Basic business research to help with most any research
It is the intent of this guide to provide general assistance for any business related research project. To start your project:
- Identify the purpose
- Identify the audience
- Identify the context
- Identify all of the facts and ideas
- Organize facts and ideas
- Identify the best medium for the message
Articles - scholarly, news, and trade
- ABI/Inform (ProQuest One Business)Comprehensive business and economics database with global coverage featuring thousands of full-text journals, working papers, trade publications, dissertations, videos, wire feeds, market research reports, and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. This collection is comprised of the following databases: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collection; Business Market Research Collection; Entrepreneurship Database; J.P Morgan Research; and the Business Video Database.
- EconLitEconLit provides full text coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature – articles, as well as working papers covering both economic theory and application. This is a full text database.
Use this database for all economics-related research including economic growth, Social Security, capital markets in specific countries, welfare reform, labor economics, urban economics, and to investigate trends in financial planning, retirement, and pension programs. - FactivaGlobal in scope, Factiva is a very powerful research tool providing information on companies, stock quotes, and business/financial news. It covers business/financial news from 118 countries and 22 languages. Sources include the news, business and trade publications, newswires, and transcripts. Search publications by title, industry, geographic location, type, and language. This is a full text database.
Use this database for business research, company research, stock information, and industry research.
Databases for further research
- Business Source EliteCoverage includes: marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, and company profiles. This a full text database.
Use this database for articles, company information, industry information and market information. - IBIS WorldIBIS World provides access to industry reports for over 700 US industries. Data covered includes Industry Performance, Industry Outlook, Competitive Landscape, Operating Conditions, and Key Statistics.
Use this database whenever doing Industry research. - MarketLineMarketLine is one of the most prolific publishers of business information today, profiling all major companies, industries,and geographies, globally. MarketLine has both SWOT analysis and five forces analysis.
Use this database for Industry research as well as basic company research. - MergentMergent is a financial database providing data on company financial research for foreign and private companies. Data includes business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt, and capital stock. Financial history goes back 20 years.
Use this database for company research. - Nexis UniFeatures 15,000+ news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1790.
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