Business & Finance Databases

Articles from Trade Magazines and Journals

Business Source Premier: Start here to find articles on most business and management topics.
ABI/Inform Complete: Covers hundreds of magazines and journals including articles from the Wall Street Journal (1984 to present).
Business & Company Resource Center: To do an article keyword search, use the “Advanced Search” button. To search for articles arranged by subject, click the “Articles” button.

CCH Research NetWork: CCH publications on current news, practices, guidelines, cases, laws, and regulations regarding human resource management, employment and health law, occupational safety, pension, payroll, benefits, etc.
Lexis-Nexis Academic: Click the Legal tab, then use the menu to access state & federal statutes, case law, and law review articles and international legal materials.

BIZCOMPS (part of BVMarketData): Reports transactions of small private “Main Street” businesses.
Deluxe BVUpdate (part of BVlibrary.com): Provides timely, concise, authoritative, access to the business valuation literature presented in books, articles, and court cases allowing you to keep abreast of the current theory and practice in the field.
DoneDeals Online: Provides merger and acquisition details for private and public mid-market companies sold for purchase prices between $1 million and $1 billion.
Economic Outlook Update (part of BVlibrary.com): Each quarterly issue contains the relevant economic data needed to prepare a thorough business valuation report. Includes general economic and investment conditions; consumer prices, spending and confidence; inflation and interest rates; unemployment; stock and bond markets; energy prices; and construction and manufacturing data.
Mergerstat (part of BVMarketData): Quantifies the minority discount and control premium data used in business valuation and appraisals of public companies.
Pratt's Stats (part of BVMarketData): Highlights the details of sales of large privately and closely held companies.
Public Stats (part of BVMarketData): Reports transaction details of public company sales.

Business & Company Resource Center: A company search in this database will link to a company profile, articles, company histories, investment reports, rankings, industry overviews for the company's lines of business and associations relevant to the company/industry.
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic: This database offers access to multiple company directories and can cover small to large companies in a single search. An Adobe PDF Guide to Searching Companies on Lexis-Nexis Academic is linked here.
Regional Business News: Covers over 70 business journals, newspapers and newswires from U.S. urban and rural areas.

NetLibrary: Over 15,000 online current and classic books in a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (from the ): Provides a combined search of a number of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference sources in various subject areas. Users may also choose to search for content in a single source from the collection.

Business & Company Resource Center: Do a company search to retrieve the company directory listing then use the “Investment Reports” tab to access Reuters investment information or the “Financials” tab to access basic stock data and financials.
Mergent Online: Excellent source for financial statements and other data on U.S. public and international companies.
TWST: The Wall Street Transcript: Provides interviews with corporate CEOs, round tables, money managers and major and niche investment sector analysts.
Value Line Investment Survey: Includes information on large cap stocks and industries.

D & B Key Business Ratios: Provides selected ratios for hundreds of industries.
Industry Market Research: Reports on industry market research, business environment, company research, and global industry.
Integra 5-Year Industry Data Reports (part of BVMarketData): Provides industry financial benchmarks for privately-held companies in over 900 industries.
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage: Online access to Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys.

EIU ViewsWire: “Daily business intelligence on 195 countries.”
Lexis-Nexis Academic: Click the Business tab to access U.S. and international company directories and country profiles including business opportunities and country briefings; the News tab to search U.S. and international news; and the Legal tab to search for international legal materials.
Stat-USA: The US Dept of Commerce's database on US and international business statistics and documents.
WISERTrade: Source for international trade statistics and company listings.