E-Resources for Business & Economics

Preqin is the foremost provider of data, analytics, and insights to the alternative assets community. This resource provides over 50 years of data coverage and includes investors, funds, fundraising, performance, fund managers, deals & exits, service providers, and more.

Consolidates available sources to provide financial and business information on US-based non-publicly traded corporations.

NOTE: Users are encouraged to create a free account to save searches and track companies. To access content without creating an account, choose the direct access option.

Comprehensive business and economics database with global coverage featuring thousands of full text journals, working papers, dissertations, videos, wire feeds, market research reports, and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. This collection is comprised of the following databases: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection; Business Market Research Collection; Entrepreneurship Database; J.P Morgan Research; and the Business Video Database.

Coverage for regional business publications from the United States and Canadian provinces, including newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, trade publications, magazines, newswires, and videos. Some full text is available.

Provides access to federal codes and IRS regs, taxation news, articles on tax-related issues, and forms.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research provides public opinion data from polls conducted by major U.S. and international polling organizations. Roper iPoll includes broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and more. Questions, charts, demographic crosstabs, and datasets are all available. 

Simmons Insights provides access to U.S. adult consumer data on product and brand usage, spending behavior, media habits, and more. It can be used to create customized reports analyzing the demographic and psychographic characteristics of product users and their media behavior.

A mapping, analytics, and data visualization application with 100,000+ data variables, including demographic data from the US Census and American Community Survey, consumer spending data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and Dun & Bradstreet's point of interest business file providing detailed information on over 5 million businesses. Also includes the AGS Health Care dataset and the MRI-SimmonsLOCAL consumer behavior dataset with data on over 8,000 brands, psychographics, and MOSAIC market segments.

NOTE: Faculty, staff, and students are not required to log-in with a user name and password, however, your work will not be saved unless an individual account is created.

Provides access to a variety of tools and resources addressing small business topics. Resources include reference books, journals, business videos, case studies, and sample business plans.

The SRDS database catalogs more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties. The database contains detailed ad rates, dates, and contact data.

Provides access to tax regulations, laws, and legislative histories dating back to the late 1700s. Full text is available.

Provides investment research for companies, industries, markets and economies, and over 6,000 stocks.

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) is a platform for financial, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing, and public policy databases accessible through a single interface. WRDS also provides access to Preqin, the home of alternative assets data, with almost two decades of unrivaled data coverage.

NOTE: A day guest pass available, or users can request a user name and password. For the latter, please contact Susan Hahn or Richard Price.