Electronic Resources (A-Z)

You may be prompted for your USC UNIX username and password, particularly if you access these databases from off-campus or off-network. This is the same as your USC Web Mail or BlackBoard login. Please call (213) 740-5555 if you need assistance with your USC login. Additional databases are available on the USC Libraries web site.

These resources are for academic use only and may not be used to benefit employers, companies or any other commercial interests.

Business Resources

ABI/Inform
Articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal. Available through ProQuest. A new interface to this database can be found here.

AcademicOne (formerly Expanded Academic)
Articles from journals, magazines and newspapers on a wide range of subjects including business. Includes the General Business File ASAP database.

Advertising Red Books
Detailed information on US and international advertising agencies and advertisers. Use Quick Search or Advanced Search to access the Agency database, the Advertiser database or both.

Bloomberg
Specialized workstation. See library staff or Center for Investment Studies for access information.

BoardEx
Detailed information on board members of publicly-listed firms. Available only to Marshall faculty, staff and PHD students. See library staff for access information.

Business Abstracts with Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Articles from a wide range of business journals, magazines and newspapers.

Business and Company Resource Center
Company and industry profiles, rankings, market research, articles and Datamonitor industry reports. Information on professional associations is available using the Advanced Search feature. Soon to be replaced by the Business Insights: Essentials database.

Business Expert Press ebooks
A downloadable collection of over 100 concise ebooks on a wide range of current business topics.

Business Insights: Essentials
Research and analyze companies and industries around the world with extensive reference content from Gale's core business collection, easy-to-use company fundamentals and investment research reports, SWOT reports, industry rankings, profiles, market share data, company histories, and more. This is the successor to Gale's Business & Company Resource Center.

Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
Provides indexing and citations to articles from a wide range of historic business journals. Full text of the articles may be available in print or electronic form through the Library collections or Interlibrary Loan.

CCH IntelliConnect
Online access to primary law and CCH analysis on Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking, Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Securities, and other topics.

CompactD / WorldScope (Available through Marshall network)
US and international financial data from company filings, last update July 2006.
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Conference Board
Management and economic research from the Conference Board.

Corporate Reference Library
Available through a long-term trial, this database provides information on corporate entity name changes, acquisitions, acronyms, corporate family connections and stockholder equity. Access is scheduled to end in October 2012.

Datamonitor
We do not have a Datamonitor database, but company and industry reports from Datamonitor and its subsidiary, MarketLine, or its parent, Informa, can be found in these databases: Mint Global, Thomson ONE, Orbis, ISI Emerging Markets, and the Business & Company Resource Center. Some of the reports provide company SWOT analysis.

Datastream
A financial database available for Faculty and PhD research provided through a virtual lab system. Please contact the Marshall Help Desk for access and review the instructions found here.

EBSCO Business Source Complete
Articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers including the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly and many others. Available only to Marshall users through the Crocker Library widget on your MyMarshall home page. Look for the dropdown list of databases.

EconLit
Journals, books and working papers in economics.

EIU Country Reports
Contains Country Reports, Country Profiles and Country Commerce Reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Electronic Journals
Browse ejournal subject headings in Business and Economics to find articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers.

eMarketer
Analysis, market data, and statistics on the Internet, e-commerce, online marketing, social media, and emerging digital/mobile technologies around the world.

Emerald Journals
Articles from key journals in the fields of management, information science and engineering.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Replaced by the larger AcademicOne database.

eStatement Studies
The online version of the Annual Statement Studies produced by the Risk Management Association (RMA), includes financial ratios on over 760 industries, industry default probabilities and cash flow measures.

Factiva
Articles and company information from journals, magazines and newspapers, plus company profile information. Only three concurrent users allowed

Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006
The complete searchable facsimile run of this authoritative daily business newspaper published in London.

Forrester
Market, industry and consumer research from the technology consulting firm

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Encyclopedias and reference works on a variety of subjects. Includes company histories and business plans handbooks.

Gartner (USC NetID/webmail password required for access)
Technology research and consulting reports. USC does not have full access to all reports.

General Business File ASAP
Articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers.

Global Financial Database
An extensive collection of financial and economic data series including interest rates, commodity prices, government debt, economic indicators, exchange rates, stock indexes, and much more. Historical data goes back hundreds of years in some cases. To begin, select the "GFDatabase" search engine and then select "Search My File Permissions." USC does NOT subscribe to the GFD databases for company stock information or real estate. You can search those databases, but you will not be able to retrieve data from the search results.

Global Market Information Database (Passport/GMID by Euromonitor)
International company, country, industry and market information.

Global Road Warrior
Business travel guide and country background information.

Historical Annual Reports
ProQuest's compilation of annual reports from over 800 companies dating back to 1844.

Hoovers
Company and industry profiles, business news, biographies and IPO information.

IBISWorld
Detailed market research and analysis on over 700 U.S. industries as well as Global Industry Reports, China Industry Reports and Business Environment Reports.

IMF International Financial Statistics
Current and historic data on a wide range of economic and financial indicators for most countries of the world.

INFORMS PubOnLine
Full text articles from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research, management science, and business analytics.

ISI Emerging Markets
Coverage of emerging economies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Investext (from Thomson Research)
Analyst reports from by brokerage firms, investment banks and other organizations. Includes historical reports back to the 1980's. Soon to be replaced by Thomson ONE database.

JSTOR
Historical archive of scholarly journals in all disciplines.

LexisNexis Academic
News articles as well as business, medical and legal information.

Los Angeles Times (Current)
Full text available through ProQuest from 1985.

Los Angeles Times Historical
Full text available through ProQuest from 1881 to 1984.

MarketResearch.com Academic
Selected market research reports for a wide range of industries, services and products. Publishers include Kalorama, Packaged Facts, SBI, Simba Information and Paul Budde Communication.

Mergent Horizon
Provides financial data and highlights the relationships between a company's major customers, suppliers, partners and competitors, details the hierarchies of company products and services, analyzes data for sector aggregates, generates M&A scenarios and much more..

Mergent Online
U.S. and International public company data including inactive companies. Detailed financials including historical stock information, SEC filings and annual reports.

Mergent WebReports
Online access to scanned images of the Moody's/Mergent manuals. These provide financials, corporate histories, business descriptions, and information on subsidiaries, officers, and municipal debt in some cases back to the early 1900's.

Mint Global
US and international company information from Bureau van Dijk including Datamonitor market research and company reports (same content as Orbis with a different interface).

Mintel
Detailed market research reports in the areas of Beauty & Personal Care, Drink, Food, Leisure & Entertainment, Lifestyles, and Retailing and Apparel. Users must create a personal account and reports can only be downloaded one section at a time.

Morningstar Direct (Available through Marshall network)
Global investment database and analystics. See library staff or Center for Investment Studies for access information.

NBER Working Papers
Research from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

New York Times Historical
Full text available through ProQuest from 1851 to 2001.

NewsBank InfoWeb
Full-text news resource covering over 500 global news sources.

OECD iLibrary
Publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Full text access is available for titles published from January 1998 onwards.

Orbis
US and international company information from Bureau van Dijk including Datamonitor market research and company reports (same content as Mint Global with a different interface).

OSIRIS (Web version)
Publicly listed company information from Bureau van Dijk.

OSIRIS Historical DVD's (Available through Marshall network)
Publicly listed company information with historical data from Bureau van Dijk.

Passport GMID
International company, country, industry and market information from Euromonitor. Formerly known as Global Market Information Database.

PrivCo
Business and financial data on private companies including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. Available on one computer terminal in the Crocker Business Library, please ask at the Library front desk for details.

ProQuest
Articles from the ProQuest databases including ABI/Inform and others. Includes the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angeles Times as well as scholarly articles and trade publications.

ProQuest Business
Articles more targeted towards business than the general ProQuest database, this collection includes ABI/Inform, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angeles Times as well as scholarly articles and trade publications from hundreds of sources.

ProQuest Statistical Datasets
An interactive database that allows users to create tables and figures from a variety of datasets including US and international data on a wide variety of topics.

ProQuest Statistical Insight
ProQuest Statistical Insight abstracts include a detailed description of a publication's statistical contents and primary bibliographic information like title, date, collation, agency report number (if any), and periodicity.

RAND California Statistics
Statistics and documents on California economic and public policy issues.

Reference USA
Directory database of over 14 million US businesses.

Roper Center iPoll
An archive of public opinion survey data which allows users to search a database of survey questions (iPoll) or download data files directly (RoperExpress). Some of the surveys relate to business issues.

SDC Platinum
Find data on M&A's, IPOS's, global new issues and venture capital funding. For access instructions and a step-by-step guide to creating an M&A report, please click here. For additional information, please see the Quick Reference Guide provided by the vendor here.

SEC EDGAR
Company filings with US Securities and Exchange Commission.

SimplyMap
Web-based mapping application enables non-technical users to quickly create thematic maps and reports/tables using extensive demographic, social, business and marketing data.

Social Explorer
Allows users to visually display demographic data in the U.S. from 1790 through the present at a variety of geographic levels, create reports, maps and animations that can be downloaded.

SBRNet (Sports Business Research Network)
Market research and industry news for the sports industry.

SRDS
Advertising rates and profile information on media properties (print and broadcast), plus audience market analysis from Standard Rate and Data Service.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Access to scholarly articles, abstracts and working papers in the social sciences including many Marshall faculty. No registration is required to view and download most papers.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Business, investment and financial information including industry surveys.

TableBase (RDS)
Business statistics and tables extracted from a wide range of articles. Instructions on exporting to Excel available here.

Thomson ONE
Provides detailed company information including financials, ratios, news, filings, and the company research and analyst reports formerly found in the Investext database.

Trade Data & Analysis(from export.gov)
Describes the use of Trade Stats Express and USA Trade Online for official US government import and export statistics.

US Commercial Service Market Research Library
International market research available from the US government. Registration is required for academic users.

ValueLine
Access to Value Line's publications covering industries, stocks, mutual funds.

Vault
Information on careers, employers, job search advice, salary info, employee message boards and more. Available through the Marshall Career Resource Center and CONNECTSC at the Career Planning & Placement Center.

Wall Street Journal (Historical)
The Wall Street Journal offers full page and article images with searchable full text from the first issue in 1889 to 1993. For more recent issues, please see the ABI/Inform or ProQuest databases.

WARC
Previously known as the World Advertising Research Center, WARC provides a wide range of information on advertising and marketing trends around the world including expenditure data, case studies, industry trends and consumer insight.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Collection of databases designed for standardized quantitative analysis. Available datasets include Audit Analytics, Bureau van Dijk, COMPUSTAT, CRSP, CUSIP Master File, Corporate Library, EVENTUS, I/B/E/S, IRI, MFLINKS, NYSE TAQ and Thomson Reuters and more.

World Bank Worldwide Development Indicators
Provides direct access to more than 700 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to present. A subset of these data can be viewed graphically within the World Bank's Data Visualizer.

Zephyr
International M&A, IPO and venture capital deals with links to company information from Bureau van Dijk.

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