Research Resources

Provides data on classic takeover defense and other corporate governance provisions, including: classified boards, cumulative voting, golden parachutes, poison pills, and state takeover laws. Governance: 2007-present Governance Legacy: 1990-2006 WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and … Read more

Universe of S&P 1500 companies —range of variables related to individual board directors (e.g., name, age, tenure, gender, committee memberships, primary employer and title, etc. Directors: 2007-present Directors Legacy: 1990-2006 WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, … Read more

Want an article or book that isn’t at UNC? Use UNC Library’s Interlibrary Loan (https://library.unc.edu/borrow/carolina-blu/) service to access items not available at UNC’s libraries. You can request books & articles from other libraries at no cost to you. It usually takes … Read more

Link CRSP market and corporate action data with Compustat fundamental data; search by Permno, Permco (CRSP), and or GVKEY identifiers (Compustat). Search CRSP and COMPUSTAT time series data on companies and securities side by side, regardless of CUSIP or ticker … Read more

Sponsored by MBA, UBP, and OSM Career Services. This resource is available to all UNC Kenan-Flagler students, faculty, staff. Our subscription delivers full digital access to all 46 regional Business Journals including Raleigh/Durham, Charlotte, Austin, Silicon Valley and 42 more. … Read more

The University Libraries, with support from the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, have partnered with the New York Times to provide students, faculty, and staff with access to NYTimes.com, the NYTimes.com mobile app, and NYT Cooking. To set up an … Read more

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

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

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Governmental Accounting Research System™ (GARS) provides access to all U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for state and local governments. It includes material from the GASB’s Codification, Original Pronouncements, and Comprehensive Implementation Guide, as … Read more

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification® (Codification or ASC) is the single source of authoritative nongovernmental U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP). The Codification is effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009.

In July 2019, data.census.gov became the primary way to access Census Bureau data, including upcoming releases from the 2018 American Community Survey, 2017 Economic Census, 2020 Census and more. As of July 1, 2019, all new data (and data previously … Read more

Identify and assess environmental social and governance (ESG) risk incidents in a systematic way. Includes 250,000+ listed and non-listed companies —15,000+ public companies and 235,000+ private companies. Offers risk metrics and underlying scores to assess and benchmark the risk exposure … 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

A good online dictionary of real estate terms from NAOIP the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.

The Consumer Panel data, Retail Scanner data, and Ad Intel data sets are only available to tenured or tenure track faculty and PhD Students under their supervision at UNC-Chapel Hill. Please email Researchtools@kenan-flagler.unc.edu for more information and requests for an … Read more

Free quarterly reports on economic activity especially on commercial property industry. Includes reports on city, national and international markets. Also contains commercial property listings.

Craftsman National Appraisal Estimator (formerly Building-Cost.net)  A valuation software to produce estimates of home construction, renovation, and replacement cost estimates including materials, design, quality, size, shape, heating, cooling, and geographic area. This is NOT a free resource.

Home sale predictions and information for the home building industry and vital economic statistics for the home building industry.

Provides a series of reports covering residential replacement cost estimates, risk analysis and other property valuation information. Some information is free some you yave to pay for.

The American Housing Survey is among the most comprehensive surveys of the U.S. Housing conditions and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Data available includes: National and metropolitan data … Read more

A collection of downloadable real estate financial models, along with information on careers, education, and networking in “commercial real estate.”

Previous 30 days of commercial, office, retail, medical industrial, “live/work” real estate listings for more than 50 major markets around the United States. There “submarkets” available for most of the “major” markets. Data available includes street address, descriptions of the … 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

Borrowing Books Find the book you want in the UNC library catalog. Click the blue “Request” button next to the Call Number. Screenshot of catalog record “Where to find it” box. Blue request button is circled. Log in with your … 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

Includes more than 1,200 national and international sources of information on accounting, taxes and taxation, the financial services industry, banking trends, products, companies, issues and operations. Sources include academic / peer-reviewed journals, trade journals, industry reports, conference proceedings, and dissertations. … 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

Detailed audit information on over 1,200 accounting firms and 15,000 publicly registered companies. Data taken from public company disclosures. Determine who is auditing whom and how much they are paying for what services. Create reports by auditor, fees, location, industry, … 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

A collection of 26 guides of best business resources covering specific business related topics. Topics include accounting,  advertising & marketing, electronic commerce, human resource management and more. Each guide provides an annotated “listing of significant sites that are themselves content … 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

Access to real time and historical (about 20 years) financial, economic, and political news and information covering all sectors of the world’s economy. Special Note: Because of license restrictions, access is limited to the following locations: Several computers in Kenan-Flagler’s … Read more

Data on boards of directors of publicly-listed companies around the world. Includes 2 million corporate executives & board members from over 2.2 million organizations. Biographical data includes details such as age, gender, positions held, educational qualifications, compensation and stock holdings, … Read more

Contains about 500 sample business plans organized by broad categories. You can also search for plans by keywords. There is also information and advice on writing your business plan, starting, funding, and growing your business.

This is a major statistics site! You can find all kinds of international, national, regional and industry economic and performance statistics including GDP, balance of payments, national income, personal income and outlays, trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment, and dozens … Read more

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Labor, compiles a massive amounts of information and statistics on employment, productivity, inflation, consumer spending, wages, earnings aspects of the U.S. economy.

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.

A series of Web pages maintained by Nancy Lovas the Entrepreneurship and Business Librarian at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Davis Library. There are guides for Accounting, Banking, Companies, Industry / Market Research, and more.

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

Information about industries and corporations. Full text of news and press releases from major U.S. corporations, including many Fortune 1000 and NASDAQ companies. Free registration is required to view full text. For UNC – Chapel Hill users, Business Wire is … 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.

Information to help Canadians start, manage, and grow their businesses.

In-depth financial information on publicly-traded companies and investment firms. Includes transactions in both the public and private capital markets as well as financial statement data, executives’ biographical characteristics, and deal or transaction specifics. Data can be exported to Excel . … Read more

Venture capital, angel investment, and private equity database. Tracks global venture capital, angel investment, private equity, M&A, and IPO activity related to private companies. An excellent resource for startups and entrepreneurship research. Students, faculty and staff must register and set … Read more

The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas … Read more

Annual and quarterly of data for hundreds of data items, ratios and concepts covering thousands of publicly-traded companies in over 80 countries, including coverage of over 96% of European market capitalization and 88% of Asian market capitalization. Data for both … Read more

Fundamental financial data on thousands of active and inactive U.S. and Canadian companies. Data from SEC filings,  standardized for better comparisons, and supplemented with additional data sources. Most data 1950-present. Learn more about COMPUSTAT North America from WRDS. WRDS Access … Read more

Preliminary and final data for annual, quarterly and year-to-date periods, minimizing lag assumptions and look-ahead bias. See information that was available at specific time points in history, with data values known by the market from preliminary announcements and final sources. … 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

This web site is great for finding information on U.S. Congressional legislative activity. You can find information on and the full-text of bills, committee meetings, roll call votes, and many other activities and issues that the U.S. Congress debates and act … Read more

Congressional budget office has a variety of economic and budgetary forecasts, projections, and historical data for the US economy and the Federal budget.

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. CED is … Read more

Country Commercial Guides (CCG’s) are prepared annually by U.S. embassies with the assistance of several U.S. government agencies, and they use economic, political and market analysis to give an in-depth look at the commercial environment in various countries. There’s a … Read more

An annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry. The series is useful for studying the economic activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a benchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic censuses. … Read more

Security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta-based and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, mutual funds, and real estate data. Provides stock indices, beta- and … Read more

Contains end-of-day and month-end prices on all listed NYSE, Amex, and NASDAQ common stocks along with basic market indices. Includes comprehensive distribution information, with accurate total return calculations. 1923-present. Learn more about CRSP Stocks. WRDS Access is available only to … Read more

Data on the historical performance of open-ended mutual funds by using survivor-bias-free data. Includes a history of each mutual fund’s name, investment style, fee structure, holdings, and asset allocation. Also included are monthly total returns, monthly total net assets, monthly/daily … Read more

Complete historical descriptive information and market data including prices, returns, accrued interest, yields, and durations on the US Government Bond Fixed Term Index Series, and the Risk Free Rates File. 1925-present for Monthly data; 1961-present for daily data. Manuals & overviews … Read more

Datastream (LSEG Workspace) Includes daily pricing, volume, and performance information on equities, market stock and bond indices, macroeconomic data series, foreign exchange rates, daily and weekly interest rates, fixed income instruments, financial and commodity futures and options contracts. Time coverage … 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

Conduct event studies, such as a change in CEO or when a new tax regulation or other regulation was announced or took effect. Perform event studies using data read directly from CRSP stock databases or pre-extracted from other sources. Includes … Read more

Analyze executive compensation. Over 100 current salary, bonus, and stock option data along with company identification items; match top executives’ compensation data with company financial data in COMPUSTAT North America. 1992-present. Manuals and overviews for COMPUSTAT Execucomp from WRDS. WRDS … 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

Financial data on 70,000+ public and private companies worldwide, with historical coverage for developed markets dating back to the 1980s and for emerging markets starting in the 1990s Close to 2,000 historical financial metrics data items for 70+ countries Historical … 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.

Historical earnings estimate database containing analyst estimates for over 20 forecast measures – including EPS (earnings per share), revenue, price targets, EBITDA and pre-tax profits. These measures are available on both consensus and detailed levels, covering both U.S. and international … Read more

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

Designed to capture all insider activity as reported on SEC forms 3, 4, 5, and 144. Data is from Jan. 1986-present unless noted. Includes: Table One: Table 1 non-derivative transaction and holdings information filed on Forms 3, 4, 5. Table … Read more

Data from Thomson Financial. Stock holdings and transactions by more than 4,300 Institutional Money Managers and money management companies. The Institutional Holdings data source is the actual 13f form filed with the SEC on a quarterly basis by money managers/management … 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

Includes historical option price, underlying security information, implied volatility, and sensitivity information for U.S. equity and index options markets. Designed for empirical research. Data can be downloaded into a variety of statistical software packages allowing for analysis on all aspects … 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

Database of publicly-offered U.S. bonds. Contains issue details on over 140,000 corporate, corporate MTN (medium term note), supranational, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Treasury debt securities and includes more than 550 data items. Provides details on debt issues and the issuers, … 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.

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.

Offers tick-by-tick trade and quote data of all activity within the U.S. National Market System. Transaction information at the intraday level (to the microsecond) covering over 10,000 stock issues listed on 16 major American exchanges, including the New York Stock … Read more

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

See GlobalData Information on new consumer packaged goods with more than one million new 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 … 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

Sentiment analysis and event data focused on business and financial applications. Data includes news and social media content. Millions of analytical data points for articles on thousands of entities. These data points can be used to perform a wide variety … 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

RePEc together with IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service), is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in more than 80 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database … 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

SDC Platinum (LSEG Workspace) Provides detailed information on new issues, mergers and acquisitions, syndicated loans, and private equity for the global financial marketplace. SDC Platinum is now a module that can be added to an LSEG Workspace account. Complete this … 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

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.

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

USA Trade Online provides a wealth of data on United States exports and imports of over 18,000 commodities. The data can be displayed by current month and prior month, by cumulative year to date, current and prior year, and by … 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

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

WRDS is used to access several research oriented database including: Audit Analytics Bureau van Dijk’s Osiris BoardEx COMPUSTAT Global COMPUSTAT North America COMPUSTAT Execucomp COMPUSTAT Snapshot CRSP Stocks CRSP Indicies CRSP Mutual Funds CRSP U.S. Treasuries CRSP/Compustat Merged DealScan EVENTUS … 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