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Business Source Premier Restricted Resource Some full text available
An index and full-text source of peer-reviewed business journals and trade publications.
Global Road Warrior Restricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Global Road Warrior provides detailed cultural, social, political, and business information and statistics for countries worldwide.
PolicyMap
PolicyMap: a data warehouse of over 50,000 indicators accessible through a state-of-the-art mapping and analytics platform. PolicyMap serves hundreds of thousands of users in government, healthcare, universities, nonprofits, libraries, and more. 
Academic Search Complete Restricted Resource Some full text available
Index and full text of magazines, newspapers, reports, conference proceedings, and scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals Some full text available
DOAJ is a database of open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. And you can connect to the library for full text links to show up right there in Google!
JSTOR Restricted Resource Some full text available
An electronic repository of full-text journals in a variety of disciplines, JSTOR includes the full text of journals starting from the origin of their publication, but often does not have the most recent 2-5 years.
Legal Source Restricted Resource Some full text available
Legal Source stands as the flagship database for legal research with 960 active full-text law journals. Legal Source is the definitive resource for keeping up to date with current legal issues, studies, thoughts, and trends. It serves as an invaluable tool for attorneys, educators, business professionals, law librarians, students, paralegals, and all individuals engaged with the intricacies of the law.
Regional Business News Restricted Resource Some full text available
Contains regional business newspapers, newswires, and journals.

Magazines & Newspapers

Newspaper Source Plus Restricted Resource Some full text available
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers and newswires and offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Nexis Uni Restricted Resource Some full text available
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis--including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790--and offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Reference Materials

Credo Reference Restricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio

Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.


globalEDGE Global Insights Some full text available
Provides international business and trade information on over 200 countries, the 50 U.S. states, as well as nearly two dozen industry sectors, and many of the world’s trade blocs.

Company Information

Guide to Company Research - Library of Congress
This Library of Congress guide offers tools and strategies for researching public and private companies. It highlights key databases, industry reports, and historical records to assist with financial and business research. Perfect for students and professionals seeking reliable company data.
Nexis Uni Restricted Resource Some full text available
To access the company lookup, click Menu (next to the Nexis Uni logo) and click Company Dossier.
OpenCorporates
OpenCorporates collects open data about companies worldwide including location, officers, subsidiaries, and trademark registrations.
GuideStar Directory of Charities and Nonprofit Organizations
GuideStar is the most complete source of information about U.S. charities and other nonprofit organizations there is. Search our database of more than 1.8 million IRS-recognized organizations to find a charity to support, benchmark your own nonprofit's performance, research the sector, and more.

Trade Journals

Statistics

Bureau of Economic Analysis Some full text available
Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Bureau of Economic Analysis compiles data about a variety of economic topics at the national, international, regional, and industry levels.
National Center for Charitable Statistics
NCCS is the national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States, and is a project of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

Government Information

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Several programs at the Bureau of Labor Statistics make significant amounts of data available for specific demographic categories. Categories include demographic characteristics of the labor force, consumer spending, and time use.
Census.gov: Business & Industry
Economic and industry data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau from numerous government surveys and reports. Potentially useful reports such as County Business Patterns.
Data USA
Data USA is a platform for visualizing U.S. government data. It explores places, occupations, industries, and education, providing insights on trends, skills, and connections across the country.
U.S. Census Data
Interactive, searchable database for population, housing, industry and business statistics from the U.S. Census.
EDGAR (database of SEC filings) Some full text available
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval) is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's database of company information.