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Introduction to Business Research

Watch the workshop: "Introduction to Business Resources" that was held on February 25, 2021.

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Information about Business Information Resources

Strauss's Handbook of Business Information: a Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers, 4th Edition
This new 2020 edition of Strauss's guide helps users to find current information for and about businesses of all kinds--both private and public, U.S.-based and international--related to finance, investment, industries, and entrepreneurship. It contains explanation and instruction on the key facets of business information and provides detailed descriptions of key resources within both broad and specific categories.

Most-Used Electronic Business Resources

Introduction to Business Research Resources
Explore the library's main business resources for company information, industry information, consumer information and business statistics, and business news.

The following databases allow for the broadest, most comprehensive, and most easily-accessible coverage of business topics.

Business Source Complete
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Covers management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Indexes articles from scholarly journals, trade publications, business magazines, and business newspapers with many available as full-text. Includes Datamonitor Industry Profiles, Datamonitor Company Profiles, and SWOT analyses.
Factiva
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Indexes over 9,000 business news sources including newspapers, journals, magazines, newswires, and company press releases. Coverage is regional, national, and international. Also includes company and stock information.
Nexis Uni
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Includes searchable, full-text of many general regional, national, and international newspapers, as well as many specifically devoted to business. Also includes a section on company dossiers (which includes the ability to produce lists of companies sharing certain characteristics), company profiles, SEC filings, accounting publications, and country profiles.
Mergent Online
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Information on U.S. and International Public and Private companies, including annual reports, history, financials, and more. Also includes industry information and country profiles.
Statista
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Statista integrates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from over 22,000 sources onto a single platform, providing researchers direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. It also provides data on market forecasts, white paper studies, dossiers, industry reports, digital market outlooks and consumer market outlooks. Sources include market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. Charts can be downloaded in PNG, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF formats or embedded in web pages and used in papers or presentations.
Mintel Academic
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More than 600 report titles dealing with consumer and market reports covering U.K., European, U.S. and international consumer markets are added to Mintel every year. Also includes daily news articles on corporate, product and advertising activity; market share and drivers; forecasts; and leading company information.
First Research Industry Intelligence
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Provides access to over 900 Industry Segments, updated regularly with monthly statistics and indicators as well as quarterly trend updates. Also includes State Profiles to monitor monthly employment, business and real estate trends in each of the 50 US states.
Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)
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Searchable full text access to the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present.

Wall Street Journal Online: Thanks to the Institute for the Study of free Enterprise and the Student Government Association, all University of Kentucky students, faculty, and staff have free access to the Wall Street Journal's website (www.wsj.com) and the app. To activate your complimentary subscription, visit wsj.com/UKentucky. Once you create a user name and password, you will be able to sign on to the paper's website and apps.

Introduction to Business Resources Online Tutorial

This online tutorial is designed to provide business students with information about specific library resources which would be useful to their studies. The tutorial is designed to allow student to work through it from beginning to end or enter it at any point:

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Wall Street Journal Online: Thanks to the Institute for the Study of free Enterprise and the Student Government Association, all University of Kentucky students, faculty, and staff have free access to the Wall Street Journal's website (www.wsj.com) and the app. To activate your complimentary subscription, visit wsj.com/UKentucky. Once you create a user name and password, you will be able to sign on to the paper's website and apps.

Statista
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Statista integrates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from over 22,000 sources onto a single platform, providing researchers direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. It also provides data on market forecasts, white paper studies, dossiers, industry reports, digital market outlooks and consumer market outlooks. Sources include market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.