Resources for Data Scholarship in Business & Economics

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.

Hoovers contains public and private company profiles. Includes key executive profiles, industry coverage, and detailed company fact sheets.

Research and analyze companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the entire private investment lifecycle.

Business Insights: Essentials includes company profiles, mergers & acquisitions, ticker symbols, news articles, company histories , financials, balance sheets, and more.

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.

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.

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.

Hoovers contains public and private company profiles. Includes key executive profiles, industry coverage, and detailed company fact sheets.

Nexis Uni ​(Formerly LexisNexis Academic Universe) provides access to full-text newspapers (U.S. and some international), news wires, transcripts, and trade journals.

Mergent Intellect is a directory of public and private companies in the US and worldwide. Includes contact information, financials, and key personnel. It provides information from Hoovers Online and Dun and Bradstreet but with additional downloading capabilities.

Euromonitor Passport (formerly GMID) provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers.

Data Axle Reference Solutions, formerly known as 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.

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.

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.

Research and analyze companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the entire private investment lifecycle.

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.

Provides financial information and data on alternative asset markets worldwide. NYU's subscription includes private equity and venture capital, private debt, real estate, hedge funds, infrastructure, sustainability/ESG, and Preqin's Insight+ analysis. Other modules are not available at this time.

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.

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.

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.

BCC Research reports provide market research with statistical and analytical information. Topics include industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology industries.

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.

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.

Euromonitor Passport (formerly GMID) provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GlobalData's Travel and Tourism intelligence services provide research on key market trends & how they will impact the future of the industry.

IBIS World is a comprehensive collection of industry market research.

MarketResearch provides access to market research reports and industry analysis.

PolicyMap is a web mapping platform that contains data on demographics, real estate, city crime rates, health, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public investments. Additionally it includes powerful market segmentation and demographic data from Claritas PRIZM®. Users can create online, interactive maps that analyze neighborhoods, uncover consumer trends, and make data-driven decisions.

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 (SBRnet), formerly known as Sports Market Analytics, provides market research, industry trends, and statistics related to sports and sports business.

SRDS Media Solutions provides advertising rates and circulation information for U.S. and international media properties including magazines, newspapers, radio, TV/cable, and more.

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 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 produces market research reports on fashion and design, including cross-industry trends and consumer insights.

MediaRadar 360 - formerly known as Vivvix - 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.

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.

Fashion and design trend forecasting, reports, and consumer insights. NYU Libraries subscribe to the Insight, Fashion, and Lifestyle & Interiors modules.

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 provides access to curated collections of creative campaigns from leading brands and agencies.

BCC Research reports provide market research with statistical and analytical information. Topics include industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology industries.

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

A fully integrated suite of music analytics & intelligence tools for artists. Chartmetric tracks the streaming, social, and live performance of more than 9 million artists worldwide.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.