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Mergent Market Atlas
Mergent Market Atlas offers a wealth of detail - the hallmark of all Mergent Products - on company financials, ratios, business segments, descriptions, sustainability, officers and directors. Powerful and intuitive search capabilities combined with an easy to learn and use interface provide quick access to a multitude of company, industry, index, ESG and economic data views and reports. Mergent Market Atlas delivers the same comprehensive suite of financial information used by professionals under LSEG's Refinitiv and FTSE Russell brands.
Morningstar Investing Center This link opens in a new window
Data about mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds. It also in includes analyst reports, newsletters, screening tools, calculators and other educational resources.
PrivCo This link opens in a new window
Verified financials, business data, news, and media on major private companies (defined as those which are unlisted on stock exchanges and/or family-owned.) The company descriptions also include private M&A and venture capital transactions, deal terms, valuation multiples, private equity/ founder/family ownership breakdowns, bankruptcies, IPOs, and more. PrivCo is the premier database of private company info.

No account required, click "Academic Direct Access" to access content. Accounts can be created through the "Create an academic account" link.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Research about US markets in over 100 industries, and almost 750 NAICS codes, including descriptive data on over 8000 US companies and data and analysis for over 500 economic and demographic series.

Bloomberg Terminal
Bloomberg is a terminal-bound financial services platform that offers real time and historical data from 250 exchanges, and over 100 countries. It contains financial research and analysis on companies, markets, and economies.

Bloomberg Terminals are operated and administered by the College of Business and can be found in the FinTech Lab (Glenn 106).

ABI/Inform Complete This link opens in a new window
Cross searching of the business databases: ABI/Inform Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. Features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports and data. International coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 2,200 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles in all business disciplines, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
WestlawNext This link opens in a new window
This database contains information on domestic and foreign companies ranging from corporate filings, news, business subsidiaries, financial information and more. Select the Company Investigator link or EDGAR Filings and Disclosures for these resources. Additionally, contains full text of federal and state court cases, laws, and regulations.
Emerald Library This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to over 180 journals in management, applied science and technology, engineering, health sciences, and library and information science.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of back issues of core scholarly journals in the arts, business, humanities, sciences and social sciences. Does not provide the most current issues, usually has a rolling end date of 2-5 years.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.

EDGAR
"The EDGAR database provides free public access to corporate information, allowing you to research a public company’s financial information and operations by reviewing the filings the company makes with the SEC. You can also research information provided by mutual funds (including money market funds), exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and variable annuities."
AnnualReports.com
Provides easy access annual reports from thousands of public companies. Includes the most recent annual reports and an archive of previous years.
Open Corporates
Largest open legal entity database.
Manta
A business directory for primarily local and small businesses, providing basic contact information and limited financial information.

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