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Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new window
An essential guide for companies and individuals traveling to or doing business in foreign countries. Includes business culture, communications, demographics, money and banking, points of interest, security, society and culture, tips for businesswomen, transportation, and travel essentials.

ABI/INFORM Complete
Combined content from ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and the ABI/INFORM Archive. Indexes, abstracts and full text from thousands of business periodicals.

Access World News This link opens in a new window
The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one easy-to-search database with a world map.

BCRC: Bus & Co Res Ctr
Provides access to a wide variety of global business information including competitive intelligence, career and investment opportunities, business rankings, company histories and much more.

BuildingGreen.com This link opens in a new window
Environmental building news, projects, and resources.

Business Insights
Business Insight offers hundreds of international market research reports on Consumer Goods, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology, Telecoms, eCommerce and Human Resources.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Full text coverage business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Harvard Business Review.
Additional full text includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Datamonitor360
Global Market Research

EconLit This link opens in a new window
The American Economic Association's electronic database. Comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. 1969 to date.

Factiva
14,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles.
Gale Databases
A suite of databases including Biography Resource Center, Business and Company Resource Center, Gale Business Resources, General Business File ASAP, History Resource Center, General OneFile, Investext Plus and LegalTrac.
GMID: Global Market Information Data
Key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets and consumers. GMID provides over 4,500 market reports, offering in-depth strategic analysis for consumer, industrial and service sectors. There are global reports, country and company reports.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and more.

Hoover's Online
Provides company profiles, corporate directory (searchable by company name, industry, ticker symbol, sales, location), market quotes, and business news. Includes Hoover's company profile database. Includes First Research Industry Reports.
IBISWorld
Features over 700 reports on U.S. industries written at the 5-digit level of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Each report of about 25-30 pages uses Michael Porter's "Five Competitive Forces" framework.
Investext on D&B Hoovers
OneSource provides access to selection of Investext reports on more than 11,000 public and private corporations and 53 industries. Investext integrates financial, marketing and corporate information, company and industry analyst reports.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

LexisNexis
Research areas in LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe cover news,industry, and market news; legal news and research; company financial information; general medical topics ; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; case law; U.S. Code.

MarketResearch.com This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive business information from leading market research publishers on a broad range of markets, industries, and companies worldwide.

Mintel Reports
Covers a wide range of sectors and topical marketing issues. Divided between UK-specific, European and USA reports, Mintel reports analyze market sizes and trends, market segmentation, and consumer attitudes and purchasing habits, and future prospects.

D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
D&B Hoovers provides key company, executive and industry intelligence. One database with millions of fully-integrated global company profiles, executive listings and corporate structures. Multi-year archive of corporate financials, news, SEC filings, and analyst reports. Includes Hoovers & First Research
ProQuest National Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
An Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Includes Mediamark Research’s (MRI) Survey of the American Consumer.

Standard & Poor's
Includes: Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Global industry Surveys, Monthly Investment Review, Mutual Funds, Register, Security Dealer's of North America, Stock Guide, Stock Reports, The Outlook.
Statistical Universe
LexisNexis Statistical provides fast and easy access to statistics produced by Federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations with its advanced Search Tables functionality - the shortcut to finding statistics online.
TableBase
International database that specializes exclusively in tabular data dealing with companies, industries, products and demographics. Tables cover market share, rankings, forecasts, shipments, output, consumption, users, exports, imports, capacity and more.
Thomson One Banker
Integrates company financial data from Worldscope, daily pricing data and indexes from Datastream, I/B/E/S earnings estimates, indexes from ILX, press releases from PR Newswire, Extel reports and company filings.
Thomson Research
U.S. and foreign public company financial data, full-image annual reports, financial tearsheets, proxy statements, and searchable EDGAR filings.

ULI Case Studies This link opens in a new window
ULI Case Studies showcase innovative approaches and best practices in real estate and urban development. Each case study focuses on a specific development project

Wall Street Journal
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Wall Street Journal Historical
The Wall Street Journal (1889-1990) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This resource offers access to journal articles in the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities. Web of Science contains over 100 years of valuable research, fully indexed and cross-searchable.
Wilson Business Full Text This link opens in a new window
Wilson Business Full Text provides access to a multitude of outstanding magazines and scholarly journals, including indexing and abstracts for key publications such as The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal.
Wilson Omnifile This link opens in a new window
Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad. Users have access to information on virtually any subject.

Featured Resources

ULI Case Studies This link opens in a new window
ULI Case Studies showcase innovative approaches and best practices in real estate and urban development. Each case study focuses on a specific development project
Factiva This link opens in a new window
14,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles.
D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
D&B Hoovers provides key company, executive and industry intelligence. One database with millions of fully-integrated global company profiles, executive listings and corporate structures. Multi-year archive of corporate financials, news, SEC filings, and analyst reports. Includes Hoovers & First Research
OneSearch This link opens in a new window
Discovery tool that searche across the libraries holdings for articles, books, reports, digital holdings and more
D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
D&B Hoovers provides key company, executive and industry intelligence. One database with millions of fully-integrated global company profiles, executive listings and corporate structures. Multi-year archive of corporate financials, news, SEC filings, and analyst reports. Includes Hoovers & First Research
SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
An Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Includes Mediamark Research’s (MRI) Survey of the American Consumer.

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American Real Estate Society
The leading U.S. Real Estate research association
Appraisal Institute
Global membership association of professional real estate appraisers
Bankrate.com
News, interest rates and calculators
Census Data
Population, housing, economic, and geographic data
CoStar
Commercial Real Estate Information Company
CPNOnline
Commercial Property News Online
Cushman & Wakefield
Global real estate firm. Free registration provides access to reports
FannieMae
Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) chartered by Congress with a mission to provide liquidity and stability to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets.
Federal Housing Finance Board
Monthly Interest Rate Survey
Find GIS
Florida GIS data
Florida Property Appraisers
Florida Realtor
Articles, reports and data on the Florida residential real estate
Freddie Mac
Company chartered by Congress to increase the supply of funds motage lenders make available to homebuyers and multifamily investors
geodata.gov
One stop for finding and using geographic data
Global Real Estate Forecast
Knight Frank and Newmark overview of the world's property markets
HUD
U.S. Housing and Urban Development website
Lincoln Land Institute
A leading resource for policy makers and practitioners, LLI addresses issues involving the use, regulation, and taxation of land
MIT Center for Real Estate
Commercial real estate indices and more
Mortgage Bankers Association
National association representing the real estate finance industry
NAI Global
Commercal Real Estate Services, Worldwide
National Real Estate Investor
commercial real estate investing and development
OFHEO
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise website
REALTOR.com
Official site of the National Association of REALTORS
REIT.com
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts website
REITNet.com
Information on Real Estate Investment Trusts
Showcase.com
Commerical Real Estate Listings
Urban Land Institute
As the preeminent, multidisciplinary real estate forum, ULI facilitates the open exchange of ideas, information and experience among local, national and international industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better places.
WSJ Real Estate
Real estate information from The Wall Street Journal
Yahoo! Real Estate
Yahoo's real estate information center
Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center
Wharton's real estate program
Zillow
Free residential real estate valuation estimates