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This includes accounting standards from FASB, GASB, and IASB along with full-text articles from accounting and business journals.

This database contains information about international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.

Contains full-text articles from hundreds of business publications, and provides access to product evaluations, case studies, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews, and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more.

Find information on journal acceptance rates and other impact factors, plus submission methods.

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The latest business news 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.

Provides full-text research reports from the Conference Board on issues in business management and on U.S. and global economics. Also includes access to annual studies on Top Executive Compensation, Corporate Contributions and Directorship Compensation and Board Practices.

A tool for data download and visualization with social science data about U.S. states, counties, cities, and metropolitan statistical areas from more than 150 different government and non-government sources. It spans topics like employment, crime, religion, and education. The data series are standardized allowing you to easily find, compare, visualize, and export. Included are Data Planet Foundations and the Woods & Poole business module.

Essential database for economics research.
Provides charts, forecasts, and reports on marketing, advertising, ecommerce, finance, healthcare, and tech industries with an emphasis on consumer behavior.
Provides full-text access to periodicals and reference books, case studies, company profiles and videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, a social network site for tech entrepreneurs.
Provides political and economic information for more than 250 countries and territories. Information includes regional and country profiles, information on physical and social geography, history, economy, and country and comparative statistics. It also provides directory information for governmental, society, media, and business enterprises.
  • Limited Users

This includes full-text coverage of many major U.S. and international newspapers. It also includes television and radio transcripts, and business and trade journals as well as company reports and financial data. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.

  • Limited Users
This resource provides U.S. and international company and industry information. This source includes company financial data and corporate family trees, information on competitors, SWOT analyses, and analyst reports. Previously known as OneSource. 50 simultaneous users.
This index includes more than 100,000 entries (some are full-text) covering areas related to human resources, including human resources management, employee assistance, organizational behavior and other areas.
Contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS country pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, major Fund account series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS world tables. Time-series data is available back to 1945 for some countries.
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR), accessed via Web of Science, provides you with the transparent, publisher-neutral data and statistics you need to make confident decisions in today’s evolving scholarly publishing landscape, whether you’re submitting your first manuscript or managing a portfolio of thousands of publications. Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.

Provides online access to competitive benchmarking data. This lets researchers examine industry benchmarks compiled from D&‌B's database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios (users choose a one-year or three-year set of ratios) for public and private companies in 800 lines of business. Please note, we do not have access to Mergent Intellect.
A source for financial data on 15,000 US and 20,000 international publicly held companies. Includes a business description, history, company financials, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock data, as well as historical stock price data. Financial data for the last 15 years is available, as well as the latest 5-10 years of annual reports. Company archives include data on inactive companies back to 1996. Mergent also now has an economic module which contains time series data on 550 U.S. and international economic variables.
Provides access to the entire collection of Moody's corporate and municipal manuals, in some cases back as far as 1909. It also includes access to the Key Business Ratio archives, going back to 1979. Search by year and industry and business sector. For ratios from the current year, use the Key Business Ratios database.
Includes U.S. taxable and municipal fixed income and evaluation data. Contains issuer and bond level terms and condition data, U.S. taxable bonds, municipal bonds, and retail notes.
  • Oxford Campus Users Only

NOTE: You will need to create an account to download data. See this tip sheet about how to register:


Has full-text in-depth market research reports and infographics covering consumer segments such as automotive, clothing, health, food, retail, travel, etc. Also reports on specific demographics (millennials, affluent consumers, multicultural, children, etc.), and specific themes (convenience, ethical, social media, mobile, etc.). Includes some global coverage.

  • Limited Users

MRI Simmons Catalyst 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.

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Source for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains full-text of sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media.

Pitchbook has set the login to an SSO.  Instructions for accessing Pitchbook 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.). Provided and managed by the Farmer School of Business Entrepreneurship Department.

This is a news database that includes regional business journals, newspapers, newswires, and now blogs, covering all areas of the U.S.
A collection of global business cases from a variety of industries. Areas of focus include: marketing, operations management, small business and entrepreneurship, international business, human resource management and more. Users may encounter content after 2020 in this database the library has not purchased.
  • Limited Users
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This web-based mapping application allows users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables Access is limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Offers full-text access to many small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans. Also included are state-specific resources, start-up business plans, and industry information.
Includes full-text articles from 14 sports-business publications, as well as 2,500 + tables covering participation, attendance, consumer expenditures, and market shares for 34 sports and fitness activities. Also features a directory information for amateur and professional sporting organizations, venues, trade associations, etc.
SRDS contains advertising rates, circulation data, audience metrics and contact information for print and online trade journals and consumer magazines. Limited information is available for newspapers, out-of-home advertising, online advertising, and international publications. SRDS also provides access to Nielsen Segmentation & Market Solutions data. This allows you to create reports based on metro areas or zip codes and includes consumer demographic and segmentation information as well as PRIZM data. Limited content from Claritas 360 can be accessed through SRDS..
The Value Line Investment Survey's main section, presents full-page, individual stock reports, these include the company's past performance, current status, and outlook, and industry reviews. The Summary &‌ Index section allows the user to locate the latest quarterly and supplementary reports these cite the most recent data on each of the stocks followed.
Provides full-text coverage for 350 trade and industry related periodicals with 600 additional titles indexed.
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  • User Account Required

Current faculty, staff, and students can activate their Miami University Libraries-sponsored Wall Street Journal account from any location on or off campus. Click “view more” for details…

  • 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/
WRDS includes historical financial data from CRSP and COMPUSTAT. COMPUSTAT (from Standard & Poor's) provides current and historical Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Statements of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 24,000 publicly held companies. CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices) maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq stock markets. Enter your miamioh.edu email to receive a one day pass. You will receive an email with a link to access the full database. Provided and managed by the Farmer School of Business.

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