Databases /Business

Databases

ABI/INFORM CompleteVCU
Abstracts, full-text journals and periodicals on business, finance, and management topics. Includes all content in ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Includes full-text access to The Wall Street Journal.

Academic Video Online (AVON)VCU VIVA
Thousands of streaming videos covering a wide range of disciplines. Includes documentaries, interviews, feature films, news, and more distributed by PBS, BBC, CNN, CBS, Sony, A&E, Contemporary Arts Media, Royal Shakespeare, and many others.

American Consumer CultureVCU
Provides cross-searchable access to primary sources for the study of market research, consumerism, business and advertising in America. Three separate modules are included in the collection.

BCC ResearchVCU
Global market research reports, covering market intelligence, forecasting, statistical and analytical data, key players, industry structure, market share, technology trends, and more.

Best's Library CenterVCU
Full text insurance reports, credit reports, and other in-depth insurance industry information and statistics.

BizminerVCU
Industry financial analysis and market trends for thousands of lines of business in national and local markets.

Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business LeagueVCU
Primary source documents from the National Negro Business League, established in 1900 by Booker T. Washington to promote the commercial and financial development of Black Americans.

Business Source CompleteVCU VIVA
Bibliographic and full-text content from peer-reviewed business journals, covering all disciplines of business including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more.

Business: Insights (Gale)VCU
Business Insights: Global delivers comprehensive international business intelligence including: Global Histories, SWOT Reports, Thomson Reuters Company Financials and Investment Reports, Market Share Reports, and Industry Research Essays.

CCH AnswerConnectVCU
Access to the CCH Federal and State Tax Libraries and materials, including Standard Federal Tax Reporter, as well as full-text access to several CCH tax-related journals.

Checkpoint Edge (Formerly known as RIA Checkpoint)VCU
Tax research database containing federal, state, and some international tax materials. Includes primary source materials such as tax laws, regulations, and court rulings, as well as secondary editorial and analytical materials.

Conference Board Research Online CollectionVCU
Full-text management and analytical reports on topics and issues such as business ethics, corporate governance, leadership, outsourcing, and strategic management, published by the Conference Board as well as the Conference Board of Canada.

Covidence (Pilot access provided until Dec 2025)
Covidence is a collaborative tool that streamlines systematic review workflows for screening, data extraction, and quality assessment. See instructions for requesting an account.

Data AxleVCU
Data Axle, formerly ReferenceUSA, provides research on businesses including data summaries by neighborhood, city or state and by type or size of business. Users can conduct market research for similar or competitive businesses in a specific locality.

Docuseek Complete CollectionVCU VIVA
Documentaries covering anthropology, area studies, the arts, criminal justice, education, environmental studies, global studies, health, history, political science, psychology, sciences, sociology, women's studies, and more.

Dow Jones FactivaVCU VIVA
Comprehensive, full-text up-to-the-minute news and business source from Dow Jones and Reuters. Includes national, international, and regional newspapers, both current content and archives, periodicals, podcasts, newswires, and more.

EconLitVCU VIVA
The American Economics Association's bibliography of economic literature. Coverage includes journals, books, and dissertations.

EIU Country ReportsVCU
The EIU's Country Reports examine and explain the important political and economic trends in a country. Each of our Country Reports contain in-depth and ongoing analysis and forecasts of political, policy and economic conditions in a country.

EIU ViewpointsVCU
EIU Viewpoints provides country-specific short, medium and long-term forecasts, industry data and analysis for 26 sectors, proprietary ratings on the business environment, and supply and demand forecasts for 40 critical goods.

Entrepreneurial Studies SourceVCU
Entrepreneurial Studies Source provides business students and researchers with current insights and trends in entrepreneurship and small business topics. It offers full-text business journals, books, case studies and company profiles.

Fashion SnoopsVCU
A global trend forecasting agency focused on the industries of fashion, interior design, and wellness. A personal account, using your VCU email, is required to use the CREATE area or save content.

Films on Demand Master Academic CollectionVCU
Streaming films covering core academic subjects. Also includes archival films and newsreels.

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural ExchangeVCU
Manuscript, printed, and visual primary sources covering fifteen global commodities, their development, exchange, consumption, and impact on regional and world history from the 17th to 20th centuries.

IBISWorldVCU
Provides access to Industry Reports: analyses of U.S. industries categorized by NAICS, and to ProcurementIQ: full-text procurement reports on indirect purchasing lines and products.

JSTOR Sustainability Collection VCU
Discover a wide range of journals, ebooks, and research reports in the field of sustainability. The subjects of resilience and sustainability are explored broadly, covering research on environmental stresses and their impact on society.

Latin American Newspapers Series I & IIVCU
Digitized Central and South American newspapers published from 1805 to 1922 in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, chronicling the evolution of Latin America through eyewitness reports, editorials, legislative information, advertisements, and more.

Leadership ConnectVCU
Directory of Congressional, state, and federal leaders as well as government agencies, NGO's, board memberships, and nonprofit organizations. Includes the Leadership Directories yellow books.

Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965VCU
Complete market research reports of midcentury consumer analyst and market research pioneer Ernest Dichter. Reports, case studies, proposals, surveys, correspondence and other materials provide information on some of America's best-known brands.

Mergent ArchivesVCU
Vast, indexed collection of global corporate- and industry-related documents, including corporate annual reports and the Moody's/Mergent Manuals of corporate and securities information.

Mergent BondViewerVCU
Provides access to bond data including both issuer and bond level terms and condition data, US taxable bonds, municipal bonds and retail notes.

Mergent OnlineVCU VIVA
Database of business and financial information for active and inactive U.S. and international public companies, providing a backfile of financial data and annual reports up to the present. Offers customizable reports and analyses.

MintelVCU
Full-text market research reports covering US and global consumer markets. Reports analyze market share, segmentation, and trends. Upon first login register with your VCU email address.

Morningstar Investment Research CenterVCU
Comprehensive stock database with research reports on companies, data on mutual, closed-end, and exchange-traded funds, investment tools, and educational features including interactive stock training and portfolio techniques.

New York Times via nytimes.comVCU
Important source of reporting information, and opinion on politics, finance, health, science, culture, the arts, sports, and fashion in the U.S. and abroad. See ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index for issues back to 1851.

Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database)VCU
In-depth reports providing statistics and analysis on consumer, industry, and service markets around the world.

Plunkett Research OnlineVCU
Analysis and market research for important industry sectors. Includes trend analysis, statistics, organizations, company profiles, information for job-seekers, and ability to create custom reports.

PrivCoVCU
Business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed, and international unlisted companies. If you get a message that says "Limit Reached," for continued access, please log in or create an individual account.

ProcurementIQVCU
Procurement Research Reports provides market intelligence, custom research services and the RFP Builder that provide value across all types of organizations, including small-to-medium businesses, universities, non-profits and public entities.

Risk Abstracts (part of Environmental Science Index)VCU
Covers risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantageVCU
Investment information and analysis on companies, industries, stocks and bonds, mutual funds, and dividends. Includes industry surveys, stock reports, and bond guides, among others.

Standard Rate & Data Service (SRDS)VCU
Media information database that provides current advertising rates, circulation, contact data, and other information for a variety of advertising media, including radio, television, newspapers, magazines, out-of-home locations, and more.

StatistaVCU
Statista consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources. Our Market Outlooks provide market sizes, forecasts, key consumer markets and relevant automotive markets for up to 150 countries.

USA Trade Online
Trade data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, including detailed import and export data by port for thousands of commodities worldwide. Users will be required to register for a free account.

Value LineVCU
Financial analysis, performance data, and growth projections on stocks, mutual funds, options, and convertible securities, as well as special situation stocks.

Vivvix (formerly AdSpender)VCU
Tracks millions of brands across 18 media and ranks top spenders by industry, parent, brand, etc. Find how, when and where the competition spends their advertising dollars.

WarcVCU
Global advertising and marketing trends, including market intelligence, case studies, conference reports, articles, expenditure data, profiles of major brand owners, and consumer insight.

Washington PostVCU
The Washington Post covers local, national and global news, national security and politics, business, technology, arts and entertainment, health and medicine, and sports. Opinion columnists focus on politics, economics, culture, and global concerns.

World Bank Data CatalogVCU
Lists World Bank data sources. Includes databases, pre-formatted tables and reports. Users may select countries, indicators, and years to search. Results may be exported in a variety of formats.

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)VCU
Access to financial, economic, and marketing data across multiple disciplines. Includes access to data from Compustat, CRSP, and others. Faculty, graduate students, and staff can register for their own account for remote access and other features.