Business & Economics Databases at
The databases listed here, specializing in business and economics, are made available to you by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, the Tepper Computing Group, and the Career Opportunities Center
If you are off campus, you will need to use the WebVPN to connect, as described here.
There are also research guides for specific subjects, such as company information, industry analysis, finance, job searching, country analysis, and entrepreneurship that recommend the best databases (and other resources) for those areas.
DATABASE
descriptions:
ABI/INFORM Global – articles from scholarly and trade sources, and dissertations, on business
conditions and trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and
tactics, and the competitive landscape.
Applied Science and Business
Periodicals Retrospective - covers the
important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry
(1913 - 1983,) plus the most important historical sources in the applied
science and technology field for the early/mid 20th century.
Berkeley Electronic Press - peer-reviewed articles in economics, business, law, engineering and political science.
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management - authoritative treatment by experts of management topics, with volumes covering: accounting, business
Bloomberg - terminal located in rm. A1 in Tepper lower level – financial information system providing analysis and quotes for equities and indices,
current company, industry and market news, and economic data for the countries
of the world.
Business & Company Resource Center - news and trade press articles, company
profiles, rankings, market share, investment reports, industry profiles, and company
histories.
Business and Industry
- articles
in trade journals and business publications; facts, figures and key events for
companies, industries, markets and products.
Business and Management Practices – focus on
applied management, business strategy and planning; articles from both academic
and trade journals.
CareerSearch - identifies companies based on geography, company size, revenue, and other criteria; has job-related news, listings, and contacts.
CISDM Hedge Fund Data - see WRDS - provides information on over 3700 active Hedge Funds and over 660 active CTAs and CPOs. In addition, the database covers 3800 inactives. For each fund in the database, detailed information related to investment strategy and style, historical monthly returns, assets under management, leverage, minimum initial investment, and fee structure is provided.
Conference Board's Business Knowledge Research – authoritative research
reports on issues in business management and
Compustat – see WRDS – from Standard & Poor’s, one of the most extensive databases of business financial data, covering over 80,000 global firms dating back to the 1950s. (The Netadvantage database contains a subset of this data, somewhat easier to use.)
CorpTech - directory of technology companies in the U.S.
CRSP – Center for Research in Security Prices – see WRDS - monthly and daily quotations for stock prices, indices, US Government bonds, and mutual funds; current and historical.
Datastream - historical accounting and financial data for equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives from both developed and emerging markets.
Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database – directory with basic data on millions of companies worldwide; search by industry, company size, geographic areas and other variables, and download resulting lists in spreadsheet or report format.
EconLit - electronic form of the Journal
of Economic Literature (JEL) providing citations and abstracts for economics
research from journals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and
working papers.
Engineering Village - engineering, communications, computer science, IT, operations research, environmental science, and more.
eProNet
- an online recruiting and career
management network for alumni of top 30 universities and business schools.
Gartner Core Research – research
reports on a detailed range of technology products and services.
General BusinessFile ASAP – articles in trade publications, newspapers, journals, newswires, and analyst research reports
Goldsmith's-Kress Library of Economic Literature - digital collection for researching the literature of economics from the period 1460-1906, providing access to 61,000 works from: the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library, the Kress Library of Business and Economics at Harvard, the Seligman Collection at Columbia and libraries at Yale.
Hoover's Online - directory of US and
International companies, public and private, with extensive information on each
company, including profiles, competitors, financials, and executives.
Industry
Norms & Key Business Ratios Online – benchmark financial
performance ratios for industries by NAICS code, with breakdowns by asset size,
for US companies; used to compare a firm’s performance against its industry and
competitors.
INFORMS PubsOnline - access to 12 journal titles published by INFORMS, the professional association for operations research and management science.
International
Financial Statistics - time series data used in economic analysis,
including exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking,
currency, interest rates, prices, production, trade, government accounts, and
national accounts, from the IMF.
Interview Mastery - useful tips on interviewing skills.
Investext/Thomson Research - analyst research reports
on companies and industries from top investment banks, brokerage firms, and
trade associations.
Leadership Directories - identifies leaders in corporations and financial institutions, government, associations, non-profits, law firms, judicial and foreign representatives, and the media.
LexisNexis Academic - interdisciplinary, international database of over 18,000
sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company
reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of
broadcasts, and selected reference works.
LexisNexis Statistical – thousands of statistical publications on all topics, as well as a trove of numeric data
MarketLine – profiles of
companies, industries, and countries, often containing SWOT and 5 forces
analysis; also covers M&A and financial deal activity, and market data on a
number of consumer products, from research firm Datamonitor.
Materials Business File - articles on industry news, product and process
developments, plant development and construction, international trade,
government regulations, and management issues related to high technology
industries.
Mergent Fixed
Income Securities Database (FISD) -
see WRDS
- a comprehensive database of
publicly-offered
Mergent
Online - has descriptive information and 15 years of financial data for US and foreign companies, both active and inactive. Mergers & acquisitions, SEC filings, institutional holdings, earnings estimates, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock, insider trading, and thirty years of historical stock prices are provided. Also includes industry and equity research reports, pdfs of US and international company annual reports from 1997, and quarterly fact sheets for US companies. Extra features: country reports, and private company data from Dun & Bradstreet. Most data can be easily exported.
NetAdvantage - Standard & Poor’s
services and publications are available online here, including Industry
Surveys, Compustat Excel Analytics, Stock Reports,
Bond Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Corporation Records, Security Dealers of
North America, The Outlook, Trends and Projections, and more.
OptionMetrics – see WRDS
- historical price and implied
volatility data for the
ProQuest Direct – searches several
databases together, including ABI/INFORM (above) the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, and hundreds of other US national newspapers.
Social Sciences Citation Index, in Web of Science – encompasses the
scholarly literature in economics and other social science disciplines, used
primarily to discover linkages among research publications and
researchers.
Standard & Poor’s Netadvantage - Standard & Poor’s
services and publications are available online here, including Industry
Surveys, Compustat Excel Analytics, Stock Reports,
Bond Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Corporation Records, Security Dealers of
North America, The Outlook, Trends and Projections, and more.
STAT-USA/Internet – latest economic indicators from multiple government agencies, as well as import/export
statistics, international market analysis, and trade opportunities.
Vault.com – company insider information, occupational overviews, internship programs, career
and interviewing practice guides, message boards, etc.
VentureXpert – a query and report database
on venture capital funds, private
equity firms, funded companies, and their executives in the US, Europe, and
Asia, as well as an analytics source for fund performance, commitments,
disbursements, and statistics.
Wall Street Journal - in ABI/INFORM Global.
WetFeet -
independently-researched reports on
leading companies, industries and career advice topics.