Databases

The Library of Congress subscribes to many databases though they are only available to onsite researchers. Check to see what you have access to through a local public or university library. For legal questions, contact the Law Library of Congress.

The subscription resources marked with a padlock are available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress. If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these resources through your local public or academic library.

Article Databases

To aid in the use of these online databases, we suggest the following keywords or phrases that can be used to locate articles on CSR: "corporate social responsibility;" OR "CSR;" OR "social responsibility of business;" OR "social responsibility;" OR "corporate responsibility;" OR "sustainable development;" OR "sustainability;" OR "corporate governance;" OR "green business;" OR "fair trade;" OR "business ethics.”

ABI/INFORM Collection External This link opens in a new window
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.
Academic Search Complete External This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, Academic Complete (formerly Premier) offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Subject areas covered include: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. Updated on a daily basis.
Business Economics & Theory Collection External This link opens in a new window
The Business Economics & Theory Collection prevents users from having to sift through worthless yields from the open Web by offering instant access to full-text academic journals and magazineswith a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Included are journals such as Business Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economic Inquiry, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, Corporate Adviser, Journal of International Finance and Economics, Logistics Manager, RAND Journal of Economics, Strategic Finance, The Futurist. Powered by InfoTrac, Business Economics & Theory Collection includes over seven million articles, including coverage of Kiplinger Handbooks such as Retire Worry Free, Switching Careers, Making Money in Real Estate, Financing College and more. Researchers will also value the inclusion of exclusive video feeds from forbes.com highlighting current business news and interviews with CEOs and entrepreneurs.
Business Source Complete External This link opens in a new window
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.
JSTOR External This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many disciplines. The Library of Congress's subscriptions to JSTOR provide access to thousands of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR works with a diverse group of nearly 1,200 publishers from more than 57 countries to preserve and make their content digitally available.

Also provided is access to JSTOR Daily, which offers a fresh way for people to understand and contextualize their world. JSTOR Daily writers provide insight, commentary, and analysis of ideas, research, and current events, tapping into the rich scholarship on JSTOR. In addition to weekly feature articles, the magazine publishes daily blog posts that provide the backstory to complex issues of the day in a variety of subject areas, interviews with and profiles of scholars and their work, and much more.

Company, Business, and Industry Databases

These databases provide company information as well as general company, business, and industry information.

Business Insights: Global External This link opens in a new window
Business Insights: Global presents business professionals, entrepreneurs, and the general business researcher with access to comprehensive international business intelligence, compiled into a logical, useable context.
- Professionals have access to detailed information on global businesses, comprehensive overviews on countries, interactive rankings and stats, and quick links to associated news, case studies and articles
- Entrepreneurs have the ability to compare multiple metrics, suggested metrics and inline article content allowing them to explore the broader context behind events and trends they perceive in economic data
- Business researchers will increase productivity by locating hard-to-find data, accomplishing tasks and meeting goals more quickly and easily with advanced search features and extensive deep links within search results.
Factiva External This link opens in a new window
Factiva is a vast full text archive of publications and up-to-the-minute reports and news focusing on global developments and business. Combines over 35,000 sources from the Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing to provide premium business content from 200 countries and in 26 languages. Factiva is very strong in trade journals and company reports.
Requires username/password; see reference staff for assistance.
GreenFILE External This link opens in a new window

GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles that draw on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. The database contains over 500,000 records, with full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for hundreds of titles more. Greenfile includes comprehensive coverage for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948).
Nexis Uni External This link opens in a new window
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
Mergent Online External This link opens in a new window
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.
OECD iLibrary External This link opens in a new window

OECD iLibrary is the gateway to OECDs analysis and data. Contains all the publications and datasets released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessement), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998. Arranged under 19 thematic areas covering issues in agriculture and food, development, economics, education, employment, energy, environment, finance and investment, governance, industry and services, nuclear energy, science and technology, social issues, taxation, trade, transport, and urban, rural and regional development. Types of OECD publications include ebooks, papers, statistics, factbook and glossaries.
NOTE: To access SourceOECD Books, Papers, Statistics, Factbook, or Glossaries, please click on the appropriate tab.
PAIS International External This link opens in a new window
PAIS International now includes PAIS Archive. Chronicling global public policy and social issues, the Public Affairs Information Service provides citations to over 3,600 journal articles, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from over 120 countries. Retrospective material dates from the early twentieth century through the mid-1970s. Worldwide in geographic scope, PAIS includes coverage of publications in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with English language abstracts and subject headings that deal with public affairs. Links to web resources and publisher websites. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Filings & Forms (EDGAR) External This link opens in a new window

EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors, corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the agency.

Legislative and Legal Databases

This section offers sources for current federal legislative and regulatory information as well as sources for news and analysis on legislative topics, public policy and social issues. For legal questions, consider contacting the Law Library of Congress.

Congress.gov
Presented by the Library of Congress, Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. It includes searchable bills, the Congressional Record, information on current legislation, committee schedules and calendars, and House and Senate member information. Users can search legislative search terms using key words like "business ethics."
Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII)
The Legal Information Institute (LII) publishes and provides fee web access to legal information in many areas of law ranging from the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, Supreme Court decisions, bankruptcy procedures, legal commentary, and many other resources.

GovInfo External This link opens in a new window
GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

These three components comprise GPO’s world-class system for the comprehensive management of electronic information:
- 1. Public access - GPO combines modern search technology with extensive metadata creation to ensure the highest quality search experience. Users can easily access documents for free by searching or browsing the mobile-friendly website.
- 2. Content management – GPO securely controls digital content throughout its lifecycle to ensure content integrity and authenticity. This includes the application of digital signatures to PDF files so users can verify documents have not been altered and are the official versions.
- 3. Digital preservation – GPO’s standards-compliant preservation repository follows archival system standards and ensures content is preserved for future generations despite technical failure, aging of hardware, or technological change. GPO is seeking to become the first Federal agency to be named as a Trustworthy Digital Repository for Government information through certification under ISO 16363.
To see what is available on the GovInfo site, go here. For users accustomed to the old GPO site (FDsys), GPO has created a page to help in locate materials on the GovInfo site: See here.
HeinOnline External This link opens in a new window
Contains over 6,500 full-text ejournals, ebooks, and reports covering domestic and international law. Sources include government legal notices, treaties and agreements, and Supreme Court rulings. Resources available include:
- ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals
- American Law Institute Library : consists of full runs of the Institute's Annual Reports, Proceedings, Annual Meeting Speeches, and the Institute's newsletter, The ALI Reporter.
- Code of Federal Regulations : includes more than 8,000 volumes dating back to 1938
- Congress and the Courts
- English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865) : contains more than 100,000 cases, together with the Indexes and Book of Charts
- European Center for Minority Issues : contains several publications of the ECMI, including Reports and Working Papers.
- Federal Register Library : dates to 1936 and includes the CFR (from 1938) as well as the United States Government Manual (1935) and the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 1965).
- Foreign & International Law Resources Database : FILRD includes the publications of the American Society of International Law along with prominent Yearbooks from around the world (including the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice series).
- Foreign Relations of the United States
- Hague Academy Collected Courses Online Collection
- Harvard Research in International Law
- History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & Economic Reform in America Part III
- Israel Law Reports
- History of Supreme Court Nominations
- Immigration Law & Policy in the U.S.
- Kluwer Law International Journal Library
- Law in Eastern Europe
- Legal Classics : contains more than 1,300 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history
- Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
- Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory: includes the historical archive from its inception in 1868 to 1963.
Additional information on the contents of this resource may be found here.
Nexis Uni External This link opens in a new window
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 Asian & European Business Collection External This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Asian & European Business Collection contains the merged content of two formerly separate databases: ProQuest Asian Business and Reference and ProQuest European Business. This merged English-language database offers detailed information on companies, economies, markets, business conditions, and international trade, providing in-depth coverage of the world's most important areas of economic activity. It provides news at national and regional levels from key newspapers, magazines, and journals and offers core national and regional statistics, business profiles, as well as frequently updated economic, financial, and demographic series and analysis. Organizational, directory, and biographical information for national government, the civil service, and business and cultural organizations is searchable, as is a full-text archive of government documents, legislation, and policy and analysis papers and publications from more than 110 leading titles, including The Economist, Fortune, and European Business Journal. Proquest Asian & European Business Collection also includes information on specific economic and market conditions in countries and regions throughout Europe and Asia.
ProQuest Congressional External This link opens in a new window
Explore government in action with the most comprehensive web-based resource available for congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research.

The resource includes:
- Hearings 1824-present: published, temporary and unpublished hearings, including written and oral statements of witnesses, transcripts, reports, exhibits, correspondence and other materials.
- CRS Reports 1916-present: Reports from the Congressional Research Service provide nonpartisan research and analysis on public policy issues and news events.
- House and Senate Documents/Reports 1789-present: Reports on legislation and documents included for Congress. Includes documents and reports from the Congressional Serial Set.
- Legislative Histories 1969-present: trace the development of a public law from early consideration to enactment.
- Bills and Laws 1776-present: legislative proposals and enacted legislation.
- Miscellaneous publications 1789-present: Includes publications from Congressional Committees and other government entities such as GAO, CBO, the American State Papers and the House and Senate Journals.
- Vote reports 1987-present: vote reports on bills with details by member, party and sponsor.
- Maps 1789-2007: Includes maps from the Congressional Serial Set.
- Congressional Record 1789-present: provides a record of debates and remarks given on the floor of the House and Senate.
- Executive Branch 1789-1948: Includes material issued by federal departments and agencies, including annual reports, general publications, serials, instructions, rules, circulars, decisions, and registers.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Resource Guide

Databases

Article Databases

Company, Business, and Industry Databases

Legislative and Legal Databases