Databases by Subject - Company

See also Business & Management, Economics and Industry.

Database Title	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	For best results, use Proxy
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: The Boston Globe The Boston Herald The Worcester Telegram & Gazette More... 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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