Research Guides: Resources for Data Scholarship in Business &amp; Economics: Business

Companies

Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new window
Business Insights: Essentials includes company profiles, mergers & acquisitions, ticker symbols, news articles, company histories , financials, balance sheets, and more.
Capital IQ This link opens in a new window
Data on public and private companies, financial statements, M&A/deals, PE/VC, LBOs, and executives and boards worldwide. Use the screening and charting features to create lists of firms for tasks such as investment analysis coursework or your job search. More information is available in the Capital IQ Guide.
Requires NetID and password on and off-campus.
Important: All third-party cookies must be enabled in the web browser setting while accessing Capital IQ.

Using an incognito or private window is highly recommended.
eCommerceDB This link opens in a new window
eCommerceDB provides detailed information for 20,000 e-commerce stores in 50 countries, including detailed revenue analytics, competitor analysis, market development, marketing budget, and KPIs. Includes analyses of national e-commerce markets, customer behaviors and purchase patterns, market trends, and top stores.
Users must click the “Log in” link once in order to gain IP recognition.
Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) This link opens in a new window
Emerging Markets Information Service contains articles, news, financial filings for publicly held companies, and analyst reports in emerging countries in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe.
Requires NetID and password.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva is a resource for U.S. and international newspapers (html full text only, no images or print layout versions), news transcripts, trade journals, newsletters, industry snapshots, and market data charts for recent stock prices. Coverage dates vary from title to title, but primarily span the late 20th century to present.
Requires NetID login from on or off campus.
Foundation Directory Online This link opens in a new window
Foundation Directory Online is a database of over 100,000 public and private foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S. It provides comprehensive information on grant-makers and their grants. Includes Candid's "Foundation Grants to Individuals Online".
GuideStar: the National Database of Nonprofit Organizations This link opens in a new window
Candid's GuideStar provides data on IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Users can search nonprofits according to their operating budgets, size, location, and National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE). Highlight include a financial trends analysis snapshot for each organization and downloadable form 990s.
To access the premium section of Guidestar, you must register and create an account. Once registered, NYU users are permitted to download 1000 records per month. Registration can be done on this link here.
Hoovers This link opens in a new window
Hoovers contains public and private company profiles. Includes key executive profiles, industry coverage, and detailed company fact sheets.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic Universe) provides access to full-text newspapers (U.S. and some international), news wires, transcripts, and trade journals.
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Mergent Intellect
Directory of public and private companies in the US and worldwide. Contact information, financials, key personnel. It provides information from Hoovers Online and Dun and Bradstreet but with additional downloading capabilities.

Passport This link opens in a new window
Euromonitor Passport (formerly GMID) provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers.
Requires Net ID and password.
Pitchbook This link opens in a new window
Research and analyze companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the entire private investment lifecycle.
We are currently working on resolving access issues to this platform.
Users must create an individual account using an NYU email address at the above link. Accounts reset annually on August 1st and users must re-register. Users must always use NYU Libraries' link to log in.

Daily download and print limits are restricted to 10 rows, with a monthly maximum of 25 rows. Screen capture is prohibited. For bulk data access, please go to PitchBook via WRDS. If you do not have a WRDS account, please refer to the WRDS guide for more information.
ReferenceUSA This link opens in a new window
ReferenceUSA contains detailed information on millions US businesses, including historical, closed, and new businesses, along with a standard white pages for access to data on millions of US residents, including new movers and new homeowners.
ReferenceUSA allows users to create personal accounts for saving searches and search criteria.

Annual data available for download beginning in 1997 for research and analysis purposes. Access is available through NYU FDA (Log in with your NYU credentials to view) or through Infogroup Historical Business via WRDS (WRDS account required).
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage allows users to research companies, industries, and funds (mutual funds & ETFs), as well as to access financial news and directories, and financial education materials.
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Uniworld Online This link opens in a new window
Uniworld is a source for multinational business contact information. It allows screening for companies by industry, geographic location, size, or keyword. It is ideal when you are looking to find American firms operating in other countries or foreign firms operating in the United States.

Industry

ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM features full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business, and economics periodicals. Researchers can locate country- and industry-focused reports, and its international focus provides a picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection This link opens in a new window
Accounting, Tax, & Banking Collection provides comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications, scholarly journals and newspapers. National and international in scope, key publications focus on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management, as well as profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting firms. Dates of coverage: 1971 to present.
BCC Research This link opens in a new window
BCC Research reports provide market research with statistical and analytical information. Topics include industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology industries.
Billboard Pro This link opens in a new window
Billboard Pro is the backstage pass to the ultimate in music industry coverage, context, and intel. Billboard Pro gives you access to all of Billboard’s weekly charts, digital-first platform with interactive content, a 24/7 feed of breaking news, timely deep dives, expert commentary, and more
Bloomsbury Fashion Central This link opens in a new window
Access includes the Berg Fashion Library, Fairchild Books Library, the Fashion Photography Archive, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive and Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases. Content is peer reviewed by industry and academic experts and includes interconnected major reference works, exclusive articles, scholarly eBooks, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and images from museums around the world.
Business of Fashion This link opens in a new window
Business of Fashion (BoF) Professional provides access to news and newsletters, analysis and briefings, case studies, special reports, online learning resources, and more. BoF covers the global fashion industry, with detailed reporting on retail, luxury, tech, sustainability, marketing, beauty, events, and careers.
Users must create an account with their @nyu.edu email address. Check your spam folder if you do not see your account activation email. Add Business of Fashion as a contact to ensure you receive authentication emails and newsletters.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete is a full text database of articles from popular, scholarly, and trade publications. Subjects covered include management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Dates of coverage: 1886 to present.
D & B Key Business Ratios This link opens in a new window
D & B Key Business Ratios provides financial norm and business ratio data developed from actual company income statements and balance sheets. Information is arranged by SIC and NAICS code. Key ratios provide information about industry performance with respect to solvency, efficiency and profitability.
eCommerceDB This link opens in a new window
eCommerceDB provides detailed information for 20,000 e-commerce stores in 50 countries, including detailed revenue analytics, competitor analysis, market development, marketing budget, and KPIs. Includes analyses of national e-commerce markets, customer behaviors and purchase patterns, market trends, and top stores.
Users must click the “Log in” link once in order to gain IP recognition.
eMarketer This link opens in a new window
eMarketer monitors, aggregates, and analyzes data in the form of analyst reports from resources supplied by research firms, consultancies, government agencies, and universities. eMarketer focuses on worldwide Internet usage and e-business. The reports, articles, and in this database charts cover broadband and dial-up, consumers and e-commerce, e-business and IT, marketing and advertising; media and entertainment, demographics and usage; and mobile markets. eMarketer includes access to analyst reports, all downloadable in PDF, JPG, and Excel formats.
A valid NYU NetId and password is required to access this resource
Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) This link opens in a new window
Emerging Markets Information Service contains articles, news, financial filings for publicly held companies, and analyst reports in emerging countries in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe.
Requires NetID and password.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva is a resource for U.S. and international newspapers (html full text only, no images or print layout versions), news transcripts, trade journals, newsletters, industry snapshots, and market data charts for recent stock prices. Coverage dates vary from title to title, but primarily span the late 20th century to present.
Requires NetID login from on or off campus.
Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS) This link opens in a new window
Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies is a database that contains reports related to IT, security, and communications technology.
First Research This link opens in a new window
First Research provides industry news and profiles.
FitchConnect This link opens in a new window
Formerly known as BMI Research, FitchConnect contains proprietary data, analysis, ratings, rankings and forecasts covering many countries and industries. Their research features country risk, financial markets analysis, and industry research.
Select "1-Click sign in with New York University" to access the database. Access is limited to on campus only or via the NYU VPN.
Gartner Reports This link opens in a new window
Gartner provides access to information technology and high tech industry and market research reports, and includes their popular "magic quadrant", "hyper cycle", and "cool vendors" series.
When you click on the database link, you will be prompted to answer questions that will help customize your Gartner Reports profile. You may adjust those profile settings once you are on the database homepage.
GlobalData Disruptor This link opens in a new window
Disruptor tracks emerging tech-enabled opportunities across all industries by providing information on start-ups, tech-led innovations, latest technology trends, influencers, consumer insights, and venture capital portfolio investments.
Please click on "IP Access" and then "Disruptor" to access database
GlobalData Travel and Tourism This link opens in a new window
Hospitality & Tourism Complete This link opens in a new window
Hospitality & Tourism Complete indexes scholarly journals and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. Dates of coverage: 1967 to present.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
IBIS World is a comprehensive collection of industry market research.
Requires NetID and password on and off-campus.
MarketResearch.com Academic This link opens in a new window
MarketResearch provides access to market research reports and industry analysis.
Mintel Academic This link opens in a new window
Mintel Reports offers research reports covering European, UK, and US consumer markets. The reports analyse market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. The reports are supplemented by brief digests of relevant recent events and UK and US demographic and economic statistics.
Requires Net ID and password on and off-campus.
Music Industry Data This link opens in a new window
Music Industry Data is a historical repository of sales figures and chart rankings from the commercial record industry, compiled from the publications of Billboard, Official Chart Company, Media Control and other international reporting agencies.
NewsBank This link opens in a new window
Newsbank searches a collection of databases from the information vendor Newsbank, including the Archive of Americana, World News Archive, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Reports, and Access World News. These collections include: Early American Newspapers, Series XV, 1822-1879: Immigrant Communities; American Underworld: The Flash Press; African American Newspapers, Series 1, African American Newspapers, Series 2, Ethnic American Newspapers (Balch), 1799-1971; Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS), 1957-1995; Sowetan Collection; Financial Mail Collection, Sunday Times Collection; Business Day Collection
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic Universe) provides access to full-text newspapers (U.S. and some international), news wires, transcripts, and trade journals.
Please clear your browser's cache and cookies before attempting to access this resource.
OmniFile Full Text Mega This link opens in a new window
OmniFile Full Text Mega is a Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six collections: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Dates of coverage: 1982 to present.
Oxford Economics This link opens in a new window
Oxford Economics offers tools to help with quantitative analysis and rigorous economic forecasting. Using an evidence-based approach to economic analysis to help with investment, policy and market decisions. Click on the subscriptions tab to access NYU content. NYU does not have access to Economic Models, Global Industry Models, City and Regions, or UK Economics.
NYU does not have access to Economic Models, Global Industry Models, City and Regions, or UK Economics.

We are currently experiencing remote access issues. If you are not on campus, please use VPN to access.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Euromonitor Passport (formerly GMID) provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers.
Requires Net ID and password.
ProcurementIQ This link opens in a new window
ProcurementIQ is a market intelligence partner providing a comprehensive range of products and services.
Requires NetID and password on and off-campus.
LSEG Workspace This link opens in a new window
Individual account creation required before you can login. Account requests require a mandatory 7-10 business day processing period. Users with existing accounts may log into the web interface here. LSEG Workspace provides access to fundamental financial data on public companies, merger and acquisitions, financial market data and quotes, analyst reports, and private equity and venture capital. It features powerful screening and charting capabilities. This product was formerly known as Thomson ONE, Eikon, and Refinitiv Workspace.
Each user is permitted to view and/or download up to 150 pages of analyst report content ("AMR") per 24 hour period. Faculty may request expanded AMR access - pending availability - by emailing the Business Library team using our form.

Users may log in via the LSEG web platform, or optionally via LSEG's Mac and PC software.
Risk.net This link opens in a new window
Risk.net allows access the full content from Risk magazine, including all special reports and topical supplements, as well as a searchable archive of past issues of Risk and related journals.
Skift This link opens in a new window
Skift includes Skift Trends Reports, bi-monthly syntheses of markets, industries, and topics related to business, hospitality, and tourism as well as Skift News; a source for breaking travel news and travel research covering airlines, hotels, tourism, startups, and business travel.

Use the drop down menu to select the Skift content you wish to access. Library patrons have access to all reports when they access the site from the library's page and click "All reports" at the top of the Skift homepage.

Sports Business Journal
SBJ provides news and sports business data

Sports Business Research Network This link opens in a new window
Sports Business Research Network (SBRnet), formerly known as Sports Market Analytics, provides market research, industry trends, and statistics related to sports and sports business.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage allows users to research companies, industries, and funds (mutual funds & ETFs), as well as to access financial news and directories, and financial education materials.
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Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
Statistical Insight provides indexing and abstracts for federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Approximately 20% of the federal statistical publications are available in full text. This resource includes all content from the American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS), including Statistical Datasets. Dates of coverage: 1973 to present.
UNWTO Elibrary This link opens in a new window
World Tourism e-Library provides UNWTO (UN World Tourism Organization) publications including books, journals, and statistics. It contains ebooks and gray literature in English, French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic. The most recent statistical information and aggregated data on inbound and outbound tourism are included in the Tourism Factbook.
Value Line This link opens in a new window
Value Line provides access to data, tools, rankings and analysis covering companies, industries, markets and economies, with research covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
Provides full-text access to the Wall Street Journal. Dates of coverage: 1984 to present. NOTE: This is a text only database; does not provide PDF images of the newspaper.

WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services This link opens in a new window
WRDS is a data platform that specializes in historical financial information for banks, government bonds, stock exchanges, and major companies. It is intended solely for academic research and teaching purposes. Popular datasets include Compustat, CRSP, TAQ, and IBES. First time users should consult our WRDS guide for help.
Account or on-site "Day Pass" required for access. WRDS access is restricted to currently enrolled/employed members of NYU. No exceptions.

Marketing

AdForum This link opens in a new window
AdForum offers access to thousands of streaming television advertisements broadcast nationally and internationally, as well as some digital and print content. Coverage dates focus on the most recent decade but include some historical content from the 20th century. Searchable by keyword, ad agency, brand, industry, country, and people credits.

ArcGIS Business Analyst
ESRI's ArcGIS Business Analyst provides location-based intelligence for planning, site selection, and customer segmentation. It allows users to combine demographic, lifestyle, and spending data with map-based analytics to create visualizations and reports.
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To request an account, use the NYU Data Services "Request Software" form. Important selections: Request software; Request ArcGIS software; NYU ArcGIS Online Organizational Account; Business Analyst Online.

BCC Research This link opens in a new window
BCC Research reports provide market research with statistical and analytical information. Topics include industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology industries.
Business of Fashion This link opens in a new window
Business of Fashion (BoF) Professional provides access to news and newsletters, analysis and briefings, case studies, special reports, online learning resources, and more. BoF covers the global fashion industry, with detailed reporting on retail, luxury, tech, sustainability, marketing, beauty, events, and careers.
Users must create an account with their @nyu.edu email address. Check your spam folder if you do not see your account activation email. Add Business of Fashion as a contact to ensure you receive authentication emails and newsletters.
eCommerceDB This link opens in a new window
eCommerceDB provides detailed information for 20,000 e-commerce stores in 50 countries, including detailed revenue analytics, competitor analysis, market development, marketing budget, and KPIs. Includes analyses of national e-commerce markets, customer behaviors and purchase patterns, market trends, and top stores.
Users must click the “Log in” link once in order to gain IP recognition.
eMarketer This link opens in a new window
eMarketer monitors, aggregates, and analyzes data in the form of analyst reports from resources supplied by research firms, consultancies, government agencies, and universities. eMarketer focuses on worldwide Internet usage and e-business. The reports, articles, and in this database charts cover broadband and dial-up, consumers and e-commerce, e-business and IT, marketing and advertising; media and entertainment, demographics and usage; and mobile markets. eMarketer includes access to analyst reports, all downloadable in PDF, JPG, and Excel formats.
A valid NYU NetId and password is required to access this resource
Gartner Reports This link opens in a new window
Gartner provides access to information technology and high tech industry and market research reports, and includes their popular "magic quadrant", "hyper cycle", and "cool vendors" series.
When you click on the database link, you will be prompted to answer questions that will help customize your Gartner Reports profile. You may adjust those profile settings once you are on the database homepage.
GlobalData Travel and Tourism This link opens in a new window
GlobalData's Travel and Tourism intelligence services provide research on key market trends & how they will impact the future of the industry.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
IBIS World is a comprehensive collection of industry market research.
Requires NetID and password on and off-campus.
MarketResearch.com Academic This link opens in a new window
MarketResearch provides access to market research reports and industry analysis.
Mintel Academic This link opens in a new window
Mintel Reports offers research reports covering European, UK, and US consumer markets. The reports analyse market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. The reports are supplemented by brief digests of relevant recent events and UK and US demographic and economic statistics.
Requires Net ID and password on and off-campus.
Mintel GNPD This link opens in a new window
Mintel GNPD (Global New Products Database) monitors worldwide product innovation and new product activity in consumer packaged goods markets. It covers food, drink, household, beauty & personal care, healthcare, and pets. GNPD allows you to screen hundreds of thousands of products by country, category, packaging, price, and other features. GNPD's analytical tools are helpful for analyzing trends in product claims, ingredients, and packaging, in addition to identifying competing products.
Requires Net ID and password on and off-campus.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Euromonitor Passport (formerly GMID) provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers.
Requires Net ID and password.
Simmons Insights This link opens in a new window
MRI Simmons Insights provides a platform for users to access data and analytic tools based on annual consumer surveys. Users can explore consumer demographics, behavior, psychographics, brand preferences, and all major media behaviors covering television, online, mobile, print, radio, social media, and more. NYU subscribes to the Brand and Sales Catalyst modules.
Requires NetID login on and off-campus. Academic data is delayed two years. Use the "Dictionary Search" button to access the legacy interface.
SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
SimplyAnalytics is a web-based mapping, analytics and data visualization program providing data variables. Users have access to demographics, marketing data, consumer behavior (purchasing and product usage data), market segments, health, and business points for States, Congressional Districts, Counties, Cities/Places, ZIP Codes, Census Tracts and Block Groups. Users can also export data, maps, reports and shapefiles for use outside of SimplyAnalytics. Now includes Nielsen Scarborough Data Module.
Users are not required to log-in with a user name and password; however, in order to save your work, it is recommended that you create your own user account. SimplyMap user accounts are still functional in the SimplyAnalytics interface.
Skift This link opens in a new window
Skift includes Skift Trends Reports, bi-monthly syntheses of markets, industries, and topics related to business, hospitality, and tourism as well as Skift News; a source for breaking travel news and travel research covering airlines, hotels, tourism, startups, and business travel.

Use the drop down menu to select the Skift content you wish to access. Library patrons have access to all reports when they access the site from the library's page and click "All reports" at the top of the Skift homepage.
Sports Business Research Network This link opens in a new window
Sports Business Research Network (SBRnet), formerly known as Sports Market Analytics, provides market research, industry trends, and statistics related to sports and sports business.
SRDS Media Solutions This link opens in a new window
SRDS Media Solutions provides advertising rates and circulation information for U.S. and international media properties including magazines, newspapers, radio, TV/cable, and more.
Users accessing the Local Market Audience Analyst must use Internet Explorer.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista aggregates data on markets, industry, politics, economics, and population. Users can export datasets in a variety of formats. Sources include trade publications, market and opinion research institutions, government sources, business and economic databases, reference publications, media sources, and scholarly articles. Include Statista's "Global Consumer Survey", which helps marketers understand consumer behavior and brand interaction.
Statista Global Consumer Survey This link opens in a new window
Statista Global Consumer Survey helps researchers understand consumer behavior as well as consumer interactions with brands. The results of a worldwide online survey about the attitudes and behaviors of a broad consumer base. The survey provides data about different industries and topics from the online and offline world, which can be combined in cross tabs and individual target groups.
Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
Statistical Insight provides indexing and abstracts for federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Approximately 20% of the federal statistical publications are available in full text. This resource includes all content from the American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS), including Statistical Datasets. Dates of coverage: 1973 to present.
Stylus This link opens in a new window
Stylus produces market research reports on fashion and design, including cross-industry trends and consumer insights.
Vivvix This link opens in a new window
Vivvix - formerly known as Advertising Insights and AdSpender - provides a fast, top-level summary of the multi-media advertising marketplace. This web-based tool spans five years of national summary spending trends, accessible by industry, parent company, and brand. Users can access data - sourced from Kantar - via customizable reports with easy data exporting abilities to popular spreadsheet and flowchart programs.
This resource requires an active NYU NetID and password to access. Limited to 3 simultaneous users.
WARC This link opens in a new window
WARC (formerly World Advertising Research Center) provides access to advertising and marketing information from various sources, including academic and trade journals, case studies, rankings, conference papers, and more. Users can find trends reports, news, and current data on media usage and ad spending. WARC provides access to several academic and trade journals including: Admap, International journal of advertising, International Journal of Market Research, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Advertising History, and Market Leader.
WGSN This link opens in a new window
Fashion and design trend forecasting, reports, and consumer insights. NYU Libraries subscribe to the Insight, Fashion, and Lifestyle & Interiors modules.
Users must create an account using their NYU email address to access WGSN.
Winmo This link opens in a new window
Winmo, formerly known as RedBooks, contains detailed profiles of US and international advertising agencies and their clients. Information includes fields of specialization, media spend, social media spend, social impressions, and more.
The Work from Cannes Lions This link opens in a new window
The Work provides access to curated collections of creative campaigns from leading brands and agencies.
Users must sign up to create a personal account using their NYU email address in order to access this resource.