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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.
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.

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.

EDGAR (SEC)
All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free.
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.

Global Financial Data This link opens in a new window
Provides historical stock market, financial, and economic data unavailable from any other online source. The GFD Database includes over 20,000 current and historical data series covering over 200 countries that have been collected from original sources.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

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 US Industry Reports
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.

ISI Web of Knowledge This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive research platform for searching journal articles, patents, websites, conference proceedings, Open Access materials in the Arts, 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.

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

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.
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.
ThomsonOne
Financial data for over 55,000 active public companies globally. The company overview also provides key information to quickly understand all facets of a public company including key ratios, capital structure, latest deals, top holders, events, plus credit ratings. Financial analysts research from Investext.
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.

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.

WRDS
nternet Access to Compustat, CRSP, Compustat/CRSP Merged Database, I/B/E/S and TAQ data. Limited to faculty and PhD students. Students may have faculty sponsor access. Faculty may apply for class accounts for their students. Contact Business Librarian.

Investext Reports on D&B Hoovers (OneSource)
A good selection of current and historical company investment research reports are available on OneSource. Just look up a public company, go to the Company Summary page, then select "Analysts' Reports" on the left-hand navigation menu.

S&P NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
Broad spectrum of industry, company and investment analysis including S&P Industry Surveys, Stock Reports (S&P Equity Research), and “Markets” tab with drill downs to industry and sub-industry key ratios, benchmarks, constituents, etc. Company data covers a global universe of over 3 million private and public companies.
Refinitiv Workspace This link opens in a new window
Refinitiv Workspace covers global markets, global pricing data, company fundamentals, investment research, commodities, currencies, fixed income, I/B/E/S earnings estimates, and Lipper funds. Includes Datastream and Reuters News. Gators self-register for free personal accounts.

Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo's Fiance Portal for news, analysis, quotes, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other investments.

Best of the Web: Investing
Big Charts
Bloomberg
Bonds Online
CBS MoneyWatch.com
Personal finance advice, analysis and financial planning
CNBC
Stock market news, business news, financial, earnings, world market news and information
CNNMoney
Business, financial and personal news,commentary and data
FINRA Market Data
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's investor education and market data site with interactive tools
InvestinginBonds.com
Bond investing, quotes and market data
Investopedia
InvestorGuide
Iporesources.org
MarketWatch
Morningstar
The Motley Fool
MSCIBarra
MSN Money
Investing: Stock Quotes, Charts & Market News
Reuters
Worldwide business, financial and market news and data.
SEC Investor Education
Seeking Alpha
Site-by-Site
The International Investment Portal & Research Center
SmartMoney
StockTwits
Share investing ideas and learn from professional traders
TheStreet.com
Free quotes, financial news and analysis
Superstar Investor Directory
WhisperNumber.com
Yahoo! Finance