Library Guides: Small Business Resources: Databases

General Business Databases

Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly business journals and other authoritative information sources. Covers all business topics and invludes information on companies, statistical data, in-depth reports, market research reports, market share reports, rankings, industry and business profiles, and company histories
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive full-text research database on virtually all topics related to business. Provides full-text of scholarly business journals and other authoritative information sources. Includes full-text market research reports, industry profiles, product reviews, SWOT analyses, etc.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Covers business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily.
Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Provides electronic editions to local, regional, and national US newspapers, plus international newspapers. Searching by geographic area identifies local business news from the US and around the world. Major local newspapers include The Charlotte Observer, The Herald (Rock Hill), and The State of Columbia, SC.

Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
Search this database by industry type, NAICS code, or SIC code to find articles and full-text market research reports, market share reports, rankings, industry and business profiles, and company histories.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Search by industry type, NAICS code, or SIC code to find articles and full-text market research reports, industry profiles, product reviews, SWOT analyses, etc.
Value Line This link opens in a new window
Provides one-page surveys of over 100 industries. The information on stocks, industries, the stock market, and the economy provides the entrepreneur economic and financial context.
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Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
Search by industry type, NAICS code, or SIC code to find articles and full-text market research reports, market share reports, rankings, industry and business profiles, and company histories.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Search by industry type, NAICS code, or SIC code to find articles and full-text market research reports, industry profiles, product reviews, SWOT analyses, etc.
Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Mergent Intellect includes a company database with information on over 280 million businesses, consumer data for more than 98% of US households, Key Business Ratios, and business plan templates.
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Value Line This link opens in a new window
Provides investment information on major companies and one-page surveys of over 100 industries. The information on stocks, industries, the stock market, and the economy provides the entrepreneur economic and financial context.
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O*NET OnLine This link opens in a new window
From United States Department of Labor. Although designed primarily as a career-planning tool, the information on growing occupational fields helps the market researcher identify geographic locations' presence of industries with growth potential.
MRI-Simmons Catalyst This link opens in a new window
MRI-Simmons Catalyst (formerly the Insights platform) is a consumer intelligence and discovery platform that provides marketers with faster access to actionable consumer insights.

United States Census Bureau
Provides census data on people and the economy, including the Economic Census, Industry Snapshots, Annual Survey of Manufacturers, NAICS-searchable business patterns (via CenStats) by county, US island territories, zip codes, and metro areas, County Business Patterns, data sets including the Zip Code Business Patterns, and custom search forms.
US Census Tract Reference Maps
Searchable by state and county, for visual overview of the geographic areas being researched for economic and other indicators.
NAICS - search by SIC
Search industries by SIC code

Survey of Current Business by U.S. Department of Commerce
Publication Date: 1921 to present
Provides full-text articles and statistics on commerce and economic conditions.

Follow the link to multiple online access options: Purl link (official US Department site) is the most complete; followed by Fraser Archive (St. Louis Fed). Dacus Library also has print volumes (US Government Documents C 59.11:)

EDGAR | Company Filings
Corporate SEC filings. Search by company name or ticker symbol. Annual reports (10-K) have complete yearly financials, including sales by business category. Multiple years' financials and narratives provide insights into business prospects and trends.
North American Industry Classification System
Searchable, interactive NAICS manual and data source. From United States Census.
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System Search
Has links to statistics & data and to the SIC Manual. From US Department of Labor.

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Ebscohost Research Databases This link opens in a new window
Select and search across multiple academic, subject-specific databases through EBSCOhost Research Databases.