Databases by Subject - Company
See also Business & Management, Economics and Industry.
| Database Title | In Quick Find | Description | Coverage | Some Full Text | Restricted to...† |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ABI Inform |
Provides abstracts of articles from international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines on business and management topics.Titles Indexed | 1971- | N | ||
Blackwell Synergy |
Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles Included | Search Help | 1879- | Y | ||
EBSCOhost Business Source Premier |
Includes full text for 2,300+ business journals, indexes 3,300+ titles, as well as industry reports and company profiles from Datamonitor. Journals Included | Other Sources | Tutorial | 1922- | Y | ||
EDGAR |
Financial reports and filings submitted by US publicly traded companies to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Includes press releases, quarterly (10-Q) and annual (10-K) reports, insider trading reports, and more. 10-K reports give very detailed information about a company's products, businesses, operations, competitors, and markets. | 1994- | Y | ||
General BusinessFile ASAP |
InfoTrac database includes business and industry articles, company directory listings, and investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. Titles Included | 1980- | Y | ||
Google Scholar |
Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities. | Varies | Y | ||
![]() JSTOR |
Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included | Search Tips | 1800s- | Y | ||
Hoovers |
Company and industry overviews, profiles, competitors, and IPO Central. Help Center | Current | Y | ||
LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic |
Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Choose Business > Company Profiles > to screen for companies by industry code or search by company name.Titles Included | Search Tips | Varies | Y | ||
![]() Massachusetts Newsstand - Proquest CSA |
Access to the full text of thirteen newspapers: Titles Included | Help | Varies | Y | ||
Regional Business News |
Through EBSCOhost, search full text & abstracts of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Titles Included | 1993- | Y | ||
Standard & Poor's Research Insight - Compustat |
Compustat current and historic financial company data on global corporations. Use Research Insight an analytical software to screen for companies by wide range of investment and financial criteria. |
Quarterly | Y | ||
Standard & Poor's Research Insight - ExecuComp |
80 different compensation related data items on public corporations top 5 executive officers. | Varies | Y | ||
Thomson One Banker Analytics |
Find global company financial information provided from Thomson, I/B/E/S, Disclosure, Worldscope, includes current/historical SEC filings, spreadsheet-ready financials, and more. Search Tips | Manual | Current | Y | ||
![]() Wall Street Journal - ProQuest |
Full text of newspaper of offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics. | 1984- | Y |
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Reference Web Sites
Library Workshop Handouts
- Career Searching (PDF)
- Company Research handout (PDF)
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network account may use the proxy
server to access this resource from off
campus.
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