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New Business and Economics Resources
Business and Economics News
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- Business News Search Use this link to search Business Source Ultimate for Business News published since July, 2018.
- Economist Direct access to the journal Economist in our Westlaw database.
- U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new window Full-text of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times from the mid 1980's - today. (Proquest)
Country and Industry Information
- CIA World Factbook "The Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities." A good source for demographic, political, and economic information from the Central Intelligence Agency.
- IQS Directory A database of OEM Manufacturers in 180 industry categories throughout the United States and Canada.
- North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) NAICS is the standard system used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy. Use this site to identify NAICS codes.
- U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations for countries and areas of the world. From the U.S. Dept. of State.
Business & Economics Research Databases
- Business News This link opens in a new window Find articles covering business news drawn from newspapers, magazines, journals, and wire services. (Westlaw)
- Business Source Complete - Business Searching Interface This link opens in a new window This enhanced business searching interface of Business Source Complete provides easy access to full text company financial data, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more.
- Company Investigator This link opens in a new window Profiles on more than 30 million public and private companies. Includes general corporate information, subsidiary data, legal disputes, and government filings. (Westlaw)
- EconLit This link opens in a new window The world's foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1.1 million records from 1886-present.
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new window This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
- Statista This link opens in a new window Consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and presented in a variety of formats including infographics, industry reports, and in-depth data analysis.
- Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Other Databases That Have Business & Economics Information
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window A multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
- Communication Source This link opens in a new window Offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline.
- JSTOR Collections This link opens in a new window A full-text archive of over 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences disciplines. Includes access to ARTStor.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
- SocINDEX w/ Full Text This link opens in a new window The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.