Research Resources
Resource | Url | Description | Subjects | Access Levels |
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42 Floors | https://42floors.com/research | 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 property, and listing agent and firm. |
Real Estate, Real Estate Listings | Open Access |
ABI/INFORM Collection | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609445 | Articles in business, finance, management, accounting, advertising, banking, insurance, marketing, public administration, real estate, and telecommunications. Includes:
1971-current. |
Articles about Business Topics Companies or Industries, Industry Reports | UNC-CH users only |
Academic Search Premier | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608600 | 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 text (html text or PDFs) availability for nearly 9,000 of those journals. |
Other Indexes | UNC-CH users only |
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609443 | 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. |
Accounting, Articles about Business Topics Companies or Industries, Taxes | UNC-CH users only |
Ad Age DataCenter | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609096 | 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 the site, such as white papers, require independent subscription or user registration as an individual, apart from the institutional subscription maintained by the UNC at Chapel Hill University Libraries
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Advertising, Statistics | UNC-CH users only |
Ad*Access | https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess | An image database of more than 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. (Source Vendor Website) |
Advertising | Open Access |
Adventures in CRE | https://www.adventuresincre.com/ | A collection of downloadable real estate financial models, along with information on careers, education, and networking in “commercial real estate.” |
Real Estate | Open Access |
America’s News | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608815 | Over 6,300 U.S. newspapers including 200+ in North Carolina:
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Other Indexes | UNC-CH users only |
American Housing Survey (AHS) | https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs/ | 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 on residential vacancies, number of rooms, rents, mobile homes, median value of home and occupancy demographics. |
Real Estate | Open Access |
Articles+ | http://unc.summon.serialssolutions.com/advanced#!/advanced | Discover information on any topic from the UNC library collections using simple search technology powered by Summon. Use Articles+ to find:
Just enter your search terms in the search boxes and use the options below to screen to refine your search by content format, discipline, and language. |
UNC-CH users only | |
Audit Analytics | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/audit-analytics/ | 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, client revenue, market capital, changes in auditors, and more. In addition to audits, the data in Audit Analytics also covers information related to compliance, governance, corporate actions, and federal litigation. 2001-present. Learn more about Audit Analytics from WRDS. WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page.
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Accounting | UNC-CH users with additional password |
BCC Research | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609133 | 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:
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Industry Reports | UNC-CH users only |
BizMiner | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609018 | 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 and Performance Ratios, Industry Reports | UNC-CH users only |
Bloomberg Professional (Kenan-Flagler Only) | 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:
Online access is not available. |
Company Filings, Conference Calls & Press Releases, Stock - Bond - Mutual Fund - Indices Information | UNC Kenan-Flagler Capital Markets Lab | |
Bluebook International | http://www.bluebook.net/ | 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. |
Real Estate | Open Access |
BoardEx | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ | 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, as well as insights into the executive’s professional network. Coverage varies by data set. Some starts in 1999. Learn more about BoardEx: Introduction to BoardEx (WRDS account required) and information about BoardEx from WRDS. WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. |
ESG Environment, Social & Governance | UNC-CH users with additional password |
Books @ UNC Chapel Hill | https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/?tab=advanced |
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Books | |
Bplans | http://www.bplans.com | 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. |
Business and Marketing Plans, Entrepreneurship and Small Business | Open Access |
BRASS Business Guides | http://brass.libguides.com/index.php | 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 rich in nature. The resources may be free and open access or may be subscription based. The resources are selected and compiled by the named librarians who are members of the Business Reference and Services Section of the American Library Association. |
Guides to Business resources | Open Access |
Builder Online | https://www.builderonline.com/ | Home sale predictions and information for the home building industry and vital economic statistics for the home building industry. |
Real Estate | Open Access |
Bureau of Economic Analysis | http://www.bea.gov | 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 more. |
Statistics-Economic | Open Access |
Bureau of Labor Statistics | http://www.bls.gov | 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. |
Statistics-Demographic, Statistics-Economic, Statistics-Labor | Open Access |
Business & Industry Canada | https://www.canada.ca/en/services/business.html | Information to help Canadians start, manage, and grow their businesses. |
Entrepreneurship and Small Business | Open Access |
Business Plans Handbook | https://go.unc.edu/business-plan-books | 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 and Marketing Plans, Entrepreneurship and Small Business | UNC-CH users only |
Business Resources at UNC Chapel Hill | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/az.php?s=1109 | 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. |
Guides to Business resources, Guides to Industry resources | Open Access |
Business Source Premier | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609080 | 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 on journal, in many cases back to the first issue published of a journal. This resource is the only place to find the full-text and/or “page image” of articles from the Harvard Business Review. In Addition there is full text of non-journal content that includes 2,200+ market research reports, 18,000+ industry reports, 1,600+ country reports, 17,000+ company profiles, 3,000+ SWOT analyses, 6,000+ executive interviews, 900+ books, and 1,300+ working papers.
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Analyst Reports on Companies, Articles about Business Topics Companies or Industries, Industry Reports | UNC-CH users only |
Business Wire | https://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/news/ | 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 also included in Regional Business News (Nov. 2010-present) |
Company Filings, Conference Calls & Press Releases | |
Cabells Directory of Publishing Opportunities | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609314 | Directories of publishing opportunities in a wide range of academic areas including accounting, economics and finance, management, and marketing. Each journal entry includes submission guidelines, circulation data, review and contact information, and acceptance/rejection rates for selected journals. |
Grant and Research Support Information | UNC-CH users only |
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609252 | 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. |
Other Indexes | UNC-CH users only |
Candid | https://candid.org/ | Candid was formed by the merger of the Foundation Center and GuideStar. The mission of Candid is to “Give you the information you need to do good.” From their web page the description of “What we do” reads “Every year, millions of nonprofits spend trillions of dollars around the world. Candid finds out where that money comes from, where it goes, and why it matters. Through research, collaboration, and training, Candid connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to do it. Candid’s data tools on nonprofits, foundations, and grants are the most comprehensive in the world. Foundation Center and GuideStar joined forces to become Candid, a 501c3 nonprofit organization.” The organization collects, organizes, and communicates information on U.S. philanthropy, conducts and facilitates research on trends in the field, and provides education and training on the Grantseeking process. Most information is free, some is available only by subscription. |
Grant and Research Support Information | Open Access |
Capital IQ (Kenan-Flagler only) | https://spruce-lib-unc-edu.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/credentials/capitaliq.html | In-depth financial information on publicly traded companies and investment firms. Includes transactions in both the public and private capital markets by a very wide range of company identification data, financial statement data, executives’ biographical characteristics, and deal or transaction specifics. Information can be exported to Excel. Because of licensing restrictions:
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Company Financial Information, Company Profiles, Executive Biographies, Mergers - Acquisitions - Joint Ventures, Private Equity and Venture Capital | UNC Kenan-Flagler users only |
CBinsights | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609350 | 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 up an account using a valid UNC Chapel Hill email address to access CB Insights. Each user is limited to 4,000 lines of downloading per year. |
Company Profiles, Mergers - Acquisitions - Joint Ventures, Private Equity and Venture Capital | UNC-CH users with additional password |
Code of Federal Regulations | https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/cfr/ | 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 subject to Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis. Each title is divided into chapters, which usually bear the name of the issuing agency. Each chapter is further subdivided into parts that cover specific regulatory areas. Large parts may be subdivided into subparts. All parts are organized in sections, and most citations in the CFR are provided at the section level. |
Laws, Legislation, and Regulations | Open Access |
Colliers International Market Reports | http://www.colliers.com | Free quarterly reports on economic activity especially on commercial property industry. Includes reports on city, national and international markets. Also contains commercial property listings. |
Real Estate, Real Estate Listings | Open Access |
COMPUSTAT Execucomp | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/compustat-capital-iq-standard-poors/compustat/execucomp/ | 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 Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. |
ESG Environment, Social & Governance | UNC-CH users with additional password |
COMPUSTAT Global | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/compustat-capital-iq-standard-poors/compustat/global-daily/ | 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 current and inactive companies. 1987-present. Learn more about COMPUSTAT Global from WRDS. WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. |
Company Financial Information | UNC-CH users with additional password |
COMPUSTAT North America | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/compustat-capital-iq-standard-poors/compustat/north-america-daily/ | 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 is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. .
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Company Financial Information | UNC-CH users with additional password |
COMPUSTAT Snapshot | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/compustat-capital-iq-standard-poors/compustat/snapshot/ | 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. 1986-present. Manuals & overviews for COMPUSTAT Snapshot from WRDS. WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. |
Company Financial Information | UNC-CH users with additional password |
Conference Board Business Knowledge Research Online | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=52182115 | 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 library may have purchased individual reports from before that time. For UNC-Chapel Hill holdings of earlier reports, previous issues of various publications, and other Conference Board publications not found in this database, consult the UNC-Chapel Hill online library catalog. |
Articles about Business Topics Companies or Industries | UNC-CH users only |
Congress.gov | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608509 | 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 on. Information goes back to 1995. |
Laws, Legislation, and Regulations | Open Access |
Congressional Budget Office | https://www.cbo.gov | Congressional budget office has a variety of economic and budgetary forecasts, projections, and historical data for the US economy and the Federal budget. |
Statistics-Economic | Open Access |
Council for Entrepreneurial Development | http://www.cednc.org/ | 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 a community of people inspired by entrepreneurship, and includes a wide range of members including startup companies, more mature growth-stage firms, investors, service partners, academics, and individuals.
CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, forums, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance.
CED has helped entrepreneurs in a myriad of industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, life sciences, and service companies, from one-person start-ups to 1,000-person businesses.
(source Organization Web site)
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Entrepreneurship and Small Business | Open Access |
Country Commercial Guides | https://www.export.gov/ccg | 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 wealth of information here.
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Country Information | Open Access |
County Business Patterns | https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html | 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. Businesses use the data for analyzing market potential, measuring the effectiveness of sales and advertising programs, setting sales quotas, and developing budgets. (source Census website) |
Statistics-Economic, Statistics-State and Local | Open Access |
Craftsman National Appraisal Estimator | https://craftsman-book.com/ | 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. |
Real Estate | Open Access |
CRSP Indices | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/center-research-security-prices-crsp/ | 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 cap-based portfolios, Treasury bond and risk-free rates of return on daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis for the NYSE and AMEX from 1925-present and from 1972-present for Nasdaq markets. Includes these five groups of indices from Center for Research in Security Prices, LLC:
Learn more about CRSP Stocks and Indices. WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. |
Stock - Bond - Mutual Fund - Indices Information | UNC-CH users with additional password |
CRSP Stocks | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ | 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 current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. |
Stock - Bond - Mutual Fund - Indices Information | UNC-CH users with additional password |
CRSP Survivor-Bias Free U.S. Mutual Fund Database | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/center-research-security-prices-crsp/quarterly-update/mutual-funds/ | 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 net asset values, and dividends. Plus schedules of rear and front load fees, asset class codes, and management company contact information are provided. All data items are for open-end mutual funds and begin at varying times between 1962 and 2003 depending on availability. Updated quarterly and distributed with a quarterly lag. Manuals & overviews of CRSP Mutual Funds from WRDS. WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. |
Stock - Bond - Mutual Fund - Indices Information | UNC-CH users with additional password |
CRSP U.S. Treasury and Inflation Series | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/center-research-security-prices-crsp/annual-update/treasuries/ | 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 for CRSP U.S. Treasury Database from WRDS. WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. |
Stock - Bond - Mutual Fund - Indices Information | UNC-CH users with additional password |
CRSP/ COMPUSTAT Merged | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/center-research-security-prices-crsp/annual-update/crspcompustat-merged/ | 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 changes. Learn more about Center for Research in Security Prices, LLC (CRSP). WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page. |
Company Financial Information | UNC-CH users with additional password |