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Source for information on publicly traded U.S. and international companies: summary financial data with links to company filings, key ratios actual and forward estimates, stock pricing data, key corporate events, officers and directors, analyst rating, ESG scores, and more. Add-on … Read more

Data Planet Statistical Datasets provides easy access to an extensive repository of standardized and structured statistical data. The over 12.6 billion datasets in Data Planet provide immediate access to data presented in charts, maps, graphs, and table form, via multiple … Read more

Information on private equity venture capital plus real estate deals, funds, investors and fund managers; allows users to analyze data across the entire investment lifecycle. Information on over 177,000 VC deals, 75,000 PE deals, and 80,000 RE deals. Data points … Read more

Access to the full-text of articles from about 800 journals and 4,500 dissertations covering topics including healthcare management, public healthadministration, hospitals, insurance, health economics, health law, health statistics, healthcare ethics, and more.

Provides access to comprehensive information on grant makers and their grants. Over 140,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grant making public charities in the U.S.; a database of over 4,000 sponsoring companies; a database of over 9.5 million grants; and … Read more

Explains how to plan and develop a good proposal, what reviewers look for in applications, and changes at NIH and NSF. c2005.

Contains more than 40,000 funding opportunities in the Arts & Humanities, Health, Medical, Life, & Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences including Business from more than 10,000 sponsors worldwide. Users can access without registration from on campus or they can create a profile using a … Read more

Data on adult U.S. consumers includes attitudes and behaviors, media use, and buying habits. Covers a wide variety of products, brands and services. Data includes consumer demographics (age, gender, income, etc.); consumer psychographics (behavior, attitudes); and buying and media habits. … Read more

Discover information on any topic from the UNC library collections using simple search technology powered by Summon. Use Articles+ to find: Scholarly journal articles News articles, material from non-scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers Ebook content, both whole Ebooks and chapters in Ebooks … Read more

Articles in business, finance, management, accounting, advertising, banking, insurance, marketing, public administration, real estate, and telecommunications. Includes: industry and market research reports (including Business Monitor International and First Research) reports on the overall  business and economic climate in Countries (including … Read more

Ad Age Data Center offers profiles of top advertisers, agency and media family tree reports, advertising spending data, industry contacts, ad industry job market data and ranked lists of top media markets and media formats. Special Note: Selected sections of … Read more

Global market research reports. Reports cover market intelligence, five-year forecasting, statistical and analytical data, key players, market share, industry structure and dynamics, and technology trends and shifts. These reports can be well over 100 pages long. Industries covered include: Advanced Materials … Read more

Provides detailed industry analysis and market research reports on more than 5,000 lines of business, as defined by NAICS codes, in national and local markets. Types of reports include: -Industry Financial Profiles: average 15 pages and include financial statement data … Read more

This is a series of E-Books available through the UNC-CH online catalog.  Each volume is a compilation of actual business plans developed by small businesses throughout North America.  There are 23 Volumes.

Business Source Premier provides Indexing, abstracting and the full-text of articles from more than 1,700 popular press and trade publications, and from more than 1,800 peer-reviewed business journals. Topics covered include leadership, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. Coverage varies depending … Read more

Articles spanning Canadian agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences, and more. Includes content form scholarly journals, trade publications, popular press magazines, transcripts from radio and television  programs, and more.

Full-text primary sources of law with commentary, a variety of CCH, Wolters Kluwer, and Aspen legal publications, smart charts, practical tools, news, webinars, white papers, and blogs. Encompasses business and law areas including antitrust, banking, cybersecurity, energy, ESG, healthcare, human … Read more

The University’s subscription includes research reports, executive summaries on key business topics, surveys, and case studies of the world’s most influential companies. Coverage is back to the late 1990’s or early 2000 for the most part. However the UNC-Chapel Hill … Read more

Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 400 journals, essays in collective volumes, conference proceedings, dissertations, books, book reviews, and several working paper archives covering the world’s economic literature. There is some full-text available for articles found with this database. … Read more

Indexing and full text of more than 770 periodicals in the all of field of education. Covers all aspects of education including EDUCATION OF BUSINESS STUDENTS and EDUCATION AS A BUSINESS. About half of the periodicals are covered back to 1983 the … Read more

Contains indexing and full-text of articles and other content from more than 125 magazines and academic journals and from more than 135 books on entrepreneurial topics, Also includes Datamonitor case studies, and 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from … Read more

The Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN) is one of a number of specialized research networks within the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). It features abstracts and full-text papers from research covering the intersection of entrepreneurship with other subject areas … Read more

This database is one of if not the most important index covering the field of education. ERIC covers all aspects of education including EDUCATION OF BUSINESS STUDENTS and EDUCATION AS A BUSINESS. Material in this database could be a journal … Read more

Free access to more than 90 million patent documents from over 90 patent-granting authorities worldwide, The collection contains information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today.  (Source Davis Library web page)

Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO) is a Web-based solution that makes custom site evaluation and market analysis fast and easy. Utilizing extensive demographic, consumer spending, and business data, BAO provides detailed information and insights about consumers, their lifestyles and buying … Read more

U.S. newspapers include the Wall Street Journal and other business titles. Great content, but can be difficult to search. Coverage dates vary. Tech Note Go to Search / Search Builder to start searching. See this search. (click on link to … Read more

Complete online fully-searchable facsimile edition of the Financial Times offers the complete run of the London edition of the paper, from its first issue to the end of 2010. Every individual article, advertisement and market listing is included and shown … Read more

Company, consumer, product, market and country-specific analysis for consumer packaged goods. Millions of skus for new foods, beverages, health & beauty aids, household, pet and tobacco products from around the world. More than 20 searchable data fields per report help … Read more

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional … Read more

GreenFILE provides access to materials on the human impact on the environment. Sources include scholarly, governmental, and general interest articles and books. It represents research from fields such as agriculture, education, law, health, and technology. Topics include climate change, green … Read more

“This definitive reference work contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times … Read more

See ProQuest Business Market Research Collection Information for more then 40,000 companies, including company overview, industry information, key company executives, and for publicly traded firms upto 3 years of historical financials.

30-40 page reports covering the entire U.S. economy, providing in-depth and concise business intelligence and industry analysis. Global and China industry reports provide market information for many industries and business sectors. Reports are updated every 4 to 6 months. Note: … Read more

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world’s largest archive of computer readable social science data. ICPSR provides Web access to data files and documentation for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. … Read more

Securities Class Action Settlements covers 19 years and contains information on more than 5,900 cases. These files represent a one-time snapshot of the entire SCAS database (all fields and all cases including Federal, State, International and SEC Disgorgements) as of March … Read more

Historical corporate governance data S&P 1500 companies.  The data can be looked at by companies, boards, and or individual directors for years 1997 – 2019. There is also data for Takeover defenses from 2000 to 2019. There are four different … Read more

Voting Analytics can help you monitor and analyze institutional voting policies, shareholder meeting results and voting patterns to discover trends and actionable insights. Data is available for 2003 to 2013 and is stored in a series of zip files. with 1 Zip … Read more

Provides access to the data underlying the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) publication. It includes MONTHLY averages of political risk and economic indicators; Coplin-O’Leary ratings and forecasts; and some general geographic and political information for 145 countries from 1984 to … Read more

International Debt Statistics presents external debt and financial flow data for the 120 economies that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank’s Debtor Reporting System. The time series for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2012, with contractual obligations data … Read more

Short to medium length (2 to 10 pages) narratives on the history of companies. Many of the histories include a bibliography of other places to look for information on the company discussed in the entry.

International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a great source international and country statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance for more than 200 countries. Data available includes: exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, … Read more

News and legal resources. General, regional and international news, company news and financial information. Legal information includes law reviews, case law and legal rulings). formerly LexisNexis Academic. See also ProQuest U.S. Newsstream for similar content in a simpler format. Includes: … Read more

Access to more than 900 demographic and statistical data items from state and federal agencies. You can qet some data at state, county, municipal, township, tract, block group and block levels. Options included both customizable and pre-formatted reports. Data definitions … Read more

Contains annual reports in PDF for companies in the U.S., Canada, and some European countries. Coverage varies by company. Some reports are from more than 100 years ago.

Provides a comprehensive history of corporate America for almost 100 years. It includes corporate histories, brief financial statements, lists of subsidiaries, descriptions of long-term debt, and stock offerings, officers and directors, etc. Specifically the database contains: Transportation Manual 1909-present | … Read more

Contains market research data and reports on consumer markets and products, demographics, consumer buying behavior and motivations, trends in global consumer markets. Many reports include Databooks with downloadable consumer survey data. U.S.-focused with some global coverage. Notes Report sections may … Read more

Morningstar Investing Center offers Information on more than 8,000 stocks and 12,000 mutual funds including 20 minute delayed pricing, summary financial statements, independent analysis and more. You can screen stocks, CDFs, ETFs, and mutual funds selected characteristics.

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. NBER research is conducted by more than 500 university professors around the country, the leading scholars … Read more

Full-text and images of several newspapers: The Atlanta Constitution (1868 to 1945) The Chicago Tribune (1849 – 1986) The Los Angeles Times (1881-1989) The Louisville Courier-Journal (1830 – 1922) The Nashville Tennessean (1812 – 1922) The New York Times (1851 … Read more

Over 1,500 US and foreign newspapers, including 50 from North Carolina. News transcripts from TV and radio. 1990s-present.

Covers millions of publicly traded and privately held companies from around the world. Company records include directory facts, financial and ownership details, subsidiaries, names and titles for executives and directors, M&A deals, etc. Privately held companies do not have financial … Read more

Contains information on over 110,000 publicly traded companies, banks, and insurance companies from around the world, including financial statement data. Provides ownership, subsidiaries, earnings estimates, stock data. Report formats reflect accounting procedures in the major world regions. From Bureau van … Read more

More than just definitions. The OED is the world’s leading authority on the history and development of the English language. The OED allows users to find words that have come into English via a particular language. Search for quotation using … Read more

​See ProQuest Business Market Research Collection Reports analyzing economic and political developments in more than 110 individual countries, regions and worldwide.

A great source for analysis and statistics on industries, markets, and countries from Euromonitor contains historical data starting in 1995 and 5 years of forecasts of market size (units and value) data for 330 consumer products in many countries. Euromonitor … Read more

​Detailed information on companies, economies, markets, and overall business conditions from trade journals and scholarly journals on throughout Asia, Austraila and Europe.

​Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover’s Company Profiles: profiles of more than 40,000 global companies. Information typically includes location, officers, competitors and for publicly traded companies financial information. OxResearch: research on economic … Read more

​A general reference database allows users to search more than 35 of the “Proquest family of databases.” Subjects covered incude Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the … Read more

This is the place to go if you are looking for information on Dissertations written and accepted at an accredited U.S. institution since 1861. Free previews (in PDF format) of the first 24 pages of all dissertations and theses in … Read more

​Information for entrepreneurs and researchers that includes business start-up plans, video clips, journal articles, business cases, and more.

​This database covers about 6300 journals and other publications covering subjects ranging from business and political science to literature and psychology. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level.

​PsycARTICLES provides full-text articles from leading more than 100 psychological journals including journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA and the Canadian Psychological Association. Business researchers will find this database very useful for finding material on industrial psychology, … Read more

This database is probably the “premier” database covering the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Business researchers will find this database very useful for finding material on industrial psychology, organizational behavior, and other human resources types of … Read more

Special Note: vendor does not permit access from IP addresses outside the United States Data-Axle is a collection of databases that provide directory information on more than 64 million U.S. businesses, 160 million U.S. residents 1.2 million U.S. healthcare providers. … Read more

Contains accounting, and federal and individual U.S. state tax materials Contains primary source material (tax laws, regulations, and court case rulings) and secondary sources (editorial and analytical materials) Includes full-text of SEC and GAAP Compliance rules, procedures, and International Accounting … Read more

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research offers two tools for searching opinion poll datasets: iPOLL, which allows searching at the question level, and Roper/Express/, which allows searching at the dataset level. The Center archives national opinion polls back to … Read more

​Research methods toolset designed to help researchers develop research projects, understand or identify particular methods, conduct research and write up their findings; library of more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos including Sages Little Green Book … Read more

SBRnet (Sports Business Research Network) provides market research and industry news for the sporting goods and sports marketing industries, covering 40 different sports. It includes full-text articles, links to over 10,000 sports organizations, sport participation summaries for the American population, … Read more

​Scopus is a citation and abstracting database that provides comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed journal and conference literature, with links to full-text where available through the library. It encompasses scientific, technical, medical, social science and arts and humanities disciplines. It … Read more

Create maps, tables, and rankings from over 30,000 demographic, consumer spending, and psychographic variables. Covers the U.S. from states to neighborhood levels. Data sources include U.S. Census, Simmons LOCAL, and some Nielsen Scarborough data. Create your own optional account to … Read more

Search for working papers by keywords in the title or abstract or search by or limt by author. You may also browse by broad subject area. Many are papers can be downloaded for free but when the paper is not … Read more

Data on a variety of industries with citations to original data for even more data. Offers Industry Overview which includes advertising & marketing, consumer goods, e-commerce, economics, energy & environment, finance & insurance, health & pharma, real estate, retail & … Read more

The Statistical Abstract contains a collection of statistics of current and historical demographic, social, and economic conditions in the United States. There is some selected international data as well. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, … Read more

ThomasNet provides current sourcing information for more than 67,000 industrial and manufacturing products and services from more than 600,000 U. S. and Canadian companies. Information available typically includes company name address and contact numbers or email. From adhesives to hardware, … Read more

This database is good for finding articles published in more than 13,000 popular and academic journals covering many academic subject areas including business, economics, public policy, other social sciences, the humanities, and general sciences. There is some form of full … Read more

Over 6,300 U.S. newspapers including 200+ in North Carolina: The (Raleigh) News & Observer full-text articles (1991-present) The (Raleigh) News & Observer full images (March 2018-present) The (Greensboro) News & Record (1906-present) The Charlotte Observer (1886-present).

​An extensive listing of associations from the publishers of ThomasNet.com. The vast majority of associations in this list are for manufactureres and suppliers of industrial products.

Times Digital Archive provides full-image coverage of the ‘world’s newspaper of record’ for a period of more than 200 years, 1785 to 2014, covering events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War, from early industrialization to the information age. … Read more

Links to resources about grant and funding opportunities available to UNC faculty, students, and staff.

UNdata provides simultaneous access to 14 statistical databases from the United Nations and other international organizations through one interface. Search or browse for data, create tables and download. Areas of coverage include agriculture, education, energy, industry, labor, national accounts, population, … Read more

Includes: the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and thousands more national and international newspapers, wires and some TV / radio transcripts. Dates vary; most from the 1990s to present. For historic … Read more

This data set provides a variety of Value Line analysts’ estimates and 3-to-5-year projections for approximately 1,700 companies and industries–the same broad group covered by Value Line Investment Survey. Coverage is 1987 to 2011. Among the variables included are: Value … Read more

Investment research covering thousands of stocks, mutual funds, daily options, and convertible issues. The Value Line Investment Survey ranks stocks on many metrics and includes historical and projected prices, financials, and a quarterly analyst opinion. The Investment Education section includes … Read more

Full-text and full-images of the Wall Street Journal from 1889-2012 via ProQuest. Are you a student? Check out the Wall Street Journal student subscription option For current issues, see Wall Street Journal 1984-present.

This publication of the World Bank contains more than 1400 indicators. The indicators cover a wide range of social, economic and demographic areas including major economic indicators, information on population, health, gender, poverty, natural resources, financial matters, environmental variables, and … Read more

Find physical items like books, audiobooks, maps, musical scores, and recordings, along with electronic items like ebooks, e-journals, articles, and digital images you can access online. Want a book that’s not at UNC? Click the blue button at the top … Read more

Information about Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Initial Public Offering (IPO), Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) deals, going back five years for international deals and back to 1997 for deals involving European and American companies. From Bureau van Dijk. … Read more