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
CRSP - Center for Research in Security Prices	The Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business provides end-of-day and month-end prices on all listed NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ common stocks with basic market indices as well as an annual update of daily and monthly Treasury data on bond issues. Tutorials	Current	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
Wiley Interscience	Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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Reference Web Sites

Library Workshop Handouts

Career Searching (PDF)
Company Research handout (PDF)

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