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ABI/Inform 1900 - present ABI/INFORM Complete provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country and indus... Access Database ABI/Inform

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ABI/Inform 1900 - present ABI/INFORM Complete provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country and indus... Access Database ABI/Inform
Academic Search 1975 - present Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are index... Access Database Academic Search
Business Source Complete 1886 - present Business Source Complete provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazi... Access Database Business Source Complete
Checkpoint (Thomson Reuters) Current Checkpoint is a resource for accounting and tax research. At the core of this resource is Thomson Reuters' Federal Tax Coordinator 2nd and United States Tax Reporter. Checkpoint also includes resou... Access Database Checkpoint (Thomson Reuters)
D&B Business Browser Formerly OneSource Global Business Browser. Provides robust intelligence on companies, executives, and industries, as well as news, analyst reports and SEC filings. Use the search boxes on the data... Access Database D&B Business Browser
IBISWorld Industry Reports IBISWorld is a leading publisher of U.S. industry research. IBISWorld's team of expert analysts covers 700 different market segments. Each industry report is presented in an objective, easy to unde... Access Database IBISWorld Industry Reports
Mintel Academic 2001 - present The Mintel Academic database provides in-depth reports that analyze market size and segmentation, consumer attitudes and marketing strategies relative to hundreds of consumer products in the United... Access Database Mintel Academic
ReferenceUSA Current ReferenceUSA is a database providing access to information on over 25 million businesses and more than 262 million consumers. Business listings include such data as company names, phone numbers, co... Access Database ReferenceUSA
Simmons Insights Data is rolling 2 years behind. U.S. consumer data including demographics, psychographics, product usage, spending behavior and media habits. The data is compiled from the Simmons National Consumer Study of U.S. adults age 18 and... Access Database Simmons Insights
Wolters Kluwer Cheetah 1940s - present Federal, state, and international tax information and materials, and practice materials in antitrust law, securities, and health & human resources. Includes Federal Securities Law Reporter, Securit... Access Database Wolters Kluwer Cheetah

Articles Databases

ABI/Inform 1900 - present ABI/INFORM Complete provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country and indus... Access Database ABI/Inform
Academic Search 1975 - present Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are index... Access Database Academic Search
Business Premium Collection 1971 - present Business Premium Collection The most comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collect... Access Database Business Premium Collection
Business Source Complete 1886 - present Business Source Complete provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazi... Access Database Business Source Complete
EconLit 1969 - EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly English language journals, dissertations, working papers, and books in the field of economics. Also included are the full-text of book reviews ... Access Database EconLit
Factiva Dates Vary Factiva provides access to more than 31,000 sources from more than 200 countries in 26 languages. Newspapers, trade and scholarly journals, TV and radio transcripts, and news wires covering a wide ... Access Database Factiva
Google Scholar Dates Vary Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of researc... Access Database Google Scholar
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Dates Vary JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, bota... Access Database JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts) 1800s - present This database from the American Psychological Association (APA) contains more than three million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical repor... Access Database PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)
ScienceDirect 1995 - present ScienceDirect is an information source for scientific, technical, and medical research. (Updates vary). UW-Madison has licensed a subset of Elsevier ejournals and ebooks through ScienceDirect. Thi... Access Database ScienceDirect
Scopus Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database that covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Access Database Scopus
SpringerLink Dates Vary SpringerLink provides full-text online access to Springer's journals, E-books, reference works, and protocols included in our subscriptions and "preview-only" access to materials outside of our sub... Access Database SpringerLink
Web of Science Arts & Humanities, 1975 to present; Science, 1900 to present; 1965 - for Science; Social Sciences, 1900 to present; Conferences, 1990 to present The Web of Science is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (... Access Database Web of Science

Company Research and Financial Ratios Databases

Business Source Complete 1886 - present Business Source Complete provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazi... Access Database Business Source Complete
Calcbench Database and research tool for financial statement analysis, financial accounting, and auditing of public companies using SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) XBRL data. (Updated daily) Access Database Calcbench
D&B Business Browser Formerly OneSource Global Business Browser. Provides robust intelligence on companies, executives, and industries, as well as news, analyst reports and SEC filings. Use the search boxes on the data... Access Database D&B Business Browser
Factiva Dates Vary Factiva provides access to more than 31,000 sources from more than 200 countries in 26 languages. Newspapers, trade and scholarly journals, TV and radio transcripts, and news wires covering a wide ... Access Database Factiva
J.P. Morgan Research 2011 - present J.P. Morgan Research The database features thousands of analyst reports covering over 3,000 global companies and all industries. Derived from Morgan Markets – which is J.P. Morgan’s exclusive infor... Access Database J.P. Morgan Research
Marketline MarketLine provides original industry, company, market analysis, and country reports and data based on published research and primary and secondary data sources. This growing collection currently i... Access Database Marketline
Nexis Uni Dates vary Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) offers access to more than 17,000 news, legal and business sources, including print and online journals; television and radio broadcasts; newswires and blog... Access Database Nexis Uni
Preqin Pro Real Estate Preqin Pro Real Estate: Global Real Estate Data, Insights and Market Intelligence. This resource provides an overview of the real estate industry. It includes institutional future investment plans,... Access Database Preqin Pro Real Estate
ReferenceUSA Current ReferenceUSA is a database providing access to information on over 25 million businesses and more than 262 million consumers. Business listings include such data as company names, phone numbers, co... Access Database ReferenceUSA

E-Books Databases

Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost) Dates vary The EBSCOhost Ebook Collection (formerly called NetLibrary) provides full-text searching to over 11,000 eBooks from multiple academic publishers. The topics cover a broad range of scholarly discipl... Access Database Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost)
National Academy Press 1981 - present The National Academy Press (NAP) platform provides access to thousands of full text titles published by the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and ... Access Database National Academy Press
OECD iLibrary 1998 - present NOTE: This resource was cancelled on 9/1/2019, after which access will be limited to content published prior to 9/1/2019, and will not include any updates to content made after that date. OECD iLib... Access Database OECD iLibrary
Oxford Handbooks Online Current Oxford Handbooks Online provides access to the full text of more than 190 plus titles published as part of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks series, plus specially commissioned keywords and abstract... Access Database Oxford Handbooks Online
ProQuest Ebook Central Dates vary. ProQuest Ebook Central is a collection of more than 135,000 full-text ebooks covering a wide range of subjects, including business and economics, computers, technology and engineering, humanities, ... Access Database ProQuest Ebook Central
ScienceDirect 1995 - present ScienceDirect is an information source for scientific, technical, and medical research. (Updates vary). UW-Madison has licensed a subset of Elsevier ejournals and ebooks through ScienceDirect. Thi... Access Database ScienceDirect
SpringerLink Dates Vary SpringerLink provides full-text online access to Springer's journals, E-books, reference works, and protocols included in our subscriptions and "preview-only" access to materials outside of our sub... Access Database SpringerLink
Wiley Online Library The Wiley Online library provides full-text searching across thousands of ebooks and millions of articles from the life, physical, health, and social sciences, as well as the humanities disciplines... Access Database Wiley Online Library

Industry Research and Industry Averages Databases

ABI/Inform 1900 - present ABI/INFORM Complete provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country and indus... Access Database ABI/Inform
Business Premium Collection 1971 - present Business Premium Collection The most comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collect... Access Database Business Premium Collection
Business Source Complete 1886 - present Business Source Complete provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazi... Access Database Business Source Complete
D&B Business Browser Formerly OneSource Global Business Browser. Provides robust intelligence on companies, executives, and industries, as well as news, analyst reports and SEC filings. Use the search boxes on the data... Access Database D&B Business Browser
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets 1930s - present Provides simple and refined searching of the Data-Planet repository of standardized and structured statistical data, and others. Datasets include public-domain and licensed information. Users can s... Access Database Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
Factiva Dates Vary Factiva provides access to more than 31,000 sources from more than 200 countries in 26 languages. Newspapers, trade and scholarly journals, TV and radio transcripts, and news wires covering a wide ... Access Database Factiva
IBISWorld Industry Reports IBISWorld is a leading publisher of U.S. industry research. IBISWorld's team of expert analysts covers 700 different market segments. Each industry report is presented in an objective, easy to unde... Access Database IBISWorld Industry Reports
IbisWorld ProcurementIQ Current IBISWorld's Procurement Reports cover a multitude of indirect purchasing lines. These detailed reports, ranging from 15-20 pages, cover product/service pricing dynamics, product characteristics tha... Access Database IbisWorld ProcurementIQ
J.P. Morgan Research 2011 - present J.P. Morgan Research The database features thousands of analyst reports covering over 3,000 global companies and all industries. Derived from Morgan Markets – which is J.P. Morgan’s exclusive infor... Access Database J.P. Morgan Research
ProQuest Statistical Insight 1973 - present NOTE: This database will be cancelled effective, July 1, 2020. Statistical Insight contains abstracting and indexing data for more than 5,000 federal statistical publications per year from 1973 to ... Access Database ProQuest Statistical Insight
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (ThomasNet) Current The primary source of product information for about 157,000 North American manufacturing companies. The database includes 135,000 trade names organized into 50,000 product classes. (Updated quarterly) Access Database Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (ThomasNet)

International and Country Research Databases

BBC Country Profiles Current This site supplies information on the history, economy, and politics of countries and territories. Each profile includes an overview, map, facts, and current leaders. A media overview provides info... Access Database BBC Country Profiles
Business Premium Collection 1971 - present Business Premium Collection The most comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collect... Access Database Business Premium Collection
Business Source Complete 1886 - present Business Source Complete provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazi... Access Database Business Source Complete
CountryWatch 1993 - present CountryWatch is a combination of textual and statistical sources on more than 190 countries. Lengthy Country Reviews give a complete historical, political, economic, investment, social, and environ... Access Database CountryWatch
D&B Business Browser Formerly OneSource Global Business Browser. Provides robust intelligence on companies, executives, and industries, as well as news, analyst reports and SEC filings. Use the search boxes on the data... Access Database D&B Business Browser
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets 1930s - present Provides simple and refined searching of the Data-Planet repository of standardized and structured statistical data, and others. Datasets include public-domain and licensed information. Users can s... Access Database Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
IMF Data including International Financial Statistics (IFS) 1948 - present The IMF eLibrary Data contains a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates, and other economic and financial indicators. The International Financial Statistcs (IFS) has been one of I... Access Database IMF Data including International Financial Statistics (IFS)
J.P. Morgan Research 2011 - present J.P. Morgan Research The database features thousands of analyst reports covering over 3,000 global companies and all industries. Derived from Morgan Markets – which is J.P. Morgan’s exclusive infor... Access Database J.P. Morgan Research
Marketline MarketLine provides original industry, company, market analysis, and country reports and data based on published research and primary and secondary data sources. This growing collection currently i... Access Database Marketline
Nexis Uni Dates vary Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) offers access to more than 17,000 news, legal and business sources, including print and online journals; television and radio broadcasts; newswires and blog... Access Database Nexis Uni
Political Handbook of the World 2012 This handbook contains facts and analysis on the governmental and political makeup of more than 200 countries and territories throughout the world. In addition, it profiles the current issues and c... Access Database Political Handbook of the World
World Bank Data The World Bank Group provides free online access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe--some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is ... Access Database World Bank Data
World Factbook Current The World Factbook contains overviews of each country in the world, including brief data on geography, people, government, economy, membership in international organizations, communications, and de... Access Database World Factbook

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ABI/Inform 1900 - present ABI/INFORM Complete provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country and indus... Access Database ABI/Inform
American FactFinder 2000 - present The U.S. Census Bureau developed American FactFinder as its primary vehicle for distributing census data. American FactFinder provides access to data from the Decennial Census, the American Communi... Access Database American FactFinder
Business Premium Collection 1971 - present Business Premium Collection The most comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collect... Access Database Business Premium Collection
Business Source Complete 1886 - present Business Source Complete provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazi... Access Database Business Source Complete
IBISWorld Industry Reports IBISWorld is a leading publisher of U.S. industry research. IBISWorld's team of expert analysts covers 700 different market segments. Each industry report is presented in an objective, easy to unde... Access Database IBISWorld Industry Reports
IbisWorld ProcurementIQ Current IBISWorld's Procurement Reports cover a multitude of indirect purchasing lines. These detailed reports, ranging from 15-20 pages, cover product/service pricing dynamics, product characteristics tha... Access Database IbisWorld ProcurementIQ
Marketline MarketLine provides original industry, company, market analysis, and country reports and data based on published research and primary and secondary data sources. This growing collection currently i... Access Database Marketline
Mintel Academic 2001 - present The Mintel Academic database provides in-depth reports that analyze market size and segmentation, consumer attitudes and marketing strategies relative to hundreds of consumer products in the United... Access Database Mintel Academic
Preqin Pro Real Estate Preqin Pro Real Estate: Global Real Estate Data, Insights and Market Intelligence. This resource provides an overview of the real estate industry. It includes institutional future investment plans,... Access Database Preqin Pro Real Estate
ReferenceUSA Current ReferenceUSA is a database providing access to information on over 25 million businesses and more than 262 million consumers. Business listings include such data as company names, phone numbers, co... Access Database ReferenceUSA
Simmons Insights Data is rolling 2 years behind. U.S. consumer data including demographics, psychographics, product usage, spending behavior and media habits. The data is compiled from the Simmons National Consumer Study of U.S. adults age 18 and... Access Database Simmons Insights
Social Explorer 1790 - Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical U.S. census data and demographic information. The easy-to-use web interface lets users... Access Database Social Explorer

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ABI/Inform 1900 - present ABI/INFORM Complete provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country and indus... Access Database ABI/Inform
Academic Search 1975 - present Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are index... Access Database Academic Search
Bloomberg Businessweek Archive 1929 - 2000 Bloomberg Businessweek Archive is a complete digital version of the Businessweek backfile. Coverage starts at the magazine’s first issue in 1929 through December of 2000. Bloomberg Businessweek has... Access Database Bloomberg Businessweek Archive
Business Premium Collection 1971 - present Business Premium Collection The most comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collect... Access Database Business Premium Collection
Canadian Major Dailies 1985 - present This is the core of Canadian Newsstand. Included are national and leading regional papers such as National Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Po... Access Database Canadian Major Dailies
Economist Historical Archive (1843-present minus 5 years) 1843 - present minus 5 years The Economist Historical Archive provides searchable, full-text access to every issue of the The Economist from 1843 to the present minus 5 years, covering political, business, scientific, technolo... Access Database Economist Historical Archive (1843-present minus 5 years)
Factiva Dates Vary Factiva provides access to more than 31,000 sources from more than 200 countries in 26 languages. Newspapers, trade and scholarly journals, TV and radio transcripts, and news wires covering a wide ... Access Database Factiva
Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2016) 1888 - 2016 The Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete run of the London edition of this daily paper, from its first issue through 2016. Every article, advertisement and market listing is inc... Access Database Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2016)
Fortune Magazine Archive 1930 - 2000 Fortune Magazine Archive provides a cover-to-cover format of that long running magazine from February 1930 through December 2000. Fortune Magazine was published monthly by Time Inc., the magazine s... Access Database Fortune Magazine Archive
International Newsstream 1980 - present International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-... Access Database International Newsstream
Newspaper Source Plus Newspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles. The database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as The Boston G... Access Database Newspaper Source Plus
Nexis Uni Dates vary Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) offers access to more than 17,000 news, legal and business sources, including print and online journals; television and radio broadcasts; newswires and blog... Access Database Nexis Uni
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889-2000) 1889 - 2000 Full text, fully searchable, of all issues of the Wall Street Journal for this time period. (Updated annually, present minus 25 years). Access Database ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889-2000)
Regional Business News Varies Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources. This r... Access Database Regional Business News

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ABI/Inform 1900 - present ABI/INFORM Complete provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country and indus... Access Database ABI/Inform
Business Premium Collection 1971 - present Business Premium Collection The most comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collect... Access Database Business Premium Collection
Business Source Complete 1886 - present Business Source Complete provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazi... Access Database Business Source Complete
Checkpoint (Thomson Reuters) Current Checkpoint is a resource for accounting and tax research. At the core of this resource is Thomson Reuters' Federal Tax Coordinator 2nd and United States Tax Reporter. Checkpoint also includes resou... Access Database Checkpoint (Thomson Reuters)
Factiva Dates Vary Factiva provides access to more than 31,000 sources from more than 200 countries in 26 languages. Newspapers, trade and scholarly journals, TV and radio transcripts, and news wires covering a wide ... Access Database Factiva
Nexis Uni Dates vary Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) offers access to more than 17,000 news, legal and business sources, including print and online journals; television and radio broadcasts; newswires and blog... Access Database Nexis Uni
Wolters Kluwer Cheetah 1940s - present Federal, state, and international tax information and materials, and practice materials in antitrust law, securities, and health & human resources. Includes Federal Securities Law Reporter, Securit... Access Database Wolters Kluwer Cheetah

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Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive late 1800s - 2000; 19th and 20th centuries An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through 2000. ... Access Database Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
PsycARTICLES 1894 - present The PsycARTICLES® database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 150,000 searchable full text a... Access Database PsycARTICLES
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Sociological Abstracts 1952 - present The Sociological Abstracts database indexes and abstracts 2,000 worldwide journals in sociology. Relevant dissertations have been added since 1986. Also included is the Social Planning Policy and D... Access Database Sociological Abstracts

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