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Business Databases

Subject Specific Databases

ABI/INFORM

ABI/INFORM is a large, mostly full text, database that provides information about local and national companies, markets, benefits and compensation trends and more. ABI/INFORM can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

Accounting & Tax

These highly ranks global and scholarly journals provided in Accounting & Tax cover current news in the accounting industry as well as providing information about the trends in and history of these topics. Accounting & Tax can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

Banking Information Source

Banking Information Source aims to provide essential information related to the banking industry and financial services. Banking Information Source can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

Business Source Premier

This is the go-to database for SWOT analyses. Company profiles and business journals are also available. This database can be searched in conjunction with Academic Search Premier and Regional Business News by clicking "Choose Databases."

CBCA Complete

CBCA, Canadian Business & Current Affairs, pulls Canadian information from all of ProQuest’s databases. The Canadian subject headings used in this database have been reprocessed so that they are compatible with other databases. CBCA can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

Dunn and Bradstreet Key Business Ratios

This resource provides financial ratios for various industries. To gauge the financial strength of a company, compare these ratios with those from Mergent Online. This is also available in print in our reference collection (Ref HF5681 .R25 I525).

Hoover's Company Records

Hoover’s Company Records provides profiles of hundreds of industries, thousands of companies, and hundreds of thousands of executives, and aims to keep these profiles the most thorough and up-to-date available. Hoover’s Company Records can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

MarketResearch.com

Use MarketResearch.com to find demographic and psychographic information for marketing and examples of marketing plans for service or product types. Browse by topic or search by keyword. Though you can use MarketResearch.com by going directly to their website, you must go through this database page to have access to full text documents.

Mergent Online

Mergent Online provides in depth information about over 50,000 publicly traded companies. Industry reports, annual reports, equity research reports, historical information and executive biographies are also available, and many are updated daily. Over a million domestic and international private companies are also covered. An advanced search, executive search, EDGAR search (SEC filings), and search of industry reports are all available to make sure that you get the precise information you are looking for.

ProQuest Asian Business and Reference

ProQuest Asian Business and Reference provides information on companies, economies and markets in Asia. Included are current events, country information and statistics, information about people and institutions, and policy analysis. ProQuest Asian Business and Reference can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

ProQuest European Business

ProQuest European Business provides up-to-date business and financial information pertaining to Europe and Europeans. ProQuest European Business can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

Passport Reference

Use Passport Reference to find information on international marketing and demographics. You can search by keyword in the upper right corner, but the real strength of this database is the menu bar on the left. By using the cascading menus, you can combine factors into your search using the vocabulary that is recognized by the database, making sure that you retrieve all relevant documents that meet your search criteria.

Regional Business News

Regional Business News provides exactly what it sounds like it would: full text access for regional business periodicals. For us, this means that most major and regional business periodicals published in the United States are accessible. This database can be searched in conjunction with Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier by clicking "Choose Databases."

Snapshot Series

The reports in Snapshot Series are designed to provide instant overviews of individual markets. Snapshot Series can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is searchable and browsable back to 1982. All articles are available in full text, though they do not include pictures or graphics.

General/Related Databases

Academic Search Premier

This multidisciplinary database is a good place to start your research. For extra search capabilities, click "Choose Databases" and select more subject specific databases to simultaneously search.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

LexisNexis is your gateway to just about any news service you can think of. It provides access, in full text, to major US and world publications (including non-English), news wires, tv and radio broadcasts, legal publications, SEC filings, company reports and web publications and blogs from trusted news sources.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides full-text coverage of current social issues. The main goal is to provide a balance of opinions on these issues through original pro and con articles, articles from academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, podcasts, statistics and more. Browse popular topics or search by keyword. When searching use the advances search to limit your results to peer-reviewed publications or to the intermediate or advanced content level. Opposing Viewpoints is also a series that we carry in print; add "opposing viewpoints" in the series box in your Cavalog searches to find relevant materials in print.

ProQuest Research Library

ProQuest Research Library provides citations and/or full-text access to 3,000+ scholarly journals and magazines in a wide range of subject areas. In addition to general interest publications, the database covers the Arts, Business, Children, Education, Health, Humanities, Law, Military, International and Multicultural interests, Psychology, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Women's Interests.

WorldCat

Use WorldCat to find books about a research topic that are not available at Holy Spirit Library. Search by title or author if you are looking for something specific, or search by keyword or subject to find something new. Click "Borrow this item from another library" to request a book from another library.

Business Websites

All About Trademarks

Business Daily
Business Dictionary.com
Deloitte: International Tax and Business Guides
FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Hospitality Net

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