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ARTICLE DATABASES

Business and Company Resource Center
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A business database bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, industry overviews and statistics, associations, news and full-text periodical articles. It covers domestic and international companies. It contains information from reference sources, company directories, encyclopedias, market share reports, newspapers, magazines and journals. Searches can be done by company name, ticker symbol, industry code (SIC/NAISC), brand name, or geographic area.

Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window Offers access to peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in the business world. Features reports, company information and company profiles. Bloomberg.com is also searchable through Business Source Ultimate. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: - - - -
Emerald Insight Journals This link opens in a new window Provides full-text of more than 130 journals in the fields of management, marketing, human resources and library science. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: All from v.1

Financial Times Historical
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The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006, is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. It includes in addition to the regular newspaper, special supplements and the Financial Times magazine. Its editorial reports, analyses of finance and industry and events of artistic and cultural significance are of high standard. Every article and advertisement printed in the paper can be searched and browsed individually and page by page

INFORMS PubsOnLine This link opens in a new window A collection of seventeen scholarly journals published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). All Journals are peer reviewed and available from volume one, issue one to present. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: ----

LexisNexis Academic Business News
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Lexis-Nexis Academic provides full-text and citation access to information in news, business, medical, and legal disciplines.
Wall Street Journal Historical
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The Wall Street Journal (1889-1993) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection provides access to articles, charts, stock tables, graphics, photos, advertisements, maps, comics and political cartoons.

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window The largest aggregated full-text database totaling more than 11,500 titles with over 8,500 titles in full text, including 800 full-text newspapers.

INDUSTRY AND MARKET STUDIES

Passport: Euromonitor International This link opens in a new window Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, and breaking news. The database includes country fact files, lifestyle statistics, market data, consumer products and economic indicators. Passport database provides data on consumer markets, foreign trade, industrial markets, IT and telecommunications, population and households, resources and environment, retailing, service markets, and more. The history and forecast data allows the analysis of data from 1977-2020. Statistical data can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets or in a chart style. Passport contains: A range of consumer trends and lifestyle indicators such as disposable income availability, consumer expenditure, consumer prices, eating and drinking habits, household profiles, home ownership statistics, media access and health data. Market research reports on industries, consumer lifestyles and retailing as well as company profiles and country reports. Availability: Statistical data and full-text Coverage: Current
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window Use the Advanced Search option and type Industry Report as the Document Type. A business database that includes in-depth coverage for over 2,770 publications with more than 1, 840 available in full text and appearing in academic journals, dissertations, EIU Views Wire, trade magazines, Wall Street Journal- Eastern Edition and other newspapers.

Gale industry encyclopedias in Business and Company Resource Center
Use the Advanced Search option and select "Industry Overviews" in the Content Area
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A business database bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, industry overviews and statistics, associations, news and full-text periodical articles. It covers domestic and international companies.
Manufacturing & Distribution U.S.A.
UNcomtrade (Commodity Trade Statistics) 1962-
Trade statistics from over 200 countries
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Data may be visualized in graphs, tags, tables and maps downloaded directly in an Excel spreadsheet. The atabase is continuously updated. Whenever trade data are received from the national authorities, they are standardized by the UN Statistics Division and then added to UNcomtrade.

FINANCIALS/INVESTMENTS DATA

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) This link opens in a new window A data research platform and business intelligence tool. WRDS provides the user with one location to access data covering numerous financial, economic and marketing disciplines including Accounting, Banking, Economics, ESG, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Marketing, and Statistics. Availability: Statistical data Date Coverage: Varies Note: First time users will need to register. more ...
AUB Libraries subscribes to three databases in WRDS:
COMPUSTAT WRDS: Provide financial data for active and inactive US publicly traded companies.
COMPUSTAT Global: Provides financial data on more than 16,000 non-US and non-Canadian companies.
Eventus: Eventus software performs event studies that compute abnormal returns for specific corporate actions using data read directly from CRSP stock databases. WRDS has created several Eventus web queries that allow the user to execute different Eventus programs such as Basic Event Study; Eventus Alternative; and Output for Cross-sectional Analysis.

Availability: Statistical data
Coverage: Varies
Note: First time users will need to register.
Your request will be reviewed by a WRDS representative at your institution. If approved, you will receive an e-mail message with instructions for setting your account password. If you have not received an e-mail message within 5 business days, please contact your WRDS Representatives:
- Mayssa El-Husseini: me107@aub.edu.lb
Passport: Euromonitor International This link opens in a new window Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, and breaking news. The database includes country fact files, lifestyle statistics, market data, consumer products and economic indicators. Passport database provides data on consumer markets, foreign trade, industrial markets, IT and telecommunications, population and households, resources and environment, retailing, service markets, and more. The history and forecast data allows the analysis of data from 1977-2020. Statistical data can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets or in a chart style. Passport contains: A range of consumer trends and lifestyle indicators such as disposable income availability, consumer expenditure, consumer prices, eating and drinking habits, household profiles, home ownership statistics, media access and health data. Market research reports on industries, consumer lifestyles and retailing as well as company profiles and country reports. Availability: Statistical data and full-text Coverage: Current

Business Research Guide: Articles

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ARTICLE DATABASES

INDUSTRY AND MARKET STUDIES

COMPANY INFORMATION

FINANCIALS/INVESTMENTS DATA