Research Guides: Business: Quick Links to Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Indexes business and management journals worldwide; covers corporate strategies, marketing, product development, industry conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and more. Includes the full text of articles from many publishers and links to full text options for other articles. 1923 to present.
Advertising Insights (fka Ad$pender) This link opens in a new window
Database of top level advertising expenditure, across 18 media and for 3+ million brands. Historical 10-year database of national summary spending trends, accessible by industry, parent company, and brand.
Encyclopedia of Associations (fka Associations Unlimited) This link opens in a new window
Find associations by name, acronym, keyword or geographic location. Especially good for non-profit organizations and finding professional/trade associations. Covers national, regional, and international.
BCC Research This link opens in a new window
BCC's market research reports explore major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology organizations. Industry analysis and market forecasts for advanced materials, high-tech systems and components, nanotechnology and novel processing methods are at the forefront of the company's expertise.
BizMiner This link opens in a new window
Granular industry statistical reports and market analysis reports at the national and local levels down to the zip code. Industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and market trends for thousands more.

Bloomberg
Real-time news, financial and economic data. Worldwide pricing of bonds, stocks, commodities, currencies, money markets, and mortgages, with historical data. Economic time series, company financial statements, press releases, analysts forecasts, company filings and prospectuses, executive profiles, and more. Bloomberg terminals are available in Feldberg Library.

Business & Community Analyst - ArcGIS This link opens in a new window
Data on demographics and business locations, consumer spending and purchasing power at multiple geographies, national to block-group levels.
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Indexes business journals worldwide; covers marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, economics and more. Also includes financial data, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses. Includes the full text of articles from many publishers and links to full text options for other articles. 1886 to present.

Calcbench
A database and research tool for financial statement analysis, financial accounting, and auditing of public companies using SEC data.

Capital IQ This link opens in a new window
S&P Capital IQ provides a wealth of information on companies, markets and people. Covers market intelligence, financial analysis, screening and targeting, and relationships between people and organizations. Register for an account.
Claritas 360 This link opens in a new window
This service contains market profile reports, lifestyle analysis reports, demographics reports and PRIZM reports. Includes Nielsen and Experian Simmons data. Must use Internet Explorer as your browser.
CountryData (PRS Group) This link opens in a new window
Provides political, economic and financial ratings for over 160 countries back to the 1980s.
D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
162 million+ public, private, and nonprofit global companies. News, corporate overviews, financial data, market research reports, analyst reports, executive biographies, SWOT analysis, significant developments, strategic initiatives, industry norms, market share. Create lists of companies that match a given set of criteria.
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets This link opens in a new window
Repository of standardized and structured statistical data: 25 billion data points in over 4.3 billion datasets sourced from over 70 authoritative government and private sources.
Subjects: Statistics and Data, Business/Finance, Social Sciences: Political Science (election data, campaign finance, lobbying revenue, etc.), criminal justice, social work, Demography, International Studies, Economics, Agriculture, Education, Nursing/Public Health, Environment/Climate Data/Energy and more. Help Guide

Datastream
Global historical data and analytics: equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly formats, covering 30+ years. Excel compatible. Restricted to Dartmouth College community. Datastream is on computer #3 located in Feldberg at Tuck in Curley (Raether 134).
EASI Market Planner
Data-Planet database on: Consumer Behavior & Expenditures, Consumer Price Index, Consumer Spending Analytics, Demographics (EASI Profiles & Census), Gross Domestic Product, Health, Industries, Life Stages, Media Use, Quality of Life, and Retail Sales. About EASI & Search Examples

EconLit This link opens in a new window
Indexes 30+ years of economics literature from around the world. Compiled by the American Economic Association, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations.
EIU Viewpoint This link opens in a new window
From the Economist Intelligence Unit, providing information on the business, economic, and political environment for nearly 200 countries. Detailed reviews and analysis of political and economic events, with a 1-2 year political outlook and economic projection.
eMarketer This link opens in a new window
Provides market research on the following industries & topics: Automotive, Consumer Products, Financial Services, Healthcare & Pharma, Insurance, Media & Entertainment, Retail, Travel, Advertising & Marketing, B2B, Demographics, Email, Measurement, Media Usage, Mobile, Retail & Ecommerce, Search, Social Media, and Video. eMarketer's research team aggregates data from over 4,000 research firms, consultancies, government agencies and universities around the world. Also provides Benchmarks & Forecasts and a Digital Atlas of internet, mobile phone users, and more around the world.

EMIS Emerging Markets
Provides information about emerging market countries, their companies, and industries. It includes country profiles; macroeconomic statistics, forecasts, and analysis; reports on financial markets, companies and industries; exchange rates; analyst reports; and business news, both in English and the local languages.

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Indexes and provides full text to 33,000 news and business information sources from 200 countries in 28 languages, includes regional and industry publications, newspapers, newswires, Web and blog content.

Film Industry Data
Provides access to vital data (Nielsen) previously unavailable to students and researchers. It allows ranking of films by box office receipts, actors or other contributors. 1,000 rankings each week since 2000 for the US, 1994 for the UK. The sales rankings tell the story of the impact of film on society and cultures.
Financial Times
One of the worlds leading business news organizations, providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community. Dartmouth users must register here using your @dartmouth.edu email address.
FIVEProject
The FIVE Project aims to accelerate and broaden the reach of research on firm and industry evolution and related areas of entrepreneurship. Downloadable data sets include: historical workstation sales, photolightography, breweries, and shipbuilding.
Forrester
Research and analysis on emerging technology and its impact on business, including areas of information technology, marketing and strategy, and technology marketing and sales.
Note: Restricted to Tuck community: Register for login.

Foundation Directory Online This link opens in a new window
Consists of a searchable database of the information in The foundation directory about U.S. foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities; includes links to foundation web sites, links to 990-PF's (foundation tax filings) and application guidelines. Also contains database of grants awarded by the top funders.
Frost & Sullivan This link opens in a new window
Covers Aerospace & Defense, Automotive & Transportation, Business & Financial Services, Career Research, Chemicals, Materials & Foods, Consumer Products, Education, Electronics and Security, Energy & Power Systems, Environment & Building Technologies, Healthcare, Industrial Automation, Information & Communication Technology, Measurement & Instrumentation, and Metals & Minerals. Coverage is both US and Global.

Gartner This link opens in a new window
IT research including statistics, forecasts and market analysis on the Hardware, Software, IT Services, Communications, and Semiconductor markets.
GlobalData: Disruptor This link opens in a new window
Decodes emerging tech-enabled opportunities with information on promising start-ups, technology led innovations, latest sector trends, consumer insights, and venture capital portfolio investments. Covers these technologies: artificial intelligence, blockchain, connected devices & IoT, digital business, payment technologies, robotics & drones, security tech, and others within these verticals: consumer, retail, financial services, and healthcare.
GlobalData: Medical This link opens in a new window
Medical device intelligence covering 16 key therapy areas: cardiovascular, orthopedics in vitro diagnostics, general surgery, diagnostic imaging, healthcare IT, wound care, diabetes, dental, neurology, nephrology and urology, anesthesia and respiratory, ENT, and ophthalmology. Find marketsize and growth, procedures data, pipeline products, company profiles, clinical trials, reports/analysis, news and deals.
GlobalData: Oil & Gas This link opens in a new window
Research solutions covering the full breadth of the oil & gas industry, from exploration to refining, data and analysis across the upstream, midstream, downstream and petrochemicals sectors.
GlobalData: Power This link opens in a new window
Covers renewables, carbon emissions and trading, hydrogen and fuel cells, coal to gas, gas to liquids, biomass to liquids and nuclear industries. 25,000+ power plants, 16,000+ companies, and hundreds of research reports.
Global Financial Data This link opens in a new window
Financial and economic time series data covering 200 countries and 20,000 different data series. Includes data on markets from 1690, exchange rates from 1590, interest rates from 1700, commodities from 1500, and inflation from 1264.
Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new window
Overviews of 175 nations & territories around the world. Topics include: Business Culture, City Views, Climate, Communications, Country Facts, Demographics, Education, Electrical, Embassies/Consulates, Food and Recipes, Health & Medical, Holidays and Festivals, Human Rights, Language, Maps, Money and Banking, Music, National Symbols, Photo Gallery, Points of Interest, Religion, Security Briefing, Society & Culture, Technical/Internet, Transportation, and Travel Essentials.

GreenFILE
"GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology."

GuideStar Pro This link opens in a new window
A database of millions of US nonprofit organizations. Search for organizations and people by name, geography, financials, or a variety of other criteria. Reports include general information on the nonprofit, people, mission and programs, goals and results, Form 990 filings, and financial data.
IBISWorld: Industry This link opens in a new window
A collection of market research reports for over 700 U.S. industries and almost 60 global industries. Reports are typically 30-60 pages in length and include key statistics, market segmentation, market characteristics, industry conditions, key factors, key competitors, industry performance, and outlook.

ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha is a digital media platform that covers impact investing, sustainable finance, ESG, and entrepreneurship. They offer a daily newsletter and multiple podcasts. The website includes articles, profiles of “agents of impact” and opinion pieces. First time users click on the link and select "register".
International Financial Statistics Online
1948 to current. International Monetary Fund. Detailed tabulations of international and domestic finance data by country. Time series data summarize each country's balance of payments, with collateral data on major financial components such as trade and reserves, and data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, international transactions, prices, production, government finance, and interest rates.

Leadership Connect This link opens in a new window
Background and contact information on leaders in the United States government.
MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
Country-specific industry reports include market overviews, data, segmentation, outlook and five forces analysis. Company reports include financials, top competitors, deals and SWOT analyses.

McKinsey Quarterly
Journal of the global management-consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Articles offer new ways of thinking about management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.
Mergent Archives
Mergent Corporate Manuals (fka Moody's):

Bank and Finance: 1928 -
Industrial: 1923 -
International: 1981 -
OTC Industrial: 1970 -
Public Utility: 1914 -
Transportation: 1909 -
OTC Unlisted: 1986 -

Mintel Academic This link opens in a new window
Market research reports and consumer data covering US and Global consumer markets and products (emphasis on Western European and US): Automotive; Beauty; Clothing and Footwear; Drink; Financial Services; Food; Foodservice; Health and Wellness; Household Care; Leisure and Entertainment; Lifestyles; Personal Care; Retail; Technology; Travel. Also includes demographic data on Affluent Consumers, Baby Boomers, Kids, Men, Millennials, Mothers, Multicultural, Singles, Teens, and Women.

Morningstar Direct
Global investment database and analytics provides information on investments, including data on closed-end funds, equity ownership, exchange traded funds, hedge funds, market indexes, money market funds, offshore funds, open-end mutual funds, pension/life insurance, stocks and 529 plans.
Note: Available from public computers in Feldberg. Restricted to Tuck community: See login details.

MRI Simmons Insight This link opens in a new window
Information on demographics, lifestyles, product and brand usage and advertising media preferences; create magazine lists with audience and circulation rates.

Music Industry Data
Repository of historical and current data from Billboard, Official Chart Company, GfK Entertainment and many more reporting agencies from over 30 countries around the world. Sales data drives the rankings. Rankings tell the story of the impact of music on society and cultures.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full text resources on topics including current and general news; business and financial information; newspapers; company directories; government and politics; medical and health topics; accounting, auditing, and tax; federal and state laws; legal cases; regulations; and patents.

NYT.com - New York Times
Register to access NYT.com from your laptop, phone, or other mobile device. Use your Dartmouth email address.

Orbis This link opens in a new window
306+ million public and private companies worldwide: financials in a standardized format, financial strength indicators, ratings, directors and contacts, filings, stock data, PE data, detailed corporate ownership structures, industry research, news, M&A deals and rumors, and global patent agreements.

OSIRIS (via WRDS)
Osiris has information on listed, and major unlisted/delisted, companies around the world. The information is very detailed and includes a lot more than financial reports. Different templates are used to show accounts in the correct formats for their company type and location. It covers around 80,000 companies. Access via WRDS.

Passport This link opens in a new window
Market research data for 210 countries & 27 industries, including: market sizes, market data & forecasts, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands, economic indicators, demographic data, foreign trade statistics, and more.
PitchBook This link opens in a new window
PitchBook tracks every aspect of the public and private equity markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A. Research and analyze companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the entire private investment lifecycle.

Users are limited to 10 downloads per day and 25 downloads per month. (1 download = 1 row of data on an Excel file).
Preqin Private Equity This link opens in a new window
Preqin provides data on the private equity and venture capital industry: investors, firms, funds, fund performance, fund terms, deals and exits, service providers and more. Buyout, venture capital, growth, turnaround, fund of funds and other strategies.

PressReader
Database that includes 250 newspapers from 55 countries in facsimile formthat means all newspapers are readable in their original format, layout and pagination. Texts are searchable, and about 30 papers (LA Times, Washington Post, etc.) have enhanced features ("SmartNavigation") for easy reading or cutting and pasting. The file for each newspaper goes back 60 days.

PrivCo This link opens in a new window
Business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. PrivCo also covers venture capital funding deals, private equity deals, and merger acquisition data.
ProcurementIQ This link opens in a new window
Market research tailored for procurement, each report includes information on: Price Environment (benchmarks, pricing models/drivers/trends); Product Characteristics ( life cycle/cost of ownership/regulation); Supply Chain & Vendors (market share/switching costs); Purchasing Process; Negotiation Questions; Buyer Power Score.
ProQuest Business This link opens in a new window
Search across 17 databases of scholarly, business & trade publications, and newspapers in nearly every area of business, economics, banking, trade, and industry. Also includes Hoover's company profiles.

ProQuest Statistical Insight
Provides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from over 100,000 U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and approximately 2000 documents from international organizations from 1983. Incorporates ASI subject and keyword searching. Full text or web links provided for some citations.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
Refinitiv Workspace This link opens in a new window
Refinitiv provides information on public & private global companies and includes: financials and filings, overview, news & corporate events, deals, share ownership, and analyst reports. Refinitiv also provides market views as well as screening and analysis for companies, deals/league tables, private equity, mergers and acquisition data, and more. Register for Refinitiv

Responsible Investor
Responsible Investor focuses on business-critical news and data dedicated to covering responsible investment, ESG, and sustainable finance for institutional investors globally. To access RI you will need to request an account. Once your account has been created you will receive an email with your password.

S&P's NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
Industry surveys of 50+ major U.S. industries, including current environment, industry profile, trends, how the industry operates, key industry ratios & statistics, how to analyze the industry and downloadable comparative company analysis.
ScienceDirect Journals This link opens in a new window
Journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books, including business, management, accounting, decision sciences, economics, econometrics and finance.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with bibliometrics tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It contains over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and Arts & Humanities. Scopus has 55 million records dating back to 1823, 84% of these contain references dating from 1996.

SSRN: Social Science Research Network
Social science research papers, working papers series, conference papers across 24 disciplines including: accounting, corporate governance, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, health economics, innovation, ebusiness, leadership, management, marketing, negotiation, and sustainability.

Statista: the leading statistics portal This link opens in a new window
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

Taxnotes
Taxnotes provides news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals. You have
- Tax Notes Federal
- Tax Notes State
- Tax Notes International
- Exempt Organizations
Register here using your Dartmouth email address.

Technavio This link opens in a new window
Market research reports on global industries including, communication, consumer services/discretionary/staples, energy, financials, health care, industrials, information technology, materials, and utilities. Use netid@dartmouth.edu email address for downloading.

The Deal
News and analysis about deals, M & A, private equity, venture capital, LBO's and dealmakers published by TheDeal.com. Includes Bankruptcy Insider.
Wall Street Journal
WSJ.com - Wall Street Journal
Register to access WSJ.com from your laptop, phone, or other mobile device. Use your Dartmouth email address.

WARC.com This link opens in a new window
WARC provides a wide range of information on advertising and marketing, including worldwide trends, case studies, consumer insight, ad expenditure data, rankings of marketing campaigns and companies, best practices, news, and more.

Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.

Westlaw
Provides search interfaces to cases, statutes and legislative materials, and encyclopedias; legal guides on various topics; famous documents; and pre-law topics.
World Factbook
Country information, including: history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues, maps of the major world regions, flags of the world, a physical map of the world, a political map of the world, a world oceans map, and a standard time zones of the world map.

WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services This link opens in a new window
Wharton's business data research service - our subscription includes access to: Bank Regulatory, Blockholders, Bureau van Dijk (Amadeus & Osiris), CBOE Indexes, COMPUSTAT, Compstat Global, CRSP, CUSIP, ComScore, DMEF Academic Data, Dow Jones, Eventus, FDIC, Fama French & Liquidity Factors, Federal Reserve Bank, IBES, MFLINKS, Morningstar CISDM, Option Metrics, PHLX, Penn World Tables, SEC Order Execution, TRACE, Thomson Reuters

WSJ Pro Venture Capital & Private Equity
News, analysis, and data on global private equity and venture capital trends from the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones. (Restricted to the Tuck community)

Zephyr This link opens in a new window
Global information on 1 million M&A, IPO, Private Equity and Venture Capital deals and rumors. Search by hundreds of criteria, including multiples; analyze a set of deals; refer to original sources (translated into English); and integrated financials for companies involved.