Small Business Resources: Databases

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 (formerly the Insights platform) is a consumer intelligence and discovery platform that provides marketers with faster access to actionable consumer insights.

Select and search across multiple academic, subject-specific databases through EBSCOhost Research Databases.