Research Resources

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. The ICPSR data holdings contain some 6,300 studies and 500,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Individual registration and adherence to responsible use statement are required. (source Davis Library web page)

A wonderful page of interesting tables and charts showing how Consumer Price Index (CPI) affects prices and nearly everything else that has money as a base. There are conversion factors to determine the value of dollars of the years 1774 to estimated 2028 in dollars of the years 2018, 2017,2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 ,2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, and 1995. Plus lots more.  Note: As of July 16 2021 data hs not been updated since August 14 2018. 

Data from Thomson Financial describing the sales and purchases of stock by corporate insiders.

A database includes:

Table One file contains all Table 1 non-derivative transaction and holdings information filed on Forms 3, 4, 5. Coverage January 1986 to Present.

Table Two file contains all Table 2 derivative transaction and holdings information filed on Form 3, 4, 5. The data in this includes open market derivatives transactions as well as information on the award, exercise, and expiration of stock options. coverage January 1996 to present.

Form 144 File contains the Proposed Sale file is derived from Form 144. This data includes the expected data of sale, the number of securities to be sold, the estimated market value of the proposed sales, and the name of the executing broker. Coverage January 1986 to present.

The Average Returns file contains the information relating to how a stock has historically performed following an insider’s transactions. The file includes average 3-month and 6-month buy and sell returns as well as the number of historic buy and sell decisions for each individual insider. Coverage June 1996 to present.

Amendment Concordance file links an amended filing to its original filing by way of DCN. This prevents double counting by allowing users to see which original filing is being replaced. The amendment concordance file is a full refresh every day. Please note: not all amended filings are included in this file, only those that meet our concordance criteria. Coverage October 2002 to present.

Insider Filings Data is accessed through a Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) account.

Special Note: WRDS accounts will only be generated for current faculty, currently enrolled students (Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate), and selected current staff of UNC-Chapel Hill.

To fill out an on-line account request form go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ and click on the “Register” tab in the upper right portion of the screen.

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 companies. The 13f data is aggregated to a manager level. Coverage is from 1980 to the present. (formerly known as CDA/Spectrum)

Institutional Money Managers (13f) Holdings is accessed through a Wharton Research and Data Services (WRDS) account.

Special Note: WRDS accounts will only be generated for current faculty, currently enrolled students (Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate), and selected current staff of UNC-Chapel Hill.

To fill out an on-line account request form go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ and click on the “Register” tab in the upper right portion of the screen.

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 2011.  These files contain information on pending and historical securities-related class action lawsuits and SEC settlements from Securities Class Action Services, LLC.

* CaseSecurity.zip: this is a zipped, pipe-delimited text file that contains a list of Security Class Action lawsuits. CaseSettlement.zip: this is a zipped, pipe-delimited text file that contains a list of SEC Class Action Settlements.

* SCAS_Data_Definitions04_14_2011.xls: this is a data dictionary that provides descriptions for each of the fields in the CaseSecurity and CaseSettlement files in Excel format.

Special Note: A UNC Onyen is required for access.

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 file for each year of data.

Special Note: Because of license restrictions Data may be accessed only by currently enrolled students and researchers on the faculty at the University of North Carolina and may not be imported into a widely accessible online database. Data may be used only for research purposes; absolutely no distribution or commercial use whatsoever is permitted. Institutional Shareholder Services must be cited as the source of the data in any publications based on analysis of this data. Please contact researchtools@kenan-flagler.unc.edu for information on how to access the database.

Tax information publications and forms from the United States Internal Revenue Service.

A guide information on Federal Tax aspects of a small business. Also a selected guide to other Internet sites and resources with information of interest to those starting or running a small businesses.

This site contains links to many different statistics related to corporate and individual taxation. Information is gathered form corporate and individual tax returns filed with the United States Internal Revenue Service.

The most current data here is 2 to 3 years old.

(source Davis Library)

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 projected for another 10 years. International Debt Statistics also includes topical country data and regional aggregates showing time series in table and chart form. The topics are: external debt, aggregate net resource flows (long term), net flows and transfers on debt, net financial flows from multilateral institutions, and international bond issues (new and outstanding).  (Source: Davis Library)

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, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Data may be available monthly, quarterly, or annually depending of the specific data element in question. Many of the data time series start in 1948. Data is downloadable in Excel and other formats.

International Financial Statistics is provided by the International Monetary Fund.

The ILO formulates international labour standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labour rights: freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labour, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues.

It provides technical assistance primarily in the fields of: • vocational training and vocational rehabilitation; • employment policy; • labour administration; • labour law and industrial relations; • working conditions; • management development; • cooperatives; • social security; • labour statistics and occupational safety and health.

The ILO promotes the development of independent employers’ and workers’ organizations and provides training and advisory services to those organizations. Within the UN system, the ILO has a unique tripartite structure with workers and employers participating as equal partners with governments in the work of its governing organs. (Source ILO website)

Labor statistics, surveys, standards, and legislation  information from the International Labour Organization.

The U.S. Census Bureau has collected links to statistical sites for over 100 countries and international organizations. This is a good place to begin your search for statistics in other countries.

Lots of Importing and Exporting information. Click on “Products approach” or “Country approach” at the opening screen, and you’ll go to a page with a wealth of links to both ITC information and trade information on the Internet. Click on “Index to Trade Information Sources on the Internet” and you’ll go to a gigantic list that includes links to Web sites for newspapers, journals, and magazines about various trade and industry-related topics; online import-export directories; sites for networking and trade leads; sites for prices and exchange rate information; downloadable statistics; trade regulations, laws, and standards; tariff information; a calendar of trade events worldwide; information about government procurement and bidding for various countries; trade promotion organizations; regional associations, and more.”

Operated by the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. The ITC, based in Switzerland, has many programs for fostering or enhancing trade – especially trade involving developing countries—and this Web site is a great resource for businesses and organizations involved in the Exporting and importing arena.

OptionMetrics’s IvyDB is a comprehensive source of historical price and implied volatility data for the U.S. equity and index options markets. Ivy DB OptionMetrics contains historical prices of options and their associated underlying instruments, correctly calculated implied volatilities, and option sensitivities.

The database is specifically designed for empirical research. Data can be downloaded into a variety of database, spreadsheet, and statistical software packages and this allows for very sophisticated research and analysis on all aspects of options investments including backtesting  trading strategies and evaluating risk models.

Data is available from 1996 to present.

IvyDB Option Metrics is accessed through a Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) account.

Special Note: WRDS accounts will only be generated for current faculty, currently enrolled students (Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate), and selected current staff of UNC-Chapel Hill.

To fill out an on-line account request form go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ and click on the “Register” tab in the upper right portion of the screen.

Information from the Japan Patent Office including how to apply as well as a searchable databases of granted patents.

Links to a series of “tutorials” on marketing topics.

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 and help screens facilitate your use of the data and the database. Data is continually being updated.

Available statistics include: Population and Housing, Vital Statistics and Health, Social and Human Services, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections, Environment, Recreation, and Resources, Energy and Utilities, Government, Employment and Income, Business and Industry, Agriculture, and Transportation.

A free Web journal dedicated to “providing legal and library professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools.”

Search listings of commercial property available for sale or lease. Available property includes; multifamily, retail, industrial, office, land, agricultural, hotel & motel, healthcare, senior housing, sports & entertainment and residential income properties.

Provides information on publicly traded US and international companies; formerly known as Refinitiv Workspace. Typically includes 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, and analyst reports.

Aftermarket Reports (fka Investext) no longer exists as an independent database but is a module of the LSEG Workspace database. Contains the full-text, including tables, charts and other graphics, of industry and company reports written by analysts from more than 700 of the world’s investment banks. Includes over 8 million company reports and more than 1.2 million industry reports dating back to 1982. Reports are generally added 1 to 2 weeks after initial publication.

SPECIAL NOTES

• Register for an account with your UNC email. Directions at: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go65062420.
• Must authenticate with your Onyen both on- and off-campus.

Questions? Please contact researchtools@kenan-flagler.unc.edu.

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 | Public Utility Manual 1914-2007 | Industrial Manual 1920-present | Bank and Finance Manual 1928-present | OTC Industrial Manual 1970-present | International Manual 1981-present | OTC Unlisted Manual 1986-present | and Municipal and Government Manual 1955-present.

Additional resources in the archive include: corporate annual reports; industry reports; equity reports. Users can search within and across manuals, by company name, manual year or type. (Source Davis Library)

The Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database (FISD) for academia is a comprehensive database of publicly-offered U.S. bonds. FISD 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. FISD provides details on debt issues and the issuers, as well as transactions by insurance companies. It is used to research market trends, deal structures, issuer capital structures and other areas of fixed income debt research.

• Issuer specific information includes:
  • Industry codes, S.I.C. codes and N.A.I.C.S. codes.
  • Ticker and exchange listings.
  • Issuer names and parent relationships.
  • Bankruptcy and default detail.
• Issue specific data includes:
  • Full call, put and sinking fund schedules and call frequency codes.
  • Structured security flags and detailed information.
  • Floating rate formulas, current rates and coupon schedules.
  • Fitch IBCA, Moody’s, S&P and Duff & Phelps credit ratings.
  • U.S. Treasury auction information.
  • Convertible debt information.
  • Underwriters, trustees and fiscal agents.
  • Unit deals and warrant information.
• Transaction information includes:
  • All bond acquisitions reported since 1994 by insurance companies
  • All bond disposals (sales, redemptions) since 1995 by insurance companies

Special Note: WRDS accounts will only be generated for current faculty, currently enrolled students (Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate), and selected current staff of UNC-Chapel Hill.

To fill out an on-line account request form go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ and click on the “Register” tab in the upper right portion of the screen.

​Mergent Historical Annual Reports contains company annual reports from the U.S., Canada, and other mostly European countries from around the world. Over 1 million annual reports are included, some dating back over 100 years. In some cases when a company did not produce an “Annual Report” the company’s 10K is included instead. And in other cases both the “Annual Report” and the 10K are included. The documents are in pdf format.

The reports cover a variety of sectors including consumer goods, travel and tourism, financial industry, internet industry, retail, and food and drink. Reports discuss market drivers, market size and trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and market forecasts. Most of the reports are for the USA and  China. Once a product category is chosen, one can use the drop down box in the upper right to choose a country.

Special Note 1: Report sections may be saved or printed out section-by-section, or multiple sections (even from different reports) may be saved into the ‘report basket’ and saved from there as a single merged file

Special Note 2: Users must agree to the Mintel Academic Conditions of Use before entering the database.

Special Note 3: Users may but are not required to create an account profile. Creating an account profiles allows users to save searches and set up email alerts when new reports are published.  Click on “create profile” then “sign in” to access the reports. You are only required to enter your name and email,(not class etc). Please be sure to “sign out” of your profile when finished. (source Davis Library)

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.

Combines authoritative Morningstar data with powerful analytical tools. Gives you data on more than 10,000 mutual funds. With more historical data, an archive of our analyst reviews and commentaries, fund manager profiles, and much more, you’ll be able to confidently make critical decisions regarding similar funds. (Source Vendor Website)

Davis Library has cd-roms for 1994 through January 2010.

Use the pull down menu to select a state or territory and get a link to the Secretary of State Office for that state or territory that is responsible for corporate registrations in that state or territory.

The offices may also have information or forms that all companies including private corporations are required to file to incorporate and or do business within the state.

Information available is highly variable between states and there will likely be restrictions on what information the general public can view.

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 in their fields. Each NBER Working Paper is listed under one or more programs, by issue date. The most recent papers are listed first.

UNC-Chapel Hill has a full subscription to the working papers. For a description of the programs go to http://www.nber.org/programs/program_desc.html

Links to all kinds of information about doing business in or with the state of North Carolina. Including: applications, permits, licenses, laws, taxes, and all manner of laws, rules, and regulations.

UNC Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff now have full, year-round access to The New York Times, including smartphone, tablet, and browser access, thanks to a sponsorship from the University Library. For app downloads, visit NYTimes.com/mobile.

Access does not include e-reader editions, NYT Cooking, Premium Crosswords or The New York Times Crosswords apps. Pass users also receive access to the New York Times archives (1851-2002) which includes 5 PDF downloads from the Times Machine per day via timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser. Archive articles outside that date range are not subject to that limit. Digital access is available only during the time that our New York Times Site License is active.

To set up your account: Please consult https://guides.lib.unc.edu/nyt-academic-pass for detailed directions on setting up your account.  (Davis Library)

New York Times, in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers full-text and full-image articles covering 1851 to December 31, 2019. You can search the current issues of the New York Times through several databases including Proquest Central, New York Times Academic Pass, Factiva and Nexis Uni.

The site provides links to the FREE web sites of hundreds of U.S. and non-U.S. newspapers, U.S. radio stations, and U.S. television stations.

This resource is particularly good for finding articles or news stories on smaller perhaps privately owned companies that have appeared in the regional, local or business newspapers.

I have not checked all or even most of the papers available, but many of have back files that I have checked go back to mid 1996 or earlier.

Newspaper Source Plus provides selected full text for nearly 860 national (U.S.), regional( U.S.), and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc.

In addition, there is full text transcripts of more than 850,000 television & radio news programs from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, and others. (Source Vendor web page)

Provides full-text access to general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information, and other topics such as biographical information. It covers general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information (including law reviews, case law and legal rulings), and other topics such as biographical information. Many of the files are full-text Along with general, regional and international news, this database is also useful for finding company and business news, company profiles, transcripts of companies earnings calls with analysts, corporate bankruptcy filings and much more.

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 account.

The Consumer Panel Data

The Consumer Panel Data tracks purchases of a panel of 40,000 to 60,000 households who stay on as long as they meet NielsenIQ’s requirements. The data is collected by in-home scanners describes when, where, and at what price, the panelists made purchases in all 10 Nielsen Food and Non-Food Departments which together account for about 1.4 million UPC codes. Panelists are geographically dispersed and demographically balanced. Each panelist is assigned a projection factor, which enables purchases to be projectable to the entire United States. The data is available starting 2004, with updates being made on an annual basis. Updates are expected to be available in the first quarter of each calendar year

Retail Scanner Data

The Retail Scanner Data consists of weekly pricing, volume, and store merchandising conditions generated by retail store point-of-sale systems from approximately 35,000 participating grocery, drug, mass merchandiser, and other stores from approximately 90 retail chains covering all US markets. Products from all NielsenIQ-tracked categories are included in the data, such as food, non-food grocery items, health and beauty aids, and select general merchandise. The data is available starting 2006, with updates being made on an annual basis. Updates are expected to be available in the first quarter of each calendar year

Ad Intel

Nielsen’s Ad Intel Data cover advertising occurrences for a variety of media types (including National TV, Local TV, Radio, Magazine, Newspaper, FSI (free standing insert), Outdoor, Cinema and Internet/Digital) across the United States. The data can be broken down by Market Code (i.e., ~200 Designated Market Areas (DMAs), which can be matched to DMAs in the Consumer Panel and Retail Scanner datasets).The data is available starting 2010 (internet/digital data is limited until 2017), with updates being made on an annual basis. Updates are expected to be available in the first quarter of each calendar year

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) provides common industry definitions for Canada, Mexico, and the United States. And allows for better comparison of economic and financial statistics and ensures that such statistics keep pace with the changing economy. NAICS is a joint development of the U.S. Census Department, the US Economic Classification Policy Committee, Statistics Canada, and Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica. The NAICS system replaces the countries’ separate classification systems with one uniform system for classifying industries. In the United States, NAICS replaces the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.

The North Carolina Department of Commerce provides a wealth of information and services including: business license information, NC statistics, site selection, international trade assistance, and more.

Demographic profiles of North Carolina counties. Reports on the state of various industries in North Carolina, Comparison of North Carolina to the other states on basic demographic, infrastructure and business climate measures.

This database was discontinued by the publisher as of December 2014, and was replaced by theTAQ Millisecond database. However data is still available for January 1993 to December 2014.

This database contains intraday transactions data in two databases, Consolidated Quote database for intraday quotes (time (to the second), price and number of shares for each offer to buy or sell) and Consolidated Trade database for intraday trades (time (to the second), price, and number of shares for each actual sale) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues. NYSE Trade and Quote (TAQ) is accessed through a Wharton Data Services (WRDS) account.

NYSE Trades and Quotes (TAQ) is accessed through a Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) account.

Special Note: WRDS accounts will only be generated for current faculty, currently enrolled students (Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate), and selected current staff of UNC-Chapel Hill.

To fill out an on-line account request form go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ and click on the “Register” tab in the upper right portion of the screen.

​This database contains intraday transactions data in two databases, Consolidated Quote database for intraday quotes (time (to the millisecond), price and number of shares for each offer to buy or sell) and Consolidated Trade database for intraday trades (time (to the millisecond), price, and number of shares for each actual sale) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues. Data is available for January 1, 2009 the present with a 3 month delay.

NYSE Trade and Quote Millisecond (TAQ Millisecond) is accessed through a Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) account.

Special Note: WRDS accounts will only be generated for current faculty, currently enrolled students (Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate), and selected current staff of UNC-Chapel Hill.

To fill out an on-line account request form go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ and click on the “Register” tab in the upper right portion of the screen.

Lots of information about foreign exchange including a converter. The converter lets you convert between any two of the worlds currencies. For example you can determine how many Yen, Pounds, or Krone you can get for your Dollar, Peso, or Franc? You can find the conversion rate for any day or range of days from January 1990 through yesterday. There are also links to a large number of currency trading information sites.

This is a marvelous site that lets you search for the definitions of words in more than 1060 different dictionaries. You can search all of the dictionaries at once or search them individually.

OptionMetrics’s IvyDB is a comprehensive source of historical price and implied volatility data for the U.S. equity and index options markets. Ivy DB OptionMetrics contains historical prices of options and their associated underlying instruments, correctly calculated implied volatilities, and option sensitivities.

The database is specifically designed for empirical research. Data can be downloaded into a variety of database, spreadsheet, and statistical software packages and this allows for very sophisticated research and analysis on all aspects of options investments including backtesting trading strategies and evaluating risk models.

Data is available from 1996 to present.

OptionMetrics IvyDB is accessed through a Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) account.

Special Note: WRDS accounts will only be generated for current faculty, currently enrolled students (Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate), and selected current staff of UNC-Chapel Hill.

To fill out an on-line account request form go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ and click on the “Register” tab in the upper right portion of the screen.

ORBIS has information on more than 321 million publicly traded and privately held companies from almost 200 countries around the world. The company count breakdown by region:

North America 68 million — Western Europe 79 million — Eastern Europe 42 million — Middle East 6 million — Far East & Central Asia 101 million — Oceania 30 million — South & Central America 53 million — Africa 13 million.

For the privately held companies information includes typical directory facts such as corporate name, the name of the “ultimate parent” company name,  location and address information, number of employees, several industry classification codes, type of ownership information, listings of subsidiaries, names and titles for executives and directors, and more.

For the publicly quoted companies, banks and insurance companies Information includes: all the information available for private companies PLUS: up to 10 years of detailed financial statement information

Orbis contains graphing capabilities and integrated analysis software that allows users to compare companies against each other and produce tables and graphs to illustrate results. The tables and charts can be downloaded into various word processing and spreadsheet formats.

Special Note: To access Orbis Turn OFF your Pop-Up Blocker. The first time you logon you will be asked to select the country where you are located select United States and the U.S. state where you are located Select North Carolina. You will then be able to search the database.

Osiris contains information on more than 110,000 listed (publicly traded) companies, banks and insurance companies from 190 countries around the world. In addition to the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement and ratios. Osiris provides, ownership, subsidiaries, earnings estimates and stock data. In addition to the existing ratios you can create your own that you can display in the reports and also use in your searches and analyses. Osiris contains specific report formats for companies, banks and insurance companies and also has reports that reflect accounting procedures in the major world regions. Both standardized and “as reported” financials are provided. Osiris contains graphing capabilities and integrated analysis software that allows users to compare companies against each other and produce tables and graphs to illustrate results. The tables and charts can be downloaded into various word processing and spreadsheet formats.

The company count breakdown by region:

North America 29,000 — Western Europe 16,000 — Eastern Europe 5,900 — Middle East 2,800 — Far East & Central Asia 44,000 — Oceania 4,400 — South & Central America 7,900 — Africa 2,600.

Special Note: To access Osiris Turn OFF your Pop-Up Blocker. The first time you log on you will be asked to select the country where you are located select United States and the U.S. state where you are located Select North Carolina. You will then be able to search the database.