Subject Guide
Quick Starts
These resources are good places to start searcing for company profiles, industry-related reports and articles on business topics. If you have trouble locating the information you are looking for, consult your librarian for help.
Companies
- Mergent online This link opens in a new windowOffers coverage of 10 000 public companies and their SEC filings. Provides access to the following: U.S. company annual reports, full-text, color, international company annual reports, company financial information, in many cases going back up to fifteen years, industry reports, equity reports, information on company executives, and more. Resource offers the ability to download financial data into a spreadsheet and to create company comparison reports. Mergent.
- PrivCo : private company financial data authority This link opens in a new window
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Provides information on many well known privately-held companies. Information includes balance sheet and income statement figures, company overview, competitors, and funding activity when available. Searchable by company name, industry, location and annual revenue. M & A activity is also covered.
- Standard & Poor's netadvantage This link opens in a new windowProvides online access to the S&P Industry Surveys (U.S.), reports (stock & bond), directories (corporations, Security Dealers of North America), registers (public companies, private companies, executives), Compustat Excel Analytics, Mutual Fund Screener, investment advisory services (The Outlook), Stovall Sector Watch, Credit Week Focus, and more publications from Standard and Poor's. Financial Education section provides sound information on becoming financially fit.
Industry
- IBISWorld where knowledge is power This link opens in a new windowProvides access to business reports in the following areas in U.S. site: industry market research, industry risk rating, business environment, global industry, and media center. Also provides access to business reports in the following areas in China site: industry market research and global industry. Resource is searchable by NAICS code, company name, product, service, and industry description.
- Key business ratios This link opens in a new windowProvides selected industry ratios in three major areas: solvency, efficiency, and profitability. Users can search by various means, including SIC code, line of business, asset range, and year. Data can be exported into a spreadsheet for further analysis. Includes latest three years of data that is available. Dun & Bradstreet.
Articles
- ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new windowDesigned to help business researchers balance theoretical and practical learning and acquire the research skills that will make them successful in their courses and careers, ProQuest One Business is a complete business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. This resource combines multiple business information databases which are within the ProQuest ABI/Inform Collection such as Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection, Asian & European Business Collection, Entrepreneurship Database, and J.P. Morgan Research. Replaces ABI/INFORM..
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text business journals and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business, marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more. May be searched individually or in combination with other EBSCO databases. EBSCOhost.
Advertising
- SRDS media solutions This link opens in a new windowIncludes detailed ad rates, dates, and contact data for more than 100 000 U.S. and international media entities. Media areas include the following publications: Business Media Advertising Source, Consumer Media Advertising Source, Direct Marketing List Source, Newspaper Advertising Source, Radio Advertising Source, Print Media Production Source, TV and Cable Source, and Out-of-home Advertising Source.
Data Scholars Program
- Data Scholars ProgramThe Library's Data Scholars Program provides instruction in data visualization, data location and data management. The program is available to all Baylor faculty and students. Classes are available in person and online. Complete 6 classes, pass the quizzes and become a Data Scholar!
