- Includes the S&P Industry Surveys, which provides analysis, descriptions, and data on 52 industries. Updated twice a year.
- Also provides over a hundred short Sub-Industry Reviews, and many Global Industry Reports.
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database
- Many of its market reports can also serve as industry reports.
A. For Private Companies
- Provides descriptions of 14 million U.S. companies.
- Complex searches, based on any combination of 27 values (location, SIC and NAICS codes, line of business keyword, sales, number of employees, etc.), are possible.
- Search results can be downloaded.
- Niche database for researching corporate structures on 65,000 parent companies and 135,000 affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, and outside service firms.
- But also provides officers and brands.
B. For Public Companies
- Provides detailed financials and descriptions of 42,000 US and 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.
Mergent Horizon (access ends in May 2010)
- 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.
- Provides enhanced data for health care, technology, media, and finance companies.
- Provides FDA Approval Decisions Reports (identifies all biotech and pharmaceutical companies with expected FDA Approvals in the next three months, and reviews all FDA approval decisions from the previous month; also includes a "Biotech Pipeline Risk" report).
- Provides detailed descriptions of most U.S. public companies.
- Includes detailed "line of business" descriptions, as well as officers.
MarketLine Business Information Center
- Provides 10,000 company profiles (many including a SWOT analysis).
- Includes some officer information and some biographies.
C. International Companies
OneSource Global (select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA)
- Covers 4.7 million international companies (mostly private).
- Search results for companies can be sorted, and downloaded into Excel or PDF.
- Provides detailed profiles of over 15,000 international public companies, including corporate family, brands, financials, competition, strategic initiatives, executive biographies, directors and major shareholders, stock data, and business ratios.
- Also covers over 5,000 U.S. public companies.
- Provides the full text of RMA Annual Statement Studies (industry ratios) in PDF format (use the "Industries" section).
- Provides industry & market reports from Datamonitor, Freedonia, Business Monitor International, and STAT-USA/NTDB Industry Sector Analysis (use the "Industries" section).
- Provides SEC filings viewable in PDF, Word, Excel, or HTML (use the "News & Reports" section).
- Provides full text articles from trade magazines and newswires on international companies, markets, and industries (use the "News & Reports" section)
D. Best for officer names & biographies:
E. Best for brand names & products:
Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Provides the full text of the following reference books, among others:
- Business Plans Handbook (many volumes)
- Encyclopedia of Small Business
- Gale E-Commerce Sourcebook
- Manufacturing & Distribution USA
- Provides over 49,000 ebooks, including many in business and technology.
- Includes scholarly, professional, trade, and reference books.
- You can read the books online, search for keywords through a single book or all the books, and build your own virtual bookshelves.
