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Recommended Databases: Business

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ABI-Inform Dateline via ProQuest Direct
Focuses on hard-to-find local and regional business news. MORE DETAILS...

1985+
ABI-Inform Global via ProQuest Direct
In-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management, advertising, marketing, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+
ABI-Inform Trade & Industry via ProQuest Direct
Provides users with the latest trade and industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+
Business and Company Resource Center via Gale
Global business info: company profiles, industry ranking, stock prices, investment reports, industry statistics, marketing data, emerging tech reports, etc. MORE DETAILS...
Business Source Elite via Ebsco
Covers topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. MORE DETAILS...

1990+

Business Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers today's leading English­language business magazines. Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1990+
Full text: 1995+

choose Omnifile with Business as subject
CountryWatch
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world: political, economic, and business information. MORE DETAILS...

Factiva
A joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters. Search the full-text of 8000 international business and general publications; Screen for U.S. and foreign companies matching your criteria; Get financial profiles for companies worldwide; Get historical stock prices as well as currency data and market indexes, etc. MORE DETAILS...



Global Market Information Database from Euromonitor
An integrated database providing key business intelligence, marketing data and reports on countries, companies, markets, and consumers from over 200 countries. MORE DETAILS...

Mergent Online
Provides detailed inform about public companies in the United States and around the world. Use Mergent Online to find basic information like addresses and industry codes, financial highlights, company histories, actual financial reports, annual reports, real-time news, and insider stock holdings. MORE DETAILS...
ProQuest (all databases)
ProQuest is organized into databases of related newspapers, magazines, and academic journals that you can use to find documents. The information in each database varies, depending on its focus. MORE DETAILS...

Reference USA - Business Data
C
ontains basic information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses. MORE DETAILS...

Standard & Poor's Net Advantage
Covers markets, industries, stocks, bonds, dividends, and S&P Analysis. Search by publication or by type of data, including companies, executives, industries, stocks, bonds, funds, dividends. S&P Publications included: Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund Reports, The Outlook, Standard & Poor's Register, Stock Guide and Stock Report. MORE DETAILS...

Wall Street Journal Online
RIT Libraries has access to the full-text of the WSJ via two databases: Factiva and Proquest. Both allow you to browse and search the WSJ but Factiva is superior for browsing and Proquest for searching.

Go to WSJ in Factiva
(best choice
for browsing)


Go to WSJ in Proquest
(best choice
for searching)
additional databases

Business and Industry Database via FirstSearch
A multi­industry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information. MORE DETAILS...


1994+

Business and Management Practices via FirstSearch
Provides info on business and management issues. Covers business methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications. MORE DETAILS...


1995+
Business Intelligence Channel via Dialog1
Covers business associations and foundations, biographical info on company leaders, company details, financials, industry, product information. MORE DETAILS...

Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS...

1998+
Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.

The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS...

ebrary
A collection of 13,000+ electronic books (ebooks) online. Strong in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks
Encyclopedia of Associations via Gale
A comprehensive source of detailed information on over 135,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide: professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups of all types
. MORE DETAILS...

Gartner is provided to the RIT community by ITS. You must enter your RIT computer account for access.

This  website provides online access to the following research services:
Gartner Reference
Access to Gartner Core Research, including focus area topics, Gartner blogs, Gartner Fellows, and Magic Quadrants and Hype Cycles.
Gartner Dataquest
Provides a statistical picture of more than 35 major IT and telecom markets. Five-year trends are forecasted in five key markets based on extensive Gartner data gathering across the world.

Hoover's Online
Covers 50,000 public and private enterprises worldwide. Business info includes news, business features, lists, stock quotes, and global industry overviews. MORE DETAILS...

ISI Emerging Markets
Covers Latin America, Eastern Europe, and E
astern and Southeastern Asia. For each country, info about current events, companies and industries, financial markets, macroeconomic issues, and legal and political affairs. MORE DETAILS...

LexisNexis Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE DETAILS...

Marketing Channel via Dialog1
Covering aspects of marketing: business to business, business to consumer, competitive intelligence, market awareness, market demographics, news and literature. MORE DETAILS...
MasterFile Select via Ebsco
Full text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, humanities, and multicultural periodicals. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+

Mintel Market Research Database
Provides Market and Consumer Research across selected US Categories and selected European Categories.  Each study provides a synthesis of both primary and secondary data and analysis, which combine to provide you with a powerful academic research tool. MORE DETAILS...

NARC Online Archives
NARC's mission is to foster truth and accuracy in national advertising through voluntary self-regulation. NARC Advertising Law Reports are provided on the partner website of the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB.) MORE DETAILS...

netLibrary
A collection of approximately 4500 titles of electronic books (ebooks) online. Conduct full-text searches of every word in every ebook available in our subscription. RIT Library and other libraries have joined together to make up the Nylink Custom Library collection. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks
Reader's Guide Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the US and Canada. MORE DETAILS...

1994+

then search within omnifile
Regional Business News via Ebsco
Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. MORE DETAILS...

varies
Research Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.MORE DETAILS...

1971+
Rochester Business Journal Full Text Archive
Contains articles and features from the Daily Edition on the Internet and the newspaper’s hard-copy publications.

1996+
Science Direct via Elsevier
Access to the full text of 1,000+ journals icluding management and social science, from Elsevier. MORE DETAILS...

1995+

SIRS Researcher
Select full-text articles covering a a variety of social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

Social Sciences Citation Index
Published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI); Delivered via the Web of Science platform.
The Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®) and Social SciSearch® provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. MORE DETAILS...


1991+

STAT-USA
A service of the US Department of Commerce, this is the site for the US business, economic and trade information from the US government. MORE DETAILS...

Thomas Register (U.S.)
Comprehensive directory of US and Canadian manufacturers, listing over 156,000 industrial product and services companies.

Thomas Global Register
Thomas Global is the most complete, up-to-date directory of global industrial suppliers and product information. Browse through the detailed list of industrial products and services to access companies within these and many other categories.

WDI Online (World Development Indicators)
Provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators with time series for 207 countries from 1960 to 2000, where data are available.
Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. MORE DETAILS...

Wilson Business Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers today's leading English­language business magazines. Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1990+
Full text: 1995+

then search within omnifile

 

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