Research Resources
Resource | Url | Description | Subjects | Access Levels |
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U.S. Occupational Outlook Handbook | https://www.bls.gov/ooh/ | Great source for finding information on typical duties, educational or work experience / requirements and, forecasted future need for various occupations. |
Industry Reports, Real Estate | Open Access |
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | https://www.uspto.gov/ | News and information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Including patent application forms, rules, regulations, and procedures, and frequently asked questions about the patent and trademark process. There are easy to use searchable databases of patents, trademarks, and patent applications. There are also statistics related to patent and trademark filings. |
Intellectual Property and Patents | Open Access |
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | https://www.sec.gov/ | Provides access to the full-text regulatory material, litigation of SEC enforcement actions, the EDGAR Database of company filings, and a history of the SEC. |
Financial and/or Commodities Markets | Open Access |
U.S. Small Business Administration | https://www.sba.gov/ | U.S. Government agency that provides financial, technical, and management assistance to help Americans start and grow their businesses. |
Entrepreneurship and Small Business | Open Access |
UK Intellectual Property Office | https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office | News and information from the United Kingdom’s Patent and Trademark Office. Including patent application forms, rules and procedures, and frequently asked questions about the patent and trademark process. You can also search for on Patents, tredemarks, and copyrights granted in the UK. |
Intellectual Property and Patents | Open Access |
UNC-CH Funding Information Portal | http://fundingportal.unc.edu/ | The Funding Information Portal has links to variety of databases that contain information about grant and funding opportunities is the best place to start your search for research funding. |
Grant and Research Support Information | UNC-CH users only |
UNC-Chapel Hill online catalog | https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/?tab=advanced | What books are available in any of UNC-Chapel Hill’s many libraries. |
Books | Open Access |
UNData | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608864 | 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, tourism and trade. Includes Millennium Development Goals indicators, and UN Key Global Indicators. Sources include UN Statistics Division, UN Population Division, Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labour Organization, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, World Tourism Organization, UNESCO. (Source Davis Library) |
Statistics, Statistics-Demographic, Statistics-Economic, Statistics-Labor | UNC-CH users only |
University Press Scholarship Online | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609221 | University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) provides access to thousands of e-books from more than a dozen university presses across the subject spectrum. Subjects of particular interst for business researchers might include Business and Management and Economics and Finance. UPSO allows you to search these books and their entire content by author, title, subject, keyword, book and chapter abstract, and date of publication. Most of the books were published between 1990 and the present. You can also access all of these e-books individually through the online catalog. |
Books | UNC-CH users only |
US Newsstream | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609272 | News content from more than 1600 national and international newspapers, newswires and selected news magazines. |
Articles about Business Topics Companies or Industries, Other Indexes | UNC-CH users only |
USA Trade Online | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608466 | 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 annual two-year and historical period. You can customize your reports and save them to Excel or ASCII files. Using USA Trade Online, you can find export markets for particular products, compare exports of one product with related products, determine market share of export markets for specific products, and follow trends in specific products, markets, and countries. Special Note: Users will need to create a free account to access this resource. Click the ‘Sign Up Now’ button on the main page and follow the prompts. You will receive an email with a link to activate your account. |
Exports and Imports | UNC-CH users with additional password |
Value Line Historical Estimates & Projections | http://spruce.lib.unc.edu.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/content/dataservices/valueline/ | Value Line’s Historical Estimates & Projections product 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 Line proprietary rankings (timeliness, safety, financial strength), Price performance indicators (beta, stability, growth persistence, earnings predictability), Year-ahead estimates (EPS, dividends), 3-to-5-year performance projections (appreciation, total return), Projected growth rates of key financial indicators, Annual estimates of selected financial indicators, Quarterly estimates of sales- EPS, and Aggregate information for around 90 industries. |
Company Financial Information | UNC-CH users only |
Value Line Research Center | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608924 | Value Line Research Center offers all the content of Value Line’s investment services covering thousands of stocks, mutual funds, daily options and convertible issues. The Research Center comprises Value Line Investment Survey, Value Line Investment Survey Expanded Edition, Value Line Convertibles Survey, Value Line Daily Options Survey, and Value Line Special Situations Service. (source Davis Library) |
Company Financial Information, Stock - Bond - Mutual Fund - Indices Information | UNC-CH users only |
VitalLaw (formerly CCH IntelliConnect) | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=46280825 | Federal, State and some International Tax information The Federal service includes the Standrd Federal Tax Reporter; the Federal Estate/Gift Tax Reporter; the Federal Excise Tax Reporter; the current Internal Revenue Code; cases and rulings as well as IRS publications. The State file contains all State Tax Reporters as well as State Tax Laws. Other files cover International taxation. Federal Tax Day and State Tax Day are included in the News section. |
Accounting, Mergers - Acquisitions - Joint Ventures, Taxes | UNC-CH users only |
Wachowicz’s Web World | http://web.utk.edu/~jwachowi/wacho_world.html | This portal site has a very large collection of categorized and briefly annotated links to web resources useful for financial management related questions, more than 1,000 PowerPoint slides, interactive quizzes, web-based exercises, and more. The web sites are grouped to correspond with the major topic headings in the text book Fundamentals of Financial Management, 13th ed., Prentice-Hall (2009) by James Van Horne & John Wachowicz, Jr. |
Guides to Business resources | Open Access |
Wall Street Journal | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608293 | Search for and read articles that were printed in the Wall Street Journal after January 1, 1984. You can search for and read the full-text of older articles from the Wall Street Journal by using Factiva or Wall Street Journal Historical Newspaper. |
Articles about Business Topics Companies or Industries | UNC-CH users only |
Wall Street Journal Historical Newspaper 1889-2010 | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608952 | The Wall Street Journal is part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers hundreds of thousands of pages of full-text and full-image articles in the newspaper from 1889-2010. You can search the current issues of the Wall Street through several databases including ABI/Inform Collection, Proquest Central, Factiva and Nexis Uni. |
Articles about Business Topics Companies or Industries | UNC-CH users only |
WDI (World Development Indicators) Online | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608490 | This publication of the World Bank contains more than 1400 indicators. The indicators cover a wide range of social, economic and demographic areas including major economic indicators, information on population, health, gender, poverty, natural resources, financial matters, environmental variables, and other topics related to economic and social development. More than 250 goegraphic areas are covered. The geographic areas can be individual countries or groups of countries (East Asia, High Income, OECD, Sub-Saharan Africa, and 40 other groupings). |
Country Information, Statistics-Demographic, Statistics-Economic | UNC-CH users only |
World Industrial Reporter | https://worldindustrialreporter.com/ | A global directory of manufacturers and distributors, classified by industrial products and services categories. Information includes company name address and contact numbers or email. Does not necessarily include every company producing a product or service from every country. |
Company Profiles | Open Access |
World Intellectual Property Organization | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609297 | WIPO is an agency of the UN. The WIPO databases include international intellectual property laws, standards, and statistics, but also information on international patents, brand registrations, marks, appellations of origin, and more. ()source Davis Libary web page.) |
Intellectual Property and Patents | Open Access |
WorldCat | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608327 | More than 179 million records representing the holdings of several thousand libraries from around the world. The data base includes bibliographic records for books, dissertations, journals, audiovisual materials, sound recordings, maps, musical scores, newspapers and manuscripts. This database is most useful for determining what library or libraries have what particular materials in their collections. |
Books | UNC-CH users only |
WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) | https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/ | 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 | ETF Global | EVENTUS | Hedge Fund Research (HFR) | I/B/E/S | IHS Global Insights | IRI | Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database | NYSE TAQ | Option Metrics | RavenPack News Analytics | RepRisk | Preqin (the Private Equity and Venture Capital modules only) | Thomson Financial Institutional (13f) | Thomson Financial Insiders . 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.
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UNC-CH users with additional password | |
XE.com – Full Currency Converter | https://www.xe.com/ | A collection of financial calculators including their Universal Currency Converter for converting more than 180 world currencies in to any other world currencies and a Credit Card Charges Calculator that it will give you an estimate of the “hidden” charges the credit card issuer is adding on for converting the foreign exchange and processing the transaction. |
Calculators and Converters | Open Access |
Your Dictionary.com | http://www.yourdictionary.com | A dictionary and thesaurus combination. Type in a word and get a definition, synonyms, and a list of usage examples. A nice feature of this site is that many words have a link to an audiofile where you can hear a pronunciation of the word. |
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | Open Access |
Zack’s Investment Research | https://www.zacks.com/ | Financial information on publicly traded companies. Including delayed stock price, financial statements, financial and performance ratios, analyst estimates and recomendations, and more. |
Company Financial Information | Open Access |
Zephyr | https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608901 | Zephyr includes information on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, private equity, and venture capital deals and rumors. Zephyr has global coverage: European deals from as early as 1997, North American deals from 2000, and Other global areas deals form 2003 are included. Zephyr also strives to be comprehensive in that no minimum deal value is applied. As of July 2021 there was information for more than 2.2 million deals, rumors, and or transactions. Users can search by hundreds of different deal elements including deal type, geography, industry, company financials and multiples. Users can display data using any of 12 currencies. Zephyr 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 Zephyr: Turn OFF the Pop-Up Blocker on your internet browser. Click on the Link for Zephyr. The first time you log in 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. |
Mergers - Acquisitions - Joint Ventures, Private Equity and Venture Capital | UNC-CH users only |
Zillow | https://www.zillow.com/ | Real time or near real time real residential real estate listings |
Real Estate, Real Estate Listings | Open Access |