Many business decisions require an intimate understanding of industry, markets, competitors' performance or other financial information. These resources will help you find the information you need to make those decisions.
Global company, country and business topic overviews, international case studies, Global Histories, SWOT Reports, Thomson Reuters Company Financials and Investment Reports, Market Share Reports, Industry Research Essays, and full-text articles from academic journals, business periodicals, newswires and other media outlets.
Our most comprehensive coverage of business publications for management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more, with not only academic journals, magazines, trade journals, book chapters, conference papers but also country-specific reports, industry profiles, market research reports, SWOT analyses, legal summaries, and CFRA industry surveys.
Unlike Business Source Complete, this version allows unrestricted access to Harvard Business Review (including removing restrictions to the top 500 articles) for course use, enabling linking, printing and downloading that was often unavailable in Business Source Complete. It also increases the number of active, non-OA full-text peer-reviewed journals from 970 to 1,519 and the number without any embargo from 473 to 966.
Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies by title. Mostly mid90s - present., Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, page length, publication name and type.
Hundreds of sample business plans, small business journals, encyclopedias, and other resources covering entrepreneurship and small business topics, such as accounting, HR, management, marketing, taxes, and more.
Provides detailed analysis and key financial ratios for stocks (including Small and Mid Cap) and mutual funds, and overviews of about 100 industry segments.
Format: Full-text, Coverage: Current, Truncation and Wildcard: No and No, Search Tips: Quick search with stock ticker symbol produces intraday price quote, or news, or a chart. Symbol lookup will return ticker symbols for companies listed on the NYSE and the NASDAQ. Use the buttons on the left navigation bar to access the screening and analysis tools for mutual funds, options, convertibles, and Exchange Traded Funds.
Developed for tax preparers and other accounting professionals. Contains the full-text of United States tax law and code (with commentary), IRS rulings and releases, tax news sources, tax court rulings and international tax treaties.
A collection of industry market research and industry risk ratings, offering reports on more than 1300 US industries. Over 700 NAICS Industry reports, 600+ US Specialized Industry Reports on emerging and sub niche industries, US Business Environment Profiles provide data and analysis on more than 350 key economic, demographic and consumer indicators, US and International Risk Rating Reports, 74 Global Industry Reports full of statistics and easy-to-digest analysis.
Includes:
International Financial Statistics – all aspects of international and domestic finance, with history to 1948.
Direction of Trade - value of exports and imports between countries and their trading partners, with history to 1980.
Balance of Payments - international economic transactions data and International Investment Position, with history to 1960.
Government Finance Statistics - budgetary and extra-budgetary financial operations data of governments, with history to 1990.
Run predefined data reports, query across data sets, save and share your own queries, access bulk downloads and save your favorite data reports.
Journals, books, and statistics from the Organization for Economic Development (OECD). Special emphasis on international economics, development and health; country economics, and agriculture. More than 45 different statistical databases, with internationational coverage.
Format: Full-text, Coverage: 1998 forward, Truncation and Wildcard: No and No, Search Tips: Can search by Title, Keyword, Author, Journal Title, and Year of publication. Quick find drop-down menus also give access to thematic arrangement of collection.
WRDS is an account-based business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform through which multiple providers offer their data by subscription. Our subscription principally features Compustat from S&P Global.
Accounts are available for WT faculty, students, and staff.
You can request an account through the link above.
Account requests are approved within 24 hours by Dr. Robert King of the College of Business. If you don't see a response to your request within that time, you can then email Dr. King at raking@wtamu.edu or librarian Steve Ely at sely@wtamu.edu.
Developing Keywords
Make a research question from your topic.
For example: "What is currently being done to help conserve the endangered Giant Panda population?"