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Wall Street Journal (4 years ago - present) This link opens in a new window
Current faculty, staff, and students can activate their Miami University Libraries-sponsored Wall Street Journal account from any location on or off campus. Click 'More info' for registration instructions.
- Go to the WSJ registration page.
- Enter first and last name
- Select an Account Type from the dropdown: Student, Professor, or Staff
- Enter your email address and create a password. The email address and password will allow access on other devices outside of the university network.
- Click Create to complete registration and create your WSJ subscription.
- Once you have an account you can go directly to: https://www.wsj.com/
Cincinnati Business Courier This link opens in a new window
The latest breaking business news, updated throughout the day, this week's top stories from the Cincinnati Business Courier. This has full access to all 44 other local business journals owned by American City Business Journals.

Subscription is provided by Miami's Center for Career Exploration and Success.

Click 'More info' for registration instructions.
- Go to the Cincinnati Business Courier registration page.
- Enter your Miami email address
- Create a password
- Enter your zip code
- Select any newsletters or alerts you'd like to receive
- On the next Group Subscriptions screen - MUST click on Miami University Center for Exploration & Success. If this is skipped your account will be created, but you will not have unlocked access.
- Once you have an account you can go directly to: Cincinnati Business Courier
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva has the Wall Street Journal (articles from the Print edition only), as well as Forbes, Fortune, Barron’s, London Financial Times, and thousands of other US and international news sources.

Consumer Research

MRI-Simmons Insights This link opens in a new window
MRI Simmons Insights is a database of US consumer survey data that provides information on who consumes what, and connects that to the consumers' demographics and media usage. For help using Simmons Insights, see this tip sheet. Use is limited to 10 simultaneous users.
Mintel Academic This link opens in a new window
Consumer market research data
SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
Resource for creating maps and tables using data from a variety of sources including the Census, Simmons consumer data, PRIZM psychographic variables, etc.
Miami's subscription includes access to data from the EASI Standard Package (which includes data from the year 2000, 2010, Current Estimates, and Five Year Projections), the EASI Life Stages Package, the Experian SimmonsLOCAL, and the Nielsen Claritas PRIZM&‌Acirc; Data Packages.

Industry Research

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
A resource for full-text industrial market research reports. Reports are available in variety of areas including mining, construction, wholesale and retail distribution, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, education, financial services, arts, entertainment, accommodations and food service, and more. Search by keyword, NAICS or SIC codes.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a source for statistics for almost any subject area. Use the limiters on the left side to narrow to a specific country or type of data. Also you can copy and paste the citation information for each statistics into a bibliography.
Categorized into 21 market sectors, it provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. Statista includes data sources such as market research reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. For each statistic, metadata is also provided including but not limited to source, release date, number of respondents, and any other relevant details to facilitate verification of all statistical information available in the database.

Company Research

Hoover's D&B Business Browser This link opens in a new window
Create lists of companies in specific locations or industries or research individual companies.

Articles

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business news articles and scholarly journals.
It also includes other sources of full-text information such as country economic reports and detailed company profiles for thousands of the world's largest companies. Includes some ahead of print content.
PitchBook This link opens in a new window
To use Pitchbook you must create an access ID using your school email address (@miamioh.edu). Instructions for creating an account can be found here.

The PitchBook platform provides access to information about private companies, venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions for startups and high growth companies, including pre- and post-money valuations, investment amounts, investment round (seed, series a, etc.), angel group and institutional investor names, and investee information (founder and CEO names, location, age, degrees, etc.).
In addition to transactional data, PitchBook also provides detailed information on institutional investment firms (for both venture capital and private equity), including the partners/directors at each firm, the limited partners, individual fund amount and performance, investment portfolio (by fund), and more.

Business Librarian

Zachary Grisham

Email Me

Contact:

King Library: Room 201
Email: Grishaz@miamioh.edu

513-529-4144

Subjects: Accountancy, Business, Business Legal Studies, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management, Marketing

Government Resources

Data.Census.Gov
The census bureau's main data dissemination platform and the successor to American Fact Finder.
Census Business Builder
Includes data about consumers including; socioeconomic, demographic, industry and business data.
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Two editions.
Small Business Edition- allows access to information about potential customers and similar businesses.
social, economic, housing, and demographic data from the ACS, business data from the County Business Patterns, Economics census and survey of business owners, International trade program, USDA

Demographic and consumer spending data are available at the state, county, city/town, zip code, and census tract levels.

Economic data is available at the state, county and city/ town levels.

Agricultural and trade data are only available at the state level.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Provide state, regional and national data on labor forces. Also provide some international data.

Last Updated: Mar 20, 2023 12:54 PM
URL: https://libguides.lib.miamioh.edu/ESP
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Subjects: Entrepreneurship

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