Databases
Databases can help you start a small business.
This web-based resource brings together current and archived content from the complete, full-text electronic editions of approximately 200 business and law journals, local and regional business news weeklies and other news sources across North America—most of which are not available in any other database. Researchers can use this information to study an organizations’ performance through annual or quarterly financial results, compare forecasts and strategy versus execution, uncover trends and identify emerging market opportunities.
Covers: Daily Record (Baltimore), Crain’s New York Business (NYC), Dolan’s Virginia Business Observer (Norfolk)
(Accessible in all Pratt Library Locations, or from home with your library card)
Business Insights : Essentials provides business and industry content in the following areas: Periodical articles, news articles, and press releases. Detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on:
- corporate hierarchical structures
- Investment reports
- Corporate chronologies and company histories
- Brands and product information
- Industry and company rankings
- Financial Overviews
- Industry Overviews
- HR Law Case Digests
Replaces Gale Business Resources
(Accessible in all Pratt Library Locations, or from home with your library card)
NetAdvantage Features:
- Powerful searching and screening tools to facilitate academic research, job searches, case studies, competitive intelligence, strategic planning, due diligence and M&A activities.
- Private company information - hard-to-find data on over 85,000 companies that are not publicly traded.
- NAICS code searching to identify potential customers, vendors, strategic partners.
- Biographies of thousands of corporate executives and directors.
- Export tools to enable researchers to download data into spreadsheet programs for further analysis
Access to the Industry surveys section permitted only at Pratt Library locations. Remote access is not available.
(Accessible in all Pratt Library Locations, or from home with your library card)
ReferenceUSA: Business Database is a directory database of over 11 million U.S. businesses. Search by company name, type, size or location of a busines or a combination. Parent/subsidiary information is also available.
(Accessible in all Pratt Library Locations, or from home with your library card)
