Use Wall Street Journal from ProQuest to access today's paper and archives going back to 2010. You can also search for individual articles by title in OneSearch.

Access a student or instructor feedback form from the library website so we can hear about your library instruction experience. 

Financial Industry Databases allow you to search stock market and financial information. These databases work best with public companies.

Edgar: A government database operated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through Edgar. Anyone can access and download this information for free. 

Thomas Register of Manufacturers: Research information on 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.

WISERTrade: Focus on analytics and comprehensive data on international trade from 107 countries. 

How do databases get information on privately held companies?
They look at government sources:

• Patent and Trademarks
• Court records

They look at news reports:

• LexisNexis
• Business Source Complete
• Access World News: Research Collection

And search company websites and blogs.

The material presented here is based in large part on the work done by members of the BRASS Education Committee.