Delivering over 6,800 journals, nearly 80% of which are in full-text, ABI/INFORM Complete is a comprehensive business database. Offering much more than journal content, this diverse solution provides the right mix of content types to meet the needs of any business researcher. ABI/INFORM also offers coverage on hundreds of industries and focus areas such as oil, gas, mining, energy, environment, and healthcare management, and has an ever growing range of content from around the globe. ABI/INFORM Complete provides researchers with diverse publication types that meet the requirements of core business programs and corporate libraries. With annual reports from nearly 1,000 leading North American companies, downloadable data sets from the Economic Intelligence Unit, market research reports, dissertations, business cases, and current news from The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, researchers will be equipped with the tools to respond to changing market conditions and prepare for emerging areas of interest.

Business Full Text is a full text database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plus the full text of selected periodicals.

Provides bibliographic and full text content for thousands of the most important scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. The database also contains detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors in the database. Additional full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, faculty seminars (videos), and more. Indexing and abstracts for 1,300 scholarly business journals date back to 1886.

Collection of news and financial information for over 100 emerging market countries in Africa & the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Central Asia (Caucasus) and Asia, and Latin America. Included are primary news sources (full-text), financial data (including reports on financial markets, companies and industries), over 1 million listed and private company profiles, statistics, macroeconomic forecasts and analysis, and legal and regulatory information. Arranged by country, ISI emerging markets also includes country profiles, exchange rates, and business and political news approximately 9,000 publications of data, research and news from unrivalled sources (from the Economist Intelligence Unit and ViewsWire, as well as other local and global sources).
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First Research industry profiles contain critical analysis, statistics and forecasts to help engage key prospects, coach key clients, and deepen customer relationships. First Research's knowledge tools, listed below, are essential for call preparation, enhancing presentations, underwriting credit, and for quickly learning a company's key business issues.

• Industry Profiles on up to 900 industry segments are updated monthly. These in-depth summaries are carefully organized and simple to customize, so current information about your target markets challenges, opportunities, and important industry statistics is always on hand.
• Call Prep Sheets help you understand the important talking points before you pick up the telephone. These one-page industry overviews allow you to quickly demonstrate authority, build rapport, and refine your sales message.
• Industry Prospector gives you the power to select and rank industries based on industry drivers and key economic metrics, so you can identify business opportunities and reduce risk.
• State & Province Profiles help you bring regional insight to prospects and clients. Updated monthly, they offer a concise view of shifting economic and business issues using state and province specific employment data, real estate information, business news updates, and Web resources. .

Comprehensive economic and financial time-series database covering 150 countries and 6,500 different data series. Includes data on bonds, commodities, interest rates, stock markets and indices, futures, exchange rates, GDP, prices, and unemployment. World exchange rates back to 1624, inflation rates back to 1748, and wholesale prices back to 1720. Major commodities going back to 1784. Some annual series go back to the 1200s. Methodology and sources are documented. The stock market indices go back to 1693. Also included are data on stock market capitalization, dividend yields, price/earnings ratios, total return performance indices, and Global Financial Data's World Stock Market Indices.
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Detailed market research reports and analysis on over 700 U.S. industries. The Library’s subscription also includes U.S. Specialized Industries and U.S. Business Environment Profiles. Onsite public users cannot download the reports, but limited printing of report sections is available.
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Mergent Archives is an online database featuring a vast, indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents. The database contains hundreds of thousands of reports covering over 100 countries and industries. Mergent Archives uses a reliable and easy to navigate system designed to meet your historical research needs. Included in this archive collection are:

• Mergent's Full Collection of Digitized Manuals: Beginning with the very first Moody's Manual published in 1909, Mergent offers you more than a century's worth of global corporate data fully digitized into high quality, PDF formatted documents. Mergent Archives further simplifies your research through extensive screening options and linked tables of contents for every manual, allowing you to go right to the information that matters to you.


• Ford Equity Research Reports (aka: Mergent Equity Investment Research Reports): Mergent Archives offers up to 3 years of multi-page equity research reports released weekly for over 5500 U.S. and Canadian companies. Clear and factual in its design the Ford Equity Research Report provides ratings, recommendations, sector analysis and company financial information.


• Annual Reports: Access more than 85 years of Annual Reports for companies across the globe through Mergent Archives' historical annual report collection dating back to as early as 1925.


• Industry Report Collection: Since 2003, Mergent, Inc. has been providing you with detailed analysis and forecasts on two dozen major global industry sectors from Textiles to Aviation for the North American, European, Asia Pacific, and Latin American regions. Mergent Archives offers you our entire collection of these semi-annually released Industry Reports.


• Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory (MDDI) (1959-Present): Dating back to 1959, the Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory (MDDI) provides a valuable source of information and privately held and public companies and their executives. MDDI features easy-to-use cross references, primary and secondary lines of business and the names and titles of company officers and directors. These easy-to-use directories provide in-depth information on 160,000 leading public and privately held U.S. companies. Covers all U.S. companies with:
  -$9 Million or more in sales or
  -180 or more employees or
  -Branches with 900 or more employees


• First Research® Archives (2003-Present): Unlimited direct access to extensive market analysis on more than 1000 top industry segments. Each report consists of key statistics and analysis on market and competitive landscape characteristics, operating conditions, business challenges, industry trends, current and historical industry growth, and more. These features, plus our sales call preparation questions and industry forecasts, help you make more informed business decisions in less time.


• Mergent Historical SEC Collection: Includes all of the filings from EDGAR (1993-present) and is growing collection of historical SEC filings back to the late 1960’s. Historical filings are being added over time, starting with 10K reports, each filing report will be added to the collection incrementally.


• FTSE Russell Collection Monthly Index Reviews, Valuations Monthly and Monthly Market Valuations: PDF monthly reports (start dates vary from 2010-2016). Content is regularly updated with no more than a one to two month delay in access.


• Listing Statements & Applications: includes New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Listing Applications (1823-2000) and Listing Statements (1884-1945), and American Stock Exchange (AMSE) Listing Applications (1883-2000). In addition, there are New York Curb Market (NYCM) Listing Bulletins (1928-1929), and New York Curb Exchange (NYCE) Listing Bulletins (1929-1933) and Listing Applications (1933-1953).

Mergent Intellect is a highly flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Coupling Mergent's expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B's private company database, Mergent Intellect offers a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more. (For better viewing use Mozilla Firefox as your browser.)

Provides global detailed financial data for over 35,000 active and inactive companies. Contains business ratios, historical information, SEC filings and US annual reports for over 15,000 public U.S. companies, as well as international company data for approximately 17,000 companies, including international annual reports, FactSheets, and country information. U.S. Company Archives Data holds the full business descriptions, histories and financial statements for companies that were acquired, went bankrupt, liquidated or merged out of existence from 1996 onward. Users can also determine the 25 largest institutional holders for every U.S. company, as well as examine aggregate institutional buyers and sellers data. Search by company name or ticker symbol, or search across all global boundaries to find companies that match specific financial and/or textual search criteria. The D&B 20 Million Plus Private Company Database is now part of Mergent Online. Supply Chain provides comprehensive coverage of companies, including their products, major customers, suppliers, partners, and industries.

Also included are the Ford Equity Research Reports (aka: Mergent Equity Investment Research Reports) - Mergent Online offers the current issues of multi-page equity research reports released weekly for over 5500 U.S. companies. The reports provide ratings, recommendations, sector analysis, and company financial information. For the previous 3 years of this title please see the Mergent Archives database.

Contains over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources, including deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. Areas covered include:

• NEWS Full text of hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and newswires from the U.S. and around the world Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch and other foreign-language newspapers and magazines
• LEGAL Comprehensive coverage of US federal and state case law and statutory law Law review articles from over 500 publications Legal news from more than 300 legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters Patents from 1971 forward
• BUSINESS Company Dossier service, including detailed financial and operating data on over 43 million US and international companies Business and trade publications SEC filings

ProQuest Historical Annual Reports covers over 800 companies and contains digital reproductions for more than 43,000 reports. The database is an excellent source for research on companies, industries, American history, graphic design, advertising, and corporate architecture. Key data include: financial information; Fortune 500 ranking; industry classification; key people; geographic location; auditor; and related companies. Reports can be browsed by company name, industry or date.

SimplyAnalytics has data which answers key business research questions, provides small businesses with a tool for making sound business decisions, and helps users understand the socio-demographic and economic conditions of any geographic area in the United States. There are thousands of data variables related to demographics, employment, housing, market segments, businesses, consumer spending and brand preference. This geographic information resource allows for extraction and comparison of data for specific geographic areas as small as a zip code or Census block. It also provides colored maps and spreadsheets for business plans.

SimplyAnalytics offers the following data for the U.S.:

• Nielsen PRIZM: Make comprehensive and precise insights when using lifestyle and consumer behavior segmentation. PRIZM by Nielsen defines every U.S. household in terms of 66 demographic and behavior types or segments. Helps discern consumer preferences, consumer spending, consumer behavior and lifestyles.
• Dun &Bradstreet Company Data: Access detailed profiles of more than 30 million U.S. businesses provided by D&B, the world's leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses. Add business points to your map to find the best place to locate your business, manage the competition, or identify services. Also export the data to a spreadsheet for additional functionality.
• Mediamark Research (MRI): Extract current estimates of usage and consumption (propensity) for thousands of very specific and detailed products, including actual brand data.
• Historical Census Data: View 1980, 1990 and 2000 data to learn how geographic regions have changed over time.
• Accurate and up-to-date Street Data. Perform highly accurate location analysis to support critical business/social decisions. Create high quality presentation maps.
• Shapefiles & Data Export .SHP files into advanced Geographic Information (GIS) software.

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Statista is an online statistics, market research and business intelligence portal. It provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government institutions in English, French, German and Spanish.

Trade Catalogues and the American Home explores domestic consumerism, life and leisure in America between 1850-1950. This resource presents a wealth of highly illustrated primary source documents that highlight commercial tastes and consumer trends, and provide a valuable visual record for a breadth of interdisciplinary study. This collection provides evidence of the evolution of distribution and communication systems linking manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers across the emerging United States and beyond. It documents the changing commercial tastes and fashions of the consumer over a period of rapid growth, expansion and crisis (both at home and overseas), revealing contemporary prices and economic expenditure for households and individuals on a range of products.

Interrogation of trade catalogues, trade cards and marketing ephemera provides opportunities for interdisciplinary research across the social sciences including:

• Material culture
• Social history
• History of business and marketing
• The rise of mail order and department stores
• The role of women, both within the home and without
• The changing nature of consumerism
• The idea of the ??American Dream??
• Mass production
• The effects of conflict on business and consumerism
• Consumer habits and purchasing power within this timeframe.