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What are our main business databases?
Business Source Complete
An EBSCO database with all subject areas related to business.
NEW- Business Insights: Essentials (replacing the Gale resource Business & Company Resource Center. Contains the same content, plus more) : Good for information on industry and some companies. Provides indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals in addition to popular and trade magazines and newsletters. The database also includes other sources of full text information such as financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, faculty seminars (videos), and more.
CCH Tax Research Network
Documents related to taxation in the United States. Access limited to 35 concurrent users.
Edgar - The SEC database for financial reports from public companies.
LexisNexis Academic - Select the "business" tab. Has information on larger companies and many articles from trade journals and publications including Financial Times. Includes newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, broadcast transcripts as well as directories, corporate profiles, SEC Filings, business, industry and market news
Mergent Online - Mergent Online offers research and analysis for more than 10,000 U.S. companies, including annual reports and executive biographies.
Marketline Business Information Center (Datamonitor)- Analysis and data on 10,000 companies, 2,000 industries, and 110 countries. SWOT reports maybe more current then Business & Company Resource Center. Good for international business data.
ReferenceUSA - A directory of Public & Private Companies. Searches can produce results from most small businesses and include information on income, number of employees and location.
S&P 500
The S&P 500® has been widely regarded as the best single gauge of the large cap U.S. equities market since the index was first published in 1957. The index has over US$ 5.58 trillion benchmarked, with index assets comprising approximately US$ 1.31 trillion of this total. The index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy, capturing 75% coverage of U.S. equities.
S&P /TSX Composite
The S&P/TSX Composite is the headline index for the Canadian equity market. It is the broadest in the S&P/TSX family and is the basis for multiple sub-indices including but not limited to equity indices, Income Trust Indices, Capped Indices, GICS Indices and market cap based indices. The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) serves as the distributor of both real-time and historical data for this index.
Tax Management Portfolios
Resource on tax law for domestic and foreign income, includes source documents.
Thomas Register of Manufacturers - limited to Manufacturers
Value Line Research Center - Financial information about large and mid-cap U.S. public companies: historical, forecasts, market performance, analyst consensus, beta, key ratios, business description, and commentary.
The Wall Street Journal articles can be found through Factiva.
Montana Manufacturers Information System- The University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, along with Montana State University’s Montana Manufacturing Extension Center and the Montana Department of Commerce , have built the Montana Manufacturers Information System (MMIS) to address the geographic disadvantages Montana manufacturers face. The MMIS brings Montana Manufacturers closer to each other electronically, if not physically, by providing detailed and up-to-date information about each manufacturer's products, processes, and capabilities in one free easily accessible website.
Subject Guide |
 Susanne Caro Subjects: Government Documents |
Privately Held Companies
How do databases get information on privately held companies?
They look at government sources
They look at news reports
And search company websites and blogs.
Source
The material presented here is based in large part on the work done by members of the BRASS Education Committee
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