LibGuides: Business &amp; Economics Resource Guide: Research Databases

Primary Databases

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains references to more than 1,300 journals plus indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. Subject areas include marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics.
Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, faculty seminars (videos), and more. Dates covered: 1960s-present.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
IBISWorld offers expert market reports, trends, projections, statistics, and analysis for hundreds of areas; covers a wide variety of American industries
Updated semi-regularly through the year with current information, reports include information on market size, business competitors, and risk assessment.
Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
Mergent Online offers a wealth of textual detail on company financials, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries, officers, and directors.
It includes financial details of over 25,000 active and inactive U.S. companies and over 300,000 annual reports from globally listed companies. Archived reports for over 10 years are available. Daily updates on confirmed executives from all U.S. traded companies featuring over 150,000 profiles on current and former executives including executive biographies and compensation information are provided.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
IBISWorld offers expert market reports, trends, projections, statistics, and analysis for hundreds of areas; covers a wide variety of American industries
Updated semi-regularly through the year with current information, reports include information on market size, business competitors, and risk assessment.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 80 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.
Covers all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S. Includes content predominantly from newspapers, newswires, trade publications, and magazines. Dates covered: 1990s-current (plus some older coverage) Included in OneSearch
Sage Business Cases This link opens in a new window
SAGE Business Cases is a robust digital collection of business cases providing faculty, students and researchers with unlimited access to thousands of authoritative cases from over 100 countries.
Featuring both SAGE Original Cases and cases from twenty global content partners, the collection spans a wide range business and management disciplines from leadership and entrepreneurship, to family business and women in leadership. The platform allows for easy browsing, downloads, and sharing, and most cases include teaching notes and discussion questions to ensure effective classroom use.

This Search tool will search through and offer results from: Business Source Complete, Regional Business News, eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), Newswires

Business Article Databases

Business Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This database indexes nearly 900 business magazines and journals, full text available in over half of the resources. Coverage includes product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, and statistical rankings.
Also included are obituaries, surveys, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, and conferences. Dates covered: 1982-present.
Entrepreneurial Studies Source This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 200 periodicals and reference books, in addition to case studies, company profiles, and videos with transcripts from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV
Included in OneSearch
Human Resources Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database covering all areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance and organizational behavior. It contains hundreds of thousands of records from industry-leading journals and magazines.
Subjects include personnel management, human capital, industrial relations, employee motivation, corporate culture, recruitment, affirmative action programs, discrimination, and diversity.
Mergent Archives This link opens in a new window
Mergent Archives features a vast, indexed collection of more than a century’s worth of global corporate and industry related documents. It contains digitized copies of Mergent/Moody’s Manuals, published annually since 1909.
Each Manual provides extensive information on U.S. corporations, including company history, properties, subsidiaries, numbers of employees and shareholders, consolidated financial statements, capital stock, long-term debt, and more.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 80 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.
Covers all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S. Includes content predominantly from newspapers, newswires, trade publications, and magazines. Dates covered: 1990s-current (plus some older coverage) Included in OneSearch
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Offers in-depth coverage of national and international business and finance as well as first-rate coverage of hard news--all from America's premier financial newspaper.
Includes content from both print and online editions of the newspaper. Dates covered: 1984-present. This database is not included in OneSearch

General Databases with substantial business-related content

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals
This database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Coverage Dates: 1984 –
Cleveland Necrology File and News Index This link opens in a new window
Includes indexing of local news stories, feature articles, and reviews from: Plain Dealer (1983-June 1999), Cleveland Magazine (1983-present), Northern Ohio Live (Sept. 1990-June 2009), and Ohio Magazine (Oct. 1990-present).
Obituaries from the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press are included from 1976 to the present. Does not provide full text. Dates covered: 1976-present. Not included in OneSearch.
Electronic Journal Center (EJC) This link opens in a new window
OhioLINK’s Electronic Journal Center (EJC) contains over 32 million full-text articles in 10,000 journals from large publishers to small presses
Coverage spans the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Many of the library research databases contain citations linking to full-text articles in the EJC. Dates covered: 1800s-present.
Fuente Academica This link opens in a new window
A collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain. Includes coverage of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Currently includes full text for 500+ publications from 18 countries. Dates covered: 1980s-present (plus some older content).
GovInfo: U.S. Government Publishing Office This link opens in a new window
GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), It provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government
Formerly FDSYS Federal Digital System. Not included in OneSearch
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Collections in JSTOR include peer-reviewed scholarly journals, respected literary journals, book chapters, research reports, and primary sources from libraries’ special collections and archives.
Explore millions of high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more. All journals include the full archival run up to the moving wall established for each journal; most recent issues are not included.
Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
Centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, Legal Collection is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies.
Legal Collection offers full text for more than 300 of the world’s best law journals. It provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal subjects such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor, and human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. Full-text information in this database dates as far back as 1965
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
Provides complete television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and more.
Social Sciences Citation This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 2,470 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines.
Updated weekly. A component of the Web of Knowledge database platform. Dates covered: 1965-present This database is not included in OneSearch
SSOAR: Social Science Open Access Repository This link opens in a new window
Welcome to the Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR). Freely available, full-text social science documents.

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