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ABI/INFORM Complete: business news, scholarly and industry / trade publication articles.
Ad$pender: advertising spend by market and media type. Library use only.
BCC Market Research: BCC's market research reports explore major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology organizations. Duke's subscribed report categories are: Biotechnology, Energy & Resources, Fuel Cell & Battery Technologies, Healthcare, and Pharmaceuticals. Click the "My Categories" link after connecting to browse reports.
Bloomberg Professional: Comprehensive financial and news information system. Available only to Duke users in the Ford Library Data Resources Room & other locations at Fuqua.
Business Monitor International: international research report archive of BMI research on 175 countries expanding at over 7,600 economic/political country reports and 2,120 industry sector reports each year.
Business Source Complete: full text access to articles on management, finance, economics, industry, accounting, and international business from popular business magazines, scholarly journals, and trade publications.

CCH Business & Finance Library: comprehensive legal, tax, accounting, and business research system. Content includes the Capital Changes Reporter. User registration with email and a password required.
CDA 13F Filings via WRDS: contains over 36 million data observations on the common stock holdings and transactions of over 4,300 institutional money management (and mutual fund) companies.
CDA Mutual Fund Holdings via WRDS: provides long term data on securities holdings by mutual funds.
Capital IQ: comprehensive fundamental and quantitative company research and analysis. Personal accounts are available to Fuqua students only; bowever Duke users may access Capital IQ by requesting a walk-in password with a valid student ID at the Circulation Desk. Show Capital IQ Walk-in Workstations.
Compustat (North America) via WRDS: provides the annual and quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on most publicly held North American companies.
Compustat Global/EMDB via WRDS: provides financial data covering publicly traded companies in more than 80 countries, representing over 90% of the world's market capitalization.
Compustat Preliminary via WRDS: covers cases where a company reported preliminary figures (usually covering a period that has just ended), along with the corresponding release dates and the subsequently released figures, in both Annual and Quarterly formats.
Compustat Unrestated Quarterly via WRDS: provides official, originally-reported quarterly financial statement data. These item values are typically the same as the company’s first 10Q filing for a quarter and they are effectively the same financials that markets use when making their investing, credit and pricing decisions. more ...
Conference Board, The (Business & Economics Portfolio): full text source of management and economic research. Contains reports and data related to business, economics and markets.
Corporate Governance (SDC): Corporate governance data. Accessed in Ford Library via SDC Platinum software. Show the SDC Platinum Workstations.
CRSP Mutual Funds via WRDS: provides historical and current mutual fund NAVs, profiles, monthly asset data, and data on "dead" funds.
CRSP + Compustat Merged File via WRDS: time series data for security prices, returns, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq. The Merged file includes detailed income statement and balance sheet data from Compustat.
D&B Key Business Ratios: Contains industry aggregated balance sheet and income statement information along with ratios searchable by SIC codes and industry name. Some company ratios are also available.
DataStream Advance: Time series data covering equity prices, bonds, market indices, futures and options, and interest and exchange rate data.

EconLit with Full Text: an index to articles in economics, including economic history, economic theory, microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, production, and more.
EconoMagic: Economic time series data with a focus on historical data & economic forecasting. Provides Excel files for all series, with GIF and PDF options also available for some.
Economist Publications: full text access to the Economist Magazine in via the EIU.com portal, plus access to full text & images of the Economist Magazine via economist.com.
EMT Database: a market intelligence tool designed to help users identify trends and opportunities in emerging medical technology companies. EMTDB is only available in the Ford Library Data Resources Room.
eMarketer Total Access: eMarketer Total Access aggregates and analyzes e-business and high tech market research from over 1600 sources worldwide. Includes charts, tables, statistics & articles for download in PDF, PPT, and Excel format.
ESG Manager on Campus: provides PDF reports on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of corporations, and industries.
Euromonitor GMID: --> SEE Passport
factiva.com: provides full text access to Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, other Dow Jones publications, and extensive newspaper & journal coverage.
First Call Historical Database via WRDS: provides a history of First Call's Real Time Earnings Estimates with the following major data tables: Broker Estimate Detail, Consensus Estimates, Estimate Revision Activity, Reported Actuals and more.
Forrester Research: Contains market research reports and data for the online economy with a focus on the impact of IT developments on businesses and consumers.
Foundation Directory Online: The directory contains information about the largest public and private foundations in the U.S. and links to foundation web sites. This edition includes full text access from more than 250,000 IRS 990 forms, 80,000 detailed funder profiles, half a million recently awarded grants, RFPs, key staff affiliations, publications, news and job postings.
Frost & Sullivan: provides market research reports and data on a wide variety of industries and technologies. It has an especially strong focus on the health care, pharmaceutical, and medical device markets.

Gartner Intraweb: Full text analysis of issues focused on business, technology, industry, and markets. Duke subscribed material is located in the "research" tab on the left, and the search link under the "news" tab.
(IHS) Global Insight: presents market and finance data arranged by country. includes a country's financial profile, current political, economic, legal, operations, tax, and security risks news, & long term (5 year) financial projections.
Global New Issues (SDC): Available only via SDC Platinum software in Ford Library. Covers new security issues worldwide. Show the SDC Platinum Workstations. Read Before Using Global New Issues - the Global New issues module requires each user to make a small change in SDC Platinum's settings in order to successfully conduct a search.
Global Public Finance (SDC): Available only via SDC Platinum software in Ford Library. "Project Finance" module is available. Show the SDC Platinum Workstations.
Global Socrates - Corporate Social Responsibility: measures environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of corporations. Global Socrates has been replaced by ESG Manager on Campus. You can connect to ESG Manager under the "E - F" tab above.
GoingGlobal: A resource for information on international job searches, life and study abroad, international internships, and much more. Licensed for current Fuqua students only.
Guidestar - Nonprofit Financial Data: covers 1.8 million IRS-recognized U.S. nonprofit organizations. Enables users to find a charity, benchmark a nonprofit's performance, research a particular nonprofit sector, and more. Login and registration on the Guidestar site is not required for Duke user access.
Health Source Consumer: Includes searchable full text for over 150 consumer health journals, abstracts and indexing for nearly 175 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications, and more.
Health Source Academic: Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Hoover's Online: provides company information plus extensive company officer lists, annual and quarterly financials, with a comprehensive overview of more than 50,000 companies.

I/B/E/S via WRDS

The Institutional Brokers Estimates System provides consensus and detail forecasts from security analysts, including earnings per share, revenue, cash flow, long-term growth projections and stock recommendations.

IMF e-Library

contains IMF Statistical Databases with International Financial Statistics (IFS), Government Finance Statistics (GFS), Balance of Payments (BOPS), and Direction of Trade (DOTS)

ImportGenius.com

Note: Duke users must create a personal account on the importgenius.com site using their "@duke.edu" email address. Users are limited to 300 searches per day. Provides insights into the shipping activities of importers and exporters around the world; including access to shipping manifest databases of the shipping histories for global importers and exporters.

MORE INFO: More information on Import Genius can be found on its public web site; including a list of shipping terms.

IRRC Directors Data via WRDS

The IRRC's Directors Dataset details the structure and practices of boards of directors for around 1,500 of the largest companies publicly traded in the U.S.

ISI Emerging Markets

Provides company directory information, financial data, and news from the world's emerging markets. more details ...

ISSM via WRDS

The Institute for the Study of Security Markets (ISSM) database contains tick-by-tick data covering the NYSE and AMEX between 1983 and 1992, and NASDAQ between 1987 and 1992.

Ivy DB via WRDS

has historical price and implied volatility data for the US equity and index options markets. With more than six years of data, contains historical prices of options and their associated underlying instruments, correctly calculated implied volatilities, and option sensitivities.

Leadership Library

Online versions of the Leadership directory yellow books: Congressional yellow book, Federal yellow book, State yellow book, Municipal yellow book, Federal regional yellow book, Judicial yellow book, Corporate yellow book and more. Fuqua users only. Other Duke users may access this resource here.

Lexis/Nexis Academic

Provides full text access to a wide range of U.S. and international newspapers, radio and television transcripts. Covers general, business, and legal information sources.

MarketLine Advantage

Contains full text market research reports focusing on companies and broad industry sectors: consumer goods, energy, finance, healthcare, and technology. Market analysis and forecasting looks at major issues and threats for each sector with analytical commentary and data.

MEDLINE Plus

Medical information for health consumers including popular information from the National Institutes of Health and other sources on over 600 topics on medical conditions, diseases, and wellness.

Mergers & Acquisitions (SDC)

Includes detailed data on US Targets, Non-US Targets, & Joint Ventures/Alliances. SDC Platinum is locally installed client-server software and is available only on Library Database Room Workstations LIBDB08 & LIBDB09. Show the SDC Platinum Workstations.

Mintel Market Intelligence

Adds over 600 market research reports into European, UK-specific and US consumer markets every year. more details ...

Morningstar Investment Research Center

Provides detailed financial analysis and performance forecasts of stocks and mutual funds.

OneSource

Provides worldwide company and industry profiles, financials and analysts reports, as well as business related articles, executive biographies, links to company home pages, and trade press articles.

ORBIS (Ownership & Basic Company Data)

The ORBIS database covers more than 35 million public and private companies worldwide. Duke University has access to full ORBIS ownership data, and basic data shown in Company Standard Reports. The subscription does not include access to the full suite of in-depth ORBIS financial or other non-ownership data.

Passport (fka Euromonitor GMID)

A source of demographic, economic, and marketing statistics and research reports for over 200 countries. Provides volume and value market size data for 330 consumer products across 49 countries.

PsycINFO

contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.

rDNA (fka RECAP)

Provides advice and analysis related to the biotechnology market. Areas covered include: company lists, revenue data, clinical trial information, and corporate valuations. rDNA RECAP is only available in the Ford Library on Workstation LIBDB07 in our Data Resources Room.

ReferenceUSA

Searchable database with detailed information, including addresses and phone numbers, on more than 12 million U.S. businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. health care providers, and 95,000 Technology Companies and 280,000 Executives.

S&P ExecuComp via WRDS

ExecuComp is part of the Compustat suite and contains corporate executive compensation data from 1992 - 2003.

S&P NetAdvantage

A comprehensive database of financial information, covering corporate research, competitive analysis, investment information, and industry analysis. see more ...

SDC Platinum

This locally installed software is a search portal providing access to data on Global New Issues, venture capital firms, VC deals, executives, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, and global public finance. SDC Platinum is available only on Library Database Room Workstations LIBDB08 & LIBDB09.

Special Issues.com

Specialissues.com is a solution for tracking and finding industrial and trade magazine special issues. Specialissues.com is an online database of editorial calendars, special issues and content "mined" from trade and industrial magazine websites.

SRDS - Advertising Data

SRDS Media Solutions provides advertising media rates and advertiser data through its coverage of traditional media - such as magazines, newspapers, television, direct marketing and radio - as well as online sources.

STAT-USA Data via UCF Libraries

An online index to financial and economic data from the federal government and other entities about the U. S. domestic economy. Also indexes GLOBUS (Global Business Procurement Opportunities) and NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) GLOBUS is an international procurement marketplace for U.S. businesses.

StreetEvents via Thomson ONE

Contains full text transcripts of analyst calls and meetings, earnings calls, presentations, and more events related to companies and industries.

TAQ via WRDS

The Trade and Quote (TAQ) database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues.

Thomson Insider Filings via WRDS

Contains 5 datasets that provide long term data on company insider stock and derivative transactions, Form 144 filings, average return data, and an Amendment concordance.

Thomson ONE

Important Technical Requirements - Contains more than 6 million source documents from various databases, including: Disclosure, Worldscope, MarkIntel market research, I/B/E/S, and more. Provides data for corporate research, competitive analysis, and investment information. Includes comprehensive financial data on U.S. and international public companies. Access limited to 20 simultaneous users.

Value Line Research Center

Provides access to the classic Value Line Investment Survey company reports as well as the full text of many other Value Line publications.

Vault Career Insider

Career Insider account will give you access to: Downloadable Career Guides, Employer profiles and rankings, All discussion boards, Industry blogs and news covering the latest trends and issues, Diversity, green programs and leadership development profiles, and Vault's job board, which matches employers and recruiters with top talent.

VentureXpert (SDC)

VentureXpert covers venture capital firms, VC deals, executives, and mergers & acquisitions. Includes all available industry resources and statistics except NVCA Free Reports. Show the SDC Platinum Workstations.

Wall Street Journal Digital Microfilm

Wall Street Journal Digital Microfilm contains full image PDFs of the complete Wall Street Journal newspaper, including advertisements, special sections, graphics, and stock quote pages. Daily issues available from January 2008 to current, minus 60 day publication delay.

Web of Science (SSCI and SCI)

Provides access to the Social Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and many more indices to journal literature across multiple subject areas. See more ...

WetFeet Insider Guides

Provide detailed "insider" profiles of careers and companies, as well as guides to case interview techniques across multiple business disciplines.

World Bank Data Catalog

Provides a comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960.

WorldCat

Contains more than 40 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings.

WRDS - ist Time Users

Wharton Research Data Services is a data search portal that provides access to 30 different datasets covering company, industry, capital market, and economic data. Choose a data set after clicking the "WRDS" link above.

Zephyr - M&A Data

contains mergers & acquisition, IPO, and venture capital deal data with links to detailed company financial information. It has information on over 300,000 transactions, and approximately 60,000 new deals are added per year.

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